Matthew on 5/4/2010 at 12:03
I've even found that myself in games to be honest - I tend to take more notice of EVA than I do of CABAL in C&C games, for example.
Enchantermon on 5/4/2010 at 18:57
Quote Posted by D'Arcy
SHODAN isn't always referred to as male in SS1. It's ambiguous. In some logs it's referred to as male, and in others as female.
Really? Granted, I was going off of my memories of the CD version, but I couldn't remember any times she was actually referred to as a female.
Not that I don't believe you; you've played SS1 far more than I have.
Quote Posted by Firefreak
Reading that a vague memory from a SciFi-Horror film from the 90's popped into my mind - funny I could remember the name
and find the exact scene on (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9VbGL-vaUI) youtube after mere minutes
Heh. Sounds like a cross between Shodan and The Many.
Matthew on 5/4/2010 at 19:08
The text logs only make reference to SHODAN as 'he' or 'it', but they may have tweaked some of them for the audio recordings; I recall that not all of the spoken logs matched the written text.
D'Arcy on 7/4/2010 at 18:30
NONE of the spoken logs matches the written text :D
Matthew on 7/4/2010 at 18:32
Oh! Fair enough. I was pretty sure some of them, like SHODAN's automated greeting, matched the written version but I defer to your greater knowledge.
catbarf on 7/4/2010 at 23:24
Why is it that they differ? It seems like a pretty simple matter to hand a voice actor the log they're reading :p
Zygoptera on 8/4/2010 at 02:37
Difference between written and spoken word- there's a difference between good literal construction and good verbal construction.
Or to put it another way, people don't speak and write in the same way. If you want to convert something written to something which is spoken you need to make changes or it tends to parse poorly.
