/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.981218]

ITT: Mysteries only us gamers care about

The identity of "Inezh," portraying actress of Jill Valentine in the first Resident Evil game. Officially, she was a high school student with no prior acting experience. Mikami regretted having her on board once production started the shoot at the Tama River. "Inezh" frequently complained about the mosquitos and wished to wrap things up earlier. No one knows where she is now, but I'd be mighty interested to hear her reflect on her experience.

Contrary to some rumors, Irish actress Una Kavanagh did not portray Jill, and when asked, she curtly replies, "No" to all inquiries.

[Anonymous No.982129]

Here's a few videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtW2msvQagI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x711B_0pLjM

[Anonymous No.982142]

>>982129
>Just have them go sit on a bench in some room. We'll paint it green and it will totally look like a helicopter, I swear.

[Anonymous No.982143]

I find it difficult to believe that an native-tongue English speaker voiced Jill in RE1.

Her pronunciations were way too awkward.

"BARRY? WHERE ON EARTH HAVE YOU BEAN?!"

"RICHARD? HOLD ON, I'LL GIVE YOU A SHOT NOW"

[Anonymous No.982151]

>>982143
I really doubt they used the live action actors as voice actors. Any lines spoken in the cutscenes are very obviously dubbed over.

[Anonymous No.982157]

She looks like she could play Street Fighter's Cammy.

[Anonymous No.982158]

>>982151
Also, I should note that it really sounds like the actors are native speakers, but it should be kept in mind that the directors were not and that kind of fucks things up in the voice acting department. Jon St John went into detail about this in some Q&A session at a convention. I think Blue Stinger was the game he was talking about but he would say lines as he would naturally and the directors, who were Japanese, didn't like the delivery at all and forced him to say it in a really strange tone. Wish I could dig it up but it was pretty interesting.

[Anonymous No.982278]

I didn't suspect all of the actors of NOT being native speakers. Just Jill's.

>and the directors, who were Japanese, didn't like the delivery at all and forced him to say it in a really strange tone

Those directors probably weren't professionals. Voice acting in (mainstream) games was still relatively new.

[Anonymous No.982283]

>>982157

[Anonymous No.982293]

>>982158

Considering the shit I heard about Sakamoto and Other M, it wouldn't surprise me.

What's the point of having english localization teams when you don't use them?

[Anonymous No.982352]

>>982293
Welcome to Capcom.

[Anonymous No.982373]

>>982158
>Wish I could dig it up but it was pretty interesting.

And here it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PrDBWPtcNQ#t=8m33s

[Anonymous No.982407]

the girl who Played sonya in mk 1 2 and 3.
Did a workout video.
My dick was diamonds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY1SA52OOVY
Dem nipples

[Anonymous No.982417]

>>982407
Kerri Hoskins was also a Playboy model along with her sister Jodi Hoskins.

She recently tried to run for office:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/25/former-playboy-model-seeks-chicago-area-board-seat/

[Anonymous No.982924]

>>982143
jill sounds canadian sometimes

[Anonymous No.982926]

>>982158
the VA director was rebecca's voice actress


so yeah

[NESfag No.982934]

>>982158
There is something that I find every appealing and charming about the first era of video game voice acting from the mid 90's.

The "worse" they are, the more I like them. Well, except for Deep Fear, I gotta admit that is REALLY bad; but I love obscure games with bad voice acting like The Note on PSX and Overblood or Mansion of Hidden Souls on SegaCD.

[Anonymous No.982953]

>>982934
Dubois forever.

[Anonymous No.983075]

hey guys look what i found

[Anonymous No.983079]

hey i wonder who this is

[Anonymous No.983081]

>>983075
>>983079
Source?

[Anonymous No.983085]

>>983079
You're here too?
>>983075
Yes? You're here too?

[Anonymous No.983086]

i always knew that wasnt the actor's natural hair color

>>983081
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8uRQOnYnqg&feature=player_detailpage&t=1768

also at 34:18

[Anonymous No.983089]

but yeah this footage seems to disprove mikami's claim that jill's actress was a teenage bitch, she seems pretty content here

[Anonymous No.983087]

>>983075
>>983079
I have this video, but the quality is crap due to it's age.

[Anonymous No.983090]

>>983086
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8uRQOnYnqg&feature=player_detailpage&t=1768
Nice, is there any subtitles?

[Anonymous No.983092]

>>983090
no :(

someone should sub it though, because the entire thing seems fairly interesting

[Anonymous No.983103]

>>983092
also feel free to post this in the RE thread to give it more attention or something

[Anonymous No.983114]

>>983089
Just because she doesn't act that way on camera doesn't mean she isn't.

[Anonymous No.983421]

>>983089
>>983114
Also, she's being made up. Few people are in bad moods when being made up lest they're allergic to one of the cosmetics.

She became a problem once they started shooting the opening scene.

[Anonymous No.983427]

>>981218

>Contrary to some rumors, Irish actress Una Kavanagh did not portray Jill, and when asked, she curtly replies, "No" to all inquiries.

Let's be honest. I'm pretty sure she would still say no even if she did portray her.

[Anonymous No.983442]

I dunno why you guys think it's a mystery. They filmed some nobody, then she moved on with her life. Maybe she's an accountant or a nutritionist now.

[red No.983451]

>>983442
Or maybe the zombies were real and she was the first victim.

Wait, where's my tinfoil hat?

[Anonymous No.983471]

>>983442

I can see why somebody would think it is interesting. It is likely that she is some nobody, but there is a girl out there that is probably in her late 30s or in her 40s that got a gig acting in the first game of a series that went on to spawn a ton of movies, merchandise and fandom. She must know that she is kind of a novelty in that regard.

[Anonymous No.983473]

>>983471
Yeah, after all she was the first main actress of Resident Evil, a series which is nowadays more successful for its movies than its games.

[Anonymous No.983487]

>>983471
>>983473
Exactly. If Resident Evil died after the first game, nobody would care, but because the franchise met massive success, the fact Inezh's identity remains a mystery is cause for speculation.

[Anonymous No.985121]

>>982142
Ah, fun with budgetary constraints.

[Anonymous No.985158]

>"Inezh"

Sounds vaguely slavic. Figures.

[tim the tool man taylor No.985401]

L is real 2041

[Anonymous No.986108]

>>985158
Allegedly, she was a Russian actress.

[Anonymous No.986119]

>>982278
>and the directors, who were Japanese, didn't like the delivery at all and forced him to say it in a really strange tone
Semi-related, I've heard from native English speakers who have spent time doing technical translations in Japan (Japanese-English instruction manuals for machinery, tools and the like) that sometimes their bosses who only know English at an intermediate level will argue that something incorrect with grammar is actually correct, and because they're the boss what they say goes. So Japanese directors probably thought the way the English was being said sounded better and more dramatic when it just didn't sound right to a native English listener.

sage for somewhat off-topic rambling

[Anonymous No.986170]

>>981218
play the Gamecube REmake. Its objectively better than the PSX version in every way.
-retro gamer

[Anonymous No.986178]

>>986170
wrong thread hunny
>>984091

[Anonymous No.986179]

JOSEEEEPH

[Anonymous No.986195]

the master of unlocking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_-D3-uKbm8

[Anonymous No.986203]

>>986179
it always sounded more like 'djogzillah' to me, always reminding me of everyones favourite radioactive leviathan and chums

[Anonymous No.986264]

>>986179
>>986195
"Find anything Jill?"
"No, but something's wrong with this house.
"Whoah! This hall is dangerous. Maybe it's better to secure our escape
route first. There must be a back door somewhere... Let's try to find *it*
first, shall we?"
"Okay, let's separate again."
"Just a moment! I've found something."
"What is it?"
"I know, but I found this weapon. It's REALLY powerful, especially against living things."

Like there's any non-organic creatures ever encountered.

[Anonymous No.986667]

any info on the chick who was Rebecca?

[Anonymous No.986683]

>>986264
He means non-zombie enemies

[Shaithis !ceYOYlFZoU No.988603]

>>981218
oh how many times i have fapped to the opening of RE......

[Shaithis !ceYOYlFZoU No.988628]

>>983086
> also at 34.18

lol thanks for sharing, i always wanted to see more of the live actors

[Shaithis !ceYOYlFZoU No.988671]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566124/

live action chris redfield from re1 did the voice of paul in tekken. the hair is no coincidence

[Shaithis !ceYOYlFZoU No.988676]

>>988671
huh he was Richter in SOTN, knew i recognized his voice

[NESfag No.988692]

>>988671
>>988676
He also voiced a character of The Note, which is another PSX survival horror.

I recognized his voice immediatly when I played that game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfUlQRcGKkQ&list=TL-BZCmbMdpFx-0lOFjJ3qnjiwhqIR2S8I

for some reasons that's not on his IMDB page though

[Shaithis !ceYOYlFZoU No.988725]

>>981218
>Contrary to some rumors, Irish actress Una Kavanagh did not portray Jill, and when asked, she curtly replies, "No" to all inquiries.

http://twitpic.com/4yjkmq

[Anonymous No.989603]

>>981218
It's also the only long-haired version of Jill.

[Anonymous No.989940]

>>982924
On the topic of Resident Evil and Canada:

-Wesker's pre-RE5 voice actor was Canadian.
-The entire voice cast of RE2 was Canadian.
-REmake Jill was based off Canadian model Julia Voth.

[Anonymous No.989949]

>>983086
I can't believe I've never seen this before, pretty cool stuff.

I'm surprised no fans have found the intros filming location. It could be like an RE fan pilgrimage site.

[Anonymous No.989973]

>>988676
I'm pretty sure the guy who voiced Richter also voiced Harry in Silent Hill 1.

[Anonymous No.989984]

>>989940
>Julia Voth
hngggg

[NESfag No.989990]

>>989973
Hm no highly doubtful. We would have recognized that.

[Anonymous No.990043]

[Anonymous No.990083]

>>981218
Didn't Rebbecca's live action actress do porn or something? or is that just an urban legend?

Also where did the name "Inezh" come from? Was it in the credits?

[Anonymous No.990116]

Another Survival Horror related gaming mystery is the real life location of Silent Hill 2's Toluca Lake backdrop.

Some fans searched around for some info on it and found some German Islamic site that uses the picture:

http://harunyahya.de/de/books/3042/DIE_ENDZEIT_UND_DER_MAHDI/chapter/9035

The site doesn't really give any info on the picture, but the site itself has been around since 1994. Maybe the picture is a stock photo? maybe Konami got it from the site or something? who knows...

[Anonymous No.990238]

>>990083
Yep

[Anonymous No.990243]

>>990116
Looks like somewhere in Britain or Ireland.

[Anonymous No.990498]

>>981218
I still think it might be Una Kavanagh, even if she denies it.

[Anonymous No.990532]

There's actually quite a bit of info on Barry Burton's actor.

He's a Norwegian guy named Barry Gjerde, he did some other work too lol http://gjerde.ytmnd.com/

RIDING INTO NEW ROADS!

[Anonymous No.990582]

>>990532
Why the hell is he credited as "Gregory"?

Perhaps they assumed Gjerde was his first name (due to Japanese family names being first) and misheard it as Gregory?

Perhaps there's some way to get in contact with him, maybe he knows who Inezh was or could at least provide a first name or nationality for her or something.

[Anonymous No.990593]

>>990582
>maybe he knows who Inezh was or could at least provide a first name or nationality for her or something.

dude no

that's creepy

[Anonymous No.990608]

>>982407

what im curious is what happened with the actress that played the MK1 Sonya, Kerri Hoskins only played the MK3, UMK3, MKT Sonya. the other one played the MK1 and MK2 Sonya

[Anonymous No.990629]

>>990498
Doesn't look like it from that pic.

[Anonymous No.990685]

>>990582
This thread really sparked my interest so I've been researching the cast now for the past couple of hours. I read through a thread on The-Horror about the original RE actors and it seems they've hunted most of them down except Jill (Inezh).

http://www.the-horror.com/forums/showthread.php?4425-Inezh-Where-is-she-now

Barry Burton
>Norwegian guy named Barry Gjerde (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1404097/).).
>Did a lot of voice work in Japan (Radio, Advertising, etc..).
>Did the opening narration for Elebits.
>Epic Demo Reel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_-D3-uKbm8

Rebecca Chambers
>Woman named Lynn Harris (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1188121/).).
>Was actually a professional who owned a production company.
>Also worked as RE1's voice over director (lol).
>Other works include Virtua Fighter (Sarah Bryant), Tekken (Nina Williams), Super Street Fighter II (Chun-Li), Street Fighter Alpha (Karin) and Sonic CD (Amy Rose).

Albert Wesker
>Guy named Sergio Jones (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0016015/).).
>Seems like he was just a normal TV/Movie actor.
>Appeared in a few episodes of Baywatch.

Chris Redfied
>Was voiced by a guy named Scott McCulloch (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566124/)), but it's unsure if he also acted in the intro.
>Was also in some Tekken and Time Crisis games.

Jill Valentine
>Biggest mystery, no one knows who it really is (as you've probably learned from this thread).
>Mikami says she was a High School student (~16-18 years old in 1995).
>Possible identities are:
>Irish Actress Una Kavanagh (She has denied any involvement, doesn't fit the suspected age).
>Pornographic Actress Wendy Rice.
>Small-time actress Michelle Yerger.

I'm personally starting to think that Inezh is the adult star Wendy Rice. They look very similar and she would have been 20 years old in 1995 when the intro was most likely filmed. Mikami said she was a High School kid but he probably just assumed so do to how young she was/looked. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.990765]

>>990685

[Anonymous No.990790]

>>990593
Huh? Why is that creepy?

The entire basis for this thread is "who is Inezh".

[Anonymous No.990817]

>>990685

[Anonymous No.990880]

>>983075
>>983079
>>983086

/vr/ is based as fuck. Thanks so much!

[Anonymous No.990907]

>>990685
Does Wendy Rice sound like Jill?

[Anonymous No.990928]

>>990907
I managed to find a clip and I thought they sounded alike. I'm still positive it's her, but she seems the most likely so far.

[Anonymous No.990936]

>>990907
I managed to find a clip and I thought they sounded alike. I'm still not positive it's her, but she seems the most likely so far.

[Anonymous No.991893]

>>990936
>>990685
Eh, something's off with her face in that pic. Doesn't look like "Inezh" to me.

Also, you do know Rebecca's voice actress and live-actress were different, right?

[Shaithis !RQ/ZAw3xhE No.992008]

>>990083
The name "Inezh" doesn't exist any where other than RE1 credits as far as i can find out

[Anonymous No.994639]

>>982143
Sometimes if a non-native speaker is directing the voices they can turn out weird.

[Anonymous No.994654]

>>990685
Someone should ask Hideki Kamiya on Twitter if he knows who the actor for Jill was. Kamiya was the system planner for the first game and directed the second game.

[Anonymous No.994682]

You getting this, hunters?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An7SXUquN1Y

[Anonymous No.995490]

>>994639
But the VO director on RE1 was an American or Canadian woman (Rebecca's VO actor). See post above.

[Anonymous No.995529]

>people talking about RE1's voice acting like it's "bad"

The whole point of the game was to be like a B-movie. The voice actors delivered their lines perfectly for that

[Anonymous No.997081]

you know what would be perfect for this, if someone made a missing poster or a milk carton with inezh's face printed on it. then a caption that says, missing since 1994 (or did it come out in 5?). goes by Inezh or 'jill the master of unlocking,' if found please contact /vr/. "we're worried sick, please, come home." etc, etc, etc.

[Anonymous No.997115]

>>995529
No, that wasn't the point, it's just easier to look at it that way retroactively to justify the shittiness of it's voice acting.

[NESfag No.997123]

>>995529
>>997115
Yeah, I think it has more to do with how voice acting in general was during this era of japanese video games considering that even games that weren't supposed to be b-movies had similar quality

[Anonymous No.997131]

>>997123
Exactly, people think that it is a flaw in the game but most people just see it as a product of the times. Voice acting in games just wasn't good back then, but you tolerated it because the simple fact that your games were TALKING was amazing in itself. I mean yeah we had voice samples before but not actual speech like a movie, you know? It seems like it's mostly younger people who try and justify it with the "totally b-movie homage guys!" schtick, which glosses over the fact that RE is presented as 100% serious and was taken as such upon release.

[NESfag No.997146]

Regarding voice acting in general in video games of that era: I have a question of people here who are native english speaker (australia, USA, Great Britian, etc): at the time did you ever consider VAs in games bad? Like, did you really think the phrasing, the accents, etc were really bad?

I'm just saying because, I personally never did (and I still don't, there is a lot of charm to this kind of VA); but I wonder if that's because I'm not a native english speaker (I do have a degree in English so I do know a lot about the language, its different accents, etc).
Only around the 7th gen of console did I start to hear about the first era of game VA being "bad" and it really surprised me to hear that back then.

[Anonymous No.997149]

>>997081
That sounds gay and pointless

[Anonymous No.997169]

>>997146

yes, since always

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiMKboKm9Hg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdAmkx8eAos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJN6x62Q5Ds

[Anonymous No.997175]

>>997146
The thing about a lot of early voice acting is that it tended not to have much "acting" in it. It was maybe script reading at best. And then later you got acting that seemed to be done on first take with no rehearsal, so it sounded awkward.

[Anonymous No.997181]

>>989973
Richter is Michael Gough if I remember correctly...?
However, even though SH's credits say "Michael G", apparently it's NOT Gough. Whatever that G stands for, it'll be a mystery.

And no, it doesn't stand for "Genocide, motherfucker". Neither Gwendolyn.

[Anonymous No.997187]

>>997149
you're gay and pointless

[Anonymous No.997190]

>>997146
Yeah, to a native speaker, most 90s video game voice overs are REALLY stiff and awkward. My friends and I giggled at "Jill sandwich" and "master of unlocking" back in the day.

However, around the same time, I was playing Blood Omen and Soul Reaver, which were really the first times I ever thought "Wow, these dudes can fucking act." in a video game, and to this day I don't think game voice overs have been that good very many times. Kain was Megatron in the Transformers cartoon; the elder god was a dude named Tony Jay, whose name you're probably reading for the first time, but if you grew up in the 80s or 90s you've heard his ominous voice a million times. Nowadays they spend half the budget getting A-list actors in the game, only to have them phone in the performance because they don't take video games seriously or have no experience in a sound booth.

tl;dr Of course you can tell whether or not someone sounds natural speaking your native tongue.

[Anonymous No.997206]

>>997146

Probably around 5th generation when voice acting became more prominent in video games. For console games, most voice work was limited to samples like grunts, yells, hadoukens etc. There were arcade games like >>997169 mentioned that allowed for more voice acting because of the hardware. By 5th gen it became more standardized, and often done by people with no voice experience and done in one take like someone mentioned earlier. Games like Resident Evil and Megaman 8 really stand out as awkward-sounding. Some stuff like Star Ocean 2 really sounded like it was done on poor-quality microphones and/or the actors were standing too close to them.

[Anonymous No.997218]

The truck in Pokemon gen 1.

[Shaithis !RQ/ZAw3xhE No.997527]

>>997181
Richter is voiced by the same guy that did chris' voice, charlie, aka Scott McCulloch

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566124/

Michael Gough himself stated that he had no part in SH

[Anonymous No.997850]

>>997218

Sleepless nights.

[Anonymous No.997862]

>>997190
I was similarly impressed by Strife's voice acting, especially when you consider that they were working with the Doom engine.

[Anonymous No.997913]

>>981218

That name has got to be a pseudonym or a typo. She may have had some other name which the producer or director mistook Inezh.

Most likely the name Inese.

[Anonymous No.997943]

>>989940

Until apparently the license to use her face expired and they changed it... REmake Jill was the perfect incarnation.

[Anonymous No.997951]

>>982407
Sonya was played by Elizabeth Malecki in MK1 and MK2. She was replaced by Kerri Hoskins in MK3 who also provided the face texture for MK4.

>>990608
Not recent, but if I remember correctly she and some other MK1/MK2 actors tried to sue Midway in the 90s for using their likeness in MK2 and not getting paid for it. That's the reason Sonya, Liu Kang and Shang Tsung got new actors in MK3.

[Anonymous No.998305]

I'd love to know who played Commissar Holt from that really old WH40k win95 game. Guy was a great actor (especially by 90s video game live action movie standards) and it seems like that was his only roll ever.

[Anonymous No.998371]

>>989940
>The entire voice cast of RE2 was Canadian
sawryaboutthatbabe.mp3

[Anonymous No.998382]

>>989940
I don't see the point in changing Wesker's voice actor in RE5 if all they are going to do is ask the new VA to imitate the old one.

[Anonymous No.998390]

>>998382
What? "Stop it! DON'T open THAT door!" sounds nothing like "Complete...global...saturatioooonnnn"

[Anonymous No.998396]

>>998390
I don't mean RE5 to RE1, but RE5 to RECVX, REO, and RE4.

[Anonymous No.999972]

>>997943
Why does Capcom insist on ripping off Nina Williams?

[2D !779o.ra/0E No.1001008]

>>997190
Tony Jay was also Megabyte in ReBoot. RIP.

>>997862
Everything about that game is impressive. End of opinion.

[Anonymous No.1001493]

>>994682
Daily reminder Barry Gjerde dubbed Lumine in the first X8 trailer.

Ah, the road not taken.

[Anonymous No.1003151]

>>999972
Their appearance is eerily similar.

[Anonymous No.1005827]

Polite bump.

[Anonymous No.1006297]

>>997190
Simon Templeman never portrayed Megatron. It was Frank Welker in the 80s and David Kaye on Beast Wars. He was, however, in Charmed as the Angel of Death.

[Anonymous No.1007815]

>>997190

He actually voiced Dr. Doom in that one Fantastic Four cartoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi86yeXB9pI

[Anonymous No.1008243]

It came out in 1998 and was discontinued in 2001, it's pretty stupid not to include it.

[Anonymous No.1008291]

>>990685
I watched some of Wendy Rice's movies for research... and I'd say it's inconclusive at best.

[Hansen No.1008291,1]

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