Did they honestly think the voice acting was alright or did they just not care

>MGS, for example, didn't have absolutely terrible voice acting
Uh...

It was pretty sick actually

I didn't say it was really good, I just said it wasn't absolutely terrible. There was some noticeably bad stuff in it, e.g. Mei Ling, but most of them did a decent job. Better than average.

>Mei Ling
Holy fuck I almost forgot about her.

Still the gold standard of vidya voice acting to this day. Even lipsynced which was very rare for 2000.

he was pretty good

These UNATCO guys have all the tricks

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Maybe just a homeless guy...

I'm gonna get this pig.

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>Black JC
Yes

I SPEEEEEL MY DRIIINK

It was intentional. He was meant to maintain a flat monologue "because you never know what the player is thinking".
Course, that just meant that absolutely every line sounded violently sarcastic, but that's the amazing payoff.

Same guy who voiced JC Denton also voiced Paul Denton and a few others, so it's not like the guy was incapable, it was very intentional.

Holy fuck merely thinking about the unatco theme gives me incredible feels and nostalgia. Funniest thing about that is I just played it like 6 months ago. Is this how you all feel too? Now I need to play it a bit.

Tom Hall's voice acting was good

The standards weren't particularly high back then. The recordings sound very much like a cheap saturday morning cartoon but for whatever reason it works.

Ok, but everyone else's is still shit.

Wasn't it also explained in-game somewhere that JC's augmentations had the side effect of flattening his voice somewhat?

Paul had something similar happen after the kill switch was removed and he was recovering

Hold on, I have to drop something. Heh heh.

Yeah I just played it for the first time last summer and not long after I was already nostalgic for it, then I played it again a few months ago. I already want to play it a third time but my backlog keeps screaming at me

There's a reason Deus Ex is one of those games with all the, "Every time you mention it, someone reinstalls it"meme-ry surrounding it. It helps every song is incredibly recognizable even if it's just someone humming it.

It occured to me in my most recent playthrough that yeah, that's a pretty big deal. I remember playing Halo 1 for the first time in 2001 or so and thinking it was cool to see the captain's mouth move, but Deus Ex did it a year before.

>spoiler tagging a 20 year old game
Bless you user

Does that mean I don't get the job?

there was no standards at that time. what games do you even draw inspiration from? there were none. most of the VA's were probably just randoms walking outside the studio and asked to do a part.

The DuClare chateau theme is the one that really gets me. Alexander Brandon and Michiel van den Bos did some amazing tracker music for a number of games; the original Unreal is a great game with a fantastic soundtrack.

Hey, there are still people discovering this game for the first time here in 2020. If there are still people out there having their virgin playthroughs where they don't know what the next thing that will happen is then more power to them.

It has SOUL

>It helps every song is incredibly recognizable even if it's just someone humming it.
There's like 40 tunes in the soundtrack and the only ones people know are the main theme, unatco, hong kong and combat music.

AHH MISTAH JAY CEE DENTON IN DA FRESH