Why did they change all the voice actors?

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Originally Posted by Mysteltain

Clearly you didn't play games from the early PS1 and Sega generations, haha. Those had some truly awful VAs--just watch a playthrough of the original RE1.

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Do you care for a Jill Sandwich?

Are you also the master of unlocking?

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/01/the...cting-moments/

If that was Alphinaud we heard talking, then from what I heard in that line, he sounded better than he did before, a tiny bit more "grown up." I play the cutscenes in Japanese or sometimes German because I hated the English voice acting so much. But it seems they've been trying to make it slightly better, so maybe I'll play Heavensward in English. Maybe. XD

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Originally Posted by Colorful

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Thanks for the info!

But we can't be sure that's him speaking since the voice is disembodied. I don't think we can say for sure who's it is.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

Merlyb is the only voice actor who has a different voice from the Launch Trailer, but that might be because they could not get the original actor for her for these new lines.

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Nah, Merlwyb is still the same as ever. Clear as a day. Still has the same VA as the knight-commander-something-or-other in Dragon Age 2. Last boss I believe she was?

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Originally Posted by Mysteltain

Clearly you didn't play games from the early PS1 and Sega generations, haha. Those had some truly awful VAs--just watch a playthrough of the original RE1.

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If you mean Resident Evil 1 it wasn't even half as bad as this lol. But yeah I bet there's loads of games with awful voice acting but for me this is the one lol.

I'm not sure whether they recast people for some characters, or just had better direction for the actors, but I'm happy they're changing something up.

Let's face it, some of the voiceover work was just awful in 2.x.

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Originally Posted by Waliel

Nah, Merlwyb is still the same as ever. Clear as a day. Still has the same VA as the knight-commander-something-or-other in Dragon Age 2. Last boss I believe she was?

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Meredith. :p /scurriesaway

It's really too soon to say, perhaps they changed the directing?

After all, 2.0 voice acting is different (improved) from the later patches voice acting and they used the same actors

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Originally Posted by Waliel

Nah, Merlwyb is still the same as ever. Clear as a day. Still has the same VA as the knight-commander-something-or-other in Dragon Age 2. Last boss I believe she was?

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Jean Gilpin. she did some Skyrim voices too. Very talented lady.

They changed some voice actors because many of them were terrible. A terrible script can be overlooked with good voice acting, but a terrible script with terrible voice acting just makes for a painful experience, and I don't think the scripts are ever going to get any better.

Possibly cheaper labour to. You sign someone up to do x amounts worth of content for a cheaper price.

I only liked Yda's voice actress anyhow, so I'm not really overly fussed.