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English Policenauts Voices???

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:40 am
by Junker_05
Has anyone on these forum boards heard the English voices for Policenauts? If so, where would one obtain these files for his own satisfaction of curiousity?

And please, if I'm pulling a "ratperson", I apologise for my stupidity and obliviousness in advance.

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:31 am
by Artemio
There are none man, there never was a recording session. Or at least, it never went public.

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:39 am
by Junker_05
Alright, thanks anyway!

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:20 pm
by Junker_05
Actually, wait a minute... Isn't the voice of Peter Stillman in Sons of Liberty the english voice of Ed Brown? I know that's who Stillman was based off, and I heard that voice-over fact from somebody off the site (or read, rather :grin:)

Or am I getting my facts confused? :(

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:35 pm
by Marc
Kojima was originally going to have Stillman be Brown, until he decided he was going to die in the game. The Japanese VA who plays Brown also plays Stillman.

I think Eagles would make a pretty good English Brown.

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:21 pm
by 87th
Aren't the Japanese VA for Rose and Karen the same, too?

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:57 pm
by Marc
Yes. She also played The Boss (and did a really good job of changing her cutesy voice, I think).

As for other Policenauts common VAs (with Metal Gear):

Hideyuki Tanaka plays Jonathan and Otacon.

Kaneto Shiozawa plays Redwood and the Ninja.

Masaharu Sato plays Salvatore and the DARPA Chief.

Osamu Saka plays Gatse, Gurlukovich and The End.

Naoki Tatsuta plays Ishida and Sokolov.

Naoko Nakamura plays the BCCH receptionist, Sniper Wolf and the computer voice (MGS1).

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:27 pm
by 87th
I don't think Christopher Randolph would be a good choice for an English-speaking Jonathan, but I think Greg Eagles would make an excellent Tony Redwood.

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:18 pm
by Junker_05
I think that the guy who did Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop'd make an excellent Jonathan.

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:00 pm
by 87th
He'd do just about every cool anime protagonist quite well, though.

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:30 am
by Junker_05
Yeah, the instant I saw Jonathan Ingram I thought "The guy who played Spike would do him justice." He's a good anime voice-over guy, no doubt.

The best voice-over guy EVER in my opinion is Billy West. He's done all the Futurama characters we love and other roles that haven't really gotten him much credit. (The Red M&M and Stimpy from "Ren & Stimpy")

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:10 am
by DarkTetsuya
Osiris wrote:Yes. She also played The Boss (and did a really good job of changing her cutesy voice, I think).

As for other Policenauts common VAs (with Metal Gear):

Hideyuki Tanaka plays Jonathan and Otacon.

Kaneto Shiozawa plays Redwood and the Ninja.

Masaharu Sato plays Salvatore and the DARPA Chief.

Osamu Saka plays Gatse, Gurlukovich and The End.

Naoki Tatsuta plays Ishida and Sokolov.

Naoko Nakamura plays the BCCH receptionist, Sniper Wolf and the computer voice (MGS1).
Regarding Policenauts dubbed in english, unless they started work on it on the incomplete US Saturn version, there probably isn't one.

DT

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:03 am
by Junker_05
I'm fairly sure I read somewhere that they started an English translation, got 80 percent of the way through completion and then Kojima decided to boycott the whole thing.

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:56 am
by Marc
We have no way of knowing whether that "X% complete rumor" is true or not. Some rumors we do know aren't true, though, like the one that Jeremy Blaustein offered to translate it for free (that's like asking someone you know to forfeit their salary for 2 months).

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:10 pm
by Junker_05
Why didn't they take Blaustein's offer? Just seems stupid. Kojima would've had a bigger fanbase, and it would've cost him El Zilcho.

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:47 pm
by Artemio
reread his post man, you understood it backwards ^^

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:11 pm
by Junker_05
Oh! It's UNtrue. I see.

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:59 am
by Missing
Let's not even worry about a translation. One of these days, someone is surely going to make the effort, even if we're in our ninties by that time.

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:20 pm
by Junker_05
Yeah, sure, just blow off years of hard work those guys've done in hopes that some other schmoes will do it in the far future.

No.