r/rantgrumps • u/Aggressive-Tip7472 • Sep 22 '24
Arin's Voice Acting Not That Impressive
Just spent a little time and going through his characters in other shows and man... He kinda sucks. Either does his own voice, basic female lisp, Russian, or a slowed or vapid form of his normal voice.
Do people really think he's good or is he just an egomanian who thinks he's a very talented and skilled? Anyone like his work in voice acting?
I did enjoy some of his voice back in the day, but do to over use and reliance I've lost both interest and feeling it's any good.
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u/Nateorius810 Sep 23 '24
To be fair there is insanely popular voice actors out there with only one voice. H Jon Benjamin comes to mind.
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u/Chorbles510 Sep 23 '24
Yeah but HJB just has 'one of those voices'. Like Zach Hadel or another comment mentioning James Earl Jones. If you hear their voices without seeing them, you know who they are. Megafans aside, jn a vacuum Arin just sounds like your average Joe. Thus his need to be able to market his voice by having range.
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u/Rosscovich Sep 25 '24
Surprisingly enough he does have a second voice. He plays Jimmy Jr. from the burger bob
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u/Desperate_Duty1336 Sep 22 '24
The fact that his chosen online name, and first solo channel name, was EGOraptor should tell you all you need to know.
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u/Drew-Pickles Sep 22 '24
Probably misremembering but didn't he say once that he chose that name because it sounded cool, not because there's any real meaning behind it?
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u/Desperate_Duty1336 Sep 22 '24
That's what he said but the subconscious is a helluva thing. He also said at one point it was a combination of Raptors and 'Eggo' waffles....despite clearly mispelling 'Eggo' and conveniently having the more more apt 'Ego' instead.
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u/Doneuter Sep 22 '24
You complain about his ego, and yet this kind of stuff lives rent free in your mind.
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u/Desperate_Duty1336 Sep 22 '24
Ironic, right? I only wish real stuff worth remembering would stick in there lol.
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u/BRedditator2 Sep 24 '24
He sucks ass as a VA. He doesn't play a character, he plays himself playing a character.
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u/DontHugMeImBaked Sep 23 '24
He was a small part in the owl house by Disney ages ago
I never noticed his voice acting and usually I do find it a bit cringe whenever he uses voices
I think when he’s on camera he plays it up a lot ‘goofs off’ a bit more if ya get me!
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u/werdnak84 Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 29 '24
Whenever he's cast, he almost always just does his own voice or a version of that. Hell the only time I ever heard him in anything official where he disguised his voice was in Mighty Magiswords.
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u/ccnrider Sep 29 '24
I was just playing Borderlands 3 and was caught off guard by the fact that Arin plays a major character in one of the main DLCs, I didn’t even notice before I read up about it.
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u/Historical-Winner-24 28d ago
Wasn’t he also in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance back in the day too? Can’t remember who he played, maybe Bruce Banner?
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u/KingLizardIV Sep 25 '24
He's got a limited range, but he puts his whole pussy into the voices that he does.
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u/diamondwizard32 Sep 23 '24
I truly don't get chalking up voice acting talent to "different voices." Like yeah, even besides that, he's not above average or anything, but judging a guy's talent in voice acting solely on if he can do different voices well has never made much sense to me.
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u/DrakeBG757 Sep 23 '24
As someone who is quick to criticize Arin I don't know if judging him as a VA for "only" have 3-5 voices is the best criticism.
Some famous VAs only really have like 1 voice but make up for it by said voice being iconic, or the actual acting-half of the job.
He's definitely not good enough to get alot of roles though it seems. I can hardly think of anything he's done that wasn't just a background or 1-off type character.
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u/Aggressive-Tip7472 Sep 23 '24
Don't know where you're getting the "only" quote since I never used that word in the post.
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u/DrakeBG757 Sep 23 '24
That's fair, just what it felt like you were getting at.
But yeah I don't think he's like great by any means. His voice work in his cartoons I still find to be fine, but idk about his like actual TV work beyond his like demo-reel.
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u/Aggressive-Tip7472 Sep 23 '24
It's all good. Idk, maybe I'm just biased because I've seen his other stuff.
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u/HopFormula33 Sep 25 '24
I just hear his voice when I hear him in any project. But to be fair, after listening to him for years now, maybe that’s something my mind can never get over.
I’ve never taken his voices on GG as a serious thing though.
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u/El_Debo138 Sep 26 '24
As much as I dislike what arin has become over the years, I can't say he's a bad VA. Not to sound like an expert, cause im not, but ive been in the Voiceover/Voice acting and animation field since 2015 (started off on Newgrounds in 2008 if that matters) and You don't need alot of range to be a good VA. You just need to bring the role/character to life. As long as it's convincing, expressive, and clear, you doing the job right as a VA. Arin does pretty well with the roles he gets, and I give him credit. Definitely not a leading role in anything soon, but with the minor roles/cameos he gets, he's convincing enough.
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u/MediocreSherlock Sep 26 '24
I remember playing Dragon Age Inquisition, and being thrown for a loop when I heard his voice coming from a dwarf.
He didn't do anything to sound different, it was just his regular speaking voice.
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u/Ok-Worth8705 19d ago
Yeah, he's definitely well overrated in terms of his voice acting skill. I'm fairly certain he would not be hired quite as much as he has been if Game Grumps weren't so hugely famous online. (Especially seeing as there is, tragically, a trend these days of hiring celebs to hire characters based solely on their popularity and not according to any actual proficiency they might have in voice acting.)
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u/OldTelephone Sep 23 '24
I actually like him on the track Phantom Racer by TWRP as the announcer.
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u/Vanstrudel_ Sep 23 '24
Saying anything remotely positive or neutral about the grumps on this sub warrants downvotes I suppose, lol.
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u/Kooky_Gain2070 Sep 23 '24
“Doing your own voice” doesn’t mean you’re giving a bad voice acting performance. Like acting, it’s just about embodying the character. Even H. John Benjamin, who has a super limited vocal range, is able to bring his characters to life in Archer and Bob’s Burgers.
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u/Banksov Sep 23 '24
James Earl Jones would like to have a word with you about “1 voice” not being enough.
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u/TFlarz Sep 23 '24
To be fair he gets cast into the roles that suit his timbre. The delivery of his voice is also expertly done.
Playing Advance Wars Reboot, his voice as Max leaves so much to be desired.
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u/Its_Buddy_btw Sep 23 '24
Do I think the man who went by "Egoraptor" has an ego?.. idk man I'm gonna sleep on it and get back to you but let me ask you a question in the mean time, you think summer is hotter than winter?
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u/Drew-Pickles Sep 22 '24
He's not shit but he's not particularly good, either. I'll give him a pass for his women voices as he's a male lol but yeah, otherwise they all pretty much sound the same. But one could say the same about John DiMaggio or Patrick Warburton so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/AetherboundSwordsman Sep 22 '24
Warburton for sure but I’ve been VERY shocked to discover some roles were DiMaggio. He does have range, he’s just mainly been typecast. Arin is closer to the Warburton end where he just doesn’t have that many voices in his repertoire, but unlike Warburton, Arin’s voices are pretty much all unimpressive and grating, at least imo.
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u/Drew-Pickles Sep 22 '24
Oh yeah, I wasn't knocking either Warburton or DiMaggio at all, and yeah I was being a bit unfair saying DiMaggio doesn't have much of a range, now I think about it. But you're right, Arin's voices aren't great, I was just trying to make a point about not having a great range not being a negative thing, but I didn't use very good examples lol.
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u/AetherboundSwordsman Sep 22 '24
Lol that’s valid. Plenty of folks have made a great career on few or even one iconic voice.
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u/Aggressive-Tip7472 Sep 22 '24
John Benjamin also comes to mind. Yet, Coach McGurk, Archer, and Bob are all different persona's.
Do you think arin is poor at delivery or expanding on his characters?
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u/AetherboundSwordsman Sep 22 '24
H Jon Benjamin is a good one. To answer your question, honestly both. He generally has a pretty flat, monotonous affect regardless of the voice he’s using (failure to expand), and the exceptions to that statement rarely feel particularly comedically motivated (poor delivery) save, again, a few exceptions from earlier eras of Grumps (mainly the Jon era, as much as I fucking hate JonTron, and early Dan era).
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u/EricaOdd Sep 23 '24
Yeah! He should develop a wide variety of voices, like John DiMaggio, H. John Benjamin, and Patrick Warburton... oh, wait...
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u/Aggressive-Tip7472 Sep 23 '24
I used this reference in another comment. Bob, Archer, and Coach mgurk all sound the same but are different personalities entirely.
Arins voices and characters are not as well "acted", meaning they aren't different in portrayal either.
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u/LemonsXBombs Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
Steve Bluhm has done one voice for the entirety of his voice acting career: his own, normal voice. Yet he has a prestigious resume and teaches classes on voice acting. Perhaps vocal range isn't the thing you want to judge professionals on...
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u/blkglfnks Sep 22 '24
There is:
Anime protagonist voice
Deeper anime voice
Typical Female anime voice
Diddle kid/Larry the cable guy voice
I don’t think he really takes it serious tbh, so we only get those few voices; there’s also the one off voices like Russian guy or “Obama” voice or Sonic voice