I don't care much about voice acting in general - I am equally fine reading a well-written dialogue as I am listening to a good voice actor. But it is just something about how voiced spell casting feels that makes it a super important detail for me. As an example - BG3 has voiced spell casting but it feels nowhere NEAR the level of epicness that I get from listening to PK:WotR or PoE, but on the other hand - the voice acting in general feels really great! ... But for some reason, the voiced spell casting do not quite pull through for me - it just feels plain and a bit "mehhhh", don't even ask me what is causing the difference. My feelings regarding the subject is not logical at all and I have not quite figured out what exactly is my "trigger". >_<''
Well, if we're already on this much of a tangent, you might enjoy this character trailer for one of the WotR companions that Owlcat put up earlier today. Woljif, the Tiefling Eldritch Scoundrel. A spellcasting rogue for the uninitiated.
"Stab them, zap 'em. Why not both?"So you can hear him cast a bunch of things before he runs up to shank something. He's a super glass cannon though, he's not a dodging maniac like Nok-Nok was in Kingmaker, though Woljif can still stab things just as hard. Oh, he also has a side gig as an actual shopkeeper for his band of Thieflings later in the game. As in, you can buy stuff from him that his people had probably stolen from YOUR people beforehand. This has hilarious implications when...
He suddenly shows up to Crusade council meetings and everyone wonders why the hell he's even there and why you're even taking his counsel seriously. Actually, the council meetings are pretty amazing, it's where you get to see some of your party members REALLY butt heads against each other with differing suggestions on how to deal with a problem. They're extremely well done for such a minor part of the game.
As I've said, the WotR companions are really something.
