Well, with how good AI voices have become, it could be a solution :P
Well, with how good AI voices have become, it could be a solution :P
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I strongly agree with this.
I personally find it way more enjoyable when the duty is voiced. I particularly liked the latest Alliance raids because all bosses were voiced. It really adds to the experience, especially when we get in for the first time and discover the bosses' designs and what voices were chosen to match their personality etc.
I hope that we get more voiced duties in the future, whether it's in dungeons, trials, raids or even Ultimates (especially considering what the next Ultimate is going to be, it'd be awesome to have voices.. it'd be so sad if we don't get any).
Oh yeah, I forgot about ultimates. Those definitely need voice acting! It's very sad that all ultimates except DSR are fully silent and the latter just re-uses previous audio from Heavensward. They will likely re-use the audio for the next ultimate and luckily they have a lot more to take from for that compared to DSR but it'd be really cool (and way more appropriate) if they added new lines!
I'd also like to emphasize the fact that this post doesn't mean to suggest having every piece of content with voice over. Obviously, that's impossible. I'm not asking for all quests to be voiced but I think we can agree that MSQ dungeons, normal and alliance raids and trials should at the very least always be voiced. Any other content besides that would be a very nice and welcome extra.
And the quests associated with normal and alliance raids should have some voiced cutscenes for the simple fact that they're related to the duty. Having the Thaleia cutscenes entirely silent made them less important, imho.
Like, we have G'raha Tia saying two random lines near the end of Thaelia yet he's been there within the raids before with us and it's only now that he has a voice line? The same could be said for Deryk, who's fully silent until the final raid.
Finally, if the voices end up being samey, then that would be SE's fault for not trying to diversify the cast more. For instance, most of the bosses in the new alliance raids or relevant characters such as Titania are voiced by main voice actors and actresses such as Y'shtola's or Estinien's. The voice acting is good so it's not that noticeable, but it could also be due to the fact that there's not that many voiced characters outside of the main cast.
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