I think that is really the issue most people have with Morgan Sheppard. I actually really enjoyed Sheppard's voice as the narrator, but Nimoy was brilliant. I would also love having Sean Bean do it for VI.
Is Sean Bean Confirmed as the narrator?
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I think that is really the issue most people have with Morgan Sheppard. I actually really enjoyed Sheppard's voice as the narrator, but Nimoy was brilliant. I would also love having Sean Bean do it for VI.
Well the problem with Civ4 was Nimoy was only around for the base game. There was no consistency in the narration when the expansions hit.
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Oh, I remember that...
Sid's a great designer, but much less so a narrator.
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Also, I had no problems with Sheppard's narration; I liked it.
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It's weird. I didn't even know there was an issue with the Civ V narration until I read this thread. I liked it, too.
Making it sound good isn't the reason that famous actors have been chosen with Civ IV+.
Earlier versions have had the members of their in house development team doing some of the narration, which sounded good.
The famous actors are chosen on the belief that they'll sell enough additional copies of the games if they include one to make up for how ever much they paid the actor.
TheMarshmallowBear
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Oh, I remember that...
Sid's a great designer, but much less so a narrator.
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Also, I had no problems with Sheppard's narration; I liked it.
When I heard Sid's lines... I thought it was some sort of teenage kid doing the voice over
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Keith David and Michael Hogan are both great options. I'd add Allison Janney to the list as well.
For me, it's not comparison to Nimoy; Sheppard's delivery vacillates between flat and contrived, IMO. Either way, I don't enjoy his delivery except for a few isolated instances--for example, I do enjoy his delivery of the Kahlil Gibran line from building the Eiffel Tower (but it takes a special kind of un-talent to ruin Kahlil Gibran). On which mildly off-topic note, I hope we see some more lines from Kahlil Gibran in Civ6 techs and wonders.
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Hugo Weaving. You should be familiar with him; he was Agent Smith in The Matrix, and the elf king in LOTR, and does a lot of stage work around Sydney.
Who else? Ummm, not being a smartass, how about Samuel L. Jackson? I heard him doing a documentary about lions once and he's definitely got the chops for it.
In a perfect world, Johnny Cash.
I suppose the trick is that, ideally, they will be recognisable but not in a way that disturbs the player or shatters the "fourth wall".
If they can afford Sean Bean, i'm happy. Especially if, on researching Calander, we get "winter is coming" hehe... No, too far, tbh.
Who else? Ummm, not being a smartass, how about Samuel L. Jackson? I heard him doing a documentary about lions once and he's definitely got the chops for it.
In a perfect world, Johnny Cash.
I suppose the trick is that, ideally, they will be recognisable but not in a way that disturbs the player or shatters the "fourth wall".
If they can afford Sean Bean, i'm happy. Especially if, on researching Calander, we get "winter is coming" hehe... No, too far, tbh.
Zamphyr
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Don't know how it would turn out but I could see Alan Alda being interested in the gig.
Jodie Foster ?
James Earl Jones
Jodie Foster ?
James Earl Jones
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Hugo Weaving would be pretty awesome. As would any of the old Shakespeare Contingent (Stewart, McKellen, Dench, et al.).
I also think it'd be fun with a super gruff narrator, but I don't think that'd fly with Firaxis. Like one of the Peaky Blinders on Netflix
I also think it'd be fun with a super gruff narrator, but I don't think that'd fly with Firaxis. Like one of the Peaky Blinders on Netflix
Another good idea that might make me overlook the bad graphics. Big Kate fan. Or how about Seven of Nine, Jeri Ryan?
shaglio
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Gilbert Gottfried! 
Just kidding, it doesn’t matter to me because I play with my speakers turned off while watching TV/movies. Poor modders like TPangolin go through painstaking effort to select the best Peace & War themes for their civs and I never wind up hearing it.
Just kidding, it doesn’t matter to me because I play with my speakers turned off while watching TV/movies. Poor modders like TPangolin go through painstaking effort to select the best Peace & War themes for their civs and I never wind up hearing it.
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I will do it. Every tech will either have a double meaning or some inane junk, the latter mostly non sequitur.
Every tech.
Every tech.
Well, if he isn't the narrator then he definitely deserves to be a great person in the game.
