Sidequests and voice acting

I decided I would share my thoughts on this topic, since I'm curious what others think. We have heard in numerous interviews that quests outside of the main storyline quests will not be voice-acted. That said, I completely understand the idea behind not voice acting every single quest a la SWTOR, so that in exchange we get more quests. In fact, I support it, especially if it means the voice acting that we DO get is high quality. However, I thought I would voice (lol) my support for having -limited- voice acting in sidequests. Like, just record various simple lines such as "Hello there", "Nice to meet you", "Thank you", etc, and have NPCs say these lines when you initiate conversation with them. It's fine if you reuse the same voices for different NPCs, too, as long as you have some variety. Maybe a few different voices for each race.

This, to me, goes a long way in making the world and people seem more "alive" (something that the development team has already stated will happen), as opposed to the current version where everyone is silent. I also think it's a good compromise that shouldn't consume very much time, resources, or money to implement. Another idea if you really want to get fancy is hearing NPCs have faint conversations as you walk by, kind of like FFXIII.

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Originally Posted by CSLionheart

I decided I would share my thoughts on this topic, since I'm curious what others think. We have heard in numerous interviews that quests outside of the main storyline quests will not be voice-acted. That said, I completely understand the idea behind not voice acting every single quest a la SWTOR, so that in exchange we get more quests. In fact, I support it, especially if it means the voice acting that we DO get is high quality. However, I thought I would voice (lol) my support for having -limited- voice acting in sidequests. Like, just record various simple lines such as "Hello there", "Nice to meet you", "Thank you", etc, and have NPCs say these lines when you initiate conversation with them. It's fine if you reuse the same voices for different NPCs, too, as long as you have some variety. Maybe a few different voices for each race.

This, to me, goes a long way in making the world and people seem more "alive" (something that the development team has already stated will happen), as opposed to the current version where everyone is silent. I also think it's a good compromise that shouldn't consume very much time, resources, or money to implement. Another idea if you really want to get fancy is hearing NPCs have faint conversations as you walk by, kind of like FFXIII.

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Would love to see a mod that adds Zelda like sounds to npcs while talking.. XD

(But adding generic greetings, some conversation to the npc crowds walking around, to shop keepers, and faint conversations in the background (including city activity) would be awesome !!

http://youtu.be/p8H_XmMYN-s
http://youtu.be/20j-o06dp0g
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I don't see a problem with them putting in one liners for shop npc's etc

like for example when you talk to one they'll say "hello there!"

Time is money friend !

I'd rather see cutscenes with music in quests than flavor textboxes.
Voice acting I don't care for at all.

The presentation of story in current version apart from the handful of main missions is really really bad. At this point XIV is probably the least interesting when it comes to this stuff that SE is so known for getting it right.

I'd like if we could at least get grunts, laughs, yells, etc for NPCs. One liners would be nice though.....at least for unique NPCs.

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Originally Posted by Seif

I'd rather see cutscenes with music in quests than flavor textboxes.
Voice acting I don't care for at all.

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I'm pretty sure every semi-major quest has cutscenes with music in them. The only ones that don't are the "go here and kill 5 of these" quests but that seems pretty unnecessary to me.