…can we maybe chill out on having her voice absolutely every single character in WoW?
Do my Emerald Dream stuff, and she’s Merithra chatting at me. Everytime I click a dryad out there, it’s her. Just finished my TW runs, and she was Elisande at the end of CoS, and Illysana in Blackrook Hold. She’s voiced a bajillion things in WoW, and pretty much every other game I play (former Ashe main in Overwatch here).
I mean, she’s fantastic, and I’m still secretly holding out hope she gets to reprise Femshep somehow in the next Mass Effect game (hopium). But man, it’s just too much. Oversaturated. Not sure if you guys have some super special deal worked out with her, or if you’re struggling to find other equally talented voice actors (I find this hard to believe).
But I’m kindly suggesting you guys expand your voice pool a bit more. Because things are really starting to feel a bit repetitive.
I don’t know why, maybe it was years of playing but I never noticed until I quit for a good good while and came back.
Hearing the same person voice so many people while trying to sound different is so off putting. I actually turned down the volume because it was so distracting to me.
She has such an identifiable voice that it is impossible for her to “blend in”. They can modulate the living hell out of her lines, give her a huge accent, doesn’t matter. You can always tell it’s her.
She’s not the only VA like that in WoW, mind you. But she has just been overused lately. Which worries me because I don’t want to get tired of hearing her voice. I’m a fan, but too much of anything is bad.
A quest with them both interacting with their Shepard voices would break my brain. Get Garrus in there, but without the weird turian reverb he’d be harder to pick out.
I thought Toddy was a refreshingly new sounding voice in the game that wasn’t just the ho hum same ol’ same ol’. It was something unique and unfamiliar. My opinion is in the minority though, as much of the community hated it.
Brandon Keener’s voice is really easy for me to notice actually; I remember almost the exact moment where I started noticing how much I liked Garrus’s voice in ME1 (it didn’t really stand out to me at first but by Noveria—which was the 2nd planet I did—I was like, I really like it whenever Garrus talks).
People have made meme clips combining footage from Mass Effect (or Garry’s Mod but with Mass Effect models) with audio of Brandon Keener’s voice from various ad spots (for McDonald’s, etc.) and TV shows he’s done over the years and his voice always fits perfectly even without the turian voice filter thing
