New Russian-language character voices.
CRY FROM THE HEART...
Sorry, but what did EA do with the character voices? What kind of cringe is this? Who did you hire to re-voice? Please explain, if possible, what circumstances, besides the obvious, forced you to change the voices of the characters from actors who have decades of experience to some schoolchildren in puberty, housewives and random grandparents? I had noticed these negative changes before, but this was the last straw. Today after the break I went to play and got into a game with Octane, heard his new voice and I had to just turn off the sound, it’s impossible to listen to it. Just yesterday he was reviewing Minecraft mods on a channel with 5 subscribers, and today he already works for a AAA company. Learn! Voiced by anyone other than voice actors. Randomly recruiting people from the street passing by the recording studio could have yielded better results than this. No joke, I'll voice it better. So much: to overact, not to fall into character and to fake, can only a person who works in this field, well... A day? This applies not only to Octane; most of the revoiced characters keep this “bar”. Seriously, at this rate, just remove the Russian voice acting from the game, no need to embarrass yourself. The voices are not “just different” and “you need to get used to them,” they are disgusting and the work, both in the selection of actors and in the voice acting itself, is done criminally shoddy. If these “magnificent” changes are due to events of a military nature, then please confirm this reason; if not, name another. I also want to hear why you were so “careful” in selecting new voice actors and verifying the quality of their work.
And I’m also very interested in why, if after all this was done for obvious reasons, and the Russian-speaking voices of the characters decided to cancel after 1.5+ years, the modern agenda, including for EA and Respawn, believes that the Russian language belongs exclusively to Russians? I live in Ukraine, in the city of Kharkov, and I don’t really understand such changes, because now instead of relaxing in the evening in my favorite game with characters that I like, with high-quality voice acting in my native language, as native as Ukrainian, with voices that are well-matched to the character and in many ways superior to their English versions, I get bewilderment, frustration and the desire not to return here again. I can switch to the English version, I have no problems understanding this language, but my native speech is much more pleasant and familiar to my ears, especially when performed by such professionals as the previous voice actors were, taking into account that I was attached to to these voices and characters.
If you decided to get on the agenda almost two years late, please do your job efficiently. Hire people with experience, skills and talent, check the quality of the work and reject it if it is a complete failure and disgrace, as in the case of Octane, for example. If it’s about events and agenda, why don’t you hire Ukrainian voice actors who can professionally voice in Ukrainian? What's happened? What is the problem? I wouldn't mind hearing voices like that in one of my favorite games. But you will never do this, right? 🙂
