Batman: Arkham Knight

Nolan North voiced the Penguin.

Nolan North voices ~50% of all male video game characters.

The rest are voiced by Troy Baker.

That's not how you spell Johnny Yong Bosch.

I have no idea what games you've been playing. I don't think I've ever encountered a game character voiced by JYB.

Anime characters, yeah, but not video games.

Really? He voices a lot of people!

Don't forget Yuri Lowenthal.

I've played exactly one of those games, and heard of less than half of them.

Compare JYB's 46 games to Nolan North's 139 and Troy Baker's 119, both of whose credits include some of the biggest franchises in gaming.

I don't think Hamill wants to come back. He decided to retire from the role after City.

Also he's probably busy with Star Wars.

He said he was probably going to retire the role, because he didn't think they could top City. So I guess it depends what they offer him.

And it would have been recorded months ago. Last year, probably, since the game's existence was suspected thanks to Kevin Conroy talking about recording for Batman after Origins was announced.

Remember, it was originally supposed to be out only a month from now. All voices would have been in the can long before Star Wars was filming.

I wonder if his health's an issue.

Because me? If I voiced a character as popular as the Joker, and got a warm reception for it, I wouldn't drop that role until the day I died.

Maybe it's the Joker's mindset, and having to get mentally prepared for the role, that's causing some unrest. It's just, look at the guy who voices Optimus Prime - I think he's voiced Optimus in just about every iteration, even the crappy ones. He loves that character.

And another thing I don't get is: I remember a quote about Hamill saying that Asylum would be his final time voicing the Joker. Then, surprise, he's in City - but this is really his last time as the Joker. Because the Joker dies. Symbolic.

But then he turns around and voices a bad guy in Generator Rex, another character in Ben 10, and I'm certain I've heard his voice in a number of other shows.

Is he that bored with the Joker he'd just want to retire the voice? Fair enough I suppose - whoever voiced Joker in Arkham Assault did a wonderful job, and I don't mind Troy Baker in Origins.

EDIT: Oh is that what he said? Okay. That's a little cocky. I mean, I didn't like Origins (so much so I nearly leapt from my seat when I found out Rocksteady was taking back the reins for Arkham Knight), but I wouldn't say City was so pure that you should never voice the character again.

Example, Peter Cullen voices Optimus even in some of the shittier continuities. If there's one consistently good thing in Transformers, it's that Optimus will usually have some badass lines.

edited 9th Sep '14 7:50:32 PM by FOFD

I don't think he's bored. He's a very prolific voice actor, and he's doing Star Wars right now, and does occasional live action appearances in stuff. I'm pretty sure he just considers Arkham City a fitting swan song. You always want to go out on a high note, and damn was Arkham City a high note.

I guess that makes sense.

City did feel like a "proper ending" to the Batman Animated Series, without it bleeding into the Justice League universe or Batman Beyond.

edited 9th Sep '14 7:53:50 PM by FOFD

Arkhamverse has nothing to do with Batman: TAS. They have similar creative teams, but they're very obviously not the same universe.

"Feels like a proper ending".

The direction that the Arkhamverse took with these characters is how I'd imagine the Batman TAS taking them, provided they had the creative control they did with Mask of the Phantom and Return of the Joker.

It'd be cool if they did like Hush and had the bad guys toy with Batman and make him think Joker was somehow alive, though doing it with Clayface might feel like a repeat of City. And of course without the whole "turns out he really is alive, and part of the time you were facing him he was genuine" bit.

edited 9th Sep '14 8:23:31 PM by KnownUnknown

You know, each Rocksteady title had some psychedelic experience.

Fear Toxin, Bruce pummeling deathrow inmates while tripping balls. Mad Hatter, with Bruce once again taking out a room of bad guys while tripping balls.

It'd be a golden opportunity to bring Joker back in a believable form. The Sherlock TV series did a similar thing with their version of Moriarty.

Speaking of fear toxin, you think there's gonna be a part in the game where Batman dreams/hallucinates that he's fighting the Knight, he's unmasked, and it's HIS OWN FACE under the mask?

Leaked footage of a press exclusive demo(it's low quality off-cam stuff):

http://vimeo.com/106063295

http://vimeo.com/106063371

In one short conversation, Arkham Knight has lost his mystique and intimidation factor. :/

He sounds petulant... also maybe Troy Baker(voiced Robin, Two-Face, and Arkham Origins Joker).

So it's like when a Monster Wrestler starts to talk, they usually stop being so cool?

If you're like me and find those recordings unpleasant to watch, Jotun seems to be referring to 1:16 in the second video.

The Knight sounds younger than I was expecting. Maybe he really someone like Jean Paul Valley or... gasp... Jason Todd.

x2 Oh, I should have said that from the start. My bad.

Anyway, unless AK is secretly revealed to have been pulling everyone's strings, I'm not sure how he can recover from acting like a whiny baby in front of his nemesis or why his name is even in the title.

I smell a Bait-and-Switch Boss coming up.

Scarecrow is the main villain. I am guessing The Arkham Knight is just the physical threat to make up for Scarecrow not being one.

How's he being a whiny baby, exactly? He's not as composed as I'd like, I'll admit. But he doesn't seem whiny.