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Troy Baker has lent his voice and performances to some of the biggest games of the past decade. From six roles to playing Booker DeWitt in or stepping into The Joker's shoes in , you might not realize it's actually him delivering the lines until you see the credits. That's because he approaches each performance incredibly differently.
With his job was particularly complex: In addition to reprising his role as Talion, a Ranger of Gondor who's more or less possessed by an undead prince, Baker served as the director for all of the game's performance-capture story sequences.
For that task, Baker relied on his experience with director Neil Druckmann from Naughty Dog and his roles in the studio's (TLoU) and . Naughty Dog is widely regarded as having some of the best performances and shot composition in video game story sequences -- there are definitely worse places to look to for inspiration.
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