Voice Acting

[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.

[Vackashken]

I wants more voices!

[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.

[Vackashken]

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.

Wouldn't it be better to hear in then subjugate yourself to ridiculously long and horrifically stilted writing?

[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.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

Instead of cheesy voice acting...
Give me a boss fight that needs a good strat, and take us 6 months to figure out how to beat.

[Zenaku]

Instead of cheesy voice acting...
Give me a boss fight that needs a good strat, and take us 6 months to figure out how to beat.

people would complain and yoshi-p would make it easy to do example a lot of people dislike not having auto attack so they added i'm fine with that people dislike when leve did not give a lot of exp yoshi-p fix that the next sub patch. People dislike the servers marge idea they fix that which i understand. But some time if you making a game you have to put your foot down and say no i'm not changing it and no it should be done like this and like that i'm sorry we not changing it and not even thinking about it. At this point look like yoshi-p is trying to make everyone happy which in the long run going to backfire on him.

I hope there boss and fight and item that take longer then 1day to get -.-