Meet Portal 2's 'Wheatley,' Voiced by Stephen Merchant

Not to be a jerk, but I liked the original stand-in voice better

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/64524

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cool indeed :)

The guy sonds a lot like Nick Frost ( Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead )

Brian Blessed should be doing this voice and he should be allowed to cuss.

I don't know, I don't like the voice acting, it sounds like someone is standing next to me and doing the voice over, as if I can imagine him in the studio. At first I thought its the accent that makes it sound strange to me, but I don't think thats it.

'I don't even know why they bothered giving me this stuff if they didn't want me to use it. It's pointless! It's mad!'
Sounded just like Ricky Gervais when he said that xD

Looks like there's going to be some classic lines in this game :)

Another terribly unfunny valve character, hoo boy.

The last minute or so when he was trying to shut down GLaDOS was pure gold.

"You did WHAT??!"

As small a preview of Wheatley as it was at E3, they NEVER should have shown off the stand in voice. Horrible decision to do that. It's like hearing a different guy do Homer or any other cartoon character. Even though it was only one video, people get instantly attached to a cartoon character's voice.

Having said that, we'll probably just get used to Merchant's voice and having listened a few times I'm starting to forget the original preview. But more importantly as some others have mentioned, the voice seems a bit off for a robot. The positioning and the non-robotiness as opposed to Glados and every other robot. It just doesn't feel like such an expressive voice is coming from that physically non-expressive steel ball. I feel like I'm just listening to Stephen Merchant talking in my ear while I've got some steel ball flying around me.

I'm not sure if they can impart robotiness to the voice as Wheatley is much much more conversational and rambly and the British accent gives him character... If they gave it a robot voice it may lose some of the charm and humour of that rambly British delivery. It's tough, but maybe they can do something.

"We both said a lot of things your going to regret" lol great line.

Pssst, what does an electronic eyeball know about dying??

Silly monologues.

Stephen Merchant is fantastic, great choice!

should I be concerned that there was no "going thought portals" in that ????

On reading "mechanical floating sphere", I thought, "Damnit, not another 343 Guilty Spark! This is going to make the game unbearable!"

After seeing some of the video, though, it sounds like the robot isn't a prick like Guilty Spark was, that it's involved in the storyline on the same side as your character. It also helps that I like British comedy (Are You Being Served?, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Coupling, The IT Crowd, etc.).

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