Is Ada's voice getting reworked for Separate Ways?

[Vovin]

I've been a long time fan of RE for decades, don't even acknowledge the new games. I only just got the RE4 remake because I have been busy most of the year, and I am slowly making my way through it. I bought the original RE4 the day it released on gamecube, by the way.

Anyway, the moment Ada started speaking, it just threw the game completely off. It is legit awful. For a series known for goofy voice acting, this still stands out as something unredeemable.

I had to look it up because I'm sure something was wrong, and sure enough, this was apparently a huge issue many moons ago where the internet people went ballistic. I get the whole union/non-union thing, but I lost all sympathy for the voice actress when she actually responded by saying this was about diversity and inclusion. The voice actress for Ada in RE2R was simply the perfect fit, regardless of race or any other such nonsense.

My point here is how can you proceed with this same awful voice acting in a DLC campaign for Ada? Because I don't know if I even want to bother with that, it's just so bad.

EDIT: Also, did anybody bother to make a mod yet where they use an AI program to replicate Ada's voice from RE2R? Obviously this is a complex task that could never replace the authentic experience, but it may just be better than what we did get.

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

Nope. Same voice actress Lily Gao playing as Ada Wong in Separate Ways DLC anyhow.

[2D神]

Same VA. Your only hope is that her coach or whoever is in the Capcom booth tell her to put more emotion this time around.

[80TCS]

No.

[Vovin]

Originally posted by 2D神:

Same VA. Your only hope is that her coach or whoever is in the Capcom booth tell her to put more emotion this time around.

Maybe they'll justifying it by having Ada fall and end up with a stick up her ass, because if I were Leon with her on the boat, she would be going overboard with that attitude.

[Shark Boy]

Maybe the guy who did the Ada voice replacement mod for the base game will get around to doing this one as well.

[Salfaden]

she isn't even that bad, her performance fits the more darker vibe they were going for, she dropped her femme fatale voice cause Leon's seen her true colors. I definitely can see the DLC she improved her performance even more.

[Vovin]

Originally posted by Salfaden:

she isn't even that bad, her performance fits the more darker vibe they were going for, she dropped her femme fatale voice cause Leon's seen her true colors. I definitely can see the DLC she improved her performance even more.

You do realize that this is a remake, right? The vibe never really changed in terms of vocabulary and she still flirts with Leon constantly- it's just that her voice is completely flat, as if the voice actress was merely reading the lines off of a page with no VA skill whatsoever. It's EXTREMELY noticeable, especially to somebody who has known the Ada character and her role in the original RE4 for 20+ years.

[Death is Coming]

Originally posted by 2D神:

Same VA. Your only hope is that her coach or whoever is in the Capcom booth tell her to put more emotion this time around.

Unlikely, they probably recorded all the dialogue during the original game work as evidenced that all her ingame dialogue was already recorded. I doubt they'd want to pay her again to "fix" her boring ass voice.

[Harris]

Originally posted by Salfaden:

she isn't even that bad, her performance fits the more darker vibe they were going for, she dropped her femme fatale voice cause Leon's seen her true colors.

Sounds like some military grade cope there. The VA literally stated it was her own approach to the character ("Ada is a survivor" yadda yadda) rather than trying to fit an established character of the established franchise.

Originally posted by Vovin:

My point here is how can you proceed with this same awful voice acting in a DLC campaign for Ada? Because I don't know if I even want to bother with that, it's just so bad.

Depends on who's "you". If it's Capcom, then every time I hear DLC I imagine there's some super strict accountant who will never allocate more resources to the development than a few percent of what the DLC is projected to earn - leading to small DLCs made by a few people over a few years.

I mean, in the ideal world they would have need to let the VA go, find a good one (most likely unionized, so it's not just the case of "pay twice" but "pay more" as well) and revoice the game.

And well, base game already sold, so will the DLC - so why spend more money, when you can... you know... not spend it?

And if "you" means us gamers, then you will read many more attempts to cope and rationalize like I quoted at the start of this post. People will buy it again, and if (when?) they see the VA is still bad - they'll make a few threads about it. The threads will be closed after a while, and then it will be business as usual.

And then we get the announcement for RE5make, or maybe Code Veronica with the scene where Steve checks out Claire's bottom cut because ESG money.

[deadscene]

you are weak if you using mod to replace the voice, be grateful that we got a remake and the dlc for this gorgeous outstanding timeless game , simple don't be a snowfl@ke

[Death is Coming]

Originally posted by deadscene:

you are weak if you using mod to replace the voice, be grateful that we got a remake and the dlc for this gorgeous outstanding timeless game , simple don't be a snowfl@ke

I can't take you seriously, you're such a consoomer that you have to self censor insults. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Vovin]

Originally posted by deadscene:

you are weak if you using mod to replace the voice, be grateful that we got a remake and the dlc for this gorgeous outstanding timeless game , simple don't be a snowfl@ke

I just installed the mod after I learned about it here. And strange how you praise this game yet called the original RE4 a "gorgeous outstanding timeless game". I mean, who even asked for the remake in the first place? The original was perfectly playable still, not like it was the jump of RE1-3 to their remakes.

That being said, the game itself is better than I thought it was going to be, especially in terms of fleshing out the story of RE4, and they are finally nailing down this third person gameplay... not unlike MGSV did for that franchise. Again, the problem is that it is weighed down by shoddy voice acting that really, REALLY lowers the overall experience. And by the way, Krauser and Saddler both sound bad too, but to be fair, Krauser was always a dumb character. I'm pretty sure they only shoehorned him in the first game because Operation Iraqi Liberation was in full swing and everybody was making a statement on the US military.

[Neckwhiskers]

Nope, it's still awful. Hopefully the rest is good though.

[Moby]

They probably recorded all the DLC voice lines before the actual game even came out.

[Peelsepuuppi]

I hope at least that the voice director pays a little bit more attention this time and doesn't just let her get away with sounding completely bored out of her mind.