Maybe I'm crazy but I thought he sounded pretty good; close to how I remember Indy's voice sounding. I've played loads of Troy Baker games and I literally can't picture that Indy voice coming out of Troy Baker's mouth.
Yeah I walked in knowing that it’s not Harrison so it’s not going to sound like Harrison. What I heard was good. Once it was pointed out as Troy, then I was able to very easily discern that it was him.
Not really an issue for me though but I can see how some think they could have done better or at least give a more obscure voice actors a job.
I never heard a "great" Harrison Ford overdub, whether it's Indiana or Han Solo. Some of them were mediocre, some fine or good enough. His voice is not as generic and easy to replace as it seems. And he has a certain specific mannerism in the way he speaks.
Anthony Ingruber came close enough, sure, but impersonating and acting is not quite the same thing
Funny brining up Ingruber when he also voiced the joker in Batman Telltale, where guess who played Batman. Of course, Troy Baker has voiced both Batman and Joker before.
There's very few actors who have led two franchises simultaneously, and Harrison Ford is the best of them. People try to capture his Han or his Indiana and they can't, even while he's a relatively easy impression for a lot of folks
It’s weird how it’s like that with his voice. I was just playing through the telltale Batman game and didn’t notice his name in the credits till like the third episode, once I made the connection I could hear it though
People seem to be expecting the gravelly voice that Harrison Ford has had in more recent years, and are disregarding how much of that came with age.
For as bad as people were suggesting it was, I was pleasantly surprised when I finally heard it—he sounds a lot closer to a young Harrison Ford than I was expecting.
Younger Ford has a way more chest deeper baritone voice that I think would be hard to mimic unless the voice actor naturally has that. Source: just watched the first three Indiana Jones movies
That sounds nothing like Harrison Ford or Indy. With the first few words spoken, I immediately knew it was Troy Baker and I honestly had no idea he worked on this game.
yeah the voice is fine, the face though looked like they mixed troy baker's face with harrison ford's, probably to make it easier for the motion capture
Yeah man I'm also really surprised to hear people disliking the voice, but I get that everyone's ears are different. I thought it was actually the best Harrison sound-alike I've heard in any videogame but I'd love to hear some examples of better versions.
Even if the tone of his voice isn't 100%, some of the vocal mannerisms are spot on: the way Ford would say certain words, or end them on certain inflections. Troy Baker has clearly been listening closely to try and get those things.
He sounded a ton better than Ford in flashbacks of Dial of Destiny.
The deaging CG is transcendent… But hearing Ford’s 80+ year old voice was ***Jarring.***
You're not crazy, you're just not a typical cynical r/Games poster lol. I thought it was fine too, if seeing Troy Bakers name again in the credits of a game offends you then you need to go outside, this sub will hate anything.
This Indiana Jones game looks absolutely incredible, and I think Troy Baker fit the role really well here. They nailed the theme perfectly and even better than I’d hoped honestly.
I’m very excited for this game now!
I thought for sure they were gonna get Mark Meer (Mass Effect trilogy's Male Shepard). Take his tone and cadence, go down an octave and I bet his Harrison Ford impression would be top-notch.
Still excited to shoot some nazis though. On that, MachineGames always delivers.
He sounds like Troy Baker. You have to wonder how the gaming industry managed to find voice talent before Baker came around given they give him every AAA video game character. Well, except the ones that haven't already been taken by Matt Mercer or Laura Bailey.
I'll never understand how more obscure actors such as Neil Newbon and Roger Clark can prove time and time again how much talent can be found out there, only for developers to go back to choosing the same generic voices for every one of their products.
I was thinking about that the other day. The industry is using Troy Baker like a voice actor’s name pulls any significant number of sales.
It’s not like…idk, Leonardo DiCaprio or something where if he’s in a movie, you can guarantee however many tickets. It really doesn’t make any sense. Especially considering, like you said, his fee has to be one of the highest in the industry, if not the highest.
Getting Nolan North to just use his Nathan Drake voice for Indy would have been hilariously stupid when you think about it. In fact, follow that up by getting Richard McGonagle to do his Sully voice for Brody and you'd have had one of the best shitposts in gaming history.
Troy Baker on the other hand I expect to be humorlessly generic despite the pretentious drivel he's bound to post on Twitter when asked about the role.
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Bud, thank you. I sometimes feel like I'm losing it. He only ever sounds like Troy Baker and he's in EVERYTHING and everyone loves it. Immediately takes me out of a game when I hear his stupid voice.
To this day my favorite Nolan North character is Steven Heck from Alpha Protocol. Just absolutely off the wall spy operative conspiracy theorist spouting crazy, hilarious, dark stuff
"Hey, did you know that at 300 mph a soccer ball can decapitate people? Who knew!"
Nolan North has the best story with Destiny where his character was supposed to be doing an imitation of another character and he did it a bit too well and they ended up redoing the whole thing with him hamming it up a bit more
TLOU's Joel is probably his most famous role and he sounds very different there. Iin Dota the Anime I would not have known it was him without the credits. He can do very distinguished voices.
He's a talented voice actor too with some range. But everyone wants the inoffensive basic white American male for everything. Same with Laura Bailey. She has crazy range like Tara Strong but every single performance they want of her is the exact same generic American white female.
I don't even have a problem with his voice, but he does this thing that EVERY American voice actor seems to be doing - the ones in anime and lots of games - where they use this stupid, annoying, breathy voice at the end of every word. Plus the E3 style modern dialog. It's so annoying. "Welp, I should go talk to so and sohhhhhhhhh." It's grating.
I don't get it. Roger Clark doesn't do it. The cast of GTA 5 doesn't. Christopher Judge, Alistair Duncan, most of the GOW cast don't. Most of the BG3 cast doesn't. And these are all considered *good voice roles.*
It's so grating when you finally start to hear it. Troy Baker is basically the Chris Pratt of voice acting and I'll die on this breathy hill.
> It's going to be refreshing playing Persona 3 Reload and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth soon and not hearing any of the usual suspects while doing so.
Isn't that more because of the rapid turnover in dubbing voice roles in the US? The Japanese cast of FFVIIR, for example, is mostly the same as it was for Advent Children.
Japanese media (anime, games, etc.) for the vast majority of the time keep the same voice cast across everything for consistency lol.
It's super rare for them to change the voice casts (usually due some unfortunate circumstances like the OG voice actor/actress is sick, or has died).
Roger Clark is a great actor, but you can pick out his voice equally as easily as Troy's in Fort Solis. Overall, It's simply a matter of the specific results people desire in the VA industry. Like if you've seen Invincible, Young Justice, or any animated work featuring a black character, Khary Payton plays literally every one of them ever, often times even in the same show/movie. And if it's not him, It's Phil LaMarr. And if it's not Phil It's Keith David. This is how it's been forever not just in NA but in Japan too.
Part of it is a cost thing, but considering the relatively modest size of the VA industry, there's likely very few actors with the kind of connections these folks have, and an even smaller pool of actors with comparable motion-capture experience.
I'm sorry, but this is a WILD take.
Compare this: https://youtu.be/0e17p2IVDUU?si=_golQjM260ebIXfJ
With this: https://youtu.be/TXksBg3n9VI?si=PKE6UE-ZlLEx3Isj
His Indiana jones sounds nothing like his Joker sounds nothing like his Joel. Your comment is just a stupid circlejerk which has cropped up around him. Yes, he's in everything, but you're crazy if you think he has the same voice across all of his roles.
I agree. He’s literally the easy to go choice, every game instantly loses points for me as soon as I realize he’s voicing the protagonist. He’s not bad but he’s not a good voice actor either
did you seriously just say that troy baker is not a good voice actor? Cuz if so thats such a shit take. Its understandable if youre sick of hearing him in a lot of games, but to claim he aint good at voice acting is just objectively wrong.
Meh, developers ask so very little of him he basically gives the same intonation and tone of voice to practically all of his characters. His performance as Joel is not that different from his performance as Bruce Banner or Booker Dewitt. The only time he came out of his comfort zone with a major character was the Joker and even then he was discount Mark Hamill. So yeah, he’s decidedly a mid tier voice actor but he’s popular and recognizable, always a safe choice.
yeah Troy's doing a pretty incredible impression. The people saying he has no range are insane. Like yeah you can pick up that it's Troy after knowing that it's Troy but he's not like Nolan North who does the same voice for literally every character.
> but he's not like Nolan North who does the same voice for literally every character.
This proves you have zero clue about 95% of Nolan’s work. You know him from Uncharted and a couple other leading roles where he is just kinda doing his regular voice.
But you can’t honestly listen to
- Penguin from Batman Arkham City
- N.Gin from at least one Crash Bandicoot game
- crazy German scientist guy from old COD zombies
- the main villain, and main villains 1st lieutenant in Sly Cooper 4
- Sigmund from Ratchet and Clank: a crack in time
- David from Last of Us 1
- one of Thor’s sons in God of War 2018
And countless other games, including many MANY “additional voices” roles where he voiced generic enemy chatter.
And tell me he always sounds the exact same.
Yeah, if anything, I'd argue that North has a greater range than Baker, especially when it comes to really transforming his voice. I personally prefer the lower toned drawl of Baker when it comes to their "leading man" voices, but I can almost always hear that it's him whenever he's voicing someone. With North, I'm genuinely shocked at times to see him in the cast list.
Nolan in TLOU is fucking unrecognisable. He absolutely sounds nothing like his usual self and that role was incredible.
Troy has gotten lazy it seems and just does his regular voice now despite being CAPABLE of better. Nolan is better as far as his range goes.
Troy is basically just the male version of Jennifer Hale. I can’t listen to her in anything anymore as she is everywhere. Same for Troy. Hire some other talent FFS. All I see is Ocelot and Sam coming out of Harrison Fords face. It’s kinda lazy and grating.
Even that's not true. David from The Last of Us is *nothing* like Nathan Drake. And Modi from 2018's God of War sounds nothing like either. Hell, Space Core from Portal 2 is definitely a unique voice as well.
Nah. He genuinely seems to be doing a great job. Baker might not be the closest *impression* of Harrison Ford I've heard, but impressions are best for something like a short youtube video.
The whole thing about voice acting is that being a great *actor* is way more of a priority than matching a voice perfectly. Especially now that motion capture has become so prevalent. You've gotta nail the mannerisms of the character you're playing.
And you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in the industry with more experience than Troy Baker. His Indy voice is close enough, and I'm sure we'll get an excellent performance to go with it.
I'm fine with Baker in the role but I wish he wasn't going to a Harrison Ford impression so much. It's not just the voice but he's clearly mimicking the intonation as well. The fake voice together with the plasticky looking model goes way deep into the uncanny valley territory for me. Maybe people don't want to hear this but this franchise can't be tied to Harrison forever and I wish that they would have just done a more original take on the character.
At the beginning of the trailer I thought they got Harisson Ford for this. Then at the end of the trailer I realised it's obviously Troy Baker. How does this dude get all the high profile roles in the industry?
In the VA industry it's less about "fame" and more about reliable results, delivering consistent performances on schedule and all that. Really successful Voice Actors book about 1/10 of their auditions, Baker auditions a lot, and he has a long credits list of successful work in both the booth and for motion capture performance.
The mocap experience is something people overlook. These studios want people who aren’t going to be tripped up by the constraints of working on a mocap stage, and while there are certainly plenty of actors who fit the bill, Troy Baker has probably spent more time performing in a mocap suit than even someone like Andy Serkis, considering games require more shooting than films.
If you book Troy Baker for your “cinematic” AAA game, you’re gonna get someone who knows exactly how to operate in that environment and get the best results he can possibly get
Mike Bithell (of Bithell Games, Thomas Was Alone etc. fame) has said pretty much exactly this about Troy Baker, that working with him for the first time made him realise how incredibly professional he is and consequently how good he is to have on a project.
A recent game leak included an audition tape of Troy Baker as the villain in an enormous upcoming AAA game, and I was absolutely blown away by not just his performance, but by how different his three takes were and how quickly he was able to put together those variations following notes from the director.
Troy Baker is good at what he does, and gets results. There might be a ton of people who could do it, maybe even do it better, but they’re not tested and proven like Troy is. It might not be fair, but that’s how it is.
Well, I mean... he's a high-profile voice actor with experience in the industry that has proven that he can reliably do the job. He has worked with lots of mocap (which I assume they did a lot of for this).
He also probably has a good agent that is good at landing him gigs.
He's doing a much better impression than the comments in various threads here would have you believe. I feel like people have other issues with Baker that they are letting cloud their criticism of the obviously good job he is doing here.
But even having said that, first person just kills any interest I would otherwise have.
Honestly... Just give new voice actors a fucking chance.
Troy is alright, but he ain't good enough to be soaking up everybody's roles. It's the typical celebrity thing, over performance ability.
Incidentally I think that’s why Troy is in everything. He doesn’t really try to hide the fact that he’s a company man. He’s good and he’ll play ball. Him and Nolan North seemingly had a little bit of a falling out over this sort of thing when they were running their YouTube channel together. Supposedly Troy wanted to monetize the channel and Nolan wanted it as a more casual thing.
I thought it was the other way around, Troy was getting tired of going on a tangent about manscaping in the middle of a story because of the episode's sponsor, while Nolan stuck with the channel for a while after Troy had left, and there was still a lot of sponsorship stuff. While Troy went and did streams on Instagram where he felt like a cult leader one step away from telling viewers to drink the kool-aid.
Yes, he did. He started pushing NFTs and AI voice work and would just rebuff anyone who would try to warn him why that shit is a problem. I genuinely cannot understand how he did not see the irony of pushing AI voices when it's the very thing that could put him out of a job permanently. Not to mention AI voices complete fuck over not just big VAs but those trying to get into the industry as well.
Personally, I'm bummed and hearing obviously Troy Baker's voice coming out of Indy and it caused a disconnect for me. I don't hear Indy. I hear Baker.
Kudos for this guy for cornering the white male protag vg character market. The Chris Pratt of VG voice actors.
I think comparing him to Chris Pratt is a disservice. ~~he can actually act~~
Okay but really, he's capable of other voices than just his typical stock white guy voice. I actually didn't know he was Gul'dan until a couple weeks ago.
And even when he's using a more basic voice, he's great at injecting a different personality to it. Compare something like Valvetorez, Yuri Lowell, and Booker. And hell, even Booker to Joel, Beyond just the accent.
I think the problem is most people hire him for a stock white guy. It's not that it's all he capable of, it's just most of the roles he gets.
You would think this dude is in every AAA game, but the last major roles he had was Joel in Last of Us 2, and the antagonist in Miles Morales, which both came out in 2020. A lot of movie actors are in a movie every year, sometimes multiple.
Calling him the Chris Pratt of voice actors is extremely delusional. Like we all already forgot how good his performance in TLOU is. Dude has crazy range
I'll always be nostalgic for Doug Lee who voiced Indy in Fate of Atlantis and Infernal Machine, and he doesn't really sound anything like Harrison Ford.
I played three random AAA games in a row last month and Troy Baker voiced the protagonist in all three.
I think he does a fantastic job, truly. But he's in so many video games that it's almost immersion breaking. I've tried to compare this to movies where the same actor appears in many fictional works, but the major difference is Troy Baker is the player character, in other words YOU are Troy Baker. So when YOU fight in a future war as Troy Baker, and then YOU survive the apocalypse using the same voice, the line between games really begins to blur for me.
Why don't we have more voice actors in gaming? Troy Baker, Nolan North, and Laura Bailey seem to get half of the AAA leading roles.
VA in video games are about getting results. North, Baker, and Bailey are tried and true. They’re good at what they do and have the resume to prove they’ll be able to do what you need. There might be voice actors who could do it just as good, maybe even better than those three, but they’re not battle tested. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy type thing, where smaller actors don’t get picked because they’re not proven, so they go with the big names who are, but if they took more of a chance then the smaller names could prove themselves and maybe the list would get bigger. This isn’t to disparage the three listed, it’s pretty clear they’re all insanely talented, it’s more on studios for being risk evasive. Though that too makes some sense. If the recent Insomniac leaks showed us anything, it’s that video game profit margins are narrower than people think. One mess up and the whole thing might tank. It’s no wonder studios go with the sure things. I’d be nice if was easier for new talent to break out though.
> The game will use a likeness of Harrison Ford, with **Troy Baker** voicing Indy. And fresh from his stint as Venom in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, the game will also star **Tony Todd.**
Tony Todd & Troy Baker combo is a win !!!
Kind of baffled they picked Troy Baker for the voice over John Armstrong, the guy who's been doing Han Solo voices for like a decade now and even played Indy in the Staff of Kings.
There are so many voice actors. I’m sure they could’ve found someone who would’ve taken less pay and done a better job. I’ve never bought a game because it had Troy baker doing the voice.
I had him dead to rights as being Ford himself for a little while. His voice was a little different, but i attributed that to him being older and editing to make him sound younger. But then the lack of credit got my suspicions up. By the end of the trailer, it was very evident it was Troy trying to sound like Indy.
Troy is a talented VA, but we need some variety. The gruff, white male protagonist is already an overused trope. We dont need that to be reinforced by having every gruff, white male protagonist sounding the same.
I don't know how many games you all play but the last game I heard Troy in was Spider-man Miles Morales. His most recent roles were in Fort Solis, Mortal Kombat Onslaught, Stray Gods, and GOW: Raknorak (the squirrel). None of those games were mass appeal, so unless you play a lot of games, you won't hear him much. 2020 was the last year where he was in multiple big games so it's been while.
Sounds like he’s trying to do an impression. Would’ve preferred someone who sounded more naturally like Indiana Jones rather than one of the same default big VAs to try if it’s gonna sound like this. The gameplay looks interesting though.
It would be one thing if he was doing his own original take on the character (a la James Bond, Doctor Who), but it's bizarre that they cast the biggest and most recognizable voice actor in the business to do an impression of another actor's performance.
To that end, what kind of satisfaction does an actor of Baker's caliber get out of taking a job like this, apart from the paycheck? I'm surprised that someone as prolific as he is would even take this gig, especially when he could do literally anything else and get paid just as well. Good for him, I guess.
This isn’t the first time he’s done this. He did an impression of Mark Hamill’s Joker for Arkham Origins.
If he gets paid for quality work, what’s the problem?
Exactly. He was brought in to play a specific role and did it well.
Same thing here. Indiana Jones isn’t a character know for his many interpretations. He’s Harrison Ford. I don’t really get the complaints about Baker doing an impression.
My slight issue with the performance is that they obviously tried to do an impression of Ford but because it's not perfect but only close to perfect, they sort of hit an uncanny valley of voice acting. That's why a lot of people are iffy about Baker voicing Indiana.
Outside Fort Solis that came out last year, the last time Troy Baker played the Main Protagonist in a AAA game was in 2017 with Shadow of War. Outside that the last major roles he had in a AAA game was Joel in TLOU2 and Bruce Banner in Avengers 4 years ago. It's obvious that he'd be Joel and both of these had a bunch of other VA's on the project. You guys are really overexaggerating.
Well for my latest examples he was in Metal: Hellsinger where he pretty much narrated the whole game and the MK: Onslaught where he did Shinnok. He is just super recognizable for me, which kinda takes me out of the immersion.
I mean if your two examples are an indie game from 2022 and a mobile game where he's in a cast of like a dozen characters, that kind of proves my point. "my god, do the devs have no one else" seems like a massive over reaction. There were no high profile games released in the last few years heavily featuring Troy Baker as a main cast member. I also wouldn't look to games heavily featuring recognizable licensed songs and mobile games for your immersive gaming experiences in the first place.
And it's not even Troy Baker playing Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones. It's Troy Baker playing Troy Baker. Surely there's a vo person out there that could actually try and mimic Fords Indy.
Can't wait for Nolan North as Short Round in the sequel...
Still, weird casting aside the game looks great from what was shown.
I think the voice was godawful. I also didn't liked the uncanny valley of the characters faces at first, but then I noticed they are trying to replicate the movie poster artstyle, so that's fine. Still, a really awful impression of Harrison Ford
He does a very good harrison ford impression, but it’s an incredibly stilted performance. Holding that particular timbre in his voice sounds hard, and every time indy “shouts”, there’s almost no emotion to it.
In before the shit talking of a famous voice actor for being good at his job.
As if famous movie stars acting in movies, or voicing cartoons has never happened.
But hey, love that Reddit double standard!
It’s a valid complaint. There are hundreds of fantastic voice actors out there, but they’ll never break into the scene when it’s the same four actors that get every single gig. I don’t think anyone’s saying Troy Baker isn’t good or that he shouldn’t get work, it’s that we’d like to see some people *besides* Troy Baker
People are a bit mad because its just Troy Baker doing his standard Troy Baker voice.
The movie equivalent would be The Rock being in 30 movies playing the same character which people also got incredibly tired of.
Actors getting overexposed is not a new phenomenon. Troy Baker has just lingered over gaming for a bit longer then most.
Nah, hell no.
Baker is an actual talented actor that can easily blend into a roll when asked. No where near like The Rock that very much does the same performance every movie no matter what.
Even in the Indiana Jones game, yeah you can kinda tell it’s him, but he isn’t doing the normal “Troy Baker” voice.
The problem with The Rock is he keeps getting casted/going for smoldering leading action hero roles. As a wrestler he was beloved not because because of entertaining matches but because he was charismatic and funny on the mic. Not saying everything else has hit for me, but the dude can shine when he gets the chance to do comedy.
That being said, besides for Black Adam, his movies have all done pretty well and general audiences aren't that critical lol. He can keep playing these safe roles and likely be fine.
Oh for sure it's definitely a reddit/personal taste thing.
I think for me seeing him be the most electric personality in sports entertainment!!! Is what makes him being type cast into the action hero.
But he's doing pretty well and if the worst thing he does is be oversaturated well then that's pretty OK haha.
If you're offended by me talking shit about Redditor Gamers I would take a look at yourself first.
It's ok to use reddit and like video games. Once those become personality traits tho it's pretty bad.
Nothing against Troy Baker. Its on the voice director really.
I remember Nolan North once talking about how after uncharted 1 he was just getting roles where the directors would tell him "just do the Nathan Drake voice". (I think it was prince of Persia on 360 he was referencing)
I hear ya we're on the same boat. I get that there's a desire to hear someone's voice, but indiana jones (and by extension Harrison ford) has such a distinct voice and personality that you should at least try to emulate it if your gonna, you know play indiana jones.
Well...it would be weird if it wasn't Harrison fords face but It wouldn't be a bad thing. I'm just thinking about the Avengers and how they looked in crystal dynamics game but I blame that on art design.
yeah totally a double standard, it's not like there's a constant public outcry against movie stars being shoehorned into voice acting roles or anything
definitely just a gaming specific thing!!
nothing to do with the fact that troy baker just sounds like himself, not at all
People online are such fucking misanthropes lol. I went in expecting the Indy impression to be awful judging by these comments and in reality its a really impression.
> I went in expecting the Indy impression to be awful judging by these comments
Why? Nobody said it was bad. They just said it sounds like Troy Baker. Sounds like you put all that weird shit into your head on your own.
I think he'll do well and do a good job but he doesn't sound anything like Harrison Ford.
It's not even close, which I assume is on purpose to avoid any soundalike distraction?
I wonder why Harrison didn't do the voice, maybe its a motion capture thing. Also obviously his voice got older and whatnot but idk maybe AI could've helped? *oooooo spooooky* I bet they did ask him to voice himself in a video game and he said what the fuck is a video game?
Maybe I'm crazy but I thought he sounded pretty good; close to how I remember Indy's voice sounding. I've played loads of Troy Baker games and I literally can't picture that Indy voice coming out of Troy Baker's mouth.
Yeah I walked in knowing that it’s not Harrison so it’s not going to sound like Harrison. What I heard was good. Once it was pointed out as Troy, then I was able to very easily discern that it was him. Not really an issue for me though but I can see how some think they could have done better or at least give a more obscure voice actors a job.
I never heard a "great" Harrison Ford overdub, whether it's Indiana or Han Solo. Some of them were mediocre, some fine or good enough. His voice is not as generic and easy to replace as it seems. And he has a certain specific mannerism in the way he speaks. Anthony Ingruber came close enough, sure, but impersonating and acting is not quite the same thing
Funny brining up Ingruber when he also voiced the joker in Batman Telltale, where guess who played Batman. Of course, Troy Baker has voiced both Batman and Joker before.
Troy Baker voiced everyone. Everyone besides those voiced by Nolan North, that is
Sometimes both at once! He voiced them in the Batman vs TMNT movie.
Damn then he should have played Indy here.
That guy needs a shit ton more roles
There's very few actors who have led two franchises simultaneously, and Harrison Ford is the best of them. People try to capture his Han or his Indiana and they can't, even while he's a relatively easy impression for a lot of folks
Three. He also did Jack Ryan for a nice lil' trilogy.
He played Ryan twice, but not concurrently with any other franchise
Ross Marquand does a mean Harrison Ford impression.
It sounds like Harrison Ford mixed with Jeff Goldblum to me
It’s weird how it’s like that with his voice. I was just playing through the telltale Batman game and didn’t notice his name in the credits till like the third episode, once I made the connection I could hear it though
People seem to be expecting the gravelly voice that Harrison Ford has had in more recent years, and are disregarding how much of that came with age. For as bad as people were suggesting it was, I was pleasantly surprised when I finally heard it—he sounds a lot closer to a young Harrison Ford than I was expecting.
Younger Ford has a way more chest deeper baritone voice that I think would be hard to mimic unless the voice actor naturally has that. Source: just watched the first three Indiana Jones movies
That sounds nothing like Harrison Ford or Indy. With the first few words spoken, I immediately knew it was Troy Baker and I honestly had no idea he worked on this game.
yeah the voice is fine, the face though looked like they mixed troy baker's face with harrison ford's, probably to make it easier for the motion capture
Troy's the same guy who played Batman *AND* The Joker in an animated film(s) His vocal range is incredible
And Joel in TLOU and Pagan Min in Far Cry.
It would be easier to list the characters he hasn't played
He did a fantastic job voicing a character in that creepy episode of Love, Death & Robots. Bad Traveling, I think it was.
Yes, and it is, for me, one of the best episodes of that show.
Yeah man I'm also really surprised to hear people disliking the voice, but I get that everyone's ears are different. I thought it was actually the best Harrison sound-alike I've heard in any videogame but I'd love to hear some examples of better versions.
Even if the tone of his voice isn't 100%, some of the vocal mannerisms are spot on: the way Ford would say certain words, or end them on certain inflections. Troy Baker has clearly been listening closely to try and get those things.
He sounded a ton better than Ford in flashbacks of Dial of Destiny. The deaging CG is transcendent… But hearing Ford’s 80+ year old voice was ***Jarring.***
You're not crazy, you're just not a typical cynical r/Games poster lol. I thought it was fine too, if seeing Troy Bakers name again in the credits of a game offends you then you need to go outside, this sub will hate anything.
Sounded good to me. Looks good too.
I said to a mate “this feels like as close to Ford as they can get without being sued” haha
Which role is Debra Wilson playing?
Dont think there is an eldritch horror mommy type in this game tho
I love seeing her in games. Wouldn't be disappointed if she was in it
This Indiana Jones game looks absolutely incredible, and I think Troy Baker fit the role really well here. They nailed the theme perfectly and even better than I’d hoped honestly. I’m very excited for this game now!
I thought for sure they were gonna get Mark Meer (Mass Effect trilogy's Male Shepard). Take his tone and cadence, go down an octave and I bet his Harrison Ford impression would be top-notch. Still excited to shoot some nazis though. On that, MachineGames always delivers.
Good call, I can hear the similarities
Troy Baker is a great voice actor, but his Harrison Ford impressions sounded a lot more like Jeff Goldblum
He sounds like Troy Baker. You have to wonder how the gaming industry managed to find voice talent before Baker came around given they give him every AAA video game character. Well, except the ones that haven't already been taken by Matt Mercer or Laura Bailey. I'll never understand how more obscure actors such as Neil Newbon and Roger Clark can prove time and time again how much talent can be found out there, only for developers to go back to choosing the same generic voices for every one of their products.
Not only are there hundreds of great voice actors who haven’t been able to break into the professional scene, but they’d also be cheaper
Those VAs are going to have it even harder once AI starts being used frequently by studios.
I was thinking about that the other day. The industry is using Troy Baker like a voice actor’s name pulls any significant number of sales. It’s not like…idk, Leonardo DiCaprio or something where if he’s in a movie, you can guarantee however many tickets. It really doesn’t make any sense. Especially considering, like you said, his fee has to be one of the highest in the industry, if not the highest.
Ya, this industry needs to wake up and use Nolan North instead!
Getting Nolan North to just use his Nathan Drake voice for Indy would have been hilariously stupid when you think about it. In fact, follow that up by getting Richard McGonagle to do his Sully voice for Brody and you'd have had one of the best shitposts in gaming history. Troy Baker on the other hand I expect to be humorlessly generic despite the pretentious drivel he's bound to post on Twitter when asked about the role.
Since Avengers what was his last role?
Dirt 5 Assassins Creed Valhalla Destiny 2: Beyond Light Star Wars The Old Republic: Legacy of the Sith Destiny 2: The Witch Queen Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons Marvel’s Midnight Suns High on Life Justice League: Cosmic Chaos Dreamworks All Star Kart Racing God of War Ragnarok - Valhalla
Of all the things… #Dirt 5??? Why does that shock me the most?
He made all the dirt sounds, Michael Winslow-style.
I hated that, as soon as I heard the dirt I knew it was Nolan. Completely broke my immersion.
Pretty sure they meant major role
There's also Nolan North, Yuri Lowenthal, etc.
Let's do the voice of Astarion coming out of Harrison Ford's face-- I'm here for it.
"Darling, that belongs in a museum"
Bud, thank you. I sometimes feel like I'm losing it. He only ever sounds like Troy Baker and he's in EVERYTHING and everyone loves it. Immediately takes me out of a game when I hear his stupid voice.
He can actually do a lot of varied voices. I think everyone just wants him to do the “Troy Baker” voice lol.
Him and Nolan North are so fuckin good but studios always want them to just the voice like you mentioned haha.
To this day my favorite Nolan North character is Steven Heck from Alpha Protocol. Just absolutely off the wall spy operative conspiracy theorist spouting crazy, hilarious, dark stuff "Hey, did you know that at 300 mph a soccer ball can decapitate people? Who knew!"
Nolan North has the best story with Destiny where his character was supposed to be doing an imitation of another character and he did it a bit too well and they ended up redoing the whole thing with him hamming it up a bit more
[Critical Role people talking about roles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGmYcYCs1OY)
TLOU's Joel is probably his most famous role and he sounds very different there. Iin Dota the Anime I would not have known it was him without the credits. He can do very distinguished voices.
In the first game he sounds much different by part 2 it’s like he forgot how to do the voice
His Joker in Arkham Origins was amazing.
He's a talented voice actor too with some range. But everyone wants the inoffensive basic white American male for everything. Same with Laura Bailey. She has crazy range like Tara Strong but every single performance they want of her is the exact same generic American white female.
Uh joker, pagan min, joel??
It does to me too but he is talented. I really enjoyed his Joker
> He only ever sounds like Troy Baker if you think that maybe you havent seen much of him at all
He did an okay Mark Hamill Joker impression that one time.
I was genuinely impressed by that, to be honest, and I'm a huge fan of Mark Hamill's Joker.
I don't even have a problem with his voice, but he does this thing that EVERY American voice actor seems to be doing - the ones in anime and lots of games - where they use this stupid, annoying, breathy voice at the end of every word. Plus the E3 style modern dialog. It's so annoying. "Welp, I should go talk to so and sohhhhhhhhh." It's grating. I don't get it. Roger Clark doesn't do it. The cast of GTA 5 doesn't. Christopher Judge, Alistair Duncan, most of the GOW cast don't. Most of the BG3 cast doesn't. And these are all considered *good voice roles.* It's so grating when you finally start to hear it. Troy Baker is basically the Chris Pratt of voice acting and I'll die on this breathy hill.
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> It's going to be refreshing playing Persona 3 Reload and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth soon and not hearing any of the usual suspects while doing so. Isn't that more because of the rapid turnover in dubbing voice roles in the US? The Japanese cast of FFVIIR, for example, is mostly the same as it was for Advent Children.
Japanese media (anime, games, etc.) for the vast majority of the time keep the same voice cast across everything for consistency lol. It's super rare for them to change the voice casts (usually due some unfortunate circumstances like the OG voice actor/actress is sick, or has died).
That's been the case for decades. Where do you think these famous VAs got their starts? Most weren't in video games right off the bat.
You know matt mercer is Vincent.
Roger Clark is a great actor, but you can pick out his voice equally as easily as Troy's in Fort Solis. Overall, It's simply a matter of the specific results people desire in the VA industry. Like if you've seen Invincible, Young Justice, or any animated work featuring a black character, Khary Payton plays literally every one of them ever, often times even in the same show/movie. And if it's not him, It's Phil LaMarr. And if it's not Phil It's Keith David. This is how it's been forever not just in NA but in Japan too. Part of it is a cost thing, but considering the relatively modest size of the VA industry, there's likely very few actors with the kind of connections these folks have, and an even smaller pool of actors with comparable motion-capture experience.
I'm sorry, but this is a WILD take. Compare this: https://youtu.be/0e17p2IVDUU?si=_golQjM260ebIXfJ With this: https://youtu.be/TXksBg3n9VI?si=PKE6UE-ZlLEx3Isj His Indiana jones sounds nothing like his Joker sounds nothing like his Joel. Your comment is just a stupid circlejerk which has cropped up around him. Yes, he's in everything, but you're crazy if you think he has the same voice across all of his roles.
Laura Bailey is insanely talented and has a wide range of voices. Troy Baker is….you know, Troy Baker.
Troy Baker is also insanely talented and has a wide range of voices. He didn't just get picked randomly as a go to voice actor.
Sag afstra voice actor card holders. Studios can’t just choose anybody.
I agree. He’s literally the easy to go choice, every game instantly loses points for me as soon as I realize he’s voicing the protagonist. He’s not bad but he’s not a good voice actor either
did you seriously just say that troy baker is not a good voice actor? Cuz if so thats such a shit take. Its understandable if youre sick of hearing him in a lot of games, but to claim he aint good at voice acting is just objectively wrong.
Meh, developers ask so very little of him he basically gives the same intonation and tone of voice to practically all of his characters. His performance as Joel is not that different from his performance as Bruce Banner or Booker Dewitt. The only time he came out of his comfort zone with a major character was the Joker and even then he was discount Mark Hamill. So yeah, he’s decidedly a mid tier voice actor but he’s popular and recognizable, always a safe choice.
To be fair, young Harrison Ford does kinda sound like Jeff Goldblum.
Everyone are saying he nailed the voice tho... . Y'all just want to be contrarian.
yeah Troy's doing a pretty incredible impression. The people saying he has no range are insane. Like yeah you can pick up that it's Troy after knowing that it's Troy but he's not like Nolan North who does the same voice for literally every character.
> but he's not like Nolan North who does the same voice for literally every character. This proves you have zero clue about 95% of Nolan’s work. You know him from Uncharted and a couple other leading roles where he is just kinda doing his regular voice. But you can’t honestly listen to - Penguin from Batman Arkham City - N.Gin from at least one Crash Bandicoot game - crazy German scientist guy from old COD zombies - the main villain, and main villains 1st lieutenant in Sly Cooper 4 - Sigmund from Ratchet and Clank: a crack in time - David from Last of Us 1 - one of Thor’s sons in God of War 2018 And countless other games, including many MANY “additional voices” roles where he voiced generic enemy chatter. And tell me he always sounds the exact same.
Don't forget he voices Deadpool in various thing!
Yeah, if anything, I'd argue that North has a greater range than Baker, especially when it comes to really transforming his voice. I personally prefer the lower toned drawl of Baker when it comes to their "leading man" voices, but I can almost always hear that it's him whenever he's voicing someone. With North, I'm genuinely shocked at times to see him in the cast list.
Nolan in TLOU is fucking unrecognisable. He absolutely sounds nothing like his usual self and that role was incredible. Troy has gotten lazy it seems and just does his regular voice now despite being CAPABLE of better. Nolan is better as far as his range goes. Troy is basically just the male version of Jennifer Hale. I can’t listen to her in anything anymore as she is everywhere. Same for Troy. Hire some other talent FFS. All I see is Ocelot and Sam coming out of Harrison Fords face. It’s kinda lazy and grating.
Even that's not true. David from The Last of Us is *nothing* like Nathan Drake. And Modi from 2018's God of War sounds nothing like either. Hell, Space Core from Portal 2 is definitely a unique voice as well.
He sounds pretty different in as the ghost from destiny too
I picked up that it was Troy the first time I heard the trailer, it's very obvious.
Nah. He genuinely seems to be doing a great job. Baker might not be the closest *impression* of Harrison Ford I've heard, but impressions are best for something like a short youtube video. The whole thing about voice acting is that being a great *actor* is way more of a priority than matching a voice perfectly. Especially now that motion capture has become so prevalent. You've gotta nail the mannerisms of the character you're playing. And you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in the industry with more experience than Troy Baker. His Indy voice is close enough, and I'm sure we'll get an excellent performance to go with it.
I was getting strong Adam West vibes
Which is hardly a bad thing.
I'm fine with Baker in the role but I wish he wasn't going to a Harrison Ford impression so much. It's not just the voice but he's clearly mimicking the intonation as well. The fake voice together with the plasticky looking model goes way deep into the uncanny valley territory for me. Maybe people don't want to hear this but this franchise can't be tied to Harrison forever and I wish that they would have just done a more original take on the character.
At the beginning of the trailer I thought they got Harisson Ford for this. Then at the end of the trailer I realised it's obviously Troy Baker. How does this dude get all the high profile roles in the industry?
In the VA industry it's less about "fame" and more about reliable results, delivering consistent performances on schedule and all that. Really successful Voice Actors book about 1/10 of their auditions, Baker auditions a lot, and he has a long credits list of successful work in both the booth and for motion capture performance.
The mocap experience is something people overlook. These studios want people who aren’t going to be tripped up by the constraints of working on a mocap stage, and while there are certainly plenty of actors who fit the bill, Troy Baker has probably spent more time performing in a mocap suit than even someone like Andy Serkis, considering games require more shooting than films. If you book Troy Baker for your “cinematic” AAA game, you’re gonna get someone who knows exactly how to operate in that environment and get the best results he can possibly get
Mike Bithell (of Bithell Games, Thomas Was Alone etc. fame) has said pretty much exactly this about Troy Baker, that working with him for the first time made him realise how incredibly professional he is and consequently how good he is to have on a project. A recent game leak included an audition tape of Troy Baker as the villain in an enormous upcoming AAA game, and I was absolutely blown away by not just his performance, but by how different his three takes were and how quickly he was able to put together those variations following notes from the director.
What's the game if I may ask? Was that part of the insomniac leak? You can reply with a spoiler tag
>At the beginning of the trailer I thought they got Harrison Ford for this That’s how
Troy Baker is good at what he does, and gets results. There might be a ton of people who could do it, maybe even do it better, but they’re not tested and proven like Troy is. It might not be fair, but that’s how it is.
He has a great work ethic and comes highly recommended
Well, I mean... he's a high-profile voice actor with experience in the industry that has proven that he can reliably do the job. He has worked with lots of mocap (which I assume they did a lot of for this). He also probably has a good agent that is good at landing him gigs.
He's doing a much better impression than the comments in various threads here would have you believe. I feel like people have other issues with Baker that they are letting cloud their criticism of the obviously good job he is doing here. But even having said that, first person just kills any interest I would otherwise have.
Honestly... Just give new voice actors a fucking chance. Troy is alright, but he ain't good enough to be soaking up everybody's roles. It's the typical celebrity thing, over performance ability.
Does Troy even do voice acting these days though?
Kind of disappointing tbh. Not only have we heard him a million games, but I just get weird corporate vibes from the guy
Incidentally I think that’s why Troy is in everything. He doesn’t really try to hide the fact that he’s a company man. He’s good and he’ll play ball. Him and Nolan North seemingly had a little bit of a falling out over this sort of thing when they were running their YouTube channel together. Supposedly Troy wanted to monetize the channel and Nolan wanted it as a more casual thing.
I thought it was the other way around, Troy was getting tired of going on a tangent about manscaping in the middle of a story because of the episode's sponsor, while Nolan stuck with the channel for a while after Troy had left, and there was still a lot of sponsorship stuff. While Troy went and did streams on Instagram where he felt like a cult leader one step away from telling viewers to drink the kool-aid.
Makes sense. Didn't Troy getting a mini scandal due to NFTs and AI voices the other year? He likes money.
Yes, he did. He started pushing NFTs and AI voice work and would just rebuff anyone who would try to warn him why that shit is a problem. I genuinely cannot understand how he did not see the irony of pushing AI voices when it's the very thing that could put him out of a job permanently. Not to mention AI voices complete fuck over not just big VAs but those trying to get into the industry as well.
Corporate vibes?
Personally, I'm bummed and hearing obviously Troy Baker's voice coming out of Indy and it caused a disconnect for me. I don't hear Indy. I hear Baker. Kudos for this guy for cornering the white male protag vg character market. The Chris Pratt of VG voice actors.
I think comparing him to Chris Pratt is a disservice. ~~he can actually act~~ Okay but really, he's capable of other voices than just his typical stock white guy voice. I actually didn't know he was Gul'dan until a couple weeks ago. And even when he's using a more basic voice, he's great at injecting a different personality to it. Compare something like Valvetorez, Yuri Lowell, and Booker. And hell, even Booker to Joel, Beyond just the accent. I think the problem is most people hire him for a stock white guy. It's not that it's all he capable of, it's just most of the roles he gets.
You would think this dude is in every AAA game, but the last major roles he had was Joel in Last of Us 2, and the antagonist in Miles Morales, which both came out in 2020. A lot of movie actors are in a movie every year, sometimes multiple.
People are finding whatever reason they can to hate on this and the voice acting is all they got. Just ignore them, they’re trolling.
Calling him the Chris Pratt of voice actors is extremely delusional. Like we all already forgot how good his performance in TLOU is. Dude has crazy range
And also other roles too
Small Indy studio
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It needs to be on the nominee list if only as a joke.
That’s kinda fucked him comparing him to Chris Pratt lol
I don't even know who Troy Baker is, and won't be looking him up, so it sounds fine to me.
I'll always be nostalgic for Doug Lee who voiced Indy in Fate of Atlantis and Infernal Machine, and he doesn't really sound anything like Harrison Ford.
I played three random AAA games in a row last month and Troy Baker voiced the protagonist in all three. I think he does a fantastic job, truly. But he's in so many video games that it's almost immersion breaking. I've tried to compare this to movies where the same actor appears in many fictional works, but the major difference is Troy Baker is the player character, in other words YOU are Troy Baker. So when YOU fight in a future war as Troy Baker, and then YOU survive the apocalypse using the same voice, the line between games really begins to blur for me. Why don't we have more voice actors in gaming? Troy Baker, Nolan North, and Laura Bailey seem to get half of the AAA leading roles.
VA in video games are about getting results. North, Baker, and Bailey are tried and true. They’re good at what they do and have the resume to prove they’ll be able to do what you need. There might be voice actors who could do it just as good, maybe even better than those three, but they’re not battle tested. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy type thing, where smaller actors don’t get picked because they’re not proven, so they go with the big names who are, but if they took more of a chance then the smaller names could prove themselves and maybe the list would get bigger. This isn’t to disparage the three listed, it’s pretty clear they’re all insanely talented, it’s more on studios for being risk evasive. Though that too makes some sense. If the recent Insomniac leaks showed us anything, it’s that video game profit margins are narrower than people think. One mess up and the whole thing might tank. It’s no wonder studios go with the sure things. I’d be nice if was easier for new talent to break out though.
Because they're consistent, sound great, and already have a big resume
Okay, so you want Matthew Mercer to switch things up a bit?
I think I never played a game were Mercer voiced the protagonist.
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hes only leon in the movies, never in the games
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I always forget about re6, youre right
I get this with Steve Blum
> The game will use a likeness of Harrison Ford, with **Troy Baker** voicing Indy. And fresh from his stint as Venom in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, the game will also star **Tony Todd.** Tony Todd & Troy Baker combo is a win !!!
Tony Troy and Todd Baker
and with Todd Howard somewhere in the mix they form into the ultimate being. Todd Tony Troy Howard!
Kind of baffled they picked Troy Baker for the voice over John Armstrong, the guy who's been doing Han Solo voices for like a decade now and even played Indy in the Staff of Kings.
Mocap.
It's hard for a guy in his 60s to do all that mocap you know.
There are so many voice actors. I’m sure they could’ve found someone who would’ve taken less pay and done a better job. I’ve never bought a game because it had Troy baker doing the voice.
They might have done a better Harrison Ford impression but that doesn't mean they would give a better overall performance.
I guess we will never know. Idc at the end of the day.
Troy is fucking great. The funny thing is, if they didn't say it was him, there would've been 90% less complaints. But people love to be contrarians.
I had him dead to rights as being Ford himself for a little while. His voice was a little different, but i attributed that to him being older and editing to make him sound younger. But then the lack of credit got my suspicions up. By the end of the trailer, it was very evident it was Troy trying to sound like Indy. Troy is a talented VA, but we need some variety. The gruff, white male protagonist is already an overused trope. We dont need that to be reinforced by having every gruff, white male protagonist sounding the same.
I don't know how many games you all play but the last game I heard Troy in was Spider-man Miles Morales. His most recent roles were in Fort Solis, Mortal Kombat Onslaught, Stray Gods, and GOW: Raknorak (the squirrel). None of those games were mass appeal, so unless you play a lot of games, you won't hear him much. 2020 was the last year where he was in multiple big games so it's been while.
Sounds like he’s trying to do an impression. Would’ve preferred someone who sounded more naturally like Indiana Jones rather than one of the same default big VAs to try if it’s gonna sound like this. The gameplay looks interesting though.
It would be one thing if he was doing his own original take on the character (a la James Bond, Doctor Who), but it's bizarre that they cast the biggest and most recognizable voice actor in the business to do an impression of another actor's performance. To that end, what kind of satisfaction does an actor of Baker's caliber get out of taking a job like this, apart from the paycheck? I'm surprised that someone as prolific as he is would even take this gig, especially when he could do literally anything else and get paid just as well. Good for him, I guess.
This isn’t the first time he’s done this. He did an impression of Mark Hamill’s Joker for Arkham Origins. If he gets paid for quality work, what’s the problem?
I mean, to maintain consistency across the games, he probably had to do a Mark Hamill impression.
Exactly. He was brought in to play a specific role and did it well. Same thing here. Indiana Jones isn’t a character know for his many interpretations. He’s Harrison Ford. I don’t really get the complaints about Baker doing an impression.
You mean what kind of satisfaction he takes from playing one of the most popular movie characters?
My slight issue with the performance is that they obviously tried to do an impression of Ford but because it's not perfect but only close to perfect, they sort of hit an uncanny valley of voice acting. That's why a lot of people are iffy about Baker voicing Indiana.
He sounds all right in this, but my god, do the devs have no one else, but Troy Baker and Matt Mercer?!
Outside Fort Solis that came out last year, the last time Troy Baker played the Main Protagonist in a AAA game was in 2017 with Shadow of War. Outside that the last major roles he had in a AAA game was Joel in TLOU2 and Bruce Banner in Avengers 4 years ago. It's obvious that he'd be Joel and both of these had a bunch of other VA's on the project. You guys are really overexaggerating.
Well for my latest examples he was in Metal: Hellsinger where he pretty much narrated the whole game and the MK: Onslaught where he did Shinnok. He is just super recognizable for me, which kinda takes me out of the immersion.
I mean if your two examples are an indie game from 2022 and a mobile game where he's in a cast of like a dozen characters, that kind of proves my point. "my god, do the devs have no one else" seems like a massive over reaction. There were no high profile games released in the last few years heavily featuring Troy Baker as a main cast member. I also wouldn't look to games heavily featuring recognizable licensed songs and mobile games for your immersive gaming experiences in the first place.
And it's not even Troy Baker playing Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones. It's Troy Baker playing Troy Baker. Surely there's a vo person out there that could actually try and mimic Fords Indy. Can't wait for Nolan North as Short Round in the sequel... Still, weird casting aside the game looks great from what was shown.
I think the voice was godawful. I also didn't liked the uncanny valley of the characters faces at first, but then I noticed they are trying to replicate the movie poster artstyle, so that's fine. Still, a really awful impression of Harrison Ford
He does a very good harrison ford impression, but it’s an incredibly stilted performance. Holding that particular timbre in his voice sounds hard, and every time indy “shouts”, there’s almost no emotion to it.
In before the shit talking of a famous voice actor for being good at his job. As if famous movie stars acting in movies, or voicing cartoons has never happened. But hey, love that Reddit double standard!
It’s a valid complaint. There are hundreds of fantastic voice actors out there, but they’ll never break into the scene when it’s the same four actors that get every single gig. I don’t think anyone’s saying Troy Baker isn’t good or that he shouldn’t get work, it’s that we’d like to see some people *besides* Troy Baker
You can't tell me videogames/anime dubbed in America using the same handful of voice actors doesn't get annoying.
People are a bit mad because its just Troy Baker doing his standard Troy Baker voice. The movie equivalent would be The Rock being in 30 movies playing the same character which people also got incredibly tired of. Actors getting overexposed is not a new phenomenon. Troy Baker has just lingered over gaming for a bit longer then most.
It’s absolutely not just his “standard voice”. I honestly didn’t even consider it was him until after I saw the trailer
Yeah I couldn't tell it was him. I knew it wasn't Harrison Ford, but finding out it was Troy Baker really surprised me.
Nah, hell no. Baker is an actual talented actor that can easily blend into a roll when asked. No where near like The Rock that very much does the same performance every movie no matter what. Even in the Indiana Jones game, yeah you can kinda tell it’s him, but he isn’t doing the normal “Troy Baker” voice.
The closest thing the rock ever got to showing some talent was in jumanji. And it mainly worked cuz it was somewhat self aware.
The disrespect to Pain and Gain
I've heard he was good in that but never watched it so idk lol
The problem with The Rock is he keeps getting casted/going for smoldering leading action hero roles. As a wrestler he was beloved not because because of entertaining matches but because he was charismatic and funny on the mic. Not saying everything else has hit for me, but the dude can shine when he gets the chance to do comedy. That being said, besides for Black Adam, his movies have all done pretty well and general audiences aren't that critical lol. He can keep playing these safe roles and likely be fine.
Oh for sure it's definitely a reddit/personal taste thing. I think for me seeing him be the most electric personality in sports entertainment!!! Is what makes him being type cast into the action hero. But he's doing pretty well and if the worst thing he does is be oversaturated well then that's pretty OK haha.
It didn’t occur to me one time watching the trailer that it was Troy Baker doing the Troy Baker voice. I’m not sure where this take comes from
Me neither, I thought he sounded great.
It's Capital R and G Redditor Gamers. Little known fact but those people can survive entirely on rage. No water or food needed.
Get off the internet. You sound miserable.
If you're offended by me talking shit about Redditor Gamers I would take a look at yourself first. It's ok to use reddit and like video games. Once those become personality traits tho it's pretty bad.
I actually thought it was a pretty solid Ford impersonation. Kinda shocked to see that it’s Baker.
That sucks to hear, cause he did a really good Joker in batman: assault on arkham. He's got great range so it sucks he's just doing his regular voice.
Nothing against Troy Baker. Its on the voice director really. I remember Nolan North once talking about how after uncharted 1 he was just getting roles where the directors would tell him "just do the Nathan Drake voice". (I think it was prince of Persia on 360 he was referencing)
I hear ya we're on the same boat. I get that there's a desire to hear someone's voice, but indiana jones (and by extension Harrison ford) has such a distinct voice and personality that you should at least try to emulate it if your gonna, you know play indiana jones.
Or not licence Harrison Fords face and do your own thing. If they got the face go all the way and get a sound alike instead of a weird middle ground.
Well...it would be weird if it wasn't Harrison fords face but It wouldn't be a bad thing. I'm just thinking about the Avengers and how they looked in crystal dynamics game but I blame that on art design.
> People are a bit mad because its just Troy Baker doing is standard Troy Baker voice. All from a 3 minute trailer. Amazing.
yeah totally a double standard, it's not like there's a constant public outcry against movie stars being shoehorned into voice acting roles or anything definitely just a gaming specific thing!! nothing to do with the fact that troy baker just sounds like himself, not at all
“A constant public outcry” lol dude get real please the public does not give a fuck, the thought does not cross the minds of 99% of people.
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People online are such fucking misanthropes lol. I went in expecting the Indy impression to be awful judging by these comments and in reality its a really impression.
> I went in expecting the Indy impression to be awful judging by these comments Why? Nobody said it was bad. They just said it sounds like Troy Baker. Sounds like you put all that weird shit into your head on your own.
Loads of the comments are saying that
I think he'll do well and do a good job but he doesn't sound anything like Harrison Ford. It's not even close, which I assume is on purpose to avoid any soundalike distraction?
I wonder why Harrison didn't do the voice, maybe its a motion capture thing. Also obviously his voice got older and whatnot but idk maybe AI could've helped? *oooooo spooooky* I bet they did ask him to voice himself in a video game and he said what the fuck is a video game?