Chris Tester
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144 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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I think there's an element of Nintendo. Yes. Oh, God, that's part of, you know, what made us, you know, fans of this since childhood in the first place. You want it to be good. You want it to be good as when you were a kid. And I'm like, but I don't feel it. It's not doing the same thing for me anymore. It's simple as that. Yeah. Yeah. We sound like the exact same gamer.
Yes, you are right. Your opinion was very well thought through.
It becomes this huge epic, oh my God.
Yes, I have. Yeah, I have. And I, it's curious. It's like, I love CD Projekt Red in for so many things. For so many reasons. You can hear the buck coming at the same time. By the way, guys, like, you know, if CD Projekt Red, I don't know which next one. Yeah, I'm readily available and UK based just saying. But, um, It didn't land for me.
Uh, like the, um, I like the execution is phenomenal in that game on so many levels, like on paper, love it so much. The release is a huge issue for me. Oh, absolutely. For so many people, it was like, I'm a console guy. And it was like that build up to, it's my Christmas game. The one time I'm going to sit down and I can actually say like three full days reserved out.
I'm just going to be playing this game. And then it doesn't even load. So it was already on the back foot. And then when we actually kind of like get into it... I just didn't like, and this wasn't a performative issue, but I didn't like the protagonist very much. V? Yeah, V. And to be honest, I would say I only played the male V, not the female V. And I've heard that, you know,
Some people prefer the female to the male. So I've still got about 20, 25 minutes in, and I've enjoyed it. But if someone said, like, so what's the story of V? What are the big main kind of plot points and everything? I'd be like, well, he's going to die. He's a little crazy. Yeah, he's a bit time poor. And yeah, Jackie's not well.
I like it. But other than that, I'm kind of a bit like, I don't know. So, yeah. And I think it was also because it promised to be so many different types of games. So like when it kind of went into one of the first missions where it's kind of very covert and you've got to zoom between all of the different security cameras and listen into bits of the conversation and that kind of stuff.
And then it was like... Well, maybe you can do that again sometime in your playthrough if you really want to go out on a limb and do it. But you don't have to. And so I never did. And so for me, it didn't quite land in the same way. I get that. Yeah, I enjoyed it. I admire the ambition and the scope. So much style. Everything about it. I've obviously heard the DLC. It's phenomenal.
that's probably will probably get me into doing a fresh playthrough of it.
I mean, they're operating at such a high level to it. That's fine. But I think this is where the tension kind of comes in with somewhere like Red Dead. Red Dead is, I would arguably say, a little bit more of a linear experience. Yeah. And some of the story beats are so well crafted.
Fundamentally, it's your relationship with the villain in something like Red Dead Redemption 2 or even in the original kind of Red Dead. That twist, that turn is completely soul destroying to me. Whereas in terms of the big bad in cyberpunk, I'm a bit like... You know, I'm dead. You know, time is running out. I've got to make a couple of choices. Keanu did some bad things. Or did he? I don't know.
You know, I mean, there was just so much. But again, this may be also partly down to, you know, playing Red Dead Redemption at one point in my life and now trying to play Cyberpunk at another point where I've got like an hour or 45 minutes. Whereas Red Dead Redemption, it was like, it's half a day minimum. I've got to ride my horse now.
But I was more of a kind of resting actor during the release of that game. So yeah, I was allowed to explore that a lot more.
So do you mean specifically as a voice actor who just does games or in general?
Sure. Well, I think it still varies massively. So there are a lot of the talent that would be most recognizable to a lot of people will just go to exterior studios for when they're recording projects. And quite often they'll be cast in those projects or get auditions for those projects through their agents. That might be an acting agent or a voiceover agent.
My very first voice acting gig was Dark Souls 2. And that was through my acting agent at the time. I went to a studio to audition, like literally had 15 minutes to, you know, they gave me a picture of a half man, half scorpion. I assumed that it would sound, I don't know, a bit like a monster. And they said, no, in your normal voice. And I was like, sure. And then I went away.
And then two weeks later, I was booked in and I did the same thing. And so you're dealing with an audio engineer and then whoever else is directing who may be there or may not be there, that kind of thing. However, I would say 99% of my work is recorded from home. And that includes some video games as well.
So I was a theatre actor for about 15 years, but I've been also full-time voice acting from home for about seven years. So I have a bedroom that I've converted into a professional recording studio. And I do pretty much anything and everything. So I do corporate stuff, corporate narration, documentaries, commercials, and I do animation, video games, that kind of stuff as well.
Whereas a lot of voice actors will only do, you know, the video games and the animation maybe and character based kind of stuff. And maybe the odd commercial if the money is really, really good. So yeah, that's the kind of balancing act. For me, as a result of that, I also like a lot of the games that I'm in is because I've marketed myself or I am out there in some way, shape or form.
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