While I applaud Larian’s effort to redo the game’s vocals, I find myself nonetheless agreeing with those who find the new DK voice to be extremely irritating. First, let me be honest and state that I disliked the last DK voice, but now I find myself begging for its return. I’ve been buying games for years at an average rate of about two per month and I’ve only ever returned two titles – and those titles were completely bug ridden; BD sorely tempts me to return it to my local EB and, for the first time in my gaming history, it's not because the title is buggy.
Comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges, I think one would be hard pressedto find a commercial grade RPG with a primary character that had more annoying VO work. Sure, some will say that all opinions are subjective and that one opinion is no better than another. While this may be true to some limited degree, the real world impact here is that a number of people (of those who ACTUALLY have the final release in hand) are coming to the same conclusion with the DK’s voice.
It’s no great leap of logic to realize that most forum posters are Divinity franchise fans and that for every person here that voices their distaste for the DK’s voice there are probably a hundred (or more) purchasers of BD who feel the same way.
To switch gears a bit, and in conclusion, I call on Larian to amaze us once more by showing BD owners that they do indeed listen to objective criticisms. I realize that the DK’s voiceovers can’t be attempted a third time, but please do the next best thing and put together a large, optional “patch” that would supply the old DK vocal files and swap them out with the files that the new DK vocals use. Thank you, in advance, for your time in reading this.
