They were both pretty good but I think I preferred the speed of the Voice 2's speech. It's often a mistake of people who arent pros to speak too slowly in their effort to "act". Keep it quick and snappy the way normal dialog is spoken in real life, that would be my recommendation. Good luck with it:-)

Both voices were good and gave you a different mental image. Depends on the character.

Voice one sounded older, grizzled and rough. Tough guy that's seen some hard times.

Voice two...a bit more youthful. Could be a professional. Perhaps someone who just stumbled in being in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now stressed and anxious.

Could you post a picture of the actual character?

Thanks everyone for your opinions and comments.

I guess I will try to clean up voice 1 a little more since that seems to be the favorite.

NOTE: There will subtitles in case you have trouble hearing the audio.

@JKEerie: You can see the character in a few of the screenshots on the website (and in demo) here
( http://www.lasthalfofdarkness.com/moon )

One vote here for voice 1....

Definitely like your voice the best, William. Sounds like a tough, sexy, scary, Jack Nicholson voice...wonderful for a horror game!

(and for the ladies.....lol)

Tracy

Thanks for the tip Gil! I don't seem to have Apple Quicktime installed - apart from maybe being able to listen to Billy's voices how useful is it to have installed?

What, that's not reason enough? <g> It came on this computer or I wouldn't have it and I wouldn't have known it was Quicktime without the blue Q logo that came up on screen. AFAIK, it's just another media player.

Gil.

Voice 1.
Having been a professional voice over and character reader for many years myself (although my profession is a senior Avid editor for television..I do the voice acting for fun)...I'd say voice one is your lead. Perfect menace. The "angry young guy" (voice 2) is a bit too "used" nowadays and a bit "token."
THe first actor has just enough of an edge to be off putting...although he is trying a bit hard.
Still, those 2 choices? Voice one wins hands-down.

I had not trouble understanding voice 1. I really liked it for this kind of game, so you have my vote for voice 1.

Your mention of the blue Q logo rang a bell so I had another look! Yes! I have got Quicktime installed but no luck with the voices although it seems voice 1 is winning!

I played the demo of the first Nick Chase casual (didn't buy it, though) and the first thing that struck me was the lead's voice. Maybe it is the equipment the developer used that made the difference because I could almost have sworn it was Bill's Voice 1 but a little clearer.

Just thought I'd mention it.

Gil.

Between the two choices I vote for voice #1 but I did think it sound a little bit "forced" or contrived as though it wasn't someone's natural voice.
The second option sounded more natural but the tone wasn't as nice or perhaps as suitable to the character.

The first voice sounded like a young guy trying to sound gravelly, but his intonation and timing were better than the second voice. So I'd rather have the first voice.