Steve's voice

[Seiko300]

It sounds like whoever was the voice actor actually plugged his nose before doing any of the screams, whimpers, or breathing to try and sound more "teen like" and somebody on the BHVR team actually said "yeah, that's good".

I don't normally roast BHVR devs like a lot of people like to constantly blame them for stuff, but I can't let this one slide. Steve sounds GOD awful even after the VO tweaks he only sounds marginally better if even. Note that "better" in this context in no way, shape, form, or fashion means anything close to good.

He needs a complete Voice Over overhaul, Steve's voice is to Joe Keery's voice as Quentin's face is to Kyle Gallner's face and that just speaks volumes. Speaking of which please change that too (remodel Quentin's face)


It would be very much preferable that they get Joe Keery on board to do his own voice (whenever that fits into his own schedule, since I assume he's probably working on other projects, but I honestly don't think a few screams, whimpers, and breathing sounds take that long to record). But even if that doesn't work out just find a better voice for Steve, my goodness.

I honestly never understood how they could get the legendary Bruce Campbell to voice Ash Williams himself, but not fresh actor Joe Keery who needs as much exposure as he can get to expand his profile. It makes no sense (what does make sense, is that if Joe Keery comes aboard, Natalia Dyer should come along to do a full VO overhaul for Nancy. Not that Nancy right now sounds bad (or anywhere near as awful as Steve) it just makes sense that if Joe Keery voices his own character, so should Natalia.

EDIT:

Comparison:

Original audio files from the PTB (a lot of which are still in use in the live build)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy-7qNvIEaQ

Scene from Season 3 of Stranger Things where Steve is getting beat up while being interrogated (reference for grunts of pain, speaking in a strained voice):

https://youtu.be/W5KwSCK4Bv0

The next scene after where he is injected with a truth serum to make him talk (he actually screams at the end of this clip)

https://youtu.be/isxGUALB7c8

You would be lying to me if you said any of these sound anything alike to what we have right now.

[Caerulite]

I can't stand his voice too that's why I refrain from playing him until I get Iron Will. FFS how did the voice pass QA? he sounds like a loser nerd who's getting bullied. Change it BHVR

[Seiko300]

Originally posted by Sasori:

i don't really mind the voice but i want kate old voice back please

REALLY?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy-7qNvIEaQ

As Bricky says Steve is a "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ opera singer"

For comparison this is how the interrogation scene from Season 3 of Stranger Things which sees him get beat up, and actually groaning in pain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5KwSCK4Bv0

In this clip from the next scene you see him actually scream at the very end of the clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isxGUALB7c8

You can't tell me that sounds ANYTHING alike to the files from the audio files from the PTB, even if some of those pieces of audio are out of date or weren't used, they're still the standard for what's being used in the live build currently.

[deek]

I agree with you on absolutely everything. I'm sure the voice actor tried his best and all, but you just can't get over how bad it sounds. He literally sounds like the actor plugged his nose, smoked 50 packs of cigarettes, and punched himself in the throat. Everyone's talking about Quentin face rework, but lets be honest who actually mains Quentin? There's thousands of Stranger Things fans that bought the game when they saw the trailer, and they were probably disappointed by Steve's voice. They're better off hiring Joe Keery to do the voice, but he probably doesn't even know this game exists.

[thefollowingcharacters]

I had no idea he was based off of Stranger things. I just thought he was a joke character. =D

[mldb88]

It could be worse, I could be Jane “sign up for my only fans” Romero

[Fax-It Felix Jr.]

Few things in DBD are more satisfying than basement-hooking a Scoops Steve.

[=Snappy=]

Was playing killer yesterday and I actually broke off tunneling someone cuz steve showed up and that little "yipes!" scream he makes. so yeah that's a pretty powerful ability, actually.

y'all think the actor did a bad job but i think he did it on purpose. he's supposed to be portraying a kid.

speaking of which:

if u want to pick on dbd steve, let's talk about why his model appears as thought the artist created it to scale and then some art director or manager came by and said "looks great just scale the whole thing up by a factor of 1.1".

he looks gigantic -- bigger than every other player, including those who, we can presume are supposed to be a bit beefier e.g. jeff -- and disproportionate as a result. it's ridiculous. very unprofessional. ridiculous.