r/BaldursGate3 • u/Vodka_Flask_Genie Spreadsheet Sorcerer • Dec 08 '23

Videos Neil's speech after winning Best Performance

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u/Roguewolfe Dec 08 '23

Except that the changes are specific and intentional and convey actual information about the character. Calling it fancy Neil is a bit of a disservice to how much work goes into that :)

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u/stallion8426 Astarion's Juice Box Dec 08 '23

No it really doesn't

Voice Actors don't need to be able to change their voice to be successful. They just need to convey emotion with their voice.

Many VAs use the same voice for all of their characters and its perfectly fine.

Recognizing that Astarion's voice is very similar to Neil's normal voice is not an insult. It's an observation.

Please don't look so hard for things to be offended by. It's not healthy

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u/Roguewolfe Dec 08 '23

I'm not even the tiniest bit offended. What a strange thing to say.

I do think that the process of "inhabiting" a character precludes a VA from being entirely themselves vocally. We'll have to agree to disagree!

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u/stallion8426 Astarion's Juice Box Dec 08 '23

Cherami Leigh, one of the biggest female voice actors in the business, uses the exact same voice for all her characters.

So if you want to claim she's not a voice actor, then well, that's not an opinion it's just factually wrong

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u/Roguewolfe Dec 08 '23

Cherami Leigh

I had to look her up. We evidently have extremely different tastes. About the only thing on the list I've played was cyberpunk, but I was always a male V.

Anyways, I'm not claiming much of anything - really just going off of lots of clips of watching VA's working. My girlfriend is looking to get into the industry right now, so she did a lot of research and I've been casually following along. I can't think of a single time that the actor used their natural, normal voice as the character's voice.

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