Am i going deaf?

[Captaindownsyndrome]

i would tell you but you would heir me

[Dragon]

What do you people have against Final Fantasy's voice overs?

Why do you enjoy red-herrings and strawmens?

[Vesperia]

Why do you enjoy red-herrings and strawmens?

I don't like fish and the strawman from The Wizard of Oz was always so annoying.

So get over it, ok.

[Carmillia]

Voice overs, yes please! It really would make immersion better in my opinion!

[Nuru]

Let me just leave this here again..

Anyways, more VO is fine, but not everything.

I can see something like a Zelda style VO, like whenever you tlk to an NPC, most of them would let out a sigh or a groan, or chuckle. Something simple, doesn't really have to be word for word.

[Balbanes]

.....if rift could have voice overs on npcs etc and make a truely dynamic world with 10x's more content than this why couldnt se? alot of mmos have plenty of voice overs......sounds like se is a cheap copout on that stuff right now

Just want to clarify this here as I've been playing Rift extensively lately while waiting out the XIV changes:

Rifts voice-overs are 100% generic. A handful of actors recorded a handful of canned lines which are recycled throughout the game.
Dialogue is not voiced over in Rift. EQ2 has more actual dialogue voice acting than Rift, by far.


As far as content goes? Ok, Rift is a very fun game, I'll admit. I'm having a good time playing it. However....
You do the exact same thing at level 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. All throughout the game. Here it is broken down in a list.
1. Close Rifts/Stop Rift invasions
2. Warfronts (Battlegrounds) / PvP (PvP content is SORELY lacking in Rift).
3. Generic, Kill 10 of X, Y & Z quests from 1 to 50. / Grinding
4. Limited Dungeon Raiding
5. Crafting if you decide to do that.

Over, and over, and over again. Every level, every zone. No variance.

[Quisi]

Just want to clarify this here as I've been playing Rift extensively lately while waiting out the XIV changes:

Rifts voice-overs are 100% generic. A handful of actors recorded a handful of canned lines which are recycled throughout the game.
Dialogue is not voiced over in Rift. EQ2 has more actual dialogue voice acting than Rift, by far.


As far as content goes? Ok, Rift is a very fun game, I'll admit. I'm having a good time playing it. However....
You do the exact same thing at level 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. All throughout the game. Here it is broken down in a list.
1. Close Rifts/Stop Rift invasions
2. Warfronts (Battlegrounds) / PvP (PvP content is SORELY lacking in Rift).
3. Generic, Kill 10 of X, Y & Z quests from 1 to 50. / Grinding
4. Limited Dungeon Raiding
5. Crafting if you decide to do that.

Over, and over, and over again. Every level, every zone. No variance.

And you just proved Rift has 10 times more content than FF XiV and it's more varied too =P

VO's, yes please! =] But we have to face the truth.. FF XIV isn't an AAA mmo and Square is no longer an aaa company so I wouldn't get my hopes high =/

[Delsus]

no company will pay thousands of people to do voice overs, most games that use them use the same voice actors constantly. If the game was a success and they payed $1 to everyone that does the voice acting for 1000 npcs, that would be $1000 in Japan, $1000 in America (they would use the same actors for all EN clients) $1000 in Germany and $1000 in France because they are the languages it supports, thats $4000 that could be spent on content. Lets not forget new dialogues that are released for any new content, oh and new NPCs.

Having a unique VO for every NPC would not be viable and anyone that thinks it is needs to grow a brain cell.

They could VO the CS for the main scenario and class quests because they wouldn't need too many actors for those but all NPCs is a stupid idea.

[Balbanes]

no company will pay thousands of people to do voice overs, most games that use them use the same voice actors constantly. If the game was a success and they payed $1 to everyone that does the voice acting for 1000 npcs, that would be $1000 in Japan, $1000 in America (they would use the same actors for all EN clients) $1000 in Germany and $1000 in France because they are the languages it supports, thats $4000 that could be spent on content. Lets not forget new dialogues that are released for any new content, oh and new NPCs.

Having a unique VO for every NPC would not be viable and anyone that thinks it is needs to grow a brain cell.

They could VO the CS for the main scenario and class quests because they wouldn't need too many actors for those but all NPCs is a stupid idea.

Once again playing devils advocate here but...

This MMO would like to disagree with you.

[polyhedral]

This forum could be much better without all of the needless justification posts.

Trust us, we already know exactly what you're going to say against any new ideas already. You don't have to post them anymore. (but you will, over and over again)