r/DeadlockTheGame • u/Trashy-Guy • 12d ago

Discussion Viscous' strange writing direction.

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Has anybody else noticed that Viscous seems overtly childish in the new voice lines?

I'm not sure if it's the direction that the voice actor has been given, the lack of sound edits that the older lines had (from what I've heard, the current lines aren't yet finished edit-wise), the writing or all of it as a whole.

Viscous's writing direction has shifted from the friendly yet determined emissary of The Deep, willing to put the goal of defeating The Adversary before everything else. (e. g. him saying that The Djinn's problems are less serious than The Deep's.)... To a second grader. It's a fun line, one of many the update added, but it often feels like an outlier in an otherwise solid character.

Viscous is an emissary, a political figure of the Deep with a message and ambition first, and a goo ball that studies the customs of the surface, second, not a baby.

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u/Mr_Blobby1337 12d ago

I think yoshi? confirmed there were some issues with the recording and the character direction as well as Yuri being a busy voice actor they werent able to adjust and fix that mistake before release?

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u/Disastrous_Gur_9560 12d ago

Correct. Wasn't Yoshi but instead a valve dev named SteveJ

Actor was a smidge higher on the register than he was previously 

They wanted to correct it before the update but there were higher priority recording needs so it was pushed back 

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u/HollyBlocky The Doorman 12d ago

I can't be mad at Yuri Lowenthal, the amount of active projects he's apart of that all have him do different voices is a lot.

He's Viscous, he's Spider-Man in Insomniac, he's Spider-Man in Marvel Rivals (who has a different performance/voice than in Insomniac), he's Dainsleif in Genshin Impact, probably a few more I'm missing

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u/ihavetakenausername Pocket 12d ago

that's so insane honestly