One of the few criticisms people had of Portal 2's E3 demo was that Wheatley, the English-accented Personality Sphere, sounded pretty damn dreadful. Well, Valve is a company that listens, and has revealed that Office co-writer and podcast legend Stephen Merchant will be taking over the role!
This is pretty fabulous news. I'm a big fan of Stephen Merchant as is anybody who likes funny men who are really tall. His voice and comedic timing will be a perfect fit for Portal 2, methinks, so this is a very, very good thing. Now GLaDOS is going to have some serious competition when it comes to quotability.
Portal 2 gets Stephen Merchant [CVG]
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8:20 AM on 08.18.2010
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Agreed
Anyway this is amazing news and anyone who dislikes those guys are rubbish.
You guys seen the new(ish) Ricky Gervais show, the one that's like a podcast where they just talk shit and lead Pilkington into saying retarded shit? It's hilarious.
Did you ever listen to the podcasts? I'm just curious to know why you find them unfunny (except Gervais recent lackluster films, which were in all honesty, not very funny)
Unless you know Extras quite well this quote will mean nothing to you
"what are you doing?"
"Im having a sing song!"
@ Sexualchoclate - the tv show is the same shows but animated for stupid americans, sorry but its true. Best thing anyone can do is get the cd's with the bonus MP3 disc.
Incidentally, Ricky Gervais has the BEST LAUGH IN THE WORLD!!!
Still, I bet Merchant will do a good job.
The TV show is put right in front of me with little to no effort required. If i was to put enough effort in to find the audio and extra MP3 content or whatever, well I'd probably just play games instead.
Any non-game entertainment must be literally at my finger tips while i lay on the Sofa or I'm just going to bother.
i'm sure they're great though.
Are you fucking kidding me?
I WANT KARL PILKINGTON!
Karl combined with Portal would literally be the greatest thing of all time
Neat.
Oh and this other guy sounds cool I guess.
Really going over board showing us everything so soon like this . Am I wrong to say valve doesn't normally give away so much info on an upcoming game? Every time there's portal news I almost cringe thinking of what tid bit of info or story line they'll give away next. I hope I'm wrong because I expect allot from valve to begin with.
THAT BEING SAID, Stephen Merchant will still probably do a better job.
Valve said from the very beginning that Wheatley's voice in the demo was not going to be in the final game. Regardless of whether anyone liked it or not.
I think too much emphasis is being put on the fact that some people didn't like it. It was going to change regardless.
I don't know anything about this Stephen guy, but I quite like Wheatley's old voice... oh well...
*shrugs*
Bleh.