No Voice overs?

I'm not sure why but I have no voice overs for anything in my game. Not the opening video, the main storyline quests, or anything. Has this happened to anyone else?

I see the setting where I can change the language for it in the configuration and I've tried English and Japanese but I still have no voices.

Not sure, haven't made it back on yet...I noticed in open beta I had VO for the opening, and than made it to 19 with no more VO, so wonder if there is some pathing issues between the server saying your watching the cutscene and the server not understanding you are watching the cutscene...honestly no clue

time for tea!

Currently only some of the main story quests have voice overs.

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Originally Posted by Loth

Currently only some of the main story quests have voice overs.

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NONE of mine do, at all. I've done up to the Ifrit fight without hearing a word from anyone, including the opening cinematic. My friend who is playing on PS3 showed me that there are indeed voices on his version, but none for me.

Cutscenes that are voiced are mostly random, with no clear pattern to when it's added and when it's not. It almost feels like they didn't get as much done as they had planned and just went with what they had so far.

One thing I find particularly strange is that some of the cutscenes that we've heard with voice-overs in trailers (like the opening to the Ifrit battle), are mute in the game.

They should at least have had all the cinematic scenes with voice-overs. I got the impression that's what they aimed for. It feels very inconsistent like this.

Inuakurei: That makes me wonder if it's not working the way it should. During phase 4 I heard about people with similar experiences, but I just assumed it was a beta problem.

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Originally Posted by Inuakurei

NONE of mine do, at all. I've done up to the Ifrit fight without hearing a word from anyone, including the opening cinematic. My friend who is playing on PS3 showed me that there are indeed voices on his version, but none for me.

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trust me if its English VO your looking for, you've been blessed by the twelve.

Hell ill trade you my VO's for your silence

Report it to the bug report section. You may need to reinstall or did they ever add the file check option to the game?

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Originally Posted by Keith_Dragoon

Report it to the bug report section. You may need to reinstall or did they ever add the file check option to the game?

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I reported it during the beta and assumed it wold have been fixed now, and it appears that not many other people have this issue so I can only assume it's something on my end but I don't know what it could be.

No, I've been having problems as well, My opening cutscene doesn't have VO's, and it kind of sucks because I'm doing a let's play. Reading all the dialogue out loud gets tiring (Especially with Lominsan accents). I would have thought at least the opening CS would have VO...

Square-Enix version of full main story voice overs is much different from ours apparently.

It's like they added the bare minimum amount of voice acting so they could slap "VOICE ACTED!" on the box.

Make sure you check that it's not your sound set up first. It wouldn't hurt to run a sound check to make sure you can hear every channel being played especially if you are running a set up that uses more then 2 channels.

Someone I know couldn't hear voices in some of the cut scenes that had them because they had Maxtix mode enabled with their Logitech speakers and disabling that fixed it.

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Originally Posted by Supersun

Make sure you check that it's not your sound set up first. It wouldn't hurt to run a sound check to make sure you can hear every channel being played especially if you are running a set up that uses more then 2 channels.

Someone I know couldn't hear voices in some of the cut scenes that had them because they had Maxtix mode enabled with their Logitech speakers and disabling that fixed it.

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Thanks for the info, didn't work for me though. I realize that there are much bigger problems going on right now but does anyone know what the problem may be?

The very few voice overs I have heard in this game are nice. I do not mind going back to reading after playing SWTOR. With pretty much everything voiced over it was getting old quick. Just my opinion.

I noticed this. When, and where a character is voiced seems really random. Some "main story" missions are completely devoid of it, sometimes half way through the cutscene, someone will finally be voiced. Sometimes a story character will be voiced in one scene, and not the next. Or as in the intro, sometimes a voice over kicks in despite all the NPCs being unvoiced. It's jarringly done, at best.

When I saw how small the client size was, compared to most other modern MMOs (or just PC RPGS), I was concerned about this. It really does seem to be the bare minimum of work in regards to voice work, which is unfortunate, since I rather enjoy the writing and characterization. It would've been nice to have the extra bit of life added to the characters.

<Edit> Well I didn't follow every single interview given, I was under the impression from the handful I read that they were making a big deal about adding voice acting, and that it would cover most cutscenes. Somewhere along the line, did they start walking that back or change the scope of those plans?

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Originally Posted by EvokerKeii

It's like they added the bare minimum amount of voice acting so they could slap "VOICE ACTED!" on the box.

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27th august, I hope

It was first planned to bring it only at launch because of the copy-rights. Maybe the voice actors or their managers said that Yoshida can bring it before official launch if he only bring parts of it and the rest after 27th

This is my hope ^^