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So I’ve been replaying the Horizon series to prepare for the Burning Shores DLC in less than a month but damn, it finally hit me realizing that Lance Reddick isn’t come back as Sylens.
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So I’ve been replaying the Horizon series to prepare for the Burning Shores DLC in less than a month but damn, it finally hit me realizing that Lance Reddick isn’t come back as Sylens.
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I hope he recorded for the DLC, but otherwise, he’s left behind a great legacy
I mean maybe he worked on this before he died? It’s always possible.
He has a voice you hear when you read.
Not many actors have such a trait.
RIP commander.
TIL there’s a DLC coming out
Most interesting character in the series, gonna be real sad when 3 comes out and Lance isn’t in it
I really don’t see how they’re going to make the story in Horizon 3 work without Sylens.
His character was iconic in both games and at the end of Forbidden West they really set him up to become an integral part of the next installment.
It’s not like they can just replace the actor either. Reddick’s likeness was used for the character and he had a unique and memorable way of presenting himself.
Right? And they were setting up his character to be so important for a sequel.
That quote.
Shadow Man vibes.
They’ll find a good soundalike and we won’t even notice. Either that, or they’ll kill Sylens off and Aloy will have to sift through his files to find what to do next.
Has it hit you that these games suck yet lol
I WISH I WERE TED FARO
AI can bring him back.
Even though it shouldn’t.
I seriously tried so hard to get into this game. It’s a great game, but I guess it just wasn’t for me.
Unless they give his character a send off in the DLC I want to believe that they can use everything that he has recorded from both games to recreate his character in Horizon 3.
The one thing the absolutely cannot do is recast him. Remember, they also used his likeness for Sylens’ character design. They can’t have a different voice coming out of Lance Reddick’s mouth. Hopefully, they can get their hands on enough of his work to do proper AI training. Failing that, they’ll have to kill him off and find another way to move the narrative forward.
“Happy birthday, here’s a toy for you. Why a toy ? Well because toys r ME”
AI voice can bring him back
afaik he’s already completed his part in Burning Shores and he’s gonna be a part of it (+ with AI I’m sure they can really adequately simulate his voice & face mocap, similar to the last fast & furious movie that featured Paul Walker)
We could just use Ai to imitate his voice.
I am gonna miss Sylens 🥲 Horizon is one of my favourite stories ever
I really hope they don’t do a Carrie Fisher on him. The way this story is written I hope they can just absorb Sylens’s death into the plot. It would suit the character and mean they don’t have to deep fake Reddick. He’s just so much of the character it would seem wrong any other way.
AI is improving all the time and Disney Sherry brought back Leia, so dead is no longer really dead.
Bungie announced that he already recorded bits for Destiny 2 that haven’t released yet, wouldn’t surprise me if Horizon was in the same boat.
Replaying? WOW. I can’t even finish the first game, boring.
With the advancement of AI language models anything is possible, with his families permission of course.
And he won’t return as Commander Zavala after the rest of his pre recorded lines are used
It’s not like a movie or television. If the family agrees they can keep using his likeness and find another actor to imitate his voice pretty easily. They can also tinker with the audio to make it sound even more like him after recording.
AI voice overs are way better than most people think. I hope they pay his estate to be able to use it.
For the 3rd game, they’ll likely get a voice actor who sounds similar to ply the part. Some voice impressionists can sound very close to the original talent. RIP Lance
Big spoilers, but, Sylens might just take the rocket and go to space post DLC. Would be the easiest solution.
Honestly with AI voice generation they might try and recreate his voice for a future game. Though that might sound a little unethical. At least his family could get compensation for it.
If it ever comes out on PC then moders certainly would. He’s got a large repertoire of voice work so any trained program could probably do it justice.
NOOOOOOOO! PLEASE GOD NO! My heart… 🙁
Time to hire Christopher Judge.
Won’t be the same, but more Christopher judge is a good thing
You think they record dialogue a month before release?
Deep Fake. If they can get permission from his estate, that’ll be the best way to handle it.
On another note, this is why I’m not really fond of the idea of using the faces AND voices of famous actors in video games. His voice is distinctive but if it wasn’t tied to his face it wouldn’t be a huge deal to recast. Same for the other way around, his face is distinctive and intrinsically tied to his voice. Sylens *was* Lance Reddick, so now what do you do if you can’t Deep Fake the character?
He had such a great redeeming moment at the end of Forbidden West.
First I’ve heard of his death.. damn..
This might be blasphemous, but is this not the perfect opportunity for a digital life? He loved video games and was a huge part of them, so I can imagine he might have been OK with the idea. But assuming he was, they have a full scan of him, and we know we can digitally recreate voices (Val Kilmer).
It seems like Lance/Sylens could continue in the series with what is already available. If you really want to get in the feels, Sylens has died but has learned to merge his consciousness with a program using Far Zenith tech.
I haven’t played Forbidden West yet so I’m not aware of where they took his character [to do this tastefully], but I wouldn’t be surprised if they use at least *some* unreleased dialogue as a posthumous character recording in a sequel.
There’s always libraries of unused footage that don’t make the final cut.
RIP Lance Reddick, I’ll never view an IHOP the same way again.
God dammit, what a way to find out about his death from this thread…RIP.
Not unless they get permission to reconstruct his voice with AI. I would love that but a lot of people blindly hate anything to do with AI
Making the DLC PS5 exclusive was a dick move.
I think what made him special was he gave a damn. He got the gaming community and appreciated them.
He was so interesting in both games, really sad. Probably the most important character in both stories aside from Aloy. He has to come back for a third game, will just unfortunately have to be voiced by someone else and it won’t be as good or iconic
I think I played this exact quest the moment you posted this.
Both of these games were great, and he was a great voice actor.