The Announcer (Jeff Steitzer) Interview

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Here’s an interview with The Announcer from about a year ago. I feel it’s appropriate to post this seeing as there are multiple threads about how they changed his voice.

He goes on to say that when 343 called him in to do recordings for Halo 4, they sort of made him change the announcers voice from gritty and deep to what it is now. And he also talks about the next Halo game (Which we now know is Halo 2: Anniversary) they made him record more stuff, explaining why he talks so much more now. Check it out theres some nice info in there.

The Halo Announcer - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW (Jeff St…: http://youtu.be/xwx3R1-58ps

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Good interview. Not blaming him on the weird voice changes, just bring it back, and back to the old normal. If it aint broke don’t fix it kinda the whole point of this Master Chief collection in the first place.

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I just don’t get it.
I want to know who exactly at 343 thinks the new style of announcing actually sounds better.
I don’t understand how anybody could.

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Cool thanks for that.
Personally don’t mind the way he sounds now, thing I find is he doesn’t need to read out the whole rules to game about to play

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Max even said in the Stonetown vid “If it aint broke dont fix it”

What exactly was broke w the announcer?

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Just the point out that interview is over a year old

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> 2533274913466477;5:
> Max even said in the Stonetown vid “If it aint broke dont fix it”
>
> What exactly was broke w the announcer?

Max Hoberman is part of Certain Affinity and not 343, so he probably did not have an input on the voice, providing it was 343 was in charge of that.

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Thanks for the link! Cool interview.

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Yeah the new voice style is annoying. The old deep voice felt badass, this new one sounds like a disabled robot that drank too much game fuel.

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I don’t mind how announcer’s voice currently sounds, but I really like the old voice better because it sounds more human than robot.

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I like Jeffs new announcing voice. its refreshing.

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> 2717573882290994;3:
> I just don’t get it.
> I want to know who exactly at 343 thinks the new style of announcing actually sounds better.
> I don’t understand how anybody could.

Agreed one hundred percent. I don’t honk it sounds any better than a dumpster rolling down a flight of stairs.

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I am pretty new to Halo and have only played 5/Guardians. I think the announcer is a strong suit to arena matches. As a noob some of the announcers calls are great - “Cluster Luck” is a favorite. I have zero reference point obviously, but I suspect new players like the Halo 5 announcer.