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Feedback on new Nasus VO

Calderweiss·10/31/2013, 12:48:10 AM·13 votes·1,163 views

What The !@#$

I want to make it very clear how the community feels about Nasus's voice. We love it. We do NOT I repeat do NOT want it changed.

The old voice actor did an amazing job. He does not need a lot of lines. What he says is perfect. Remember when you remade trundle and sejuani? What happened to preserving the parts of a character that really define that character to the community?

Plus, the old voice actor is dead. Keep his VO, and pay your respects to him. This is how we pay our tributes to the dead voice actor. To us, he will always be Nasus.

Maybe if we could get the option to choose the old VO we would be happy. Classic Nasus players could play to the dead voice actor's voice.

Riot, you are making decisions without us. Sometimes you have to. But when it comes to reworking champions, you better understand what we hold dear about that champion.

EDIT: After having seen the new voice, it is just is not even close to the same feeling I got from the old. He sounds like an angry lucian now, instead of patient. He was the voice of cold, merciless judgement, and now he just sounds like an angry black dude with some voice effects. No longer is there an air of mystery around his new voice.

Riot came SO CLOSE to nailing this VU, but the new voice completely fails to capture the feeling that we got from playing Nasus. Sure, you already paid the voice actor, had him do the recording. That's fine. Give us a sound byte pack so we can listen to Gene Mcdaniels and let people somehow enjoy the new voice who a didn't own him before.

22 Comments

PhoenixSlayer1310/31/2013, 1:55:38 AM9 votes

Merge old VO into new VO if possible.

Keeps Gene's legacy while also allowing for new lines.

Otherwise, an option to choose between old and new VO.

Marty The Mimic10/31/2013, 3:50:07 AM3 votes

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CupcakeTrap10/31/2013, 4:11:44 AM3 votes

I don't want to undermine the new voice actor's work, but I have to agree that I'm wary of changing the voicework on a classic Champion known perhaps most of all for his voicework.

Again, I feel kind of weird saying this, but that's one thing I don't like about the new Garen. His voice is too derpy. Garen is already derpy enough: he's a shining knight with enormous shoulderpads who whirls around in a circle with a comically big sword. Let that speak for itself. He worked better with a dignified, if over-the-top, "heroic" voice. The new cartoony voice is just a little too ... well, just listen to him as he whirls around now.

Sephirux10/31/2013, 5:40:55 PM3 votes

The voice fits perfectly IMO. Hope they preserve current VO in some way.

Josiahfied10/31/2013, 6:57:53 AM2 votes

I don't think they mean to disrespect Eugene if they change it. We can't hate them if they do, change happens. If the new VO isn't as good then just turn your voice volume down and say the old lines yourself or better, download the mp3s now and play them as you play. XD

SmokingPuffin10/31/2013, 8:07:40 AM2 votes

I'm pretty nervous about this too. Nasus has a great voice set right now and I will miss it.

I wonder if they could make a Traditional Nasus skin that has his updated default skin look and the old voiceover work.

TerrifiedApe10/31/2013, 2:01:47 PM2 votes

I don't mean to disrespect the deceased VO but I have to be honest, the first time I used Nasus the first and I mean very first thing I noticed is that his voice didn't seem to fit. I get that he is supposed to be super intelligent and all that it never felt like the voice fit to me.

204Bumrush10/31/2013, 4:54:08 PM2 votes

Nasus totally right, his original VO is what what we use to associate our like /dislike with a character, change that, and our opinion will change too. "The cycle of life and death continues... "

Valenten10/31/2013, 8:22:58 PM2 votes

QuQuroon already mention that they would be preserving everything that they can of the Old VU. So more than likely its going to be a combination of the new and old.

Artifictional10/31/2013, 1:45:02 AM2 votes

If Nasus gets a new VO, I will refund all my Nasus Content

SIDxVICIOUS10/31/2013, 1:25:36 AM2 votes

Agree!

FaerKhan11/7/2013, 10:25:16 PM1 votes

Not letting this one die. RIP Gene, you will be missed.

naMyegooBehT10/31/2013, 2:18:10 AM1 votes

Keep old VO please! So awesome! An option would be really neat actually. Merging new and old would be kind of cool but also kind of lame, seeing that he would sound different with different things he said. So please, no changes or at least options.

"Where angels fear to tread" - Nasus (Gene)

Vakabiel10/31/2013, 11:53:10 AM1 votes

The easiest thing for them to do would be to allow the classic voice lines on the classic skin. Use the updated ones on the rest.

Kaine11/1/2013, 12:08:15 AM1 votes

The courseness of the new voice seems artificial in that Draven skin way... I miss my clear and immoveable Nasus QQ and it's not even released.

Arc Noir11/1/2013, 9:51:39 AM1 votes

I understand updating the voice to give it some more detail and add to his character but to be honest I feel like I would rather not see him become kind of the generic bloodmcdeath some of the other bruisers are when it comes to the voice acting, he literally just has Aatrox's voice if it was eternity focused instead of war focused. He should be stoic, calm, patient and intellegent, not sir Deathalot.

Sycogenesis11/2/2013, 8:28:21 PM1 votes

The new VO is Lucians Vo and honestly he doesn't sound much diff since he has a added special effect sound added to his voice