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09-09-2009, 05:25 AM
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While video game voice acting never really seems to draw the amazing big names, it's definitely steadily improving from the old day when it was spare members of the coding team and a couple people pulled off from the street or something. WoW seems to combine the best of both worlds here, in that Warcraft's Voice acting seems to run the gamut from awesome to pretty decent to painfully over-hammy. Still, to its credit, it's produced a whole lot of iconic lines, from the first "zug zug (http://www.wowwiki.com/Orcish_%28language%29)" to "You are not prepared (http://www.wowwiki.com/Illidan_Stormrage#Memorable_quotes)" and beyond.
With so many iconic phrases, both breath taking and amusing, I'm interested to know what lines of dialogue stick with you and why. Is it the turn of phrase? The delivery? The context in which the line is spoken that adds to the drama or humor?
For me, it's all about Eadric the Pure (http://www.wowwiki.com/Eadric_the_Pure_%28tactics%29#Quotes). Pretty much every line of dialogue he gets in the Trial of the Crusader 5-man is amazing. Well acted, well scripted, with just the right balance between pomposity, noble righteousness and a sort of bemused sense of humor and enjoyment about the whole concept of the Argent Tournament. If I had to pick one line, it would be his final one: "I yield! I submit! Excellent work! May I run away now?"
Yes, you may Eadric. But please, come back again soon. You're awesome.Filed under: Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Breakfast topics (http://www.wow.com/category/breakfast-topics/), Lore (http://www.wow.com/category/lore/), NPCs (http://www.wow.com/category/npcs/)
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While video game voice acting never really seems to draw the amazing big names, it's definitely steadily improving from the old day when it was spare members of the coding team and a couple people pulled off from the street or something. WoW seems to combine the best of both worlds here, in that Warcraft's Voice acting seems to run the gamut from awesome to pretty decent to painfully over-hammy. Still, to its credit, it's produced a whole lot of iconic lines, from the first "zug zug (http://www.wowwiki.com/Orcish_%28language%29)" to "You are not prepared (http://www.wowwiki.com/Illidan_Stormrage#Memorable_quotes)" and beyond.
With so many iconic phrases, both breath taking and amusing, I'm interested to know what lines of dialogue stick with you and why. Is it the turn of phrase? The delivery? The context in which the line is spoken that adds to the drama or humor?
For me, it's all about Eadric the Pure (http://www.wowwiki.com/Eadric_the_Pure_%28tactics%29#Quotes). Pretty much every line of dialogue he gets in the Trial of the Crusader 5-man is amazing. Well acted, well scripted, with just the right balance between pomposity, noble righteousness and a sort of bemused sense of humor and enjoyment about the whole concept of the Argent Tournament. If I had to pick one line, it would be his final one: "I yield! I submit! Excellent work! May I run away now?"
Yes, you may Eadric. But please, come back again soon. You're awesome.Filed under: Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Breakfast topics (http://www.wow.com/category/breakfast-topics/), Lore (http://www.wow.com/category/lore/), NPCs (http://www.wow.com/category/npcs/)
Breakfast Topic: Your favorite lines of spoken dialogue (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/09/breakfast-topic-your-favorite-lines-of-spoken-dialogue/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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