It should have been me :(
*hug*
Bloody bipeds.
That one's all Neil.
Is it a deer? I thought it looked more like a goat but i could be wrong
It's a space deer.
His introduction speech after the quest is a punch in the gut but what's underneath gets even worse.
- They experience their void incident as if it was yesterday - Loid states this when he was rambling about them and his abandonment, like they were some thoughtless heavy duty burden he left behind. Before we get to know their personification and before the Arthur introduction, making it seems like a careless after thought. - AKA their wounds are still fresh. (Duality of the void)
- They became (human level) sentient, moments before their trauma's
- Every so often when the murmer level gets too much, they get void taken over and become mouth pieces of the VOID, although unwillingly / unconsciously, but they can recall those moments.
- Tagfer does some form of selfharm
- Tagfer suffers schizophrenia and a form of multi personality disorder.
Them becoming sentient due to the void is also what makes me believe that THE SENTIENTS were controlled by WALLY.
To be clear, they experience the Void incident as though it were yesterday because they were placed into hibernation shortly after the event, and were only recently decanted by Loid.
The bird.
THE. BIRD
It's really weird how it manages to kinda annoy me irrationally much yet still feeling really sympathetic towards it.
Like, NO you can't talk about Minn like that, yet I understand that it's doing probably it's best.
The clanking? No, you're not banging your head on a wall, it's.. uhh... Void.. thing.. yeah, let's just say you're knocking your head on a wall you adorable and sad thing.
Bird had to thread a needle, for sure, or it just wouldn't work. I think his earnestness, his defenselessness, his no-internal-monologue openness and his *trust* - combined with a performance that finds the funny, got us something special.
His name is Micah Mason, I know him
That’s him. There was one delivery of his that almost wrecked me on mic. He did such good work with this.
Is there any way to reply the audio from the rank ups? I missed the second one entirely some how.
Not currently I’m afraid, but I’m hoping some enterprising soul will upload them to YouTube before long, for cases like this.
Looking forward to the rest of the Cavia's story through the week, you and the rest of the team have done an amazing job with this update!
I gotta ask, does The Man In The Wall have their own voice actor now? Not sure if you could answer that but I felt like the voice sounded a lot more different this time around and was very unlike of the usual Operator VAs who used to do that work, either that or maybe its the audio guys trying new things to make it sound different.
The various manifestations have the relevant actor performing the part (so your Operator's shadowy counterpart is voiced by the same actor who voices the Operator herself, for eg.)
Quick question is there anyway to replay the ranking up scenes with the sand? I think the very first one glitched out on me bc one of my friends was in my group & got impatient trying to force start something right at that moment, I quickly booted myself from the group but it was gone at that point. I was able to hear the second one though between tagfer & fibonacci.
If not can someone tell me the gist of that scene?
Gah, I'm sorry to hear that. Currently there isn't, no. Ordinarily I'd suggest checking YouTube - but I don't think any of the scenes have been uploaded yet.
I was talking about the voice acting with my friends just earlier today, saying that while the voice actors absolutely deserve praise, whoever directed them did a fantastic job no less. Happy to be able to thank you directly, you absolutely should be proud of yourself! Voice actors can easily make a character, but I've also seen cases in other games have great VAs but poor direction and/or writing, to the point where the VAs just couldn't salvage what they were given or the results were overall lackluster.
I've found the Cavia really touching, and even though I'm only a couple ranks in, I already found myself running around just to trigger more of the voice lines. It was fascinating to see just how drastically different Neil sounds as Fibonacci, Tagfer's quiet grief, despair and anger you wouldn't want to mess with, and Bird 3 going from struggling to string words together in the most amusing fashion to having a very believable existential crisis. Seriously, the latter had me stop and think for a while - it's very fascinating to try and imagine how much the poor thing has to process, and just how eloquently Bird explains it despite the wording struggles.
Loid the man is someone I'm curious to see develop over time, I generally like the character and in some ways I even found him relatable. He's quite the contrast with the Loid we knew, and honestly I wanted to give the construct counterpart a big hug after it all. I was also very pleasantly surprised to find out Loid the Construct had more to say after the quest, that is a very nice touch!
Thank you so much for your work. Looking forward to seeing more of it!
If a studio doesn't have a director at hand then working actors can find themselves being directed by someone from, I dunno, level design who was just given the job, didn't want it, and is terrified. This is why I tell actors who are just starting out to build a strong, varied toolkit: take improv classes, do theatre, do standup, develop a strong facility for imagery to help inform the performance, develop the party trick of doing a range of impressions to better understand just what you can do with your vocal instrument and how it works and how new vocal patterns can change the way you think and therefore react, develop an ear for music in dialog, develop an instinct for delivering the same line in different ways without losing meaning or impact, really understand the power of *pauses*, of dirtying up the delivery, of making sure we can hear the character *thinking*. Essentially: learn to be your own best director for those times when you're on your own.
That way, at least, you've g...
Read moreI'm naming Bird 3 "Kevin". No, I will not be stopped.
'Kevin' kinda works, if I'm honest.
After hearing that reb's a big fan of astarion I laughed the first time I heard neil newborn's voice calling out to me from the fish (& also was pleasantly surprised, he's an amazing voice actor). I have to ask did she have anything to do with this?
Rebb's the Creative Director so everything went through, and had signoff from, her.
Please pass along my compliments to fucking everyone. This was an AMAZING update
You know it.
Is there just a coincidence Fibonacci is named after the Fibonacci sequence of numbers or do all the Cavia names allude to something irl?
All I'll say is you should keep playing.
Please tell me whether Fibonacci's "bubbling B's" were adlibbed, or part of the direction? That is such a fantastic element of the VO I couldn't help but take a moment when I first heard it to laugh and appreciate the detail put into this update.
Neil brought that from hour one. The high-level umbrella direction in the script was 'Stephen Fry without the generosity'. Wattle-shaking, bloviating, was all in there, but Neil turned up on the first call having deconstructed the character's physicality and used it to inform the vocal approach. The blubbing, the pops, the 'bipeds' insults, a lot of the little stings and flourishes at the end of some lines are all Neil just having fun and my encouraging him to try different things and make it his own.
You absolutely killed it. Best content so far for WF. Albrecht and Loids interactions actually made me want to cry. And then everyone depressed about Minn ugh. So good.
The Albrecht/Loid material goes to Ade. He was all over that.
Bro I almost cried hearing about Minn 😭😭😭
*hugs*
Last time a story involving an uplifted animal group punched me in the heart so aggressively, I was reading WE3 by Grant Morrison. Absolutely 11/10 story sofar
I'm not sure you could have made a more flattering comparison. I'm not sure I deserve it, but the actors definitely do. Thank you.
Who voices Tagfer?
An actor named Sean Slater, who I'm having trouble tracking down online. There's a few performers and characters with that name. When I get a solid link I'll pass it along.
My friends and I were raving about how great this update was, especially the writing and VO. I spent half my time tonight just listening to the random quips while trying to find the (hopefully) hidden DE logo, stumbling on a few secrets you all left in place.
We're honestly so thrilled that people seem to be loving it.