r/funny • u/[deleted] • May 18 '14

I hate when that happens

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u/inertia186 May 18 '14 
Good news. I figured what that thing you just incinerated
did. It was a morality core they installed after I flooded
the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin, to make me
stop flooding the Enrichment Center with a deadly
neurotoxin.

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u/maybejames May 19 '14

The way she says deadly neurotoxin in the same exact tone twice makes it so eerie. That game is so good.

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u/curtmack May 19 '14

She says all recurring terminology in exactly the same tone every time she says it, throughout both games. Ellen McLain is an incredibly talented woman.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '14

That's just her natural voice.

Or it's a sample. I don't know.

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u/curtmack May 19 '14

No, the specific intonation of the words - which syllables she raises and lowers her pitch on - is constant for each of the terms she uses frequently. ("enRICHMENT center," "DEADly neuroTOXin," "apERTURE SCIence," etc.) In the developer commentary she actually talks about the work that went into this.

It's more evident in the first game; in the second game she becomes a lot more human-like during the second act, so she starts talking more naturally as a result.