Well, who wouldn't be scared of Carver? Given how he's implied to have cut off Reggie's arm as punishment for helping the Cabin Group to escape, and likely spent an inordinate amount of time torturing him until he broke the poor guy enough to develop a case of Stockholm Syndrome.
My problem with Reggie doesn't come from how he sounds, I have no problem with that, but the delivery and performance itself just didn't feel up to par for me. I felt like Reggie/Kumail suffered from the age-old problem of sounding like they're just reading off the script. That's not to say every line from him is bad, there's definitely some good lines here and there, but some of them just sound... awkward in terms of delivery. And not awkward in the sense of the fact that Reggie's a foreign dude that isn't the best at speaking English (he is Pakistani after all), but awkward in terms of the performance itself.
There's a difference between someone that isn't the best at speaking English, and someone that just isn't giving the best performance. Arvo's a good example of that. Arvo's not the best with English, but the performance itself is solid. Arvo's broken english and somewhat stunted speaking pattern feels like it's coming from the character rather than the actor, you get what I'm saying?
Well, who wouldn't be scared of Carver? Given how he's implied to have cut off Reggie's arm as punishment for helping the Cabin Group to esc… moreape, and likely spent an inordinate amount of time torturing him until he broke the poor guy enough to develop a case of Stockholm Syndrome.
He's no coward, he's another of Carver's victim.
I don't really understand what question you're trying to ask. Are you saying who create the character Reggie in the story? That would be whoever was in charge of character creation and design, and whoever wrote him into the story.
I don't really understand what question you're trying to ask. Are you saying who create the character Reggie in the story? That would be whoever was in charge of character creation and design, and whoever wrote him into the story.
For all the people who think Carver removed Reggie's arm as a punishment for helping the Cabin Group escape:
When you meet Reggie, he clearly states that THIS (his lost arm) happened AFTER you guys left. He tells us that he was hammering something outside with Mike and a walker just snuck up on him. Luckily, they removed the arm and saved his life.
Carver gave him a second chance after he helped them escape (weird, right? its quite opposite of how we know Carver is. Well, it was about time he showed his true colours). He wanted Carver to let him back into his VIP CLUB. Thats why he was being over-loyal to Carver. He also says that when Carver lets him back in, he'll be able to do a lot more to help us get comfortable, maybe even help us escape (AGAIN).
So, overall Reggie was neither a bad guy nor weak. He was just.....innocent (bit like Sarah) and LOYAL too. Can't say I love him, but I don't hate him either.
I'm saying it should come as no shock that lot's of people didn't like his voice acting since he isnt a voice actor :P
He didn't give much gravitas to any lines, it was a very weak voice generally and lacked clear diction, and it was hard to see any emotion in his words due to the 2 dimensional tones.
Uh...okay? Regardless of if he was a professional VA I still think his performance in Twdg was still good. What was so bad about his voice acting as Reggie, specifically?
Reggie is funny, but he's such a forgettable character I even forgot he existed until I saw this thread. The episodes were short as we they were, and in a setting like that, Telltale could've easily used one of the 400 Days characters, or instead used that time with other characters in Clementine's group.
I don't see why Reggie existed other than for a cheap shocker death, and so soon after being introduced, which had been done 3 or so times by that point in the season already.
Given how Carver acted in Episode 3, it didn't feel that far off of an assumption to me that Carver would cut off Reggie's arm as punishment, especially since I don't remember Mike confirming Reggie's statement that a walker was responsible for the deed. Reggie could have been lying to 'protect' Carver, given how he's shown to do anything to get in Carver's good graces.
I'll admit my theories are baseless, given how the sub-plot is barely explored and is ignored quickly after Carver kills Reggie.
For all the people who think Carver removed Reggie's arm as a punishment for helping the Cabin Group escape:
When you meet Reggie, he cle… morearly states that THIS (his lost arm) happened AFTER you guys left. He tells us that he was hammering something outside with Mike and a walker just snuck up on him. Luckily, they removed the arm and saved his life.
Carver gave him a second chance after he helped them escape (weird, right? its quite opposite of how we know Carver is. Well, it was about time he showed his true colours). He wanted Carver to let him back into his VIP CLUB. Thats why he was being over-loyal to Carver. He also says that when Carver lets him back in, he'll be able to do a lot more to help us get comfortable, maybe even help us escape (AGAIN).
So, overall Reggie was neither a bad guy nor weak. He was just.....innocent (bit like Sarah) and LOYAL too. Can't say I love him, but I don't hate him either.
Given how Carver acted in Episode 3, it didn't feel that far off of an assumption to me that Carver would cut off Reggie's arm as punishment… more, especially since I don't remember Mike confirming Reggie's statement that a walker was responsible for the deed. Reggie could have been lying to 'protect' Carver, given how he's shown to do anything to get in Carver's good graces.
I'll admit my theories are baseless, given how the sub-plot is barely explored and is ignored quickly after Carver kills Reggie.
Honestley I agree with Deltino. But as for my thoughts, Reggie was surely a nice guy, weird but nice. What pissed me off was how usless, forgettable and poorly acted he was. It's not that he's Asian, it's just his actor sounds soooo BAD. When I heard his voice I felt to soooo disconnected from the atmosphere, he sounded like a guy just reading instead of acting. But whatevs we forgot Reggie once, we can do it again.
Clem wont likely remember him by S3 and neither will we.
That's what it was been told but remember that Carver doesn't like incompetence and Reggie had to pay for that act when the group escaped from them the first time.
the delivery and performance itself just didn't feel up to par for me. I felt like Reggie/Kumail suffered from the age-old problem of sounding like they're just reading off the script.
Ehhhh I disagree. Maybe it's because I happen to have met lots of immigrant Indian guys, or guys from Pakistan etc. from that region over the course of my life, but I thought his performance was pretty believable. I never once was taken out of the experience of the game thinking, "Wow, this guy's voice acting is terrible;" I never even came close to that. I think the only lines where I might possibly think he was "reading the lines off the script" (only after going back and listening to all his dialogue again) were those lines of his where he was explaining to Clem and Sarah what to do with the blueberry bushes. And to be fair, those lines may have sounded flat, because honestly Reggie was describing some pretty mundane boring tasks. I can't think of a more mundane situation in this entire game franchise than "cut the brown leaves off these berry plants." Hence maybe why you think he sounded flat and bored himself, or maybe even sounding like he was reading off the script, if you think that way.
Really it just struck me how similar Reggie's voice sounded to a lot of people I know, and that tickled my fancy lol. It was like my friends were in the game too! I loved it. I didn't think it sounded like he was reading off the script, because people's real voices often might sound like that sometimes--voices that are just to the point, maybe not always bursting with every emotion. It sounded realistic to me, not fake. It sounded like a real person's voice, not an actor's lol. (How ironic is that?)
but some of them just sound... awkward in terms of delivery. And not awkward in the sense of the fact that Reggie's a foreign dude that isn't the best at speaking English (he is Pakistani after all), but awkward in terms of the performance itself.
Um lol okay...well for me, Kumail Nanjiani's performance itself wasn't "awkward," but the lines themselves were delivered in an awkward manner because Reggie was obviously an awkward character. Here's this guy who was left behind by the cabin group, who has to welcome them back and be like, "Oh, hey guys! Fancy seeing you here...again...I know you're prisoners again, but I'm not, sorta, anymore! Isn't that great...sorta?" How is that not an awkward situation lol? I didn't find the performance itself awkward; all I felt was that Reggie himself and the situation itself was awkward, and that's why Kumail was obviously speaking in that way.
that Reggie's a foreign dude that isn't the best at speaking English (he is Pakistani after all)
This might be unrelated but, um. Idk if you're arguing here that Reggie's English is bad or not, but if you are: Actually I think Reggie's English was pretty great; I mean it wasn't broken at all like Arvo's was and all his grammar was perfect; he even used slang pretty darn well. (e.g. "Why is this kid being shitty?" lol) I don't know about you guys but I could only detect a slight accent in his voice.
And one last note--I think it takes some talent to pull off Reggie's funnier lines to make them sound as funny as they did. They could've easily been delivered badly and lost their humor in the process. There's not a lot of humorous/light-hearted moments in this series (like really, they should work on putting more in, like that campfire scene and the raccoon scene), and for Kumail to be able to pull humor out of lines that are spoken in such a depressing situation as Carver's prison takes some skill.
My problem with Reggie doesn't come from how he sounds, I have no problem with that, but the delivery and performance itself just didn't fee… morel up to par for me. I felt like Reggie/Kumail suffered from the age-old problem of sounding like they're just reading off the script. That's not to say every line from him is bad, there's definitely some good lines here and there, but some of them just sound... awkward in terms of delivery. And not awkward in the sense of the fact that Reggie's a foreign dude that isn't the best at speaking English (he is Pakistani after all), but awkward in terms of the performance itself.
There's a difference between someone that isn't the best at speaking English, and someone that just isn't giving the best performance. Arvo's a good example of that. Arvo's not the best with English, but the performance itself is solid. Arvo's broken english and somewhat stunted speaking pattern feels like it's coming from the character rather than the actor, you get what I'm saying?
I dunno know if I liked Reggie or not. He trusted Carver way more than he should have, then died over unpicked berries or some shit like that. He was a nice enough guy I suppose, but didn't understand the situation at all or the danger they were all in.
I dunno know if I liked Reggie or not. He trusted Carver way more than he should have, then died over unpicked berries or some shit like tha… moret. He was a nice enough guy I suppose, but didn't understand the situation at all or the danger they were all in.
He kisses Carver's dirty ass (I hope not literally too but I am not gonna judge tho) constantly and he tries, the keyword being tries, to be funny but all I wanted was an option to say "Look, son, idgaf, get real." Reggie is easily forgotten. He dies because some shitass berries, are you serious TT?
Given how he's implied to have cut off Reggie's arm as punishment
I'm sorry but theres not evidence of that, I mean at all. Reggie says he was bit and then it was cut off, nothing when he says it appears to show hes lying and no scene after this does either. To be honest this was the one point of Reggie being a character, to let people who just play the game know that cutting of the arm works. For the Sarita choice at the end of the episode.
Well, who wouldn't be scared of Carver? Given how he's implied to have cut off Reggie's arm as punishment for helping the Cabin Group to esc… moreape, and likely spent an inordinate amount of time torturing him until he broke the poor guy enough to develop a case of Stockholm Syndrome.
He's no coward, he's another of Carver's victim.
Besides, you don't really have any evidence that Reggie exists to let people know that cutting the arms works for the Sarita choice in the end, when Sarita dies either way.
Given how he's implied to have cut off Reggie's arm as punishment
I'm sorry but theres not evidence of that, I mean at all. Reggie s… moreays he was bit and then it was cut off, nothing when he says it appears to show hes lying and no scene after this does either. To be honest this was the one point of Reggie being a character, to let people who just play the game know that cutting of the arm works. For the Sarita choice at the end of the episode.
Ehhh, he was o.k. I didn't buy into his praising about Carver, but I didn't hate him for it. He had that awkward funny charm that Omid had (Omid's better). Couldn't believe he died because of blue berries. I was so confused/pissed lol.
In the universe it works, however people who just play the game may think it wont because of Lee. I know it didnt work with Sarita, given how messy the situation was however they wanted people to have a clear choice about whether it was right to do there. Not to be confused on whether it would work or not.
I already admitted that my theories are baseless.
Besides, you don't really have any evidence that Reggie exists to let people know that cutting the arms works for the Sarita choice in the end, when Sarita dies either way.
That's what it was been told but remember that Carver doesn't like incompetence and Reggie had to pay for that act when the group escaped from them the first time.
yes you are being harsh.all people that say things like this are nothing better than Bill/Carver.i would suggest more careful thinking and a more open perspective on things
Although him dying was just another gigantic emotional misstep in a long line of sloppily executed deaths throughout season 2. At least when he died, I felt relatively frustrated by the abruptness of it and gauged an actual reaction that left me angered by my lack of agency.
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Oops, I meant Reggie was scared as hell
Well, who wouldn't be scared of Carver? Given how he's implied to have cut off Reggie's arm as punishment for helping the Cabin Group to escape, and likely spent an inordinate amount of time torturing him until he broke the poor guy enough to develop a case of Stockholm Syndrome.
He's no coward, he's another of Carver's victim.
My problem with Reggie doesn't come from how he sounds, I have no problem with that, but the delivery and performance itself just didn't feel up to par for me. I felt like Reggie/Kumail suffered from the age-old problem of sounding like they're just reading off the script. That's not to say every line from him is bad, there's definitely some good lines here and there, but some of them just sound... awkward in terms of delivery. And not awkward in the sense of the fact that Reggie's a foreign dude that isn't the best at speaking English (he is Pakistani after all), but awkward in terms of the performance itself.
There's a difference between someone that isn't the best at speaking English, and someone that just isn't giving the best performance. Arvo's a good example of that. Arvo's not the best with English, but the performance itself is solid. Arvo's broken english and somewhat stunted speaking pattern feels like it's coming from the character rather than the actor, you get what I'm saying?
Still, who was in charge for him to be created?
I don't really understand what question you're trying to ask. Are you saying who create the character Reggie in the story? That would be whoever was in charge of character creation and design, and whoever wrote him into the story.
Yes
For all the people who think Carver removed Reggie's arm as a punishment for helping the Cabin Group escape:
When you meet Reggie, he clearly states that THIS (his lost arm) happened AFTER you guys left. He tells us that he was hammering something outside with Mike and a walker just snuck up on him. Luckily, they removed the arm and saved his life.
Carver gave him a second chance after he helped them escape (weird, right? its quite opposite of how we know Carver is. Well, it was about time he showed his true colours). He wanted Carver to let him back into his VIP CLUB. Thats why he was being over-loyal to Carver. He also says that when Carver lets him back in, he'll be able to do a lot more to help us get comfortable, maybe even help us escape (AGAIN).
So, overall Reggie was neither a bad guy nor weak. He was just.....innocent (bit like Sarah) and LOYAL too. Can't say I love him, but I don't hate him either.
I'm saying it should come as no shock that lot's of people didn't like his voice acting since he isnt a voice actor :P
He didn't give much gravitas to any lines, it was a very weak voice generally and lacked clear diction, and it was hard to see any emotion in his words due to the 2 dimensional tones.
Reggie is funny, but he's such a forgettable character I even forgot he existed until I saw this thread. The episodes were short as we they were, and in a setting like that, Telltale could've easily used one of the 400 Days characters, or instead used that time with other characters in Clementine's group.
I don't see why Reggie existed other than for a cheap shocker death, and so soon after being introduced, which had been done 3 or so times by that point in the season already.
Given how Carver acted in Episode 3, it didn't feel that far off of an assumption to me that Carver would cut off Reggie's arm as punishment, especially since I don't remember Mike confirming Reggie's statement that a walker was responsible for the deed. Reggie could have been lying to 'protect' Carver, given how he's shown to do anything to get in Carver's good graces.
I'll admit my theories are baseless, given how the sub-plot is barely explored and is ignored quickly after Carver kills Reggie.
I dunno. I'm just saying what the game says
Well, he tried to get us to like our new prison, er - I mean home. (It's a really great place don't worry)
He told us to behave so he could get a promotion (He could really help us guys out don't worry)
He told us Carver was a great guy (He just makes tough decisions, don't worry)
And then he died...(Well, I told him so)
Honestley I agree with Deltino. But as for my thoughts, Reggie was surely a nice guy, weird but nice. What pissed me off was how usless, forgettable and poorly acted he was. It's not that he's Asian, it's just his actor sounds soooo BAD. When I heard his voice I felt to soooo disconnected from the atmosphere, he sounded like a guy just reading instead of acting. But whatevs we forgot Reggie once, we can do it again.
Clem wont likely remember him by S3 and neither will we.
Mike cut Reggie's arm off. He was bitten by a walker, and Mike came to the rescue.
Let's ask @ReggiesLeftArm
That's what it was been told but remember that Carver doesn't like incompetence and Reggie had to pay for that act when the group escaped from them the first time.
@Flog61 too
Ehhhh I disagree. Maybe it's because I happen to have met lots of immigrant Indian guys, or guys from Pakistan etc. from that region over the course of my life, but I thought his performance was pretty believable. I never once was taken out of the experience of the game thinking, "Wow, this guy's voice acting is terrible;" I never even came close to that. I think the only lines where I might possibly think he was "reading the lines off the script" (only after going back and listening to all his dialogue again) were those lines of his where he was explaining to Clem and Sarah what to do with the blueberry bushes. And to be fair, those lines may have sounded flat, because honestly Reggie was describing some pretty mundane boring tasks. I can't think of a more mundane situation in this entire game franchise than "cut the brown leaves off these berry plants." Hence maybe why you think he sounded flat and bored himself, or maybe even sounding like he was reading off the script, if you think that way.
Really it just struck me how similar Reggie's voice sounded to a lot of people I know, and that tickled my fancy lol. It was like my friends were in the game too! I loved it. I didn't think it sounded like he was reading off the script, because people's real voices often might sound like that sometimes--voices that are just to the point, maybe not always bursting with every emotion. It sounded realistic to me, not fake. It sounded like a real person's voice, not an actor's lol. (How ironic is that?)
Um lol okay...well for me, Kumail Nanjiani's performance itself wasn't "awkward," but the lines themselves were delivered in an awkward manner because Reggie was obviously an awkward character. Here's this guy who was left behind by the cabin group, who has to welcome them back and be like, "Oh, hey guys! Fancy seeing you here...again...I know you're prisoners again, but I'm not, sorta, anymore! Isn't that great...sorta?" How is that not an awkward situation lol? I didn't find the performance itself awkward; all I felt was that Reggie himself and the situation itself was awkward, and that's why Kumail was obviously speaking in that way.
This might be unrelated but, um. Idk if you're arguing here that Reggie's English is bad or not, but if you are: Actually I think Reggie's English was pretty great; I mean it wasn't broken at all like Arvo's was and all his grammar was perfect; he even used slang pretty darn well. (e.g. "Why is this kid being shitty?" lol) I don't know about you guys but I could only detect a slight accent in his voice.
And one last note--I think it takes some talent to pull off Reggie's funnier lines to make them sound as funny as they did. They could've easily been delivered badly and lost their humor in the process. There's not a lot of humorous/light-hearted moments in this series (like really, they should work on putting more in, like that campfire scene and the raccoon scene), and for Kumail to be able to pull humor out of lines that are spoken in such a depressing situation as Carver's prison takes some skill.
I dunno know if I liked Reggie or not. He trusted Carver way more than he should have, then died over unpicked berries or some shit like that. He was a nice enough guy I suppose, but didn't understand the situation at all or the danger they were all in.
He was bae
He seemed like a good guy, just a bit on the nervous side.
I honestly don't know why I'm laughing but I am.
He kisses Carver's dirty ass (I hope not literally too but I am not gonna judge tho) constantly and he tries, the keyword being tries, to be funny but all I wanted was an option to say "Look, son, idgaf, get real." Reggie is easily forgotten. He dies because some shitass berries, are you serious TT?
I'm sorry but theres not evidence of that, I mean at all. Reggie says he was bit and then it was cut off, nothing when he says it appears to show hes lying and no scene after this does either. To be honest this was the one point of Reggie being a character, to let people who just play the game know that cutting of the arm works. For the Sarita choice at the end of the episode.
I already admitted that my theories are baseless.
Besides, you don't really have any evidence that Reggie exists to let people know that cutting the arms works for the Sarita choice in the end, when Sarita dies either way.
I never cared enough to have an opinion on him.
Ehhh, he was o.k. I didn't buy into his praising about Carver, but I didn't hate him for it. He had that awkward funny charm that Omid had (Omid's better). Couldn't believe he died because of blue berries. I was so confused/pissed lol.
In the universe it works, however people who just play the game may think it wont because of Lee. I know it didnt work with Sarita, given how messy the situation was however they wanted people to have a clear choice about whether it was right to do there. Not to be confused on whether it would work or not.
www.noonecares.com
I think Carver is smart enough to know that a two armed worker is better than a one armed worker.
Er. No offense.
If she's being harsh , so are you. Saying you think someone's selfish doesn't automatically put you at Carver's level.
It makes me sad that that link does not go to an actual website about no one caring.
true. I've been overthinking it sorry
When he talks all I hear is Prismo.
Didn't spend enough time with him to give a crap about his fall.
I think he was good comical character, but I hate how TTG always seems to kill people off with injuries or disabilities.
He was not a Strong one! & deleted sooner.
No one touches the Hat and survives.
NO ONE.
Is that why Lee died? ;_;
He was iight.
Although him dying was just another gigantic emotional misstep in a long line of sloppily executed deaths throughout season 2. At least when he died, I felt relatively frustrated by the abruptness of it and gauged an actual reaction that left me angered by my lack of agency.
He could leap off buildings in a single bound.....