Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Narrator voice - opinions

The narrator for bg3 is meh. I've heard better. And, some worse. But, not a top 10 narrator.

Worst narrator I can think of is the guy who did the Alan Smithee cut of David Lynch's Dune.

I think the voice is too comical, to be honest. Whenever I hear her talking about Mind Flayers it all just sounds deeply unserious, like she is trying to keep a straight face while speaking.

I'm not expecting Leonard Nimoy level narration, but I think this VA was a mistake.

Bloody hell, some writers really know how to drag a joke into the ground.

Well, it IS post DA:O/ME2 Bioware.

I could swear I've answered this question befo- yep, there I am. Haven't changed my mind, still don't like the narration.

I love the narrator voice.

BG3 narrator is absolute 10/10 brilliance. And it's not smug at all, rather playful.

On par with PoE 2 narrator, which is also genius and PoE 1 Durance voice acting.

I've also been here before. I like the narrator's voice.

Yes, the tone is similar to one you would hear in chocolate ads but it works with the whole "evil is seductive" theme of the story. And with the sort of bad guys we're dealing with - vampires, mind flayers, gnolls, dwarf-eating goblins - it also seems that evil is hungry so chocolate ad voice works.

The second set of outtakes:

I started this thread and I have to say her voice has grown on me 😆 I was probably in a bad mood or something!

I thought Ashley did a splendid job as a narration, but she got a fair share of criticism with main points being: 1) she spole to slow for some folks 2) didn't sound enough like a sterotypical old male narrator.

My stance also didn't change since my old post - I don't mind her, I also don't love her. I don't think it has anything to do with her performance. I have heard recently how Larian wanted the narrator to feel like DM sitting in front of you. I think that's main issue I have, but it's not exclusive to narration. A few of Larian's choices take me out of the world, instead of immersing me in it. Having a narrator in a cinematic game feels counter productive - it's like having scene descriptions while watching the movie. Not that the game doesn't need those - at least in EA cinematics aren't very effective in communicating much of anything. But if you need narrator to explain what your cinematics are meant to convey, than what's the point of having the cinematics... and we thus run in circles.

Hopefully, when we get the 1.0 it all feels like a style, rather than awkward meld of conflicting ideas as it did in EA.

Oh hey.



"We live in horny jail. You can't send us there, we have the keys!"

Best one yet. Dammit, now I have a parasocial attraction to Amelia Tyler

Was the an Archer reference?

I like the narrator’s voice! Because the pc is silent, I sometimes start thinking of the narrator as my character’s voice.😜

I do like the female voice, actually prefer it, but it just hit me: it feels more like a storybook reading and less like narrating an exciting video game adventure. The whole Mindflayer scene sounded like Hansel and Gretel. ''And then the Mindflayer reached out with its tentacle, and a crumb of bread fell on the floor. ''Oh no'' cried Shadowheart For it had eaten the last of their party supplies whole.

It's entirely possible they rewrote the script so it will sound less Grimm Brothers next time. It's really more the style than the quality of the voice.

At times I find the narration intrusive. One example is when the slug crawls out of Ed's eye and if you go about trying to squish it, you get "But it's too precious, isn't it?" I'm fine with it being a struggle to squish it, but the narration not only doesn't add anything to the scene for me, it detracts from it. Like Palpatine egging Luke to continue doing what he was fixing to do anyway, which did nothing but make Luke stop and reconsider.

I'm okay with that scene. It lets me know that I'm feeling an influence, and explains the need for a roll. I've heard others also mention they're not fans of that scene, though, so I guess there's a pretty big bridge between tastes on this one.

I am fine with being made aware that squishing the slug is a struggle, I just don't like the way the narration goes about doing it.