I don't know what it is about voice actors, but pretty much the entire casts of BG3 and FFXVI seem to be amongst the nicest, most wholesome, most interesting, most charismatic people on the planet. It's uncanny.
Well I think they have the same charisma that live action actors possess (kind of a requirement for this job) but at the same time none of the arrogance and egotism since they are fine with being invisible to the public eye most of the time. They just seem in love with their craft. So as far as actors go, they are probably the best of both worlds in terms of personality.
Considering how popular he is in fandom I doubt that it's the majority of people lol. He was pretty much the only character I heard anything about before playing the game.
In a game full of incredible talent and writing, this man gives what I would describe as an Oscar-worthy performance. The nuance to the way his voice changes and posture shifts at all the right moments (since mo-cap was used)...just such genuinely incredible work by him. I went into the game thinking Astarion would be just a suave, seductive, edgy red flag of a man...but he's actually deeply traumatized and layered and his behavior in every route suits the story that's being told. An absolutely stand-out performance by Neil, and I hope he knows we're not just simping because 'hot slutty vampire man'. The depth he brings to the character with his tonal shifts and demeanor changes are really what's worth all that attention and praise.
For me the most interesting thing was how he managed to convey the very visceral differences between the two ending options for Astarion. Like, he's still saying the same kind of thing he's been saying all along, but one version gives me the absolute creeping horrors.
@@lamafaceI was 100% against save scumming companion stuff but I got so much ick from the one Astarion route. Felt like my bro died and got replaced by his evil twin or something, had to reload immediately
Yes, like Astarion is VERY beautiful, but what drew me to him over the story was the performance and how much depth is in his character. You can feed in to his coping mechanisms from his trauma, but you can also show him care and compassion and it really opens him up into such a clearly broken, traumatized and eventually caring man. It is truly so beautiful to just experience the story with Astarion, and being able to get him closer to healing his wounds with love, understanding and genuine care. You can also make him evil, but that ending makes me sad.
Neil streams on twitch and i was watching him talk about it yesterday with the voice actor for Lae'zel... They voiced these characters for 4 years!! There's no surprise the actors are attached to the characters after playing them for so long
I played through Astarion's full storyline. I identified a lot with the trauma in different ways, I was crying while finishing his quest line. I thank Neil, the Larian team, as well as everyone involved in this game for doing such an incredible job. This has become my favorite game insanely fast.
I wish nothing but more success and more gigs for this man. He absolutely killed it with asterion. By far the best performance of any of the companions, not even close either and the fact that the others VA were amazing as well is saying so much about this man here.
Neil is one of the kindest souls i've seen in the gaming industry in a long time. He deserves all the hype and success, just like the rest of the team.
he deserves so much success. i hope the studios are fighting over him. may his schedule be all booked up for as long as he continues to work as an actor because his performance was so moving and any project would be lucky to have him and we would all be lucky to see it. Just wow at THAT scene. I dont think i need to say more. we all know what scene. blown away.
Aww this is so wholesome ❤ Neil is a fantastic actor and a lovely person and he deserves so much love for his role as Astarion. Truly, Astarion's story blew me away and it was due in no small part to Neil's performance.
To see a man with such a big heart, passion and love for his work getting recognition feel so good. never feel ashamed for getting emotional, like you said it was a journey. you, larian, and the rest of the crew deserve all the love coming your way. you guys are proof that working your butts off and putting yourselves out there can still pay off, it feels so so so great to see. hopefully you guys worked secretly on expansions and we ll enjoy more content with all of you. a well crafted story, with wonderful peoples. hope to see more of those in the futur💕
The depths this man has brought to an already well written character blows my mind every time. Like you hear character's experience color the way he says things, bringing a beautiful balance where the actor has to play a sort of an actor. Scenes where players break up with Astarion?? I could NEVER, the way his voice quivers and breaks is heartwrenching, fear of losing, self-loathing and bravado all mixed together- brilliant. And the performance! All the sways and eye movement makes him SO ALIVE. I'm an artist but quite burnt out yet I can't stop drawing Astarion, the range of his expressions and how fun it looks transfers perfectly into a great drawing experience. I also wish I could kiss character, 3D, texture and light artists because I have over a thousand screenshots and like to look at them for fun, not even for drawing. All the little wrinkles and freckles and moles are so hearwarming Man, I love this game so much, I'm also gonna start crying 😭😭😭
As someone who knew Neil even before buldur‘s gate it makes me so happy to see him get so much recognition. I remember watching the interviews and the behind the scenes videos with the cast of Detroit become human where everyone just talked with so much admiration and respect about him and he always seemed like one of the nicest, most down to earth actors I have ever seen, which hasn’t changed one bit. His performance as Astarion is astounding and a pure joy to watch ❤
Almost finished the game and it was the first time that I really fall in love with a character😭😭 thank you for your voice and your soul you gave to Astarion ❤️❤️
For the record, he seems to have an over 9 hours long playlist dedicated to Astarion on Spotify, which melts my heart even more seeing this. Such a great game made by great people ♥️
Oh man, I read that title as ‘Neil breaks down how he cried in the booth’ 😅. I was not prepared for this beautiful, emotional gut-punch. But amazing to see.
This game certainly has one of the best and most memorable voice acting performances. Astarion is my favorite character and while his design and story are amazing, it's honestly Neil's phenomenal voice acting that got me hooked on the character. So much so that I'm now a fan of Neil's and will definitely be keeping an eye out for his other works.☺❤
Neil's performance was incredible. I was meant to be doing a "good" playthrough but Astarion was with me all the way. I found myself being more chaotic than expected, hoping for his approval...
When I was playing BG3, one of the first things that came to my mind about it was "wow, there's just a lot of love put into this game." You can feel the care when you play the game, all the detail. I really, really, really love the game. It does set the standard.
Neil is such a genuine man. I get nothing but positive and amazing energy from him. He should one day open up his own teaching school for those interested in the career field.
If a character makes you hate it, it's still a good character, if not the greatest You can tell a character is great when it makes you feel things, positive and negative This is why I like astarion and lae'zel despite me finding them annoying, the writing and acting is so on point you get to feel animosity towards them if you don't like them, as if they were real lol
Its so good that Neil feels so deeply about this character. I feel that this role was able to give him a measure of catharsis that he really needed, something that few people ever get when we need it. Good for him. 👏🏻⭐💖
Astarion is a delightful role for the Nile. Brilliant work: sharp emotional swings and experiences, fears of the character, his resentment and anger. Everything is excellently conveyed. I also really liked Elijah Kamsky in Detroit: become human. Too bad it's impossible to tell Neil about my admiration in person. ))
Astarion is not the kind of companion I like to have in my team for one reason : it's because I play this kind of character as main character (a bard). So having 2 Astarion would ve too much in a group. But listening to the actor and the love he felt by acting Astarion... I'll let a chance to his character for my next playthrough.
He is one hell of a VA because I don't think I would've guessed he'd voiced Astarion if I wasn't told. He's really made him a unique character and one of the most 'real' characters I've come across in fiction.
I really love Astarion as a character. But I will never forget my first exposure to Neil's work, when he voiced John Galahad in The Secret World. A shame we didn't get more with him.
Neil dont know if you will read this or not but you have a new fan here. wish you the best my brother. also my favorite line from astarion was when I clicked on him he said " careful I bite." :D
It's so awesome that voice actors are getting love and attention for their work, especially for such exception performance. It's usually underappreciated.
This project...the game...the work on it and the team can be compared in the gaming world and the media world if we ignore the comparison of hard work and experience etc. with Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy ( I mean the movie one). Perfect choice of characters and actors who gave them soul and thousands of lines of emotional fantasy story. Without knowing it, the Larians have made history. And I sincerely hope that, as was the case with the Oscar-winning trilogy, it will be the case in the gaming world with Baldurs Gate 3.
The clips from BG3 mostly show early game, and that's understandable, since the game is fresh and spoiling the fun for everybody isn't nice. However... The way this man goes absolutely crazy in later stages of the game portraying Astarion. By the end of the game it is absolutely THE BEST acted character. The range mister Newbon shows reaches peaks of joy to then be immediately plunged into the nethermost pits of despair. Ok, I'm off to continue my second playthrough of BG3. This time it's solo tactician Dark Urge oathbreaker paladin. I'll burn the world.
I am a new subscriber due to these interviews. Thank you for doing them, it has been great to get to know the VAs, and I'll be interested to see what you upload going forward!
When I first play bg3 I didn’t like astarian he seemed just like a typical edgy character we’d have but oh no it turned out to be so much more and I’m glad I stuck with his story
There's a lot of games with incredible voice acting, but it's hard to find another game where literally every single actor absolutely nails their character and breathes so much life in to them.
It’s 00:35 i was about to sleep and idk how or why this showed to me after anothe short from TH-cam. I had no idea what this game was but hell im sure going through every game just to get to this part
Neil and other great voice actors this game has, are pretty much immortalized in this eternal game that people will come back to decades and decades after its release.
It seem like my next run, I won't kill Astarion since I was playing a zealot paladin on my first run. Well, during camp Astarion wasn't expecting the wood that my paladin was packing.
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I don't know what it is about voice actors, but pretty much the entire casts of BG3 and FFXVI seem to be amongst the nicest, most wholesome, most interesting, most charismatic people on the planet. It's uncanny.
EXACTLY!
Makes me happy they have a WhatsApp to send memes to each other
Well I think they have the same charisma that live action actors possess (kind of a requirement for this job) but at the same time none of the arrogance and egotism since they are fine with being invisible to the public eye most of the time. They just seem in love with their craft. So as far as actors go, they are probably the best of both worlds in terms of personality.
it is incredible what can happen when people work in a safe environment with other passionate people on a great project without time pressure
Hell yeah!
I have never fallen for a character as fast, hard, and with my entire soul as I did for Astarion because Neil makes it so effortlessly easy
it's sad that so many people stake astarion and never get to experience his wonderful character
Wtf they did?!
@@mrsgamer9218 i played with karlach lae'zel and shadowheart. regret not playing with astarion
Considering how popular he is in fandom I doubt that it's the majority of people lol. He was pretty much the only character I heard anything about before playing the game.
@@jougetsuthen you’ll need to do another play through and learn his story. He’s worth playing with and learning more about him.
@@ImperfectVoid8479 are you dumb? He thought you were one of the people that abducted him ofc he'd try and kill you?
In a game full of incredible talent and writing, this man gives what I would describe as an Oscar-worthy performance. The nuance to the way his voice changes and posture shifts at all the right moments (since mo-cap was used)...just such genuinely incredible work by him. I went into the game thinking Astarion would be just a suave, seductive, edgy red flag of a man...but he's actually deeply traumatized and layered and his behavior in every route suits the story that's being told. An absolutely stand-out performance by Neil, and I hope he knows we're not just simping because 'hot slutty vampire man'. The depth he brings to the character with his tonal shifts and demeanor changes are really what's worth all that attention and praise.
Yes! This! But also a little bit because ‘hot slutty vampire man’💖
For me the most interesting thing was how he managed to convey the very visceral differences between the two ending options for Astarion. Like, he's still saying the same kind of thing he's been saying all along, but one version gives me the absolute creeping horrors.
@@lamafaceI was 100% against save scumming companion stuff but I got so much ick from the one Astarion route. Felt like my bro died and got replaced by his evil twin or something, had to reload immediately
@@BilliamTorpedo I mean, he kind of does get replaced in the evil route...
Yes, like Astarion is VERY beautiful, but what drew me to him over the story was the performance and how much depth is in his character. You can feed in to his coping mechanisms from his trauma, but you can also show him care and compassion and it really opens him up into such a clearly broken, traumatized and eventually caring man. It is truly so beautiful to just experience the story with Astarion, and being able to get him closer to healing his wounds with love, understanding and genuine care. You can also make him evil, but that ending makes me sad.
Neil is truly a gift to the world ❤
Neil streams on twitch and i was watching him talk about it yesterday with the voice actor for Lae'zel... They voiced these characters for 4 years!! There's no surprise the actors are attached to the characters after playing them for so long
They were those characters for 4 years. They did a lot more than just voice them.
Love him or hate him, Asterion is easily the most personable in the bunch.
Ahem...KARLACH
@@garycannon4644 yeah, she does not have dark humor, or a casual relationship with murder.
@@mikewaterfield3599damn shame.
why do people keep calling him asterion 😂
@@Z0Z33KY not sure, I just like the work a Larian did. The facial capture from the voice actors is excellent.
aww i love his high pitch giggle its such a reminder that he worked so hard and the character retains in him 💗
I played through Astarion's full storyline. I identified a lot with the trauma in different ways, I was crying while finishing his quest line. I thank Neil, the Larian team, as well as everyone involved in this game for doing such an incredible job. This has become my favorite game insanely fast.
I need the Option: Give Neil a Hug xD
He looks so tired
Get your 20!
Niel is so passionate about Astarion. I admire this passion. Great voice actor! Thank you for your work, Niel!
Voice acting in this game is beyond anything I've heard in any game. Absolute masterpiece!
I wish nothing but more success and more gigs for this man. He absolutely killed it with asterion. By far the best performance of any of the companions, not even close either and the fact that the others VA were amazing as well is saying so much about this man here.
Neil is such a great actor and also just a great person. It's great to see him getting the praise he deserves for his amazing work.
The man is always working haha
Neil is one of the kindest souls i've seen in the gaming industry in a long time. He deserves all the hype and success, just like the rest of the team.
he deserves so much success. i hope the studios are fighting over him. may his schedule be all booked up for as long as he continues to work as an actor because his performance was so moving and any project would be lucky to have him and we would all be lucky to see it. Just wow at THAT scene. I dont think i need to say more. we all know what scene. blown away.
I've been hanging out in Neil's streams the past few days and he really seems like he's such an awesome guy with a really cool fan base.
Aww this is so wholesome ❤ Neil is a fantastic actor and a lovely person and he deserves so much love for his role as Astarion. Truly, Astarion's story blew me away and it was due in no small part to Neil's performance.
I love the scene that astarion kill cazzardor
That is the best scene in baldur's gate 3 to me
I was crying along with astarion. It was so well done.
One of my favorites, so far. I cry with Astarion too
And hoe he acts after greatly depends on if you talk him out of ascending or not
His whole story arch is amazing and there is a lot of emotion that comes out of it. Neil did a superb job.
ty for spoiler
He’s amazing, I was instantly enthralled by his voice acting when I met Asterion in game. I think he is for sure one of the best voices in the game.
To see a man with such a big heart, passion and love for his work getting recognition feel so good. never feel ashamed for getting emotional, like you said it was a journey. you, larian, and the rest of the crew deserve all the love coming your way. you guys are proof that working your butts off and putting yourselves out there can still pay off, it feels so so so great to see. hopefully you guys worked secretly on expansions and we ll enjoy more content with all of you. a well crafted story, with wonderful peoples. hope to see more of those in the futur💕
It takes a man to cry, Big respect
The depths this man has brought to an already well written character blows my mind every time. Like you hear character's experience color the way he says things, bringing a beautiful balance where the actor has to play a sort of an actor. Scenes where players break up with Astarion?? I could NEVER, the way his voice quivers and breaks is heartwrenching, fear of losing, self-loathing and bravado all mixed together- brilliant.
And the performance! All the sways and eye movement makes him SO ALIVE. I'm an artist but quite burnt out yet I can't stop drawing Astarion, the range of his expressions and how fun it looks transfers perfectly into a great drawing experience.
I also wish I could kiss character, 3D, texture and light artists because I have over a thousand screenshots and like to look at them for fun, not even for drawing. All the little wrinkles and freckles and moles are so hearwarming
Man, I love this game so much, I'm also gonna start crying 😭😭😭
As someone who knew Neil even before buldur‘s gate it makes me so happy to see him get so much recognition. I remember watching the interviews and the behind the scenes videos with the cast of Detroit become human where everyone just talked with so much admiration and respect about him and he always seemed like one of the nicest, most down to earth actors I have ever seen, which hasn’t changed one bit. His performance as Astarion is astounding and a pure joy to watch ❤
I saw something about Astarion's voice actor and I had to click. Best voice actor in BG3 in my opinion! Great job with that character!
Almost finished the game and it was the first time that I really fall in love with a character😭😭 thank you for your voice and your soul you gave to Astarion ❤️❤️
He doesn't need to let the character go! We fans go see actors who played characters 40 years ago in the 80's lol, we'll always love him ♥
For the record, he seems to have an over 9 hours long playlist dedicated to Astarion on Spotify, which melts my heart even more seeing this. Such a great game made by great people ♥️
Astarion is my favorite i loved his character so much and i enjoyed romancing him and turning him into a hero. him and Halsin are my favorite.
He absolutely has a lot of VERY clear passion for this job and for this character
Oh man, I read that title as ‘Neil breaks down how he cried in the booth’ 😅. I was not prepared for this beautiful, emotional gut-punch. But amazing to see.
This game certainly has one of the best and most memorable voice acting performances. Astarion is my favorite character and while his design and story are amazing, it's honestly Neil's phenomenal voice acting that got me hooked on the character. So much so that I'm now a fan of Neil's and will definitely be keeping an eye out for his other works.☺❤
Neil's performance was incredible. I was meant to be doing a "good" playthrough but Astarion was with me all the way. I found myself being more chaotic than expected, hoping for his approval...
It would be amazing it Neil got to play Astarion again someday
When I was playing BG3, one of the first things that came to my mind about it was "wow, there's just a lot of love put into this game."
You can feel the care when you play the game, all the detail.
I really, really, really love the game. It does set the standard.
He's so good. As early as the EA I remsmber thinking Astarion had such a great voice.
Neil is such a genuine man. I get nothing but positive and amazing energy from him. He should one day open up his own teaching school for those interested in the career field.
If a character makes you hate it, it's still a good character, if not the greatest
You can tell a character is great when it makes you feel things, positive and negative
This is why I like astarion and lae'zel despite me finding them annoying, the writing and acting is so on point you get to feel animosity towards them if you don't like them, as if they were real lol
astarions my favourite character so honestly it's good to hear he's feeling the love lol
Neil lowkey looks like Astarion. If he grew out his hair he'd make a fine Astarion cosplay
Astarion face is designed after Neil.
Love to see the heart and passion they brought to the game. Thank you to them all.
This man is incredible. I NEED to learn about a few more of his characters. ❤ He's amazing.
He's such a lovely human and just SO good at what he does! I have a new found interest in mocap and behind the scenes work because of Neil haha
Neil is amazing !
Its so good that Neil feels so deeply about this character. I feel that this role was able to give him a measure of catharsis that he really needed, something that few people ever get when we need it.
Good for him. 👏🏻⭐💖
Astarion is a delightful role for the Nile. Brilliant work: sharp emotional swings and experiences, fears of the character, his resentment and anger. Everything is excellently conveyed. I also really liked Elijah Kamsky in Detroit: become human. Too bad it's impossible to tell Neil about my admiration in person. ))
BG 3 did so much good to recognition of the VA's work!
Not just a great Actor, but I wonderful person ❤
Astarion is not the kind of companion I like to have in my team for one reason : it's because I play this kind of character as main character (a bard). So having 2 Astarion would ve too much in a group.
But listening to the actor and the love he felt by acting Astarion... I'll let a chance to his character for my next playthrough.
Neil you're based. You have such a lovely personality and the community embraces you fully.
PS can I cameo you to meow for a minute?
get outta here Shart sniffer
He is one hell of a VA because I don't think I would've guessed he'd voiced Astarion if I wasn't told. He's really made him a unique character and one of the most 'real' characters I've come across in fiction.
He’s a treasure and we must protect him ❤❤❤ ❤
Awwwww I love these Actors! I have never gotten so into the actors in a video game. They are so amazing! What a team! What a game!
I really love Astarion as a character. But I will never forget my first exposure to Neil's work, when he voiced John Galahad in The Secret World. A shame we didn't get more with him.
Neil is such an amazing actor and human. We are blessed to have him ❤
Neil dont know if you will read this or not but you have a new fan here. wish you the best my brother. also my favorite line from astarion was when I clicked on him he said " careful I bite." :D
It's so awesome that voice actors are getting love and attention for their work, especially for such exception performance. It's usually underappreciated.
This project...the game...the work on it and the team can be compared in the gaming world and the media world if we ignore the comparison of hard work and experience etc. with Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy ( I mean the movie one). Perfect choice of characters and actors who gave them soul and thousands of lines of emotional fantasy story. Without knowing it, the Larians have made history. And I sincerely hope that, as was the case with the Oscar-winning trilogy, it will be the case in the gaming world with Baldurs Gate 3.
The clips from BG3 mostly show early game, and that's understandable, since the game is fresh and spoiling the fun for everybody isn't nice. However... The way this man goes absolutely crazy in later stages of the game portraying Astarion. By the end of the game it is absolutely THE BEST acted character. The range mister Newbon shows reaches peaks of joy to then be immediately plunged into the nethermost pits of despair. Ok, I'm off to continue my second playthrough of BG3. This time it's solo tactician Dark Urge oathbreaker paladin. I'll burn the world.
Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly admire this man more. Damn.
I am a new subscriber due to these interviews. Thank you for doing them, it has been great to get to know the VAs, and I'll be interested to see what you upload going forward!
You can really see the hard work shoved in there by everyone in the production
When I first play bg3 I didn’t like astarian he seemed just like a typical edgy character we’d have but oh no it turned out to be so much more and I’m glad I stuck with his story
He deserves all the praise he gets
boy, you voice your work is flawless, I'm looking forward to see more of you in next dlc or next game you voice in.
There's a lot of games with incredible voice acting, but it's hard to find another game where literally every single actor absolutely nails their character and breathes so much life in to them.
Neil and the rest of the cast is a treasure. I love playing with their characters!
We need an Astarion OVA or something like that for after the game. Or just more Astarion 😢
I love him and i wish all the best for his career and life in general ❤
He is soooo precious
Awe I love his voice, I hope to meet him one day ❤😂
This guy need a OSCAR!
Astarion screaming is ONE of the most bone chilling shit i have heard in a videogame.
Neil kinda looks like Johnny Depp here. Love his personality ever from Detroit BH
"we are not recording"
*uploads this video*
😭😭
haha dw he's shared this clip of his instagram
It’s 00:35 i was about to sleep and idk how or why this showed to me after anothe short from TH-cam. I had no idea what this game was but hell im sure going through every game just to get to this part
So sweet... ❤❤
Got me crying too.
The game is incredible, the actors are increible, this is the best game ever created.
Such a precious person 😢❤
Aww Neil.. I love him ❤
Fans of these games never let go.
I genuinely love this man. I went from being kind of annoyed by Astarion to deeply loving the character all because of Neil.
Neil and other great voice actors this game has, are pretty much immortalized in this eternal game that people will come back to decades and decades after its release.
happy he won that award actor of 2023
I credit Astarion for bringing me out of the closet 😍
man GOTY for me now is FFXVI vs BG3. Hard to choose.
Dude you need to get Emma Gregory on. She has such a unique voice
Well people should express their feelings once in a while. I heard it from someone 🎉
DAMMIT NEIL 🥺
Viewer Watching Astarion Actor Neil Newborn Breaking Down Crying over Baldur's Gate 3 Breaks Down Crying
You yelled at me Asterion!
Astarion has probably the most fucked up back story of all the characters
Wow❤️❤️❤️
He wasn't crying somebody was just cutting garlic.
**Hug him.**
Wow, he is just as hot as Astarion))
270923 he is angel
It seem like my next run, I won't kill Astarion since I was playing a zealot paladin on my first run. Well, during camp Astarion wasn't expecting the wood that my paladin was packing.
His real voice sounds nothing like Astarion.