signed

"Thanks for signing."

ITT: Hard to be 12.

You guys know that Xian is not voiceover guy or anything like that?

It's a matter of creating a fuss, making them see the magnitude of this issue. Pushing the buttons, showing that WE CARE and feel strong about it.

It's doubtful how far this will take us, but we gotta try.
As someone put it:

"It's like substituting the front singer of Metallica with katy perry"
Sure.. the drums, guitar, and bass is the same - however it won't be METALLICA anymore..

Its nothing like that at all. The product of a band is the music and a vocalist is one of the key points of a bands music. Replace the singer and all the music sounds entirely different.

In a game the key product is the gameplay. Change the announcer and the gameplay is still the same. Just like if you make all the members of metallica wear hot pants, the music would still be same.

1. Changing the lead singer of a metal band to a pop singer = MASSIVE change

2. Removing the rocket launcher from quake = MASSIVE change

3. Making the metallica singer get a pretty gay nose piercing = TINY change

4. Changing the announcer in a quake to a less manly announcer = TINY change


1 and 2 are on the same level, 3 and 4 are on the same level. 1 and 4 are not on the same level.

3. Castrate the Metallica singer and dress him up in pink clothes.

Rather.

Or tell them to play with Lou Reed

The guitarist for lou reed used to be my neighbor.

My dad's roommate taught the guitarist of Alice in Chains how to play.

I once had a drink with Shane MacGowan in pub in Pall Mall. Couldn't take my eyes off his teeth.

I know this story is a lie by your use of the word 'teeth.'

He's got a new set now apparently

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-...teeth.html

The pic of him in 1994 doesn't look right somehow.

Ok.. fair enough, I will follow your logic for the sake of debating.
So.. It's a "TINY" change, but nonetheless a change that matters to alot of people. Visit the QL forums, and you will find countless of threads on this particular issue. Despite the massive amount of changes in total, THIS was the focus of the community. The new VO announcer received immediate negative responses.

To me, the quake voice was an essential part of the game, and was recognized as so during the late 90's into 00's.
Notice, that I am not complaining about the other updates.
This voice was a fundamental part of quake since the beginning, just as certain other things were in UT.

You could argue the importance, but clearly (taking all the threads/posts into consideration) it's a big deal.

You are ofcourse entitled to your opinion, and it should be respected. But please understand that this matters to alot of us, and we are feel it was a wrong move. I am not whining, *****ing, moaning, or a general hypocrit. I simply do not agree with this change, and have created a petition to try change it back. (contructively).


/miSc

I'm not saying lots of people dont care about this change because clearly they do. Its just that your metallica example was terrible.

how much you care =/= how big the change is

Switch the RL skin with green dildo = tiny change, gameplay unaffected, yet different quake experience. Get it?

that would only apply if the new announcer was a flamboyant gay man who commented on the players butts

amazing announcer replaced by an announcer that isnt as good is not the equivalent of current RL replaced by a giant green dildo

Get it?

Apparently some people are of the opinion that he sounds gay.

But that itself doesnt matter. Were talking principles here and my point was that even changing textures or wav files ("tiny changes", as you call it) can have major impact on your whole experience with the game.

Yes but in your point you took a part of quake and gave an example where it was replaced with something clearly ridiculous.

But that isnt what happened here. In this case something from quake was taken away and replaced with something not great, but not ridiculous and stupid like a green dildo.

Thats why the 2 examples are not the same.

Apparently this is up to interpretation and the new VO sounds like a green dildo to some.

Of course its up to interpretation, but the analagies are stupid. It may well offend him as much as replacing the RL with a big green dildo, but to say this situation is the equivalent in a general sense isnt true.

It might be the equivalent in his head, but any sane person can see that replacing a VO with a worse but not deliberately ridiculous VO isnt as bad as replacing weapons in the game with giant sex toys.

So for him to try to explain it to me as though its a fact and ending his thick headed sentence with "Get it?" is at the tippy top of the dumb arse scale.

What's that? Pop singer metal?

I think he meant this

It's funny that they barely go into his growling stuff if any ( I skipped through it), the dude's voice is pretty versatile.

thought it wasn't possible to get him very easily as from what I saw written by sync?

Just think about where Xian works now and where he used to work.


That'll make some things more clear as to why he can't be invited for new VO's.

so at the end of the day, we have to move on, "stay with what we have" or, get other popular / agreed on themes. Seems like a better vote, no offense Mr petitioner and q3 VO lovers..

Or set the old VO back in place maybe?

ofc, but what about accommodating the new announcements?

1) Keep this corny faggot for that.

2) Icon only.


I would say 2) is better.

what would be the best long term solutions is give the users the option. Some might be quite catchy and useful. I suppose, to put in, a cg_1, cg_1+2, or individually (more complex perhaps) or currently just disable enable all as a quick shortcut, until they get time?

Damn son, its just an announcer. Sure the old one was better, but its not worth crying about.

Omg you are one of last ppl expected by me to say something like this :D

Fuck you

No thank you

R I D D I C K
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I want the original Virtua On too!

Only 17 signatures, maybe there isn't that many people who actually care?

The whole Painkiller community has signed it!

:_D

people care, but recognise a futility of such petition

Just sign it already.

Futility is an end in itself. Some famous philosopher said that I expect.

The new voice is abominable though. HMG. Loadouts, the removal of Terminal Heights from the duel mappool. All of these things I can live with, but not this new voice. He sounds like a slightly creepy, slightly perverted Sat Nav

"He sounds like a slightly creepy, slightly perverted Sat Nav"

Just a metrosexual tryhard monkey. Plain and simple. : D

Too many fields to fill out. Fuck that. Do a strawpoll or do a poll here.

Signed.

Also shared. Which is outstanding from me, since I don't ever share anything.

... not even your love.

No one's worthy atm.

It's just an announcer, I didn't like the previous one neither.
It was better because I didn't notice it. Few more games and you will stop noticing the new one as well.

Are you willing to bet serious money on it?

I know myself and my brain well enough. If you don't then play and observe.

I know myself well enough. You would lose.

now if it was a petition to fire sponge then you'd have something here...

If nothing changes, we can still do that.

don't forget syncerror, it was his idea

Hi Sponge! \o

"Hola

Gracias por firmar mi petición, "Quakelive: Bring back the Soul of Quake!".

Puedes contribuír a ganar esta petición pidiéndole a tus amigos que la firmen. Es muy fácil compartirla con tus amigos en Facebook: sólo tienes que hacer clic aquí para compartirla.

Aquí abajo tienes un ejemplo del correo que les puedes reenviar a tus amigos.

Gracias de nuevo. ĄSé que juntos podemos cambiar las cosas!

Andy "miSc" "

wat. Buenos Aires, muchos gracias senior Siarra.
cavalerios companieros amigos Bailamos.

GJ ,soon you guys have destroyed everything good with the game...

who gives a fuck about VO, just remove all recent updates apart from new layout..

Are you trying to say new layout is worth leaving as it is?

not really, but Im guessing this is the best they can comeup with..

:D
sad

you expect them to do better???????

I agree with you and it's sad that ql is getting shit on.

Sounds like Duke Nukem with a dick stuck in his ass.

I like the new voice-overs . . . the only problem is some of them don't play. I never hear a "tied the leader" voice-over.

It was removed intentionally apparently.

Because never was such a line.

http://www.caligirl.net/album/t-z/xian.html

dat Xian has very good taste

+d for Killing Joke, memories of a misspent youth :D

Can't believe they are using this disgusting new voice instead of the real one. Absolutely disgusting

are you the guy who chases the players on halloween infected mode servers?

lmao

..

'You know what they say about Quake players - a bunch of bitchy little girls.'

*bitchy little manchildren

I can win, Can i play daddy?

I put this on whenever i hear a buch of quake players raging over a tiny change.

Meine Liebe, meine Rose.

I haven't logged into this new update, but I quite like the idea of HR PufnStuf being an announcer.

nostalgia

[edit] I read that wrong, didn't I? What a let down :(

THIS!

It only works for the Professor

:(

Good news everyone!

I dont mind the new vo.
makes me laugh... haha.... ha.. ha.. ha.. haha.
keeps me from raging.


old one is better. it fits the atmosphere of the game better.

For the last damn time, the new announcer, Chris Sabat, voiced the DRAGON from Dragon Ball Z! Just let him redo his lines with that as the goal and he'd be at worst acceptable, at best a fresh twist on our demonic old Xian, the Bringer of Light himself.

Your wish has not been granted.

sadly the original demonic theme has gone, for a more airy fairy, less age restrictive, FPS sound. pink fluffy clouds and demonic ftw

less age restrictive

And they add an announcer that sounds like the voice over guy of a cheap porno movie trailer?

"Two dicks in a row... Excellent!"

"Double penetration... Impressive!"

Etc.

hahah

lol

Someone on the forum said they felt like they were being molested every time they heard the voice.

I don't think I experience it quite that badly, but I completely get where he's coming from.

[+] here for petition for a cooller voiceover Kreygasm

It's only a bad choice because of the amount of money they would've had to pay Sabat.

How fucked would we be if they actually went and changed the VO again? There goes $10k+ that could've gone to development of the game... OH WAIT THAT HAPPENED ANYWAY LOL

Can't they just add like a voice changing program that can make it sounds "satanic" over the sounds or something?

Someone asked on the QL forum why fix it it wasn't broken, and I said the same thing when I first heard it.

I guess what happened was that they wanted new voice overs for new medals, but Xian was no longer at Id. Also, they wanted to redo all the previous voice overs because they were kind of a mess being recorded at different times and lacking a lot of consistency. I'm not sure if Xian even did the attack and defend VOs, they sounded really strange.

I guess they knew Mr. Sabat, and knew of his impressive resume, and got him to do all the VOs without breaking the bank. I can completely understand wanting to jump on such an opportunity when it became available.

What I don't understand is how the final result sounded acceptable. I'm sure Mr. Sabat's range of voice and professional experience could make something more suitable than what we hear with the current sounds.

Plus, if I were he I'd feel a little uneasy about the voice-overs when you compare them to the previous ones. I wouldn't want to let Xian's announcer sound like he could give my announcer an atomic wedgie.

Maybe Sync was a little starstruck and overly excited by the opportunity, such that he wasn't in the right mental state to criticize Mr. Sabat and fuss over the final product.

Of course this is pure speculation. All of this was carried out in complete secrecy. Not that we should necessarily be privy to every major operation in the game's development, but I can't help but feel that asking a few players for feedback could have made a significant difference here.

It's kind of like if I was needing to redo voice overs for my game, and Patrick Stewart dropped by and offered to do it for cheap. I'd be so over the moon that I'd probably just take the first recording each time, and be mortified to find they were horribly out of place in the actual game.

Then I'd be a real jam, do I try to get him to rerecord them? Could be kind of insulting. Then if I don't use them, wouldn't that be rude too? I'd have a hard time telling someone like that that their voice samples ended up sounding "wussy".

Sounds spot on to me.

That was pretty much what I had in mind, however If I would have posted about it, it would have been much more boring.
Your version made it sound more fun by bringing it one step further; recalling the order on pretext that it sounded more wussy ;P In my case it was more about the shame of asking for a re-work due to the context that was presumably misinterpreted or simply due to a lack of quality.

Like I said to someone already, can you imagine how bad it would be to encounter that kind of VO in a sport game? It might be a little bit far fetched but he is supposed to be in some way the commentator of a sport.

I think an interesting experiment would be reversing the situation. What if these were the originals and the originals were new? I have a feeling that a lot of people would disapprove of the change.

"they knew Mr. Sabat, and knew of his impressive resume"

IMPRESSIVE resumé...

:' D


"Sync ...wasn't in the right mental state"

Now this is true.


Also, comparing Patrick Stewart to this 3rd rate corny noob (or even mentioning them in the same sentence) is wrong on so many levels.

You are describing a lack of a proper producer for this sort of recording session. Someone who raises a thumb and says "that was good" every time isn't this person. Someone who has a clear vision of what is wanted and he has the ability to get it out of Mr. VO, OR if he the said artist doesn't have it in him, then have him do something hi CAN do.

>> they wanted to redo all the previous voice overs because they were kind of a mess being recorded at different times and lacking a lot of consistency.

The new one is not consistent either.
For example: "two frags left" is much faster than "one frag left". Makes no sense.
This stuff needs somebody with authority directing things.

[Patrick Stewart] is pretty neat in his area yeah, theres bound to be one futher mucking actor who had a misspent youth / timeout of work who played Quake? who would do it on the cheap.

Sean Bean has a very adaptable voice, shame he wasn't cheap. But its skimming over the VO like all other tweaks;

He was in: Patriot games, Golden eye, Lord of the rings, Troy, Game of thrones, and many more, always was involved in "spectacular death scences" in movies.. etc Surely he could have been a contender for VO?

that's a nice way of defending what syncerror did. Maybe adam shouldn't have kept things secret then. It's his own fault.

;)

Fuck i miss playing this game.

Download --> install --> PROFIT

No "Buy" step? :(

Whatever floats your boat.

200+ signs (Milestone)

A huge thank you to all that signed, and those who helped spread the word!
We have reached a milestone. A wobbling 200 have signed the petition so far, and we are reaching 250 soon!!

The debate is still going strong, and I am sure the devs have noticed all this commotion. My goal was to bring awareness to the matter, and ultimately to have the VO announcer changed. Hopefully we will acheive this, fingers crossed! Remember, all of this will be sent to the administration of QUAKELIVE, id Software and their mother company.

Also a big thanks to those who decided to speak up, sign, and join the debate - people who usually don't get involved. Every vote counts, and your support is awsome! THANK YOU!

Players.. UNITE !

/miSc

Are you for realz?

how about... you give it time.. and there will be more then 1 voice over to choose from, did you think about that, before you make a fool of yourself sending emails around?

The problem that he and others see, is that Syncerror decided to make these changes without even consulting the focus group. He just made them outright like the dictator he is.

A pretty shitty dictator, if you ask me.

How about start a petition to unban me for leaving constructive feedback about the changes on the forum.... Resulted in my game account being banned.

nun/phlx http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...post303715

'I'm too stupid to follow a direct public warning', does not make you community bail out material.

according to lorfa, you and others who left "constructive" feedback, were part of a rebellion and "inciting a riot".

Hi SyncTerror.

So what happens when there are 500 'signatures' ?

It's overwhelming to see all those signs, and to be honorst - I wasen't exspecting that many.

As long as it's steady growing, I am just going to leave it. When the /signs stops coming in, I will send the petition to Quakelive, id Software administration.

That in itself is a significant indicator something is wrong. Of course id isn't forced to act upon it, but if they choose not to, that's a significant indicator as well.

So a stupid voice-over gets a petition but the loadouts and game changes don't?
And you honestly think "500" is a significant number?

Name 500 active quake players.

Do you think that the fact nobody's going to waste its time doing this long task will mean anything?

what

You ask for something requiring so much work that it's unlikely anyone will even try. So basically you won't be able to conclude anything from the lack of response to your demand.

A bit over 500 active quake players list: http://www.qlranks.com/

(So easy, huh? ;)

Ah I don't think he will be satisfied with that answer though :p.

It's ok. I know it wasn't an honest question. ;)

My point was that 500 is a significant portion of the current player base.

there are enough polls around to satisfy the QL changes, just linked with Loadouts alone :P could be there for ever, just constructing them lol

wait what? you actually believe those numbers?

The conspiracy unfolds!

Even if you divide the number of players listed on QLRanks by 1000 (and I agree the majority of those accounts are probably either inactive or are alts or something), it's still over 500.

500 pro subs x 1 year sub = enough to pay for infrastructure and 2 devs? Come on.. Outside of the number of subs that keep the game going, how many standards are playing? I'm willing to bet there's more standards than subs. 500 is insignificant.

hit em where it hurts

cancel dat sub

why is there even a petition for this

its clear as anything that this is not wanted by the majority.

[its clear as anything that this is not wanted by the majority]

its their "forced" evolutionary vision, of fixing parts that were not broken. However simple console commands for VO, to change back or choose would have been better "depth of thought"! But I have not seen much of that lately.

I still like the physics of the game, but "loads" is mashed "out", apart from duel, which came from HARDCORE DM which is "top end" FFA, but they then mess up with FFA.

So that screws with the top end duel side in the long term.

Seems like someone is a trogan horse in id, and want it further shredded into a single dimensional, 1 area populated game type wp gg.

forced additions + crap = minus population.

[+] for first line
[-] for second
net zero

LOL!

who cares about game issues whezn the announcer is shit. totally justified petition.

It is kind of weird. I think some of the same people that didn't have a problem with load outs in quake are going batshit crazy over the change in announcer.

talk about "priorities"

Nah. I think loadouts, unified ammo packs, modified respawn times, modified weapon spawns, HMG, item timers are plain ridiculous, laughable and a spit to the faithful face.
Announcer was the last drop in the glass.

Let's all meet at dm6 tomorrow around 16:00. Don't forget to bring signs and bongo drums, WE ARE CHANGE!

All Bridge!!!1

If you want them to hide at YA pillars.

Should the petition reach 500, that would be great. Is it enough to convince the devs or administration to change the voice? Who knows, probably not. But then atleast.. we tried :)

That's the whole point, make a fuzz about it - and TRY to make them see it was a bad idea.
The petition itself, the many threads, all of it helps.

I also agree, that many of the game changes are questionable. One could make a petition for that too, but this is aparently bigger than that. The majority seems more concerned about the voice change, than the game changes.

We are now over 350 signs (381) to be exact.

Is the voice really that bad? Is it a vital issue concerning gameplay? To some it is, but it's hard to compare it with an actual game change /mod etc.

It is sentimental, it's about nostalgia, its about something that is affiliated with the QUAKE itself. Like a logo, or a specific weapon (ike the rocket). Both UT and QUAKE have their own unique sayings and voice, "Mmm mo mo moooonster kill !" and quake's "HOLY SHIT!" ..

The old voice was in tune with the gamestyle, the violence, splatter, guts and coolness. The new one is not...

Some even say, they feel less inspired to play - when they hear the new one.

I just think there WAS and IS better alternatives to the current voice change.

-miSc

signed. Horrible VO :'(

Want the original announcer back?

FUCK YOU, PAY ME - id

We have how many cvars and we couldn't get one to choose the announcer?

As an oldschool player I will say this.
You can send this to Zenimax, id Software or my ex girlfriend.

Quake has a proud lineage. Part of it is the feeling of competing on fantasy arenas under cruel tutelage of Arena Gods, what was a charming part of Quake 3. The original announcer was meant to be a voice of demon-like judge who observes and presides over the match and announces important feats/game moments. Therefore it was thick, heavy, brimming with supernatural power.
Now as much as I respect the actor who did the new VO, he completely missed the mark there. He's too soft, too much "ssss" and too much polite. He lacks the bassy cadence of Xian's original voiceover.
QL needed many changes, some more than others, but this change was COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY.
Please, let us all attempt at democracy and try to pass this petition to the developers. Maybe, just maybe they will rethink their choice and remake VO.

Lolzy has spoken.

Also:

THE GAY ANNOUNCER SHOULD GO AWAY.

APAGE! APAGE SATANAS!

The author of that VO should be eaten alive by a bunch of half-naked penguins returning from an inter-polar orgy where things that mated together are different to comprehend and their offspring foul beyond belief.

He should be eaten alive because he completely misunderstood what Quake is for. It's a game supposed to be about KILLING OTHER PLAYERS. The Q3A already amde it soft b/c of that arena shit and neverending fight on the arena, but now they're really reaching a point of faggotry where the QL servers will suddenly ahve problems with their RAIDs due to faggotry clotting the SAS cables between matrixes.

No gibs, oooohhhh-kay. Happens. Why, I don't know but they removed them. Hooray, no gay blood, blood is for kids! Real men play without blood! Hooray!

No satanic/demonic imagery - okay, someone might get offended (the same leftist metrosexual crap as with the gore/gibs), remove that as well. Make it all look like Fisher Price castles or GI Joe fortresses. Make it all so hello kitty. Okay, ehh. We got over that.

Now we have announcer thats attempting to give us psychotherapy during the match. His "impressive" announcement sounds like he wants to touch my private parts. He generally thinks it's a LEGO game or some other crap. Now QL is "teen" as shit, but no real teen would play it. Gore, offending imagery, booming voice saying that you just FUCKED somebody up or got beaten to the ground were things that drew us into Quake as much as pure skill-based gameplay, when we were teens.

Whats next, remove void? Remove lava/slime? These things hurt too, they kill! They can offend someone! Make this game completely sanitized so lobotomy patients can finally have their own PC game.

cmon 3 signatures needed

I'm 500th signature. What do I win?

An autographed custom meme image pertaining to id software made by Lolzy.

REVENGE

There are no limit to the petition, so it will just keep aiming for the next milestone. I will close it as soon as I sense no more signs are coming in, and then send it off to QL, id Soft.. etc.

There was 500 lastnight, and this morning 525. So it's still going...

I'm giving it 24 hours. Perhaps we can reach 550 :)

Thank you all for the support !

What a load of fucking bollocks, you'll get used to it. like any game sounds changes, they sound weird at first but then they are fine.

That's a bad argument imo. You can get used to pretty much anything. Doesn't mean it's right.
What if they changed the announcer to a chipmunk? You still say: "don't worry, you'll get used to it"?

ow my, a petition.

thanks for proving once more you, the community, are the source of all quake problems.

Could you atleast provide constructive critism, explain WHY you think this is a bad idea?

Your negative / pessimistic attitude has no value to the debate, if you don't give a reason... It's like saying: "I don't like ice cream" so?

Secondly.. what harm does this petition do to you?

It's fine if your against all of this, but atleast explain why.

because its dumb and pointless. even if the aim of this petition was actually valid, noone would care. its fucking internet petition. it has the same power as me. therefore i declare myself king of all known world.

all hail me!


ow wait, i have no power to make myself a king.

Make a poll, I'd vote for you!

fucking probation

E A SPORTS ITS IN THE GAME

All in the game, yo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_RIo7UW7HQ

Emma Watson upon hearing the new VO

so, there's money for proffessional voice actors, but not for matchmaking?

There's probably money for coffee in the office too.

That explains a lot.

You know what's funny after the update? All available servers are in the red ping zone (89). Not a single server in the green zone. That's a major mess up for the company. Why would this update destroy the game entirely? It's like ID purposely did this to ruin the game before merging to steam?

I'm surprised there are 800 supporters who signed the petition though. I was hoping this game would die. That's why I will not be signing the petition and I urge everyone else to not to as well. Let's move on to better games.

not hard to make new email accounts...

Do you really want to play this game with people like "campingtroll" or "excalibur1" or the rest of them trolls? Game is pointless because they exist. Why do people continue to support a game that no longer has a user-base? The same players in every server all day long competing who has the most elo points. Sad.

Imagine Gilbert Gottfried doing VO in QL :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H3xQzQauyY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1RcKJVbHA

Funny where the line gets drawn for different people -- what makes Quake no longer Quake.

For me, the "soul of Quake" started to disperse as soon as they caved to the longstanding rail complaints and began nerfing guns in an attempt to save Q4 way back in 2007 (1.4 beta onward). Spoiler alert: it didn't work out. Players who were aware of the game's existence continued to avoid it for any number of other reasons, and the remaining Q4 players weren't that thrilled. Before that time, balance issues were best solved by mappers -- no-rail maps in the map pool or adding a little more armor where needed.

Quake Live seemed like a better idea when it was about introducing the series to new players; for that, the browser gimmick made a certain amount of sense. Not sure when or how it suddenly became "the future of deathmatch" and the definitive version of Quake 3. What I would have really liked to see is optional browser integration for all the Quake games, so if you wanted to, you could get centralized updates, stats, demos, etc. and launch/join through a plugin, but the games themselves would have remained standalone and decentralized. Also don't see why id didn't offer the Quake games cheap and DRM-free from their website, relying instead on Steam and having free community repacks of their games circulating anyway.

Then, maybe the browser-based Quake Live could have stayed "Quake Lite" -- a free version of Quake with training wheels to help new players along before they're ready to move on to real Quakes. I'll admit that my interest in Quake Live these days is down to simple shadenfreude; I just check in every so often to see what other weird stuff they're doing to the game. Sure, throw in some hats, trading cards... Would it really make a difference at this point?

"Not sure when or how it suddenly became "the future of deathmatch" and the definitive version of Quake 3"

when this community of sheep started playing it.

first q3
then q4 until wsvg was done.
then back to q3 cuz cpl had a tourney.
everyone switched to cpma even though no body wanted it.

you can trace all the problems in quake back to arqon

3-2-1-faaaaaaooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight /q [TAB] [ENTER]

Xian commenting on this

bad link

just look at top comment:

>I just got the game on steam, is there a way to get the classic announcer back?

Xian01:

Highly unlikely.

Source: I'm the original voice of the Quake 3 Announcer

Proof: http://clyp.it/xw3fi5uv]

NSFW

plays audio on visit

:D sorry ... just copied his comment

Can't he just tell id: "Hey guys, I'll do the extra voice overs."
He hates id now? Oculus won't let him? What's the deal.

Bethesda suing occulus probably dont help.

I can understand upper management not suggesting this on their own.
But if this guy just tells them: "Hey guys is ok if I spend 5 minutes to do a handful of voice overs?" I think it should be able happen.

Maybe he couldn't do it without compensation (I heard about Texas' labor laws being kinda drastic) and id might not want to give him anything.

see #189

can I request /topshots from OSP days?

more gunpowder on the fire..

http://www.reddit.com/r/QuakeLive/comments/2h...to/ckpsty9

If it's a grease fire, explosives are the answer. Water just makes it worse.

Is it a grease fire?

Even newbies have told me how fucking stupid the new voice sounds, and they didn't had reference from Q3. Showed them Q3 videos and said "Much better". So there.

Good god, this changes everything.

It's objectively a shitty voice, there was nothing to change. It perpetuall sucked, therefore there was never a chance to "change", it sucked from day 1.

Give me a all the lines and a mic, I can do it better than the voice which is inside now..

We reached 1000 !

I was very sceptical at first, thinking no one really cared except me. Though I quickly learned, that was not the case. PLENTY cared, 1000 players cared, and countless posts and threads shows great support.

Next, would the devs even care about a petition, about our voice as players? Well... regardless of what I think, i felt a need to atleast give it a go... TRY, can't harm.

After we reached 1000 signs, I sent it off to the various departments of IDSoft, Quakelive, and their mother company Zenimax Media Inc.

Not too long after, Syncerror at Quakelive responded with this:

Syncerror:
"The original announcer cannot be implemented as it is now an incomplete set, but we hope to offer additional/alternative announcer options in the future. "
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...ck!/page15

Ok... so we didn't get the old voice back. I wasen't exspecting that either to be honorst, who did? ;)

Still... it's a win in some way. Atleast I got em to consider options, and respond to us. I am still waiting for response from Zenimax and IDsoft, but so far.. so good.

If we get an alternative in the future, to switch back and forth? Perhaps update the full set of VO, so it's within the spirit of quake? Well.. GOOD! So far.. it seems they are open to the idea.

Make a fuzz, people look, Make a BIG ENOUGH fuzz, people pay attention. ;)

GG.

Calm down fella,

the new voice is just as good after playing a couple of hours.

Check your blood pressure, reduce the hormone count
The world moves on with or without you

No, the new voiceover is shit.

The end.

Not a single day passes by without reading an utterly stupid comment here.

gg

maybe you shouldn't post as often

lol, "incomplete set". People would like that set anyway, without the few sounds for new awards (or id could just provide a few alternative sounds for that). Also the anime guy voice set is incomplete as well, it's missing "welcome to quake live" introduction sound.

you just got automated response'd. he already said that long ago.

The devs went all silent after those updates, for months by now. Does it mean there's nothing more coming up, in general and about the VO?

On this regard the said updates only introduced a couple of new sounds and words, so I don't see the point of spending money in changing the whole announcer altogether just for those very few new sounds. The change could make sense if more awards and others are introduced, but there's no news about the game at all and nothing new about the VO has been introduced to the game in months, making the change thus far wasted money and effort.

Secondly, I hope that they re-record some particular sounds since some are quite bad frankly, like 'impressive'.

Funny to see how many people are that naive..
This fuck will not get any shit back.

Oh my fucking Coooller!, Who da fuck cares! As long as we all get to play quake i'm good.

loled hard
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