Kate Mulgrew was a very distinctive voice. I heard it right away in Dragon Age Origin.
Patrick Stewart also has a great voice in Elder Scrolls Oblivion.
The first person from Trek I remember hearing in a game was Leonard Nimoy in Civilization.
The surprisingly robust careers of Star Trek stars who became video game voice actors
Submitted 11 months ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to startrek@startrek.website
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1986874
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Hairyblue@kbin.social 11 months ago
Basilisk@mtgzone.com 11 months ago
Tim Russ also showed up in Dragon Age: Origins, like it was a mini Voyager reunion.
Westturrn@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Leonard Ninoy was also the original voice of Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts.
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Civ IV is still my favorite game of the series. It was peak Civilization.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Funny, cause Michael Dorn and Mirina Sirtis were in Mass Effect. I guess Bioware knows their crowd.
ArugulaZ@kbin.social 11 months ago
"Your Seamen have all died." What are you, my urologist?
Bashnagdul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Michael dorn was also in the first Gabriel knight game from 1990.
Odelay42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Patrick Stewart voiced King Richard in Lands of Lore: the Throne of Chaos on PC way back in 1993. One of my all time favorites.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Star Trek actors are the most robust actors. They’re everywhere. I watched all of Boston Legal without realizing it wasn’t Star Trek. Our boy Frakes plays adult Finn in the adventure time episode Puoy, George plays Ricardio. You can’t escape it. Star Trek encompasses all.
MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Gargoyles!
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 11 months ago
Demona wouldn’t be the disturbingly seductive menace she is without Marina Sirtis’ voice.
julianh@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ensign Ro and old Jake are both in Half-Life 2, those voices are ingrained in my memory so I instantly recognized them when i watched the show.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 11 months ago
I’ll never forget the Powers That Be who passed on the Global Frequency pilot. Michelle Forbes was glorious as Miranda Zero.
ArugulaZ@kbin.social 11 months ago
It's especially great when they do something that's completely off the walls crazy. Michael Dorn played a screaming dwarf in the Billy and Mandy episode "Here There Be Dwarves," who went mad after centuries of mushroom farming and exacted his revenge by invading the Keebler elves' hollow tree. Then R. Lee Ermey pops up to censor the carnage and the dwarves and elves compromise by making mushroom cookies, and Billy does karaoke. That show was so delightfully warped and random sometimes.
Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 11 months ago
Dorn as an alarmingly competent Weasel was pretty nuts.
JWBananas@startrek.website 11 months ago
…I didn’t believe you. I had to look it up to confirm it.
Damn. Never even noticed.
stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I definitely remember recognizing Frakes, Dorn, and de Lancie while playing through the War of the Chosen expansion for XCOM2. Also René Auberjonois on a few of the Uncharted games as well.
RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Don’t forget Marina Sirtis and Denise Crosby in XCom 2! It was quite the TNG reunion.
stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yes, it certainly was! For some reason I didn’t recognize their voices. It wasn’t until I looked up the voice cast list to check the three that I mentioned that I found they were on it too!
SendMeYourTatas@kbin.social 11 months ago
John De Lancie (Q) has done a lot of voice work, and acting for sure. My child was besides themselves when they found out he voiced Discord in MLP
mister_newbie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Loved him as the evil Protoss in SC2.
beefcat@beehaw.org 11 months ago
His introduction to Breaking Bad was the moment it went from a pretty good cable drama to some of the best television ever made.
cyd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There seem to be three distinct post-Trek futures:
- genuine big shot actor
- reasonably successful voice actor
- B-movie “star”, featured prominently on the poster and appearing for 5 minutes in the actual movie.
mister_newbie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sir Patrick Stewart as the Encarta (or was it Britannia?) encyclopedia “help” narration was hilarious in how unnecessary it was.
mercano@lemmy.world 11 months ago
George Takei killed it in his role in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. (Literally and figuratively, he played a hitman-come-mob boss and a father figure to the game’s protagonist.) I wish he had more screen time in the role.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Tim Russ and Robert Picardo are in Fallout 4.
Picardo does a fine job as the Institute scientist who is in charge of synth production; seemed very much like the EMH’s role and he seemed to play it that way.
Russ, though… He’s a Brotherhood of Steel guy on the Prydwyn and just seems like a more stern version of Tuvok. Not because the role called for it, but because he was just reading lines without any passion behind them. Or wasn’t given proper direction (which given some things other VAs who worked on that have said is probably closer to the truth).
someguy3@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Don’t forget Cheers actors who became Star Trek actors.
teft@startrek.website 11 months ago
Chris Judge from Stargate did the same. That dude is in a lot of video games.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 months ago
Indeed
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
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alexmorse@mastodon.social 11 months ago
@teft @ijeff that guy is so good at giving a character life. I'd love to see him an DND campaign