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Poll: Does voice acting make the game better?
Axehandle
Member Posts: 147
We all have either played or at least heard of the debacle of the massive amount of voice acting in swtor and how that went down with the community but is it such a terrible idea to have that kind of voice acting and cut scenes in Mmorpg's?
Id like to hear the opinions of the community on this specifically what went right and wrong.
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no
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Seeing that this forum is mostly 'pro-sandbox' I expect your poll to say 'No'.
A good VA enchances the game experience a lot so in that sense it is 'better'.
Whether it makes it 'better' for all players is another issue.
Obvilion had absolutly godawful VA (actually all ES series does). Will having some competent VAs behind all of their NPCs make the series 'better'? Sure it will.
Is it worth the cost / time? That is a personal call.
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That echos my sentiments of what bioware should have done with the game. The generic quests had no business having voice acting and after doing a flashpoint and watching the same cut scene and voice acting the second time was idiotic.
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If in 1982 we played with the current mentality, we would have burned down all the pac man games since the red ghost was clearly OP. Instead we just got better at the game.
It isn't such a black and white answer. Voice acting can improve upon the story as one doesn't have to read every text in order to understand whats going on and thus makes the games story a bit more immersive. However it does not mean it can make up for shallow or piss poor stories. SWTOR went way overkill for every single damn thing being a cutscene. They should have kept it to the class story lines or like in GW2 it was strictly with dungeons and personal stories.
EAWare did a great thing with the whole dialogue options in groups and really all MMOs should try to emulate. Vocie actiong needs to be done in moderation.
The wheel was ridiculous IMO but my main grievance was the generic quest voice acting. I always enjoyed the class specific scenes but would've liked some to be a bit shorter. I'm not a fan of having to choose 4-5 wheels worth of opinions simply to have the npc tell me to go to Voss.
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Its all about numbers. finding the right balance, The main reason i liked TSW. Quests that need minimal explaining have no video. those that have more and will tie into the atmosphere get a video. the story line gets a extensive assortment of videos.
This is different from SWTOR because in SWTOR every mission has atleast 2 or 3 videos.
The other difference was the quality of voice acting. In TSW every character you meet has their own personality, has their own like dislikes and manurisms.
In SWTOR every character Felt like a stock character.
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If done right, yes. A good example is SWTOR.
If done badly, no. A good example is GW2.
Of course, the above is my opinion.
Voice acting is fine if they actually hire people who can, ya know act, insted of just flatly read lines off a script like in most videogames, especally ones from japan like jrpgs, where they totally butcher the hell out of the characters most of the time. There were a few decent dubs on ps2/psp, but most otherwise were complete trash. I say if they aren't going to really try just leave it in its native language and just add some subtitles, would actually save the company bringing it here money since they don't need to hire VA's who suck ass anyway. Then again for me, I can understand a little japanese when its spoken, or actually quite a bit of spoken japanese, and it really irks me when they just totally translated what was said wrong. If you play any Visual novels especally ones from Mangagamer they do this alot, where the translated text in no way is even remotely simmlar to what they actually said. With every console these days having a HDD, I really don't see why they cannot offer a free download to put in the games orignal language (usually japanese) for the voice overs. Its kinda why I like Nis America so much, they usually include both voice over tracks in their games... Mind you with the graphics of most Nis published games they have more than enough spare space.
Anyway I kinda went on a little rant there, all in all I don't mind voice overs in a language other than the game orignally came in as long as they VA's actually tried to ya know.. act, sadly they rarely do.
Being a pessimist is a win-win pattern of thinking. If you're a pessimist (I'll admit that I am!) you're either:
A. Proven right (if something bad happens)
or
B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens)
Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime!
Glad to hear your opinion and if you like the job in swtor there's nothing wrong with enjoying it.
All reasonable opinions are valid and welcome even if they are opposite my own.
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You make me like charity
Or worse, 4-5 wheels only for them to tell you to deliver an item to a guy like 30 meters away from him. Yeah I got an issue with quest based mmo's because most of the quests are completly pointless, and they have all this writing for a quest that bascally ends up being "go kill 5 rabbits" or something. I mean, I don't need your life story npc before you ask me to kill like 5 rabbits, just tell me what you need so I can get on with it. In WoW back when I played it years back, I never read quests because to be frank I didn''t give 2 shits about why said npc needs me to kill 6 pigs. If its the mmo's MAIN story quest I may take the time to read it if its interesting after I quickly skim thru it, but for any side quests I don't bother, because you rnever going to interact with that npc again.
Being a pessimist is a win-win pattern of thinking. If you're a pessimist (I'll admit that I am!) you're either:
A. Proven right (if something bad happens)
or
B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens)
Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime!
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Yea, I wish most forum users would think the same as you. Giving props to SWTOR on these boards is like walking on eggshells.
hahaha yeah I beta tested gw2 and that had to be some of the worse voice acting/over's I have seen in a long time. It was so bad it was funny.
Being a pessimist is a win-win pattern of thinking. If you're a pessimist (I'll admit that I am!) you're either:
A. Proven right (if something bad happens)
or
B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens)
Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime!
More like walking on a landmine that you hope was not armed (But they usually are). If you avoid the land mine watch out for the pitfall trap filled with mutiple mines nearby.
Being a pessimist is a win-win pattern of thinking. If you're a pessimist (I'll admit that I am!) you're either:
A. Proven right (if something bad happens)
or
B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens)
Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime!
Well I added a poll and asked for opinion so whether or not I agree with them is irrelevent so long as they are reasonable. If its just vitrol spewing out of someone with no rhyme or reason I find it hard to take those opinions too seriously but they are still valid.
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Voice acting is so hit and miss. More times than not, it does not match what my mind thinks of before they start talking. Voice acting for my character is a definite no-no.
Overall, I voted no.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
I didn't vote because the Poll is stupid...
"Yes it's the best thing ever"
"No it's terrible"
The two options you give are just bad. Yes, voice acting makes a game better. Obviously. Anyone who diagrees is full of it. Now, is that enough to make a game good? Not even close. Look at SWTOR, tons of voice acting and beyond the singleplayer story the game was pretty boring.