Overwatch lady or BMRF Robotic Voice

Do u like the Robotic voice over the BMRF intercom? or do u like the Overwatch lady?

  • robotic voice

    Votes: 42 32.6%

  • overwatch lady

    Votes: 87 67.4%
  • Total voters
    129
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So...i was thinking about the HL series just now wondered what the preference of the pple here is.

Do u like that Robotic voice in HL over the BMRF intercom system? or do u like the Overwatch lady in HL2? :)

i kinda miss that robotic voice.. but that doesn't mean the overwatch lady sucks or something :p

anyway, wait for the poll.. meanwhile, post ur reasons.
 
So who's gonna be the first to find a pic of the overwatch lady (as she'll be called from now on lol)

come on, someone has to be sad enough to go look :p
 
The overwatch lady freaks me out, so I'll go for her.
 
the robotic voice is classic, expecially when it glitches out and when they say that the facility is now under military control :thumbs:
 
I really don't know what to vote...The overwatch lady is cool, but the robotic voice is..........NOSTALGIC :D
 
It is quite obviously a Robotic Voice. I dont think the combine have any place for humans in their army. Men are the obvious choice due to the fact they are naturally stronger than females. Even though the combine can heavily modify species it would still be easier to modify men because they are stronger. But i may be wrong because at the start wasnt there females going to Nova Prospekt? i cant remeber :rolleyes:

EDIT : I may have got the wrong point of the Topic but my point is valid however.
 
Who is the Overwatch lady? And the robot for that matter?

Edit: I mean, where do you see/hear them?
 
Jerorfigan said:
Who is the Overwatch lady? And the robot for that matter?

Edit: I mean, where do you see/hear them?
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The Overwatch lady makes announcements in City 17, and usually tells Civil Protection to go to a certain location, etc.

The robot makes announcements in the first HL, usually about something that has gone wrong.
 
i don't know...the overwatch lady is cool and all, but the robot voice really sounded like something a facility like that would use as an emergency announcement system.

in short, i was much more freaked out by the first one, so i must vote for it's voice.
 
i can hardly understand the overwatch lady...but I picked her :P
 
Anyone remember the Robotic mans voice from HL1, I think it might have only been in mods - too long ago to remember.
 
Overwatch Lady was so great. HL's robot-voice was cool... but the lady had a better accent =)
 
hmm.. i dunno about u pple.. but i kinda found the robotic voice a bit freaky.. with everything going wrong.. and then u have this freak over the intercom making ur heart thump harder :E
 
It's got to be the Robotic Voice.

I was on this Counterstrike server a few months back and when the next map was about to load and it was Dust, the Robotic Voice would say:

"Oh no, not Dust for the thousandth time"

Still makes me smile, that. :E
 
The robotic lady in hl1 was only for the HEV suit.
There was a man for the intercomm/announcements in hl1.
 
Black Mesa announcement system now under military control.

That's just awesome.

However, I still choose the overwatch lady.

"Rank leaders, Reminder: 100 sterilized credits qualifies non-mechanical reproduction simulation"
 
Wasn't the voice from Black Mesa a guy with a really deep voice?

"This facility is now under military control" etc.

And you could make him say "nice red ass gordon" and such with the speak command.

Why isn't there an option for the HEV suit lady? "Morphine administered"? Yeah baby.
 
WeeViL said:
I think the Overwatch lady just grabs it. The interaction between her and the Combine soldiers like requesting reports on suspect 235, punishment/rewarding for tasks etc is cool.
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I agree, during the boat mission where you finaly get out in the open and see the city, I literally stopped the boat and listened to her state my crimes and such. Pretty neat
 
i cant remember the robot voice but i will pick it because that repetitive woman voice gets on my baps after a while
 
The male combine soldiers have 233 individually recorded words and phrases that they can string into full sentences (with another 2 sound files provided to add silence inbetween the words) in exactly the same way way the HL1 vox worked (the male voice announcer from Black Mesa used that system). On top of this there are 3 pain sounds and 3 death sounds. While these files seem to last less than 3 minutes total in length, it seems that all the sound files were sped up to make it seem like the combine talk super fast, judging from the clarity of the things they say (they are surprisingly easy to understand when you extract them using gcfscape and then listen to them in winamp), meaning that recording times would have been much longer.

Civil protection officers also have 325 vox sounds in a separate folder, though I think some of them are repeats of what the soldiers say.

Recording all these voice files with female actors would have been a huge undertaking, requiring a lot of extra man hours, and as we all know Valve was already run a little bit behind schedule. ;)

A lot of bigger things that they wanted in were cut, why not this too?
 
BMRF, purely because all the words were separate. Sentence-building fun. :)
 
The lady sounds nicer for the ears I guess but the robot sounded cooler and more inline with the story kinda :)
 
Does anyone know how to extract and listen to the Overwatch Lady sound files.

If so can you eplain how to step-by-step?

Thanks.........

-=AutoPilot=-
 
"Attention... Unidentified person of interest, you are charged with socieo endamgerment. Level. 1."

:E
 
They need a mix with both of them in it. cause I like the robotic vore variouse reasons, but the over watch lady sounds like a cold hearted bitch, that evil kind goes behind the combine, but realy why have one or the other, when you can have both. Hell mabey hl3 will go from the granduier opera it is back to survivle horror, or have them mix it both in, would be cool either way I just missed the close quarters of hl1.
 
"10 minutes to singularity...." :D

I dont think the Overwatch Lady is human, she's probably just an automatic announcement system AI or something :P
 
CREMATOR666 said:
I dont think the Overwatch Lady is human, she's probably just an automatic announcement system AI or something :P
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Maybe she's SHODAN :D

"Miscount Detected in your Block. Co-operate with your Civil Protection team. Credit or Ration reward... Insect" ^^
 
kupoartist said:
Maybe she's SHODAN :D

"Miscount Detected in your Block. Co-operate with your Civil Protection team. Credit or Ration reward... Insect" ^^
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Brrr. Don't even say that. Creepy as fu...
 
I prefered the voice and clarity of the BMRF guy, but the combine voice had more sophisticated lines, and was implemented at better times.

"Citizens...inaction constitutes conspiracy...report counter-behavior to local Civil Protection team immediately..."

Second favorite line in the whole game, so subtlely malevolent. The only better one being the infamous "Pick. Up. The Can"

I love touches like that, they are what sets a game apart from its competition.
 
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