Voice Acting

[KairiSgheart]

to each their own opinions, everything has 2 sides. there are people who love voice acting, while others who do not. played games with both kind, and those that have great voice acting really carry out the game. for them to think of doing these, would really require very good voice acting =p. i don;t mind it. as long not like vanille in ff13 >.< :X

[Velhart]

Read it out loud to yourself.

Funny statement is funny.

I kind of like you have the silent protagonist role like classic JRPGs, it les you keep the imagination of your character's personality and helps you get into the supporting characters more.

[Andrien]

Main stories should have voices.

I also don't like my character stale and dumb. Main stories only.


In combat I wont mind a rare chant or grunt once in a while. not spamming of course.

[Razor]

I think it would be really awesome to have a couple programmed lines that we could quickly say. Similar to how the ally signs work (which I wish more people would use), I'm invisioning something along the lines of Nexon's FPS Combat Arms; In there you could press F1~3 (iirc) and then pressing 0~9 would cause your character to shout the selected phrase.

In that game it was stuff like "Go, go, go!" or "Open Fire!" or "Reloading!" but I could definately see practical use out of things such as "I'm out of MP!" or "Don't go in there!" or "I'm being attacked!" or "Attack this one!" They could even tie them into the ally signs so when you pressed, say, F1 and then 0 to shout "I'm out of MP!", the little MP flag would pop up over your head. Or when the (presumably) tank said "Fight this!" it brought up the attack symbol over the targeted monster.

Of course there are more pressing things to tend to at the moment, but I do think it would liven up the game a lot and serve a practical value. When I'm fighting a ton of monsters, party messages can become lost or missunderstood in addition to usually taking far too long to type. When I'm tanking on gladiator I don't usually have the seconds required to type commands to my party members and it can be a distraction to force them to read something when they should be fighting. If they're not paying attention to the screen an audible "Watch out!" would be very effective at grabbing everyone's attention and notifying them that something is going happening.

[Rane]

I'd like my character to play a part in the story cutscenes. It's awkward when the NPCs are chatting up a storm about some major plot point, but all my character can do is stare silently, with the occasional look of shock. He comes across as a dope, honestly.

As it stands, I think the most successful cutscenes are the ones that don't include my character at all. If he's going to take the stage, I'd like him to actually participate in the conversation like a normal person.

[MysteriousRonin]

I can't stand Japanese anime with English dubs... when I found out Naruto on Netflix was all Japanese I was like YES!!!!

If it is done right then the English voice acting can be just as good as the Japanese. Just look at Naoki Urasawa's Monster, it is voice acting perfection when watched in English, but in Japanese it's nowhere near as good. FMA is another anime with amazing English voice acting on par with the Japanese proving that English can be just as good.

I'm sure there are many more examples out there but I mostly watch everything in Japanese after the 4Kids One Piece incident, so my knowledge is limited.

@OP,
We should never hear our characters talk. That is one of the reasons TOR is so awful.

[Vackashken]

I wants more voices!

[Reinheart]

If it is done right then the English voice acting can be just as good as the Japanese. Just look at Naoki Urasawa's Monster, it is voice acting perfection when watched in English, but in Japanese it's nowhere near as good. FMA is another anime with amazing English voice acting on par with the Japanese proving that English can be just as good.

Some are good indeed, didn't notice much on TV anime dub series myself since couldn't stand Dragon Ball and some other after that... so haven't checked those but like Studio Ghibli stuff or some anime movies with dubs do have good English voicing so those I can accept (still end up watching in Japanese though since I'm more used to watching anime in JP)

I'm sure there are many more examples out there but I mostly watch everything in Japanese after the 4Kids One Piece incident, so my knowledge is limited.

What's that incident about... lol need to go check it out.

[KiriA500]

No, because I'd have to hear people from Limsa Lominsa talk. It's annoying enough to read, I don't want to hear a bad voice actor talk like a pirate.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

It's one of the reasons I love SWTOR that my PC talks with a good amount of choices to weigh in on some of the conversations and change their outcomes.

BUT... for FF14, I would mostly prefer if main stories or grand company quests had NPC voice overs. Player characters can make their Link-style grunts at most.