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Actually I do. Bad voiceacting can totally kill a game. So I rather have some good voiceacting and only for the main story/cutscenes and tons of text dialogs

They shoulda had Full VO as a 2 mil stretch goal, heh. But, I wouldn't worry bout bad VO, Divinity 2 was great so I know they can do a good job.

On the same token, bad VO can be fun too. The Japanese version of Ultima VI had Epic bad VO (in english) and it was awesome.

At least main quest and companion stories should be voiced in my opinion. :P
I tend to get bored with just reading blocks of text but if there is a voice, I usually listen to it in full.

100% agree!

Most people read much faster than they speak, meaning that I've read a dialogue 5 times before the actors are done speaking. For any game with a meaningful amount of dialogue this is terribly annoying and it doesn't take long before I just start skipping ahead once I'm done reading instead of waiting for the voice to catch up.

Why do you think even games tagged as "visual novels" have usually a full voice-over? The text without voice lacks emotion for one. Yes, I know you can imagine all that in your head but it is not the same.
In the games like Dragon Age you can just feel the tension and emotions of the characters with voice acting alone. I sure doubt if that game would be half as fun as it was without it. Also the occasional song sung by the characters could be a nice touch. I still remember the Beer Song from Bard's Tale ...or in DA, that Leliana song was quite nice too.

Sorry, I know I got a little off-topic with all this.

Most games with a lot of text have limited voice-over, like just the first sentence or something. This sets the tone and I find that this is quite often enough (the Infinity Engine games did it this way for a lot of their dialogue)

And just so we're clear, Dragon Age doesn't have a lot of dialogue, it might have a lot compared to current day mainstream cRPGs but really that just goes to show what a sad state cRPGs are in. There are a few sentences at most, usually relatively simple and short sentences. If you want to actually *know* anything about the world you have to read the codex, which is again a lot of text without VO. The amount of replies you can give is also really limited.

If you don't believe me pick up one of the old IE games, and if you want a game with *a lot* of dialogue play Planescape: Torment (if you haven't already).

Also tangentially related:

After a while, like in skyrim and many other games, you just read the text and skip halfway through the dialogue anyway.

Why not?!!!?

But only because the dialogues are boring in Skyrim!

A good story makes a good game!

Actually I do. Bad voiceacting can totally kill a game. So I rather have some good voiceacting and only for the main story/cutscenes and tons of text dialogs

At least main quest and companion stories should be voiced in my opinion. :P
I tend to get bored with just reading blocks of text but if there is a voice, I usually listen to it in full.

I agree but so far, except few character in DD, the divinity's games have always had a good casting !! As you spoke about the quality of dubbing, text mistakes and so on so on, I am sure that larian will provide really good dialogues as they used to !!




I fully agree, but it is my opinion. I also admit that it is expensive and that some people just do not want to wait until the end en the dialogue and just read. For them there is the option of passing it by clicking on their mouse button.