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The Mystery of Saints Row: The Third's 8th Player Voice

A voice so cool, the GDC audience actually got upset when it was revealed.

Gross revealed Volition's internal voice management system is actually called Talk-o. I'm hungry.
Gross revealed Volition's internal voice management system is actually called Talk-o. I'm hungry.

When you make a character in Saints Row: The Third, there are seven different voices you can choose from, including a damn zombie. At one point, however, there were eight.

This groundbreaking revelation was part of Volition senior audio designer Ariel Gross' presentation at the Game Developers Conference this morning, a largely developer-focused talk on voice production for Saints Row: The Third.

The mysterious eight voice? A completely auto-tuned player.

When Gross said this, the entire audience groaned in disappointment.

"I know," said Gross. "I know."

Like I said, the whole audience, which was mostly developers, was audibly upset.

"It was a really painful cut, but it was the right decision in terms of scope," he said.

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@bananaz said:

@PXAbstraction said:

I would pay for DLC that added this back in.

I second this.

If it means free porn for everybody, I guess I'm in.

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I guess this is alright because Zimos was in the game, I think that was probably enough. The option would have been kinda cool though.

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yet the zombie mission made it into the final cut. hmmmm

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I must have this.

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Scope not allowing it? In SR3? Maybe for effect or power. I'd personally like a Ninja that talked about honor or something, but Scope is just weird.

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@digitalsea87 said:

@adoggz said:

that shit would just be ridiculous.

You do realize what you just said, right? We're talking about Saints Row: The Third here.

yeah, and it would ruin the deep and involved narrative and characterization if your character was walking around all auto tuney.

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I would pay good monies for a all dubstep noises voice

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@adoggz said:

@digitalsea87 said:

@adoggz said:

that shit would just be ridiculous.

You do realize what you just said, right? We're talking about Saints Row: The Third here.

yeah, and it would ruin the deep and involved narrative and characterization if your character was walking around all auto tuney.

More importantly, there's already a character who's autotuned. You'd be stepping on his character if you had it as well. Then Zimos would be the guy who ripped you off.

But the "What I Got" moment might have been better.

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In my best Zimos voice...

"I wish my comments were in autotune baaaaaaaby!"

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@PXAbstraction said:

I would pay for DLC that added this back in.

All of my monies. Right now.

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Talk-o! I love it! lol!

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COMING UP NEXT ON GIANTBOMB: Ate a sandwich.
 
It was alright.

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When it comes to Hot Scoopz, this is the hottest scoop of All Time.

OF ALL TIME!

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That reminds me, I'd still like to do a playthrough of this game using the zombie voice to see what kind of wacky hijinx ensue.

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@MysteriousBob said:

Zimos informed me that auto-tuned speech gets old real fast.

Not to mention dubstep.

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The worst cut ever for a video game.

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@PXAbstraction said:

I would pay for DLC that added this back in.

Quoted for Truth.

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Oh man, I would pay so much money for this to be added back in...

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@HellBrendy said:

@MustardDragon: Zimos was fucking great. I don't mind them removing the autotuned voice, it would have ruined one of the funnier aspects of Zimos.

I agree completely. If my character could have had an autotuned voice it would have made Zimos less memorable. I'm glad they cut it although I would support adding other accents.

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I would pay money for them to add that shit back in.

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FILHOS DA PUUUUTAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

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@hardcorebunni93 said:

FILHOS DA PUUUUTAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

Stay classy, Brazil. Stay classy.

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"It was a really painful cut, but it was the right decision in terms of scope"

You can scope deez nuts, developer man.

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god man that was the whole reason i liked zimos in this game.

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@MustardDragon said:

Not a big deal at all. It would have been annoying. Plus, there's already an auto-tuned character in the game.

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@PenguinDust said:

@HellBrendy said:

@MustardDragon: Zimos was fucking great. I don't mind them removing the autotuned voice, it would have ruined one of the funnier aspects of Zimos.

I agree completely. If my character could have had an autotuned voice it would have made Zimos less memorable. I'm glad they cut it although I would support adding other accents.

Hell no! I was pretty indifferent to Zimos, but if my character talked in auto-tune I would want to roll with him all the time! Just the little snippets of homie dialogue passing back and forth would be amazing!

Zimos: "You iced them bitches good."

Boss: "Hell yeah, soul brother."

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I smell DLC.

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@bananaz said:

@PXAbstraction said:

I would pay for DLC that added this back in.

I second this.

I third this. We need it, for all gamers.

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I agree Zimos wouldn't have worked along side this so one had to go I guess.

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Shoulda gone with Rucks.
 
edit: Seriously, the fact that people don't hate Zimos with a vengeance is yet another piece of evidence that the Brain Spawn from planet Infosphere have already successfully carried out their attack on Earth. Saint's Row 3, you continue to baffle me.

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This story deserves my audible anger. I shall begin shouting immediately.

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They would have gotten so much press if they had kept that in there.

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Oh for god's sake...

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@megafat said:

@bananaz said:

@PXAbstraction said:

I would pay for DLC that added this back in.

I second this.

I third this. We need it, for all gamers.

Eh, why not, right?

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I want that and my wub wub!

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Did this article get abandoned half-way throu... oh. It's by Patrick.

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Um...that would have been awesome.

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I thought the story was going to go one way! Then I thought it was going to go the other way! Then it went back to the first way! XD

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Remember how boring Zimos got after a little while?

Imagine that but worse. That's why it was cut.

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@cooljammer00: Except that Zimos never got boring.

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@Dezztroy said:

@cooljammer00: Except that Zimos never got boring.

Not true at ALL.

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aww. that would have been great, zimos is awesome..

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@cooljammer00 said:

Remember how boring Zimos got after a little while?

Imagine that but worse. That's why it was cut.

No, because the game wasn't that long, so he never had a chance to get boring.

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@cooljammer00 said:

Remember how boring Zimos got after a little while?

Nope. I thought he was an absolute joy to be around.

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If your gonna do something that stupid, why would you tell anybody?

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I think the impact of meeting Zimos, and realizing he talked entirely in auto-tune, would be diminished if your character already did it all the time. I'm glad they left it out.

And Zimos never got boring. The laugh factor of his voice obviously wore off after a while, but the writing in the game is strong.

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@xbob42 said:

@cooljammer00 said:

Remember how boring Zimos got after a little while?

Imagine that but worse. That's why it was cut.

No, because the game wasn't that long, so he never had a chance to get boring.

Plus Zimos outright disappears from the story once STAG arrive anyway, so the joke (being Zimos himself basically) never wore too thin. Kinzie on the other hand... fucking despised her. The whole snooty, arrogant techo-geek shtick did nothing but burn me every time she appeared.

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How could they not have kept this? The whole game is ridiculous, that's the point!