Don’t know about the game, but its kind of weird how the voice sounds like Heath Ledger’s Joker. Is that now the definitive version of him?
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Hmm. A Batman stealth-shooter. I’m intrigued.
Sorry, but I have no idea how you could argue that sounds like Heath Ledger at all. I think you’re more focused on how it DOESN’T sound like Mark Hamill.
Personally, I think the only bad voice in that trailer is the one for Commissioner Gordon, who sounds like Tom Waits if he was a colonel in Vietnam.
Well what I’m saying is the voice is trying to sound like Ledger. I thought the Batman voice was horrible in the trailer, however.
Well like I said, Hamill sounds totally different from his previous attempts, but come on, Kevin Conroy sounds EXACTLY like he did for the last fifteen or whatever years he’s done it…
Commissioner Gordon’s physique is ridiculous! What does he do? Bench press the bat signal between solving crimes?
It’s not the definitive version, just currently the most recognizable. I’d vote for Marshall Rogers’s version, myself.
Try listening with your eyes closed. They both sound *exactly* the same as they always have in those roles. I think it’s just that the different visuals make it seem kind of off…
I think both Conroy and Hamill sound off. In fact, had you not told me it was Conroy and Hamill, I’d be asking, rhetorically, if Conroy and Hamill were too busy to do this project.
Don’t know about the game, but its kind of weird how the voice sounds like Heath Ledger’s Joker.
Wow. And, even though I had no idea who was doing any of the voices, I thought I had little problems identifying either of the main two characters (well – a slight problem with the Batman voice). It sounded to me like Hamill was trying to sound just a bit different (darker?) than the Joker he voiced in the toons. But I recognized Hamill’s voice right away.
But, Conroy? I thought Tim Daly did the Batman voiceovers with Hamill, and Conroy did the new (almost anime style) Batman with all of the voices being different from the earlier toon with Hamill and Daly. This sounds more like Daly than Conroy to me. But I think that all of the people who do the Batman voices are trying to sound the same, and I could hear whoever was doing the voice trying to get elements of both of those characterizations into the voice on this game.
And maybe I haven’t watched any of them for a while and am getting confused with the plethora of recent Batman cartoons available for public consumption. Nice to have lots of choices, but sometimes difficult to keep up with everything…
This game certainly has a lot of the visual elements from the Dark Knight movie in it, though.
Well I never really watched the Batman cartoons, so I didn’t realize it was Skywalker.
Conroy sounds like Conroy to me, and I’m with Tom on Hamill — his voice is lower and more menacing than in the DCAU version. I’d be willing to agree there’s some Ledger influence there — on the character model, too; if I’m not mistaken, Joker’s got the cuts on the sides of his mouth like in Dark Knight (or Grant Morrison’s run on the Batman comic).
Anyway. Tangentially, if you never really watched Batman: The Animated Series and its various spinoffs, I’d definitely recommend you take the time to do so. Know you’re more of a Superman fan and I assume you saw that series; for my money the Batman toon is better on the whole (though I quite like the Superman toon, ESPECIALLY the Fourth World stuff).
That new Justice League animated feature was pretty slick too, and the voice for Batman didn’t sound like either Ledger OR Hamill.