PLease Give a Voice to NPC that are given Quest

Hello Ashes,

I apolagise if if this question has been put and aswer already, but i will add it to be there for my peace of mind.

In my jurney throw life in gaming experience i foud it so boring when an NPC that gives you a quest does not have a voice and it has a generic text line. But when a NPC even a sideques or an none
related quest line, that gives you a quest has a voice it brings so much life in to the world it self.

Does AOC will have all NPC with voice in them? please make it so!

I am sure that as a comunity people will offer their voice to give life for an NPC if requiered! I will do if i will be ask if i can help!!!

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Noaani

There is no plan to launch with voice acting in place, but it may be added in later on.

daveywavey

I seem to remember a video where Steven said the logistics of getting voice actors were too complicated. Having someone voicing the lines, making sure you get that same someone if that character is in an expansion. Getting different voice actors for the different translations. Etc.

So, I wouldn't expect too much of it.

daveywavey

Beyond wrote: »

I am sure that as a comunity people will offer their voice to give life for an NPC if requiered! I will do if i will be ask if i can help!!!

Haha, that would indeed be awesome!

Warth

Good voice acting is very expensive.
Bad voice acting is worse than no voice acting at all.

Community send ins tend to be garbage to subpar at best.

Tacualeon

Maybe along the way we will get some voice actors.
Writing, casting and voice acting are expensive and are industries on their own.

Maybe in the mid to long term future.

Chocometeor

I think thats important for immersion to have some kind of voice for a Vendor that greets you or something like that

FuryBladeborne

As daveywavy said, voice over was talked about in an old livestream with Steven and Jeffery. They described it as the cost was too high; and, once voice over was in, it would have to be continued for the life of the game.
Essentially, the risk is too high. I am hoping that Ashes makes an outstanding success and that IS decides it warrants adding voiceover shortly after release.

MrScrewtape

I remember hearing that ESO cost so much to develop due to voice actor costs.

Yes it can be nice, but I'd rather those funds go to developing fun gameplay mechanics than spending massive amounts on getting someone to say "my chickens are lost" and then skipping all dialog after they first couple months.

It can be something "cool" the first time, but honestly after a couple of months I find I turn 90% of the game sounds off as I listen to music, discord or watch movies.

kossboss

I would LOVE to have every NPC voice acted, however even just doing main storyline quests is a huge cost financially, as well as additional work to put into the game. Add on the logistics of handling voice actors between recordings (sometimes years apart). It gets costly very quickly.

Would it be amazing to have, sure, do I expect any voice acting beside a few generic lines from say an inkeeper, no.

Rem_

Beyond wrote: »

Hello Ashes,

I apolagise if if this question has been put and aswer already, but i will add it to be there for my peace of mind.

In my jurney throw life in gaming experience i foud it so boring when an NPC that gives you a quest does not have a voice and it has a generic text line. But when a NPC even a sideques or an none
related quest line, that gives you a quest has a voice it brings so much life in to the world it self.

Does AOC will have all NPC with voice in them? please make it so!

I am sure that as a comunity people will offer their voice to give life for an NPC if requiered! I will do if i will be ask if i can help!!!

Voice acting would be exciting but I feel its too much work for whats already promised

Tyrantor

Voice acting in an MMO seems out of place - I get it for single player RPG games but not MMOs. Seems like we'd have to mute voice coms too frequently to make it worth it.

daveywavey

Tyrantor wrote: »

Voice acting in an MMO seems out of place - I get it for single player RPG games but not MMOs. Seems like we'd have to mute voice coms too frequently to make it worth it.

Heh, I only use Voice Comms when I'm in a raid. Otherwise, I like to hear the sounds of the game!

mrwaffles

Warth wrote: »

Good voice acting is very expensive.
Bad voice acting is worse than no voice acting at all.

Community send ins tend to be garbage to subpar at best.

did you ever play Skyforge? I like the game, i really did, but that was the worst voice acting of all time. I realize it was a Russian port but they cheaped out on the English voice acting.

Warth

mrwaffles wrote: »

Warth wrote: »

Good voice acting is very expensive.
Bad voice acting is worse than no voice acting at all.

Community send ins tend to be garbage to subpar at best.

did you ever play Skyforge? I like the game, i really did, but that was the worst voice acting of all time. I realize it was a Russian port but they cheaped out on the English voice acting.

holy shit yes.
Gorgeous looking game, fun combat - the voice acting was horrendous though. Literally on the level where you'd rather mute it.

The game had potential though, just unlucky that it was heavy pay to win and didn't really have an open world.

Nagash

I mean how much of the chat do people skip in the first place?

bloodprophet

You mean this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJ51AJuR7E

Nagash

bloodprophet wrote: »

You mean this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJ51AJuR7E

I wish the NPCs did that but most players skip quest dialogue and as a DM that hurts my soul

maouw

I think the expectation these days is that dialogue needs to be interactive, not a text dump.
something something show don't tell but for games something something.

If you text dump in a game you need the option to skip it.
(like if I replied with 7 paragraphs to this thread)

shadiss

It would be good for a main quest storyline, if there even is one, but anything beyond that would just be using resources better used elsewhere in my opinion.

daveywavey

When you skip the NPC too many times.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeNdC8hVIT0&feature=emb_rel_end

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