I loved that Total Annihilation story - that game came with our family PC when my parents got one as a kid and it was basically the only PC game I had, such an awesome game and awesome intro
TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:35 - Difference Between The Australian And NZ Accent 01:14 - Learning Accents/Different British Accents/NZ & Australia Accents 04:38 - South African Accents/NZ TV Shows/Studying An Accent 05:55 - Studying Accents Well Watching A Series/German Accents 07:15 - Doing An Accent Without It Sounding Comical 08:46 - Differences In How Americans Speak 10:20 - Accents That Are Hard To Do 11:39 - History Of Writing In Then Video Game Industry/Working With Valve Writers 13:27 - The Art Of Recording Vocals For Video Games 15:20 - Adlibbing/Zany Nature Of Valve Writers 16:55 - Being The Narrator On Total Annihilation 20:35 - Film Vs Voice Acting 23:15 - Composing For The Church And The Darkness/Composing For Search For The Sandwich 24:30 - Time Vs Space 25:00 - How Search For The Sandwich Came About 29:15 - Being Invited To The Major For Dota 2 In Peru 30:27 - Countries John Has Travelled To 31:10 - John Wants To Do PAX Aus 32:45 - Keeping Team Fortress 2 Alive 33:48 - Team Fortress 3/Valve Hierarchy 34:51 - Gabe Newell/Buffer Between Devs & Questions/Fan Mail 36:40 - Deadlines/Artistic World Vs Business World 42:20 - Chat GPT& A.I. Can Be Used For Good Or Evil 46:45 - Western Culture Monetises Everything/The Brain Is Not Aware Of Itself/Amazing Things Coming Out Of Pain 50:15 - TH-camrs Compromising/Quality Vs Quantity/ The Infinite Cage 54:00 - Artistic Goals
I usually skip ALL the narration in every game I've played in the last 35 years. There is one exception.... ...where I've listed to EACH voice line (many times) and where I've listened to EACH mission narration (that was also readable on screen btw). John Lowries voices in Total Annihilation!!! And they still give me goose bumps. So, your loved ones might wanted to skip... I was one (of many) people that were drawn into the game by your voice! Many many Thanks. PS. Does John still do voice-acting work? I might have a very interesting project for him.....
I loved that Total Annihilation story - that game came with our family PC when my parents got one as a kid and it was basically the only PC game I had, such an awesome game and awesome intro
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Difference Between The Australian And NZ Accent
01:14 - Learning Accents/Different British Accents/NZ & Australia Accents
04:38 - South African Accents/NZ TV Shows/Studying An Accent
05:55 - Studying Accents Well Watching A Series/German Accents
07:15 - Doing An Accent Without It Sounding Comical
08:46 - Differences In How Americans Speak
10:20 - Accents That Are Hard To Do
11:39 - History Of Writing In Then Video Game Industry/Working With Valve Writers
13:27 - The Art Of Recording Vocals For Video Games
15:20 - Adlibbing/Zany Nature Of Valve Writers
16:55 - Being The Narrator On Total Annihilation
20:35 - Film Vs Voice Acting
23:15 - Composing For The Church And The Darkness/Composing For Search For The Sandwich
24:30 - Time Vs Space
25:00 - How Search For The Sandwich Came About
29:15 - Being Invited To The Major For Dota 2 In Peru
30:27 - Countries John Has Travelled To
31:10 - John Wants To Do PAX Aus
32:45 - Keeping Team Fortress 2 Alive
33:48 - Team Fortress 3/Valve Hierarchy
34:51 - Gabe Newell/Buffer Between Devs & Questions/Fan Mail
36:40 - Deadlines/Artistic World Vs Business World
42:20 - Chat GPT& A.I. Can Be Used For Good Or Evil
46:45 - Western Culture Monetises Everything/The Brain Is Not Aware Of Itself/Amazing Things Coming Out Of Pain
50:15 - TH-camrs Compromising/Quality Vs Quantity/ The Infinite Cage
54:00 - Artistic Goals
I usually skip ALL the narration in every game I've played in the last 35 years.
There is one exception....
...where I've listed to EACH voice line (many times) and where I've listened to EACH mission narration (that was also readable on screen btw).
John Lowries voices in Total Annihilation!!!
And they still give me goose bumps.
So, your loved ones might wanted to skip... I was one (of many) people that were drawn into the game by your voice!
Many many Thanks.
PS. Does John still do voice-acting work?
I might have a very interesting project for him.....
needs more views man!
He's quite a philosopher. That was very interesting to listen to.
This is fantastic, thank you!
I immediately recognized the background and was confused until I remembered that he's married to the Glados voice actor lol
great video. do you take recommendations for interviews?
yip, jump into my discord to make guest requests. Too hard to keep track of requests on TH-cam.