An old interview from the late Batman voice actor has resurfaced Kevin Conroy talking about his experience as a voice actor for Batman in Batman: Arkham video games. Conroy has spent years having a great deal of experience voicing the character on WB’s Batman: The Animated Seriesbut it was a very different experience for video games and he doesn’t seem to like it.
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Conroy explained that the only recording process he was aware of was the one he was a part of Batman: The Animated Series, and when it did, all the actors gathered in the studio, which allowed them to play against each other while recording their lines. She shared:
“I didn’t realize how unique it was until 20 years later when I started making the Arkham games. Because of the algorithms and how they’re built, they have to have every entry completely clean and according to your interpretation. You do it four hours a day. day alone, in a booth, in a vacuum, creating the character, keeping the voice of the character alive, and then creating the situation for each line. Then they want it three times, you know. ‘Give it to us angry!’ Oh, hold that anger and give it to us with a little irony! Oh we love anger and we love irony, now sweeten it with some love.” When you walk out of there you’re pulling your hair out and you’re like, ‘what the fuck do they want me to say!?'”
He went on to talk about the process of considering games by saying he would do two four-hour recording sessions a day, with a lunch break in between, for a week at a time. As dialogue was added to the game he would jump in and record as needed. He said the process for Arkham Knight that took two years, during which time he recorded some 37,000 lines of dialogue. He also pointed out that the developers have never reused the grunts of pain and fatigue recorded for previous games.
While Conroy’s experience was difficult with these games, he respected them and said, “They’re amazing games, aren’t they? They’re so good.”
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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