Suggestion: actual singer to sing as Dandelion
I'm not sure that this wasn't already discussed, but in any case I wanted to make a dedicated thread for this (and I haven't seen one before; if I'm wrong, please merge).
TL_DR: Suggestion to REDs: find an actual singer to perform a song as Dandelion.
Longer thoughts:
In The Witcher we have such an awesome character as Dandelion, who is renowned throughout the Northern Kingdoms for his singing. The last two games included some attempts on showing him sing, but apparently just the regular Dandelion voice actor tried to do the singing, which resulted in somewhat lacking performances:
The Witcher 1:
(well, the singing in this one is not that bad, but the song is certainly not a hit).
The Witcher 2:
(strictly speaking, here it's a poem, but still).
So my suggestion would be to finally give some proof of Dandelion's talents in having him performing some song in a nice way, finding an actual singer for this. If the song ends up being good, this can serve well in promoting the game on Youtube.
Of course, there is a problem: where can the REDs find a good singer? Well, I think that since The Witcher is quite popular now, many people would like to take the part.
There is already a number of fan-made witcher songs, some of which are of quite high level, for instance the ones by @miracleofsound (yes, he composes songs after many games, but he is a Witcher fan, after all he even showed up on these forums
).
Here are @miracleofsound 's Witcher songs, in case somebody hasn't heard them:
Miracle Of Sound - Wake The White Wolf:
(there is also a metal version of this).
Miracle Of Sound - Silver & Steel:
Miracle Of Sound - Ploughing a Troll:
I think he would fit quite well for Dandelion, and he composes extremely nice songs. Having him performing for The Witcher 3 would be a win-win situation: he gets publicity for taking part in TW3, the Witcher franchise finally gets a properly singing Dandelion
There are, however, two problems with this suggestion. The first one is that the game is now very late in development, which means that something like this can be added into it only if there is a suitable place and moment in the game already, like having some fair with Dandelion present, or some reception at some lord's castle with him being present, and so on. If there is no such situation already included in the game, then there is practically no chance of adding this properly. Even if there is some suitable place and moment it might still be to late to make all the animations and whatnot.
The second problem is even bigger: the localization. If a Dandelion's song gets included in the game, it needs to be localized into all the languages for which there will be voiceovers, which is qite a bit of trouble, since doing it properly would imply trying to find people to sing this song in all these languages.
So, what do you think?
I'm not sure that this wasn't already discussed, but in any case I wanted to make a dedicated thread for this (and I haven't seen one before; if I'm wrong, please merge).
TL_DR: Suggestion to REDs: find an actual singer to perform a song as Dandelion.
Longer thoughts:
In The Witcher we have such an awesome character as Dandelion, who is renowned throughout the Northern Kingdoms for his singing. The last two games included some attempts on showing him sing, but apparently just the regular Dandelion voice actor tried to do the singing, which resulted in somewhat lacking performances:
The Witcher 1:
The Witcher 2:
So my suggestion would be to finally give some proof of Dandelion's talents in having him performing some song in a nice way, finding an actual singer for this. If the song ends up being good, this can serve well in promoting the game on Youtube.
Of course, there is a problem: where can the REDs find a good singer? Well, I think that since The Witcher is quite popular now, many people would like to take the part.
There is already a number of fan-made witcher songs, some of which are of quite high level, for instance the ones by @miracleofsound (yes, he composes songs after many games, but he is a Witcher fan, after all he even showed up on these forums
).Here are @miracleofsound 's Witcher songs, in case somebody hasn't heard them:
Miracle Of Sound - Wake The White Wolf:
Miracle Of Sound - Silver & Steel:
Miracle Of Sound - Ploughing a Troll:
I think he would fit quite well for Dandelion, and he composes extremely nice songs. Having him performing for The Witcher 3 would be a win-win situation: he gets publicity for taking part in TW3, the Witcher franchise finally gets a properly singing Dandelion
There are, however, two problems with this suggestion. The first one is that the game is now very late in development, which means that something like this can be added into it only if there is a suitable place and moment in the game already, like having some fair with Dandelion present, or some reception at some lord's castle with him being present, and so on. If there is no such situation already included in the game, then there is practically no chance of adding this properly. Even if there is some suitable place and moment it might still be to late to make all the animations and whatnot.
The second problem is even bigger: the localization. If a Dandelion's song gets included in the game, it needs to be localized into all the languages for which there will be voiceovers, which is qite a bit of trouble, since doing it properly would imply trying to find people to sing this song in all these languages.
So, what do you think?
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