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[AngriBuddhist]

[OT] The Quality of This ARG

[Theorizer]

Re: [OT] The Quality of This ARG

[Scumbag]

I should have asked in one of the other threads, but this one is as good as any:

[Theorizer]

[Nightmare Tony]

Theorizer: voicework for a game can be fun. I picked up more than doubkle the amount you mentioned for an arcade game announcement voice. Course, I also did uop one of the songs which was in my style, and wayyyy different from the other ones

22 minutes and well done audio gigs. Was still wierd about how while it comes up into win media player, it wont burn to cd, so had to resample the bugger. Couple of hours of fun there

[colin]

Re: [OT] The Quality of This ARG

[sherpa]

Re: [OT] The Quality of This ARG

[Stratus]

Even though this is still an ARG, you cant forget this is still(more than likly) a market-scheme by Microsoft. If they make it too hard, new people to it will get frustrated and leave, which is bad for business. They have to find a balance between making it hard enough to keep seasoned ARGers into it, while keeping it easy enough for new ARGers and adding Halo refreances to keep the Halo players intreasted. Sway to much to one of those sides and you start losing player base and potentol customers.

Please forgive my terrible spelling

[Avatrix]

Though I personally can't confirm this, I was playing the .wav files for a close friend of mine. On hearing one of the male voices (it was either Jersey or Kamal, I don't recall), he jumped. "That sounds like Doug Zartman!" Doug Zartman is a Bungie employee, who did the voice of the "Bobs" in Marathon. I was unable to find any sound files of the Bobs to compare.

Also, given how busy the Bungie dev teams are right now, it seems unlikely they'd have time to record this stuff (though it could have been done months ago... I can imagine the PMs not only planning but assembling much of the ARG well in advance).

Again, I CANNOT confirm this myself, but thought I'd throw it out in case anyone else wants to go digging.

[CoffeeJedi]

i dont think that knowing who the voice actors are really gives us any insight to the game

alot of people put on the freak-out hats when they heard Mellisa's voice because it sounded like Cortanna. It was probably the same voice actor, they just got her again for consistency, to make all female AI's sound alike...

someone even thought that one of the characters sounded like Billy West (Fry from Futurama), while that would be insanely cool... it doesn't change anything, and is most certainly not in-game, its breaking the 8th commandment

[Avatrix]

CoffeeJedi, I agree that it's probably not at all significant for in-game. However, I still find it interesting. If we find a Bungie employee is contributing a voice to the ARG, then their plausible deniability of knowledge is reduced (not that we'd get any more out of them than they want to reveal). And to some extent, it's just info on how the PMs might have put together the ARG.

[Bobman]

[Scumbag]

Bobs, eh?

The ARG's outcome is to discover how, specifically, to Frog Blast a Vent Core.

[Theorizer]

[RMG]

Last I heard, Zartman left Bungie after it got purchased by Microsoft and is now employed directly by Microsoft.

This was a while ago, though-- maybe he's back with Bungie.