Say what you want but he MADE Mass Effect by making John Shepard. That character makes the game and it fits the face. He made many of the other voices too so if you love the game you can thank him.
canon shepard is female tho lmfao he’s a great dude, and he did AMAZINGLY with the vorcha, but his voice acting as male shepard was literally so fucking bland. not tonal inflections whatsoever. dude was literally a robot.
@@OutroBusan Femshep VO was a lot of cringe overacting to the point some dialogue seemed unrealistic in delivery for the scenes, Hale is not to blame, it is VO director's problem. Mark Meer was way way better when all things considered. Andromeda had similar issues, there is no consistency in the direction and tone of delivery. You have to keep in mind VO is not done in a short period, the VO actors go away and come back after a few weeks so the VO director needs to modulate the tone and direction of the delivery. Nope, not a single bit of confirmation from Bioware as to who was canon, it's just internet vocal minorities who shout the loudest. The player base stats already prove Broshep was the vast overwhelming majority of play-through choice amongst the player base, based off of a stat infographic direct from Bioware, not anyone's opinion. My take on this whole push for Femshep to be 'canon' is that it is no different to SJWs taking offense on behalf of others, just a bunch of guys looking for brownie points trying to show how much they 'stand' for women's rights. This is a game, these guys want to stand for women's rights? Go out and actually do something that actually helps that cause, shouting it out everywhere doesn't win you brownie points or help addressing women's abuse in the world, especially over a game. How absurd. Let's be real, that's what this is all about. Especially when some men go out of their way to be female in a game which offers both gender options, just so they can shout it from the rooftops. No one really cares for this sort of virtue signaling. It's despicably cheap and far from genuine. That all said the fad is already losing steam, the next fad will be why isn't the protagonist allowed to be a non-binary or something along those lines, then we will have small group of clowns shouting loudly about how their non-binary characters was the best so make it canon because they said so.
@@mclarenbutton6342 the internet is the only place where you can say one thing and some asshole comes in saying something completely different LMAOOO only reason why the voice acting in general was all over the place in the games was because the actors recorded their lines independently and weren’t able to bounce off each other. pretty sure hale and meer said they recorded their lines before everyone else and the other characters listened to their lines while recording their own.
@@OutroBusan Nope, not what Mark Meer said he said sometimes on Veda, the system they used to hear the other VOs and read lines, he had the performance of the others VO actors to go off on and at other times he sets the stage being first. That still doesn't preclude the job of the VO director Caroline Livingstone (who is now at Humanoid Studios with Casey) to control the direction, it is not all down to the VO actors especially when the gap between sessions can be weeks long. You know nothing about VO performance. Figures, your original post was more of fluff and personal flag waving more than anything useful to the discussion as usual with your lot. ;)
Jennifer Hale (FemShep) is probably the biggest female voice actress out there, she's easily the most prominent, her list of appearances is extensive to say the least.
Doing a playthrough of Mass Effect with Sheploo face, it just fits the character and voice for some reason. Plus the creator is garbage haha anyway, thought the same thing about Meer's face because a handsome dude, he would've been a great face model for Kaidan, at least! Or even Vega, Vega looks so stupid!
I see that people love femshep all over the internet but I can only see male Shepard as the hero of the series. It even blows my mind when people change the default look of him. It's like they cooked up the look/voice in a lab to make it perfect for the role.
2:44 was hilarious. I think that the best voice actor of them all in the ME series has to be Martin Sheen. His voice just fits the role of the Illusive Man so well.
I chose colonist background for my very first male and female sheps the first time I played ME1 Mark Meer fits a soft-spoken Paragon Shepard (Colonist/War Hero). Jennifer Hale is better for a more renegade brutally bitchy Shepard (Colonist/Ruthless).
***** There were times where I thought the same thing about Mark Meer, particularly in ME2 and 3. True, Hale can sound a little forced at times, but I noticed that more in the very first game.
and besides some of the dialogue you get in Mass Effect 3 makes no damn sense if you're not playing renegade or renegade/paragon.I blame male Shepard and nine times out of 10 I play male Shepard who is ruthless class and sentinel I also claim him to be sole survivor colonist on mindor. They also called him The butcher of torphin. But that was a slaver colony that deserve to die. My particular Shepherd is my sometimes but really don't want to cross him . Or else I'll throw you out the window.
yeah endorsing in a store with the male shepards voice will be so great. He's a great talent and i think his voice in the entire game, is the best adapted into the mass effect games :D
I'm glad someone else sees that too; I feel like he really conveys emotion in me3 as opposed to the previous games; certainly puts him on par with the quality Hale brings.
@MegaVolcano1 Because Shepard is supposed to be a semi-blank slate (as opposed to a blank slate like the JRPG silent protagonist, or the character-full main characters of a lot of recent games). It allows one to 'be Shepard' to a degree, where using too much emotion means we only 'direct' him to things.
lol you gotta love this guy. he looks so goofy when hes in character doing volus and vorcha. makes me wanna go into voice acting. if im lucky i'll be playing Shepard in the 30 year anniversary reboot of Mass Effect
it is so weird hearing hearing the voice of Sheppard coming from that face. You play one your custom face for so long you just think of your creation as Sheppard. And here you see the voice actor himself and it's his actual voice. Very cool. I hope any of that made sense to more than just me. :-)
Actually there is one cameo. On the Citadel you have to talk with Aria in Purgatory. She will tell you that she wants to help you by regaining control over the Merc bands once again. When you go to recruit the Blood Pack there are two or three Vorcha present. That is the only time though.
Shepard: You don't understand, the reapers are coming. Vancouver was the first target, next they move on to Alberta." LOL!!!! I have such a huge grin on my face :D Love how he gets into character with the Vorcha voice. You know you have a great and versatile VA person when they really get into it like that, like Billy West.
I cried when I saw the boy killed by the Reapers, but I cried even more when I saw the Normandy was flying out of Vancouver... MY HOME!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
They did put in the different stats for different squad outfits in ME3. Every one or two outfits had a different set of stat bonuses for them. Generally there were +damage, +recharge time, and +power damage outfits. I'd always pump up Garrus with a +damage outfit and Liara with one of her +recharge time outfits.
Never forget how talented Mark Meer. He voiced the freaking Vorcha.
I've been playing the games for years and never knew this
So the guy whos playing Shepard is also playing vorcha. Thanks for ruining my life EA
+happzy and the volus.
Ive heard he's some of the male quarians too. I haven't looked it up though
Lmao
And the Hanar
And a turian in the citadel
The vorcha voice is the same voice of Shepard! Ohh fuck! hahahahahaha
My thoughts exactly
vorcha and volus.... O.o dang....
"Don't ahhhhh me. You sound like a Vorcha." ;D
Liara T'Soni This makes so much sense now!! :D
This dude is a legend, he'll forever be known as the voice of Shepard.
Say what you want but he MADE Mass Effect by making John Shepard. That character makes the game and it fits the face. He made many of the other voices too so if you love the game you can thank him.
canon shepard is female tho lmfao he’s a great dude, and he did AMAZINGLY with the vorcha, but his voice acting as male shepard was literally so fucking bland. not tonal inflections whatsoever. dude was literally a robot.
@@OutroBusan Femshep VO was a lot of cringe overacting to the point some dialogue seemed unrealistic in delivery for the scenes, Hale is not to blame, it is VO director's problem. Mark Meer was way way better when all things considered. Andromeda had similar issues, there is no consistency in the direction and tone of delivery. You have to keep in mind VO is not done in a short period, the VO actors go away and come back after a few weeks so the VO director needs to modulate the tone and direction of the delivery.
Nope, not a single bit of confirmation from Bioware as to who was canon, it's just internet vocal minorities who shout the loudest. The player base stats already prove Broshep was the vast overwhelming majority of play-through choice amongst the player base, based off of a stat infographic direct from Bioware, not anyone's opinion.
My take on this whole push for Femshep to be 'canon' is that it is no different to SJWs taking offense on behalf of others, just a bunch of guys looking for brownie points trying to show how much they 'stand' for women's rights. This is a game, these guys want to stand for women's rights? Go out and actually do something that actually helps that cause, shouting it out everywhere doesn't win you brownie points or help addressing women's abuse in the world, especially over a game. How absurd. Let's be real, that's what this is all about. Especially when some men go out of their way to be female in a game which offers both gender options, just so they can shout it from the rooftops. No one really cares for this sort of virtue signaling. It's despicably cheap and far from genuine.
That all said the fad is already losing steam, the next fad will be why isn't the protagonist allowed to be a non-binary or something along those lines, then we will have small group of clowns shouting loudly about how their non-binary characters was the best so make it canon because they said so.
@@mclarenbutton6342 the internet is the only place where you can say one thing and some asshole comes in saying something completely different LMAOOO only reason why the voice acting in general was all over the place in the games was because the actors recorded their lines independently and weren’t able to bounce off each other. pretty sure hale and meer said they recorded their lines before everyone else and the other characters listened to their lines while recording their own.
@@OutroBusan Nope, not what Mark Meer said he said sometimes on Veda, the system they used to hear the other VOs and read lines, he had the performance of the others VO actors to go off on and at other times he sets the stage being first. That still doesn't preclude the job of the VO director Caroline Livingstone (who is now at Humanoid Studios with Casey) to control the direction, it is not all down to the VO actors especially when the gap between sessions can be weeks long. You know nothing about VO performance. Figures, your original post was more of fluff and personal flag waving more than anything useful to the discussion as usual with your lot. ;)
@@mclarenbutton6342 get off your high horse, my love. you don’t need to be a dick over a stupid ass comment i made months ago lmao
I should go.
😂
What can you tell me about the Spectres?
THAT'LL BE ALL
@@iama2509 Do you kniw where I can find her?
I don't really sound like that do I? I should go. I SHOULD Go. I should go.
wait,Mark Meer voiced both Comander Shepard and Vorcha?
wow.
And apparently Volus too.
As well as the hanar
Multi genius.
Yeah,that seems about right!
And Volus too.
"Next they move on to Alberta!"
His face was brilliant.
He's got a great voice for Commander Shepard. :)
I really want to meet Mark Meer sometime in my life. He just seems like a really awesome person.
this dude is fucking amazing voice actor
"… next they move on to Alberta."
LOL
Mark and Jennifer - damn perfect job. Also the whole ME voice acting. ME has by far the best voice acting. And the volus and vorcha... unbelieveable.
He's such a versatile voice actor, I hope they bring him back for Mass Effect 4 even if its not a main role.
One of the best voice actors ever!!
Damn Mark Meer you got some seriously talent with your VA! Keep up the good work dude!
Mark is a legendary voice actor. we can't lose the protagonist!
Mark is a damn good artist.
Mark raised his game in Mass Effect 3. I'm really impressed with his performance.
Damn. After playing the Mass Effect series so many times, when I see the guys "actual" face... It just doesn't fit! :D
Mistah J. When you see him in full N7 Armor he does
Like anybody doing voice acting voice actually fits there face
Thanks Mark, for the best trilogy in existence
My favorite Shepard. I liked Jennifer but I liked him better as Shep he nailed it IMO. He's definitely my definitive Shepard.
(Hope this comment ain't taken) I'm commander Shepard and this is my favourite video on the citadel
The voice of female shepard is quite underrated imo. Her voice is so powerful
Jennifer Hale (FemShep) is probably the biggest female voice actress out there, she's easily the most prominent, her list of appearances is extensive to say the least.
Well I'm afraid your opinion is wrong because it isn't.
Underrated? It's overrated as Hell!
+Chris Doffer Most people prefer her vastly.
ArvelDreth It doesn't matter what most people prefer.
Watching Mark Meer voice a Vorcha is fantastic
"Things to see and people to do!" :'D
Now imagine THAT in a vorcha voice
I miss you Shepard.
I wonder why they used a professional model's face for the character instead of his.
Exactly what I was thinking moment ago entering this video.
+xbh1h2 Oh, so that's where the 'loo' in 'Sheploo' comes from.
+Eck mark vandarloo has far more better face for a commander in galactic army.....more authorative face. I like that they used his face
They tried to use Vanderloo's voice, but his accent wasn't cutting it. "Ve'll vang, OK?" wouldn't have been as famous.
Doing a playthrough of Mass Effect with Sheploo face, it just fits the character and voice for some reason. Plus the creator is garbage haha anyway, thought the same thing about Meer's face because a handsome dude, he would've been a great face model for Kaidan, at least! Or even Vega, Vega looks so stupid!
He's in Jade Empire?!?! OML!!!
Got to meet him in person this week. Such a cool guy.
"Your ways are strange, earth-clan" Just made my day :)
Love Mark Meer, male Shepard is my favorite Shepard.
I see that people love femshep all over the internet but I can only see male Shepard as the hero of the series. It even blows my mind when people change the default look of him. It's like they cooked up the look/voice in a lab to make it perfect for the role.
@@sarevok6
If a game allows you to change how your character looks, the law demands that you have at least once make him look like yourself
@@steelbear2063 or like Michael Jackson
Just hearing his voice makes me want to play another playthrough as Male Shep lol
the complete cast of voice actors for every Mass Effect game is just absolutely amazing and AAWESOME!
"I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel."
2:44 was hilarious.
I think that the best voice actor of them all in the ME series has to be Martin Sheen. His voice just fits the role of the Illusive Man so well.
"Vancouver was their first target, next they move on to Alberta..." *epic face*
He is just amazing as vorcha.
Mark Meer is legendary!
"I have to go, but we should do this again."
Me: *nods* Shepard.
I’m on a rabbit hole of old Mass Effect videos
I knew Mark voiced the Vorcha but actually seeing him perform is so surreal.
It’s like seeing Tara Strong do Ben 10 or Kathleen Barr do Kevin.
It's so strange to hear Shepard's voice coming out of this guy. But he's damn talented.
2:00 ROFL
Oh hey witcher guy
@@eskeladder7751 hey
I see that you are a man of culture as well
No one could have been a better commander Shepard!
I chose colonist background for my very first male and female sheps the first time I played ME1
Mark Meer fits a soft-spoken Paragon Shepard (Colonist/War Hero).
Jennifer Hale is better for a more renegade brutally bitchy Shepard (Colonist/Ruthless).
Female Shep Renegade is too forced imo
***** There were times where I thought the same thing about Mark Meer, particularly in ME2 and 3. True, Hale can sound a little forced at times, but I noticed that more in the very first game.
I always play renegade as femshep!
He disagrees with you he plays runagate most of the time all the way.
and besides some of the dialogue you get in Mass Effect 3 makes no damn sense if you're not playing renegade or renegade/paragon.I blame male Shepard and nine times out of 10 I play male Shepard who is ruthless class and sentinel I also claim him to be sole survivor colonist on mindor. They also called him The butcher of torphin. But that was a slaver colony that deserve to die. My particular Shepherd is my sometimes but really don't want to cross him . Or else I'll throw you out the window.
Nolan North is an awesome voice actor but Mark Meer is
If he and TotalBiscuit had a podcast, all my sicknesses would be healed.
dude could be commander shepard if there was a live action movie. that would be epic
yeah endorsing in a store with the male shepards voice will be so great. He's a great talent and i think his voice in the entire game, is the best adapted into the mass effect games :D
He's improved very much from ME 1. Still have FemShep as my main but don't mind having ManShep for secondary playthroughs.
He is very stoic as Shepard, but I had no idea he did other voices like Vorcha and Volus. I applaud that.
I knew he voiced the Vorcha but I didn't know about the Volus
This guy is certainly talented he's amazing and he made Shepard have a sexy voice.
I'm glad someone else sees that too; I feel like he really conveys emotion in me3 as opposed to the previous games; certainly puts him on par with the quality Hale brings.
I love the way Mark Meer tries to look like a Vorcha while he does his Vorcha voice.
"I had a single line in Baldur's gate"... this got me thinking about that marine in the fighters when the Sword fleet arrives...
I'm Mark Meer and this is my favorite voice in the game.
Ha, the expression when he does a vorcha. Priceless.
@MegaVolcano1 Because Shepard is supposed to be a semi-blank slate (as opposed to a blank slate like the JRPG silent protagonist, or the character-full main characters of a lot of recent games). It allows one to 'be Shepard' to a degree, where using too much emotion means we only 'direct' him to things.
They have to. He practically voices everything in the game.
About time they mention the voice for guy Shepard.
Mass effect movie, right... now. With Mark Meer as Shepard. PLEASE!
lol you gotta love this guy. he looks so goofy when hes in character doing volus and vorcha. makes me wanna go into voice acting. if im lucky i'll be playing Shepard in the 30 year anniversary reboot of Mass Effect
it is so weird hearing hearing the voice of Sheppard coming from that face. You play one your custom face for so long you just think of your creation as Sheppard. And here you see the voice actor himself and it's his actual voice. Very cool. I hope any of that made sense to more than just me. :-)
His eyebrows are so... magnificent.
I don't know why, but I think Mark Meer would be and awesome option in a reboot of Evil Dead as Ash
He (because of his voice) is a reason why my first time with Mass Effect I played maleshep.
The same guy that voices shepard also voices volus and vorcha character... wow, he's great.
this is my favourite store in the citadel.
This guy officially awesome (and nobody can dispute that. I'm Harbinger. I'm perfect and unstoppable).
Hale and Meer are both great in their own ways.
FINALLY! I've only seen pictures of Mark up to this point ... great to see the voice in action. PS Awesome work!!
Its so strange seeing shepard in the game with the voice for years and then watching the actual actor speak with the exact same voice behind the mic
At the end I was hoping he was going to say "I have to go but we'll bang okay?"
Hey Mark also did VO work in Outlaw Star as Gene Starwind, that was just as cool.
Here standing before you is the mightiest biotic in the entire galaxy
"Vancouver was the first target. Next... they move to Alberta." So epic. :D
Had no idea he did improv and he voices vorcha and volus. Much more respect to the guy.
3-6-12 Take Back Earth
BroShep FTW
Actually there is one cameo. On the Citadel you have to talk with Aria in Purgatory. She will tell you that she wants to help you by regaining control over the Merc bands once again. When you go to recruit the Blood Pack there are two or three Vorcha present. That is the only time though.
He does a damn good job, he only sounds like Shepard when he chooses to.
Shepard: You don't understand, the reapers are coming. Vancouver was the first target, next they move on to Alberta." LOL!!!! I have such a huge grin on my face :D
Love how he gets into character with the Vorcha voice. You know you have a great and versatile VA person when they really get into it like that, like Billy West.
He really stepped his game up in ME3.
I cried when I saw the boy killed by the Reapers, but I cried even more when I saw the Normandy was flying out of Vancouver...
MY HOME!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
I think both Shepard's are awesome in their aspects...
Meer really shined in ME3. Probably didn't like how everyone was praising Hale in ME1 and 2 lol
I am Commander Shepard and this is my favourite video on the Citadel.
Isn't it? :D And the fact that he watched the Gamer Poop videos is just awesome.
I know, right? He freaking killed it.
I think Mark as well as Jennifer are doing great job, providing different experience and I love them both:)
Male Shep is one of the best video game characters for me. Reminds me a lot of Batman; dark, serious, and gets shit done.
I think Meer would be a perfect fit for Piccolo.
love the faces he makes....
/they should make a bloopers video cause when mark was making a joke as shepard i had to hear more.
this guy is a fucking champ. RAW TALENT!!
His facial expressions are great.
Femshep VA is Jennifer Hale, who voiced Naomi Hunter and Emma Emmerich in MGS as well
They did put in the different stats for different squad outfits in ME3. Every one or two outfits had a different set of stat bonuses for them. Generally there were +damage, +recharge time, and +power damage outfits. I'd always pump up Garrus with a +damage outfit and Liara with one of her +recharge time outfits.
mark is lucky for giving his great voice for a great game that would use a better ending