Honestly, I would have to say I have your experience when it comes to Nolan North more often than I do with anybody else. Well, who is a VA by trade. "Celebrity" VA performances don't count.

As ubiquitous as Nolan North is, it was a huge surprise (for me, anyway) when it turned out that he voiced David in The Last of Us, since it sounds nothing like Nathan Drake (both Naughty Dog games):

Are you able to pick up on it?

Maybe it's part of my "everybody sounds the same to me" isms...

So was the retread that was the force awakens. Immediately afterward everybody loved it an found it fun. But as time has revealed, the film is not remembered so fondly anymore.

Has it though? Opinion seems to be split about the same as it was at launch from what I've seen.

You need to be careful when leaning on nostalgia.

You need to be careful about using your anecdotal experiences as hard facts.

FWIW, I think you're right. Sure, seeing old areas could be neat. Not as neat as seeing brand new areas, though. I'd be pretty disappointed if they spent time remaking things I've seen instead of brand new areas I haven't thought of.

That's really all I am saying.

So was the retread that was the force awakens. Immediately afterward everybody loved it an found it fun. But as time has revealed, the film is not remembered so fondly anymore.

Has it though? Opinion seems to be split about the same as it was at launch from what I've seen.

You need to be careful when leaning on nostalgia.

You need to be careful about using your anecdotal experiences as hard facts.

FWIW, I think you're right. Sure, seeing old areas could be neat. Not as neat as seeing brand new areas, though. I'd be pretty disappointed if they spent time remaking things I've seen instead of brand new areas I haven't thought of.

Perhaps for you. But the revisit was a quite popular aspect for my social circles.

So was the retread that was the force awakens. Immediately afterward everybody loved it an found it fun. But as time has revealed, the film is not remembered so fondly anymore.

You need to be careful when leaning on nostalgia. You can revisit so long as you move forward and don't just do it for the reminder. It has to extend somehow.

And how much has changed is not limited to the passage of time in game, but possibly even the advances in their own development. Old playspaces as larger, contiguous playspaces.

One of the great examples of this is MGS4, when you go back to Shadow Moses, and you can visit much larger portions of the map without a loading screen or navigation limitations...

And guess what? The first three chapters were the best parts of the game. Shadow Moses revisited was when it started to go downhill.

And what does your picky opinion have to do with the fact that areas from the previous entries in a game can be greatly improved from a technological standpoint, while being presented in a different context?

I'm not arguing against that. I am arguing over including them in the first place. It's almost always better to go with new than to revisit or retread.

In Fallout 4, the first time I heard Carla or whoever the wandering merchant was, I'm like "ahh fuck it's Chloe." Then I helped out the girl's brother in that one vault. Fucking Chloe. NBD. I'll play Rise of the Tomb Raider. Go to a bloody locker to find a lost remnant called Nadia. FUCKING CHLOE.

Seriously search Youtube for her characters. It's just growly Chloe voice or high pitched Chloe voice, or Chloe voice.

That's crazy. I've played all of those games, and none of those characters made me think of her. Maybe she sounds like someone that you know personally, so it sticks out more... who knows?

Seriously search Youtube for her characters. It's just growly Chloe voice or high pitched Chloe voice, or Chloe voice.

I don't know what happened, but this became a trend. Maybe starting with BL2, idk, but Ash does not have the range of guys like Nolan North or the other ubiquitous voice actors in games.

After LIS, when I play games she's in, I notice it's her immediately and become annoyed, which is weird since I never disliked her for Hey Ash Whatcha Playin or anything, or indeed at Chloe. *Shrug*

But thanks, I'll listen to this.

I didn't even recognize her as Chloe until this podcast pointed it out.

I didn't either until it wasn't pointed out much later.
I mostly know her as Tiny Tina and Orendi (Battleborn) and I never watched anything else's time that she's in.
I think there's plenty of contrast between the roles that I do know her for, though...

I don't know what happened, but this became a trend. Maybe starting with BL2, idk, but Ash does not have the range of guys like Nolan North or the other ubiquitous voice actors in games.

After LIS, when I play games she's in, I notice it's her immediately and become annoyed, which is weird since I never disliked her for Hey Ash Whatcha Playin or anything, or indeed at Chloe. *Shrug*

But thanks, I'll listen to this.

I didn't even recognize her as Chloe until this podcast pointed it out.

And how much has changed is not limited to the passage of time in game, but possibly even the advances in their own development. Old playspaces as larger, contiguous playspaces.

One of the great examples of this is MGS4, when you go back to Shadow Moses, and you can visit much larger portions of the map without a loading screen or navigation limitations...

And guess what? The first three chapters were the best parts of the game. Shadow Moses revisited was when it started to go downhill.

And what does your picky opinion have to do with the fact that areas from the previous entries in a game can be greatly improved from a technological standpoint, while being presented in a different context?

And how much has changed is not limited to the passage of time in game, but possibly even the advances in their own development. Old playspaces as larger, contiguous playspaces.

One of the great examples of this is MGS4, when you go back to Shadow Moses, and you can visit much larger portions of the map without a loading screen or navigation limitations...

And guess what? The first three chapters were the best parts of the game. Shadow Moses revisited was when it started to go downhill.

Destiny missed the mark in a major way by setting this up with mission 1 (ends with ghost saying "we'll come back when you're ready" as a Kell emerges from the wall and you fly away... This would have been a great set-up for us coming back at level 20 with exotic gear for a major showdown with that Kell... But instead we come right back in mission 2. So dumb. I guess we were ready all along, eh ghostie? Laaaaame.

But for Destiny 2 to have us revisit a location like the tower, only to find it destroyed, that would be great. "Here's Rahool's corpse. Oh, look, his body has evidence of his engram forgery scheme where he spraypaints green engrams blue and blue engrams purple and then sells them."

I hope it's not re-used area models, but all new models of currently existing areas, just as small sections of larger levels.

After LIS, when I play games she's in, I notice it's her immediately and become annoyed, which is weird since I never disliked her for Hey Ash Whatcha Playin or anything, or indeed at Chloe. *Shrug*

But thanks, I'll listen to this.

Jason Schreier and Kirk Hamilton talk to Ashly Burch about working on Horizon in their latest episode of Splitscreen. Nothing groundbreaking, but still a neat look at the process of doing voice work in video games. The interview starts at about the 29 minute mark.

And how much has changed is not limited to the passage of time in game, but possibly even the advances in their own development. Old playspaces as larger, contiguous playspaces.

One of the great examples of this is MGS4, when you go back to Shadow Moses, and you can visit much larger portions of the map without a loading screen or navigation limitations...