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Really nice little interview about the old PES games with Jon Champion.
The Telegraph: Cult Hero Pro Evo Commentator Would Tweak His Lines
The Telegraph: Cult Hero Pro Evo Commentator Would Tweak His Lines
Interview with Jon Champion (retro PES commentator)
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PeterC10
Championship
Good interview. Was involved in a tough era for PES but his commentary was usually amusing. 
WhoAteMeDinner
PES Puritan
- 28 April 2018
Brackers and Brookers used to spout a load of old bolloxology, was Champion any better ?
gabe.paul.logan
Retired Footballer
For some reason MLB and NBA can nail the commentary.
losslesscompression
Championship
- 1 December 2010
Increasingly excited, Champion continues: “Then they have this thing called concatenation, which is how you bolt it all together to make it sound realistic.
“So if I record five versions of ‘Beckham’, and then [his voice rising with each example] ‘picks up the ball’, and then ‘runs at the defender’, and then ‘has a shot’, and then [builds to a crescendo] ‘scores!’
“It’s how you manage to make those five different elements into one seamless phase of commentary. So concatenation is what they work very hard to do to make sure that however you’ve said the player’s name it will match relatively seamlessly with what it needs to be bolted onto.”
// Umm.. but it never sound seamless?
“So if I record five versions of ‘Beckham’, and then [his voice rising with each example] ‘picks up the ball’, and then ‘runs at the defender’, and then ‘has a shot’, and then [builds to a crescendo] ‘scores!’
“It’s how you manage to make those five different elements into one seamless phase of commentary. So concatenation is what they work very hard to do to make sure that however you’ve said the player’s name it will match relatively seamlessly with what it needs to be bolted onto.”
// Umm.. but it never sound seamless?
loco
Schaduwspits
- 12 December 2002
Fifa too.
gabe.paul.logan
Retired Footballer
I would say its inbetween. FIFA is much better of course than PES. And now they have 3! commentary teams.
PRO_TOO
Team Heffernan
When it’s about commentary I always think 2kgames.
Example:
Don’t miss the end, from 4:55 min! Image that with soccer celebs and tv mod... i would probably wet myself from laughing watching it till the end still sitting on my couch.... laughing!
Example:
Don’t miss the end, from 4:55 min! Image that with soccer celebs and tv mod... i would probably wet myself from laughing watching it till the end still sitting on my couch.... laughing!
rockstrongo
Retired Footballer
I think no matter who/what it gets stale after a while.
I've been playing 2k since -13 and they're in my mind the best.
You start to get annoyed by mistakes and bad timing.
When heading a good header in between two defenders and hitting the post and hearing Alan Smith (FIFA) say bad/horrible finish makes it so bad.
Not targeting fifa or Pes or even 2k but it gets pretty out of sync way to much at times.
I always use Italian commentaries for Pes,makes it feel a bit more authentic,they might be shit,who knows
I've been playing 2k since -13 and they're in my mind the best.
You start to get annoyed by mistakes and bad timing.
When heading a good header in between two defenders and hitting the post and hearing Alan Smith (FIFA) say bad/horrible finish makes it so bad.
Not targeting fifa or Pes or even 2k but it gets pretty out of sync way to much at times.
I always use Italian commentaries for Pes,makes it feel a bit more authentic,they might be shit,who knows
its999maggle
Custom Title:
Always knew Konami wrote the lines, Peter's lines are too similar to Jon's. Take it from someone who's good at communicating, that never ends well.
PRO_TOO
Team Heffernan
I think no matter who/what it gets stale after a while.
I've been playing 2k since -13 and they're in my mind the best.
You start to get annoyed by mistakes and bad timing.
When heading a good header in between two defenders and hitting the post and hearing Alan Smith (FIFA) say bad/horrible finish makes it so bad.
Not targeting fifa or Pes or even 2k but it gets pretty out of sync way to much at times.
I always use Italian commentaries for Pes,makes it feel a bit more authentic,they might be shit,who knows
i switch languages sometimes too. never used the german language that much because i understand the repeating lines! in english its better for me... other foreign languages too! 
rockstrongo
Retired Footballer
I played three seasons of BL with Gladbach on 17 and one on 18,and I tried the German commentaries but they were awful in FIFA,and I understand German,same thing with Spanish on Pes,doesn't sound right (to me)