Biff's Voice - Terrible - Takes Me Out Of Game
I downloaded the demo last night on the Playstation 3 and when the music started up I was seriously excited.
When Doc and Marty are talking at the mall for the time-travel experiment... it was awesome. It looks and sounds like it should...
I have not played a game like this... EVER! So, this is new to me...
But... and this is kind of huge... Biff's voice is TERRIBLE and takes me out of the game.
I mean, you get Christopher Lloyd and a spot-on Michael J. Fox impression... but Biff is terrible.
What was the issue with getting Thomas F. Wilson? Did he want too much money? Did he just not want to do it?
And while I am ranting... George McFly is terrible too.
Am I buying the game? YES... but it still sort of takes the enjoyment out of the game when these two huge characters from the movies... don't sound like they should.
When Doc and Marty are talking at the mall for the time-travel experiment... it was awesome. It looks and sounds like it should...
I have not played a game like this... EVER! So, this is new to me...
But... and this is kind of huge... Biff's voice is TERRIBLE and takes me out of the game.
I mean, you get Christopher Lloyd and a spot-on Michael J. Fox impression... but Biff is terrible.
What was the issue with getting Thomas F. Wilson? Did he want too much money? Did he just not want to do it?
And while I am ranting... George McFly is terrible too.
Am I buying the game? YES... but it still sort of takes the enjoyment out of the game when these two huge characters from the movies... don't sound like they should.
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Gale and Crispin Glover are not in very good terms since BTTF I.
Thanks for the reply!
BojTrek
But I agree, Biff's voice, both old and young, just throw me off. Geoge McFly's voice throws me off too, but not as bad as Biff's.
The Biff voice actor... not so much. Just a bad casting call on this one, but I can live with it.
biffs voice is acceptable....
If the real excuse is that one (about being typecast) then its a very very lame excuse...
He didn't do anything BTTF related for about 20 years now (last one was the animated series in 1991) So, again, really lame excuse.
Typecast are guys like Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) or even worse, Sam Waterston (from the Law & Order series, playing the Jack McCoy character for 16 friggin years)
And yet, people STILL only want to talk to him about BTTF.
But of course! Does he ever did something really big like BTTF in his career? I guess not.
He's being over dramatic with this thing
But I got to admit, The Question Song is very funny
Yeah, I just watched that for the first time today, haha. Its pretty funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6doN7IEgXc
You're telling me THIS man was not avalible??? I guess it's because he's the hit of YouTube.
*This was a joke, I'm bummed out he's not in the game just like you but I love this video so much.
Someone else voices Kid Tannen.
..., ...., In that case Biff's voice is just bad, we know the voice actor can do much better!
You're expecting him to sound like he did in the beginning of Back to the Future before Marty went back to the past, but he's not the same guy as he was then. He has two brothers who are tougher than him (they beat up George after George beat Biff up at the dance), so he still has a bit of the wimp in him, so his wimpy-tough voice makes sense here too.
Biff is only truly tough when he has someone to push around, which he got again by 2015 with his child Tiff and his grandson Griff.
Wrong. Are you forgetting the end of Back to the Future III after marty comes back to 1985 from 1885? Marty picks up the stuff off the hood of the truck, and not knowing it's Marty, Biff shouts something along the lines of "Hey, Butthead!!! Get away from--!!!"
In this case though, Biff probably isn't the top dog. He did still get laid out by George at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, and his father and brothers probably reminded him of that.
Honestly, the only times Biff seemed "scary" to me was the 1985-Biff-horiffic timeline and the 1955 tunnel chase. Especially that laugh right when he was almost caught up to Marty. I'll admit it'd be nice if the guy would lower his voice an octave and threw a little "gravel" into his performance when Biff is being a jerk, but those instances are so few and far between right now. I mean, the Citizen Brown 1986 Biff seems to be even wimpier.
I forgot about this one too! I guess old Biff would be tough in 2015 since he's the top dog over Marty and Marty Jr. rather than his kids as I previously wrote.
But, honestly, even without the reasoning I personally think Andrew Chaikin's Biff is fine.
I thought that was weird too. And that his brothers wore tracksuits too. I guess the Tannen gang owns some shares in a sportswear company.
Easy. Beating the crap out of old people to get their "protection" money for the month works up a sweat. lol
Then I have to admit, Biff's is just horrible and doesn't fit AT ALL.
Besides if there's one thing folks should remember when it come to video game adaptions of big name movies/TV shows it's that the voice quality can be all over the map depending on if the actual actors did it, they got people that sound like the actors or if it's a combination of the two. Here's three PS2/X-Box era games that demonstrate this pretty well along with clips of the original works they were based off of for folks unfamilar with these series:
Bad Boys: Miami Takedown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExOmQP_O0t4
This game in general was one that you either loved or hated. However it's far from the worst shooter in the world.....just not one of the best. That being said the script needed a ton of work and the actors sound nothing like Will Smith or Martin Lawrence.
Original Actors from Bad Boys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4pIJtt48g4
One of the funniest scenes from the second film to showcase what the characters SHOULD have sounded like.
Buffy TVS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpcITuMZDKA
Surprisingly decent game considering the track record of many licensed games. With the exception of Sarah Michelle Gellar the game had the whole main cast. However the next video should show it was a very decent replacement. It's not on the quality of AJ and his Marty but it ranks up there.
Original Actress:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1v_q6TWAL4
Fan trailer for the first season. As with the above it should give an idea of what the original actress sounded like for those of you unfamiliar with the series.
24 The Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiulqBMrhWg
Easily one of the best licensed games ever made. Has the original score/music from the show, was written by one of the writers from the series and voiced by the entire main cast.
The Final Scene of 24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz-M7iFLxUs
Honestly if you never saw the series before and just let the audio run on this without looking at the video I don't think you could tell the difference between the game and the series.
As I said before the voice work and quality of licensed game can be all over the map. BttF in this regard actually shows a little bit of all three of the above examples: you've got the replacement that is spot on and perfect (Marty/the Buffy example), you've got the original actor returning (Doc/the cast of 24) and you've got the guy that is so far off from the original that no matter how good of a job he/she does they will never be embraced by the fans (Biff/the Bad Boys example).
To be honest however compairing Biff in this game to the actors in the Bad Boys game kinda isn't fair........at least the actor playing Biff has a decent script to work with. I don't think anything could save the voice actors in that Bad Boys game XD
The last one was the BTTF ride.
Which was released/opened on 1991.
Not to diss the guy doing his voice, but they could have done a lot better with the Biff Casting.
Check out the voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epYSBicQUnM