DEVS: Don't waste time with voice acting.

[Jennestia]

What an important op ruined by selfish and childish name calling. I hope at least something about the topic goes through to devs because at least for me the existence of voice acting has ruined many perfectly good games.

FFX, MGS, Resident Evils, Mass Effect, Every Tales of game, eternal sonata, lylat wars and so on.

DO A BARREL ROLL!

I don't know, MGS and Trusty Bell had good voice work given the story, I never played the english versions of them though, but if I recall David Hayter I believe his name was did Snake's voice which couldn't have been all that bad.

[SnickleWhiskers]

David Hayter.

Did an amazing job.

DO A BARREL ROLL!

USE THE BRAKES!

[Zanfire]

im sure they will only do the main story CSs....but why argue over it...ask for the option to turn it off (or use the mute if its that bad)

i dont understand why you would rather take it away from people, instead of asking for an option that would make both sides happy.

seriously....some people on these forums seem crazy.

[syntaxlies]

What an important op ruined by selfish and childish name calling. I hope at least something about the topic goes through to devs because at least for me the existence of voice acting has ruined many perfectly good games.

FFX, MGS, Resident Evils, Mass Effect, Every Tales of game, eternal sonata, lylat wars and so on.

DO A BARREL ROLL!

wouldnt it be more fair to just ask for the voice acting to be able to be toggled of that way people who lie it can still here it?

[Alhanelem]

OP: How does voice acting waste any of the developer's time? It's not like the developers themselves are doing the voice acting... They hire other people to do it. Since the voice system already exists, all they have to do is swap the english voice files for the other language ones when that language is selected. Anybody could do that in about 5 minutes.

Maybe *you* don't care if the game has voice acting in other languages than your own, but the people who speak in those other languages might care.

"keep it only to the main storyline or keep it to a minimum." They're already doing that... It's only used in major cutcenes. It's not like they're making every NPC in the game talk- That's impossible to do as the hard disk space that would be required (especially with how much the average NPC has to say in this game) for just ONE language would be way too much.

I hope at least something about the topic goes through to devs because at least for me the existence of voice acting has ruined many perfectly good games.

Good voice acting has also greatly enhanced many games. The elder scrolls and dragon age games especially. NWN was pretty good too, more obscurely, FFCC Ring of Fates had really good voice acting (a bit obnoxious to the untrained ear, but appropriate for the style of the game and the characters). Yes, I know a few games have had voice acting that was done really badly (sometimes notoriously so, e.e. all your base are belong to us) but voice acting doesn't have to ruin a game.

And honestly, FFXIV's voice acting, where it does exist, is pretty good IMO.

[Vackashken]

And honestly, FFXIV's voice acting, where it does exist, is pretty good IMO.

Agreed. Rewatch the games intro. They did a superb job.

[Seif]

Do you have any idea how much that costs?! Especially in an Mmo where copyrights are bought to cover each year instead of print?!

Also having it cuts the content quality quantity and developement time severly.

It's not about time it's about money.
They are already understaffed and we're paying for beta what more evidence do you need?

[Zanfire]

Do you have any idea how much that costs?! Especially in an Mmo where copyrights are bought to cover each year instead of print?!

Also having it cuts the content quality quantity and developement time severly.

It's not about time it's about money.
They are already understaffed and we're paying for beta what more evidence do you need?

they already said they are doing it for the big CSs in 2.0....so why do you care about their money so much?

[Zeref]

they already said they are doing it for the big CSs in 2.0....so why do you care about their money so much?

I think a lot of people are under a common misconception that if this money wasn't being used for Voice Acting it would be used for creating more wanted content.

[Alhanelem]

Do you have any idea how much that costs?! Especially in an Mmo where copyrights are bought to cover each year instead of print?!

Also having it cuts the content quality quantity and developement time severly.

It's not about time it's about money.
They are already understaffed and we're paying for beta what more evidence do you need?

The cost is trivial, and they don't need to copyright the same material every year, only the new material. copyrights are good for 80 years or more iirc. They are not understaffed, they're using as many people as they would benefit from. There comes a point were adding more people does not make development faster and instead just costs more.

They do have to pay the voice actors, but they don't get paid very much. Why do you think voice acting is often so weak?