Lack of voice acting is really hurting the emotion of the story

[MistakeNot]

There is definitely something wrong with people who have the opinion of "I don't want it, so you can't have it either."

Obviously if they added voice acting to the WoL, there would be an option to turn it off. Therefor satisfying the desire to see lips moving without sound. But no.. the desire to have silence doesn't stop there. You all do not want people like Kiryoku, the OP, or myself to have it. Not just you, but we can't have it, period, end of discussion, screw what we want. I would say what I think about that if it didn't violate a dozen forum guidelines.

More like, we do not want SE to spend lots of money on adding voice acting to the WoL - even if it could be turned off - because we think there are lots of other things it would be better to spend that money on.
And if they did add voice acting to the WoL it is not at all obvious there would be any option to disable it.

[CazzT]

Disagree. One of the reasons I don't bother to record the cutscenes of my WoL to upload on Youtube is because the silent protagonist translates very very poorly into a video. It's just awkward.

So.... read the lines of the WoL in the voice you hear for your character. That can be the voice for you and your subs/fans. I went hunting for some good FFXIV LPs on YouTube not too long ago. None of them bother to actually RP the WoL lines. Kinda disappointing, really.

[Ayer2015]

No OP, just no....

[Edax]

So.... read the lines of the WoL in the voice you hear for your character. That can be the voice for you and your subs/fans. I went hunting for some good FFXIV LPs on YouTube not too long ago. None of them bother to actually RP the WoL lines. Kinda disappointing, really.

That doesn't translate on video. It's just awkward silence, and since so many lines aren't voice acted in this game, the video itself just because a reading exercise. I tried recording the Namazu beast tribe quests on video but the end result was essentially video text with long pauses needed to read the paragraphs while everyone stands still. Much of the "story" in FFXIV is best told via slideshow stills because SE didn't give the story their full effort.

[HyoMinPark]

That doesn't translate on video. It's just awkward silence, and since so many lines aren't voice acted in this game, the video itself just because a reading exercise. I tried recording the Namazu beast tribe quests on video but the end result was essentially video text with long pauses needed to read the paragraphs while everyone stands still. Much of the "story" in FFXIV is best told via slideshow stills because SE didn't give the story their full effort.

Well, voice acting costs money. Frankly, I don’t see the need to have every quest and sidequest voice acted. It’s just not feasible, and it will take away from other pieces of content.

[CodeAscalon]

I think it would just be enough for emotes being followed by some noises he is doing anyway. Like nod or denial and stuff

[Fynlar]

I gotta ask is it easier on a controller?

For me, yes, by far. I was once forced to try to play this game on a keyboard for a couple weeks, it was not a pretty sight.

But this is one of those "different strokes for different folks" sorts of matters. Whatever form of control people are more comfortable with is probably what's going to be "better" for them. And because I was already well used to playing with a controller in FFXI for nearly a decade on PS2 to the point where I kept playing with one even once said PS2 died and I migrated to PC, well...

[Edax]

Well, voice acting costs money. Frankly, I don’t see the need to have every quest and sidequest voice acted. It’s just not feasible, and it will take away from other pieces of content.

SWTOR did it so I know it's viable and the game was certainly better for it. Twelve forbid they ever invest the profits of FFXIV into FFXIV.

[HyoMinPark]

SWTOR did it so I know it's viable and the game was certainly better for it. Twelve forbid they ever invest the profits of FFXIV into FFXIV.

In your opinion, it was better for it. In your opinion, this game will be better for it. In my opinion, I don’t think there’s a need to VA every cutscene and sidequest and speech bubble in this game. I’d rather the expansion budget be distributed to things other than VAs—like battle content.

[Edax]

In your opinion, it was better for it. In your opinion, this game will be better for it. In my opinion, I don’t think there’s a need to VA every cutscene and sidequest and speech bubble in this game. I’d rather the expansion budget be distributed to things other than VAs—like battle content.

Well I've not heard anyone say SWTOR was bad because all the quests were voice acted. It was objectively better to have voice come out of NPCs. It increase immersion and made quests more important when you actually had someone to talk to. And I'd rather the expansion budget be focused on the story over the battle content. Few people are going to remember these battles in 5 years.