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"If there's one thing in this world we're particularly partial to, it's a good chinwag with Nolan North (especially if it includes how he was thrown about by a stuntman during the making of Uncharted 3). We've already In a previous issue of Official PlayStation Magazine, the voice of Nathan Drake, Desmond, Penguin and countless others sat down with Team OPM to discuss everything from working with Troy Baker again on Uncharted 4: A Thief's End to getting roles on TV thanks to his gaming credentials."
Andrew Duncan of GameGrin chats with Nolan North about DIRT 5, Deadpool and more.
Nolan North and Troy Baker share their experiences working with Codemasters on Dirt 5 and its story-based career mode.
I don't really play racing games, but do people really cary about story modes in racing games? I thought need for speed in the past did a good job of it, somewhat cheesy, minimalistic story but it did the job imo. Just so there was some context in the game.
like you said, the cheesy Need for Speed stuff kind of made racing a bit more worth doing over and over again because of the story, but I don't think anyone actively goes out of their way to buy a racing game for the story.
Voice Over juggernauts Troy Baker and Nolan North are lending their talents to the latest installment in the Dirt franchise, as Dirt 5 was revealed during Microsoft’s First Look Xbox Series X Gameplay presentation earlier today.
Nolan's going to voice the engine and Troy will voice the tranny. 😏
Got to seem them a couple years ago when they were part of a live reading of Princess Bride in various voices.
https://youtu.be/iSS0yOoiCH... - Joker from Troy and Nolan as Mickey Mouse shortly after.
Not going to lie...looked like a poor man's Forza Horizon. I hope it turns out good though. The dev speaking on the game talked about no loading times...sounds great.
I think it looks as good as any other modern racer, and it's quite detailed.
Why the "poor man's Forza" dig? Surely that wasn't necessary, even if the games look similar in some respects.
The festival aspect instantly reminded me of Forza Horizon...but the environments wasn't quite up to par to me. If you look at that NY track on the river...the buildings in the background looked very current gen. But like I said, I hope it turns out good. Will be interesting to see where the voice acting stuff goes...could be pretty cool.
I should say I love racers and play just about all of them.
I mean that's cool and all but the Dirt series isn't really known for its voice acting and dialogue.
One of my favorites in the industry. He just comes across as being a really genuinely likeable guy.
Nolan has way more range than he's given credit for, many had no idea that he was in The Last of Us, and some don't know he played the Black Hand of Sauron in Shadow of Mordor. He is honestly extremely talented and he oozes charisma and man's man cool.
He could've easily been a movie star, i'm glad to have his number in my contacts and i'm glad to call him a friend, great drinking buddy <--- (i'm full of s***)
I'd rather an evening with Nolan than Peter.