suggestion: universal voice options/"no voice" option

[Inue]

hi i just want to start this by saying that i know it's probably going to sound weird, but please hear me out.

since starting FFXIV theres always been a voice option i love. i cant recall its number but i know both Miqo'te and Lalafells have it, and when i started as a Lalafell and moved to Miqo'te i loved it. it was the perfect voice to/for me. but when i switched to Au'ra i was somewhat heartbroken to see that it wasn't there. to play the race i wanted to play most i had to pick a different voice option, one which didn't sound even close to as good and seemed to have at least three different VA's attached to it at times. now the only time i get to hear the "perfect voice" is the occasional times i fantasia back to a Lalafell for funsies during content droughts. its really saddening to me.

i don't think it's really that big of a deal overall, but to someone like me being able to have a voice you're comfortable with is really important. i'm a born mute, meaning i've never been able to speak or make any kind of sound in real life, and one of the most important things to me in games is that my character sounds okay to me. i always want my characters to fit the role of the voice ive never had, and if they sound off then it affects my overall ability to be immersed in the game. games where the protag is completely silent work too, but it doesn't feel as satisfying as it does to see one of my many self-insert characters actually able to make sounds.

so! my suggestion is this: make all voice options available for all races (or maybe even genders if you want to go full sillymode with it), ooooooor add in a voice option for the character to make no sound at all!

i realize that this is something that likely only matters to me and nobody else will really care about this, or maybe im even posting this in the wrong area because i dont know how to forums, but i wanted to put this out there in the vague hope that maybe someone will read it and care about it at least a little bit..

[alimdia]

Can you imagine this sound coming from buff femroes or highlanders?

[Inue]

Can you imagine this sound coming from buff femroes or highlanders?

i can! it'd be great! silly, but great!

[Bacent]

Edit post to bypass 1000 character limit.

Edit: Also, it would be nice to have a few more voice options for races. Who's to say a Roegadyn male might be a bit soft spoken? Nothing outrageous mind you, but I do think a lot of the playerbase would like more voices in general.

[NolLacnala]

We can name our Au Ra Qestir but we're forced to have a voice, a none option would be great

[FallenArisen0990]

Can you imagine this sound coming from buff femroes or highlanders?

That's the best voice minus Stereotype JP Anime Voice for Au Ra Females.

I just wish we could turn the "combat" voices off. I don't think anyone's play is really enhanced by the two voice grunts each voice is given.

You can actually. Set the Voice Volume to 0.

[basketofseals]

I just wish we could turn the "combat" voices off. I don't think anyone's play is really enhanced by the two voice grunts each voice is given.

[Leloa]

I would love this, I have played Hyur Midlander a lot and sadly they have the most hidious voice ingame. Even Highlanders have better voices. Would love to mix in some Aura and Miqote to some other race and vice versa.

[HyoMinPark]

I would love this, honestly. My favorite voice is the one I gave my Miqo’te (believe it’s option 2), and I would love to give it to my Female Midlander alt.

[GetFoesReqd]

I'd be good with this. There's only two lady highlander voices that aren't 20 gallons of cringe to me, only one lady midlander voice, two au ra, two miqo'te...its not good. I realize that going in to re-record voice acting would be time and cost intensive, as well as potentially bad for anyone who does like their voice at the moment, so yeah, I feel like opening them up and allowing a silent option would be good choices. Don't get me wrong though, Id love a total overhaul as well. Current choices are definitely lacking, and as the voice acting is beginning to improve (in the English version at least) I would say recording a few more choices in the future would not go amiss either, in addition to these things. ^_^