I'm just happy they added voice acting and it was so well done.
In early access, I cried entering a new area with NPCs. That's a lot of reading, bleh. Reminded me of my Morrowind days.
: In my day, we read all the text in an RPG, AND WE WERE HAPPY ABOUT IT!
In all seriousness, a true RPG *should* include lots of text. It's about telling a story, and what's a story without words?
Trust me, I still do PNP to this day with friends. You can include text as much as you want, but an interesting and pithy encounter is more memorable than walls of text.
Brevity is the soul of wit; if I wanted to read a great story pages long, I'd pick up one of my novels.
In early access, I cried entering a new area with NPCs. That's a lot of reading, bleh. Reminded me of my Morrowind days.
The main problem with Morrowind was the vast expanse of greige. The Divinities were always prettier than that.
Well, except for Beyond Divinity.
Mods fixed that, but to be honest, I started playing Morrowind on my Xbox. The landscape never bothered me. The dungeons, shrines, interesting lore/characters (omg, the 'Tower of Tel Fyr'!) and creepy encounters with Daedra kept me immensely invested.
But then again, I'm a dork who enjoyed Zork and Leather Goddesses of Phobos.
I think I'm spoiled by voice acting now.
That said, I understand why they did it for DOS2 and can appreciate it, the majority of the voice actin is quite good, or is at least bearable.
Can you share examples of dialogue that was "bearable"?
For me, and this is just my opinion, the voice acting is absolutely superb. The narrator in particular is incredibly well done. That's a huge amount of lines that poor man had to read, but still did a great job and didn't lose his 'enthusiasm' to make it captivating.
All the characters ended up sounding like I pictured in my head how they would in Early Access.
