Vs Saxton Hale question

[WheelsOnTheBus]

Why Didn’t they have the original voice actors for the Mercenaries?

I understand Soldier and maybe Engineer but why not the others original voice actors even though they are all very active in the community?

[Rando the Crit Clown]

The impersonator did a way better job than the official actors can do at this point. Plus, Valve didn't do any of this, it's a community update.

[Mossy Snake]

One's dead, the Medic one is perennially employed from what I understand, and the others are getting older and can't do the lines (or at least the screams) as well as before.

[Butthead]

Originally posted by Rando the Crit Clown:

The impersonator did a way better job than the official actors can do at this point. Plus, Valve didn't do any of this, it's a community update.

A better job? Have you lost your mind?!!

[sadchaos]

Cause it was community made?
Pretty certain voice actors require pay and that is a little more then what a random workshoper throwing something together could afford..
also valve time would mean the update would never happen if we had to wait for valve to delegate everything.

[sadchaos]

Originally posted by Mossy Snake:

One's dead, the Medic one is perennially employed from what I understand, and the others are getting older and can't do the lines (or at least the screams) as well as before.

also this.

[Rando the Crit Clown]

Originally posted by BUTTHEAD:

Originally posted by Rando the Crit Clown:

The impersonator did a way better job than the official actors can do at this point. Plus, Valve didn't do any of this, it's a community update.

A better job? Have you lost your mind?!!

They were already not very good at the voices 11 years ago (presumably even further back since they recorded the voices before the update came out) when MvM came out, but now they're terrible at it and sound nothing like them at all. Not even remotely similar. Have you never heard any recent clips of them trying to do the voices, or do you just think it's super awesome and epic that they said the word "Gaming" so you'll lie to yourself about how good they are?

[Kevin Crabcakes]

Nathan Vetterlein is MIA seemingly idfk
Grant Goodeve doesn’t give a ♥♥♥♥
Dennis Bateman John Patrick Lowrie and Gary Schwartz are losing their voices
and soldier uhh
Robin Atkin Downes is probably the only one who I could see coming back and that’s if he isn’t eating up big money from better roles

New guy does decent impressions for YouTube videos but he was clearly not ready for his vsh lines to make it in officially

[nerdgeekman]

Originally posted by Kevin Crabcakes:

Nathan Vetterlein is MIA seemingly idfk
Grant Goodeve doesn’t give a ♥♥♥♥
Dennis Bateman John Patrick Lowrie and Gary Schwartz are losing their voices
and soldier uhh
Robin Atkin Downes is probably the only one who I could see coming back and that’s if he isn’t eating up big money from better roles

New guy does decent impressions for YouTube videos but he was clearly not ready for his vsh lines to make it in officially

GARY’S LOSING HIS VOICE?

[DukeyNukey]

people critique a free update with free maps with all of it done for free and given for free. you literally could've played these same maps any time cause they're COMMUNITY MADE MAPS HOSTED ON COMMUNITY SERVERS. the reason the saxton hale game mode wasn't added is cause valve didn't want to make it and VSH required sourcemod which is a third party. these new VSH maps are made with VSCRIPT which you can search yourself if you're curious.

[Sharkster_00]

Originally posted by nerdgeekman:

Originally posted by Kevin Crabcakes:

Nathan Vetterlein is MIA seemingly idfk
Grant Goodeve doesn’t give a ♥♥♥♥
Dennis Bateman John Patrick Lowrie and Gary Schwartz are losing their voices
and soldier uhh
Robin Atkin Downes is probably the only one who I could see coming back and that’s if he isn’t eating up big money from better roles

New guy does decent impressions for YouTube videos but he was clearly not ready for his vsh lines to make it in officially

GARY’S LOSING HIS VOICE?

Yeah sadly the more you get older the more your voice gets deeper it’s sad but it part of life

[Frogman]

its finally here

[The deadly Cutsman]

Ngl even if they brought og Scout VA, he would have done a ♥♥♥♥ job.

[nerdgeekman]

Originally posted by Sharkster_00:

Originally posted by nerdgeekman:

GARY’S LOSING HIS VOICE?

Yeah sadly the more you get older the more your voice gets deeper it’s sad but it part of life

Aw, that sucks! I wish Gary nothing but the best!

[Skyylnd]

Originally posted by Rando the Crit Clown:

Originally posted by BUTTHEAD:

A better job? Have you lost your mind?!!

They were already not very good at the voices 11 years ago (presumably even further back since they recorded the voices before the update came out) when MvM came out, but now they're terrible at it and sound nothing like them at all. Not even remotely similar. Have you never heard any recent clips of them trying to do the voices, or do you just think it's super awesome and epic that they said the word "Gaming" so you'll lie to yourself about how good they are?

That's not a fair critique; when we heard them recently it is one take with a camera phone in an open room...of course they're not going to sound perfect. Voice acting takes place in a professional studio with mixers and multiple takes to get the right sound.

I'm not saying it is realistic to get them back to do voice lines for community work. But if Valve wanted to, they could get them back and have their lines sound just as good as when the game first came out.

I'm not crazy about the new voice lines, they have a sort of "audio uncanny valley" sound to them.

[Dillpickle1]

Originally posted by Mossy Snake:

One's dead, the Medic one is perennially employed from what I understand, and the others are getting older and can't do the lines (or at least the screams) as well as before.

huh? they all love this game still, every so often they upload a video of them doing the voices