NPC VOICE

[Soukyuu]

Adding random crowd chatter in cities as ambient sounds should be enough. Imagine NPC dialogues triggering as you walk by.. it can turn spammy fast. That's why I'm glad NPC chatter is going to be chat bubbles and text only (not even chat log)

[casker]

Adding random crowd chatter in cities as ambient sounds should be enough. Imagine NPC dialogues triggering as you walk by.. it can turn spammy fast. That's why I'm glad NPC chatter is going to be chat bubbles and text only (not even chat log)

auction house in lion's arch in GW2, every time you go in:

guy: twenty? but yesterday they were ten!
lady: today, twenty.

next day

guy: twenty? but yesterday they were ten!
lady: today, twenty.

next day

guy: twenty? but yesterday they were ten!
lady: today, twenty.

next day

guy: twenty? but yesterday they were ten!
lady: today, twenty.

[Soukyuu]

auction house in lion's arch in GW2, every time you go in:
~snip~

Actually, GW2 is the reason why I ended up hating voiced NPCs. Especially the NPCs triggering not only when you pass by, but also the other players... now imagine a large-scale event, a lot of players gathering, every single one running past an NPC triggering it's speech... and you get something along the lines of
"CITIZENS! CI-CIT-CI-CI-CI-CIT-CI-CITIZE-CI-C-CI-CI-CI-CI-C-C-CITI-CI-CI-C-CI-CI-CITIZENS-CI-CI-CI-CI-CI"...

[valetarkus]

I would get annoyed way too fast if all the voices were Japanese.

[Hestern_Nestern]

auction house in lion's arch in GW2, every time you go in:

Lady: HEY YOU! HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT CRAFTING?

next day

Lady: HEY YOU! HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT CRAFTING?

next day

Lady: HEY YOU! HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT CRAFTING?

next day

Lady: HEY YOU! HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT CRAFTING?

Me: YES, EVERY SINGLE DAY I WALK BY HERE I HEAR ABOUT CRAFTING, MISS! AND IF I LEARNED CRAFTING, WHICH YOU BETTER THANK GRENTH I HAVEN'T YET, IT WILL BE SO I CAN CRAFT A NOOSE TO CHOKE YOU!

[Can you tell I am disgruntled about this NPC? And what is worse, this NPC chases you around and waves her hands in your face!]

Shall I begin enumerating the many irritations of Skyrim dialogue "immersion"?

I want voice acting for the main scenarios, sure, but otherwise I am fine with a beautiful text bubble and very emotive character models.

@_@ Forgive me.