post any random Mario thought on your mind

Lack of talking don't bother me too much but expression is nice.

Mind you sometimes it's hard to find a place to put that in depending on the genre of game.
 
Magikrazy said:
This thought just came to me, but maybe Nintendo really keeps most of their characters quiet so they don't have to pay the voice actors as much.
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When you have one guy voicing the majority of your characters, it could also be that Nintendo doesn't want to unnecessarily burden him.
 
Magikrazy said:
This thought just came to me, but maybe Nintendo really keeps most of their characters quiet so they don't have to pay the voice actors as much.
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I do know that the "The Legend of Zelda" franchise didn't do very much, if any voice acting before Breath of the Wild. And even in Breath of the Wild, voice acting is pretty much limited.
 
Time Turner said:
Magikrazy said:
This thought just came to me, but maybe Nintendo really keeps most of their characters quiet so they don't have to pay the voice actors as much.
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When you have one guy voicing the majority of your characters, it could also be that Nintendo doesn't want to unnecessarily burden him.
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well they should get more voice actors for that then.
 
The problem with Mario characters voice acting is that they really don't say much besides sounds and a couple of catch phrases.

Of course , Nintendo clearly goes with the route of having a certain sound to make them stay ''iconic'' even if they lines are limited , but since theres not much material to work with i guess it would be a waste to hire mainstream voice actors.

Pretty much the recurring Mario cast is composed by voice actors that only are active in their Mario roles.

You don't hear anything from Sam Kelly outside of her Princess Peach and others ; Same with Deanna Mustard.

Even some characters are just voiced by the company's staff like Kazumi Totaka.

It's just not necessary to have a Laura Bailey or a Roger Craig Smith for any of this.
 
Swiftie_Luma said:
Pretty much the recurring Mario cast is composed by voice actors that only are active in their Mario roles.
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For whatever reason, with a few recent exceptions (Fire Emblem and Kid Icarus mostly), NOA doesn't like to hire established voice actors (for cost or proximity reasons, I assume). Star Fox Assault is one example, where a good chunk of the cast do/did commercials and radio voiceover but never voiced in a video game or cartoon before or after the game.
 
Swiftie_Luma said:
The problem with Mario characters voice acting is that they really don't say much besides sounds and a couple of catch phrases.
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The one exception would be Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour. But other than that, we got squat.
 
Zae Eildus said:
Time Turner said:
Magikrazy said:
This thought just came to me, but maybe Nintendo really keeps most of their characters quiet so they don't have to pay the voice actors as much.
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When you have one guy voicing the majority of your characters, it could also be that Nintendo doesn't want to unnecessarily burden him.
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well they should get more voice actors for that then.
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The real reason is that it's largely a needless expense as the vast majority of people don't care.

People like us, who go on forums and talk in detail about it. We are the minority.
 
Mcmadness said:
People like us, who go on forums and talk in detail about it. We are the minority.
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But but but
Th-that can't be true! Our opinions are the most important and should be at the front of Nintendo's agenda! Especially mine! :posh:
/sarcasm

In any case, all we can really do is accept the voice clips, and hope they don't get recycled too much in one game.