Andrew Chaikin vs. William Kasten: FIGHT!
I made a video to compare each of their takes on voicing Max ![:D :D](https://community.telltale.com/resources/emoji/lol.png)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shLNdcJbMWs
![:D :D](https://community.telltale.com/resources/emoji/lol.png)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shLNdcJbMWs
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I agree, and it's also hard for me to determine which Max I liked better, but I think Kasten did improve a lot after first season, which is what these clips are from.
Agreed.
About Kasten getting better as the episodes progressed - yes, but I'm pretty sure it would have been the same with Chaikin. I'm not sure about his Jürgen, though
Great job, Pale Man, thanks!
But I definitely heard a difference between the two voice actors - William Kasten was my preferred performance because the majority of the lines seemed much more expressive and "Max-esque" e.g. "as we found out after the incident with the garden hose".
I've got nothing against Andrew Chaikin's performance in episode 1 though. I enjoyed that episode a lot. Plus it wasn't until I saw it on the forum that I realised there was a different voice actor in episode 1... the first episode I played was episode 4 because it was free - and that had William Kasten in it, so maybe I imprinted like a baby hearing it's mothers voice and can't accept anyone else...
I've never heard Chaikin's other work, so he may be a magnificent voice actor, but his performance in 101 almost put me off from playing any of the other episodes. I found myself dreading every line he was about to speak, it was just so obnoxious. No "chemistry" between him and Sam, either--Chaikin, in my opinion, made the 101 Max sound like some incredibly annoying replacement for the real Max that Sam found at an orphanage. Every line was overdone, so it sounds like Max is (for some reason) trying to suck up to Sam, as his Freelance Police "deputy" or something. The line about the gorilla (1:53) is a pretty good example of this.
Chaikin also has absolutely no grasp of Max's sarcastic nature. Listen to the "one hand" line at 2:20. Chaikin's Max sounds like an idiot, honestly. Kasten gets it, though, and delivers the line with more than a touch of the "bite" that plays so well between he and Sam.
The fundamental difference between Chaikin's and Kasten's approach to voicing Max is that, apparently, the former is really trying (way too hard), and his goal is to voice "a cartoon character." Kasten simply approaches the work far more nonchalantly, and his goal is to voice Max, specifically.
You never played a Bone game, then.
Andrew Chaikin goes by "Kid Beyond" now when he's credited. Just a heads up in case, you know, you might be watching a closing credits sequence sometime in the near future and wanted to see if he was there.
Heads are decidedly up!
I just think Kasten is better at voicing Max, and I'm so used to it now, that when I hear Chaikin, I think "that's not Max".
He does a good Phoney Bone, though! I just got Bone 1 yesterday and it was good.
Yeah, I also think Kasten does much better job. Well, Chaikin did good too, but there's that little 'something' that didn't make him Max. It sounded somewhat.. shaky. Dunno, but that's how I felt.
..but of course, after hearing Kasten doing Max for the rest of the season 1, I really can't imagine anyone else taking his place anymore.
I preferred both over the Max voice in hit the road but I believe kasten is better ONLY by a whisker.