Tycho's voice
So... Jerry Holkins, right? Do you think he's perfect, or will he be chosen just so that all the fans don't complain?
How do you imagine Tycho's voice sound? I always imagine him sounding like Randal from Clerks.
How do you imagine Tycho's voice sound? I always imagine him sounding like Randal from Clerks.
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That's how I picture Gabe!
If you're a fan of PA, you've probably listened to the audio podcasts and watched the documentary series. Mike and Jerry are Gabe and Tycho. The characters are so inseparable from their creators that it would just seem off to hear someone else voicing them.
If Jerry's not interested, I certainly wouldn't object to Tycho just speaking in word balloons, a la the two PA RPGs. If anything, large floating blocks of text would give Max or the Heavy something else to riddle with bullet holes.
Yeah, I've listened to their D&D podcast. They were pretty spot on.
Considering we have yet to see Tycho's model OR hear his voice, it seems he'll be the character fans will devote the most attention to over the coming months...
Well, each reader imagines them differently. So Telltale really can't win. All they can do is use Jerry Holkins so that fans will complain less. I heard his voice too, and it's a bit different than what I imagine Tycho to sound.
Source: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/09/poker-night-at-the-inventory/#more-28268
I'm pretty sure they were all him, but I'm not certain.
Geez, nobody seems to catch the fact that Andrew was Papierwaite too.
I'm not being snide, I usually do memorise the voice actors of things I like. I think he was one of the molemen in the room with the toybox as well?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfzIwn5a238
I'm not complaining.
Thanks for getting that stuck in my head!
Oh hey, I was at that show!
Already saw(and linked) to that performace:
Oh, way to go. That's all I have in my head now.
There he is! Sounds fine to me. I pictured his voice slightly deeper overall, but it all works out since his voice goes deeper when he goes into "dungeon master" voice mode like I would have expected
I just created an account here solely to unleash my misery at their decision to go with Not-Jerry-Voice. Gaze upon my pain and despair!
Okay, maybe it's just me despairing.
I'm still glad he's in the game; the voice just feels...off...to me.
There's basically no way to make everyone happy with the voice for Tycho, since some people picture Jerry himself, and those that have never heard Jerry's voice or think of Tycho as his own character with his own voice, I'm sure have their own infinite number of other voices they hear in their head when reading. That said, given the near infinite ways that guy could sound when voiced, by and large people have been more accepting than I was expecting. I hope that even though it's not initially to your liking, you'll at least be able to appreciate it as an interpretation when you're playing the game, and don't spend the whole time grating your teeth or something
That happens. Those guys don't get along.
By the way, did anyone else know that Andrew Chaikin/Kid Beyond was in American McGee's Alice? He was the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, and the...Dormouse, I think?
^This
I can't even imagine how that combination would sound.
Too awesome. Headphone blowing up, universe tearing awesome.
I was infinitely curious how they'd have handled the voice when he was announced for this game, and I think so far you guys (or well, his voice actor) delivered from that one line in the trailer.
Don't get me wrong. The chemistry between characters will work much better with them all shouting at each other across the table (which is pretty much the reason why it's a well justified poker game), but Tycho is a character that I've been reading since 2003 (I know, the comic has been around longer, but I didn't have the internet until that year), and he's always spoken in a dialogue balloon to me, even in Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. Naturally that lets me put whatever voice my subconscious calls up for him, and has done so for years.
However, I'm still looking forward to the game, and won't be crushed if they don't have this sort of option (and I don't really expect it anyway).
I imagine people who managed to get their hands on Sam and Max before the original game or TV series would have similar feelings about Max. I never played TF1, but the Heavy probably didn't have a voice then either, so Strong Bad's pretty much the only one here that this protest can't be made against, so for the sake of fairness, I've taken a lot of words to say that I'm opinionated but not bothered.