Please Consider "FULL VOICE OVERS" for the cutscenes

[Dargoth_Draconia]

I was so excited when I got this game because I knew it had the best graphics for a current gen MMO, and the storyline was going to be compelling because the Lore of Eorzea is amazing in itself and I got in the game and I got to choose a voice for my character. At that moment I was like yes finally I can't wait my character is going to speak his sentences that I choose during dialogue options and in cutscenes (and not be like in FFXI where you guy doesn't even reply just stands there looking dumb). Well I had a rude awakening and when even from the beginning I lost all feeling of immersion for the storyline because I have come to expect with the current gen name of Final Fantasy that means we get voice overs for our characters during cutscenes and important quests. Instead we get a bunch of pretty mimes standing around acting like they are talking and a massive wall of text and I find myself spamming my button to get through all story parts or just skipping cutscenes. Except for the last mission cutscene that had awesome sound effects voices and the works.

Also when the game was coming out with the commercial and what not showing adventurers at the leve counter accepting the quest all gorgeous and with voice overs it just really made you feel like that was what you were going to get in the package and I feel really disappointed by it not being so. SE even had a direction where people were talking with the Old English accents and that was reminiscent with FFT: War of the Lions cutscenes. Or personally if this does get considered and added I would like to hear accents from all over for different characters from different nations. That would really bring a wave of immersion to the story line and cutscenes and other important characters that give quests.

So localization team I really hope you look at this and submit this in to Yoshi and the others who have the ability to make this change come into action. For I believe this would shed a new light on this game and bring fans who are borderline about thinking of trying a Final Fantasy MMO for the first time because they are guaranteed that visceral and compelling storyline with current gen expectations of a Final Fantasy title. Thanks for taking the time to read this post and I hope to hear some type of word back from you guys. ^-^b

[MariyaShidou]

If you meant voice-over cutscene for NPC, yea sure. However, if you meant for PC, that's entirely unrealistic. First you have to consider how many languages the game are currently available in, how many dialogues there will need to be for your character multiplied by the number of languages, then multiplied again for the number of different voices you get to choose at the beginning. That's just absurdly high for any games.

Not to mention one of the voice for Miqo'te is Rie Tanaka, a popular Japanese voice actress. I don't know if she would agree to do so many lines on different languages :P

[Ferth]

Given that this game has been nothing but a loss for SE so far... I'm gonna bet they aren't in a hurry to pay for more voice acting...

Just a hunch.

[SydeBeheln]

Seems kinda goofy that they have Voice acting in the game in the beginning but not at all anywhere else..

I don't doubt they are not making enough for this to happen right now, but someday...possibly.

[PinkPanties]

It would be A LOT of different voices, and a LOT of work...
Plus... I don't think they did that in FFXI?

[glassalice]

I think for all of the cutscenes it may not be feasible right now but I do agree that during the cutscenes for the main storylines where everyone else talks and all your character does is nod or shake their head - that was disappointing... Or am I just imagining things that didn't happen because I was so disappointed... It's been so long since I had a main story quest. o_O

[Dargoth_Draconia]

If you meant voice-over cutscene for NPC, yea sure. However, if you meant for PC, that's entirely unrealistic. First you have to consider how many languages the game are currently available in, how many dialogues there will need to be for your character multiplied by the number of languages, then multiplied again for the number of different voices you get to choose at the beginning. That's just absurdly high for any games.

Not to mention one of the voice for Miqo'te is Rie Tanaka, a popular Japanese voice actress. I don't know if she would agree to do so many lines on different languages :P

There is always an easy route. They could give the player script and hold some type audition and let the players be heard, literally. There are plenty of talented people in the world and plenty that play these games who would love to put their natural voice or a voice they created to the test. Honestly I don't see them doing this but if I was a gaming company I would consider it, because then you would have the script for all the language and you would have fans who would love to do it just to have their voice in a game. Heck what do you want to bet there isn't SE employees who work in the different language divisions who wouldn't kill for that opportunity? Personally I have thought about getting a group of friends discussing how we think characters should sound and read the parts in a Skype conversation record them and put them up for people to download so they can listen to their CS instead of having to read the wall of text.

Also it would be no different for the player character to have a voice for his choices. They already have 5 voices and that is all you need for the player character. Plus this idea was just a heads up for SE, it is either you would like to see this or you wouldn't or you don't care either way.

[Delmontyb]

Ya, I think that hopefully we will get something like this someday. I hope to see for main quests voice acting, and for important quests as well, but I don't think we will see something like this until later in the games life

[Kobushi]

yea wish they would have npc voices at least for the main scenario... i seriously don't have the patience to read everything, i remenber in 11 i read everything and was interesting but in this one i just can't bring myself to do i just don't care, i think it's because i started at Limsa Lominsa and all that pirate talk sucked... i dont know lol

Anyway every since i got used to playing games like mass effect where theres voice everywhere i just can't bring myself to read every walls of npc text... and Star wars old replubic is doing voices in their mmo, why can't SE? And let's face it in this game you don't have to read shit... you just open your journal and click map and it directs you everywhere, i really haven't read a single quest description i completed so far... it's like quests for retarded... you are in point A go to point B and then come back...yay

[Aexicas]

and Star wars old replubic is doing voices in their mmo, why can't SE?

Just would like to point out the fact that TOR has been delayed for 2 years now. So much that most of the base that was originally on board don't care any more (heck, it took too long even for that game to produce a beta, let alone get released).

Still, I do agree with you; some more voice acting would really help the game out a lot. I think the trouble would be just to get the original voice actors/actresses back to reprise their roles for the rest of the CS they've already done. It'd be either that, or replace each one of the voices entirely; another plausible situation.