I’ve found Serenity, and you can’t take the sky from me

Something very awesome happened today. I can’t say anything more about it (for now) but I can finally talk about this other awesome thing that I’m super excited to be part of!

In the upcoming Firefly Online game, I get to be the voice of the male avatar!!

This just in from Firefly Online HR: Wil Wheaton has joined the FFO voiceover team and will be playing the part of you – that is, he will be giving voice to the male player character. We couldn’t be more excited that Wil is taking on this huge part. (There’s lots of Chinese cursing too!)

I am so excited to be part of this, and not just because it means I get to finally be part of the best universe in the ‘verse.

…well, maybe it is.

A little.

…okay, it totally is.

I’m recording my dialog in a couple of weeks, and when the game is released in Spring, I’ll be there with you as we pilot our own ships, interact with our favorite brown coats, evade the alliance, and, of course, aim to misbehave.

I’m incredibly grateful for this opportunity, I can’t wait to be a leaf on the wind.

…shoot. now i’m sad.

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  4. This is pretty much the only reason I would play a male toon. Grats, very excited to see how it turns out!

  5. Omgosh .. Congratulations ..this is like AWESOME .. i love Firefly .. 🙂 happy week to u 🙂 and Sir .. u r a part of the verse .. it’s your destiny 🙂 …

  7. Holy shit, dude!
    That is amazing!!

    Massive props for landing that!
    I look forward to hearing your voice!

  11. I didn’t even know there was going to be a Firefly Online game.. that’s so awesome! 🙂 Glad you get to be a part of it. 😀

  13. I’m so excited about this. I’m a BDH, already wasting tons of time trying to complete series one of the card collection before they switch to series 2, learning the Verse, before the game goes live. I will play a male character just to have Wil’s voice (and I am a female who tends to play female characters when possible).

  17. Wil, I hate you for this. I always play female avatars, and you’re forcing me… nay, commanding me… to play a male. The things I do for combining two awesome fandoms.
    (In other news: Congratulations! More Wil is always good. Now, about getting you as a homie in Saints Row 5…)

  21. Yay! I’m already playing in the Cortex, and it’s absolutely whetting my appetite for the full game. This is just (more) icing on the cake! I’ll have to play as a male, sometimes, just for the fun of hearing you swear in Chinese. 😉

  22. Sorry, but the best ‘verse in the ‘verse no longer exists, ever since George Lucas shit all over my childhood.

    That said, congrats on a well-deserved, fantastic opportunity. Hopefully, you’ll get a pretty floral bonnet out of it.

  24. The site seems to be down…I’m blaming the excitement over this announcement. 🙂 Seriously though, that’s SO freakin’ cool. Well done–I’m looking forward to the game even that much more now!

  25. So, someone finally figured out that your voice is simple “Awesome sauce in a Win-Sauce bottle”, eh?

    SHINY!

    Congrats!

  26. Woah, I’d no idea the oft-rumoured Firefly game was so near to completion! Shiny!

    (Also, yeah, I think you broke the server! 😛 )

  31. That’s awesome!

    Any chance they are springing for a Mandarin coach for the Chinese cursing bits? The original cast’s attempts were, and I say this out of a place of deep and abiding love, hilariously off the mark.

    It’s not that hard to pronounce Mandarin adequately for an English speaker, but it is a completely different beast. The pitch you pronounce something at plus the syllables you are saying combined create the meaning. The classic example is the sound “ma.” In a high, even pitch that means “mother.” In a high-low-high dipping pitch, it means “horse.” Rather an important distinction in almost every circumstance. 🙂

      1. Why not make the effort? For set lines, learning to pronounce them reasonably well takes maybe 10 minutes tops, unless the learner is “tone-deaf.” It’s just a matter of being prepped properly to be a parrot, since the language’s sound structure is so different than English. Once you know what to listen for it’s not hard.

        Tones have been an integral part of Chinese for at least 1500 years. I would agree that pronouncing things perfectly like a modern native speaker wouldn’t make sense for lore reasons, but being so far off the mark as to be unrecognizable doesn’t make much sense either.

        To give you an idea of how badly mangled the Mandarin in the original series was, I asked several native Chinese speaking friends about their take on it. It took them seeing 2-3 episodes before they even realized that the lines were supposed to be Chinese. They thought they were speaking some made up language for the show. 🙂

  35. So your going to pilot a starship? Way to step out of your comfort zone Wil. 😉 seriously though this has made a must have game into a “need more than air” game. I cannot wait. And I hope you get to call Jayne Cobb a dick.

  38. That’s great! I don’t play many online games, but I think I’ll have to give this one a try, and most likely, I’ll be hooked.

    Because why would I want to leave Serenity? 🙂

  40. I’m so conflicted. You simultaneously made me both happy and sad.
    This is shiny news though! I wonder how many people will try to make their avatars look like you now! XD

  46. congratulations wil; don’t be sad… i hope you are feeling/doing okay. i don’t know if you blocked me too, as you haven’t posted on Instagram recently, but i actually have really liked, respected and appreciated you. you have a great way of seeming so genuine and making some people feel not quite so alone. plus, your dogs are just friggin awesome. peace… i would totally feel privileged to be your friend 🙂

  48. Wil,

    Can I call you Wil? I hope we are friends enough over this series of tubes that you will calmly and seriously consider the import of the next words I say to you.

    DO NOT BE A LEAF ON THE WIND!!!!

    BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO LEAVES ON THE WIND. NO ONE WANTS TO SEE YOU WITH A GIANT TELEPHONE POLE SHOVED THROUGH YOUR THORAX!!

    There are already two holographic memorials to our best friends on the cliff side. And we tear up every time we think about it. Freakin alliance bastards took out Shepard, and then the freakin Reavers…

    I can’t even..

    Seriously, Wil.

    Fly.

    Flit.

    Roar through the sky. Claw and bite and flame through the sky, and damn the eyes of anyone or anything that aims to interfere with you and your relationship with the sky.

    BUT DON’T YOU TRY TO SOAR!!!

    We can’t take it…

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