Does Metzen do every voice in the game now?

[Bombkirby]

Personally I think Mandokir sounds like him. But the accent makes it a lil hard to be 100% sure.

[Frumpy Frumpy Frak]

Bunch of Rudolph fanbois.

But Rudolph IS Metzen.

Warcraft is Metzen's game, so it makes sense that he voices every last character.

[Deleted]

I've heard some pretty shitty reasons to stop playing, but you sir take the fucking cake.. And then you throw against the wall 'cause eggs were used to make it, citing all the other things that are made with eggs.. Ridiculous.

LoL, that is one way to say it.

Anyway,I guess Metzen does the voice of Lady Sylvanas too?

[Baker St Irregulars]

I want them to hire Frank Welker.

[Amry]

Anyway,I guess Metzen does the voice of Lady Sylvanas too?

Please stop ruining my fantasies.

At any rate, all voices except Gnomish ones sound good enough for me.

[Yuckmouth]

LOL! One of the main reasons you left an in-depth game like WoW, is cause of the voice-overs.. Seriously?! It never occurred to you to turn off your speakers? Or maybe here's one.. STOP YOUR WHINING?! I've heard some pretty shitty reasons to stop playing, but you sir take the fucking cake.. And then you throw against the wall 'cause eggs were used to make it, citing all the other things that are made with eggs.. Ridiculous.

Oh... ok so why should I have quit playing then? Tell me what the right answer is, please. I don't want to be wrong on the internet.

[Deleted]

Effort is for chumps.

Dude you just made my life worth living

[Deleted]

But he is.

Deathwing has had 3 different voices in Cataclysm so far and none of them have been Metzen.

[Selkhet]

Auriaya is Rita Repulsa. Sindragosa and Herald Volazj are the same person.

[msbxghost]

metzen photoshop thread GO!

[stgeorge78]

They said they hired pro voice actors. While Metzen might like his own voice, it's still not THAT many voices he do.

Which is ironic because the voice acting in Cataclysm is the worst amateur stuff I've ever heard with the hesitating and uneven pitch. The best was in BC & Wrath. Can forgive the weak stuff from Vanilla. None of it compares to their best work from Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3. But cutting costs and skimping in every part of production nowadays will do that.

---------- Post added 2011-09-02 at 12:01 AM ----------

Why do you need so much proof when it doesn't even ''sound'' like Metzen? He isn't exactly hard to recognise.

Tbh I think Metzen does a pretty good job at the characters he does voice. He's no Cam Clarke, but hell, nobody is.

That's the problem, it does sound like Metzen. Why go through all that trouble to hire a new actor just to have it sound like Metzen? I hear the actor wanted more money so they canned him and the actor who came after him and are working with a new actor for the upcoming raid dialog. So they've gone through 3 actors for like the 20 lines of dialog Deathwing will have in all.

[redruMPanda]

Why does it even matter? I don't play with my sound on bc half the time I'm on vent, and we all know there's always that one guy on vent who's so low you can hardly make out what he's saying. I also know for a fact he didn't voice deathwing...you can actually google the voice actors for video games it's really not too complex of a task.

[Violent]

Oh... ok so why should I have quit playing then? Tell me what the right answer is, please. I don't want to be wrong on the internet.

Boredom? Not enough money or time to keep playing.. Bad experiences, There are many, MANY reasons to quit.. But voice-acting should not be one of them. That just shows a big lack of conviction, and if you don't have the little conviction it takes to keep playing through "bad voice-acting" then you must quit a lot of things for very frivolous reasons.. Example; Quitting a well-paying job that you like to do, soley 'cause they won't let you wear a blue shirt to work... Pretty silly reason, yes?

[Rivin]

Metzen is an artist/department coordinator who does voice acting, not a professional voice actor in his own right. He doesn't have the voice acting ability to make his Go'el voice sound significantly different from his Varian voice, from his Ragnaros voice, from his Nefarian voice, from his Rexxar voice, from his Saurfang Junior voice, from his generic orc npc voice.

I have a lot of difficulty distinguishing people from each other, including by their voice, yet even I can tell Thrall from Nefarian. It's all about tone and manner of speech.

Who voice acts Metzen?!

God.

Which is ironic because the voice acting in Cataclysm is the worst amateur stuff I've ever heard with the hesitating and uneven pitch. The best was in BC & Wrath. Can forgive the weak stuff from Vanilla. None of it compares to their best work from Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3. But cutting costs and skimping in every part of production nowadays will do that.

It really depends on which characters you're talking about. Pretty much all of the bosses sound great, or at least fine. Some of the minor NPC questgivers, however, sound terrible. But, as said, they're only minor characters. Most of them you hear once or twice and that's that.

[Shroud]

metzen does a good job with thrall and varian but the one voice i hate is sylvanas's she should of been voiced by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
anything cam clarke is awesome his maylgos was awesome and his blood elf is hilarious.

[Deleted]

Well, it's probably because back in the original World of Warcraft they didn't spend so much on voice acting. And because Metzen does have a good voice for things like this, they went with him for Nefarian and Ragnaros.

Thrall was already voiced by him back in Warcraft III, so that had to stay.

Nowadays Blizzard does use far more voice actors than back then, but they couldn't just change the voice for Nefarian and Ragnaros for continuation sake. And just because this expansion features Thrall, Nefarian and Ragnaros... that's why you notice.

The only character I think should have been voiced differently is Varian. He is rather new, so they had chances to make him different.
But then again, I guess he's too important for the future of WoW to let someone else do it. What if the voice actor decides to be a jackass just like the one who voiced Arthas? I can see why they let Metzen do it instead.

In the end, yes maybe they should've used more voice actors back then. But those times are gone, we'll have to deal with it now.
Do I think they should hire more voice actors for the future? Yes, because there is room for improvement.

---------- Post added 2011-09-02 at 03:43 AM ----------

It really depends on which characters you're talking about. Pretty much all of the bosses sound great, or at least fine. Some of the minor NPC questgivers, however, sound terrible. But, as said, they're only minor characters. Most of them you hear once or twice and that's that.

Well, Aronus comes to mind. You know, the green drake that flies you to Hyjal for the introduction? God, his voice acting is the worst I've ever heard.
He even has a very weird way of pronouncing "obliterated", it sounds so fake. Everytime I level an alt through this zone I mute the sound for this quest. It's THAT bad.

[sydazlir]

Why do you guys the him so much? I mean sure, he does a lot of voice acting, but you see to have forgottenthe beautiful silky smooth creature that was Algalons voice

[lebowski]

Wait so you...play with the sound on? Revelations.

[Suikoden]

Yes it is. In fact, the next expansion is going to be called "Mists of Metzen" and is just going to be various mobs with his face stuck on them.

Heh "Mists of Metzen" Now that I like.