A new thread on voice acting (ugh i know)

so any word yet if we will get voice acting for cutscenes in 2.0, or maybe even future expansions. I dont mean every cutscene but every story related one. Square is amazing in this department in their single player final fantasy titles. SO give it a budget! seriously just major story events.. I dont want to hear every NPC talk anyway. I would love to hear what the white raven(whats his name? the garlean in white armor) sounds like. I imagine it kind of like a more evil sounding Judge Ghis from Final Fantasy XII

I meant any word from the devs on this? I dont speak japanese so I dont have a clue if its been shot down by yoshi himself

i'd like for all important NPCs to have voices. I mean, I know it's not something SE is known for
but seriously. It's 2012. Almost all games have a majority of voice acting. I personally love it when its done well.
I'd say storylines, major npcs and conversations and only ones that don't are small quest npcs and random npcs.

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so any word yet if we will get voice acting for cutscenes in 2.0

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major cutscenes already have voice acting (and it's actually quite decent IMO)

Doing voice acting for every cutscene (or worse every NPC) in an MMO is impractical due to data size. If you limited it to specific characters I guess it could be doable, but it's still a concern.

I am being hopeful so I am just going with main story line. the intro had great voice acting and I thought storyline would get that treatment. but the game was rushed I can only hope its been considered for 2.0 or an eventual expansion

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

major cutscenes already have voice acting (and it's actually quite decent IMO)

Doing voice acting for every cutscene (or worse every NPC) in an MMO is impractical due to data size. If you limited it to specific characters I guess it could be doable, but it's still a concern.

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what game are you playing? there is not voice acting in cutscenes... not a single one except the intro. unless you mean the grunts or whatever you sometimes hear like say in emotes /cheer and so on. that is voice acting true but not what I mean at all. seriously if your cutscenes have voice acting you need to get your head examined because they are voices in your head sir

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Originally Posted by Mushy

what game are you playing? there is not voice acting in cutscenes... not a single one except the intro. unless you mean the grunts or whatever you sometimes hear like say in emotes /cheer and so on. that is voice acting true but not what I mean at all. seriously if your cutscenes have voice acting you need to get your head examined because they are voices in your head sir

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This is voice acted, not exactly what you want but it still counts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFg8SOhcImo

Also the rank 15 mission for gridania is voice acted aswell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWx3pv3bUTQ

Yeah more is needed. Got to give Cid, and other important characters we'll meet some voices.
And while they're at it, they should put Biggs and Wedge as a comic relief in there as well.

I think in the ver 2.0 PDFs they said that major CS will be voice acted.

While VO is nice, the charm quickly wears off and it's only a matter of time before you are skipping through everything.

Steve Blum as Raubahn {Can I have it?}