Meet Wheatley

[YM]

The problem with his voice is that he sounds like he is addressing a five year old. Last time I checked both myself and chell were adults and adults generally like to be spoken to like adults rather than little children.
He's so patronising.

 

[Leminnes]

I rather like it as well. Maybe some of us aren't choosy enough.

 

[Fraz]

He IS a personality sphere, maybe his personality is patronising.


hm?

 

[Randdalf]

His English accent sounds Australian D:

What. :facepalm:

 

[Micnax]

He IS a personality sphere, maybe his personality is patronising.


hm?

Sounds good to me.

He may even have multiple personalities.

 

[YM]

He IS a personality sphere, maybe his personality is patronising.


hm?

In that case he isn't patronising enough. It would be a pretty bad choice to have the main character as a deliberate patronising personality, especially with GLaDOS's lovely personality.

 

[Tinker]

The problem with his voice is that he sounds like he is addressing a five year old. Last time I checked both myself and chell were adults and adults generally like to be spoken to like adults rather than little children.
He's so patronising.

Every robot in Portal has that attitude, though, with a slight hint of evil by subtle wording. I think Wheatley is the morality core, though, so he'd be the most goody two-shoes out of them.

 

[Acumen]

Wheatley's Cockney accent heard in the Portal 2 demo at E3 2010 is actually a placeholder voice provided by Valve animator Richard Lord.[1] However, due to very positive feedback, Valve is considering making the voice official,[5] although Lord himself was still stating later that his voice was temporary, saying that "theres no way you will be dissapointed with the final voice - im over teh moon with who it might be."

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/06/portal-2-wheatley/

i just hope, that's gonna be it and it'll be replaced with proper voice acting. while i totally love english accents, this guy just has zero acting talent

 

[YM]

I wouldn't say they sound like they're talking to children at all. The turrets are naive personalities themselves and GLaDOS is patronising but not in that talking-to-a-five-year-old way.

 

[YM]

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/06/portal-2-wheatley/

i just hope, that's gonna be it and it'll be replaced with proper voice acting. while i totally love english accents, this guy just has zero acting talent

oooh that is good news!

 

[Ninjilla]

Even with the new actor, the sphere itself has too much motion to it for me. Doesn't seem very robotic when it moves more than a human.

 

[Acumen]

i like that movement a lot. makes me think of r2d2 all the time
much love for this wheatley

 

[YM]

Even with the new actor, the sphere itself has too much motion to it for me. Doesn't seem very robotic when it moves more than a human.

Agreed, it should be toned down imho

 

[Terr]

I keep seeing exposure for this video and wondering: "Why the heck is this being treated like it was new?"

____


I too thought: "Gee, this seems like a horrible dub-over", but I've seen no indications that that isn't the actual voice they're going to go with...

 

[Leminnes]

Agreed, it should be toned down imho

Why? It shows emotion, which might be programmed into its personality. It might have even developed after years of being alone in his little area with only turrets to talk to. You find it annoying that a robot shows too much emotion?

Personally, Wheatley reminds me of R. Daneel Olivaw from The Robot Series by Isaac Asimov. A helpful robot with a personality.

I already have a connection to Wheatley. He seems like a nice little personality sphere, I hope the others are like him.

 

[Prestige]

And on top of that, they named it something else AND changed the name!

lolzy

 

[Tapp]

I'm deliberately not watching this so that I can be hilariously suprised during the first 15 minutes of portal. This is going to be hard, really hard.

 

[Exist]

Hey I noticed a few things in the video

Valve is using tf2 prop, reskins maybe. check video at 1:50.

Also, there is detail around 1:45 that looks like doublecross's bridge

 

[YM]

Hey I noticed a few things in the video

Valve is using tf2 prop, reskins maybe. check video at 1:50.

Also, there is detail around 1:45 that looks like doublecross's bridge

I see nothing like doublecross' bridge.

The computer props at 1:50 may just be placeholder reskins or they may be entirely new. impossible to tell.

since the voice is temporary, I think its safe to assume other stuff is too.

 

[Penguin]

We know for a fact that the voice is temporary?