Confirmed: NOT Peter Sallis
Thanks to Mixnmojo for the tip. It is now confirmed in the latest issue of PCZone that Peter Sallis will not be voice acting Wallace in the games, and instead his official back-up actor will be taking the role.
Deep down I suspected as much (since Telltale weren't saying anything, and he's getting old now), but I'm still a tad disappointed. I'm not sure how close the other guy sounds, but I hope the difference is barely - if not at all - noticable.
Deep down I suspected as much (since Telltale weren't saying anything, and he's getting old now), but I'm still a tad disappointed. I'm not sure how close the other guy sounds, but I hope the difference is barely - if not at all - noticable.
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88. Born in 1921! :eek:
Really looking forward to the new screenshots! Hell, really looking forward to the games!
Apparently, Aardman's pretty sure that Telltale's capable of making these games if they're putting a featurette about them on the DVD.
I've seen advertisements for crappy products on good DVDs before, anyway.
A demo? A new trailer? If it's not a featurette, it has to be one of those two, I guess?
It may be a play on words, though.
The Matter of Loaf and Death dvd is already out in Australia. It doesn't have the telltale feature! Any reason why?
I think I found it (on http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=70045):
So, assuming this information is correct, I guess it's a demo of the first episode (didn't the Sam & Max cartoon dvd-set have a Ice Station Santa-demo?). Which is all kinds of awesome (even though I'm at a point where I don't even need demo's for my Telltale games anymore, but it will reach a far wider audience this way), because it means that there's going to be a demo available on the 23rd of March, which is the release date of the DVD (possibly earlier, what with all the time that goes into producing and shipping said DVD to the stores and such). And that would mean we would get the first episode in about 4, 5 weeks.
Man, first I discovered W&G's secret console, and now this. I'm the Dirk Gently of the Telltalefans.
Very good detective work indeed. Telltale never release a demo before the game is actually out, so this means we'll be seeing the first episode very soon if what we are lead to believe is correct. Unless "half hour game" means a specially created episode just for the DVD? I don't see that being the case, though.
And I feel like an idiot for not actually looking on DVDTimes like what the article said the special features. XP
Perhaps the Archie Goodwin, don't know about the Dirk Gently.
that just sounded like he was ill
They have an official back-up actor. THAT is way more than I expected. I'm fairly certain that, when we hear the first bit of Wallace's in-game dialogue, we'll be greeted to something that sounds like Wallace.
The voice actor we're using for Wallace isn't anything like that. Having listened to Peter Sallis in the films and the other guy (whose name escapes me at the moment) in our game, I honestly can't tell the difference.
I got used to Steve Whitmire as Kermit pretty quickly, and the guy who replaced Frank Oz as Piggy does a great job. The post-Henson incidental characters, though, are borderline painful for me to listen to. Especially Stadler & Waldorf. Happily, Dave Goelz remains the voice of Gonzo, so that's good I guess
Eric Jacobson. He's pretty good!
Anyway, enough about muppets...
The most recent interview says they have an all-British cast, and they're using a lot of Aardman resources. I think the graphics and the voices will be top-notch, really. I don't worry about those at all(as long as Wallace can keep his eyes on).
In early days that was an issue, when they were still getting his eyes set to be able to look around at things in the world. The amount of times Wallace's eyes would pop out or revoltingly sink into his head were surprising.
spoilers!!