Exactly what it says on the tin: What’s your take on the voice acting for the HECU troops? Would you say portraying them as corny 80’s style henchmen (rather than the professional military force they actually are in game) was the best decision to make on part of the developers? Share your thoughts.
I can understand it, and I can feel it, and I wouldn’t mind if they were this way or dark ‘n’ real.
I honestly didn’t like the way they did the HECU troops voices but the rest of the mod made up for this.
the voices felt overacted, i never argue about this due to the video leak, where the devs stated they wanted that way.
I thought they would have been good for a different game.
Half Life HECU were almost like machines - cold, impersonal, almost unintelligible. Black Mesa HECU were transformed into very human-like weekend warriors. Still not sure why that was thought to be a good idea.
The voice is good. It is just they’re overacting when they’re hit.
(ex. when the arm is hit - “AGGGH, MY AAAAAARMM!” or when the sniper is killed - “HE GOT ME!”)
I dident like them at first, but considering this was a community made mod, playing through a few times, I think their very well done. I now love them and enjoy fighting them everytime.
Have you ever been shot in the arm? Here’s a hint: It hurts BADLY.
I guess I have kind of grown used to them. I still don’t like it when you kill a sniper and he has the time and energy to yell out “AGH! HE GOT ME!”.
The voice sounds good, but the “AGH! HE GOT ME!” …
This is definitely the worst one, haha. I would rather have a Wilhelm scream than that awful line.
“I’m Tired of playing GAaAames…”
They’re better with the radio filter enabled. I don’t think I would have been able to take it otherwise.
Somehow the radio filter turns what would otherwise be terrible voices into something pretty cool.
awoooooo!
awooooooooo!
Do you go “ah. My arm.” or did you go “FFAYUUAAA KJSDFKHJSDHJKGKJSDHJKHKSJDF”
I personally think the voices would have been cool if the Black Mesa devs stuck with the original design of the HECU. In Half-Life they looked more like an 80’s parody of the military, and the voices now would fit fine.
But in Black Mesa when the team decided to redesign the grunts to give them a “more realistic and elite feel,” the voices should have been made to match.
horrible, I may replace them with BF voices or CoD ones, battle crys always enrich combat
“MOTHER OF GOD!!!”
- Best reaction to a grenade ever.
I like them personally. I actually like the over the top feel their voices have. It may not be realistic, but it still sounds cool.
Both.