Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - General Please add voice acting to your next game.

I keep meaning to play Two Worlds one of these days, but I always get started and then something in RL distracts me and I forget about it for 6 months to a year. By the time I get back to it, I decide to start over again from scratch, and the cycle repeats, heh.

Forsooth! I think thee correct!

Yea, it was actually a good touch, even as campy as the VA of the main char was it was fun and added a little "we ain't in Kansas no more" atmosphere. However the monotone whispering of no flair of the main char in TW II got on my nerves quick.

Games like Div:II, TW (The Witcher or two Worlds), DA, ES, etc. seem to translate better with full voice acting. D:OS, BG, Torment etc. seem to work better with the partial VA.

Haven't quite pinpointed why it seems that way, maybe cause of the mechanics of said game.

Skyrim seemed to have a good ratio of text being spoken (as far as the length of lines spoken), yes you could read faster than what was being spoken, but I usually just ignored the text and listened.

Now if a story rich NPC heavy narrative driven game was fully VA'd you would be sitting there for quite some time as the NPC would essentially be reading you a bedtime story.

Voice-acting is
1) Restrictive (no changing errors or adding additional content after the recording)
2) Expensive
3) Generally worse than imagination

I was rather sad D:OS got Voice-acting, and as many have stated it rarely added anything to the gameworld. I wish they used that money for other purposes, and I have the same mindset for any future games.

Voice acting while nice, is low on my list of things I care about especially if it constricts the game, much rather have a longer higher content game than voices. I love to read and dont mind large amounts of text.

Jito463...LOL roger that man, ADD generation ruining good intelligent gameplay, those types would never play a Baldurs Gate or Icewind Dale or Fallout...who needs em, let em play angrybirds, candycrunch and FPS shooters, anything so long as they dont ruin intelligent games.

I personally prefer the past so happy to be stuck in it with Larian. Keep up the great work Larian and I will kepp buying your games.

Er, speaking as someone who's actually diagnosed with ADD, can we not keep implying that I'm ruining "intelligent gaming"? :p Actually, I find long sequences of voiced dialogue harder to concentrate on than text.

D:OS has a nice balance of text and voiced lines for me personally, but I consider it to be a matter of personal taste more than anything else.

sorry Vometia, no offense to you intended, please pardon my indiscretion.

Haha, no worries, I was just having a grumpy day! I think it was due to me being awake.

LOL...completely understandable, I always expect the worst, I am rarely disapointed.