I though this was suppose to be a modern MMO?

[XenoNuke]

I love the game and the quest lore is so great, but is there a reason why there are scenes with voice acting, and other scenes without?

I mean, in comparison to games like Guild Wars 2 where every NPC speaks, shouldn't this be a modern MMO...

I know I've heard some people say, they prefer the reading of quests, ok, I get that. For those I'd say there would be a mute or no speaking option.

But it feels strange, as if it was a bug that there are some scenes with Voice Acting. I mean, you don't hire voice actors per scene, usually it's a day session or even hourly. It feels as the audio is compiled just not in the game... Which is pretty dumb as many of us are approaching 50 and at the end of the main story.

I'd love some discussion on this, as to make SE and Yoshi-P aware that this is a concern for some players. I know I can't be the only one that wish for full VA accross the board, main, quests, even when I click on an NPC.

Don't ya think?

[Semont]

It's expensive man...

There's already Japanese, English, German and French voice overs; all for the same dialogue.

That and it takes resources from the studio to do this, monetary, time and manpower.

And they already said that VOs would only be in important eye catching scenes.

[Jinko]

YEa its very disjointed having one story quest voiced and the next not, hell some quests have half voiced and then all of a sudden switch to text only, SE don't have any excuses for this either it wouldn't be that expensive to voice the main story.

[TheEfanu]

I'll take better/more game design, mechanics, and content over VOs any day.

[thuswindburn]

YEa its very disjointed having one story quest voiced and the next not, hell some quests have half voiced and then all of a sudden switch to text only, SE don't have any excuses for this either it wouldn't be that expensive to voice the main story.

Let me help you out here. Voice acting is incredibly expensive. On top of that they'd be having to hire and record voice actors in 4 different languages at the moment. So expensive*4. Also, the sound files for the voice acting are absolutely massive. They are why SWTOR was a 20gig download at launch. It wouldn't have been inexpensive or easy for them to have done this.

Honestly, I'd much rather being playing this game now, like I currently am, rather than waiting months for a release with full VO for story quests. Plus, there are better things to complain about.

[Dalok]

I'll take better/more game design, mechanics, and content over VOs any day.

You got it, when I'm playing an MMO i'm not really looking for VO anyway. I want the game to play well, which this game does very well. I was surprised when I saw any VO at all, which is fine doesn't bother me.

The game it self plays super well, that's all that matters.

[XenoNuke]

Voice acting is incredibly expensive. On top of that they'd be having to hire and record voice actors in 4 different languages at the moment. So expensive*4. Also, the sound files for the voice acting are absolutely massive. Honestly, I'd much rather being playing this game now, like I currently am, rather than waiting months for a release with full VO for story quests. Plus, there are better things to complain about.

Voice acting is not that expensive. They could have at the least, gone out to Acting Studios or Schools and found students that would have probably done this for free. At the very least, these people would happily do this work just to add to the portfolio.

Now, on to the comment about better things to complain about. Yes, their are a lot of other Quality of Life issues that have been mentioned before in this forum. What does one thing have to do with another? It's a forum, I can complain about whatever I want.

[XenoNuke]

You got it, when I'm playing an MMO i'm not really looking for VO anyway. I want the game to play well, which this game does very well. I was surprised when I saw any VO at all, which is fine doesn't bother me.

The game it self plays super well, that's all that matters.

This is also a Final Fantasy game, I can't remember a Final Fantasy past FFVII that didn't have VO on every cut-scene.

[Destain]

This is also a Final Fantasy game, I can't remember a Final Fantasy past FFVII that didn't have VO on every cut-scene.

I can, VIII, IX and XI. No VO.

[OniCabbit]

Would love to have it all voiced but there are limitations. Voice acting costs, some way to get around your name being said or well then you run into this problem....

http://youtu.be/Eb1lcIugxOk

would be more data as well to hold all of it onto the drive.

long names might cause a problem or difficult names.
seen a lalafell named Crowwwwwwwwwwww Wwwwwwwwwwwwwww that might translate to CrowDoubleUDoubleUDoubleUDoubleUDoubleUDoubleUDoubleUDoubleUDoubleUDoubleUDoubleU lips would stop moving before end of CS was over, or will extend CS time during instance battles making more people grumpy.