PAX 2011: Speaking With Commander Shepard's Voice

[noobium]

Amazing, both Jennifer Hale and Steven Blum are in a lot of shows, anime and game that I played or watched over the years. I salute you Steven Blum and Jennifer Hale.

 

[templar1138a]

Jennifer Hale is my celebrity crush. Just putting that out there.

 

[Bob_Marley42]

Great voice actor, but whenever I hear her I think "Hey, its Major Parker!".

Curse you Ground Control! Curse you for your awesomeness!

 

[putowtin]

Also slightly intrigued by that bit about Mass Effect 3.

agreed on the intrigued! I know Bioware are keeping the story elements close to their chest this time but damn I need to know! Off to Gamefest in less than two weeks, hoping for more info then!

 

[Thespian]

The woman's a bloody legend.

Her and Steve Blum are my favourite voice actors.

Steve Blum is fantastic, not very versatile though, at least from what I can tell. The moment I hear his gravel-voice I shout "STEVE BLUM!".

That's true. I absolutely love Steve Blum's work ever since I watch S-Cry-Ed, where he played the protagonist, but he doesn't change very often. Still, that makes it more fun when he does something out of the ordinary, like the monotone secret agents in Psychonauts.
Jennifer Hale though, whilst you can recognize her Shepard or Bastila Shan cropping up in different places, she does have the ability to access quite a range. It's pretty crazy to watch a Voice Actor tribute and see the ridonkulous amount of things he does.

Still, one of my favourites is Grey DeLisle, the voice of Azula from Avatar: Legend of Aang, and a kabillion other things. She would have made a badass Shepard too - Not that Hale leaves anything to be desired.