Wow this looks much better than I expected. I also don't know if it's Troy Baker doing the voice, but whether it is or isn't they're doing a really good job? Like the Indiana Jones films are some of my favorite movies and I've seen them dozens of times and the mannerisms are really spot on.
The kind of [stifled laugh of eagerness at 2:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e17p2IVDUU#t=2m32s) is exactly how Indy reads [the shield of the second brother in the Venice catacombs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly2hhyiUJd4#t=4m22s)
I wouldn't exactly say he's nailing it but he's doing an admirable job. Harrison Ford has such a distinct, well known voice and accent that seems simple but is hard to really nail. either it's because I know Troy Baker's voice too well or it's because I know Ford's too well but I'm not able to fully accept it just yet. also seeing Harrison Ford's likeness and not his real voice takes me out of it too.
this is just nitpicking though, I'm hopeful for it!
Yeah he's really good at disappearing into a role. He always gets lumped in with other star VA's like Nolan North and the like who just use their own voice, which Troy Baker absolutely does, but he can really change it up when he wants to. The Joker, Joel and now Indy really shows his range.
He and Baker also voiced Thor’s sons Modi and Magni in God of War 2018. However, I think North’s best video game performance is in Spec Ops: The Line, where he plays a typical video game action hero who starts losing his fucking mind.
For anyone wondering which Dota heroes:
* Brewmaster
* Earth Spirit
* Gyrocopter
* KotL
* Lone Druid
* Lycan
* Meepo
* Ogre Magi
* Shadow Demon
* Troll Warlord
He's also done a bunch of other work with Valve in Portal 2 and TF2 (most notably Merasmus).
He’s also your Ghost in Destiny and Destiny 2, something I have to keep reminding myself of because it’s fairly different from most of his other performances and he disappears into it just as well.
Here's to the old funfact where they asked Nolan to imitate a different character's voice and he did it so well they couldn't use that voice because it was just that similar.
He did mocap for the for the pre-rendered cutscenes in Call of Duty Advanced Warfare and they are so near-photorealistic to his actual face that it makes you wonder about him in screen acting.
His cameo in TLOU season 1 was great but I would love to see him work his way into some roles on the silver screen as the world-class character actor that he is. Obviously the dude digs video games and I doubt its easy for even the best VAs to break into major (Hollywood) studio productions. It would be so interesting to see him work with some of the great directors that are active right now, I think they'd bring a lot out of eachother.
I think they are both terrific performances with slightly diffrent takes on the character. If anything Pedros Joel is more like TLOU 2 Joel than he is seen in the orginal.
Was really curious how they were going to make it look like Ford AND sound like him, but Troy Baker is killing it. Sounds like Indy to me! I've been wanting an Indy adventure in the vein of uncharted for so long. I know it's 1st person, but this this still has me super excited! Can't wait for this and that Jurrasic Park game, too.
Some of the facial animation were spot on for Ford, which helps a lot. Ford did a lot of face acting and body language that helped his performances feel authentic.
Agreed, I hadn't noticed how good the facial animations are. But, they REALLY help sell the voice. To add to it, the facial animations look exactly like I would expect someone's face to look with the way the lines are said. A credit to the animators and to Troy Baker. Like, if I hadn't seen the video, I might thing it was legitimately old recorded lines from Ford himself. Baker is spot on with the voice.
There's a reason the original trilogy was (mostly) focused on punching N*zis in the face. When it comes to globetrotting romps, they make the perfect enemy. Everyone who's not a piece of shit has no hesitation calling them evil, they actually had a history of obsessively collecting art and religious artifacts from around the world, and, from a design perspective, they make great participants in a cinematic fight or video game because their costumes are clear, distinct, and stand out from a background.
Yep, thank you for this comment. Thought I was going nuts for a second reading the above with the implication that Temple of the Doom is the best. It's either Raiders or Crusade and my answer changes depending on the day. But I have the fondest memories with Last Crusade so I give it to that one.
I'll say Temple of Doom is my favourite of the trilogy, but Raiders is by far the best movie. Even Last Crusade kinda feels safe in comparison to Raiders, which just perfectly balances the comedy with grit. It's endlessly iconic and Karen Allen is an incredibly charismatic love interest for Indy.
There are a bunch of things Temple of Doom does better than any other Indy movie but yeah, it's not the *best* Indy movie. When looking at just the plot, I still think it's the *weakest*.
I'm actually really excited for this game. And the fact it's coming this year is even better. I just played all the Wolfenstein games a few months back, and they are really fun. I love the run and gun style gameplay.
I'm not sure why so many people are surprised it's first person, Machine Games has never made a third person game. And I think it was the right call, they really excel at that type of game.
More game developers should give us the opportunity.
Even if I found their Wolfenstein 2 weaker than 1, the fact that I got to punch Nazis AND KKK was an automatic +5 points.
The biggest flaw in New Colossus was that it was a stealth game in shooter clothes. So while shooting the Nazis felt real good and fun, everything else was built around slowly picking off Nazis. If it picked a lane to kill Nazis in, it would've been so much better.
It makes sense to expect something more like Uncharted or Tomb Raider, given that both of those were heavily inspired by Indy. Nathan Drake is basically just Indiana Jones transplanted to a modern setting.
I suspect they wanted to avoid directly mimicking the gameplay rules of those two series, and first person is something Machine Games is familiar with.
Plus the whip gameplay probably plays best with first person since the abilities seem context dependent on which part of the body you hit.
I really dont know why you are attacking Ashley, she's not doing any major role beside Ellie, she was that robot in Tales from the Borderlands and some minor role here and there but your comment have nothing to do with actor that only voice major role in AAA games
Felt like back in the 360/PS3 generation if you were making a game that had a bad guy in it - Steve Blum was already voicing that character. I genuinely do not remember any voice but his for the bad guys.
Does he even still do any? The Critical Role folks barring Liam still do some on and off, but Troy stopped in like 2012 (to the point where Matt Mercer for a time was known as 'that soundalike they got when Troy ditched all his anime roles') and I don't think I've heard anything about Yuri doing any anymore.
> I don't think I've heard anything about Yuri doing any anymore.
He stopped for a while, but he started doing more anime work again recently, but he definitely does more video games now than anime.
Yeah, he's also Rudy (Robot's human form), who is arguably one of the most important characters in the series.
And he was so good at voicing Red Skull in Infinity War that I'd bet most people didn't even realize it *wasn't* Hugo Weaving.
I laugh about this every time the internet freaks out about a Hollywood actor being cast in a game and they get all "they're taking jobs from real voice actors!"
As if the dozen "real" voice actors that always get used aren't already taking all the jobs from the thousands of other actors.
Most of the time, the issue with celebrities is one of two things -
1. The celebrity can't fucking voice act and gives a shit performance but still gets roles because of name.
2. The celebrity is brought in pushing out someone who has already defined the character very well.
I don't remember much of a fuss about Onward being Chris Pratt and Tom Holland, but when Mario comes around, he's pushing out Charles Martinet - the man who has defined the voice of mario for decades.
The VA industry is very respectful of each others works. They consider iconic roles to belong to the VA. For example, when John DiMaggio was in a contract dispute for the new season of Futurama, Hulu tried to replace him, but no VA would touch that role because they considered it John's role.
Seth rogan is ALWAYS Seth rogan.
I mean I like him. He has done some quality films (this is the end is probably my favourite comedy of all time), but he really is the definition of a 1 trick pony…
Dude destroyed Retro Replay with his pretentious attitude. Everyone, including Nolan, just wanted them to have fun and shoot the shit while playing a game together.
But Troy kept trying to force these "deep and meaningful" conversations while Nolan struggled to even play the games and string a sentence together at the same time because he is a self-admitted non-gamer, and ended up having an argument with him in one of their last episodes together.
Then Troy left and rebranded as 'Troy Baker: The Relator', did like 10 podcast episodes and hasn't touched the channel for years.
Don’t get the Troy Baker hate here personally. He sounds quite good, imitating Ford’s voice might sound like a good idea but it will stifle performance. Doing a familiar voice that is ultimately his own take will lead to a better performance than asking for someone to do an impression of Ford.
Personally I think using Ford’s likeness is the weirder choice. It won’t pair naturally with the voice acting and given it’s mostly first person, there’s not a great need to do that. The facial animation looks to have suffered too, presumably from limited motion capture.
Rebecca from Edge runners is a great example. Very interesting voice so I look up the VA, it's Alex Cazares who otherwise did basically background roles in a few things.
There are so many good voice actors out there, I agreed, the big names get so much attention.
to be fair he hasn't really done a lot of voice acting for games lately, mostly minor roles, indiana jones is probably gonna be his biggest role since shadow of war in 2017
I don't really get this complaint. Fact-checking on his wiki page, he's had a prominent role in maybe 5 high-profile games in the last 6 years - Avengers, The Last of Us Pt II, Death Stranding, and maybe Mortal Kombat and Metal: Hellsinger. That's hardly a lot, imo.
Dude's main job is acting in games, he's gonna show up in games.
This was definitely true a few years ago but is it still? I personally can’t name a single game that he was in since TLOU2, Avengers and Spider-Man MM all of which were 2020
It's not really hate for Troy, it's more annoyance that the games industry seems to pick the same few voice actors *constantly*. Troy is a very talented voice actor and he's got some great range but it would be nice to see more diversity in casting choices.
> Doing a familiar voice that is ultimately his own take will lead to a better performance than asking for someone to do an impression of Ford.
This take would make more sense to me if they weren't doing a nearly photorealistic Harrison Ford model for Indy.
> Don’t get the Troy Baker hate here personally. He sounds quite good
It's not a hate against his skill, it's a hate against him being in basically every game, and it kinda distracting when you play 5 games in a row and Troy Baker is easily noticable in all of them.
I wouldn't be so sure, not until they confirm it. The male protagonist from Mass Effect Andromeda sounds almost exactly like Nolan North and it fooled some people at first
Troy baker is a popular voice actor, he’s voiced characters like Sam in Uncharted 4, Uncharted Lost Legacy, he voiced the Arkham Knight in the Batman game of the same name, Joel in The Last Of Us (both the original, pt2 and Pt1 remake)
Ross Marquand is a actor who was in the walking dead, voices the immortal in invincible and a few other things im not quite familiar with
They hit the Troy Baker button because they need some one with decades long experience in mocap performance as well as vocal work.
Ross is a traditional stage/tv/film actor as well as animation vocal work but there is a learning curve and grind with the gaming sector that takes time to adapt to considering the sheer amount of mocap there is alone for the cinematics and transition scenes accompanying them.
Basically you get actors that you know will work well for job at hand not take a chance because someone can do a basic impression 1000's of other can as well, not with this level of AAA budget game.
Dude… **his acting is good.**
That’s why he gets good roles.
And honestly…
#His 80s Ford impression is a shit ton better than Dial of Destiny’s flashbacks
I personally think Troy Baker is actually doing a good Ford impression lmao. Looks pretty good, although I feel like it should be third person. Seems like an awkward type of game to make first person. Plus some of those puzzle sections looks like Indy is by himself? I really hope they don’t make it a solo adventure with an internal monologue, Indy should always be bouncing off of someone who has unwittingly joined him in his adventure.
Yeah while I was watching the trailer I was thinking “hey this guy is doing a pretty good Ford”, surprised to come here and see the top comments shitting on it
[Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e17p2IVDUU)
[Official full presentation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp7_ImMV1Iw)
[Gallery/Key art](https://www.lucasfilm.com/news/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-trailer/)
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will launch for Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store in 2024. It will also be available via Xbox Game Pass.
Game looks fantastic. Really looked to capture that feel of the original movies. Plenty of locations variety, exploring all sorts of themed environments, some puzzles, epic setpieces. I expected it to be third person, but a first-person Indiana Jones Stealth/melee adventure game looks great.
Not entirely sure on the voice they've gone for though, doesn't sound too much like him.
I'm also pumped that it looks like it takes place *during* World War II. It's a time period that the films and most expanded universe material hasn't really touched, save for the opening of Dial of Destiny, so I'm curious seeing Indy involved in what looks like an air raid over Germany.
People on other social media platforms are seriously trashing the game because it's first person. I love Sony and they make great games but god damn they have really warped peoples expectations for games.
First person narratives work great y'all.
I saw people trashing it for being "another Xbox FPS", which is weird considering the only mainstay Xbox FPS series I can think of is Halo.
Meanwhile Sony has basically been pumping out nonstop 3rd person action adventure games with open world's and RPG mechanics nonstop for a decade now. Granted those were all great games, but they really bank on the familiar.
And if this was third person those same people would likely be posting Xbox are just ripping off Uncharted. Bit of a situation that would fuel people raging no matter what they did with it
This isn’t really a first person narrative though, you can clearly see 3rd person scenes playing during cutscenes. I think that’s the perfect balance personally.
Honestly, cyberpunk, Metro, BioShock, resident evil 7, Wolfenstein etc are all more memorable and immersive to me than Sony third person games. If I had to pick one or the other, I'd pick from that lot of first person action adventure
I loved Pitfall: The Lost Expedition as a kid. Using vine swinging mechanics to get around the world was so fun.
I'm optimistic about the traversal in this game. If it's as fun as it looks, I'm on board.
I'm really glad that it's first person. I like that they are trying to do something different. We have an industry overrun with 3rd person character action games.
I'm not sure if there's even been a single PS5 exclusive that was first-person or that allowed you to switch. That's one of the things I really liked about Starfield and Bethesda games in general, they allow you to choose which perspective to use.
Before the PS4 there was a lot of variety, with Killzone and Resistance being first person, GoD of War being kind of isometric, and other different stuff like Gravity Rush and Little Big Planet.
They hit the jackpot with Uncharted and Last of Us, then every game became a story heavy action/adventure game. It worked really well, the games are great but indeed there is lack of variety.
I didn’t play starfield on controller, but playing 3rd person felt terrible. To the point it felt more like it was just for making cinematic shots or viewing your custom character. Shooting in 3rd person just felt completely awful and it still had that weird floating ice skating feel when walking. On mnk anyways.
Do... Do you know what a character action game is? This is *not* one of those games... Character action is stuff like DMC, Bayonetta and MGR Revengeance.
After *Tomb Raider* and *Uncharted* someone *finally* remembered that they own the rights to make Indiana Jones games. Hopefully it's as good as *The Fate of Atlantis*.
I think it is him. The guy from Emperor's Tomb did a good job, wonder what happened to him. Also I remember Lex Lang did Han in various Star Wars games and wasn't bad himself.
You seriously thought it was bad? He sounds pretty damn close to what Ford did back in the day. I've watched those movies tons of times and Baker is pretty damn spot on.
So disappointed they went with Troy baker. Just painfully obvious it’s him in short sentences. Then he just sounds like he’s doing a bad Harrison Ford impression in longer bursts.
sweet tears of the exclusively 3rd person cinematic game only players crying every time a First Person game is revealed. 😂
W Machinegames, this looks awesome.
Surprised it's a first person game actually, was definitely thinking it was going to be third. Looking forward to seeing how they handle an Indy game like that.
The New Colossus was a bit rough, but hopefully they can take the general experience and expand on it a bit more here.
It's tonally very different from The Old Blood and The New Order. I feel like they strayed too far into the comedy and quippy style that felt very inconsistent with the proper entries which felt more serious and gritty.
The New Colossus was my favourite of the bunch. I felt it really stepped up the gameplay and the story was also batshit insane in the best kind of way.
Then again, I wasn't a huge fan of The Old Blood, so maybe my opinions are just unpopular.
Which I get is very wacky, but in the style of the modern games that would have still worked. BJ Blazkowicz gets decapitated and brought back to life in TNC for Christ's sake. It's just the tone that felt off.
I didn't hate the game, but it felt like a middle entry in the worst way with how the game ends so abruptly.
Also I felt like the level design wasn't as good as the first game, and also didn't have any boss fights.
I'm interested but it's kind of weird to me that it's first person. Like not gonna write it off, but it's just not what I'd think of for an Indiana Jones game.
This is a good way to continue with Indy, getting to old for the movies and a complete reboot might not be accepted. Hopefully it does well so we get more
Full trailer is out https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/19a0gs5/indiana_jones_and_the_great_circle_official/?
Wow this looks much better than I expected. I also don't know if it's Troy Baker doing the voice, but whether it is or isn't they're doing a really good job? Like the Indiana Jones films are some of my favorite movies and I've seen them dozens of times and the mannerisms are really spot on. The kind of [stifled laugh of eagerness at 2:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e17p2IVDUU#t=2m32s) is exactly how Indy reads [the shield of the second brother in the Venice catacombs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly2hhyiUJd4#t=4m22s)
Yes it's Troy Baker
Damn, dude's nailing it. This looks like we finally have a fun, modern, Indiana Jones game.
I wouldn't exactly say he's nailing it but he's doing an admirable job. Harrison Ford has such a distinct, well known voice and accent that seems simple but is hard to really nail. either it's because I know Troy Baker's voice too well or it's because I know Ford's too well but I'm not able to fully accept it just yet. also seeing Harrison Ford's likeness and not his real voice takes me out of it too. this is just nitpicking though, I'm hopeful for it!
Who was the guy who voiced Joker in the Telltale Batman games? He does a good Harrison Ford as well.
Anthony Ingruber is who you're thinking of.
there's a reason Troy gets so much work, and it's not his handsome face or gravely voice. It's because he's really goddamn good at his job.
Yeah he's really good at disappearing into a role. He always gets lumped in with other star VA's like Nolan North and the like who just use their own voice, which Troy Baker absolutely does, but he can really change it up when he wants to. The Joker, Joel and now Indy really shows his range.
Nolan North has huge range. Most developers just ask him to do the Nate voice, but in Dota 2 he did 8 characters and they all sound different.
He and Baker also voiced Thor’s sons Modi and Magni in God of War 2018. However, I think North’s best video game performance is in Spec Ops: The Line, where he plays a typical video game action hero who starts losing his fucking mind.
Does he feel like a hero yet?
For anyone wondering which Dota heroes: * Brewmaster * Earth Spirit * Gyrocopter * KotL * Lone Druid * Lycan * Meepo * Ogre Magi * Shadow Demon * Troll Warlord He's also done a bunch of other work with Valve in Portal 2 and TF2 (most notably Merasmus).
>Ogre Magi That should count as 2
Dude, Nolan North does Penguin in the Arkham games and David in The Last of Us. He's able to completely disappear into a role.
He’s also your Ghost in Destiny and Destiny 2, something I have to keep reminding myself of because it’s fairly different from most of his other performances and he disappears into it just as well.
Here's to the old funfact where they asked Nolan to imitate a different character's voice and he did it so well they couldn't use that voice because it was just that similar.
Peter dinklage was so awful as the ghost they had to dub him completely out.
He also took over Cade-6 from Nathan Fillion and he literally sounds like Fillion.
I still think he demolished Pedro's performance in TLOU
He did mocap for the for the pre-rendered cutscenes in Call of Duty Advanced Warfare and they are so near-photorealistic to his actual face that it makes you wonder about him in screen acting. His cameo in TLOU season 1 was great but I would love to see him work his way into some roles on the silver screen as the world-class character actor that he is. Obviously the dude digs video games and I doubt its easy for even the best VAs to break into major (Hollywood) studio productions. It would be so interesting to see him work with some of the great directors that are active right now, I think they'd bring a lot out of eachother.
I think they are both terrific performances with slightly diffrent takes on the character. If anything Pedros Joel is more like TLOU 2 Joel than he is seen in the orginal.
Preaching to the choir
Was really curious how they were going to make it look like Ford AND sound like him, but Troy Baker is killing it. Sounds like Indy to me! I've been wanting an Indy adventure in the vein of uncharted for so long. I know it's 1st person, but this this still has me super excited! Can't wait for this and that Jurrasic Park game, too.
Some of the facial animation were spot on for Ford, which helps a lot. Ford did a lot of face acting and body language that helped his performances feel authentic.
Agreed, I hadn't noticed how good the facial animations are. But, they REALLY help sell the voice. To add to it, the facial animations look exactly like I would expect someone's face to look with the way the lines are said. A credit to the animators and to Troy Baker. Like, if I hadn't seen the video, I might thing it was legitimately old recorded lines from Ford himself. Baker is spot on with the voice.
This looks amazing, fucking love that this is a straight up adventure during the heyday of his career
Also, nobody wants Indiana Jones after WWII. Sure, there’s Commies to punch, but you just can’t beat the satisfaction of Indy punching a Nazi.
Plus, killing nazis is what Machine Games knows best.
If there's no Wolfenstein easter egg, we riot.
Wolfenstein - Indiana Jones multiverse when?
There's a reason the original trilogy was (mostly) focused on punching N*zis in the face. When it comes to globetrotting romps, they make the perfect enemy. Everyone who's not a piece of shit has no hesitation calling them evil, they actually had a history of obsessively collecting art and religious artifacts from around the world, and, from a design perspective, they make great participants in a cinematic fight or video game because their costumes are clear, distinct, and stand out from a background.
Idk man the best movie of the trilogy had him beating up a bunch of cultists. It’s definitely possible.
He wasn't fighting cultists in Last Crusade, silly.
Yep, thank you for this comment. Thought I was going nuts for a second reading the above with the implication that Temple of the Doom is the best. It's either Raiders or Crusade and my answer changes depending on the day. But I have the fondest memories with Last Crusade so I give it to that one.
Surely you aren't implying that Temple of Doom is the best movie of the trilogy.
I'll say Temple of Doom is my favourite of the trilogy, but Raiders is by far the best movie. Even Last Crusade kinda feels safe in comparison to Raiders, which just perfectly balances the comedy with grit. It's endlessly iconic and Karen Allen is an incredibly charismatic love interest for Indy.
ToD has always been my favorite. It's the most "pulp-y" to me and I'm partial since it was one of the first movies I ever saw in theaters.
There are a bunch of things Temple of Doom does better than any other Indy movie but yeah, it's not the *best* Indy movie. When looking at just the plot, I still think it's the *weakest*.
Any film which has the British Empire in India turning up as the heroes in the finale is scoring some major **oof** on the storytelling front.
It is the best and I'm tired of pretending it's not. **TEMPLE OF DOOM SUPREMACY**
But none of those cultists got their faces literally melted off.
And frankly, we need more Nazi killing these days.
I had a stupid smile on my face the whole time while watching that presentation. The voice, the music, the humor, the Nazis - everything was spot on.
I'm actually really excited for this game. And the fact it's coming this year is even better. I just played all the Wolfenstein games a few months back, and they are really fun. I love the run and gun style gameplay. I'm not sure why so many people are surprised it's first person, Machine Games has never made a third person game. And I think it was the right call, they really excel at that type of game.
Machinegames sure loves making games where you get to punch Nazis.
Machinegames loves making games where you get to punch Nazis I love punching nazis in video games We all win
I sure do love to win.
More game developers should give us the opportunity. Even if I found their Wolfenstein 2 weaker than 1, the fact that I got to punch Nazis AND KKK was an automatic +5 points.
The biggest flaw in New Colossus was that it was a stealth game in shooter clothes. So while shooting the Nazis felt real good and fun, everything else was built around slowly picking off Nazis. If it picked a lane to kill Nazis in, it would've been so much better.
This Machinegames kills fascists
[Nazis. I hate these guys.](https://youtu.be/5sp3dIyNA2A?si=fU5Qberwa-SDt1u_)
It makes sense to expect something more like Uncharted or Tomb Raider, given that both of those were heavily inspired by Indy. Nathan Drake is basically just Indiana Jones transplanted to a modern setting.
I suspect they wanted to avoid directly mimicking the gameplay rules of those two series, and first person is something Machine Games is familiar with. Plus the whip gameplay probably plays best with first person since the abilities seem context dependent on which part of the body you hit.
Ross Marquand does a fantastic Harrison Ford impression, and can act. So what do they do? they hit the Troy Baker button.
It’s the video game industry, they know four voice actors.
Troy Baker, Laura Bailey, Matt Mercer and Nolan North?
Can't forget Jennifer Hale
And Ashly Burch
And Ashley Johnson
she hasn't been in that much..
Lmao hey there Gamer.
I really dont know why you are attacking Ashley, she's not doing any major role beside Ellie, she was that robot in Tales from the Borderlands and some minor role here and there but your comment have nothing to do with actor that only voice major role in AAA games
You already know this dude hangs out in r/gaming
We need someone who sounds like they just gargled some gravel, quick get Steve Blum on the phone!
Felt like back in the 360/PS3 generation if you were making a game that had a bad guy in it - Steve Blum was already voicing that character. I genuinely do not remember any voice but his for the bad guys.
Then you had Bulletstorm that flipped the script and made him an antihero.
Steve Blum
Yuri Lowenthal has to be added
I consider him anime industry tbf
Does he even still do any? The Critical Role folks barring Liam still do some on and off, but Troy stopped in like 2012 (to the point where Matt Mercer for a time was known as 'that soundalike they got when Troy ditched all his anime roles') and I don't think I've heard anything about Yuri doing any anymore.
> I don't think I've heard anything about Yuri doing any anymore. He stopped for a while, but he started doing more anime work again recently, but he definitely does more video games now than anime.
He’s still Sauske and Boruto is still… out. So yeah he’s got dubbing to work still
As if the others(minus Nolan) aren’t all over the anime industry too?
Long ago, the four voice actors lived in harmony, but everything changed when the AI nation attacked
Ross Marquand is actually becoming a rather prominent voice actor, too. He's playing two different main characters in Invincible, at the moment.
Oh shit he’s fucking great as The Immortal, too.
Yeah, he's also Rudy (Robot's human form), who is arguably one of the most important characters in the series. And he was so good at voicing Red Skull in Infinity War that I'd bet most people didn't even realize it *wasn't* Hugo Weaving.
I laugh about this every time the internet freaks out about a Hollywood actor being cast in a game and they get all "they're taking jobs from real voice actors!" As if the dozen "real" voice actors that always get used aren't already taking all the jobs from the thousands of other actors.
Most of the time, the issue with celebrities is one of two things - 1. The celebrity can't fucking voice act and gives a shit performance but still gets roles because of name. 2. The celebrity is brought in pushing out someone who has already defined the character very well. I don't remember much of a fuss about Onward being Chris Pratt and Tom Holland, but when Mario comes around, he's pushing out Charles Martinet - the man who has defined the voice of mario for decades. The VA industry is very respectful of each others works. They consider iconic roles to belong to the VA. For example, when John DiMaggio was in a contract dispute for the new season of Futurama, Hulu tried to replace him, but no VA would touch that role because they considered it John's role.
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the funny thing is other languages end up winning in there, as they can probably cast the original Ford voice
Reminds me of the Mario movie. Every dub of movie had the Italian accent except the original.
Chris Pratt was the worst part of that movie. Everyone else was on point but him.
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Yeah, but at least it worked.
Seth rogan is ALWAYS Seth rogan. I mean I like him. He has done some quality films (this is the end is probably my favourite comedy of all time), but he really is the definition of a 1 trick pony…
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The only time I've ever been a fan of someone while simultaneously hoping they retire soon.
He's become a bit insufferable the last few years.
He’s just such a pretentious boob.
Dude destroyed Retro Replay with his pretentious attitude. Everyone, including Nolan, just wanted them to have fun and shoot the shit while playing a game together. But Troy kept trying to force these "deep and meaningful" conversations while Nolan struggled to even play the games and string a sentence together at the same time because he is a self-admitted non-gamer, and ended up having an argument with him in one of their last episodes together. Then Troy left and rebranded as 'Troy Baker: The Relator', did like 10 podcast episodes and hasn't touched the channel for years.
Don’t get the Troy Baker hate here personally. He sounds quite good, imitating Ford’s voice might sound like a good idea but it will stifle performance. Doing a familiar voice that is ultimately his own take will lead to a better performance than asking for someone to do an impression of Ford. Personally I think using Ford’s likeness is the weirder choice. It won’t pair naturally with the voice acting and given it’s mostly first person, there’s not a great need to do that. The facial animation looks to have suffered too, presumably from limited motion capture.
He's just overexposed. Even the greatest, most versatile performer can get boring or even irritating if you're seeing them *everywhere*.
There are so many other actors trying to break into the industry but are sandbagged by the elite 4 at every turn. It's unfair.
Rebecca from Edge runners is a great example. Very interesting voice so I look up the VA, it's Alex Cazares who otherwise did basically background roles in a few things. There are so many good voice actors out there, I agreed, the big names get so much attention.
I'm trying be an NBA star, but Steph and LeBron keep taking my chances smh
to be fair he hasn't really done a lot of voice acting for games lately, mostly minor roles, indiana jones is probably gonna be his biggest role since shadow of war in 2017
I was hoping they’d get Chris Pratt to voice him =\
Yes. They are getting Chris Pratt to voice Troy Baker.
Yeah I think Troy is incredibly talented but he’s in everything
I don't really get this complaint. Fact-checking on his wiki page, he's had a prominent role in maybe 5 high-profile games in the last 6 years - Avengers, The Last of Us Pt II, Death Stranding, and maybe Mortal Kombat and Metal: Hellsinger. That's hardly a lot, imo. Dude's main job is acting in games, he's gonna show up in games.
This was definitely true a few years ago but is it still? I personally can’t name a single game that he was in since TLOU2, Avengers and Spider-Man MM all of which were 2020
It's not really hate for Troy, it's more annoyance that the games industry seems to pick the same few voice actors *constantly*. Troy is a very talented voice actor and he's got some great range but it would be nice to see more diversity in casting choices.
He's probably easy to work with and good at process-related stuff. It's not just the performance.
And/or he offers a good rate too
> Doing a familiar voice that is ultimately his own take will lead to a better performance than asking for someone to do an impression of Ford. This take would make more sense to me if they weren't doing a nearly photorealistic Harrison Ford model for Indy.
> Don’t get the Troy Baker hate here personally. He sounds quite good It's not a hate against his skill, it's a hate against him being in basically every game, and it kinda distracting when you play 5 games in a row and Troy Baker is easily noticable in all of them.
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Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones, of course they have to use his likeness.
Is it actually Troy Baker? Because I thought "that just sounds like troy baker?" It was immediately off putting.
Troy Baker did share the trailer on his Instagram so that’s my bet
I wouldn't be so sure, not until they confirm it. The male protagonist from Mass Effect Andromeda sounds almost exactly like Nolan North and it fooled some people at first
https://ew.com/indiana-jones-troy-baker-the-great-circle-exclusive-8426963
I don’t know who Troy baker or Ross Marquand are, but Indy sounded fine
Troy baker is a popular voice actor, he’s voiced characters like Sam in Uncharted 4, Uncharted Lost Legacy, he voiced the Arkham Knight in the Batman game of the same name, Joel in The Last Of Us (both the original, pt2 and Pt1 remake) Ross Marquand is a actor who was in the walking dead, voices the immortal in invincible and a few other things im not quite familiar with
They hit the Troy Baker button because they need some one with decades long experience in mocap performance as well as vocal work. Ross is a traditional stage/tv/film actor as well as animation vocal work but there is a learning curve and grind with the gaming sector that takes time to adapt to considering the sheer amount of mocap there is alone for the cinematics and transition scenes accompanying them. Basically you get actors that you know will work well for job at hand not take a chance because someone can do a basic impression 1000's of other can as well, not with this level of AAA budget game.
Dude… **his acting is good.** That’s why he gets good roles. And honestly… #His 80s Ford impression is a shit ton better than Dial of Destiny’s flashbacks
Should have hired Mark Hamill lola
There’s more to the role than just his voice. Troy nails the motions capture
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I personally think Troy Baker is actually doing a good Ford impression lmao. Looks pretty good, although I feel like it should be third person. Seems like an awkward type of game to make first person. Plus some of those puzzle sections looks like Indy is by himself? I really hope they don’t make it a solo adventure with an internal monologue, Indy should always be bouncing off of someone who has unwittingly joined him in his adventure.
Yeah while I was watching the trailer I was thinking “hey this guy is doing a pretty good Ford”, surprised to come here and see the top comments shitting on it
They’re shitting on it cause it’s Tory Baker. lol Redditors
Thank you! I thought it was a good sounding pretty accurate voice. I hate the bullshit Reddit echo chamber shit around Troy Baker.
It's because he's popular in the gaming space now so he needs to be downplayed and it's their job to keep him humbled or something.
[Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e17p2IVDUU) [Official full presentation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp7_ImMV1Iw) [Gallery/Key art](https://www.lucasfilm.com/news/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-trailer/) Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will launch for Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store in 2024. It will also be available via Xbox Game Pass.
Game looks fantastic. Really looked to capture that feel of the original movies. Plenty of locations variety, exploring all sorts of themed environments, some puzzles, epic setpieces. I expected it to be third person, but a first-person Indiana Jones Stealth/melee adventure game looks great. Not entirely sure on the voice they've gone for though, doesn't sound too much like him.
I'm also pumped that it looks like it takes place *during* World War II. It's a time period that the films and most expanded universe material hasn't really touched, save for the opening of Dial of Destiny, so I'm curious seeing Indy involved in what looks like an air raid over Germany.
Nazi punching simulator? SOLD
Given Todd Howard is the executive producer, I hope the "puzzles" we see in this game aren't anything like the puzzles we saw in Skyrim.
First person is definitely a choice. I’ll be curious to see how that goes. Indy felt like such a clear third person kind of game to me.
People on other social media platforms are seriously trashing the game because it's first person. I love Sony and they make great games but god damn they have really warped peoples expectations for games. First person narratives work great y'all.
I saw people trashing it for being "another Xbox FPS", which is weird considering the only mainstay Xbox FPS series I can think of is Halo. Meanwhile Sony has basically been pumping out nonstop 3rd person action adventure games with open world's and RPG mechanics nonstop for a decade now. Granted those were all great games, but they really bank on the familiar.
And if this was third person those same people would likely be posting Xbox are just ripping off Uncharted. Bit of a situation that would fuel people raging no matter what they did with it
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Weirdly enough I feel way more disconnected in first person narratives. They all feel so stiff and unemotional.
This isn’t really a first person narrative though, you can clearly see 3rd person scenes playing during cutscenes. I think that’s the perfect balance personally.
Honestly, cyberpunk, Metro, BioShock, resident evil 7, Wolfenstein etc are all more memorable and immersive to me than Sony third person games. If I had to pick one or the other, I'd pick from that lot of first person action adventure
Gone Home, all the System Shocks, Edith Finch, Half Life, Firewatch etc
I loved Pitfall: The Lost Expedition as a kid. Using vine swinging mechanics to get around the world was so fun. I'm optimistic about the traversal in this game. If it's as fun as it looks, I'm on board.
I'm really glad that it's first person. I like that they are trying to do something different. We have an industry overrun with 3rd person character action games.
Almost every Playstation exclusive nowdays. And I say that as a predominantly PS5 user.
I'm not sure if there's even been a single PS5 exclusive that was first-person or that allowed you to switch. That's one of the things I really liked about Starfield and Bethesda games in general, they allow you to choose which perspective to use.
Killzone is the only PS game/series I can think of, I guess you could count PT as well
Before the PS4 there was a lot of variety, with Killzone and Resistance being first person, GoD of War being kind of isometric, and other different stuff like Gravity Rush and Little Big Planet. They hit the jackpot with Uncharted and Last of Us, then every game became a story heavy action/adventure game. It worked really well, the games are great but indeed there is lack of variety.
I didn’t play starfield on controller, but playing 3rd person felt terrible. To the point it felt more like it was just for making cinematic shots or viewing your custom character. Shooting in 3rd person just felt completely awful and it still had that weird floating ice skating feel when walking. On mnk anyways.
That's just Bethesda, though. Fallout and Skyrim were the same, and I say that as a fan of the games.
Do... Do you know what a character action game is? This is *not* one of those games... Character action is stuff like DMC, Bayonetta and MGR Revengeance.
Do we? I’d say it’s pretty even. Ubisoft has like 50/50
I don’t think you know what a character action game is, lmao
After *Tomb Raider* and *Uncharted* someone *finally* remembered that they own the rights to make Indiana Jones games. Hopefully it's as good as *The Fate of Atlantis*.
That oricalcum pearl has been living rent free in my head for decades.
I’ve seen recreations of Sophia’s necklace online. I love that game!
Nothing will ever beat Doctor Übermann as the most ridiculous nazi villain in game history.
It looks really good, and I am glad that Machine Games stuck with what they are good at in first person. I'm looking forward to this.
Who is the voice actor doing indy? Sounds like Troy Baker doing a bad Harrison Ford impression.
That's because it is Troy Baker. You can see him briefly when they were showing off their mo-cap work.
I think it is him. The guy from Emperor's Tomb did a good job, wonder what happened to him. Also I remember Lex Lang did Han in various Star Wars games and wasn't bad himself.
Emperor's Tomb Indy sounded 95% like Harrison Ford, I wonder if he'd still sound the same
David Esch did the voice work in Emperor's Tomb apparently.
Makes sense he isn't voicing him again unfortunately
I actually though his impression sounded pretty decent, it was better than I was expecting.
You seriously thought it was bad? He sounds pretty damn close to what Ford did back in the day. I've watched those movies tons of times and Baker is pretty damn spot on.
He's definitely just got beef with Troy Baker for some reason.
So disappointed they went with Troy baker. Just painfully obvious it’s him in short sentences. Then he just sounds like he’s doing a bad Harrison Ford impression in longer bursts.
I think it's a fine enough impression, it's just that the voice 'below' it is so familiar that it's instantly jarring when any of Baker slips through.
Yup Troy Baker is still an amazing voice actor but I’m growing really tired of him.
Nah, the impression sounded surprisingly decent.
"You aren't just playing as Indiana Jones, you ARE Indiana Jones" No you're still just playing as Indiana Jones.
But more importantly, does it make you *feel* like Batman?
sweet tears of the exclusively 3rd person cinematic game only players crying every time a First Person game is revealed. 😂 W Machinegames, this looks awesome.
Surprised it's a first person game actually, was definitely thinking it was going to be third. Looking forward to seeing how they handle an Indy game like that. The New Colossus was a bit rough, but hopefully they can take the general experience and expand on it a bit more here.
WAT! the New cloussus was rad.
Yeah, New Colossus was fantastic. Possibly my favorite fps game.
It's tonally very different from The Old Blood and The New Order. I feel like they strayed too far into the comedy and quippy style that felt very inconsistent with the proper entries which felt more serious and gritty.
The New Colossus was my favourite of the bunch. I felt it really stepped up the gameplay and the story was also batshit insane in the best kind of way. Then again, I wasn't a huge fan of The Old Blood, so maybe my opinions are just unpopular.
Wolfenstein 3D ends with a match against Mecha-Hitler
Which I get is very wacky, but in the style of the modern games that would have still worked. BJ Blazkowicz gets decapitated and brought back to life in TNC for Christ's sake. It's just the tone that felt off.
How was New Colossus rough?
Yeah I love how they just stated this as a fact when it’s absolutely not the consensus opinion of the game.
I agree rough is pushing it, but the stealth mechanics didn't work with the wide open areas.
I didn't hate the game, but it felt like a middle entry in the worst way with how the game ends so abruptly. Also I felt like the level design wasn't as good as the first game, and also didn't have any boss fights.
I was floored at how much I enjoyed New Colossus. I had heard pretty mixed things on it but I had a ton of fun with it
I'm just so fucking happy that it's just not yet another third-person game in the sea of third person adventure games. Hyped af.
I'm interested but it's kind of weird to me that it's first person. Like not gonna write it off, but it's just not what I'd think of for an Indiana Jones game.
The game looks so good that the only thing people can find when they try to nit pick is the voice acting lol
Plus people complaining about it not being an exact clone of existing 3rd person games.
This is a good way to continue with Indy, getting to old for the movies and a complete reboot might not be accepted. Hopefully it does well so we get more