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There's something wrong with the voice recordings for Scotty
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Paging @pwlaughingtrendy to pass a note to the AOY Producer(s).
There's something wrong with the recordings (plural) of Chris Doohan performing Scotty's voice. This is consistent in both the Night of the Comet episode, where you meet a "young" Scotty on 23rd century Drozana Station ... AND in Ragnarok with an "older" Scotty from the 24th century.
Specifically ... Scotty's voice is played back at too high a pitch and at too fast a speech tempo ... in every single line of recorded dialogue.
If we were talking about reel-to-reel tape technology, I'd be thinking that Chris recorded his lines in the booth at 50 RPM ... and somehow, someone in post-production transferred them into the game at 60 RPM for some unknown reason.
Bare minimum, I think that Chris probably did a fantastic job in the sound booth ... but either the Voice Director or the Sound Engineer/Editor or SOMEBODY screwed up a setting on every single voice file that actually made it into the game so as to ensure that the recordings we hear as gamers do not sound like Mr. Scott from the TV series, let alone the movies. Every single spoken line delivered by "Scotty" makes it sound like he's totally hopped up on stims pilfered from the medbay, to the point that he doesn't sound believable since the voice work is so out of character for Mr. Scott. And to be clear ... I'm pretty darn convinced this isn't Chris Doohan's fault ... I'm pretty sure that someone at Cryptic Studios screwed up (consistently!) in the pipeline between recording booth and Holodeck.
Every pop-up window with dialogue.
Every cut scene with dialogue.
If the character of Scotty is in it, the voice lines are delivered too fast and at too high a pitch ... as if someone on staff at Cryptic was either uncharacteristically impatient to get through the material as fast as possible (because Short Attention Span Theater) or because of an "off by one" style error in playback speed settings. Either way, I'm thinking this is something that ought to be fixed, even if it's only out of respect for the character you're attempting to portray in the game.
I request a review by the relevant developers (including the Producer(s)) of each and every single recorded line of Scotty's voice performed by Chris Doohan that made it onto Holodeck to determine if my analysis of this issue has merit ... and if it does ... how to correct it (I presume with replacement production files generated from the original recordings Chris made in the sound booth).
Oh, and if I'm right about this ... I think someone on staff owes Chris Doohan an apology.
If all of Scotty's lines were originally recorded at this speed and pitch, then the Voice Director owes Chris an apology for asking for (and getting?) the wrong performance!
There's something wrong with the recordings (plural) of Chris Doohan performing Scotty's voice. This is consistent in both the Night of the Comet episode, where you meet a "young" Scotty on 23rd century Drozana Station ... AND in Ragnarok with an "older" Scotty from the 24th century.
Specifically ... Scotty's voice is played back at too high a pitch and at too fast a speech tempo ... in every single line of recorded dialogue.
If we were talking about reel-to-reel tape technology, I'd be thinking that Chris recorded his lines in the booth at 50 RPM ... and somehow, someone in post-production transferred them into the game at 60 RPM for some unknown reason.
Bare minimum, I think that Chris probably did a fantastic job in the sound booth ... but either the Voice Director or the Sound Engineer/Editor or SOMEBODY screwed up a setting on every single voice file that actually made it into the game so as to ensure that the recordings we hear as gamers do not sound like Mr. Scott from the TV series, let alone the movies. Every single spoken line delivered by "Scotty" makes it sound like he's totally hopped up on stims pilfered from the medbay, to the point that he doesn't sound believable since the voice work is so out of character for Mr. Scott. And to be clear ... I'm pretty darn convinced this isn't Chris Doohan's fault ... I'm pretty sure that someone at Cryptic Studios screwed up (consistently!) in the pipeline between recording booth and Holodeck.
Every pop-up window with dialogue.
Every cut scene with dialogue.
If the character of Scotty is in it, the voice lines are delivered too fast and at too high a pitch ... as if someone on staff at Cryptic was either uncharacteristically impatient to get through the material as fast as possible (because Short Attention Span Theater) or because of an "off by one" style error in playback speed settings. Either way, I'm thinking this is something that ought to be fixed, even if it's only out of respect for the character you're attempting to portray in the game.
I request a review by the relevant developers (including the Producer(s)) of each and every single recorded line of Scotty's voice performed by Chris Doohan that made it onto Holodeck to determine if my analysis of this issue has merit ... and if it does ... how to correct it (I presume with replacement production files generated from the original recordings Chris made in the sound booth).
Oh, and if I'm right about this ... I think someone on staff owes Chris Doohan an apology.
If all of Scotty's lines were originally recorded at this speed and pitch, then the Voice Director owes Chris an apology for asking for (and getting?) the wrong performance!
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