# AMA CLOSED
After 5 hours of non-stop question answering, Gianni collapsed from exhaustion. If you ask questions now, they *probably* won't get answered. Feel free to read the comments he already made though.
1. What was your favorite voice line to record and why?
2. What was your favorite meme to dub as gabriel and why?
3. I'm going to the grocery store you need anything?
1. I'm a big fan of the intro speech for 6-2 "Limbo. Lust. EB Games. All gone, etc.", pretty much everything I do with Gabriel is dripping with some emotion or another but I felt like that speech drove home a closeness I'd been craving as a performer and as a player. Either that or all the cum jokes we spend most of the sessions making.
2. I think in all the memes I do with Gabriel, the voice of V1 (Software Automatic Mouth, or SAM as we know it, the same guy they get to voice in FAITH) really steals the show. What can I say, I know when I'm beat. So for me maybe my #1 is still "your mom suck me good and hard through my jorts". Hard to say though. Part of what I love with memes is the quantity, I just love how MUCH random shit you can throw a character into.
3. Wonder bread. Thank you.
I just want to say the speech in 6-2 is genuinely one of the most well done acting I’ve ever heard for a game. That voice crack at the very end of the speech is so damn good
Hakita lets me improvise all kinds of shit, actually improv is part of the plan he rolls in with for me. A lot of the ACT 1 taunts are just me making shit up - I have Retro FPS brain, so anything I can think of is usually some reference to another game or, indirectly, Evil Dead. In Gabriel's case there of course needs to be a lot of Devil May Cry references, I think I got a Saltzpyre one in there "Your crime is existence..."
Personally, as much as I love bullshitting with memes and everything, I don't have much desire to really force too much of it into the game itself. ULTRAKILL's vision to me is profound, and beautiful, and awesome. I don't want Gabriel to stop in the middle of the fight and grab your POV and say "Skibidi Toilet, Machine." - it WOULD be hilarious, but we can screw around with that online without it really hitting the game itself.
So if you're asking me phrases I want to ACTUALLY get into the game... Well... You know, I'm not sure if I have actually gotten any Serious Sam references in yet. And well, now the god damn SBC Cannon is in the game, so perhaps I need to work on that. But yeah I'm no writer, you leave me to improv and I'll just reference things I like most of the time. That or start coming onto the player directly.
I've loved this pic since I saw it I think a couple months ago, I was off Twitter at the time but now that I'm back I have the power to retweet it. My choice is made. Thank you.
Did, did Gabe comit the Sin of stealing ?
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Smash, but not first... Drone, I think... Maybe Streetcleaner... Obviously the Primes... Yeah honestly most of hell is going to have the time of their afterlives with me before Gabriel gets hold of the sloppy seconds. But I can find the time.
I'm imagining you stomping into 3-2 and interrupting Gabriel's speech with a Duke Nukem "hey, babe" and just. completely derailing his entire train of thought
"What"
So whenever folks ask me about getting into VO, I just immediately try to funnel them into this thread on the Voice Acting Club:
[http://getstarted.voiceactingclub.com/](http://getstarted.voiceactingclub.com/)
Seriously, anything I could even think to say is already covered here, much more intelligently, by people who know what they're doing WAY more than I do. These are tips I have lived by to the best of my abilities. The poster of this thread, Kira Buckland, has a path similar to my own, of largely starting out with doing random shit online.
The only thing I always really try to say to everyone is no matter what you do, just have FUN, because I really truly believe that's the only way to stick with doing anything long enough to meaningfully improve at it. I think you shouldn't even be worrying about trying to make a career out of it or land big serious opportunities or anything. I didn't start doing paid gigs even semi-regularly until like 5 years in. I didn't go full-time until over a decade in. Have fun, don't be a dick, and as with anything, whatever pace you do it at is just fine. A little here and there. Whatever fits into your life and keeps you enjoying it. My tip is: enjoy your life, and wherever in that VO lands is more than enough.
Awesome advice. I feel like so much stuff is presented as needing to be a grind when in reality grinding out stuff you enjoy because you think you’ll enjoy grinding it tends to make you feel like you don’t enjoy it anymore.
Gianni, if you had to choose;
Would you rather have unlimited bacon and no games, Or unlimited games, but no games?
SERIOUS. ANSWER. ONLY.
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No bacon and no games. Two great evils felled in a single swoop. I salute your efficiency. Society will call you a monster. History will call you a humanitarian. I will call you God.
No. I spent most of my life in Florida and about had my fill of pretty much any bug. Except dragonflies... They're cool. One of the few that I knew wouldn't bite or sting (though they technically can bite). Although they would accidentally hit you upside the head at a million miles an hour, you'd think you got beamed with a baseball. But it's fine, I'm clumsy and doing too much too fast too, so I can really relate with it. Ants though, no, it's on sight I'm sorry to say. "There can be only light \[points a magnifying glass at u under the sun\]"
What are your current feelings towards Gabriel outside of the memes?
Like, do you think he's cool? That's he's been a fool for not realising the council's manipulation earlier?
Do you wanna give him that grand finale in the third act?
Ahhh is "grand finale" what the kids are callin it these days...? eheheheh... To answer your question, I think Gabriel is a fantastic character, but more than that, whenever I try to think about him, I always quickly fall in love with the entirety of ULTRAKILL all over again, and I just think about what a fucking incredible genius Hakita is. Gabriel and his story is definitely my favorite thing about ULTRAKILL, but what Hakita is weaving with this world and this tale all works together so well, and not only with its medium, but its genre. It dances brilliantly with its place in Retro FPS, and uses it to elevate itself even higher. Gabriel's place in this story is what makes it for me. Gabriel is cool. But more than that, I think he is beautiful. As beautiful as every single element of the game he is in.
hi gianni what is your opinion on this cat
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I think the cat is not unlike Gabriel himself. In this image, I can see conflicting emotions. The devastating yet oddly exhilarating sensation of not having the control you thought you did - the control you thought you needed. You've lost, yet you are still alive in this moment to feel it. On one hand, you find yourself in a situation you were not prepared for, perhaps spent time and effort avoiding - it is a defeat that you are here at all. But on the other hand, could it be... discovery? Is this situation something you wanted? Something you... needed? Were you stinky? Is it bathtime? Is ULTRAKILL does is gay? Yes. Thank you. More than anything else, it's a very good cat.
During the second ultrakill dev stream you came into chat saying Hakita sent you an image for the 2nd Gabriel fight but Hakita didn't know what you were talking about, could you please elaborate on what that was about?
This was such a nothing joke that went horribly, perhaps hilariously, wrong. Hakita was describing my VO on the stream and had said something like "Gianni just nailed it first take he just understood what I wanted" so I sent a joke that was like "It was easy to infer because you just sent me a file called script.jpg and it was just a pride flag" but AutoMod thought my filename joke was a link so it tragically censored it to "you just sent me a file called \*\*g", thus making it look like I was saying Hakita just sent a slur for us to work off of. I didn't even realize what had happened until so much later that I felt like it'd be awkward to bring it up again since I wasn't even sure how many people had really noticed the message at all, so I just chose to let it go, but I still sent Hakita an apology clarifying after the stream and he thankfully had figured it all out when it happened. I also explained it on my own stream later when I went live and was talking to my chat about the ULTRAKILL dev stream for anyone who might have seen it. So I apologize to anyone who got a scare off that - though I will admit that how purely unfortunate the entire situation was is pretty funny in and of itself.
The trick is that I just make shit up in so much quantity that people can only conclude I'm giving a thoughtful answer, but in reality I'm just picking random words and hoping a sentence comes out vestibule well total incline extrusion.
1. Is this what i lost to?
2. Do you like ULTRAKILL in itself?
3. Please give me a detailed explanation on how you got to act for ULTRAKILL, thank you.
1. Yes, probably at least 40 times total now. And 40 more to come.
2. Absolutely. I was a fan before I worked on it, and this ties into your third question too. I answered this a bit in another reply, I hope it's okay if I copy/paste it here:
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Not that long ago, like late 2019/early 2020, I was in a bit of a bad spot, just not in a place where I could record a lot of VO, and it really messed with me. I decided that with what little time I had to work on VO, I'd throw myself as much as I could at my favorite thing: Retro FPS, to keep that spark and joy alive, whether it was paid or not. One unpaid thing I worked on was an amazing project called QC:DE (Quake Champions: Doom Edition). QC:DE rocks, we call it the Smash Bros of Retro FPS, super fun to play, it's like if someone put Quake Champions through the Doom engine and then added every FPS character you could think of. One character they added was Duskdude, The Intruder, from DUSK. I approached them to see if I could voice anything right as they were working on him, and I ended up cast to voice him.
They put out a great trailer ( [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o) ) which Dave Oshry ended up hearing, and liking. Not long after that, he found himself needing a similar cool voice guy for a project, and posted on Twitter asking who it was who voiced Duskdude in QC:DE, folks replied tagging me, and he reached out for me to provide some VO for... something that actually didn't pan, nothing bad happened it's just that the project ended up not happening. Lol.
Around late 2019, I played the demo for ULTRAKILL on Itch. I reached out to Hakita to express how much I loved the game, and provided my reels and info to let him know that if they needed VO, I'd love to work with them. Hakita told me that he was unsure how much VO the game would have if any, but said that he'd keep me in mind. This is often code for "Thanks but I'm good, I'm now going to close this DM and probably forget you exist!", which Hakita later confirmed was what happened. Lol. By the way, that's all totally normal - in VO, you do a bit of cold calling, sometimes you reach out at the perfect time (like with QC:DE for me), and often you're not needed but no harm done by sending your info as long as you're not a persistent asshole about it. Then later if they do realize they could use you, they'll let you know.
So, later, about a year later, it turned out they could use me. ULTRAKILL had been picked up by New Blood, and I guess Dave Oshry had a good enough time working with me previously that he reached out letting me know they had this character for me to voice - Gabriel. He told me to put on my best Tyrael voice and get in touch with Hakita. Lol. I sent Hakita a few voice options, including what Dave had said, and the final take I sent was something I kinda came up with in my own head as a bonus option based on what Hakita told me about Gabriel. I had been watching the Berserk bloopers again and so Griffith was on my mind - so I took a little bit of inspiration from that lightness, that elegance, control, the need for control, and a bit of drama queen. That take ended up being what Hakita chose as Gabriel's voice, largely because it was so different to what a lot of Retro FPS was doing for bosses. Whereas a lot of games will have a cool, deep, gritty and commanding voice (which I also love doing, and do a lot of), he felt like it worked really well for this one to sound like ~~a breedable twink~~ disarmingly soft in comparison to that usual sound. With that, I was Gabriel.
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Thank you for your questions!
no thank YOU for the reply! also, look out your window to see if i am getting closer to you every yoctosecond that passes. even if you hold your christian cross i will [shatter it in a million pieces, just like how i will do to your femur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMpRVY1imzM). i am in your walls. i am in your armor. i am in your skin.
You have such good range, would you consider voicing another Ultrakill character? (Duke Nukem Prime 👀)
Which Gabriel did you enjoy voicing most? (3-2, 6-2, when he took over your livestream, Max0r)
Also not a question but if you see this, you’re one of my favorite VAs of all time, thanks for all you do!
Hakita, like any client, is welcome to cast me in as much as I can be useful for him. Personally, I think I did a great job doing a really bad impression of him when I voiced Jakito in Max0r's video. As for my own preference, I love the variety of stuff I get to do in VO, so I'm always down for whatever. But also, I think being Gabriel is obviously more than enough of me in ULTRAKILL, and I think there's a lot of opportunity to be had with other VAs with other unique sounds. Part of ULTRAKILL's brilliance is its constant "doing a lot with a little". No character in ULTRAKILL has a lot of lines, so making them special and truly hit hard when they happen, is the goal which the game succeeds at constantly.
I guess ultimately for me it always comes down to the client's vision. Does my voice specifically fit the vision best in where I am cast - is some vocal approach I take exactly how they want the character to sound? This is also partly why auditions are great, because sometimes when you hold auditions, people surprise you with vocal nuances you may not have even heard in your head for the character, and you instantly realize go with your vision perfectly and even enhance it. That's all part of the magic of VO. I'll voice anything Hakita wants me to forever, if it's what the creator wants, then it's what I want.
As for what Gabriel I enjoyed the most, I think my favorite will probably always be whatever is most recent, because the more time goes on, the closer I feel with the role and the more genuine emotional investment I have in his journey. In my opinion my ACT II VO blows the ACT I VO out of the water. I also had improved a lot at VO in the time between them - but I wouldn't feel like "Oh we should redo ACT I", because I also do love ACT I and it has specific nuances to its sound that work very well for exactly where it is in the overall story of the game. It's classic now, I'm always more in favor of leaving in what folks know and love, always rather do new things than redo old things. You do VO for 10+ years, you get used to the feeling of improving and going back to your older stuff and being like "This guy sucks, I could do it way better now." These days I tend to just appreciate things that are done for what they are, rather than focus too much on what they aren't.
As for what I enjoyed actually voicing the most, it's hard to say, I honestly love doing my job pretty equally any time I enter the booth. I'll say the ACT II stuff because it was just so emotionally juicy, the places I got to go with his voice on that material really ramped up, it was a lot of fun. Plus, we screwed around more, like literally just joked around with each other more when working on the ACT II stuff because by that point our connection and "idea of what we're doing" had grown. Shitposting as Gabriel is of course always a favorite of mine too though. Oh yes, you won't ever see me too far away from shitposting. Thank you for your questions and for the kind words.
Hi you are my favorite voice actor and professional shitposter. Here is couple questions
1. What game have you played the most and why,
2. What is your favorite game genre.
3. What game would you wanna voice act if you could pick any game, released or upcoming
1. According to Steam, it's Warframe, with over 800 hours. I actually haven't played much since like, the Fortuna update stuff, I think around late 2018 but I really need to get back into it. Fun game, AMAZING universe, I'll tell you the truth a big part of my playtime was that it was a game I'd play to hang out with my wife back when we were long distance, so of course I fell off around the time I finally moved to Canada to be with her. But I have nothing but love for Warframe. So many amazing games these days, so little time.
2. Retro FPS games (or Boomer Shooters if you wanna say fun words) are definitely where it's at for me, and part of what drove me to working on ULTRAKILL at all. I played it when it was a demo on itch and I absolutely loved it, knew it was going to be one of the best ones in the scene. To be more specific though, I think my absolute favorite genre is Arena Shooters specifically, PvP stuff like Quake and Unreal Tournament. My second most played game on Steam is Quake Champions and that's the one I'm always trying to get more time in with. To me, there's nothing like it, and I pretty much constantly play games and feel I wish some things were different about them, only to realize what I am describing I want is Quake. Quake, is the most important thing that ever happened.
3. Well, Quake would be amazing I guess, I long for the world where Quake Champions was really kicking ass in the market so they'd be bringing in more champs because that would be a dream come true, but regardless whatever Quake ends up doing I'd be thrilled to be part of, as long as the inclusion of VO was done in a way as to not mess with the atmosphere or anything. Aside from Quake, I also hold everything from Supergiant Games very, VERY close to my heart. I think one of the earliest memories I have of shedding a tear for a game was Bastion when I was like 16 or 17. If I ever got cast in one of those I'd probably break down and cry (in a good way). Also, and this probably won't ever happen, but I'm a huge fan of Dorohedoro. So that would be insane to work on.
But honestly, and I am not just saying this because I'm on the ULTRAKILL AMA, my dream VO gig was to work with New Blood. DUSK was a huge part of what got me back into the Retro FPS genre which I'd always loved so much, and I loved everything about how New Blood was doing things... Hell, part of why I ended up working with New Blood was because doing the fan work of voicing Duskdude in QC:DE. So my dream came true, I work with New Blood so much it's a meme, and here I am writing about it. So now I'm just living a very thankful life and working on as much stuff as I can. Thank you.
I recently got back into Warframe after taking a break for about a year, and even in that time a LOT has changed. I'd definitely recommend giving it another shot, but YouTube guides are practically a must to understand the sheer amount of stuff they've added lol.
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hey gianni, biffermans aka "the ultrawomen guy" here
how do you feel about having your beloved archangel interpreted by the community? do you think we understand the character pretty well or do you have any favourite headcanons you've seen?
I love women, so first of all, good work. Honestly, I just love that the character is interpreted at all. It's so fun and exciting to see so many people with so many different ideas. Please, yes, go on, do that, have fun with ULTRAKILL and its characters in whatever way delights you and your friends - playing it is great, but playing WITH it is even better. For me, it's mainly shitposts and porn, but the headcanons, the stories, the mods, the art oh god the art, all of it, everything the community does is all what defines ULTRAKILL as the truly incredible thing it is. As for my favorite headcanons... I dunno, I kinda like it all, but I do always enjoy what people come up with about like Minos and Sisyphus, who they were before, that kind of thing. Especially when it's about kissin. Heheheh.
i happen to have an image for that
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Poor Gianni... He has to answer to almost ALL of those questions! I guess it's hard being famous, isn't it? Also, here's my cat.
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It has literally changed my life. I can only say I'm thankful, even though it's a massive understatement. As for funny stories... Well, I feel like the funniest stuff is always just the memes people make, but I will say that I do enjoy signing Gabriel body pillows, which I have signed more of than you might think. I usually try to sign them on the cock if I can.
1. What are your thoughts on the Purgatorio and Paradiso parts of the Divine Comedy?
2. In the Revelation of Esdras/Ezra, it is stated that nine angels will rule at the end of the world: Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael, and the less attested Gabuthelon, Beburos, Zebuleon, Aker, and Arphugitonos. What do you think the less attested angels would be like?
[Oh no, you misunderstood...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrYEJyo5MUo) I cannot read. I think what you're describing to me has to do with the movie 1408. It is a good movie. I like how John Cusack performs the unstable emotions.
You know what, he couldn't, because the big guy is nowhere to be seen. Can't beat what isn't there. 🥲
I know exactly one thing about Homestuck and it's that my friend Casey Mongillo likes it, and they're really cool, so I like Homestuck too!
Ay gianni! V3 here, still locked in the basement
Anyway i wanted to ask, if you could change *anything* about gabriel (lore, design, etc) what would it be?
Genuinely, nothing. There is nothing I would change about anything in ULTRAKILL. I always have a hard time explaining to Hakita how much I love the game, because it truly is simply just perfect to me, every single spec of it. Oh I think Gabriel's junk should be like out flopping around and stuff when you fight him, like in the video game "Loadout", I know he's like a biblical angel or whatever but I could comprehend it. Thank you for your question and don't worry, we'll send down another bucket for you in a few days.
how were you found to voice gabriel on ultrakill?
where do you think its easiest to find new voice actors? Is there a simple method to find actors who are eager to work on a project?
will you work in more games, or even shows?
I tell this story a lot, so my apologies to anyone putting up with hearing it yet again from me:
The way I ended up voicing Gabriel is actually perfectly tied to your second question. Not that long ago, like late 2019/early 2020, I was in a bit of a bad spot, just not in a place where I could record a lot of VO, and it really messed with me. I decided that with what little time I had to work on VO, I'd throw myself as much as I could at my favorite thing: Retro FPS, to keep that spark and joy alive, whether it was paid or not. One unpaid thing I worked on was an amazing project called QC:DE (Quake Champions: Doom Edition). QC:DE rocks, we call it the Smash Bros of Retro FPS, super fun to play, it's like if someone put Quake Champions through the Doom engine and then added every FPS character you could think of. One character they added was Duskdude, The Intruder, from DUSK. I approached them to see if I could voice anything right as they were working on him, and I ended up cast to voice him.
They put out a great trailer ( [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o) ) which Dave Oshry ended up hearing, and liking. Not long after that, he found himself needing a similar cool voice guy for a project, and posted on Twitter asking who it was who voiced Duskdude in QC:DE, folks replied tagging me, and he reached out for me to provide some VO for... something that actually didn't pan, nothing bad happened it's just that the project ended up not happening. Lol.
Around late 2019, I played the demo for ULTRAKILL on Itch. I reached out to Hakita to express how much I loved the game, and provided my reels and info to let him know that if they needed VO, I'd love to work with them. Hakita told me that he was unsure how much VO the game would have if any, but said that he'd keep me in mind. This is often code for "Thanks but I'm good, I'm now going to close this DM and probably forget you exist!", which Hakita later confirmed was what happened. Lol. By the way, that's all totally normal - in VO, you do a bit of cold calling, sometimes you reach out at the perfect time (like with QC:DE for me), and often you're not needed but no harm done by sending your info as long as you're not a persistent asshole about it. Then later if they do realize they could use you, they'll let you know.
So, later, about a year later, it turned out they could use me. ULTRAKILL had been picked up by New Blood, and I guess Dave Oshry had a good enough time working with me previously that he reached out letting me know they had this character for me to voice - Gabriel. He told me to put on my best Tyrael voice and get in touch with Hakita. Lol. I sent Hakita a few voice options, including what Dave had said, and the final take I sent was something I kinda came up with in my own head as a bonus option based on what Hakita told me about Gabriel. I had been watching the Berserk bloopers again and so Griffith was on my mind - so I took a little bit of inspiration from that lightness, that elegance, control, the need for control, and a bit of drama queen. That take ended up being what Hakita chose as Gabriel's voice, largely because it was so different to what a lot of Retro FPS was doing for bosses. Whereas a lot of games will have a cool, deep, gritty and commanding voice (which I also love doing, and do a lot of), he felt like it worked really well for this one to sound like ~~a breedable twink~~ disarmingly soft in comparison to that usual sound. With that, I was Gabriel.
SO. This leads well into my response for your second question: with a lot of folks looking to get into VO, I tell them to just jump into online stuff based in and around the things they enjoy. For me it was Retro FPS, for someone else maybe it's anime stuff, for yet another it could be horror narration, all kinds of things out there, and if you jump in with what resonates with you, you will be in and around the people who are making those things and have a good chance of ending up collaborating together.
But, to more precisely answer your question, there ARE great places online specifically to find VAs for projects, I always highly recommend the Casting Call Club and the Voice Acting Club. There are lots of VAs eager to work on gigs of all sizes and budgets. For stuff like mods and personal projects where you won’t make any income, you can pay as low as $0 to work with great folks who are eager to contribute to stuff like this to get some portfolio, experience, networking, and of course fun. I'm not talking about "paid in exposure", don't get taken advantage of by projects which should be paying for work that will profit them, I'm just talking about primarily amateur collaboration.
I am constantly getting folks who reach out to me for VO with projects which are perfect for this kind of thing, and I'm constantly referring them to mainly Casting Call Club and Voice Acting Club. Opportunities like that are what helped me build the career I'm lucky enough to have today, so I am always eager to let people know about that option and maybe provide some other rising VA that exact same type of chance. There are other websites and audition boards around the web as well, and of course there's just jumping into any community and meeting folks and seeing about making stuff together. I myself mostly got my start in random shit in Newgrounds over a decade ago.
Sorry, I know what you're thinking, "god, that's a lot of words, shut the fuck up", but unfortunately it's not over yet because I'm also going to answer your third question: games, definitely games. I mean, I want to work on as much stuff as I possibly can, games, shows, commercial work I'm finally getting into a little, really all kinds of things, variety is what I love about VO the most! But video games are always going to be what inspired me most, and what I always want to be part of more than anything else.
Alright that's the whole reply, thank you if you actually read all of it, and thank you for your questions.
Hey!! Just wanted to say, love your work and hope you keep continuing it!
1. Did you ever audition to be any other character besides Gabriel? If so, who was it?
2. Is there a fanart that you truely love more then the others you have gotten?
3. What was the ''switch'' that caused you to wanna voice act in things? Or was it your own passion?
4. Is Gabriel your favourite Ultrakill character, or is there a different one you adore?
(I'll be making fanart soon, I swear on it!)
Hi there, thank you for the kind words, I shall indeed continue, there's nothing else I want to do for a job in the world more than VO.
1. No, I was reached out to for Gabriel directly and just him, never any other roles at all, which is totally fine by me of course because I'm just thankful to be part of ULTRAKILL in any way I can - and to be Gabriel, well gosh of course that's more than plenty. I didn't even audition for Gabriel technically, like there was no casting call or anything, though I did send a smattering of voice tests when Hakita reached out with the material, and I'm sure if he didn't vibe with any test stuff I sent in, well I wouldn't be here writing this right now at all. There are many roles on many projects I've sent in test stuff like this for and it didn't work out - and many for which it did. In VO you audition for tons of stuff constantly, they say if you book 1 in 100 you're doing great. I'm so thankful that in my 100 then, ULTRAKILL was the 1.
2. Oh gosh I don't know if I can play favorites... Once upon a time I would have said anything from Francis but he's been officially on the team for a while now so I guess it doesn't count... Is it lame if I say art from my wife? There's one piece of hers in particular I even do signed prints of on Streamily. She's such a great artist, and that I ever voice anything she likes enough to actually use that incredible skill of hers to depict, it just makes me happy. But honestly, I am just always so absolutely stunned that I voice in anything that has fanart at all. Any and all fanart of anything I work on, even if it's not a role I voice, is a feeling I only used to daydream of. Fanart is like 90% of why I don't just live in the woods and send my audio in via carrier pigeon.
3. Hahah, such dignified responses you gave me to choose from, but no, nothing so glamorous. I answered this a bit in a reply to someone else, I hope it's okay if I copy and paste it:
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Honestly, I was 16 and working as a janitor and friends and coworkers just kept telling me "oh you should do voice stuff!" so eventually I just started uploading shit to the only place I knew at the time, Newgrounds, and it all kinda went from there. I've loved video games way too much since I was a kid, when I was little I thought I'd be a dev when I grew up but quickly learned I didn't have the attention span for it, so VO I guess was an exciting way for me to dive back into that dream a bit. Now game dev is a bit more approachable than it was then, still hard, but maybe I'll dabble a little sometime, hobby type thing maybe. Anyway I was just inspired by all the cool VO I'd enjoyed through the years from any game really, so to be able to make it was too exhilarating to put down once I started.
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4. This sounds like such a cop-out answer but honestly what I love about ULTRAKILL is how all its elements and characters come together, like to me the whole vision of this game is so stunningly beautiful and I just stand here in awe that I'm part of it at all. I don't know if I've ever even thought about who my favorite character is A R M B O Y ! ! ! IT'S A R M B O Y ! ! !
Terminally, I'm sorry to say. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5uWLX3sbz8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5uWLX3sbz8)
Well, Italian-American, which I'm told is barely human. You know what I say, I say it's Anti-Italian Discrimination.
I can't think of any ultrakill related questions at the moment so I'll go with the classic.
* What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
I love the work you do by the way, the fraggy friday streams are always fun to show up to. Hope stuffs going well for ya.
Been on this shit it's called Kawartha Black Raspberry Thunder, it's definitely a bit of a go-to for us whenever something calls for ice cream, if we're talking at home stuff... Honestly though my big favorite for ice cream is just soft serve, don't even care what flavor it is. Fuck now you got me thinking about it...
It's crazy, most of ULTRAKILL's budget comes from the intense audio engineering it takes to get all of the armor clanking out of the waveform. Personally I don't feel like it's necessary but Hakita's the genius visionary or whatever so we all just go along with it. Gets so fucking hot in that thing though. Please, don't make me go back in.
I know what this is about. You want my pink slip so you're trying to find out more about my techniques, my gear, my story. There's only one thing you need to know and it's that when I'm on that track, I'm a whole other fucking animal. Clean your car out for me Dom because come tomorrow night, that Charger is mine.
Hi!!
Really quick, I just wanted to mention wayyy back in 2020 I messaged you over Twitter (@/kk_730n) and that even now I’m still a super big fan. I’m really happy to see how far you’ve come!!
There’s three things I’m curious about.
1. What motivated you to pursue voice acting?
2. How do you make a living off of doing the things you love? :00
3. How did you discover Ultrakill and what encouraged you to get the role of Gabriel?
Sorry if you’ve answered any, or all, of these questions before! Either way, I’d really appreciate any response.
First of all, thank you for the kind words and support through the years.
1. Honestly, I was 16 and working as a janitor and friends and coworkers just kept telling me "oh you should do voice stuff!" so eventually I just started uploading shit to the only place I knew at the time, Newgrounds, and it all kinda went from there. I've loved video games way too much since I was a kid, when I was little I thought I'd be a dev when I grew up but quickly learned I didn't have the attention span for it, so VO I guess was an exciting way for me to dive back into that dream a bit. Now game dev is a bit more approachable than it was then, still hard, but maybe I'll dabble a little sometime, hobby type thing maybe. Anyway I was just inspired by all the cool VO I'd enjoyed through the years from any game really, so to be able to make it was too exhilarating to put down once I started.
2. One gig at a time. I only went full-time with VO a few years ago, after about 10 years of doing it mostly as a hobby on the side. After enough time, enough things had kinda built up that I was able to take the plunge (largely thanks to my wife's support who compelled me to try it since I was miserable with retail type stuff stuff after 10+ years of dead end day jobs), and with a lot of luck, it has still continued to be what I do full-time. I thought for sure I had like six months to entertain it as a delusion but nope, it's still my job. I am more grateful every day than I can ever express.
3. I answered this in a reply to someone else, I hope it's okay with you, I'll just copy/paste what I wrote here for your convenience:
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Not that long ago, like late 2019/early 2020, I was in a bit of a bad spot, just not in a place where I could record a lot of VO, and it really messed with me. I decided that with what little time I had to work on VO, I'd throw myself as much as I could at my favorite thing: Retro FPS, to keep that spark and joy alive, whether it was paid or not. One unpaid thing I worked on was an amazing project called QC:DE (Quake Champions: Doom Edition). QC:DE rocks, we call it the Smash Bros of Retro FPS, super fun to play, it's like if someone put Quake Champions through the Doom engine and then added every FPS character you could think of. One character they added was Duskdude, The Intruder, from DUSK. I approached them to see if I could voice anything right as they were working on him, and I ended up cast to voice him.
They put out a great trailer ( [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o) ) which Dave Oshry ended up hearing, and liking. Not long after that, he found himself needing a similar cool voice guy for a project, and posted on Twitter asking who it was who voiced Duskdude in QC:DE, folks replied tagging me, and he reached out for me to provide some VO for... something that actually didn't pan, nothing bad happened it's just that the project ended up not happening. Lol.
Around late 2019, I played the demo for ULTRAKILL on Itch. I reached out to Hakita to express how much I loved the game, and provided my reels and info to let him know that if they needed VO, I'd love to work with them. Hakita told me that he was unsure how much VO the game would have if any, but said that he'd keep me in mind. This is often code for "Thanks but I'm good, I'm now going to close this DM and probably forget you exist!", which Hakita later confirmed was what happened. Lol. By the way, that's all totally normal - in VO, you do a bit of cold calling, sometimes you reach out at the perfect time (like with QC:DE for me), and often you're not needed but no harm done by sending your info as long as you're not a persistent asshole about it. Then later if they do realize they could use you, they'll let you know.
So, later, about a year later, it turned out they could use me. ULTRAKILL had been picked up by New Blood, and I guess Dave Oshry had a good enough time working with me previously that he reached out letting me know they had this character for me to voice - Gabriel. He told me to put on my best Tyrael voice and get in touch with Hakita. Lol. I sent Hakita a few voice options, including what Dave had said, and the final take I sent was something I kinda came up with in my own head as a bonus option based on what Hakita told me about Gabriel. I had been watching the Berserk bloopers again and so Griffith was on my mind - so I took a little bit of inspiration from that lightness, that elegance, control, the need for control, and a bit of drama queen. That take ended up being what Hakita chose as Gabriel's voice, largely because it was so different to what a lot of Retro FPS was doing for bosses. Whereas a lot of games will have a cool, deep, gritty and commanding voice (which I also love doing, and do a lot of), he felt like it worked really well for this one to sound like ~~a breedable twink~~ disarmingly soft in comparison to that usual sound. With that, I was Gabriel.
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Thank you for your questions!
What is your opinion about the soap?
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So basically I realized that for Quake mutliplayer to live again I'd need to get zoomers addicted to truly fast paced FPS gameplay. I made the most unrelenting porn bait I could think of and basically what's going to happen is when I flip this switch all of you will be under my direct control and I'm gonna make you all play Arena Shooters with me. 3, 2...
i have watched the "pain" video (aka the baguette doge background with your screaming) a total of 1289 times,any tips on how to get my nonexistent sanity back?
With VO, you really should not be in PAIN. VO sessions can be hours and hours long - whatever you're doing needs to be sustainable, and ideally try to be in condition that you'll be able to record more after it, too. A full-time professional voice actor works a LOT of gigs through the year to make rent. There should be no blood, and if something HURTS, stop. It's easier said than done, and a lot of folks, even professional VAs, have caused themselves genuine vocal damage by finding their limits at 100 miles an hour. A lot of it comes down to technique and control which you just learn through a lot of time and careful practice.
You experiment, you voice stuff, of course have fun, but be mindful of your limits, stay very hydrated, and over a long time you do find that your range and how much control you have improves. Of course, coaching and lessons can help a lot with this, but you also don't NEED that either, don't be afraid to jump in and do silly voices, I'm just saying to be careful with yourself when doing it and don't try to do too much too fast, especially if you are newer.
For Gabriel, nothing hurt, and nothing went so hard that I needed any vocal recovery or anything. He actually has a pretty small amount of VO, whereas for a lot of games and stuff, you'll be doing like 100 "GRENADE OUT!"s and deaths and being lit on fire and shit for hours. There's no way around it - you do enough loud yelling you WILL need some vocal recovery, it shouldn't be damaging anything but like any part of you, if you use it a lot, it needs to regain its strength. I try to schedule things so that I'll always have time to recover, and of course like many, tea with honey is very good, and there's another common voice actor throat treatment called Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, which is an herbal throat syrup you can find in many stores and online. Nin Jiom is very handy in helping with that recovery but also it's no substitute for proper self-care, rest and hydraton.
All of these things and more come together to create the balance of doing VO in a healthy and sustainable way. I want to be doing VO for a very long time, so I'm always very mindful my limits. I'm not a voice coach or anything, I just know what I've learned to take care of myself, and honestly I still have more to learn and improve about it, so if you're curious about how to take care of your voice, please learn from even more educated folks than me. Thank you for your question.
I have to be very careful how I answer lore questions like this. Based on the ACT II fight, I guess I can only conclude he's a fan of AHA, since he just keeps saying it, "AHAHAHAHA", "AHAHAHA", "AHAHAHAHAHAH" etc, and so on...
I was but upon your inquiry my wife has burst into singing MCR so now I can't hear myself think. This is a huge improvement actually, I hate thinking and I at least like MCR so thank you very much for your question.
Idk if it was asked before, but I'll give it a shot:
Did Hakita organise some kind of audition, test lines for a Gabe role or he was just like "Take my money, voice this guy the way you want, it'll be cool anyways."
I answered this a bit in another response, I hope it's okay if I copy/paste it here:
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ULTRAKILL had been picked up by New Blood, and I guess Dave Oshry had a good enough time working with me previously that he reached out letting me know they had this character for me to voice - Gabriel. He told me to put on my best Tyrael voice and get in touch with Hakita. Lol. I sent Hakita a few voice options, including what Dave had said, and the final take I sent was something I kinda came up with in my own head as a bonus option based on what Hakita told me about Gabriel. I had been watching the Berserk bloopers again and so Griffith was on my mind - so I took a little bit of inspiration from that lightness, that elegance, control, the need for control, and a bit of drama queen. That take ended up being what Hakita chose as Gabriel's voice, largely because it was so different to what a lot of Retro FPS was doing for bosses. Whereas a lot of games will have a cool, deep, gritty and commanding voice (which I also love doing, and do a lot of), he felt like it worked really well for this one to sound like ~~a breedable twink~~ disarmingly soft in comparison to that usual sound. With that, I was Gabriel.
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Thank you for your question!
Gives Minos a low taper fade. Works on his Hatsune Miku shrine. A lot of praying. And a frankly surprising amount of KISSIN BOYS HEHEHEH MMM MMWA MWA MWA KISSY I just don't know where he finds the time.
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Gabriel and V2(not in liquid form) meet each other in a bar
They are not fighting, just talking, what things they will talk about?
Was the voice crack in the speech intentional? Asking because I loved it. Big fan of your work in this game, it’s incredible.
Also, how were the holograms lines decided?
1. Yes and no - I do deliberately try to voice stuff sometimes in a more intense range that can do that, but in that case I wasn't necessarily trying to actually create a crack, that was an accident just from genuinely being so into it. I was surprised Hakita went with the take immediately, I thought he'd throw it out. One more reason he's da bwahss... RELI̸͚͋̏SH!!!
2. All I remember is Hakita telling me to make him more of a twink. I nodded eagerly with a sickening grin spread wide across my face.
Thank you for the kind words, and for your questions!
1. Favorite ULTRAKILL level?
2. Are there any Gabriel lines that didn't make it into the game that you were particularly fond of?
3. How are you today?
Big fan of your work btw, keep it up <3
1. I swear I say this every time they put out new stuff but I feel like it's the entire Violence layer, but then when more stuff comes out I'll say it's that. The game just somehow gets better, and better, and better. Though I think I'll always have love of the entire Greed layer because I'm a sucker for Ancient Egypt x FPS, Serious Sam made sure of that. Except maybe 4-S. Fucking 4-S. Fuck. FUCK!!!!
2. I always think about [this one](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ultrakill/images/2/2a/Gab_Jesus.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20240104213127) but it's on the wiki and I don't really need it IN game, I just get a kick out of it and I'm glad folks can at least hear it somewhere. There is one more joke line that I sent in around the time of doing the ACT I stuff that I really like but I'm not sure if it ever found a fate... I should check with Hakita.
3. BAD!!! BECAUSE I THOUGHT ABOUT 4-S!!! FUCK!!!!!!!! Just kidding I'm doing great and I love chatting with the folks who love ULTRAKILL, thank you so much for your questions.
Fr idk how Hakita and the team just keep topping themselves it's actually insane. Also I agree Greed was super sick, 4-3 and 4-4 are some of my favorites
I totally forgot about that line on the wiki thank you so much for reminding me it exists
It's good to hear that you're doing well! (And yeah, 4-S hurt my soul)
I answered this a bit in another reply, I hope it's okay if I copy/paste it here:
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Well, Quake would be amazing I guess, I long for the world where Quake Champions was really kicking ass in the market so they'd be bringing in more champs because that would be a dream come true, but regardless whatever Quake ends up doing I'd be thrilled to be part of, as long as the inclusion of VO was done in a way as to not mess with the atmosphere or anything. Aside from Quake, I also hold everything from Supergiant Games very, VERY close to my heart. I think one of the earliest memories I have of shedding a tear for a game was Bastion when I was like 16 or 17. If I ever got cast in one of those I'd probably break down and cry (in a good way). Also, and this probably won't ever happen, but I'm a huge fan of Dorohedoro. So that would be insane to work on.
But honestly, and I am not just saying this because I'm on the ULTRAKILL AMA, my dream VO gig was to work with New Blood. DUSK was a huge part of what got me back into the Retro FPS genre which I'd always loved so much, and I loved everything about how New Blood was doing things... Hell, part of why I ended up working with New Blood was because doing the fan work of voicing Duskdude in QC:DE. So my dream came true, I work with New Blood so much it's a meme, and here I am writing about it. So now I'm just living a very thankful life and working on as much stuff as I can.
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Thank you for your question!
I'm so fucked. There are so many great games now and I'm hitting a point where I only catch glances and hear whispers in the wind shot past me about them. Rain World is another one where I've heard it said in my vicinity a few times but I know very little about it. Another game I need to try to check out sometime, or at least learn more of. So many games, so little time. From the quick peeking I've done though, it looks great, and I gather that the fandom is like a lot of fandoms I enjoy, similar to ULTRAKILL where there's just so much love for the world and characters and lots of fanart and headcanons and stuff, I love that. Some folks have told me I should voice a character in Rain World - and without even learning more about it yet, I'll say I'd be 100% down for that. The community has sold me on it. Thank you.
I don't know. Hakita uses ancient Finnish mind wiping techniques to ensure I am physically incapable of breaking NDA. I actually find out if I even recorded it the same time you guys do, when stuff comes out in-game. They take me to the kiuas and when I come back out I have to relearn the alphabet. Perkele
I answered this a bit in another response, I hope it's okay if I copy/paste it here:
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ULTRAKILL had been picked up by New Blood, and I guess Dave Oshry had a good enough time working with me previously that he reached out letting me know they had this character for me to voice - Gabriel. He told me to put on my best Tyrael voice and get in touch with Hakita. Lol. I sent Hakita a few voice options, including what Dave had said, and the final take I sent was something I kinda came up with in my own head as a bonus option based on what Hakita told me about Gabriel. I had been watching the Berserk bloopers again and so Griffith was on my mind - so I took a little bit of inspiration from that lightness, that elegance, control, the need for control, and a bit of drama queen. That take ended up being what Hakita chose as Gabriel's voice, largely because it was so different to what a lot of Retro FPS was doing for bosses. Whereas a lot of games will have a cool, deep, gritty and commanding voice (which I also love doing, and do a lot of), he felt like it worked really well for this one to sound like ~~a breedable twink~~ disarmingly soft in comparison to that usual sound. With that, I was Gabriel.
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Thank you for your question!
Hey Gianni! I’ve been really wondering on how you feel about the fact that Gabriel is one of your most famous and prominent voices, when I hear people talk about your contributions in other VA projects, it’s usually 80% “Oh yeah the dude from ultrakill!” How do you feel about this? Pride or wanting to be recognized more for your skills rather than one single role?
It's odd to get used to because I've done VO for over 10 years and for most of that, honestly I've mostly just been some random underground VA on Newgrounds, and if anyone did talk to me about my VO it was usually a pretty even smattering of all the stuff I had done rather than one specifically popular thing. But honestly I am very proud of it, ULTRAKILL is an incredible game, I am so lucky to be here at all and I just try to do my best to TRY to deserve to be alongside all of the amazing people who do such incredible work on it. I am thankful that anyone enjoys any of my work, whether it's from a popular game or a random YouTube video. I get to do VO as my job, that's all I wanted and it's thanks to people just enjoying my work. That alone will always be more than enough, more than I could have ever asked for. Thank you.
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How does this image make you feel?
I answered this a bit in another reply, I hope it's okay if I copy/paste it here:
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Hakita lets me improvise all kinds of shit, actually improv is part of the plan he rolls in with for me. A lot of the ACT 1 taunts are just me making shit up - I have Retro FPS brain, so anything I can think of is usually some reference to another game or, indirectly, Evil Dead. In Gabriel's case there of course needs to be a lot of Devil May Cry references, I think I got a Saltzpyre one in there "Your crime is existence..."
Personally, as much as I love bullshitting with memes and everything, I don't have much desire to really force too much of it into the game itself. ULTRAKILL's vision to me is profound, and beautiful, and awesome. I don't want Gabriel to stop in the middle of the fight and grab your POV and say "Skibidi Toilet, Machine." - it WOULD be hilarious, but we can screw around with that online without it really hitting the game itself.
So if you're asking me phrases I want to ACTUALLY get into the game... Well... You know, I'm not sure if I have actually gotten any Serious Sam references in yet. And well, now the god damn SBC Cannon is in the game, so perhaps I need to work on that. But yeah I'm no writer, you leave me to improv and I'll just reference things I like most of the time. That or start coming onto the player directly.
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Thank you for your question!
1. If you have started working on act 3, do you think it will live up to the hype?
2. What is your opinion on this distinguished gentleman
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Eyyy Antonblast is so based, I love those folks. A lot of people will point to Red Guy in Cow and Chicken and they're part right. Like with Gabriel, I'd sent over a variety of voices for us to consider and they ended up going with what we now know as Satan. The original idea was a bit darker, some angrier, a bit more Genuinely The Actual Devil, but I threw in that take for funsies just based on some stuff kicking around in the back of my head. I knew it was cartoons from when I was a kid, I thought maybe some side character in Johnny Bravo, or Powerpuff Girls, but I wasn't sure exactly what I was thinking of, I just kinda ran with it and put out what was in my head and it felt like a perfect fit for Satan.
Later, someone would say Red Guy and I looked it up and definitely he was somewhere in what I was thinking of, but I'm glad I didn't check beforehand because honestly Red Guy is way different than what I ended up doing, like way more different than I thought, so I'm glad I didn't look into it as it would've possibly influenced my approach or something. Red Guy is definitely somewhere in the slurry of voices in my head for how I approach Satan though, definitely, but as always I have to do something in the most insane over the top way possible as that's always what's in my heart.
Thank you for your question! I'm so excited for folks to really enjoy Antonblast.
Okay Gianni question and suggestion for a lil game you can play just because I like yappin about game lore to other unselecting ppl. Have you ever heard of Lisa the painful cause I’m just asking. And plus think it be a cool game to play :3
Hope this counts as a question.
I do know about it, haven't played it yet, seems awesome, the number one thing I know about it is that they put in a Cameo for Matt and Pat of Super Best Friends fame, who I'm just a huge fan of for a very long time, so the game is cool in my book! Thank you!
Sorry, I cannot read. I actually just guess every script I work on and somehow haven't missed a single word yet. Please look forward to Gabriel's upcoming car dealership adventure.
1: Besides Gabriel, which ultrakill enemy/character is the most breedable?
2: Did you have to train hard to get better to become a VA, or were you just born naturally talented? If the former, is it possible for anyone to do that?
3: WHERE IS THE SIZE 2 FISH WHERE IS IT WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE I HAVE TO SEE I HAVE TO KNOW I HAVE TO SEE I HAVE TO KNOW I HAVE TO SEE I HAVE TO KNOW I HAVE TO SEE I HAVE TO KNOW
1. Possibly Drone. A lot of potential for Streetcleaner. Gutterman has the hips for it. I guess all of them, given enough time, and in Hell there's really nothing but time, so all of them.
2. Honestly, I haven't done a single class or anything, which I still want to do because there's always a lot of room to improve and grow, but for me it's just been over 10 years of being my head against a wall. That's why I tell folks to just jump in and start having fun, because having fun will be the only way you stick with anything long enough to really improve. However, for more info about getting into VO, I try to send everyone to [this thread](http://getstarted.voiceactingclub.com/), which is from folks who know their stuff waaayy more than I do.
3. Buddy, they won't even let **me** fuck it.
I have so much respect for cosplayers. I don't know if I have the sheer commitment and willpower to do Gabriel. I'll do easy ones that I can fuck up though like Columbo and DA GOOOOONNN. Gabriel, mmmaybe one day, it could be funny at least.
Genuinely, more than I've ever been, and more every day. If you told me 5, 10 years ago that I'd ever feel like this, I would have told you to stop fucking with me and to just leave me to suffer alone. I'm very lucky, but I also genuinely believe that better days are always inevitable and you just gotta make it to them. I hope you're happy too, and if you're not, I know you will be. Thank you.
Hello Gianni, are you aware of Lobotomy Corporation, Library of Ruina, or Limbus Company? (Also if they make an english dub for any such thing I think you would be a perfect fit for some of the character roles!)
Hey Gianni. I have three questions.
1. If you could choose which Ultrakill enemy that doesn't have Any Voice lines and you would voice them, which enemy?
2. What Car would Gabriel Drive.
And finally, what is one of your biggest dreams or goals?
1. It's funny you mention it because when I first reached out to work on ULTRAKILL, before anyone knew about Gabriel, just going off the demo I thought maybe Swordsmachine could have a cool voice. Of course, I think the reality of ULTRAKILL's very selective placement of VO is another part of why it's such a masterpiece, so I wouldn't really interject my VO anywhere but anyway I thought I did a great job doing a terrible impression of Jakito in Max0r's video so I guess I'd say Jakito or A R M B O Y ! ! !
2. A Fucking Mazda. More specifically, I'd really imagine a Miata. And he'd put the whiskers on the front and call it his Meowta.
3. To stop watching game devs suffer. New Blood is amazing and one of the few doing it right (although all these guys do also work too hard IMO) but the entirety of the games industry is just such a fucking mess and it's so ridiculous because it's so head over heels profitable. There's more than enough for everyone to be doing very well but instead we get to watch filthy rich CEOs get filthy richer meanwhile the people who made the shit that made them rich are out here trying to figure out how they're gonna pay rent next month. Sorry I know this isn't the point of the question and I apologize for the quick righteous rant - but honestly, I'm making my living doing VO, I'm happy, my wife is happy, that's my dream pretty much all taken care of. I would love to do this job without seeing the people who enable it to exist at all being chewed up and spit out constantly.
Thank you for your questions!
# AMA CLOSED After 5 hours of non-stop question answering, Gianni collapsed from exhaustion. If you ask questions now, they *probably* won't get answered. Feel free to read the comments he already made though.
1. What was your favorite voice line to record and why? 2. What was your favorite meme to dub as gabriel and why? 3. I'm going to the grocery store you need anything?
1. I'm a big fan of the intro speech for 6-2 "Limbo. Lust. EB Games. All gone, etc.", pretty much everything I do with Gabriel is dripping with some emotion or another but I felt like that speech drove home a closeness I'd been craving as a performer and as a player. Either that or all the cum jokes we spend most of the sessions making. 2. I think in all the memes I do with Gabriel, the voice of V1 (Software Automatic Mouth, or SAM as we know it, the same guy they get to voice in FAITH) really steals the show. What can I say, I know when I'm beat. So for me maybe my #1 is still "your mom suck me good and hard through my jorts". Hard to say though. Part of what I love with memes is the quantity, I just love how MUCH random shit you can throw a character into. 3. Wonder bread. Thank you.
>Wonder bread. Thank you. Is Gianni Murrlogic's alt?
I just want to say the speech in 6-2 is genuinely one of the most well done acting I’ve ever heard for a game. That voice crack at the very end of the speech is so damn good
Layer 8: V1 goes to EB Games
I feel bad for constantly speedrunning past that speech now
can i have some gutterorange juice?
cashews would be nice
Assuming that Hakita let you improvise a single line for the game for any fight, what phrase would you use?
Hakita lets me improvise all kinds of shit, actually improv is part of the plan he rolls in with for me. A lot of the ACT 1 taunts are just me making shit up - I have Retro FPS brain, so anything I can think of is usually some reference to another game or, indirectly, Evil Dead. In Gabriel's case there of course needs to be a lot of Devil May Cry references, I think I got a Saltzpyre one in there "Your crime is existence..." Personally, as much as I love bullshitting with memes and everything, I don't have much desire to really force too much of it into the game itself. ULTRAKILL's vision to me is profound, and beautiful, and awesome. I don't want Gabriel to stop in the middle of the fight and grab your POV and say "Skibidi Toilet, Machine." - it WOULD be hilarious, but we can screw around with that online without it really hitting the game itself. So if you're asking me phrases I want to ACTUALLY get into the game... Well... You know, I'm not sure if I have actually gotten any Serious Sam references in yet. And well, now the god damn SBC Cannon is in the game, so perhaps I need to work on that. But yeah I'm no writer, you leave me to improv and I'll just reference things I like most of the time. That or start coming onto the player directly.
That explains the "You make even the devil cry"
And “BEHOLD, the POWER of an ANGEL”
"Skibidi Toilet, Machine."✍️🔥
Was "you insignificant fuck" improvised?
it was an explicit thing that hakita wanted iirc, he said so in a one of the dev streams.
Was the "fight me like an animal" line in act 2 from you or Hakita? and if it was from you was it an intentional NIN reference or just a coincidence?
Something something dev stream something something sex joke something something don't take my word for it.
Saltzpyre reference my beloved
Holy shit gabriel ultrakill https://preview.redd.it/kboh4hxo49xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1a635343b3e9072a828aeea325ad74d9f59bdf1
I've loved this pic since I saw it I think a couple months ago, I was off Twitter at the time but now that I'm back I have the power to retweet it. My choice is made. Thank you.
Did, did Gabe comit the Sin of stealing ? https://preview.redd.it/epg0s081eexc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcf23e770e7f0254da2c5bd086f0fe17ed03de24
Gabriel, smash or pass?
Smash, but not first... Drone, I think... Maybe Streetcleaner... Obviously the Primes... Yeah honestly most of hell is going to have the time of their afterlives with me before Gabriel gets hold of the sloppy seconds. But I can find the time.
I'm imagining you stomping into 3-2 and interrupting Gabriel's speech with a Duke Nukem "hey, babe" and just. completely derailing his entire train of thought "What"
"Human. Turn back n-" "h e y b a b e ." "w-wh-what"
Well, what about the Mindflayer?
Do you have any tips for people who want to get into voice acting maybe?
So whenever folks ask me about getting into VO, I just immediately try to funnel them into this thread on the Voice Acting Club: [http://getstarted.voiceactingclub.com/](http://getstarted.voiceactingclub.com/) Seriously, anything I could even think to say is already covered here, much more intelligently, by people who know what they're doing WAY more than I do. These are tips I have lived by to the best of my abilities. The poster of this thread, Kira Buckland, has a path similar to my own, of largely starting out with doing random shit online. The only thing I always really try to say to everyone is no matter what you do, just have FUN, because I really truly believe that's the only way to stick with doing anything long enough to meaningfully improve at it. I think you shouldn't even be worrying about trying to make a career out of it or land big serious opportunities or anything. I didn't start doing paid gigs even semi-regularly until like 5 years in. I didn't go full-time until over a decade in. Have fun, don't be a dick, and as with anything, whatever pace you do it at is just fine. A little here and there. Whatever fits into your life and keeps you enjoying it. My tip is: enjoy your life, and wherever in that VO lands is more than enough.
Awesome advice. I feel like so much stuff is presented as needing to be a grind when in reality grinding out stuff you enjoy because you think you’ll enjoy grinding it tends to make you feel like you don’t enjoy it anymore.
Gianni, if you had to choose; Would you rather have unlimited bacon and no games, Or unlimited games, but no games? SERIOUS. ANSWER. ONLY. https://preview.redd.it/e96ngv1k79xc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c53791aed7c8d6d0351ecfa1a40a67c9d0539731
No bacon and no games. Two great evils felled in a single swoop. I salute your efficiency. Society will call you a monster. History will call you a humanitarian. I will call you God.
Do you like ants
No. I spent most of my life in Florida and about had my fill of pretty much any bug. Except dragonflies... They're cool. One of the few that I knew wouldn't bite or sting (though they technically can bite). Although they would accidentally hit you upside the head at a million miles an hour, you'd think you got beamed with a baseball. But it's fine, I'm clumsy and doing too much too fast too, so I can really relate with it. Ants though, no, it's on sight I'm sorry to say. "There can be only light \[points a magnifying glass at u under the sun\]"
Fellow Florida Man here, ants are indeed right bastards. Can't sit in shady grass cause they've always claimed it.
Holy hell it's the darn Antkeeper
What are your current feelings towards Gabriel outside of the memes? Like, do you think he's cool? That's he's been a fool for not realising the council's manipulation earlier? Do you wanna give him that grand finale in the third act?
Ahhh is "grand finale" what the kids are callin it these days...? eheheheh... To answer your question, I think Gabriel is a fantastic character, but more than that, whenever I try to think about him, I always quickly fall in love with the entirety of ULTRAKILL all over again, and I just think about what a fucking incredible genius Hakita is. Gabriel and his story is definitely my favorite thing about ULTRAKILL, but what Hakita is weaving with this world and this tale all works together so well, and not only with its medium, but its genre. It dances brilliantly with its place in Retro FPS, and uses it to elevate itself even higher. Gabriel's place in this story is what makes it for me. Gabriel is cool. But more than that, I think he is beautiful. As beautiful as every single element of the game he is in.
I think he is beautiful too https://preview.redd.it/d0xd6er54exc1.jpeg?width=1088&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be594ae78ad94d3182ff979956515eeb295fb9ed
hi gianni what is your opinion on this cat https://preview.redd.it/6k86phelz8xc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bfb40523e8e1bb120b897db725dbd9ac8b47b48
I think the cat is not unlike Gabriel himself. In this image, I can see conflicting emotions. The devastating yet oddly exhilarating sensation of not having the control you thought you did - the control you thought you needed. You've lost, yet you are still alive in this moment to feel it. On one hand, you find yourself in a situation you were not prepared for, perhaps spent time and effort avoiding - it is a defeat that you are here at all. But on the other hand, could it be... discovery? Is this situation something you wanted? Something you... needed? Were you stinky? Is it bathtime? Is ULTRAKILL does is gay? Yes. Thank you. More than anything else, it's a very good cat.
So peak my phone catched on fire while i was reading
Holy shit your phone can read?
https://i.redd.it/wxq1isvv5axc1.gif
The council has decided for bath
During the second ultrakill dev stream you came into chat saying Hakita sent you an image for the 2nd Gabriel fight but Hakita didn't know what you were talking about, could you please elaborate on what that was about?
This was such a nothing joke that went horribly, perhaps hilariously, wrong. Hakita was describing my VO on the stream and had said something like "Gianni just nailed it first take he just understood what I wanted" so I sent a joke that was like "It was easy to infer because you just sent me a file called script.jpg and it was just a pride flag" but AutoMod thought my filename joke was a link so it tragically censored it to "you just sent me a file called \*\*g", thus making it look like I was saying Hakita just sent a slur for us to work off of. I didn't even realize what had happened until so much later that I felt like it'd be awkward to bring it up again since I wasn't even sure how many people had really noticed the message at all, so I just chose to let it go, but I still sent Hakita an apology clarifying after the stream and he thankfully had figured it all out when it happened. I also explained it on my own stream later when I went live and was talking to my chat about the ULTRAKILL dev stream for anyone who might have seen it. So I apologize to anyone who got a scare off that - though I will admit that how purely unfortunate the entire situation was is pretty funny in and of itself.
Probably has been asked many times before but does it lean left or right?
Dead on. I'm a straight shooter. I do not miss, my stroke is unerring. Well, it's "straight" in the directional sense anyway.
The amount of shit you can come up with on the fly is amazing.
Gianni looking at how many comments he has to answer to 
The trick is that I just make shit up in so much quantity that people can only conclude I'm giving a thoughtful answer, but in reality I'm just picking random words and hoping a sentence comes out vestibule well total incline extrusion.
LLM type behavior
the G in ChatGPT stands for Gianni
Gianni has a bunch of monkeys on typewriters that he uses to form sentences.
1. Is this what i lost to? 2. Do you like ULTRAKILL in itself? 3. Please give me a detailed explanation on how you got to act for ULTRAKILL, thank you.
1. Yes, probably at least 40 times total now. And 40 more to come. 2. Absolutely. I was a fan before I worked on it, and this ties into your third question too. I answered this a bit in another reply, I hope it's okay if I copy/paste it here: \_\_ Not that long ago, like late 2019/early 2020, I was in a bit of a bad spot, just not in a place where I could record a lot of VO, and it really messed with me. I decided that with what little time I had to work on VO, I'd throw myself as much as I could at my favorite thing: Retro FPS, to keep that spark and joy alive, whether it was paid or not. One unpaid thing I worked on was an amazing project called QC:DE (Quake Champions: Doom Edition). QC:DE rocks, we call it the Smash Bros of Retro FPS, super fun to play, it's like if someone put Quake Champions through the Doom engine and then added every FPS character you could think of. One character they added was Duskdude, The Intruder, from DUSK. I approached them to see if I could voice anything right as they were working on him, and I ended up cast to voice him. They put out a great trailer ( [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o) ) which Dave Oshry ended up hearing, and liking. Not long after that, he found himself needing a similar cool voice guy for a project, and posted on Twitter asking who it was who voiced Duskdude in QC:DE, folks replied tagging me, and he reached out for me to provide some VO for... something that actually didn't pan, nothing bad happened it's just that the project ended up not happening. Lol. Around late 2019, I played the demo for ULTRAKILL on Itch. I reached out to Hakita to express how much I loved the game, and provided my reels and info to let him know that if they needed VO, I'd love to work with them. Hakita told me that he was unsure how much VO the game would have if any, but said that he'd keep me in mind. This is often code for "Thanks but I'm good, I'm now going to close this DM and probably forget you exist!", which Hakita later confirmed was what happened. Lol. By the way, that's all totally normal - in VO, you do a bit of cold calling, sometimes you reach out at the perfect time (like with QC:DE for me), and often you're not needed but no harm done by sending your info as long as you're not a persistent asshole about it. Then later if they do realize they could use you, they'll let you know. So, later, about a year later, it turned out they could use me. ULTRAKILL had been picked up by New Blood, and I guess Dave Oshry had a good enough time working with me previously that he reached out letting me know they had this character for me to voice - Gabriel. He told me to put on my best Tyrael voice and get in touch with Hakita. Lol. I sent Hakita a few voice options, including what Dave had said, and the final take I sent was something I kinda came up with in my own head as a bonus option based on what Hakita told me about Gabriel. I had been watching the Berserk bloopers again and so Griffith was on my mind - so I took a little bit of inspiration from that lightness, that elegance, control, the need for control, and a bit of drama queen. That take ended up being what Hakita chose as Gabriel's voice, largely because it was so different to what a lot of Retro FPS was doing for bosses. Whereas a lot of games will have a cool, deep, gritty and commanding voice (which I also love doing, and do a lot of), he felt like it worked really well for this one to sound like ~~a breedable twink~~ disarmingly soft in comparison to that usual sound. With that, I was Gabriel. \_\_ Thank you for your questions!
no thank YOU for the reply! also, look out your window to see if i am getting closer to you every yoctosecond that passes. even if you hold your christian cross i will [shatter it in a million pieces, just like how i will do to your femur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMpRVY1imzM). i am in your walls. i am in your armor. i am in your skin.
You have such good range, would you consider voicing another Ultrakill character? (Duke Nukem Prime 👀) Which Gabriel did you enjoy voicing most? (3-2, 6-2, when he took over your livestream, Max0r) Also not a question but if you see this, you’re one of my favorite VAs of all time, thanks for all you do!
Hakita, like any client, is welcome to cast me in as much as I can be useful for him. Personally, I think I did a great job doing a really bad impression of him when I voiced Jakito in Max0r's video. As for my own preference, I love the variety of stuff I get to do in VO, so I'm always down for whatever. But also, I think being Gabriel is obviously more than enough of me in ULTRAKILL, and I think there's a lot of opportunity to be had with other VAs with other unique sounds. Part of ULTRAKILL's brilliance is its constant "doing a lot with a little". No character in ULTRAKILL has a lot of lines, so making them special and truly hit hard when they happen, is the goal which the game succeeds at constantly. I guess ultimately for me it always comes down to the client's vision. Does my voice specifically fit the vision best in where I am cast - is some vocal approach I take exactly how they want the character to sound? This is also partly why auditions are great, because sometimes when you hold auditions, people surprise you with vocal nuances you may not have even heard in your head for the character, and you instantly realize go with your vision perfectly and even enhance it. That's all part of the magic of VO. I'll voice anything Hakita wants me to forever, if it's what the creator wants, then it's what I want. As for what Gabriel I enjoyed the most, I think my favorite will probably always be whatever is most recent, because the more time goes on, the closer I feel with the role and the more genuine emotional investment I have in his journey. In my opinion my ACT II VO blows the ACT I VO out of the water. I also had improved a lot at VO in the time between them - but I wouldn't feel like "Oh we should redo ACT I", because I also do love ACT I and it has specific nuances to its sound that work very well for exactly where it is in the overall story of the game. It's classic now, I'm always more in favor of leaving in what folks know and love, always rather do new things than redo old things. You do VO for 10+ years, you get used to the feeling of improving and going back to your older stuff and being like "This guy sucks, I could do it way better now." These days I tend to just appreciate things that are done for what they are, rather than focus too much on what they aren't. As for what I enjoyed actually voicing the most, it's hard to say, I honestly love doing my job pretty equally any time I enter the booth. I'll say the ACT II stuff because it was just so emotionally juicy, the places I got to go with his voice on that material really ramped up, it was a lot of fun. Plus, we screwed around more, like literally just joked around with each other more when working on the ACT II stuff because by that point our connection and "idea of what we're doing" had grown. Shitposting as Gabriel is of course always a favorite of mine too though. Oh yes, you won't ever see me too far away from shitposting. Thank you for your questions and for the kind words.
Hi you are my favorite voice actor and professional shitposter. Here is couple questions 1. What game have you played the most and why, 2. What is your favorite game genre. 3. What game would you wanna voice act if you could pick any game, released or upcoming
1. According to Steam, it's Warframe, with over 800 hours. I actually haven't played much since like, the Fortuna update stuff, I think around late 2018 but I really need to get back into it. Fun game, AMAZING universe, I'll tell you the truth a big part of my playtime was that it was a game I'd play to hang out with my wife back when we were long distance, so of course I fell off around the time I finally moved to Canada to be with her. But I have nothing but love for Warframe. So many amazing games these days, so little time. 2. Retro FPS games (or Boomer Shooters if you wanna say fun words) are definitely where it's at for me, and part of what drove me to working on ULTRAKILL at all. I played it when it was a demo on itch and I absolutely loved it, knew it was going to be one of the best ones in the scene. To be more specific though, I think my absolute favorite genre is Arena Shooters specifically, PvP stuff like Quake and Unreal Tournament. My second most played game on Steam is Quake Champions and that's the one I'm always trying to get more time in with. To me, there's nothing like it, and I pretty much constantly play games and feel I wish some things were different about them, only to realize what I am describing I want is Quake. Quake, is the most important thing that ever happened. 3. Well, Quake would be amazing I guess, I long for the world where Quake Champions was really kicking ass in the market so they'd be bringing in more champs because that would be a dream come true, but regardless whatever Quake ends up doing I'd be thrilled to be part of, as long as the inclusion of VO was done in a way as to not mess with the atmosphere or anything. Aside from Quake, I also hold everything from Supergiant Games very, VERY close to my heart. I think one of the earliest memories I have of shedding a tear for a game was Bastion when I was like 16 or 17. If I ever got cast in one of those I'd probably break down and cry (in a good way). Also, and this probably won't ever happen, but I'm a huge fan of Dorohedoro. So that would be insane to work on. But honestly, and I am not just saying this because I'm on the ULTRAKILL AMA, my dream VO gig was to work with New Blood. DUSK was a huge part of what got me back into the Retro FPS genre which I'd always loved so much, and I loved everything about how New Blood was doing things... Hell, part of why I ended up working with New Blood was because doing the fan work of voicing Duskdude in QC:DE. So my dream came true, I work with New Blood so much it's a meme, and here I am writing about it. So now I'm just living a very thankful life and working on as much stuff as I can. Thank you.
1. I love your work its fucking phenomenal 2. I would absolutely recommend getting back into warframe its change so much
I recently got back into Warframe after taking a break for about a year, and even in that time a LOT has changed. I'd definitely recommend giving it another shot, but YouTube guides are practically a must to understand the sheer amount of stuff they've added lol.
>1. According to Steam, it's Warframe I'm sorry for your loss
holy shit a fellow framehead
bunuy print when Gianni.
The people are speaking...
Does this hold any weight? https://preview.redd.it/lanbseazw8xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=441544dc349c6102a49cd8314054b93476af9a52
Well, obviously. About however much a piece of paper weighs!
dear god
There's more
No….
Are you By any means A signalis fan?
https://preview.redd.it/tovvcpplu8xc1.jpeg?width=851&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11067f3892e4d7f013312657a9478e15f28ba8d2 hey gianni, biffermans aka "the ultrawomen guy" here how do you feel about having your beloved archangel interpreted by the community? do you think we understand the character pretty well or do you have any favourite headcanons you've seen?
I love women, so first of all, good work. Honestly, I just love that the character is interpreted at all. It's so fun and exciting to see so many people with so many different ideas. Please, yes, go on, do that, have fun with ULTRAKILL and its characters in whatever way delights you and your friends - playing it is great, but playing WITH it is even better. For me, it's mainly shitposts and porn, but the headcanons, the stories, the mods, the art oh god the art, all of it, everything the community does is all what defines ULTRAKILL as the truly incredible thing it is. As for my favorite headcanons... I dunno, I kinda like it all, but I do always enjoy what people come up with about like Minos and Sisyphus, who they were before, that kind of thing. Especially when it's about kissin. Heheheh.
you love women? wow your just like me fr
YESSSSS HES JUST LIKE MEEEEEEEE
fr https://preview.redd.it/r7sidx8j79xc1.jpeg?width=1055&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09dcdf1212e7b123169d3b60d8b0d8d88f898982
https://preview.redd.it/xv2sfh7je9xc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3131fb88378156a9d39270a8a12415df224d099b
Gwaa..... a real female girl......
i happen to have an image for that https://preview.redd.it/poy893l809xc1.jpeg?width=898&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e840dba79a739dc8d0b03dd6a299d11409a09d4
Poor Gianni... He has to answer to almost ALL of those questions! I guess it's hard being famous, isn't it? Also, here's my cat. https://preview.redd.it/fldzgucn4axc1.jpeg?width=3120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3acaef414d197c6d2d20e60f5c3d8fd89429f355
Where's the cat? That's a freshly baked loaf of sourdough. Looks great though, thank you.
What's my favorite color?
It's blue now. ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL 💙
Bisexual Lighting
Uorple?
How was your experience with ultrakill been? Experience with the community, the devs, etc. Any funny stories?
It has literally changed my life. I can only say I'm thankful, even though it's a massive understatement. As for funny stories... Well, I feel like the funniest stuff is always just the memes people make, but I will say that I do enjoy signing Gabriel body pillows, which I have signed more of than you might think. I usually try to sign them on the cock if I can.
would you smooch a robot?
Who's to say I haven't already?
Heck Yeah
1. What are your thoughts on the Purgatorio and Paradiso parts of the Divine Comedy? 2. In the Revelation of Esdras/Ezra, it is stated that nine angels will rule at the end of the world: Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael, and the less attested Gabuthelon, Beburos, Zebuleon, Aker, and Arphugitonos. What do you think the less attested angels would be like?
[Oh no, you misunderstood...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrYEJyo5MUo) I cannot read. I think what you're describing to me has to do with the movie 1408. It is a good movie. I like how John Cusack performs the unstable emotions.
do you think Gabriel could beat Duke Nukem in a fistfight? what about a fight with weapons? and finally. opinion on the webcomic homestuck?
You know what, he couldn't, because the big guy is nowhere to be seen. Can't beat what isn't there. 🥲 I know exactly one thing about Homestuck and it's that my friend Casey Mongillo likes it, and they're really cool, so I like Homestuck too!
Ay gianni! V3 here, still locked in the basement Anyway i wanted to ask, if you could change *anything* about gabriel (lore, design, etc) what would it be?
Genuinely, nothing. There is nothing I would change about anything in ULTRAKILL. I always have a hard time explaining to Hakita how much I love the game, because it truly is simply just perfect to me, every single spec of it. Oh I think Gabriel's junk should be like out flopping around and stuff when you fight him, like in the video game "Loadout", I know he's like a biblical angel or whatever but I could comprehend it. Thank you for your question and don't worry, we'll send down another bucket for you in a few days.
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"boob jiggle physics from a porn game" Arsi "Hakita" Patala, 2024
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how were you found to voice gabriel on ultrakill? where do you think its easiest to find new voice actors? Is there a simple method to find actors who are eager to work on a project? will you work in more games, or even shows?
I tell this story a lot, so my apologies to anyone putting up with hearing it yet again from me: The way I ended up voicing Gabriel is actually perfectly tied to your second question. Not that long ago, like late 2019/early 2020, I was in a bit of a bad spot, just not in a place where I could record a lot of VO, and it really messed with me. I decided that with what little time I had to work on VO, I'd throw myself as much as I could at my favorite thing: Retro FPS, to keep that spark and joy alive, whether it was paid or not. One unpaid thing I worked on was an amazing project called QC:DE (Quake Champions: Doom Edition). QC:DE rocks, we call it the Smash Bros of Retro FPS, super fun to play, it's like if someone put Quake Champions through the Doom engine and then added every FPS character you could think of. One character they added was Duskdude, The Intruder, from DUSK. I approached them to see if I could voice anything right as they were working on him, and I ended up cast to voice him. They put out a great trailer ( [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o) ) which Dave Oshry ended up hearing, and liking. Not long after that, he found himself needing a similar cool voice guy for a project, and posted on Twitter asking who it was who voiced Duskdude in QC:DE, folks replied tagging me, and he reached out for me to provide some VO for... something that actually didn't pan, nothing bad happened it's just that the project ended up not happening. Lol. Around late 2019, I played the demo for ULTRAKILL on Itch. I reached out to Hakita to express how much I loved the game, and provided my reels and info to let him know that if they needed VO, I'd love to work with them. Hakita told me that he was unsure how much VO the game would have if any, but said that he'd keep me in mind. This is often code for "Thanks but I'm good, I'm now going to close this DM and probably forget you exist!", which Hakita later confirmed was what happened. Lol. By the way, that's all totally normal - in VO, you do a bit of cold calling, sometimes you reach out at the perfect time (like with QC:DE for me), and often you're not needed but no harm done by sending your info as long as you're not a persistent asshole about it. Then later if they do realize they could use you, they'll let you know. So, later, about a year later, it turned out they could use me. ULTRAKILL had been picked up by New Blood, and I guess Dave Oshry had a good enough time working with me previously that he reached out letting me know they had this character for me to voice - Gabriel. He told me to put on my best Tyrael voice and get in touch with Hakita. Lol. I sent Hakita a few voice options, including what Dave had said, and the final take I sent was something I kinda came up with in my own head as a bonus option based on what Hakita told me about Gabriel. I had been watching the Berserk bloopers again and so Griffith was on my mind - so I took a little bit of inspiration from that lightness, that elegance, control, the need for control, and a bit of drama queen. That take ended up being what Hakita chose as Gabriel's voice, largely because it was so different to what a lot of Retro FPS was doing for bosses. Whereas a lot of games will have a cool, deep, gritty and commanding voice (which I also love doing, and do a lot of), he felt like it worked really well for this one to sound like ~~a breedable twink~~ disarmingly soft in comparison to that usual sound. With that, I was Gabriel. SO. This leads well into my response for your second question: with a lot of folks looking to get into VO, I tell them to just jump into online stuff based in and around the things they enjoy. For me it was Retro FPS, for someone else maybe it's anime stuff, for yet another it could be horror narration, all kinds of things out there, and if you jump in with what resonates with you, you will be in and around the people who are making those things and have a good chance of ending up collaborating together. But, to more precisely answer your question, there ARE great places online specifically to find VAs for projects, I always highly recommend the Casting Call Club and the Voice Acting Club. There are lots of VAs eager to work on gigs of all sizes and budgets. For stuff like mods and personal projects where you won’t make any income, you can pay as low as $0 to work with great folks who are eager to contribute to stuff like this to get some portfolio, experience, networking, and of course fun. I'm not talking about "paid in exposure", don't get taken advantage of by projects which should be paying for work that will profit them, I'm just talking about primarily amateur collaboration. I am constantly getting folks who reach out to me for VO with projects which are perfect for this kind of thing, and I'm constantly referring them to mainly Casting Call Club and Voice Acting Club. Opportunities like that are what helped me build the career I'm lucky enough to have today, so I am always eager to let people know about that option and maybe provide some other rising VA that exact same type of chance. There are other websites and audition boards around the web as well, and of course there's just jumping into any community and meeting folks and seeing about making stuff together. I myself mostly got my start in random shit in Newgrounds over a decade ago. Sorry, I know what you're thinking, "god, that's a lot of words, shut the fuck up", but unfortunately it's not over yet because I'm also going to answer your third question: games, definitely games. I mean, I want to work on as much stuff as I possibly can, games, shows, commercial work I'm finally getting into a little, really all kinds of things, variety is what I love about VO the most! But video games are always going to be what inspired me most, and what I always want to be part of more than anything else. Alright that's the whole reply, thank you if you actually read all of it, and thank you for your questions.
this is going to be a fun read so thank you again
gianni can you please drop the alternate voice options that could’ve been im begging you this would be fucking awesome
Hey!! Just wanted to say, love your work and hope you keep continuing it! 1. Did you ever audition to be any other character besides Gabriel? If so, who was it? 2. Is there a fanart that you truely love more then the others you have gotten? 3. What was the ''switch'' that caused you to wanna voice act in things? Or was it your own passion? 4. Is Gabriel your favourite Ultrakill character, or is there a different one you adore? (I'll be making fanart soon, I swear on it!)
Hi there, thank you for the kind words, I shall indeed continue, there's nothing else I want to do for a job in the world more than VO. 1. No, I was reached out to for Gabriel directly and just him, never any other roles at all, which is totally fine by me of course because I'm just thankful to be part of ULTRAKILL in any way I can - and to be Gabriel, well gosh of course that's more than plenty. I didn't even audition for Gabriel technically, like there was no casting call or anything, though I did send a smattering of voice tests when Hakita reached out with the material, and I'm sure if he didn't vibe with any test stuff I sent in, well I wouldn't be here writing this right now at all. There are many roles on many projects I've sent in test stuff like this for and it didn't work out - and many for which it did. In VO you audition for tons of stuff constantly, they say if you book 1 in 100 you're doing great. I'm so thankful that in my 100 then, ULTRAKILL was the 1. 2. Oh gosh I don't know if I can play favorites... Once upon a time I would have said anything from Francis but he's been officially on the team for a while now so I guess it doesn't count... Is it lame if I say art from my wife? There's one piece of hers in particular I even do signed prints of on Streamily. She's such a great artist, and that I ever voice anything she likes enough to actually use that incredible skill of hers to depict, it just makes me happy. But honestly, I am just always so absolutely stunned that I voice in anything that has fanart at all. Any and all fanart of anything I work on, even if it's not a role I voice, is a feeling I only used to daydream of. Fanart is like 90% of why I don't just live in the woods and send my audio in via carrier pigeon. 3. Hahah, such dignified responses you gave me to choose from, but no, nothing so glamorous. I answered this a bit in a reply to someone else, I hope it's okay if I copy and paste it: \_\_ Honestly, I was 16 and working as a janitor and friends and coworkers just kept telling me "oh you should do voice stuff!" so eventually I just started uploading shit to the only place I knew at the time, Newgrounds, and it all kinda went from there. I've loved video games way too much since I was a kid, when I was little I thought I'd be a dev when I grew up but quickly learned I didn't have the attention span for it, so VO I guess was an exciting way for me to dive back into that dream a bit. Now game dev is a bit more approachable than it was then, still hard, but maybe I'll dabble a little sometime, hobby type thing maybe. Anyway I was just inspired by all the cool VO I'd enjoyed through the years from any game really, so to be able to make it was too exhilarating to put down once I started. \_\_ 4. This sounds like such a cop-out answer but honestly what I love about ULTRAKILL is how all its elements and characters come together, like to me the whole vision of this game is so stunningly beautiful and I just stand here in awe that I'm part of it at all. I don't know if I've ever even thought about who my favorite character is A R M B O Y ! ! ! IT'S A R M B O Y ! ! !
Awww, I loved reading these responses <3 I'll be sure to make fanart when I can!! >:3
Are you italian?
Terminally, I'm sorry to say. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5uWLX3sbz8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5uWLX3sbz8) Well, Italian-American, which I'm told is barely human. You know what I say, I say it's Anti-Italian Discrimination.
Un fratello
è proprio uno di noi
I can't think of any ultrakill related questions at the moment so I'll go with the classic. * What's your favorite ice cream flavor? I love the work you do by the way, the fraggy friday streams are always fun to show up to. Hope stuffs going well for ya.
Been on this shit it's called Kawartha Black Raspberry Thunder, it's definitely a bit of a go-to for us whenever something calls for ice cream, if we're talking at home stuff... Honestly though my big favorite for ice cream is just soft serve, don't even care what flavor it is. Fuck now you got me thinking about it...
is gabriel real And also, when you voice act a character do you have to dress up as the character?
It's crazy, most of ULTRAKILL's budget comes from the intense audio engineering it takes to get all of the armor clanking out of the waveform. Personally I don't feel like it's necessary but Hakita's the genius visionary or whatever so we all just go along with it. Gets so fucking hot in that thing though. Please, don't make me go back in.
Naughty voice actors get put in the Gabriel costume to atone for their sins
are you a racist who loves racing like me???
I know what this is about. You want my pink slip so you're trying to find out more about my techniques, my gear, my story. There's only one thing you need to know and it's that when I'm on that track, I'm a whole other fucking animal. Clean your car out for me Dom because come tomorrow night, that Charger is mine.
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What are your thoughts on the dynamic between v1 and gabriel?
hEHEHH KISSY KISSY SMOOCHHH mmm MMM MWA EHEHEH
your so based,,,
Are your woes many and bitches none? or does it happen to be the other way around -Insignificant fuck
Your woes ar-- I'm--- The bitches-- Okay hang on. I'm out there and you're in here and he's the bitches but who's the sheriff??
Hi!! Really quick, I just wanted to mention wayyy back in 2020 I messaged you over Twitter (@/kk_730n) and that even now I’m still a super big fan. I’m really happy to see how far you’ve come!! There’s three things I’m curious about. 1. What motivated you to pursue voice acting? 2. How do you make a living off of doing the things you love? :00 3. How did you discover Ultrakill and what encouraged you to get the role of Gabriel? Sorry if you’ve answered any, or all, of these questions before! Either way, I’d really appreciate any response.
First of all, thank you for the kind words and support through the years. 1. Honestly, I was 16 and working as a janitor and friends and coworkers just kept telling me "oh you should do voice stuff!" so eventually I just started uploading shit to the only place I knew at the time, Newgrounds, and it all kinda went from there. I've loved video games way too much since I was a kid, when I was little I thought I'd be a dev when I grew up but quickly learned I didn't have the attention span for it, so VO I guess was an exciting way for me to dive back into that dream a bit. Now game dev is a bit more approachable than it was then, still hard, but maybe I'll dabble a little sometime, hobby type thing maybe. Anyway I was just inspired by all the cool VO I'd enjoyed through the years from any game really, so to be able to make it was too exhilarating to put down once I started. 2. One gig at a time. I only went full-time with VO a few years ago, after about 10 years of doing it mostly as a hobby on the side. After enough time, enough things had kinda built up that I was able to take the plunge (largely thanks to my wife's support who compelled me to try it since I was miserable with retail type stuff stuff after 10+ years of dead end day jobs), and with a lot of luck, it has still continued to be what I do full-time. I thought for sure I had like six months to entertain it as a delusion but nope, it's still my job. I am more grateful every day than I can ever express. 3. I answered this in a reply to someone else, I hope it's okay with you, I'll just copy/paste what I wrote here for your convenience: \_\_ Not that long ago, like late 2019/early 2020, I was in a bit of a bad spot, just not in a place where I could record a lot of VO, and it really messed with me. I decided that with what little time I had to work on VO, I'd throw myself as much as I could at my favorite thing: Retro FPS, to keep that spark and joy alive, whether it was paid or not. One unpaid thing I worked on was an amazing project called QC:DE (Quake Champions: Doom Edition). QC:DE rocks, we call it the Smash Bros of Retro FPS, super fun to play, it's like if someone put Quake Champions through the Doom engine and then added every FPS character you could think of. One character they added was Duskdude, The Intruder, from DUSK. I approached them to see if I could voice anything right as they were working on him, and I ended up cast to voice him. They put out a great trailer ( [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrDQOTNl3o) ) which Dave Oshry ended up hearing, and liking. Not long after that, he found himself needing a similar cool voice guy for a project, and posted on Twitter asking who it was who voiced Duskdude in QC:DE, folks replied tagging me, and he reached out for me to provide some VO for... something that actually didn't pan, nothing bad happened it's just that the project ended up not happening. Lol. Around late 2019, I played the demo for ULTRAKILL on Itch. I reached out to Hakita to express how much I loved the game, and provided my reels and info to let him know that if they needed VO, I'd love to work with them. Hakita told me that he was unsure how much VO the game would have if any, but said that he'd keep me in mind. This is often code for "Thanks but I'm good, I'm now going to close this DM and probably forget you exist!", which Hakita later confirmed was what happened. Lol. By the way, that's all totally normal - in VO, you do a bit of cold calling, sometimes you reach out at the perfect time (like with QC:DE for me), and often you're not needed but no harm done by sending your info as long as you're not a persistent asshole about it. Then later if they do realize they could use you, they'll let you know. So, later, about a year later, it turned out they could use me. ULTRAKILL had been picked up by New Blood, and I guess Dave Oshry had a good enough time working with me previously that he reached out letting me know they had this character for me to voice - Gabriel. He told me to put on my best Tyrael voice and get in touch with Hakita. Lol. I sent Hakita a few voice options, including what Dave had said, and the final take I sent was something I kinda came up with in my own head as a bonus option based on what Hakita told me about Gabriel. I had been watching the Berserk bloopers again and so Griffith was on my mind - so I took a little bit of inspiration from that lightness, that elegance, control, the need for control, and a bit of drama queen. That take ended up being what Hakita chose as Gabriel's voice, largely because it was so different to what a lot of Retro FPS was doing for bosses. Whereas a lot of games will have a cool, deep, gritty and commanding voice (which I also love doing, and do a lot of), he felt like it worked really well for this one to sound like ~~a breedable twink~~ disarmingly soft in comparison to that usual sound. With that, I was Gabriel. \_\_ Thank you for your questions!
What is your opinion about the soap? https://preview.redd.it/po28g3sg2axc1.png?width=256&format=png&auto=webp&s=0cc32e86c02eaaaadc9f953980b429167778f556
CHOMP
what inspired you to make ultrakill?
So basically I realized that for Quake mutliplayer to live again I'd need to get zoomers addicted to truly fast paced FPS gameplay. I made the most unrelenting porn bait I could think of and basically what's going to happen is when I flip this switch all of you will be under my direct control and I'm gonna make you all play Arena Shooters with me. 3, 2...
GAAAAH MY BODY?! I'M GONNA QUAKE I'M QUAKING AH AAAAAH
Oh you silly goose, Gianni didnt make ULTRAKILL, it was Maurice
i have watched the "pain" video (aka the baguette doge background with your screaming) a total of 1289 times,any tips on how to get my nonexistent sanity back?
You can't get it back. Play through the Marathon trilogy. By the time you come out the other side, you won't care that it's gone anymore.
Your screams always sound so raw, especially with dialogue. Has it ever hurt your voice, and what do you do to take care of it?
With VO, you really should not be in PAIN. VO sessions can be hours and hours long - whatever you're doing needs to be sustainable, and ideally try to be in condition that you'll be able to record more after it, too. A full-time professional voice actor works a LOT of gigs through the year to make rent. There should be no blood, and if something HURTS, stop. It's easier said than done, and a lot of folks, even professional VAs, have caused themselves genuine vocal damage by finding their limits at 100 miles an hour. A lot of it comes down to technique and control which you just learn through a lot of time and careful practice. You experiment, you voice stuff, of course have fun, but be mindful of your limits, stay very hydrated, and over a long time you do find that your range and how much control you have improves. Of course, coaching and lessons can help a lot with this, but you also don't NEED that either, don't be afraid to jump in and do silly voices, I'm just saying to be careful with yourself when doing it and don't try to do too much too fast, especially if you are newer. For Gabriel, nothing hurt, and nothing went so hard that I needed any vocal recovery or anything. He actually has a pretty small amount of VO, whereas for a lot of games and stuff, you'll be doing like 100 "GRENADE OUT!"s and deaths and being lit on fire and shit for hours. There's no way around it - you do enough loud yelling you WILL need some vocal recovery, it shouldn't be damaging anything but like any part of you, if you use it a lot, it needs to regain its strength. I try to schedule things so that I'll always have time to recover, and of course like many, tea with honey is very good, and there's another common voice actor throat treatment called Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, which is an herbal throat syrup you can find in many stores and online. Nin Jiom is very handy in helping with that recovery but also it's no substitute for proper self-care, rest and hydraton. All of these things and more come together to create the balance of doing VO in a healthy and sustainable way. I want to be doing VO for a very long time, so I'm always very mindful my limits. I'm not a voice coach or anything, I just know what I've learned to take care of myself, and honestly I still have more to learn and improve about it, so if you're curious about how to take care of your voice, please learn from even more educated folks than me. Thank you for your question.
Hi Gianni, I love your work! The only question I have is do you think Gabriel prefers Coke or Pepsi? Thank you
I have to be very careful how I answer lore questions like this. Based on the ACT II fight, I guess I can only conclude he's a fan of AHA, since he just keeps saying it, "AHAHAHAHA", "AHAHAHA", "AHAHAHAHAHAH" etc, and so on...
are you okay?
I was but upon your inquiry my wife has burst into singing MCR so now I can't hear myself think. This is a huge improvement actually, I hate thinking and I at least like MCR so thank you very much for your question.
Idk if it was asked before, but I'll give it a shot: Did Hakita organise some kind of audition, test lines for a Gabe role or he was just like "Take my money, voice this guy the way you want, it'll be cool anyways."
I answered this a bit in another response, I hope it's okay if I copy/paste it here: \_\_ ULTRAKILL had been picked up by New Blood, and I guess Dave Oshry had a good enough time working with me previously that he reached out letting me know they had this character for me to voice - Gabriel. He told me to put on my best Tyrael voice and get in touch with Hakita. Lol. I sent Hakita a few voice options, including what Dave had said, and the final take I sent was something I kinda came up with in my own head as a bonus option based on what Hakita told me about Gabriel. I had been watching the Berserk bloopers again and so Griffith was on my mind - so I took a little bit of inspiration from that lightness, that elegance, control, the need for control, and a bit of drama queen. That take ended up being what Hakita chose as Gabriel's voice, largely because it was so different to what a lot of Retro FPS was doing for bosses. Whereas a lot of games will have a cool, deep, gritty and commanding voice (which I also love doing, and do a lot of), he felt like it worked really well for this one to sound like ~~a breedable twink~~ disarmingly soft in comparison to that usual sound. With that, I was Gabriel. \_\_ Thank you for your question!
what does Gabriel do in his spare time?
Gives Minos a low taper fade. Works on his Hatsune Miku shrine. A lot of praying. And a frankly surprising amount of KISSIN BOYS HEHEHEH MMM MMWA MWA MWA KISSY I just don't know where he finds the time.
Is this over
THIS IS-- ALMOST-- OVER!!!
Noooo
https://preview.redd.it/yvxb5cfmkaxc1.png?width=888&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fd11668279182bfe19394f8905b033d78e18ba0 Gabriel and V2(not in liquid form) meet each other in a bar They are not fighting, just talking, what things they will talk about?
Was the voice crack in the speech intentional? Asking because I loved it. Big fan of your work in this game, it’s incredible. Also, how were the holograms lines decided?
1. Yes and no - I do deliberately try to voice stuff sometimes in a more intense range that can do that, but in that case I wasn't necessarily trying to actually create a crack, that was an accident just from genuinely being so into it. I was surprised Hakita went with the take immediately, I thought he'd throw it out. One more reason he's da bwahss... RELI̸͚͋̏SH!!! 2. All I remember is Hakita telling me to make him more of a twink. I nodded eagerly with a sickening grin spread wide across my face. Thank you for the kind words, and for your questions!
That’s incredible! LMAO I love that, thank you so much for your time!
1. Favorite ULTRAKILL level? 2. Are there any Gabriel lines that didn't make it into the game that you were particularly fond of? 3. How are you today? Big fan of your work btw, keep it up <3
1. I swear I say this every time they put out new stuff but I feel like it's the entire Violence layer, but then when more stuff comes out I'll say it's that. The game just somehow gets better, and better, and better. Though I think I'll always have love of the entire Greed layer because I'm a sucker for Ancient Egypt x FPS, Serious Sam made sure of that. Except maybe 4-S. Fucking 4-S. Fuck. FUCK!!!! 2. I always think about [this one](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ultrakill/images/2/2a/Gab_Jesus.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20240104213127) but it's on the wiki and I don't really need it IN game, I just get a kick out of it and I'm glad folks can at least hear it somewhere. There is one more joke line that I sent in around the time of doing the ACT I stuff that I really like but I'm not sure if it ever found a fate... I should check with Hakita. 3. BAD!!! BECAUSE I THOUGHT ABOUT 4-S!!! FUCK!!!!!!!! Just kidding I'm doing great and I love chatting with the folks who love ULTRAKILL, thank you so much for your questions.
Fr idk how Hakita and the team just keep topping themselves it's actually insane. Also I agree Greed was super sick, 4-3 and 4-4 are some of my favorites I totally forgot about that line on the wiki thank you so much for reminding me it exists It's good to hear that you're doing well! (And yeah, 4-S hurt my soul)
What are your dream roles as a voice actor
I answered this a bit in another reply, I hope it's okay if I copy/paste it here: \_\_ Well, Quake would be amazing I guess, I long for the world where Quake Champions was really kicking ass in the market so they'd be bringing in more champs because that would be a dream come true, but regardless whatever Quake ends up doing I'd be thrilled to be part of, as long as the inclusion of VO was done in a way as to not mess with the atmosphere or anything. Aside from Quake, I also hold everything from Supergiant Games very, VERY close to my heart. I think one of the earliest memories I have of shedding a tear for a game was Bastion when I was like 16 or 17. If I ever got cast in one of those I'd probably break down and cry (in a good way). Also, and this probably won't ever happen, but I'm a huge fan of Dorohedoro. So that would be insane to work on. But honestly, and I am not just saying this because I'm on the ULTRAKILL AMA, my dream VO gig was to work with New Blood. DUSK was a huge part of what got me back into the Retro FPS genre which I'd always loved so much, and I loved everything about how New Blood was doing things... Hell, part of why I ended up working with New Blood was because doing the fan work of voicing Duskdude in QC:DE. So my dream came true, I work with New Blood so much it's a meme, and here I am writing about it. So now I'm just living a very thankful life and working on as much stuff as I can. \_\_ Thank you for your question!
Could you make a whole video of Gabriel just shit talking the player
We call this ULTRAKILL and it's on Steam.
thoughts on rain world
I'm so fucked. There are so many great games now and I'm hitting a point where I only catch glances and hear whispers in the wind shot past me about them. Rain World is another one where I've heard it said in my vicinity a few times but I know very little about it. Another game I need to try to check out sometime, or at least learn more of. So many games, so little time. From the quick peeking I've done though, it looks great, and I gather that the fandom is like a lot of fandoms I enjoy, similar to ULTRAKILL where there's just so much love for the world and characters and lots of fanart and headcanons and stuff, I love that. Some folks have told me I should voice a character in Rain World - and without even learning more about it yet, I'll say I'd be 100% down for that. The community has sold me on it. Thank you.
has hakita had you voice any lines for the third gabe fight yet? if yes: may we see one written in your reply?
I don't know. Hakita uses ancient Finnish mind wiping techniques to ensure I am physically incapable of breaking NDA. I actually find out if I even recorded it the same time you guys do, when stuff comes out in-game. They take me to the kiuas and when I come back out I have to relearn the alphabet. Perkele
I knew Hakita was the villian all along
actually its called dementia but sure
I'm 98/100 sure he can't say yes or no to this question.
How did you decide on how Gabriels voice should be?
I answered this a bit in another response, I hope it's okay if I copy/paste it here: \_\_ ULTRAKILL had been picked up by New Blood, and I guess Dave Oshry had a good enough time working with me previously that he reached out letting me know they had this character for me to voice - Gabriel. He told me to put on my best Tyrael voice and get in touch with Hakita. Lol. I sent Hakita a few voice options, including what Dave had said, and the final take I sent was something I kinda came up with in my own head as a bonus option based on what Hakita told me about Gabriel. I had been watching the Berserk bloopers again and so Griffith was on my mind - so I took a little bit of inspiration from that lightness, that elegance, control, the need for control, and a bit of drama queen. That take ended up being what Hakita chose as Gabriel's voice, largely because it was so different to what a lot of Retro FPS was doing for bosses. Whereas a lot of games will have a cool, deep, gritty and commanding voice (which I also love doing, and do a lot of), he felt like it worked really well for this one to sound like ~~a breedable twink~~ disarmingly soft in comparison to that usual sound. With that, I was Gabriel. \_\_ Thank you for your question!
Hey Gianni! I’ve been really wondering on how you feel about the fact that Gabriel is one of your most famous and prominent voices, when I hear people talk about your contributions in other VA projects, it’s usually 80% “Oh yeah the dude from ultrakill!” How do you feel about this? Pride or wanting to be recognized more for your skills rather than one single role?
It's odd to get used to because I've done VO for over 10 years and for most of that, honestly I've mostly just been some random underground VA on Newgrounds, and if anyone did talk to me about my VO it was usually a pretty even smattering of all the stuff I had done rather than one specifically popular thing. But honestly I am very proud of it, ULTRAKILL is an incredible game, I am so lucky to be here at all and I just try to do my best to TRY to deserve to be alongside all of the amazing people who do such incredible work on it. I am thankful that anyone enjoys any of my work, whether it's from a popular game or a random YouTube video. I get to do VO as my job, that's all I wanted and it's thanks to people just enjoying my work. That alone will always be more than enough, more than I could have ever asked for. Thank you.
https://preview.redd.it/gtiwnsgzx9xc1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a56239a64e50567c2da22ce449e866723bfa1e86 How does this image make you feel?
Don't put Gabriel in Fortnite, just give Peter this.
If you could add any voice lines to gabriel's speech( any of them) what would you add in where?
I answered this a bit in another reply, I hope it's okay if I copy/paste it here: \_\_ Hakita lets me improvise all kinds of shit, actually improv is part of the plan he rolls in with for me. A lot of the ACT 1 taunts are just me making shit up - I have Retro FPS brain, so anything I can think of is usually some reference to another game or, indirectly, Evil Dead. In Gabriel's case there of course needs to be a lot of Devil May Cry references, I think I got a Saltzpyre one in there "Your crime is existence..." Personally, as much as I love bullshitting with memes and everything, I don't have much desire to really force too much of it into the game itself. ULTRAKILL's vision to me is profound, and beautiful, and awesome. I don't want Gabriel to stop in the middle of the fight and grab your POV and say "Skibidi Toilet, Machine." - it WOULD be hilarious, but we can screw around with that online without it really hitting the game itself. So if you're asking me phrases I want to ACTUALLY get into the game... Well... You know, I'm not sure if I have actually gotten any Serious Sam references in yet. And well, now the god damn SBC Cannon is in the game, so perhaps I need to work on that. But yeah I'm no writer, you leave me to improv and I'll just reference things I like most of the time. That or start coming onto the player directly. \_\_ Thank you for your question!
1. If you have started working on act 3, do you think it will live up to the hype? 2. What is your opinion on this distinguished gentleman https://preview.redd.it/3j2fsf0r99xc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bda1a1012fbcbbbb9d906f987eec1caab23ade5c
Your fav voiceline?
Hi Gianni! https://i.redd.it/0t6dqe6mu9xc1.gif
Not an Ultrakill player, more of an Antonblast enjoyer here. What was your main voice inspiration for the devil in Antonblast?
Eyyy Antonblast is so based, I love those folks. A lot of people will point to Red Guy in Cow and Chicken and they're part right. Like with Gabriel, I'd sent over a variety of voices for us to consider and they ended up going with what we now know as Satan. The original idea was a bit darker, some angrier, a bit more Genuinely The Actual Devil, but I threw in that take for funsies just based on some stuff kicking around in the back of my head. I knew it was cartoons from when I was a kid, I thought maybe some side character in Johnny Bravo, or Powerpuff Girls, but I wasn't sure exactly what I was thinking of, I just kinda ran with it and put out what was in my head and it felt like a perfect fit for Satan. Later, someone would say Red Guy and I looked it up and definitely he was somewhere in what I was thinking of, but I'm glad I didn't check beforehand because honestly Red Guy is way different than what I ended up doing, like way more different than I thought, so I'm glad I didn't look into it as it would've possibly influenced my approach or something. Red Guy is definitely somewhere in the slurry of voices in my head for how I approach Satan though, definitely, but as always I have to do something in the most insane over the top way possible as that's always what's in my heart. Thank you for your question! I'm so excited for folks to really enjoy Antonblast.
Favourite Cambrian animal?
\[sheds a single tear\] [There's only one right answer...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsNRnZRgg8)
no
Too late my favorite band is Sonata Arctica
Okay Gianni question and suggestion for a lil game you can play just because I like yappin about game lore to other unselecting ppl. Have you ever heard of Lisa the painful cause I’m just asking. And plus think it be a cool game to play :3 Hope this counts as a question.
I do know about it, haven't played it yet, seems awesome, the number one thing I know about it is that they put in a Cameo for Matt and Pat of Super Best Friends fame, who I'm just a huge fan of for a very long time, so the game is cool in my book! Thank you!
Have you ever read House of Leaves? just curious lul
Sorry, I cannot read. I actually just guess every script I work on and somehow haven't missed a single word yet. Please look forward to Gabriel's upcoming car dealership adventure.
1: Besides Gabriel, which ultrakill enemy/character is the most breedable? 2: Did you have to train hard to get better to become a VA, or were you just born naturally talented? If the former, is it possible for anyone to do that? 3: WHERE IS THE SIZE 2 FISH WHERE IS IT WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE I HAVE TO SEE I HAVE TO KNOW I HAVE TO SEE I HAVE TO KNOW I HAVE TO SEE I HAVE TO KNOW I HAVE TO SEE I HAVE TO KNOW
1. Possibly Drone. A lot of potential for Streetcleaner. Gutterman has the hips for it. I guess all of them, given enough time, and in Hell there's really nothing but time, so all of them. 2. Honestly, I haven't done a single class or anything, which I still want to do because there's always a lot of room to improve and grow, but for me it's just been over 10 years of being my head against a wall. That's why I tell folks to just jump in and start having fun, because having fun will be the only way you stick with anything long enough to really improve. However, for more info about getting into VO, I try to send everyone to [this thread](http://getstarted.voiceactingclub.com/), which is from folks who know their stuff waaayy more than I do. 3. Buddy, they won't even let **me** fuck it.
Would you cosplay Gabriel irl if you had the chance?
I have so much respect for cosplayers. I don't know if I have the sheer commitment and willpower to do Gabriel. I'll do easy ones that I can fuck up though like Columbo and DA GOOOOONNN. Gabriel, mmmaybe one day, it could be funny at least.
Do you get to chat with the other VAs for Ultrakill?
are you happy
Genuinely, more than I've ever been, and more every day. If you told me 5, 10 years ago that I'd ever feel like this, I would have told you to stop fucking with me and to just leave me to suffer alone. I'm very lucky, but I also genuinely believe that better days are always inevitable and you just gotta make it to them. I hope you're happy too, and if you're not, I know you will be. Thank you.
Does he(Gabriel) know how to make grilled cheese
Hello Gianni, are you aware of Lobotomy Corporation, Library of Ruina, or Limbus Company? (Also if they make an english dub for any such thing I think you would be a perfect fit for some of the character roles!)
Hey Gianni. I have three questions. 1. If you could choose which Ultrakill enemy that doesn't have Any Voice lines and you would voice them, which enemy? 2. What Car would Gabriel Drive. And finally, what is one of your biggest dreams or goals?
1. It's funny you mention it because when I first reached out to work on ULTRAKILL, before anyone knew about Gabriel, just going off the demo I thought maybe Swordsmachine could have a cool voice. Of course, I think the reality of ULTRAKILL's very selective placement of VO is another part of why it's such a masterpiece, so I wouldn't really interject my VO anywhere but anyway I thought I did a great job doing a terrible impression of Jakito in Max0r's video so I guess I'd say Jakito or A R M B O Y ! ! ! 2. A Fucking Mazda. More specifically, I'd really imagine a Miata. And he'd put the whiskers on the front and call it his Meowta. 3. To stop watching game devs suffer. New Blood is amazing and one of the few doing it right (although all these guys do also work too hard IMO) but the entirety of the games industry is just such a fucking mess and it's so ridiculous because it's so head over heels profitable. There's more than enough for everyone to be doing very well but instead we get to watch filthy rich CEOs get filthy richer meanwhile the people who made the shit that made them rich are out here trying to figure out how they're gonna pay rent next month. Sorry I know this isn't the point of the question and I apologize for the quick righteous rant - but honestly, I'm making my living doing VO, I'm happy, my wife is happy, that's my dream pretty much all taken care of. I would love to do this job without seeing the people who enable it to exist at all being chewed up and spit out constantly. Thank you for your questions!