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Northern Exposure: Our Chat With Nolan North

The man, the myth, the award category: The voice of countless game characters joins us on the couch.

Dec. 13 2011

Posted by: Thomas

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Holy crap, watching Nolan North rag on Patrick is the funniest thing.

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Holy shit! Nolan North has a body? I always figured his voice was too cool for one of those.

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Edited By s-a-n-JR

Just gave Nolan North a bunch of my money for that Collector's Edition.

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god he's handsome...and likeable...I hate him.

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Patrick... don't try so hard.

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@slightconfuse said:

Shout out to yuri lowenthal. yess

Shout out to a bunch of guys. Nolan is awesome.

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@Klei said:

Peter North + Nolan North = ???

a cum shot with a smooth ass voice

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Does Nolan feel bad that he was not in Skyrim, since it's the only big game he wasn't a voice actor in? And Patrick was good in that he was someone for Nolan to play off of and laugh at the jokes.

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@SpunkyHePanda said:

@denshuu said:

"He didn't get it, so we put him down" deserved more than it got. lol.

I just came in here to say that. Oh Christ.

Haha I caught it, laughed heartily.

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I don't like Patrick either. I don't know why, but I don't. Maybe he just loks to young, maybe it's because he is an asshole to many ( when he was an asshole to Will, I felt like I would kill him) but I can't stand him.

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Patrick interacting with Nolan North, in cartoon form:

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Not sure where this came from, but 'tis truly a holiday miracle.

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Man, that was so great. I didn't have any problem with Patrick. If anything, it opened things up for some sick burns on Nolan's part. All in good fun, guys.

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Great interview. GB rocks.

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Ooof.. Bad form Patrick :-/ You're a cool dude, but dang.

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Why the fuck is Patrick staring at Nolan for the whole 38 minutes? Is he not used to being around humans?

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Patrick isn't having a good video day on Giant Bomb. First he was being a dick throughout the Trine 2 Quick Look and then he kind of rambles and makes the interview kind of awkward with Nolan North.

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I love that Nolan didn't even know that he worked on Portal 2. What a boss. Also, referring to Dark Void as "the jetpack game."

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@Grimmy616 said:

SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT KLEPECK! But he called Nolan an asshole, and that is awesome.

To each their own I guess but I thought that was about as lame as lame gets.

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Maybe somebody pointed it out already, but I still think it's hilarious that it says 'Dig Deeper into Nolan North', this occured to me on Screened.com, video about Kristen Stewart.

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Yuri Lowenthal IS the best Prince of Persia, thanks Nolan for mentioning him!

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@Kevin_Cogneto said:

Patrick interacting with Nolan North, in cartoon form:

HAHA

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nolan north is angry about review scores. He should get on them gamespot forums

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I have to agree. Normally I can deal with Patrick just fine but he was really counter-productive in this one. Also seemed like Ryan was not his usual confident self. Let's just chalk it up to them being intimidated by their charismatic guest.

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This years Northie goes to: 2 year old going behind a couch and taking a shit!

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Nolan North was cooler than I expected him to be.

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Steve Blum is not fantastic or talented. He's the worst voice actor in the games industry. He's the reason I won't buy Shadow of the Damned.

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Please adults are talking line was pretty sweet.

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For whatever reason, I'm compelled to mention: THE KING IN THE NORTH!!!!!!

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"Just know that when the bullet deflects, I will break his neck"

I fucking laughed out loud hahaha

Nolan North is amazing and a really cool guy. I'm really glad that giantbomb did this and I hope that he's got many more successful years ahead of him in the acting business, in the game industry or not.

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this is surreal. I guess after SWERY anything was possible, but shit. Still waiting on Ice-T's Bombcast appearance...

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Nolan North is a stand up guy, wish this video was longer.

@GS_Dan said:

@SpunkyHePanda said:

@denshuu said:

"He didn't get it, so we put him down" deserved more than it got. lol.

I just came in here to say that. Oh Christ.

Haha I caught it, laughed heartily.

That was hilarious.

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That was awesome.

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@Jolt92 said:

@Kevin_Cogneto said:

Patrick interacting with Nolan North, in cartoon form:

HAHA

LOL

Well played Kevin, well played.

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"Silence please, adults are talking"

That made my respect level for NN raise tenfold

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Nolan North what great guy,shame he doesn't play games,just like Jennifer Hale.

Patrick Klepek...fucking horrible.Ryan would be better off alone during the interview.

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Finally get to see the man behind the voice...fucking great interview.

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@ProfessorEss said:

@Grimmy616 said:

SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT KLEPECK! But he called Nolan an asshole, and that is awesome.

To each their own I guess but I thought that was about as lame as lame gets.

There is nothing awesome about calling Nolan North an asshole.

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Patrick is awkward, Nolan looked a little annoyed

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This was a very nice video, he seems to be very nice guy.

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@zudthespud said:

this is surreal. I guess after SWERY anything was possible, but shit. Still waiting on Ice-T's Bombcast appearance...

Now I can't stop thinking about a podcast with just SWERY, Nolan North and Ice-T.

THAT would be surreal.

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@Claude said:
Patrick isn't having a good video day on Giant Bomb. First he was being a dick throughout the Trine 2 Quick Look and then he kind of rambles and makes the interview kind of awkward with Nolan North.
Yeah. The ''asshole'' comment especially just made me cringe. I know he was just joking, but maaaan, not cool.
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good god patrick is irritating.

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Did Nolan shit in Patrick's cereal this morning or something?

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Great feature I would like to see more like it. Voice acting is a rarely explored and unappreciated aspect of games.

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I'm not sure if this is something I'm going to bother watching in the future. It's practically as boring as EX quicklooks.

Maybe have the interview subject do some challenges or something, instead of sitting there patting metaphorical backs?

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Dig Deeper into Nolan North? Hmm... don't mind if I do.

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This was one of the best video interview segments I've seen on this site. Maybe that is just how likable Nolan is, but GODDAMN that was fun to watch.

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At first I thought to myself "man, I don't understand all the Patrick hate." Then I realized that I was on the internet.

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Great video!

However, Pro-Tip for Pat: Don't interrupt Nolan North when he's talking...