What happened with old voice cast ? Why did they not participate?

[H.E.C.U soldier]

Like the topic says, where are the voice actors that played characters in the old games ? Take Liu Kang for example, his original voice was much more superior, same goes for Kitana.

It's a little odd, like, in MK9 and MKX they have the same voice actors. 4 years passed between MK9 and MKX, now it's been four years since MK11 as well, and it looks like everyone, literally everyone was replaced. The only voices that I think were the same are that of Raiden, Johnny and Sub-Zero, but even Sub-Zero voice changed between MK9 and MKX. What's going on ?

Also they messed up Noob voice. He had such a badass voice in MK9. He sounds like a dying 100 years old man on his deathbed and Liu Kang sounds like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ chinese man (no offence to chinese people). Super odd.

[Bullwark]

- Could be a design choice (most likely imo)
- Actors could've declined
- Contracts ran out
- something else
- etc...

Why do you care? It is like it is and won't change.

Edit:

Well, Liu Kang's origin is China. So there's that. I find his voice better than the others. Quite a fit!

[H.E.C.U soldier]

Originally posted by Bullwark:

- Could be a design choice (most likely imo)
- Actors could've declined
- Contracts ran out
- something else
- etc...

Why do you care? It is like it is and won't change.

Edit:

Well, Liu Kang's origin is China. So there's that. I find his voice better than the others. Quite a fit!

I disagree, I think the original Liu Kang had much better voice. It may have more american accent yes, but the character was much more believable and badass. Right now he sounds like a chinese man you would meet in the alley who's selling fruits and sushi. I care because they should stick to the same actors if there are the same characters.

It can't be a design choice, else they would replace raiden and johnny too.

Contracts ran out, and they couldn't sign them again because ? Also if the actors declined, so many of them at once, is a bit weird don't you think, what were those reasons ?

[Bullwark]

Like I said. He is a "chinese man".

It's not often up to a company to keep to old voice actors. They could've been asked, but declined the offer. For whatever reaoon.
Also, if a game has been redesigned, it's common to also change the voice actors because of the new image (looks/personality/etc..) and the old voices don't fit "the vision". Producers, etc.. choices.
Nobody likes "everything" in a game.

Try to accept them as they are (or don't) and move on (or don't).
They will not change. EVER. (except for a new title maybe)

[Creed Bratton]

His new voice sounds actually asian, i like it better than the previous ones

The only voice actor change i didn't like were shao kahn and sonya

Kahn's mk9 voice sounded much more intimidating than this new one, but that's maybe because of the filters and effects and not the voice itself

Ronda as sonya is dreadfull, she has a awfull voice and doesn't even know how to do priper voice acting, i get why they chose her and i think they should've taken the same aproach as shang tsung, face and voice, but the previous actress was great as sonya and she is good actress aswell (she played charlotte in lucifer and did a lot of voice work)

There was a lot of discussion about scorpion's voice aswell, the previous actor was great but the guy who played him in mk11 did an amazing job imo

Aside from sonya and shao kahn i love the mk11 voice cast

[H.E.C.U soldier]

Another fact about MKX kids (new fighers), takeda and kung jin did not make it into the game so we can't compare them, but Cassie has diffrent voice as well, Jacqui Briggs however, I'm pretty sure she has the same voice as in MKX.

[Creed Bratton]

i checked the entire cast of every game since MKvsDC
richard epcar (raiden)
steve blum (sub zero)
troy baker (erron black, shinnok)
andrew bowen (johnny cage)
kelly hu (d'vorah, she also played sindel in mkx but not in this one)
phill lamarr (kotal kahn)
jamieson price (default announcer)

those are the only actors from MKX that reprised their roles for this game
everyone else has a new voice actor playing them

also jennifer hale who has voiced tanya in MKX, provides the voice of kronika in MK11

with the exception of richard epcar, who played both raiden and joker since MKvsDC in EVERY NRS title, all the characters with more than one apareance in NRS games had at least one change of voice actor

the ones with most participations aside from epcar where patrick seitz and tom choi, who played scorpion and lui kand respectively since MKvsDC to MKX (seitz also played scorpion in injustice 1) they were both replaced for mk11, also all of the actors listed above and some of the new actors in the MK11 cast played another roles in the injustice series (for example, the guy who voices shao kahn was atrocitus in injustice 2, phil lamarr was john stewart and aquaman, etc)

[Creed Bratton]

Originally posted by HECUsoldier:

Another fact about MKX kids (new fighers), takeda and kung jin did not make it into the game so we can't compare them, but Cassie has diffrent voice as well, Jacqui Briggs however, I'm pretty sure she has the same voice as in MKX.

the actress that played jacqui in MKX is the woman tha plays DA cecille horton (joe's wife) in CW's the flash

there are a lot of known actors doing voice work in this games

[отбитый]

Originally posted by Creed Bratton:

Ronda as sonya is dreadfull, she has a awfull voice and doesn't even know how to do priper voice acting...

There was a lot of discussion about scorpion's voice aswell, the previous actor was great but the guy who played him in mk11 did an amazing job imo

Aside from sonya and shao kahn i love the mk11 voice cast

do not touch Ronda's voice. it's her acting only, and it's director's fault -
they could record few takes more untill her lines sounded right, right?
and it's not only Ronda's issue - so many Scorp/SubZ/Scarlet/etc
lines sound like actors didn't know the mf context - they just
spelled them like a mf speech synthesizer would do...
*yea, Shao's voice+acting actually is a downgrade

[Tailer Jirden]

The only one i really miss, is Karen Strassman as Kitana voice. She is so MUCH bettter, than current voice, even thou the appereance of char was changed a lot.

[H.E.C.U soldier]

Originally posted by Victorus Aut Mortis:

The only one i really miss, is Karen Strassman as Kitana voice. She is so MUCH bettter, than current voice, even thou the appereance of char was changed a lot.

Her voice actor was indeed better before, she sounds nothing like original Kitana. Her appearance was changed due to the reasons I shall not name here.