This might be common knowledge, but I’m just learning this today.
Male V has such a distinct northern-urban American accent (various people have said Brooklyn, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc) that it made me interested enough to look it up.
Apparently his voice is actually a performance by Irish actor Gavin Drea, who you can listen to here.
He grew up in Dublin and graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Film Studies. That explains why his accent is so hard to pin-point — he’s clearly very talented because I was completely fooled.
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Afaik it was his first ever job as voice actor in Cyberpunk 2077 and he did a great job.
I saw an interview of him briefly switching between his natural voice and male V and he does it effortlessly and very well.
And that is why I’m so fucking tired of people shitting on his performance. He did such a good job bringing his own style to V. The man deserves his flowers too.
He hides his accent as well as Roger Clark. That’s proper class.
male v is great
I think the voice acting was fine. The lines were often a bit cringe
Loved male V, but you could tell he was putting on a voice. I couldn’t necessarily tell he was Irish, but I just could tell that wasn’t his normal voice.
Female V is great but Male V seems a lot more natural to me. Sure there are a few lines which female V does better but overall Gavin completely knocked it out of the park with his performance, especially in Phantom Liberty.
“For F@#ks sake defend yourself. You’re not even trying.” That delivery just damn near breaks me everytime. He did such a great job as V.
This just in: There are other countries than the US.
Male V’s voice doesn’t work for me with corpo. It sounds fine with nomad or streetkid
That’s one of the things I love about male V. The voice acting is phenomenal. The tone is distinct. But I guess I’m deaf cause everyone gushes over female V’s voice actress.
Ah deadly another Dub!
fuck me, he graduated from my university? that’s awesome
He sounds like the punisher actor as V
His American accent is obviously contrived, and I hated it. Some lines he pulls off okay, but the great majority of his lines are robotic and very off-key for the moment.
This both validates my preference for female V and gives me reason to respect male Vs performance
So you’re telling me that an Irishman was responsible for invading Arasaka Tower, potentially killing one the strongest legends in the city Adam Smasher, and saved the president of the fragmented Eastern United States?
“Oh, come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man” 🇮🇪☘️
Yeah I’ve known this a while. My wife went to school with his sister, said he is a decent bloke.
It can also be hard to tell if it’s the VAs performance or their direction, especially for a video game. You can have likes that are recorded on separate days but could be in the same conversation, or you they could be directed to have a different take on a line that doesn’t match the previous line. I prefer the female Vs voice acting more but the male one is fine too. Though I would find it hysterical of there was a cut of all of male Vs voice acting that you could choose that was just aggressively Irish.
Am I the only one who first thought it was actually Aaron Paul doing the voice?
I also liked male V better. Seemed less ‘acted’.
Yes! Every time someone brings up a live action adaptation of Cyberpunk2077 and suggest actors I kindly remind everyone that the VA for V is actually a great actor and kinda looks like him too (cinematic trailer) and could totally pull off both the acting and the voice(duh)
I mean look at him! He’s amazing!
His work in Phantom Liberty is a significant improvement from the base game. I prefer the subtleties with some unhinged moments sprinkled every now and then. I do think things can be a bit more emotional at times, especially during the conversations with Johnny Silverhand. Sometimes, he sounds a bit too flat, saying pretty heavy stuffs. But overall, a solid performance and visible improvement in Phantom Liberty.