Please have Voice acting for the quests

Star wars the Old Republic had amazing voice acting for all the questlines. Each NPC had an amazing voice actor behind them to help bring them to life and helped the player get sucked into the story and helped the players care more about the story. They even gave the players their own voice actors too! This helps to immerse the player into the game and helps the player to not skip the quest txt. I think ashes should implement this into their questlines. What do you y'all think?

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bloodprophet

Voice acting in action.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4utATCiTfi0

Khronus

I do enjoy voice acting but I often notice how trash voice acting ends up being. I can list off dozens of games/animes off the top of my head that annoyed me during play because 1-2 of the voice actors were just horrible.

If they add voice acting to AoC I would hope it would only be during "some" quests and not all of them. I also hate clicking an NPC and having them say the same line over and over and over and over. I don't need that. Lore/story missions that span across hours of gameplay that also utilize important NPC's to really allow us to dive in is what I hope to see. Voice acting in these would be amazing.

Vaknar

Perhaps instead of hiring some professional voice actors, I can see if Steven will just let various Intrepid devs voice every quest giver

JustVine

Vaknar wrote: »

Perhaps instead of hiring some professional voice actors, I can see if Steven will just let various Intrepid devs voice every quest giver

Like I said, I kind of think that is exactly what happened for certain BDO lines. Please let us all encourage him against this. It's laughably bad at best and cringy at worst. Either pay money for talent, or leave it unvoiced.

JustVine

If he really wants to add dev voices to the game, however, if you keep it to narration in cut scenes (not reading character lines) it could work and maybe even be pleasant. Anything where the person's natural voice fits in well in a neutral tone is probably fine.

But proper characterization and clarity of tone and emotion is a very technical skill that deserves to be paid and is difficult for an amateur to achieve.

Vaknar

JustVine wrote: »

If he really wants to add dev voices to the game, however, if you keep it to narration in cut scenes (not reading character lines) it could work and maybe even be pleasant. Anything where the person's natural voice fits in well in a neutral tone is probably fine.

But proper characterization and clarity of tone and emotion is a very technical skill that deserves to be paid and is difficult for an amateur to achieve.

I jest, I jest. I don't think this would ever happen unironically or on a large scale. We will see what the future holds as far as VA goes for the game

Atama

JustVine wrote: »

Vaknar wrote: »

Perhaps instead of hiring some professional voice actors, I can see if Steven will just let various Intrepid devs voice every quest giver

Like I said, I kind of think that is exactly what happened for certain BDO lines. Please let us all encourage him against this. It's laughably bad at best and cringy at worst. Either pay money for talent, or leave it unvoiced.

Champions Online has voice acting so bad that it ruins cutscenes. They probably just grabbed some intern and said, “Stop making coffee and read these pages into this tape recorder.” They’d have been much better off with no voices at all.

maouw

My favourite VA fails are when one voice actor is REALLY into their role, and they're talking to another voice actor who's clearly amateur and the clash in conversation flow is so dissonant.

BaSkA_9x2

VA makes a game better. A game doesn't need VA to be good.

I hope VA eventually makes into the game, but I'd rather they invest money elsewhere if it's a choice between VA and improving more important systems.

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