Main character voice acting

[MrKusakabe]

For talking it's too late, but after playing GW2, I really think this is the worst aspect of this game.
As Lalafell, there are basically three major types of voices: A very calm, human-like voice (like Pipin), the rough one (like Papalymo) and the squeeky, high-pitched one that is just annoying.

Thanks to Papalymo, I can imagine how my Lalafell sounds like in combination with certain emotes, but else, it massively lacks any sort of immersion to me. And no, it not a bad thing to have your character go "hah!" or "hupp" when jumping occassionally. Right now I have exactly 4 SFX in battle: "Ah!", "Ouh", "Huuaah" and "Hua". And the pain sounds are playing so rarely that falling damage triggers it more often than the actual fight.

It is also not too expensive (for such a pricey game FFXIV is) to record more lines at least for emotions (sic; not emotes only). But it feels like they recorded some in 2011 and that's it, never again. With optional sliders in the menu or frequency to set up how often we could hear ourselves, I'd like to have more lines going on, and since GW2 (I pick this game for my personal experiernce and reference), nobody can tell me it's "impossible" when they have 2 genders a 5 species with full voice acting in 3 languages going on, to give us more dynamic voiceFX for the battle.

And "imaging hearing our WoL talking" is funny when you have to select a VOICE in the character creation just to be a mute. So YoshiP is just talking bullcrap in that matter (again. Like server issues, engine issues, PlayStation issues - it's just the money). I can barely even imagine how my character could sound like if I would not have those maybe 13 seconds of emotes added up.

Sincerely,

[Kaethra]

They should do this.

And for those of you who don't want it, its fine, you can turn it off in options.

There everyone is on board now.

[SenorPatty]

No thanks, please divert resources and extra voice acting costs for various race/gender WoLs(D) that ultimately may lead to people just being aggravated by how their MC sound like to other things in the game.

[Kaethra]

No thanks, please divert resources and extra voice acting costs for various race/gender WoLs(D) that ultimately may lead to people just being aggravated by how their MC sound like to other things in the game.

I'll do some of the voice acting and provide references for others that will do it cheap or pro-bono. Just gotta pay travel costs to whichever studio they've got.

Won't even charge royalties.

[Nyxn607]

I say no. I voice the WoL/WoD parts in my head with my own voice ... I don't want some other person ruining my shining moment for me. Not to mention they would most likely use some far off sounding voice that doesn't belong to my version of WoL/WoD. All other characters they can voice act with who ever, just leave the WoL/WoD alone.

[Dogempire]

Personally I would rather have my character stoically nod instead of actually talk.

[ErryK]

It's better without voice acting. Rather have them work for more and better voice acting for MSQ/content than implementing VAs to players outside of emotes and battle.

[Mahoukenshi]

From what I know, Voice Acting for the Main Character works the best (or only) if the MC has a pre-defined personality. MMOs like SWTOR and GW2 did IMHO quite a great job with their voice acting, but for every RPer and gamers who love to immerse themselves into the MC directly, this approach will mostly be flawed, if not unacceptable, during any scenario where the MC reacts or answers differently than they would have (no surprise or wrong with it).

[Kaethra]

From what I know, Voice Acting for the Main Character works the best (or only) if the MC has a pre-defined personality. MMOs like SWTOR and GW2 did IMHO quite a great job with their voice acting, but for every RPer and gamers who love to immerse themselves into the MC directly, this approach will mostly be flawed, if not unacceptable, during any scenario where the MC reacts or answers differently than they would have (no surprise or wrong with it).

Sounds like it would work fine here.

FFXIV doesn't exactly give you different choices in dialogue. Here's the options we get:

"Yes lets do this!" response.
"Meh"/Small-joke/Ambiguous response.
"..."

Besides.. Luneth and Cecil were given voices in their respective remakes, and Tidus, Vaan, Lightning and Noct were all voiced as well as the ones not listed when the Dissidia series were made. So WoL not talking is more of a limitation of engine than anything as if they didn't have voices originally, they had text at the least.

Like I said, it wouldn't take too much. There's a dialogue option rarely where there's voice. Understand that only half the MSQ is voiced and its the only place there IS voice in most respects. So when the Scions are talking, that's when the WoL would talk. It'd only be alot if they decided to make them more talkative in the next expansion or updates.

And as I suggested before, we can make it a toggleable option so those who like to see their character's lips move with no sound can continue to do so.

[Straynge]

I think it would go against the very heart and philosphy of the warrior of light for them to have a voice. The WOL has many voices from many different races. There isn't just ONE Warrior of Light. Each player is the warrior of light. We each exist within our very own alternate dimension. That's why when in every single dungeon they always ask us to bring some friends (other warriors of light from other dimensions). This is especially shown well towards the end of Shadowbringers (I don't want to spoil things so I'll leave it at that.) The warrior of light has all of our voices and trying to do justice to each and every one of us would sort of defeat the purpose. Besides we aren't known for our philosophy or talking alot. We speak louder with our actions. No voice, no matter how good it is can do justice to that.