Really? All I see/hear when I see Michael Ironside is Jester from ‘Top Gun’, even though I think he’s been in about 80% of TV shows and movies since then.
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I think Robocop and Starship Troopers.
I think Sam Fisher, but I haven’t played the first few Splinter Cells in ages so maybe I’m wrong.
You know he wasn’t in Robocop right?
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Yep. That’s the worst part.
Nah, man, Starship Troopers and C&C 3.
My memory is a little hazy, but wasn’t he a good guy in V?
Ham Tyler? Lovable rogue.
Ironside played Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell. In Ghost Recon he just has a short cameo.
Personally, for me Ironside IS Fisher. I love his interrogations of soldiers in Chaos Theory:
Man, I need to replay this one of these days. Ubi should at least remaster it if they ain’t gonna make a proper new game, dammit.
Ahh. Thats right. I got the name wrong. Maybe I should try one of the Cell games again.
And don’t get me wrong. I think Michael Ironside is a Canadian treasure. I just cannot disconnect his voice from his mug.
Michael Ironside, that guy you remember from that game/movie he wasn’t in.
Fuck yeah. He will always be the badass in V to me.
I don’t know why I bothered to watch that girl’s video but she comes across as a reasonable human being with a bias towards Cyberpunk being probably pretty great. She actually does strike me as the kind of person who would call out bad gameplay if she was disappointed.
I have a personal hope this game will be good as well, even if i like bitching about little things now and then.
In case anyone hasn’t seen this old pre-review of Cyberpunk 2077 yet, I think it’s pretty spot on. At least, I’m hoping it is.
2 days after, it seems :)
In the vast majority of cases, voice actors don’t look like the character they are voicing. The technology allowing people to do it well and for reasonable cost (on the tech/production side) is pretty recent where gaming is concerned.
But it’s also simply not always appropriate, and using a likeness probably costs more (irrelevant to an AAA studio). There’s no reason for the Emperor to look like Charles Dance. Nobody in Witcherverse looks like the person they voice act, really. That’s just not what CDPR did for that universe and it worked fine. CDPR obviously felt it made sense to do it in another property.
The choice especially makes sense where Keanu is concerned. He (1) has played two famous characters in cyberpunk/cyberpunk adjacent movies and (2) one of those characters (from Johny Mnemonic) is essentially from a shared world with one of the genre’s progenitor novels.
Well sure, but in the vast majority of cases I have no idea what the voice actor looks like, so why bother capturing their likeness. I have no idea what the guy who did Batman’s voice in the animated series looks like, though his voice is absolutely iconic. It just doesn’t matter. I do, however, know exactly what Charles Dance looks like, just like I know exactly what Keanu Reeves looks like. I find it odd that they opted to capture the physical likeness of one and not the other.
I’ve already given reasons, although the fact that some creators consider it a valid artistic choice is enough.
OK wonderful, you’ve given reasons. I still find it odd. Thanks though.
