Unused Prime Speech?

2009-10-13 02:52:29 pm

That's definitely Jennifer Hale, or a very good impressionist.

But it begs the question, assuming this was in the depths of the game's coding, why would it not be used?

Prime Hunter

2009-10-13 03:40:45 pm

Even though you say it was only found today, I feel like I've heard this somewhere before now. It seems familiar in any case.

It feels like something that would've been used for the intro scene where they placed that other speech in some versions of Prime. It would've been weird for Samus to be talking about herself in the third person like that though, because from what I can assume based on her other voice acting work it must be Jennifer Hale. (And TheGreenManalishi agrees) That's the best thing I can come up with for why this wasn't used if it was available for the game in the first place.

2009-10-13 04:12:47 pm

I know Jennifer Hale did the (minimal) voice acting for Samus in all the Primes, and potentially Brawl. I'm familiar with her voice from the vast amounts of dialogue her character is given in MGS4.

This seems very likely to be her.

2009-10-13 04:53:08 pm

Fear Me! (Or else...)

Hm... I think I pronounce a few of those names differently, like 'zeebs', but I think I just pronounce 'Samus' weird. Still, that's interesting. Do you think it was just unfinished, and they hadn't modulated the voice at all, or do you think they were actually going to use that voice as-is?

2009-10-13 05:02:28 pm

Samus was always supposed to stay silent. That's why they didn't use it.

Opium

2009-10-13 05:36:17 pm

I didn't know the voice was supposed to be Samus'.

Prime Hunter

2009-10-13 05:51:49 pm

Based on the text, you wouldn't think that Samus was saying that. But if you take the voice itself into account, which we're pretty sure is Jennifer Hale, then it becomes a little confusing. At least to me.

Zeke

2009-10-13 06:29:09 pm

Time bomb set get out fast!

Quote from Baby Sheegoth:

Samus was always supposed to stay silent. That's why they didn't use it.

People say this sometimes, and it always confuses me. Remember the opening of Super Metroid? She won't shut up!

Cool find. I have no idea why they cut it, but I doubt it has to do with Samus using the third person. No one would have noticed that it was Samus's voice -- all she does in the game is grunt occasionally.

(Btw, I've always stressed the "Mother" in Mother Brain, but Hale stresses the "Brain". Probably makes more sense.)

2009-10-14 03:41:33 am

Quote from Baby Sheegoth:

Samus was always supposed to stay silent. That's why they didn't use it.

Link and Mario are meant to stay silent because they have tonnes of personality, despite not talking. Samus, however, has very little in terms of a discernable personality and it is that reason that I believe Samus should speak. And no-one could do it better than Jennifer Hale.

SkippyJr

2009-10-14 12:31:43 pm

Oh yes, pvm01.dsp! I hope you were just as freaked out and excited as I was when I first heard it.

Quote from Prime Hunter:

Even though you say it was only found today, I feel like I've heard this somewhere before now. It seems familiar in any case.

I found and posted this (at SCU) back in July 2006, you might remember it from there. I know the MP3 I made was circulated a bit, even referenced for the pronounciation for Zebes on Wikipedia. That is until the people at MdB declared it a hoax/fake. The authors of the GC DSP player for winamp were the first to discover it.

As for unused tracks, here is some beta music from the Kiosk Disks that had the space frigate demo of Prime:
48- ruins-main-plaza.adp MP3 OGG
43- ice-world.adp MP3 OGG

Oh yes, pvm01.dsp!  I hope you were just as freaked out and excited as I was when I first heard it.
[quote="Prime Hunter"]
Even though you say it was only found today, I feel like I've heard this somewhere before now. It seems familiar in any case.[/quote]
I found and posted this (at SCU) back in July 2006, you might remember it from there.  I know the MP3 I made was circulated a bit, even referenced for the pronounciation for Zebes on Wikipedia.  That is until the people at MdB declared it a hoax/fake.  The authors of the GC DSP player for winamp were the first to discover it.

As for unused tracks, here is some beta music from the Kiosk Disks that had the space frigate demo of Prime:
48- ruins-main-plaza.adp [url=http://math.utoledo.edu/~dgajews/sw35/MetroidKiosk/48-%20ruins-main-plaza_adp.mp3]MP3[/url] [url=http://math.utoledo.edu/~dgajews/sw35/MetroidKiosk/48-%20ruins-main-plaza_adp.ogg]OGG[/url]
43- ice-world.adp [url=http://math.utoledo.edu/~dgajews/sw35/MetroidKiosk/43-%20ice-world_adp.mp3]MP3[/url] [url=http://math.utoledo.edu/~dgajews/sw35/MetroidKiosk/43-%20ice-world_adp.ogg]OGG[/url]

2009-10-14 12:53:15 pm

A hoax? Who's saying it, then?

2009-10-14 02:59:44 pm

Quote from TheGreenManalishi:

A hoax? Who's saying it, then?

Anyone with a female voice?

GF_Kennon

2009-10-14 03:07:51 pm

Destroyer of Pirates

Ah, well never mind, thought I found something new, thanks for telling me that SkippyJr.

2009-10-14 03:13:22 pm

Quote from Baby Sheegoth:

Quote from TheGreenManalishi:

A hoax? Who's saying it, then?

Anyone with a female voice?

It sounds an awful lot like ~~Samus~~ Jennifer Hale.

2009-10-14 03:18:15 pm

Quote from TheGreenManalishi:

It sounds an awful lot like ~~Samus~~ Jennifer Hale.

Do you have any idea what an impressionist is? I know it's for real, but still, dumb people do not and will try everything they can to convince you otherwise.

2009-10-14 04:01:20 pm

If you'd read my first post, then you'd see that one of my immediate thoughts was 'maybe an impressionist'. If it is, it's a good one. Maybe it's the audio from an interview where Hale was asked to read it.

I still think it would have been better than the impossibly deep-voiced man from the beginning of the game.

2009-10-14 04:09:03 pm

I don't care either way to be very honest. It wasn't included, and we can only postulate that was for a reason.

UchihaSasuke

2009-10-14 10:17:29 pm

my umbrella goes directly to Bankai

she's typing in SM, not talking.

it's very possible she's quite shy to speak but likes to type her thoughts in her logs.

2009-10-14 11:48:34 pm

Fear Me! (Or else...)

Samus?!? SHY!?!?

"Hi, I'm Samus, and... oh, sorry, I'm just shy meeting new people. Oh well, time to blow this planet up, too! Oooo! A space pirate! I may have trouble talking to him, because I'm shy, but I can blast him to smithereens just fine!"

2009-10-15 02:07:59 am

I thought she was talking. Plus, it could be argued that she talks to herself in Fusion on the elevators.

2009-10-15 12:30:19 pm

Fear Me! (Or else...)

Yes, but again, only in text. When they say silent, they just mean that you don't ever actually hear Samus' voice.

Tahngarthor

2009-10-19 05:29:45 pm

Bangaa Bishop

Quote from Baby Sheegoth:

Samus was always supposed to stay silent. That's why they didn't use it.

Samus has several monologues and a few bits of dialogue in Fusion; not to mention the intro monologue in Super. It's not unprecedented, they could have included it without ruining her (mostly) silent protagonist style.