1.5

[ashkan]

More than likely they changed to Mercier as they thought that Haddad's voice didn't suit the new Leon (mercier sounds a bit more grittier and experienced), maybe Haddad was "difficult to work with" or had other schedule conflicts.

or maybe:


I think its probably either due to the voice not being right for new leon or schedule issues.

I wonder who did Elza's voice or if it was Alyson Court.

Alyson Court did Elza's voice.

[Carnivol]

Have we ever seen anything that confirms that Alyson Court did Elza's voice?

Of course It'd make sense for her to've been both Elza and Claire from a business perspective, as it means a lot of assets could easily be recycled during the redesign, without having to toss in more money for a lot of new recording sessions.


(At least we know that Leon's current actor has been around since 3.5. This was confirmed in a somewhat recent interview. Where he mentioned that he did the initial audio recordings for one of the demos, pre-redesign.)

[randomwab]

The voice clip of Elza speaking from the third Complete Disk video doesn't really sound like her in my opinion. My guess is most of the actual dialogue was recorded new for 2 Final.

Also, Distant Memories is so good. I was so pissed when the retail game didn't have it anymore, I loved the atmosphere it gave during the demo.

[ashkan]

Have we ever seen anything that confirms that Alyson Court did Elza's voice?

Of course It'd make sense for her to've been both Elza and Claire from a business perspective, as it means a lot of assets could easily be recycled during the redesign, without having to toss in more money for a lot of new recording sessions.


(At least we know that Leon's current actor has been around since 3.5. This was confirmed in a somewhat recent interview. Where he mentioned that he did the initial audio recordings for one of the demos, pre-redesign.)

In an interview she said that in early development of the game she was a voice actor of a woman with blond hair! In another interview Paul Haddad confirmed that he was the voice actor of Leon in RE1.5.

[Carnivol]

In an interview she said that in early development of the game she was a voice actor of a woman with blond hair! In another interview Paul Haddad confirmed that he was the voice actor of Leon in RE1.5.

Know which interviews those are?

I've only seen the Paul Mercier interviews mention pre-final stuff.

[ashkan]

Know which interviews those are?

I've only seen the Paul Mercier interviews mention pre-final stuff.

Here you are:

http://www.residentevil.com.br/revilcast/audio/alysoncourtinterview01.mp3

[REmaster]

Talking about voice actors, i dont understand why they replaced Richard Waugh with D.C. Douglas for voicing Albert Wesker. The very same goes for Leon S. Kennedy when Paul Haddad was replaced by Paul Mercier, yes they are both named Paul but they've gotten the wrong one!

They let Richard Waugh go because they didn't want to work with union voice actors anymore. He had even recorded his UC lines when he was dropped from the series, and lol'd because "The new guy's trying hard to sound like me".

[Carnivol]

Don't think she ever says she was the voice of Elza in that interview.

At the start, she says she was brought in after doing the voices for Marvel vs Capcom (which was pretty much developed in the same time period as the final version of Resident Evil 2 was. Making it impossible for her to've been on 1.5, unless she did 1.5 first and then Marvel vs Capcom, but she clearly states MvsC was her first project for Capcom)

When she answers the 1.5 question later on, she only seems to say that she's aware of the development issues and changes between 1.5 and 2, not that she did the voice of Elza.

[ashkan]

Don't think she ever says she was the voice of Elza in that interview.

At the start, she says she was brought in after doing the voices for Marvel vs Capcom (which was pretty much developed in the same time period as the final version of Resident Evil 2 was. Making it impossible for her to've been on 1.5, unless she did 1.5 first and then Marvel vs Capcom, but she clearly states MvsC was her first project for Capcom)

When she answers the 1.5 question later on, she only seems to say that she's aware of the development issues and changes between 1.5 and 2, not that she did the voice of Elza.

But how did she know that Elza had blond hair?

[Darkmoon]

It's possible Claire started with Blonde hair in the very beggining and was changed, I suppose.

[abbatoo]

Also, Distant Memories is so good. I was so pissed when the retail game didn't have it anymore, I loved the atmosphere it gave during the demo.

I can imagine this being in 1.5, perhaps in a cutscene, the RPD second floor, or maybe somewhere in the sewers.
To be honest, I always felt that the reused 1.5 tracks sounded a bit different than the new compositions (especially the marshaling yard and the dead factory). Maybe that's why I wasn't that surprised when I also heard them in the PSM video.
Anyone else had this feeling?

[randomwab]

I can imagine this being in 1.5, perhaps in a cutscene, the RPD second floor, or maybe somewhere in the sewers.
To be honest, I always felt that the reused 1.5 tracks always sounded a bit different than the new compositions (especially the marshaling yard and the dead factory). Maybe that's why I wasn't that surprised when I also heard them in the PSM video.
Anyone else had this feeling?

I get what you mean, and it makes me wonder just which tracks were recycled from 1.5 for use in 2 Final. I mean, some of them are obvious like Marshalling Yard, Distant Memories and the ones we heard in trailers, but do we know just which tracks were reused?

[abbatoo]

I get what you mean, and it makes me wonder just which tracks were recycled from 1.5 for use in 2 Final. I mean, some of them are obvious like Marshalling Yard, Distant Memories and the ones we heard in trailers, but do we know just which tracks were reused?

Unfortunately, apart from the music we hear in 1.5 videos, there's no other info to go on.
Here are some RE2 tracks that I believe were in 1.5:

Bus Theme
Cable Car Battle Theme
Giant Moth's Theme
Basement Of The Police Station
Cable Car Area (begins at 7:49)
Is Ada A Spy?
Battle Against G-Creature (not the whole track, just parts of it)
The Third Malformation Of G (the chorus part anyway)

Then again, who knows? Maybe all the melodies we hear in the final game were in the prototype in some form or another and were just rebooted/retuned to fit the new musical direction the game was probably given.
I just wish there were some videos of the characters interacting. The music being played during those cutscenes would probably give us a better understanding of what kind of musical style they were initially aiming for.

[Enrico Marini]

Ask the composer..... Well if anyone has any contacts that could ask them what the score was like in the Prototype.

I have an incling that the music for 2 was the same as in 1.5, well maybe retooled slightly or completed.

So much of the prototype remains a mystery.

[RetroRain]

I can't believe this beta still hasn't leaked onto the net in over 10 years. So fucking ridiculous.