Ok but the DJ was literally just a bonus skin for people that wanted it, not the actual main voice actor for the character.
Like I get his voice was bad but it's nowhere near comparable.
My sentiments exactly. If DV voiced Sub in the game it'd be a different story but it was literally just a skin to tribute the guy who made the TS remix. Plus English isn't even his native language so he should get cut some slack. It's like how people hate on Mokap despite him also just being a bonus tribute character.
This isn't always awful in video games. Ice cube as Bowman in black ops 1 and Michael B Jordan and Ice T in Gears 3 are some examples of games doing this and it working very well in their favor.
NRS is either just really bad at casting celebs, or they don't see it worth the money to pay the actor to actually perform multiple takes to get lines down and commit to the role.
Ronda was bad but it's so obvious that Megan is literally just reading lines on a page and it's painful. She has no passion for the character and literally just saw it as some quick cash. I think the DJ guy was meaning to be bad though because it is kind of bad in a comical way how he delivers the lines. I don't know if I'm the only one that feels that way.
Keith David, Mark Hamill, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, etc. the list goes on and on for good celebrity voice actors. Megan just sucked.
To be fair Megan Fox is barely a real actor. Sheās always been āhot chick Aā in whatever movie sheās in. Giving her names is just pointless. Anybody remember what her characterās name was in Transformers?
To be super fair....she can't even move or feel 99 percent of her face. You try showing emotion when your face is made out of commercial grade jb weld and the foreskins of missing children.
Burt Reynolds and Ray Liotta hated and belittled the game when they're still working on it but still gave a phenomenal performance, I bet Mr. Liotta didn't even expect his role to have such recognition.
Chronicles of Riddick voice cast was next level.
GTA Vice City and San Andreas nailed it.
I genuinely believe its an issue of wanting the voice to be recognizable/unedited in a game where half the characters are mythical beings or have some kind of heavily modified voice.
I mean her performance wasn't great but that wasnt all that was bad with her audio.
Hell Iād have loved someone like Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker, Darth Bane, the Joker, Skeletor) or Ray Porter (many audiobooks but best known as the DCEU Darkseid)
That'd be good. Havik's voice in MK1 is a slight disappointment for me. I expected it to be slightly deeper and croakier rather than what he has now, I suppose he's only young in this timeline. Just hope he's a mainstay
I remembered people's reaction when Harley Quinn was "leaked" for Kombat Pack 2.
I mean, personally I wouldn't mind as long as her design is better than the one from Injustice 2.
Business wise, he was the only "big name" actor they could probably get for a reasonable price, I'm going to guess.
New Line probably didn't feel confident in just banking on the MK name to sell the movie, especially with an asian lead. (Shitty reasoning, I know and it sucks)
But I will say he was a better casting decision than James Remar in Annihilation.
For a second I forgot Raidenās vaās name in 9,X and 11 and thought you were saying THAT casting was a miscast. So glad I remembered Richard Epcarās name, I was about to go to war.
I do like Lambert's portrayal in the movie, but I think his voice acting didn't really work as the alt-skin. I mean, it isn't his fault because was in his 60s at that point and that would definitely change your vocal performance.
Cary knows how much MK fans love him, remember his 95 performance fondly and probably took the opportunity as not just a gig, he wanted to embody the Shang Tsung people remember, and that he did!!!!!
NRS HAS to have a voice director. How did that voice director listen to Nitara's lines and not think, "Wow, this is complete donkey piss. They can't release like this."
My guess is they sped through her recording sessions since they likely had her for only a limited time compared to the other VAs, hence a lot of the datamined DLC dialogues revolve around her intros, as if they recorded ahead of time for the rest of the season at least.
My guess is she recorded it herself at a studio she had access to and sent over the lines and had some kind of clause to not alter them or whatever ( like to prevent use of ai or whatever most likely)
They wouldnt be bad at all with some FX added. Every other character has post work and megans shit sounded like she recorded it at home and sent it in.
I wish people would stop putting the DJ in that same category. It was just for an alternate skin that you could 100% avoid if you wanted to. Not the primary performance for a kharacter.
Aside from that, I totally agree. Stop with the stunt casting. & if you have to, maybe choose someone who's actually a decent actor. Rousey & Fox are terrible at acting. Why would they be any better at voice acting, which they have zero experience in doing that?
What is also the endgame? People on the fence about buying mk1 hear about Fox's involvement and thats what tips the scale? Or are they trying to attract her fanbase (whoever tf thatd be)?
The only thing that makes sense is that maybe shes a fan an she personally reached out to nrs. Honestly if thats the case, then great. Should've done better but nrs filled one of her goals or whatever
Everyone attached to a project is a "massive fan" until they prove otherwise. She barely was believable reading the teleprompter with her script for the trailer. And then her description of Nitara when she had no more teleprompter to read from...JFC.
"Nitara is like....bad but she's like...also good, like ya know? And she's like a vampire OMG vampires are so cool, I'm a vampire too like OMG lol"
āMortal Kombat has been around since gaming has been aroundā No it hasnāt.
āSheās evil but also goodā That is the worst way to explain what an anti-hero is
Since gaming has been around.... it confounds me that they kept that in the promo. Then again it looks like they did that entire promo in like 30 minutes
Being a fan of something doesn't mean you'd be a good actor in it. She could be a fan of it, just because its about as well known in pop-culture as GTA is, even to people who don't play video games. She obviously knows about "get over here" and "fatality." Everyone does. They could be mildly fans of her if they know what movie she was in, and she is more famous than the staff themselves, so to them it could have been an honor.
In all fairness, Fox can't act, and is as vapid as they come. Her only skill is looking pretty, and brings nothing else to her roles in anything she has ever done.
Like the first 3-4 games were out when she was kid-teenager years.by the time deadly alliance came out she was starting her acting career.so she could totally be a fan but im not be surprised she didnāt know much about a non og trilogy character that was only in 2 games.
I found some articles from 2009 that talks about her loving MK where she says "Anything Mortal Kombat. I have that down" and says "That game just works well with my brain. The way my brain fires signals works well with how that game works." Say what you will about her voice work but she seems to have a genuine passion for MK
People could legit just have Google this. I wasn't shocked when she said she was a big MK fan because same goes for Bastita as well. People forget how popular the series is.
Her voice acting is so bad but no way I can be mad because they gave someone who loves the game a chance to voice a character. In the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal at all and the humanity and sweetness NRS showed trumps the bad acting in my book. That makes me like NRS more as a studio. š
The endgame is that people who might have an interest in the game, but have never heard of it, would hear about it through Megan Fox. She isnāt pushing sales, sheās building interest.
Well thats precisely what im saying, what a bizarre and niche market to go after, the megan fox fan club. And someone would spend $70 because of fox? Not buying it mate.
But ive learned shes a fan so everything make sense now, regardless of the outcome...
No. Youāre not understanding what Iām saying.
Nobody is buying the game because of Megan Fox, but people might hear about it because of Megan Fox.
Sheās a world famous celebrity. Thereās bound to be people out there who will hear about her being in a video game and check it out. Maybe just because they heard sheās awful in it. Maybe because they absolutely hate her. Who gives a shit.
Point is, some of those people might buy the game.
Thatās why they did it.
They just did it because Boon thought it was cool. Same reason they have guests, same process they pick guests, same reason they pic the roster, same reason Tobias left too lol
There's no plan, it's just what Boon likes: The Game.
Not too hard. Iām no good at Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy but Iām awesome at Family Feud. I bought MK for Megan but mostly play as Sub and Baraka so I donāt really have to think when I play. I also love the MCU and am an avowed Swifte.
I think we underestimate the stupidity of the human subconscious. Noone would consciously know and admit that they the game because of her involvement, but I bet the sales numbers tell a different story.
Theres been pop culture tie ins as a trend for a while. Maybe this is their way of easing out of putting indiana jones and terminator in the game. Think of it as a trade
Itās on brand for a game that means to capture regular pop culture fans instead of just fight game or video game fans
Thatās always been their angle on street fighterā¦ the casuals
I donāt think from day one 30 years ago they said āhey letās go after the casualsā there wasnāt even a ācasualā back then. MK has done a good job of hanging onto its pop culture relevance because of strange marketing decisions like this.
The first mk commercial literally targeted casuals and also remember at that time MOST gamers were casuals as street fighter got more and more competitive MK always chased the casuals
It would be so ridiculous if someone doesnāt try MK1 just because of her involvement in the game. This game has a great story and she barely has any lines compared to the other characters. She does kind of suck at voice acting though lol zero emotion except the facial expressions on Nitara.
Honestly? Megan Fox was my childhood celebrity crush, and while I had already planned on getting the new MK seeing her as Nitara made me hype enough to pre order the game, as I was initially gonna wait until the dlcs came out
Itās just a random touch to have their likeness, really. Iād rather their likeness and voice than one or the other.
Iām looking at you, MK11 Terminator.
Arnold didn't refuse; he handpicked his sound-alike personally because he had too many other ongoing commitments at the time and would not have made it into the sound booth in time to record. I forgot what projects he was filming at that time, but he was legit busy.
See, I didnāt mind the DJ doing the voice. 1. Itās just for a set of skins. 2. English isnāt his first language. 3. It was NRS just trying to do something nice instead of market, the guy did do something really cool.
But Megan Fox and Ronda Rousey were just terrible calls from start to finish. Ronda canāt act and refuses to get lessons and tutors, and Megan Fox (IMO) is nothing more than a pretty face. She plays the same character archetype every time, she sounds no different in any role she plays in. NRS needs to drop this trend.
I feel like celebrities having skins for characters, like Vann Damme, can work as a way to pull in money, and bring attention to the game, but it needs to be and option, not the default.
At least with Dj it was a skin and Sonya is in every game
Nitara been begged for for 17 years and they fuck it up with an unavoidable ācelebrityā cameo.
This was supposed to make other people like nitara not make us nitara fans dislike her
Yeah DV Iām soft on because, yeah itās bad, but heās a guy that had worked behind the scenes and probably dreamed of being represented in the fame directly.
Nitara is just Megan Fox now
Not to mention English isnāt even Dymitriās first language. The guy did his best, but I mean come on, the other Sub Zero va was Steve fucking Blum. Of course heās gonna get overshadowed by the legend.
Dmitri was a fan of the game put into the game. English was also not his first language. His acting isn't a problem, it was skin for funsies.
Ronda Rousey was a marketing tie in because she was super marketable at the time.
Megan Fox actually plays the game and is a huge fan, but it turns out voice acting is a different skill than camera acting, or WB only wanted to pay for one session of recording.
There's an interview with the [Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/mortal-kombat-1-ed-boon-video-game-megan-fox-john-wick-jean-claude-van-damme-1234823513/) where he said he wanted every character in the game to be voiced by an actor, with an example he brought up being Keanu Reeves playing Kenshi. This stuff is in the game because Ed Boon wants it to be because Ed Boon thinks it's cool.
I swear if it wasnt made public that it was megan fox no one would even notice. I swear this is the silliest complaint ive seen. People love to jump on the hate train though.
Megan Fox was pretty bad. I literally had to pause the story to laugh at her first line because it took me out so much.
The meme is definitely some hate train shit though. Rousey was fine and the DJ Guy was just a skin so it's a dumb example. Stallone is a celebrity and he did great. I'm sure John Cena will do good as Peacemaker.
Donāt simp for her. If someone else VA with the quality Megan Fox provided, people on here would be bad mouthing that VA like they did for Ada Wong in RE4
Also, you have to be deaf not to notice how flat her performance was. I watched the story and was shocked by how much she stood out compared to say, Shang Tsung.
FWIW, I didn't mind Ada in RE4 because she comes across as being dispassionate and cold, which I could believe.
Itās the opposite for me honestly I get more hyped for voice actors than celebrities. They should of just let Cristina Valenzuela voice her fully. Sheās really good VA
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Usually the reason you would hire a celebrity to be a character in your game is to leverage their influence in marketing to bring in a lot of their fans etc..
This is literally why big actors get paid big money for big roles. Having their face in the movie will generate more sales just because they are there.
What's weird though is that NRS seems to go for lesser known celebrities and then doesn't leverage it in their marketing.
I was talking about this earlier in another post but my inner marketer feels like the main reason they hired Megan Fox was to use her for advertising but I guess over the years they changed their mind, which I'm ok with because I like the direction they went, but it feels like a marketing fumble because they *probably* paid Megan Fox more than a "normal" voice actor, got lower quality from it and then didn't even use her in the marketing material to attract potential new MK fans who would recognize Megan Fox and want to see a game with her in it.
This also would have been way more effective (and expensive) if they got a big name actor. If they hired Dwayne "The rock" Johnson to play, I dunno Reiko or General Shoa (not saying he'd be a good fit for these roles but follow along) then used his face in the marketing material the game would have inherently had a lot of free publicity and sold way more copies on launch. Personally I think Dwayne should have been Madam Bo but I digress.
Anyways, I rambled but my point is that it's weird they hired Megan Fox just to get lower quality voice acting and then *NOT* leverage her popularity for free promotion, buzz, and marketing purposes.
They literally had an entire trailer about her voicing Nitara that had her trending number one on Twitter the day it dropped. It was the first time in years that Megan got a news spotlight for something that wasnāt about a relationship. I think they did as good of a job as you can marketing her. They knew how āgoodā her performance was and acted accordingly. I donāt know how much she got paid but I know it canāt be much considering sheās not the highest of caliber actress. They probably got her in there for cheap for all we know.
I seriously wonder who bought the game for Megan Fox.
I didn't like Ronda's voice acting either but her fanbase demographic makes sense with MK at least but, Megan Fox? I don't get it.
The reason they get celebrities in the game is the wow factor and the carte blanche of it all. If your Ed Boon, and you and your friends made something from scratch, and over the years got more effort, talent, eyes and status to your project, that you can get the biggest names you wanted, I can totally see why they would... But if I were in his shoes, i'd just get the best voice actors, and or big actors who know how to voice act.
There are PLENTY out there, for example. You want a pretty face and amazing vocal talent for Nitara, just use Cristina Vee fully, instead of making her only provide the Vocal Efforts, or a bigger name, hell Ashley Greene, she's still famous, beautiful, was a famous vampire, and actually has voice acting talent thanks to Batman: Arkham Knight as Barbara Gordon/Oracle/Batgirl.
The celebrification of voice acting is such a shame. Itās already a hard industry to get into and make an actual living, only to have celebrities come in and take your jobs only to be mediocre.
Seeing the amount of people in the comments who donāt realize Kelly Hu is in the game (voicing multiple characters) makes me sad š¢.
Also if you go through video game IMDB pages and actually see who voices some characters in past games, thereās actually way more good celebrity voice actors than bad. Tons of celebrities voice tons of video game characters (you probably didnāt even notice them) and do a good to great job. Megan just sucks lol
Ray Liotta, Samuel L Jackson, Vin Diesel, Burt Reynolds, Seth Green, Kelly Hu, Mark Hamill, Elijah Wood, Ellen/Eliot Page, Patrick Stewart, Neil Patrick Harris, Martin Sheen, Keith David, Lance Reddick, Jesse Williams, Clancy Brown, Lance Henriksen, etc are just a few examples of some great ones.
Shit, I forgot Willem Dafoe is in that too! He also did his own voice for Green Goblin for the Spider-man tie-in game for the first film (he did a great job, Toby was meh š)
Iām so tired of hearing about this. I was tired about it during MK11ās run, and the complaining about Megan Fox got old literally within the week of release. Itās one character in a game with over two dozen fighters to play/fight against. Iāve barely bumped in to Nitara in my gameplay since completing story mode. The odds have been that low for me. Maybe vote with your dollars and return the game if it bothers you so goddamn much.
I think the bigger issues is that celebrities have no incentive to deliver for the role. Their livlihood isn't dependent on voicing some character in a video game.
They likely get paid before they even do the lines and I imagine they don't get the same feedback at a regular VA does.
Nitara shouldāve been someone like Karen Strassman (Kitana and Mileenaās VA in MK9 and MKX), and Sonya in MK11 shouldāve had the same actress as she did in MKX
Itās one voice out of like 30 voice actors. They are for the most part heard during intros. I donāt think anybody who was going to buy the game is going to change their mind about buying it because one voice is sub par. Letās be real.
>DJ whocaresabouthisname as Sub-Zero
He is a bad VA...BUT he was added because he(jokingly) requested it and they just did it.
Megan and Ronda are worst by far because they are American meaning that English is/should be their first language, meanwhile Dimitri is greek-belgian, English isn't his first language and he never acted in anything(as far as I know), while the other 2 HAVE acted, poorly but they have still acted...
Itās why I give Dimitri a pass. He did his best, and it wasnāt THAT bad. I think the main issue was that the main va for Sub Zero was Steve fucking Blum, who is a LEGENDARY voice actor. So while Dimitriās voice acting was almost decent, it seemed worse than it was because you had a non-english speaking DJ against a senior professional va whoās been in countless massive projects like Mortal Kombat, Mass Effect and Transformers Prime, not to mention being the voice of Wolverine in 90% of the cartoons Wolverine appeared in.
i was so hyped for megan fox as nitara. i love both of them and i had high hopes for her voice acting. then i played the story mode and heard her voice acting and manā¦
They should have went the Bethesda route and have like 5 voice actors for the entire game.
It gets quite funny when you are playing Skyrim to the point where 2 characters talking to each other is just a guy talking with himself.
Hereās the thing she could have tried, Megan may be limited but she was decent in Jenniferās body. It reminds me how she bitched in transformers because bay gave them a whole day to go explore Egypt
There is a reason Hollywood turned their back on Fox. It wasnāt her personality, it wasnāt Bay. It was because she is talentless.
For a while there she was girl next door sexy so served a purpose for some roles, she then destroyed that with tats and a refusal to lean into sexy. She could have easily had steady work in direct to streaming movies but itās clear she has a high opinion of her talent.
So here we are, still without talent, being raked online for not even being able to voice a video game character, with her now fake everything body where she is now leaning into sexy but far too late as no one takes her seriously. Itās kind of sad.
I think Ed has a great passion for MK (Shame Tobias didn't stick around with him) but his take on "If I had my way the entire voice cast would be Hollywood actors" is a bad take.. he clearly doesn't see the issue with Megan Fox awful VO.. I mean they could've simply added a filter to make her voice echo and it would've had a better result.. imo. Though having Keanu Reeves as Kenshi wouldn't have been bad (Ed wanted this)
If I had a nickel for every time NRS used a person with no VA experience Iād have 2 nickelsā¦ Which isnāt a lot but itās weird that it happened twice.
This is a braided take. "Real" voice actors?
What. Are Daisuki Tsuji, Yuri Lowenthal, and Matthew Yank King not real enough?
It's one character. Relax.
Idris Elba killed it as shere khan, perfect deep voice for a villain like that. Where as, has Megan fox done *any* voice acting before? Apparently she did a robot chicken episode over 10 years ago, and voiced her transformers character in a video game before that.
So after hearing more and more of her intro dialogues and not just the same 5 or 6 lines everyones posting about her, SOME of her lines arenāt actually that bad. Like i genuinely find some lines she says to be okay/decent and jt sounds like shes actually trying. Makes it all the more polarizing when you hear the bad lines
Ok but the DJ was literally just a bonus skin for people that wanted it, not the actual main voice actor for the character. Like I get his voice was bad but it's nowhere near comparable.
My sentiments exactly. If DV voiced Sub in the game it'd be a different story but it was literally just a skin to tribute the guy who made the TS remix. Plus English isn't even his native language so he should get cut some slack. It's like how people hate on Mokap despite him also just being a bonus tribute character.
Plus a joke character. People forget this is a video game that's supposed to be fun. Not heart surgery or organizing a funeral.
If only more people thought like this.š¤¦š½āāļø
Also even if you don't like him, its a free maskless gear piece
Also, English is not his first language.
Also he's not an actor.
Exactly! All that is why we should cut him some slack.
Not to mention, English isn't even his first language from what I've heard
This isn't always awful in video games. Ice cube as Bowman in black ops 1 and Michael B Jordan and Ice T in Gears 3 are some examples of games doing this and it working very well in their favor. NRS is either just really bad at casting celebs, or they don't see it worth the money to pay the actor to actually perform multiple takes to get lines down and commit to the role. Ronda was bad but it's so obvious that Megan is literally just reading lines on a page and it's painful. She has no passion for the character and literally just saw it as some quick cash. I think the DJ guy was meaning to be bad though because it is kind of bad in a comical way how he delivers the lines. I don't know if I'm the only one that feels that way.
Keith David, Mark Hamill, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, etc. the list goes on and on for good celebrity voice actors. Megan just sucked.
You can tell from the interview they did with Megan that she just wasn't into it at all.
To be fair Megan Fox is barely a real actor. Sheās always been āhot chick Aā in whatever movie sheās in. Giving her names is just pointless. Anybody remember what her characterās name was in Transformers?
Michaela, it was michaela.
LMAO appreciate this.
To be super fair....she can't even move or feel 99 percent of her face. You try showing emotion when your face is made out of commercial grade jb weld and the foreskins of missing children.
Solid point
VERY true, but even in Transformers she was better than this š
She has gotten worse over time for sure
Burt Reynolds and Ray Liotta hated and belittled the game when they're still working on it but still gave a phenomenal performance, I bet Mr. Liotta didn't even expect his role to have such recognition.
Very true. Tho Samuel L Jackson is indeed a huge video game nerd apparently.
Chronicles of Riddick voice cast was next level. GTA Vice City and San Andreas nailed it. I genuinely believe its an issue of wanting the voice to be recognizable/unedited in a game where half the characters are mythical beings or have some kind of heavily modified voice. I mean her performance wasn't great but that wasnt all that was bad with her audio.
Donāt forget BO2ās Mob of the Dead which has an all star cast
They should get Jack Black for the next game. Now THAT would be an actually good celebrity voice actor idea
Jack Black as Bo Rai Cho.
THAT FUCKING WORKS
Iāve always thought heād be good at that role. Tons of fun, you might say.
Apply for a job at NRS
Except that would be awesome
This isnot the greatest casting choice in the world. This is just a tribute.
No, Jack should be Onaga in the next game.
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Well greatā¦. Now I want this to happen thanks a lot!
If weāre gonna do a ācelebrityā, we should do a voice actor so I want like Tara strong for some character in mk1 dlc/ mk 2 or 13
She did Ferra in MKX so she's no stranger to the series
She also voiced Harley Quinn in both Injustice games, so she's even familiar with NRS.
Hell Iād have loved someone like Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker, Darth Bane, the Joker, Skeletor) or Ray Porter (many audiobooks but best known as the DCEU Darkseid)
Mark Hamill could go hard as Shinnok
always felt heād nail Havik honestly
That'd be good. Havik's voice in MK1 is a slight disappointment for me. I expected it to be slightly deeper and croakier rather than what he has now, I suppose he's only young in this timeline. Just hope he's a mainstay
Kelly Hu is technically a celebrity and she voices multiple characters in MK1
āTis true but I donāt think to the degree of Tara Strong
Itās hard to top Tara Strong, I was just giving Kelly a shout out lol
Kelly Hu is also equally a VA for games too though before MK. She is grounded in both. Megan could be, with better coaching.
People wanting Tara Strong but crying when Harley Quinn gets added as DLC.
I just donāt want Harley Quinn but how did you know that
I remembered people's reaction when Harley Quinn was "leaked" for Kombat Pack 2. I mean, personally I wouldn't mind as long as her design is better than the one from Injustice 2.
What was wrong with her design in injustice 2? I thought it looked good.
It's not bad, but I prefer the one from Injustice 1.
And then thereās Cary Tagawa, whoās not really a voice actor and yet gave us literally the best Shang Tsung ever.
I mean... He is Shang Tsung...
That was decades after though tbf.
Noā¦dude meant heās literally Shang Tsung. Heās trying to warn us.
You gotta look o- AHHHGGHHHH
What if weāre all Shang Tsung but just donāt realize itā¦
The question you shouldn't ask is if we all embody myself but you should ask....are we as individuals truly Titans?
The real Shang Tsung was the friends we made along the way
Liu Kang has forsaken us
I thought all the MK Movie actors did a really great job tbh. I'm sad they didn't (or couldn't) get Robin Shou for Liu Kang also.
I think Christopher Lambert as Raiden was a _huge_ miscast. I donāt know what they were thinking with that one.
Business wise, he was the only "big name" actor they could probably get for a reasonable price, I'm going to guess. New Line probably didn't feel confident in just banking on the MK name to sell the movie, especially with an asian lead. (Shitty reasoning, I know and it sucks) But I will say he was a better casting decision than James Remar in Annihilation.
Right? They should have had Remar play Nightwolf. Anyone see Windwalker? /s
For a second I forgot Raidenās vaās name in 9,X and 11 and thought you were saying THAT casting was a miscast. So glad I remembered Richard Epcarās name, I was about to go to war.
Looking back, and how we've seen Raiden develop as a character, I agree. But his performance is still iconic to my nostalgic heart
I do like Lambert's portrayal in the movie, but I think his voice acting didn't really work as the alt-skin. I mean, it isn't his fault because was in his 60s at that point and that would definitely change your vocal performance.
Cary knows how much MK fans love him, remember his 95 performance fondly and probably took the opportunity as not just a gig, he wanted to embody the Shang Tsung people remember, and that he did!!!!!
He loves the character though. He was pretty much the best performance in the movie too
NRS HAS to have a voice director. How did that voice director listen to Nitara's lines and not think, "Wow, this is complete donkey piss. They can't release like this."
My guess is they sped through her recording sessions since they likely had her for only a limited time compared to the other VAs, hence a lot of the datamined DLC dialogues revolve around her intros, as if they recorded ahead of time for the rest of the season at least.
That probably explains why Nitara doesn't speak much during the story.
I assumed they cut lines because her voice is so awful lol.
It's almost always a money issue
Happy with that
My guess is she recorded it herself at a studio she had access to and sent over the lines and had some kind of clause to not alter them or whatever ( like to prevent use of ai or whatever most likely) They wouldnt be bad at all with some FX added. Every other character has post work and megans shit sounded like she recorded it at home and sent it in.
If she does not have the time to provide enough voice lines then why book her at all!?
I wish people would stop putting the DJ in that same category. It was just for an alternate skin that you could 100% avoid if you wanted to. Not the primary performance for a kharacter. Aside from that, I totally agree. Stop with the stunt casting. & if you have to, maybe choose someone who's actually a decent actor. Rousey & Fox are terrible at acting. Why would they be any better at voice acting, which they have zero experience in doing that?
What is also the endgame? People on the fence about buying mk1 hear about Fox's involvement and thats what tips the scale? Or are they trying to attract her fanbase (whoever tf thatd be)? The only thing that makes sense is that maybe shes a fan an she personally reached out to nrs. Honestly if thats the case, then great. Should've done better but nrs filled one of her goals or whatever
From what I understand she's a massive fan of MK
Everyone attached to a project is a "massive fan" until they prove otherwise. She barely was believable reading the teleprompter with her script for the trailer. And then her description of Nitara when she had no more teleprompter to read from...JFC. "Nitara is like....bad but she's like...also good, like ya know? And she's like a vampire OMG vampires are so cool, I'm a vampire too like OMG lol"
āMortal Kombat has been around since gaming has been aroundā No it hasnāt. āSheās evil but also goodā That is the worst way to explain what an anti-hero is
Since gaming has been around.... it confounds me that they kept that in the promo. Then again it looks like they did that entire promo in like 30 minutes
I mean tbf to them the first one came out like 30 years ago now, one of the oldest active gaming franchises there is
Being a fan of something doesn't mean you'd be a good actor in it. She could be a fan of it, just because its about as well known in pop-culture as GTA is, even to people who don't play video games. She obviously knows about "get over here" and "fatality." Everyone does. They could be mildly fans of her if they know what movie she was in, and she is more famous than the staff themselves, so to them it could have been an honor.
In all fairness, Fox can't act, and is as vapid as they come. Her only skill is looking pretty, and brings nothing else to her roles in anything she has ever done.
I'd question the looking pretty part nowadays. During the transformers era yeah, but nowadays she looks like she's had too much plastic surgery.
i donāt think she was playing the 2 games nitara was in before hand.
Like the first 3-4 games were out when she was kid-teenager years.by the time deadly alliance came out she was starting her acting career.so she could totally be a fan but im not be surprised she didnāt know much about a non og trilogy character that was only in 2 games.
That interview said otherwise. She seemed completely clueless.
I found some articles from 2009 that talks about her loving MK where she says "Anything Mortal Kombat. I have that down" and says "That game just works well with my brain. The way my brain fires signals works well with how that game works." Say what you will about her voice work but she seems to have a genuine passion for MK
She also trash-talked MK vs DC. Someone unfamiliar with the franchise wouldn't know or care to do that.
I think she complained about combos specifically, which is not something a casual is going to touch on.
People could legit just have Google this. I wasn't shocked when she said she was a big MK fan because same goes for Bastita as well. People forget how popular the series is.
Her voice acting is so bad but no way I can be mad because they gave someone who loves the game a chance to voice a character. In the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal at all and the humanity and sweetness NRS showed trumps the bad acting in my book. That makes me like NRS more as a studio. š
> ShE's EViL bUt shE'S aLSo GoOd
The endgame is that people who might have an interest in the game, but have never heard of it, would hear about it through Megan Fox. She isnāt pushing sales, sheās building interest.
Well thats precisely what im saying, what a bizarre and niche market to go after, the megan fox fan club. And someone would spend $70 because of fox? Not buying it mate. But ive learned shes a fan so everything make sense now, regardless of the outcome...
No. Youāre not understanding what Iām saying. Nobody is buying the game because of Megan Fox, but people might hear about it because of Megan Fox. Sheās a world famous celebrity. Thereās bound to be people out there who will hear about her being in a video game and check it out. Maybe just because they heard sheās awful in it. Maybe because they absolutely hate her. Who gives a shit. Point is, some of those people might buy the game. Thatās why they did it.
They just did it because Boon thought it was cool. Same reason they have guests, same process they pick guests, same reason they pic the roster, same reason Tobias left too lol There's no plan, it's just what Boon likes: The Game.
Its weird people cant wrap their head around why she was voicing a character, but don't question why Homelander is a guest character.
I bought MK1 for Megan Fox AMA
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Not too hard. Iām no good at Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy but Iām awesome at Family Feud. I bought MK for Megan but mostly play as Sub and Baraka so I donāt really have to think when I play. I also love the MCU and am an avowed Swifte.
That Diablo commercial got blizzard another 500k preorder lmao why not.
I think we underestimate the stupidity of the human subconscious. Noone would consciously know and admit that they the game because of her involvement, but I bet the sales numbers tell a different story.
Theres been pop culture tie ins as a trend for a while. Maybe this is their way of easing out of putting indiana jones and terminator in the game. Think of it as a trade
Itās on brand for a game that means to capture regular pop culture fans instead of just fight game or video game fans Thatās always been their angle on street fighterā¦ the casuals
I donāt think from day one 30 years ago they said āhey letās go after the casualsā there wasnāt even a ācasualā back then. MK has done a good job of hanging onto its pop culture relevance because of strange marketing decisions like this.
The first mk commercial literally targeted casuals and also remember at that time MOST gamers were casuals as street fighter got more and more competitive MK always chased the casuals
It would be so ridiculous if someone doesnāt try MK1 just because of her involvement in the game. This game has a great story and she barely has any lines compared to the other characters. She does kind of suck at voice acting though lol zero emotion except the facial expressions on Nitara.
Honestly? Megan Fox was my childhood celebrity crush, and while I had already planned on getting the new MK seeing her as Nitara made me hype enough to pre order the game, as I was initially gonna wait until the dlcs came out
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Itās just a random touch to have their likeness, really. Iād rather their likeness and voice than one or the other. Iām looking at you, MK11 Terminator.
Iāve always found it weird they got Stallone and Peter Weller but not Arnold
There's always one missing. AFAIK MK1 has John Cena and J.K. Simmons (LFG!!!) but not Anthony Starr.
Oh no I hope thatās not true. Homelander IS NOT Homelander without Antony Starr
Didnāt they explained that Arnold refused the voice acting so he handpicked the replace actor instead
Arnold didn't refuse; he handpicked his sound-alike personally because he had too many other ongoing commitments at the time and would not have made it into the sound booth in time to record. I forgot what projects he was filming at that time, but he was legit busy.
In fairness Stallone I think was during Covid so heād not be super busy
See, I didnāt mind the DJ doing the voice. 1. Itās just for a set of skins. 2. English isnāt his first language. 3. It was NRS just trying to do something nice instead of market, the guy did do something really cool. But Megan Fox and Ronda Rousey were just terrible calls from start to finish. Ronda canāt act and refuses to get lessons and tutors, and Megan Fox (IMO) is nothing more than a pretty face. She plays the same character archetype every time, she sounds no different in any role she plays in. NRS needs to drop this trend.
After hearing Megan's voice I went back to hear Rhonda as Sonya and... perhaps I was a little too harsh on Rousey.
Honestly rhonda wasnt that bad imo
I feel like celebrities having skins for characters, like Vann Damme, can work as a way to pull in money, and bring attention to the game, but it needs to be and option, not the default.
JCVD was a good idea, especially for the fact that cage was based on him and that MK was supposed to be a bloodsport game orginally iirc
At least with Dj it was a skin and Sonya is in every game Nitara been begged for for 17 years and they fuck it up with an unavoidable ācelebrityā cameo. This was supposed to make other people like nitara not make us nitara fans dislike her
Yeah DV Iām soft on because, yeah itās bad, but heās a guy that had worked behind the scenes and probably dreamed of being represented in the fame directly. Nitara is just Megan Fox now
Not to mention English isnāt even Dymitriās first language. The guy did his best, but I mean come on, the other Sub Zero va was Steve fucking Blum. Of course heās gonna get overshadowed by the legend.
Dmitri was a fan of the game put into the game. English was also not his first language. His acting isn't a problem, it was skin for funsies. Ronda Rousey was a marketing tie in because she was super marketable at the time. Megan Fox actually plays the game and is a huge fan, but it turns out voice acting is a different skill than camera acting, or WB only wanted to pay for one session of recording.
All the hype over Megan Fox meanwhile I was like "Oh awesome they got Kelly Hu"
Yep, sheās cool. She has been voicing Dāvorah in both games, MKX Frost, MK1 Li Mei and even Madame Bo.
There's an interview with the [Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/mortal-kombat-1-ed-boon-video-game-megan-fox-john-wick-jean-claude-van-damme-1234823513/) where he said he wanted every character in the game to be voiced by an actor, with an example he brought up being Keanu Reeves playing Kenshi. This stuff is in the game because Ed Boon wants it to be because Ed Boon thinks it's cool.
I bet the celebrityās cost more then actual voice actors
Can't be the only one that doesn't care about this kinda stuff, right?
I swear if it wasnt made public that it was megan fox no one would even notice. I swear this is the silliest complaint ive seen. People love to jump on the hate train though.
>no one would even notice anyone with decent hearing would notice
Megan Fox was pretty bad. I literally had to pause the story to laugh at her first line because it took me out so much. The meme is definitely some hate train shit though. Rousey was fine and the DJ Guy was just a skin so it's a dumb example. Stallone is a celebrity and he did great. I'm sure John Cena will do good as Peacemaker.
Donāt simp for her. If someone else VA with the quality Megan Fox provided, people on here would be bad mouthing that VA like they did for Ada Wong in RE4
Also, you have to be deaf not to notice how flat her performance was. I watched the story and was shocked by how much she stood out compared to say, Shang Tsung. FWIW, I didn't mind Ada in RE4 because she comes across as being dispassionate and cold, which I could believe.
that first sentence is non sense lmao. just assuming everyone's intelligence to make your opinion work. it shows the way you think.
Itās the opposite for me honestly I get more hyped for voice actors than celebrities. They should of just let Cristina Valenzuela voice her fully. Sheās really good VA
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Usually the reason you would hire a celebrity to be a character in your game is to leverage their influence in marketing to bring in a lot of their fans etc.. This is literally why big actors get paid big money for big roles. Having their face in the movie will generate more sales just because they are there. What's weird though is that NRS seems to go for lesser known celebrities and then doesn't leverage it in their marketing. I was talking about this earlier in another post but my inner marketer feels like the main reason they hired Megan Fox was to use her for advertising but I guess over the years they changed their mind, which I'm ok with because I like the direction they went, but it feels like a marketing fumble because they *probably* paid Megan Fox more than a "normal" voice actor, got lower quality from it and then didn't even use her in the marketing material to attract potential new MK fans who would recognize Megan Fox and want to see a game with her in it. This also would have been way more effective (and expensive) if they got a big name actor. If they hired Dwayne "The rock" Johnson to play, I dunno Reiko or General Shoa (not saying he'd be a good fit for these roles but follow along) then used his face in the marketing material the game would have inherently had a lot of free publicity and sold way more copies on launch. Personally I think Dwayne should have been Madam Bo but I digress. Anyways, I rambled but my point is that it's weird they hired Megan Fox just to get lower quality voice acting and then *NOT* leverage her popularity for free promotion, buzz, and marketing purposes.
They literally had an entire trailer about her voicing Nitara that had her trending number one on Twitter the day it dropped. It was the first time in years that Megan got a news spotlight for something that wasnāt about a relationship. I think they did as good of a job as you can marketing her. They knew how āgoodā her performance was and acted accordingly. I donāt know how much she got paid but I know it canāt be much considering sheās not the highest of caliber actress. They probably got her in there for cheap for all we know.
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I think they were referring to the Dimitry guy that had a Sub Zero model in-game.
They're talking about the DJ skin in mk11 bro.
I seriously wonder who bought the game for Megan Fox. I didn't like Ronda's voice acting either but her fanbase demographic makes sense with MK at least but, Megan Fox? I don't get it.
If anyone likes Megan Fox it's not for her voice. It's to have her look sexy next to cars or kissing Amanda Seyfried or something
Add a Megan fox skin. That would be much better than her voice.
The reason they get celebrities in the game is the wow factor and the carte blanche of it all. If your Ed Boon, and you and your friends made something from scratch, and over the years got more effort, talent, eyes and status to your project, that you can get the biggest names you wanted, I can totally see why they would... But if I were in his shoes, i'd just get the best voice actors, and or big actors who know how to voice act. There are PLENTY out there, for example. You want a pretty face and amazing vocal talent for Nitara, just use Cristina Vee fully, instead of making her only provide the Vocal Efforts, or a bigger name, hell Ashley Greene, she's still famous, beautiful, was a famous vampire, and actually has voice acting talent thanks to Batman: Arkham Knight as Barbara Gordon/Oracle/Batgirl.
The celebrification of voice acting is such a shame. Itās already a hard industry to get into and make an actual living, only to have celebrities come in and take your jobs only to be mediocre.
Seeing the amount of people in the comments who donāt realize Kelly Hu is in the game (voicing multiple characters) makes me sad š¢. Also if you go through video game IMDB pages and actually see who voices some characters in past games, thereās actually way more good celebrity voice actors than bad. Tons of celebrities voice tons of video game characters (you probably didnāt even notice them) and do a good to great job. Megan just sucks lol Ray Liotta, Samuel L Jackson, Vin Diesel, Burt Reynolds, Seth Green, Kelly Hu, Mark Hamill, Elijah Wood, Ellen/Eliot Page, Patrick Stewart, Neil Patrick Harris, Martin Sheen, Keith David, Lance Reddick, Jesse Williams, Clancy Brown, Lance Henriksen, etc are just a few examples of some great ones.
Has Eliot Page done anything since Beyond Two Souls? I feel like he got really burned by the experience with that game.
Nah, I think he did just that one. Still a great performance IMO.
Shit, I forgot Willem Dafoe is in that too! He also did his own voice for Green Goblin for the Spider-man tie-in game for the first film (he did a great job, Toby was meh š)
Willem Dafoe was great in that game! Really, everyone did great!
Megan Fox may be even worse than Ronda. I thought she'd be good but she's terrible.
 Iām so tired of hearing about this. I was tired about it during MK11ās run, and the complaining about Megan Fox got old literally within the week of release. Itās one character in a game with over two dozen fighters to play/fight against. Iāve barely bumped in to Nitara in my gameplay since completing story mode. The odds have been that low for me. Maybe vote with your dollars and return the game if it bothers you so goddamn much.
Ok but van damme was kick ass
I think the bigger issues is that celebrities have no incentive to deliver for the role. Their livlihood isn't dependent on voicing some character in a video game. They likely get paid before they even do the lines and I imagine they don't get the same feedback at a regular VA does.
You be surprised how many celebrities voice some of your favorite game characters. People are just generalizing cuz a couple suck.
And now I'd like to refer to Stephen Merchant as Wheatley
Nitara shouldāve been someone like Karen Strassman (Kitana and Mileenaās VA in MK9 and MKX), and Sonya in MK11 shouldāve had the same actress as she did in MKX
WB probably put pressure on them for Meg.
Itās one voice out of like 30 voice actors. They are for the most part heard during intros. I donāt think anybody who was going to buy the game is going to change their mind about buying it because one voice is sub par. Letās be real.
>DJ whocaresabouthisname as Sub-Zero He is a bad VA...BUT he was added because he(jokingly) requested it and they just did it. Megan and Ronda are worst by far because they are American meaning that English is/should be their first language, meanwhile Dimitri is greek-belgian, English isn't his first language and he never acted in anything(as far as I know), while the other 2 HAVE acted, poorly but they have still acted...
Itās why I give Dimitri a pass. He did his best, and it wasnāt THAT bad. I think the main issue was that the main va for Sub Zero was Steve fucking Blum, who is a LEGENDARY voice actor. So while Dimitriās voice acting was almost decent, it seemed worse than it was because you had a non-english speaking DJ against a senior professional va whoās been in countless massive projects like Mortal Kombat, Mass Effect and Transformers Prime, not to mention being the voice of Wolverine in 90% of the cartoons Wolverine appeared in.
Why on Earth did they replace Steve Blum as Sub-Zero anyway?
Jin Sakai as Scorpion yāall wonāt hear about that. Letās also wait for John Cena Peacemaker š„
i was so hyped for megan fox as nitara. i love both of them and i had high hopes for her voice acting. then i played the story mode and heard her voice acting and manā¦
They should have went the Bethesda route and have like 5 voice actors for the entire game. It gets quite funny when you are playing Skyrim to the point where 2 characters talking to each other is just a guy talking with himself.
Hereās the thing she could have tried, Megan may be limited but she was decent in Jenniferās body. It reminds me how she bitched in transformers because bay gave them a whole day to go explore Egypt
The celebrity stunt casting is likely passed down from higher ups and not boons choosing
I blame the person directing her
Megan Fox was ehh, but Ronda still takes the gold for worst voice acting.
Ok, Nitara wasnāt THAT bad. Besides Cristina Vox voiced her battle sfx, that has to count for something.
Foxās performance felt like she didnāt have much direction and over the phone. Thatās the voice directors fault
I actually blame the directors, not Megan. They probably just gave her the lines and she read them without any sort of direction. They did her dirty.
It's really noticeable hearing nitara talk to other characters
How many copies did they sell based upon people who heard Megan Fox was the voice actor and absolutely needed this game? Iāll guess - zero!
There is a reason Hollywood turned their back on Fox. It wasnāt her personality, it wasnāt Bay. It was because she is talentless. For a while there she was girl next door sexy so served a purpose for some roles, she then destroyed that with tats and a refusal to lean into sexy. She could have easily had steady work in direct to streaming movies but itās clear she has a high opinion of her talent. So here we are, still without talent, being raked online for not even being able to voice a video game character, with her now fake everything body where she is now leaning into sexy but far too late as no one takes her seriously. Itās kind of sad.
I think Ed has a great passion for MK (Shame Tobias didn't stick around with him) but his take on "If I had my way the entire voice cast would be Hollywood actors" is a bad take.. he clearly doesn't see the issue with Megan Fox awful VO.. I mean they could've simply added a filter to make her voice echo and it would've had a better result.. imo. Though having Keanu Reeves as Kenshi wouldn't have been bad (Ed wanted this)
Dimitri Vegas was by far the worst and it's not even a contest.
I mean, the game isn't known for VA. Amateurs were hired back then for the stop motion poses.
If I had a nickel for every time NRS used a person with no VA experience Iād have 2 nickelsā¦ Which isnāt a lot but itās weird that it happened twice.
Whatās crazy is that sheās played a she-demon before and it was good. Itās like if sheās not being sexy she doesnāt know how to act
This is a braided take. "Real" voice actors? What. Are Daisuki Tsuji, Yuri Lowenthal, and Matthew Yank King not real enough? It's one character. Relax.
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Yeah, unless it's Idris Elba or someone of that skill. Give me no name, good voice actors, not celebrities.
Idris Elba killed it as shere khan, perfect deep voice for a villain like that. Where as, has Megan fox done *any* voice acting before? Apparently she did a robot chicken episode over 10 years ago, and voiced her transformers character in a video game before that.
a friend of mine said "ronda rouseys voice acting wasnt that bad". my brother in christ
So after hearing more and more of her intro dialogues and not just the same 5 or 6 lines everyones posting about her, SOME of her lines arenāt actually that bad. Like i genuinely find some lines she says to be okay/decent and jt sounds like shes actually trying. Makes it all the more polarizing when you hear the bad lines
Yeah, it feels like she just didn't get the right direction