Troy Baker vs Billy West

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#1 Farty_Fartsalot
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Who's the more talented voice actor?

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#2 Ant_17
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In gaming - Troy

In TV/movies - no clue

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@Ant_17 said:

In gaming - Troy

In TV/movies - no clue

Billy West is like half the characters on Futurama and they each sound nothing alike. I'd have to go with Billy just for sheer, crazy versatility.

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#4  Edited By Jacanuk
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Sigh another troll thread from the Vs troll.

But Troy Baker is weak compared to the one and only Nolan North.

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@Jacanuk said:

Sigh another troll thread from the Vs troll.

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@Gamerno6666 said:
@Jacanuk said:

Sigh another troll thread from the Vs troll.

These are getting to be a bit much, aren't they?

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@Byshop said:
@Gamerno6666 said:
@Jacanuk said:

Sigh another troll thread from the Vs troll.

These are getting to be a bit much, aren't they?

-Byshop

Well whether its off topic or game discussion TC seems to be obsessed with the VS thing. Atleast he wrote a line in this one. If you go through his other threads, he creates the topic and just writes "discuss". Usually most of threads gets locked for this reason.

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@Byshop said:
@Gamerno6666 said:
@Jacanuk said:

Sigh another troll thread from the Vs troll.

These are getting to be a bit much, aren't they?

-Byshop

Yep they are indeed.

It´s more a debate for Systemwars.

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@Byshop said:
@Ant_17 said:

In gaming - Troy

In TV/movies - no clue

Billy West is like half the characters on Futurama and they each sound nothing alike. I'd have to go with Billy just for sheer, crazy versatility.

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If he makes Bender's voice then put him up.Otherwise don't care.

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Billy West, no real contest.

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@Ant_17 said:
@Byshop said:
@Ant_17 said:

In gaming - Troy

In TV/movies - no clue

Billy West is like half the characters on Futurama and they each sound nothing alike. I'd have to go with Billy just for sheer, crazy versatility.

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If he makes Bender's voice then put him up.Otherwise don't care.

That John Dimaggio (aka Wakka from FFX). Billy West is like everyone else.

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@Jacanuk said:

Sigh another troll thread from the Vs troll.

But Troy Baker is weak compared to the one and only Nolan North.

Honestly, I can't tell the difference between the two.

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@JustPlainLucas said:
@Jacanuk said:

Sigh another troll thread from the Vs troll.

But Troy Baker is weak compared to the one and only Nolan North.

Honestly, I can't tell the difference between the two.

Hmm, they do seem similar in tone, but North is imo just a tad ahead and he seem to be a bit more humorous than Baker.

Baker dont seem to have taken stardom with both feet on the ground.

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@Jacanuk said:

Hmm, they do seem similar in tone, but North is imo just a tad ahead and he seem to be a bit more humorous than Baker.

Baker dont seem to have taken stardom with both feet on the ground.

Yeah, it was The Last of Us that I was playing when I thought for a while that it was Nolan North voicing Joel. I will say this, though. I loved Nolan North's Deadpool voice in Shattered Dimensions.

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@JustPlainLucas said:
@Jacanuk said:

Hmm, they do seem similar in tone, but North is imo just a tad ahead and he seem to be a bit more humorous than Baker.

Baker dont seem to have taken stardom with both feet on the ground.

Yeah, it was The Last of Us that I was playing when I thought for a while that it was Nolan North voicing Joel. I will say this, though. I loved Nolan North's Deadpool voice in Shattered Dimensions.

Nolan North has some pretty good range, though. I didn't recognize him in TLoU.

Also, the Deadpool game wasn't perfect but I thought it was hilarious.

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@Byshop said:
@JustPlainLucas said:
@Jacanuk said:

Hmm, they do seem similar in tone, but North is imo just a tad ahead and he seem to be a bit more humorous than Baker.

Baker dont seem to have taken stardom with both feet on the ground.

Yeah, it was The Last of Us that I was playing when I thought for a while that it was Nolan North voicing Joel. I will say this, though. I loved Nolan North's Deadpool voice in Shattered Dimensions.

Nolan North has some pretty good range, though. I didn't recognize him in TLoU.

Also, the Deadpool game wasn't perfect but I thought it was hilarious.

-Byshop

Haha, oh wow... I thought that was Nolan North when I was playing the Deadpool game, but I remember that scene in the beginning of the game where Deadpool called up Nolan North to ask if he'd voice his game, so I discounted. Yeah, that game had more than its share of flaws, but the way it was presented was fantastic. I really would love to have another Deadpool game, and my dream would be to have Rocksteady do it. Having a Deadpool game with that kind of developer behind it would just be incredible!

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@JustPlainLucas said:

Haha, oh wow... I thought that was Nolan North when I was playing the Deadpool game, but I remember that scene in the beginning of the game where Deadpool called up Nolan North to ask if he'd voice his game, so I discounted. Yeah, that game had more than its share of flaws, but the way it was presented was fantastic. I really would love to have another Deadpool game, and my dream would be to have Rocksteady do it. Having a Deadpool game with that kind of developer behind it would just be incredible!

For me, voice actors fall into two categories. Ones who have cool voices but you immediately recognize them in everything they appear in and ones who are good voice actors because they are practically unrecognizable in their various roles. Steven Blum (Spike from Cowboy Bebop) is one of the prior. Steven Blum does supporting voices in pretty much -everything-, and every time I hear him it's "oh, hey there Spike!". Billy West is one of the latter. I would never have guessed that Fry, Professor Fansworth, Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan from Futurama and Stimpy (and in the later seasons, Ren, too) from Ren and Stimpy are all voiced by the same guy.

I would have put Nolan North into the first category prior to The Last of Us but after that I'm leaning more towards the latter on him now.

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@Byshop said:
@JustPlainLucas said:

Haha, oh wow... I thought that was Nolan North when I was playing the Deadpool game, but I remember that scene in the beginning of the game where Deadpool called up Nolan North to ask if he'd voice his game, so I discounted. Yeah, that game had more than its share of flaws, but the way it was presented was fantastic. I really would love to have another Deadpool game, and my dream would be to have Rocksteady do it. Having a Deadpool game with that kind of developer behind it would just be incredible!

For me, voice actors fall into two categories. Ones who have cool voices but you immediately recognize them in everything they appear in and ones who are good voice actors because they are practically unrecognizable in their various roles. Steven Blum (Spike from Cowboy Bebop) is one of the prior. Steven Blum does supporting voices in pretty much -everything-, and every time I hear him it's "oh, hey there Spike!". Billy West is one of the latter. I would never have guessed that Fry, Professor Fansworth, Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan from Futurama and Stimpy (and in the later seasons, Ren, too) from Ren and Stimpy are all voiced by the same guy.

I would have put Nolan North into the first category prior to The Last of Us but after that I'm leaning more towards the latter on him now.

-Byshop

Paul Eiding is another one who I can always pick out his voice. He's in half the games I play and I always know it's him.

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#19  Edited By Byshop  Moderator
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@tatman87: Yeah, Ben10's Grandpa and Col. Campbell are basically the same guy.

"Ben. Are you there? Ben? BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!

Edit: It just looks like a long "been". :(

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