Have you gotten used to his performances yet?
I still don't like him. He makes Mario sound like a 14 year old kid with a cracking voice.
>>736830470It's an imitation of Martinet, so it was already doomed to be shit since Martinet was shit.
you think he’ll have a less squeaky mario voice when he gets older?
>>736830470Ive heard chris pratt as mario more than this guy
>>736830470No, he's ok for some of the characters and sucks for the rest. I don't know why they're trying to replicate Martinet's "one guy does everyone" shtick.
>>736830470His Mario has constant voice cracksHis Wario doesn't even attempt the Italian accentHis Waluigi I've hardly heardHis Luigi is half decentHe can't roll his Rs He's mostly really bad
>>736830470Oh YeAh MArIo TiMe
>>736830929Probably so they only have to pay one person.
Just train AI on the old voice and use that for all of eternity. There, simple, easy.
>>736831217This was the initial assumption but Peach, Toad, and Toadette are voiced by different people starting with MKW.
>>736830470Why'd they drop him?
>>736831346So is DK
>>736831369because he was 800 years old.
>>736830470Yes.I look forward to Mario talking in the next 3D Mario.
He can do the mario grunts okay but any of his catchphrases sound like ass (oH yEaH mArIo tImE)His Luigi is okay overallHis Wario is absolutely horridNever heard his Waluigi
>>736830470Wowie zowie! I don't like his performances, but Charles Martinet didn't need to stick with the role for another 30 years.
>>736832116AI solves the problem
>>736831369Gaijin didn't know his placeAll he had to do was say wah yah wahoo
>>736831369Something happened behind the scenes and it'll never be made public.
>>736830470>Mario sounds mostly fine, but he always has a line or two where you can tell he strained his voice to much and it sounds off>Luigi is perfect>Waluigi is also good, but not as good as Luigi>Wario is a fucking abomination and Nintendo really needs to get someone else to do his voice6/10
>>736830470Im not not autustic enough to care. The last Mario game i played was Mario Run and the last mario game I played on handheld/console was Luigi Mansiln Dark Moon 12 yeara ago.
>>736830470There's nothing to get used to because he has genuinely bad performances that needed more takes. >>736831369He was getting old that's it.
I didn't actually play any of the games he's in as any of the characters he plays, so it's still yet to really sink in for me. I'll catch a line here and there and it still catches me off guard.
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I didn't notice the voice actor was different
>>736832263It would, but I like the idea of casting a voice even for a silly children's game.
>>736830470I still prefer the old voice, just like I prefer the old DK model
>>736831369Surely they had enough voice lines from the many decades to reuse and rehash. Pretty sure they've been using like the same 5 Yoshi voice clips for everything
I was willing to give him some time after Wonder, but he's just bad. I have no idea why they wanted someone to do a Martinet impression rather than just letting a new guy do his own thing. If Chris Pratt not even bothering to put on a voice is fine, then it can't be THAT important that "wahoo" has to sound the same as it did 20 years ago. And for fuck sake, Nintendo. Shell out the money to hire a couple more people to voice the other "brothers." Even Charles Martinet could barely do the Wario voice for those last few years.
>>736830470no, he's woke
>>736831369>don't toss him into a recording booth for a week and throw a million bucks at himthe lack of foresight from companies with iconic voice actors will never be not ironic.
>>736831369nigga he is 70, he is LITERALLY at the age where every time you go to sleep there is a real risk that you just don't wake up, optimistically he's got like 10-20 years of life left, ain't NO fucking way he wants to waste them doing bing bing wahoo for nintensöys
>>736836804he lives and works in california, he is jobless if he isn't woke, whether it's an act or not
>>736830470I would rather half Chris Pratt over Mr. he/him over here. His Mario impression is okay if he was just a random fan, but I've heard random fans with a way better Mario voice. He just sounds like cheap imitation of Martinet.
>>736830929>I don't know why they're trying to replicate Martinet's "one guy does everyone" shtick.Yeah that's for skilled boomers not some random zoomer Muslim.
>>736831369Either he did something they didn't like, they didn't like that people associated Mario with him so much, they went full Jew and wanted to pay someone less to voice their iconic mascot, or they wanted to get rid of him before Martinet quit himself. One thing is for sure though, it was not his choice to retire.
>>736831435>>736832550>>736836867You niggers don't know shit. He's not old by modern standards. He hasn't retired from voice acting overall, once said he wanted to voice Mario till he died, still has to fly all over the world to do his "ambassador" shit which is more work for an old man than recording some wahoos in a studio. He's done several interviews since retiring and has not once mentioned why he wanted to retire, only that he loves voicing Mario. They forced him out and made up the "ambassador" thing, which even Martinet wasn't sure what it meant, so that people wouldn't get upset that they just discarded him like that.
>>73683691840% of California votes republican, and it's full of Mexicans that don't know anything about politics other than "democrats are the good guys because they give free gibs and don't want to deport my people."
>>736837351>democrats are the good guys because they give free gibs and don't want to deport my peopleas opposed to red team who want to send me to die for israel, right?
>>736837420>ISRAEL ISRAEL ISRAELlow IQ mentality
>>736837351I'm not sure why you posted this or what it has to do with anything. Lefties overwhelmingly populate pretty much any creative sector in Cali by a pretty severe margin. For whatever reason, reps arent capable of sending their activist infiltrators into industries who can then open the door for other infiltrators quite like the left are capable of it
>>736837462MIGA
>>736830470I don't even blame the guy for his performance being iffy. I blame Nintendo for clearly spending 5 minutes to look through male VAs they'd worked with recently and just picking someone who could kind of do an impression.There's so many randoms VAs out there that can do such a precise Martinet-clone voice that it's uncanny. They just didn't bother scoping out talent at all.
>>736831369If you listen to him at convention appearances he makes it pretty obvious he was fired and it was over the Mario movie. He still hasn't watched the movies. When asked about them he says no opinion. When asked about the new guy and what it was like "passing the torch" he said he can't talk about what it was like. He heard the new voice and said it's an "interesting interpretation". He can't sincerely compliment any of these but he's too tied up in NDAs to be fully up front about it and what actually happened. He clearly despises both.
>>736836824Like what happened with John St. John?
>>736830701Only Capn Lou was good
>>736836804I'm pretty sure Martinet is homosexual.
>>736836691>he's just badtrue he sucks and can't do the voice.>rather than just letting a new guy do his own thingYou're an actual fucking retard. you can't just let some random faggot VA change a character. a character is defined by:-the design-how they move-their voice and personalityYou can't just change an essential part of an iconic character. you'll end up with some soulless piece of shit like chris pratt mario.there a tons of people who can do the mario voice. this guy can't so the answer is to fire him and get someone who can.not to let him just do some other bizarre voice that is not the character.
>>736830470he sucksnow real real talk, since mario hasn't gotten new lines in years, why not just reuse old Martinet ones?worst case if needed just AI it idgaf
>>736840221This.They have 1000s of voice clips and all mario needs to do is make those charming universally understood sounds.We don't want him to ever talk.there's enough mario voice clips to make 1000 years worth of mario games by just mixing and editing the existing clips.
>>736830470Not my mario
>>736839294https://youtu.be/uVyxsKJd8RE?t=16m38s>you were recently replaced by Kevin Afghani what was it like passing that torch?>that's not something I can really talk about actually>I've heard his voice it's a "nice uh rendition"https://youtu.be/r-C4bU75VXQ?t=19m6s>what do you think about the Hollywood Super Mario movies some are good some are not so good?>I don't have an opinion of that it's not my domainhttps://youtube.com/shorts/ijgizdugctoOn top of him not knowing what a Mario ambassador was when forced the position. You can read between the lines. I'd find the one where he says he hasn't watched the movie but it's pretty obvious to be purely principle for having not ever watched it. He was fired.
>>736830470He should be replaced as Mario.He can still be Luigi I guess.He NEEDS to be replaced as Wario.He should stay as Waluigi.It's Nintendo's fault for treating him like a Martinet replacement. That was always going to be a nigh-impossible request to fulfill, and they should just bite the bullet and separate the roles.
Is the new wonder dlc good?
>>736841757No.
>>736839738Maybe but when I met him he said the person taking the money was his wife
>>736830470They thought they could get away with finding a Martinet "soundalike" and that we wouldn't notice it.I just wanna know who to blame. I can't be mad at Afghani. He's a fantastic imitator of that voice, but holy fuck are Nintendo stupid for thinking people will stay in love with the character when they just obliterated him like that. I played Mario Kart World and enjoyed it okay, but not having Martinet just gives it such a... you know something's just not there now that you have to recontextualize Mario with a soulless VA replacement.If you're gonna recast Mario, rethink what he looks and sounds like. I accepted his darker brooklyn voices in the cartoons as kids. They can do so many things to say "now we're picking a new direction" but when it's so clearly about a cost-reduction exercise I just feel nothing.
>>736840221>>736840573you don't understand, having him saying "Wowie Zowie!" is an integral part of the game
>>736837251Why do you fags keep expecting people to give a damn about voice actors? If you care that much, fuck off to japan where they worship these prostitutes.
>>736830470Lmao hell no
>>736831369>Why'd they drop him?He's old as dirt, even if he can still do the voices he probably can't keep up with the pace of games being made and was holding back the spin-offs. Best example is every character except Wario in Ware Ware Get it Together had full VA, then as soon as Kevin replaced him Wario had full VA again in Move It.
There's no reason to have one VA do four voices anymore.
>>736843907>Wario had full VA againThat's a bad thing. it sounds retarded. Mario and Zelda characters were never meant to have full VA.it's the fact that they don't talk that makes them charming.less is more.
Gaming should go back to random noises for talking. This need for everything to be voice acted is just another way zoomers have ruined gaming.
>>736831369It was definitely something over the Mario movie, probably him rightfully wanting to do the voice in it and getting shot down. Maybe he threatened to quit over it and Nintendo called his bluff and just tossed him. The timing with his departure and the Mario movie coming out lines up. The way he's just not allowed to talk about anything related to it or his replacement says a lot too. Everyone saying "because he's old" is retarded, he's still doing voice work for other stuff and going to cons.As for the new guy, he's gotten better lately but holy shit was he horrendous at first in Mario Wonder as both Mario and Luigi, he did a decent job in Brothership though and I don't mind it so much anymore. His speaking voice for Wario is unacceptable they should just get a different guy to do that. Just because he's better now though doesn't mean I like him or think they should have replaced Charles. This new guy really feels like they just picked the first guy that came in to audition, didn't even check if he could do any of the other characters besides Mario and called it a day. I'm sure there were a thousand other people that could've done a better job than this guy I really don't get why they went with him especially considering how noticeably different/worse his voices were at the beginning.
>>736843907>he probably can't keep up with the pace of games being madeHow the fuck? He has to do maybe 10 bing bing wahoo lines every 2 or 3 years and he gets paid a couple million.
>>736839473Certainly the most authentic mario
>>736843972It actually wasn't always like that, in the early N64 days they all had different voices. In the Mario Party games and the Japanese version of Mario Kart 64(and Super Circuit for some reason) it was a completely different cast and Charles was only Mario. I think one day he just offered to try doing the other voices and they liked it so they went with it.
>>736841757It's nice for the 4K but all the new content is incredibly lame. It's mostly just shitty and really short multiplayer minigames and some new boss fights that are just tossed in without any care. Absolutely not worth $20. I don't get why they didn't just add like 4 more worlds to the game or something, it probably would've taken less effort and everyone would've liked it more.
>>736836867kek
>>736839473Bob Hoskins brought the true essence of Mario to the big screen.
>>736831369he hated meeting the autists and forcing his smilelike that dude who spins a speaker on his head, someone post webm
>>736830470how do they look for mario voice replacement?do they make an ad that they want someone who sounds like mario or do they just pick some cheap unknown guy and tell him to try doing mario voice
>>736839738He R MR GAY???
>>736845413craigslist
>>736840221Mario always says the title of the 3D games out loud when you boot them up, they need someone to say the word "ODYSSEY!!!!/GALAXYYYY!!" at the very least
>>736844961This movie fucking sucks but I love it, it's so weird and unique.
>>736845413Nintendo get their VAs from voice acting unions. Kevin probably gets paid the same per hour for voicing Mario as the VAs they got for the Zelda BOTW characters.
I haven't played any games with his voice yet since I only really play the mainline 3d platformers.
>>736830470Mario keeps getting gayer,It's time to stop.Mario Wonder was too feminine.
>>736843907>he probably can't keep up with the pace of games being madelmao lmfao
>>736830470I haven't played a mario game since 96 or something
>>736845413He's literally the same guy that does the Nintendo direct voice overs. They probably asked him if he could something remotely resembling a Mario voice and gave him the job.
>>736830470I have made peace with the fact Mario can be recast on a whim, but he'll never replace Charles's Wario.
>>73684541345 Japanese Business men went to downtown new york and picked out the first wop they saw. Unknown to them they weren't in the Bronx they were in Brooklyn and picked a little hunched over goblin man with a raspy voice. Anyway they all pointed as him and hailed him as "Mario 2" and went back on the subway and got eaten by giant rats.
>>736830470He's hot
