So interesting to see Matt's takes on voice acting - and that sound he made at 1:31 is MAGNIFICENT, it was for a gigantic white worm that attacked the party in the snow.
@@Xingmey Well yeah, I got that. I just rebelled at Mercer having even the notion of beeing a villain. (Even though the crit role cast did think up a possible villain origin story for Henry, with the cast touched someone with out concent in his presence). Henry crabgrass cant be a villain, he is the personification of a hero.
0:58 - We now need a MASSIVE character with that voice: "Uh-kay, I'm tryin' to destroy the world o 3o" for Critical Role campaign 4. I will also be putting him in my campaign. We'll call him... Tobith.
Actor’s Access, and a lot of trying despite previous failure. You can also get jobs an intern or PA on various productions so you can meet people, who you can then leverage for future jobs they work on. But it’s also just an insanely competitive industry. There are ways to work at it, but there’s no guarantee of short-term or long-term success. :(
I often have wondered if actors get tired of being typecast, and I guess that goes with voiceover as well. There are some voices that you automatically know, like Mark Hamil, or Richard Horovitz, but they still brings enough to each character that it feels fresh. And then some like Alan Tudyk shock me because I never knew it was him the whole time! There are a few that, to me, sound like the same character over and over again. Not gonna name drop here, because that would be unfair to someone trying their best, and I do think that the directors push for that type of voice for multiple characters, even if an actor would rather try something new. It's a fascinating career dynamic to think about.
Guanter O'dimm, the man of glass, remains a top favorite for me. From The Witcher 3. The very idea that he makes deals from half-hearted lines we spew out without thought ... "Do you truly wish to know?"
Like Dementus from Furiosa. He sounds like a human seagull and it works so well for such a ridiculous character, but he's still a legitimately threatening villain.
My favorite version is in Pixar's "Up" -- where the Dragon (term for Villain's right-hand man... er, dog) is *introduced with* a high-pitched, definitely not scary voice, but then later, when it's time to be truly scary, his voice box gets fixed and suddenly his voice is the kind we'd expected from the beginning. Or there's the complete opposite in the climax to "The Emperor's New Groove", where Yzma gets that cute little kitten voice (but is still kinda terrifying).
Here's a problem with either less than talented voice actors or voice directors without vision is you bring in actors and ask them to just do voices they've done in other games. This can be exceedingly distracting in some circumstances. You're not thinking "Oh! This is the dread lord Xaphoron! We're in trouble now!" You end up thinking "Oh. Hi Matt Mercer. Another growly buff guy, huh?" Voice actors need to vary their jobs as to not become type-casted or repetitive to the listener. It can be a great performance, or a series of great performances, but, like with anything, it can be overdone.
I have this problem with Laura Bailey in games. Going through her work and having her voice be "I'm a sarcastic, slightly tired, flat as a board woman" 99% of the time actually led to me resenting her when she cropped up in games. Then the Vox Machina show dropped and I went "WAIT, SHE CAN ACTUALLY ACT? WHY ARE YOU ALL FORCING HER TO BE BLAND AS HELL?!"
Would love to see a Ganondorf-esque villain on Critical Role. Spoilers for Campaign 3 below: I feel Ludinus definitely is there, but on the magic side more than the warrior side, which we have yet to see, if we don't count Lucien.
Not Sylas Briarwood from campaign 1? Or is he not warrior-esque enough? Sylas definitely plays both the role of political schemer and very capable combatant if pushed.
I had a villanous dragon called Asmarack to him I decided to give him calm but megalomaniac personality. He had a political sceme to take over kingdoms of eldara but most memorable scene he talked philosophical conversation with my players about the optimal society. Where he was the voice of dictator and tried to convince them it was the most optimal form of the society. In terms of work efficiency.
Doesn't he also play Yusuke from Persona 5? If that is the case, it's hilarious that the same guy says "That was truly cringeworthy" one moment and the next it's "I'll be taking far more than your arm this time."
Yeah but Matt’s Ganondorf voice didn’t sound like Ganondorf but it just sounded like Matt Mercer doing a villain voice and it was the weakest part of Ganondorf in that game.
@ I see your point, there is at least a voice from him in ocarina. Some grunts but most memorable being his laugh. No actual spoken dialogue. I don’t remember if there was any of the sort in wind Waker. The main thing for me is that his voice in tears of the kingdom just doesn’t do it for me :(
Maybe a bit of typecasting, but I still feel like it was a largely missed opportunity that they didn't get Jamieson Price as TotK Ganondorf, I've always felt he'd do a great Ganondorf since he did Lordgenome in Gurren Lagann.
This is a hot take, because I think Mercer is a fantastic voice actor, but I think his guttural monstrous voice is kinda meh. Like when he does a normal deep voice its great. To me, the guttural and monstrous take sounds very anime in some ways (which some people may like I don't know). As far as villain voices go, I actually think he's at his best when he does something lighter and malicious, kinda like a snake. The best example I can think of for that is Orthax from Critical Role and the Vox Machina show. That's just my opinion though.
Yeah, he made ganondorf sound like "generic white male trying to do japanese dub of big man #3 ", like almost all dubs that are phoned in. Not impressive, like much about him
Disagree while agreeing with the spirit of the idea. the voice acting was epic, but I will say the writing was very one dimensional. You can tell the Japanese writers wanted a very simple cliche villain(which is the norm for ganondorf in the past). I personally found the performance great, but didn't love the villain.
It was this damn reverb distortion effect games or shows love using for villain voices, that just makes everything sound plain and boring He was better when Ganondorf was just talking normally
So interesting to see Matt's takes on voice acting - and that sound he made at 1:31 is MAGNIFICENT, it was for a gigantic white worm that attacked the party in the snow.
And gave us one of my favorite battles of all 3 campaigns. Turtles man... Turtles.
@@PinkPixie019 turtles all the way down
Ey, Henry crabgrass is not a villain. He is the hero!
Only if he can get consent
Campaign 4 bbeg is going to be Henry who got stepped on by someone, who purposely ignored asking for consent.
He is a Bad ideal matt had
@@Xingmey Well yeah, I got that. I just rebelled at Mercer having even the notion of beeing a villain. (Even though the crit role cast did think up a possible villain origin story for Henry, with the cast touched someone with out concent in his presence). Henry crabgrass cant be a villain, he is the personification of a hero.
I have been learning more and more about just how many roles this man has done and today I learn he's fucking JOTARO KUJO?!
He's also Yusuke from Persona 5
0:58 - We now need a MASSIVE character with that voice: "Uh-kay, I'm tryin' to destroy the world o 3o" for Critical Role campaign 4. I will also be putting him in my campaign. We'll call him... Tobith.
Pica from One Piece
Gods, I love this man. His knowledge of his own instrument and technical prowess is just... chef's kiss. Life goals, man.
He's wearing a Bloodborne shirt
Matt, spicing up his characters: "A lil bit of self-loathing."
Me, every fucking day: "Ooh, my favorite flavor!" 😋
It's not the flavor we want, but it's the flavor we've got.
The real tips I need are how to find jobs. Been trying for a while and never found a good way to audition for any work
Actor’s Access, and a lot of trying despite previous failure. You can also get jobs an intern or PA on various productions so you can meet people, who you can then leverage for future jobs they work on.
But it’s also just an insanely competitive industry. There are ways to work at it, but there’s no guarantee of short-term or long-term success. :(
it still kills me that he didn't give Ganondorf an accent like y'know ALL THE OTHER GERUDO HAVE
That's definitely it. I was wondering what's missing
I love Matt's hair.
1:01 - I don't know, Matt... "ConquerThe-World Butters" is pretty damn terrifying...
"Oh, you want the Jotaro voice, gotcha."
I often have wondered if actors get tired of being typecast, and I guess that goes with voiceover as well. There are some voices that you automatically know, like Mark Hamil, or Richard Horovitz, but they still brings enough to each character that it feels fresh. And then some like Alan Tudyk shock me because I never knew it was him the whole time!
There are a few that, to me, sound like the same character over and over again. Not gonna name drop here, because that would be unfair to someone trying their best, and I do think that the directors push for that type of voice for multiple characters, even if an actor would rather try something new. It's a fascinating career dynamic to think about.
I mean, I love a villain that sounds something completely not scary lol
Guanter O'dimm, the man of glass, remains a top favorite for me. From The Witcher 3.
The very idea that he makes deals from half-hearted lines we spew out without thought ... "Do you truly wish to know?"
Like Dementus from Furiosa. He sounds like a human seagull and it works so well for such a ridiculous character, but he's still a legitimately threatening villain.
My favorite version is in Pixar's "Up" -- where the Dragon (term for Villain's right-hand man... er, dog) is *introduced with* a high-pitched, definitely not scary voice, but then later, when it's time to be truly scary, his voice box gets fixed and suddenly his voice is the kind we'd expected from the beginning. Or there's the complete opposite in the climax to "The Emperor's New Groove", where Yzma gets that cute little kitten voice (but is still kinda terrifying).
If I ever meet this guy at a convention, I'm gonna ask him to say CDI Ganon's "or else you will die!" line but in his TOTK Ganondorf voice.
1:44 really honestly sounds like hes doing an impression of Darin De Paul
ah okay ... you want Jotaro
first!!!!
love the new format!!!
Here's a problem with either less than talented voice actors or voice directors without vision is you bring in actors and ask them to just do voices they've done in other games. This can be exceedingly distracting in some circumstances. You're not thinking "Oh! This is the dread lord Xaphoron! We're in trouble now!" You end up thinking "Oh. Hi Matt Mercer. Another growly buff guy, huh?"
Voice actors need to vary their jobs as to not become type-casted or repetitive to the listener. It can be a great performance, or a series of great performances, but, like with anything, it can be overdone.
I have this problem with Laura Bailey in games. Going through her work and having her voice be "I'm a sarcastic, slightly tired, flat as a board woman" 99% of the time actually led to me resenting her when she cropped up in games.
Then the Vox Machina show dropped and I went "WAIT, SHE CAN ACTUALLY ACT? WHY ARE YOU ALL FORCING HER TO BE BLAND AS HELL?!"
1:00 perfect Chris Chan impression
Would love to see a Ganondorf-esque villain on Critical Role.
Spoilers for Campaign 3 below:
I feel Ludinus definitely is there, but on the magic side more than the warrior side, which we have yet to see, if we don't count Lucien.
Why wouldn't you count Lucien though?
@@joka Lucien's a skulker; a schemer in the shadows, whereas Ganondorf is using his strength as a warlord to push his political power.
Not Sylas Briarwood from campaign 1? Or is he not warrior-esque enough? Sylas definitely plays both the role of political schemer and very capable combatant if pushed.
* takes vigorous notes knowing I can only do the Skyrim guard accent about 75% of the way *
Sometimes the perfect villian is the calm and collected villian, The BBEG of Cp 1 of CR can be this at times
I had a villanous dragon called Asmarack to him I decided to give him calm but megalomaniac personality. He had a political sceme to take over kingdoms of eldara but most memorable scene he talked philosophical conversation with my players about the optimal society. Where he was the voice of dictator and tried to convince them it was the most optimal form of the society. In terms of work efficiency.
Love his shirt
Oh shit that dragon voice is straight up Fikrul
tldr: Deep voice that can be calm or gruff
Doesn't he also play Yusuke from Persona 5? If that is the case, it's hilarious that the same guy says "That was truly cringeworthy" one moment and the next it's "I'll be taking far more than your arm this time."
i cant differentiate voices in my head. when i try them they mix together and all sound the same
He voice Velca in Dead by Daylight
Cassidy? You mean McCree?
who is the purple miniature person?
Yeah but Matt’s Ganondorf voice didn’t sound like Ganondorf but it just sounded like Matt Mercer doing a villain voice and it was the weakest part of Ganondorf in that game.
Does Ganondorf even talk in other games beyond text?
@ I see your point, there is at least a voice from him in ocarina. Some grunts but most memorable being his laugh. No actual spoken dialogue. I don’t remember if there was any of the sort in wind Waker. The main thing for me is that his voice in tears of the kingdom just doesn’t do it for me :(
Maybe a bit of typecasting, but I still feel like it was a largely missed opportunity that they didn't get Jamieson Price as TotK Ganondorf, I've always felt he'd do a great Ganondorf since he did Lordgenome in Gurren Lagann.
This is a hot take, because I think Mercer is a fantastic voice actor, but I think his guttural monstrous voice is kinda meh. Like when he does a normal deep voice its great. To me, the guttural and monstrous take sounds very anime in some ways (which some people may like I don't know).
As far as villain voices go, I actually think he's at his best when he does something lighter and malicious, kinda like a snake. The best example I can think of for that is Orthax from Critical Role and the Vox Machina show. That's just my opinion though.
Matt did a good Ganondorf but sadly the story could not live up to the voice.
Not gonna lie, his Ganon is not good. Not his fault, it's just not a good fit.
Agreed. Maybe a tad bit of typecasting, but it should have been Jamieson Price, IMO.
Yeah, he made ganondorf sound like "generic white male trying to do japanese dub of big man #3 ", like almost all dubs that are phoned in. Not impressive, like much about him
Lol. This guy is so samey and overexposed it takes me out of every project he's in.
He was garbage as Ganondorf.
Disagree while agreeing with the spirit of the idea. the voice acting was epic, but I will say the writing was very one dimensional. You can tell the Japanese writers wanted a very simple cliche villain(which is the norm for ganondorf in the past). I personally found the performance great, but didn't love the villain.
Like he says in the end "a job is a job, and the people know what they want". The director(s) chose this voice for him to do.
@@aaronwilliams8887 New to ganondorf huh?
It was this damn reverb distortion effect games or shows love using for villain voices, that just makes everything sound plain and boring
He was better when Ganondorf was just talking normally
@@OhNoTheFace
He can't be too new to Ganondorf if he ratio'd the original comment by a multiplier of 10.