What are your thoughts on the voice acting?

[CrystalRainbow]

Normal unvoiced over CS, they use normal speech. The Voice over they keep tossing in words that seem out of place vs the rest of the text.
I also don't like the pacing of voice over CS. They should run like a movie without having to click threw them.

If it was paced better without having to click threw it I think most of my issues would be resolved which I'm not getting into.

Also the half missed CS without voice over in the main story line just breaks up the pace even more.
Do great CS story great Cut out of the voiced over CS only to enter another that isn't, also kills the pace for me.

I'm not saying do a voice over for every main story line CS. like when you are out in the field and you talk to a NPC and he says go get this. Fine no Voice over. But really every CS where the screen fade to black before should be voiced over.

[Lurkios]

JP VAs - Pretty solid.
EN VAs - Not, uh... good... not good...

Even the JP voices are distractingly intermittent though. Either give everyone voices or give no one voices, as it is I'm always wondering why if something is wrong.

[EasymodeX]

Hmm ...

1. I really like the approach SE went with the VA. In the sense that doing VOs for everything is way too costly / prohibitive, but doing VOs for just the main story quest stuff and cutscenes is a good balance and improves immersion.

2. I don't have a major hangup with the actual VA. Some are kind of meh, but I like them overall. I don't have high expectations for MMORPG voice acting.

[Arakatos]

Don't know if anyone else posted the same but hire the voice actors from SWTOR! They at least did a very good job. No need for all scenes of course just the main story line or longer CS.

[Magis]

I preferred Yda's 1.0 voice as it matched her personality more. I do like Y'shtola. I'm not overly critical of the acting quality though. We're not seeing the full context in the previews of what's going on, plus you have to deal with MMO limitations on the facial expressions in CSes. I wouldn't be shocked to learn the VOs were done before many scenes were even animated. Most of Cid's dialog is fine with me except this Praetorium Linkshell messages. Those get pretty bad. In many ways it gets a little cheesy...

But, sometimes, you just need to learn to embrace the cheese.

I was shocked to hear how bad the voice acting was in ARR. They didn't change the VO's, so maybe your reason is why the quality degraded? Compare Yda and Papalymo. http://youtu.be/t2ahpI7XvlU?t=2m20s

The main issue I have is it always sounds like they are proclaiming a speech or something. Minfilia is probably the worst in that case. There are a few characters that have ok voices though like the leader of Ul'dah and Van Baelsar.

[DoctorPepper]

My only thought is what voice acting? A little sarcasm there but I've completed the main story and the voice acted scenes are few and far between. Don't really understand how there can be so little voice acting in this game while games like ESO have literally every quest/dialogue voice acted and done well at that. I remember reading prior to the launch of 2.0 that there would be lots of voice acting in this game and have been sadly disappointed up to this point. I personally get a lot of immersion out of voice acted cutscenes and in my opinion they really need to put more effort into that, at least for the main scenario. Then again the main scenario quests in 2.2 are garbage too so I'm probably setting my standards too high or something.

[Divinemight]

I would rather play on JP client to read original Japanese text and Japanse voice acting. English version is just horriable to bear with, for me at least.

[Rhindas]

I rather like Merlwyb, and Kan-E is pretty much exactly spot on for me. Thancred and Minfilia don't fit at all for me. Yda and Papalymo are OK. So on and so forth. What surprised me is Uriangier (sp!). As much of a Gideon Emery fanboy that I am, it sure sounds like he phoned this performance in. He sounds *bored.*

[Laifon]

I think the voice acting is terrible in English, but good/solid in Japanese..
But... I think they should've voiced EVERYTHING in the main story, not just a few parts.
I can imagine voicing everything is really expensive, but please do all the important quests @_@

[Jinko]

On the Japanese side they have some very talented voice actors that have casted in various anime and games. I haven't looked at the english voice actor list, but I don't know if I'd recognize any names there. I think the voice actors probably didn't get a whole lot of input on how their character's were supposed to sound, and a lot of the lines are not necessarily standard English. Plus, in the case of some characters like the Maelstrom leader, what is meant by a "strong female character" voice means something different in Japan's culture than it does in the U.S.

Yea the UK has a lot of decent voice actors also, the majority of good voice actors in the US are also film actors and expensive.