Comments on: RPS Wireless Show Ep6: Erik Wolpaw Speak-O-Chat

By: Pod

Pod — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:19:42 +0000

Is Alec “Bracken” Meer sounds like he’s from Stockport…. is he?

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:03:16 +0000

I remember playing co-op Warcraft II on skirmish with a friend against about 5-6 enemies. We were fighting a desperate defence, holding off wave after wave of ogres, and had almost crumbled until the waves of enemies finally stopped. The enemy had run out of resources. Probably the most cathartic gaming experience I’ve had.

By: sbs

sbs — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:46:52 +0000

Kieron has an edit button! The Bast!

By: TooNu

TooNu — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:26:08 +0000

Great podcast guys. Gauntlet was the first RT multi-player game with over 2 players. I played it in an arcade with my dad when I was 4 years old then we bought it on the c64 and I completed all the levels only for the ending to appear as a black screen that I could move around in BOOOO!!

By: terry

terry — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:23:07 +0000

Bracken!?

By: Dinger

Dinger — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:21:21 +0000

So they allow smoking Valve’s conference rooms?

Hey, the accents they use on Looney Toons ain’t exactly realistic either, but they have me in stitches every time.

By: Radiant

Radiant — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:47:28 +0000

Ahh if only there was a Crocodile Dundee Hunter.

By: Muzman

Muzman — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:14:48 +0000

If you didn’t like the last one’s audio quality you won’t like this one.
re: the show. Someone pointed out elsewhere that the Heavy certainly doesn’t have a real accent from any one place either so it’s not so bad that the demoman and the sniper are a bit hyper real (and I think Alec Meer says the same more or less in the show). And I guess the soldier is fairly absurd too. The engineer is treated fairly well though, voice wise, which is funny.
If it’s sort of hyper/generic accents across the board it’s hard to get too annoyed. I dunno if people watch Eureka (the TV show); Matt Frewer plays this game keeper survivalist nut with this bizarre accent. They didn’t spell it out from the start where he was supposed to be from, but it’s that typical Australian impersonation that shows up whenever yanks try this stuff and sounds like South African-meets-New Zealand-Cockney-Crocodile Dundee/Hunter and mixes and matches features from all those pretty much at will.
It’s actually funny for a while as they hint he’s got absurd experience in the wilds of all kinds and so this ‘colonial accent’ works as a meta joke about those sorts of cliche characters. But then they eventually spell out that he is supposed to be Australian and ruin it, darn it all.

By: Bidermaier

Bidermaier — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:12:02 +0000

has the audio quality improved? I am not a stupid audiophile but English is not my mother name and i find hard to understand what you say.

By: Bhlaab

Bhlaab — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:50:44 +0000

I noticed in Fallout 3 the biggest problem voice actors had was the line: “What!” which never ever seems to fit the context appropriately.

One more thing, it’s probably not wise to record your podcasts inside of a timpani drum.

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:08:01 +0000

I generally don’t get complaints about voice acting. I was fine with Oblivion and I’m fine with Fallout 3!

Then again, I generally read the subtitles more than listen to the words in both games, so who am I to talk.

(Oh my god! J.C.! A bomb!)

By: hungSolo

hungSolo — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:36:56 +0000

It’s aw shucks cute that Wolpaw feels he needs to remind you that Chet is an employee of Valve and they’ve been friends forever. I can only assume that most every person reading this site has fond memories of OMM and has the words “Chet and Erik” burned into his or her (probably his) hippocampus.