• Stepos Venzny
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    321 year ago

    I’m ready for a new era in Mario voice acting of an Italian voice actor putting on a cartoonish American accent.

  • @crow@beehaw.org
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    181 year ago

    Mario seems like the perfect character to replace the voice actor with an AI. He barely says anything, and often it’s what he already said before.

    • • milan •OP
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      1 year ago

      That’s an insult to Charles’ talent. The man is a professional voice actor and his sense can’t be replaced by AI. Replicated maybe, but not replaced.

      • GreyBeard
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        81 year ago

        I think the thing AI can’t do is inspired delivery of lines. Mario doesn’t say much, but the way it is said is very important. I think it would be easier to replace most characters in Final Fantasy games with AI than it would Mario.

  • PonyOfWar
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    121 year ago

    I guess this means that all the speculations about Mario’s voice in Wonder not being Martinet were probably true.

    • coyotino [he/him]
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      41 year ago

      i just went and rewatched the reveal trailer. it is absolutely not him in that trailer, but i really had not noticed until i listened for it. it’s…weird. i’m not ready to move on from Martinet.

  • kingthrillgore
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    101 year ago

    I’m betting that he’s recorded hundred of hours so they can keep using him for the next decade.

  • millions
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    91 year ago

    2 days later: “Nintendo To Use AI Voices in Mario Wonder”

  • @Electricorchestra@lemmy.ml
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    81 year ago

    He’s now going to be a Nintendo Ambassador or something. I wonder if this is just to change the voice of Mario while also effectively retiring him from voice acting so they don’t have Mario voicing Bayonetta in the next game or something.

    • ampersandrew
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      91 year ago

      I figured it meant that he’d consult for his replacement and occasionally collect a huge paycheck in between enjoying his retirement.

    • TwilightVulpine
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      61 year ago

      Only for the movies. People have been saying that the voice in Super Mario Wonder sounds like someone else.

      • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        41 year ago

        I’m hoping for a middle-age mario to show up, voiced by vinny vinesauce.

        “eeeuuuhhh wahoo ey? Hope the princess made lotsa gabbagool because ah’m pooped!”

      • @pragma@lemmy.zip
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        Yeah, I know it was a lame joke. Charles Martinet is still voicing Mario in Super Mario Wonder. The reason he sounds different is because he’s simply getting older.

        Edit: Apparently I was wrong, I saw the imdb credits and they list Charles Martinet as the voice actor, however Nintendo just announced that he wasn’t involved in it. Damn.

  • macniel
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    11 year ago

    Who will replace him at being 4 parallel universes ahead of us?

    • @neocamel
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      11 year ago

      Oh no according to tiktok (so you know it’s true), he was saying itsumi, which is apparently Japanese for “Super”.

  • kratoz29
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    01 year ago

    Do we even know why? Or is this just a normal retirement?