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Yes, it added a whole new level of "Dear God, if I ever, EVER find out who did that DAMN patronising female voice in the tutorial I am going to do horrific things to them involving barbed wire and train tracks!!"

I mean, for crying out loud, how LONG must they have searched to find the most boring, godawful, nauseating and ear-bending typical cut-glass American womans voice to torture people with?

The voice-overs were bloody terrible. And no, they sure as hell should NOT port them over to the main game, not unless they are willing to get voice TALENT to do it, not vox robotica.

/rant+Opinion

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

That was a woman?!

Was it Fran Fine?

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ps: I thought it was going to be "love, sweet love" because its the only thing there is just too little of.

The forbidden fruit which is forbidden because someone forgot it at the back of the fridge for four months and now you're likely to catch a sentient kind of food poisoning if you decided to taste it, yes. It's "forbidden" in the same sense that "police line do not cross" make a crime scene forbidden - you probably don't want to go there anyway.

Interestingly enough, I don't find the female announcer at all bothersome. Whether or not it's the same actress, she's the same soulless disembodied voice that keeps following me around from Unreal to Star Craft to Team Fortress.

It's the MALE voice that I find infinitely grating. It's like the voice actor couldn't act to save his life, but BY GOD he's trying to emote, he's trying so hard! But rather than being adorable, it just makes his bad acting that much worse. There are people who can pull off the panicked, rushing voice. That guy ain't one of 'em.

The problem with voice overs is that unless you get GOOD voice actors, it's worse to have than not to have. Bad voice actors have the capacity to KILL an otherwise perfectly presentable game, and good voice actors just cost too much money to hire. I don't know whether EA found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow or otherwise sold their souls to the devil... Again, but the amount of voice acting done by GOOD actors they're doing for their MMO must cost enough to pay my country's foreign debt.

There's no way in hell Paragon Studios can afford decent voice actors for even a fraction of the walls of text we have here, and I'm not sure they'd be able to justify such an expense even if they had the money. About the best I've seen them do is get a GOOD voice actor to act out a small scene, like Recluse's hammy video that loops over Grandville's monitors or whoever that awesome man was who voiced Mender Silos in the I11 trailer. That's pure gold, but then that's also shy over a minute of voice acting. And even that little voice acting was just BAAAD when they did it for Montague Castanella, though it's possible the writing for that trailer was also much worse. Heavens knows the I12 Midnighters writing was complete garbage, so I wouldn't be surprised.

My point is I've had more games ruined for me by shoddy voice acting than I have by NO voice acting. "That was too close! You were almost a Jill sandwich!"

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

/This! Emphatically this!!!

If you had read correctly, most complaints were about the quality of the voices.

I'm okay with having voiceovers as long as they're good and they can be turned off whenever I want.

I have nothing against the suggestion itself. (Though I don't think it'd be done due to the sheer volume of work.) And - don't just delete/edit the original post. That doesn't help anyone.

Here's my thing - after all this time, I have an idea of how various characters present themselves. (I do mean NPCs, not just my own.) I would want to turn off the voiceovers because - well, for much the same reason I tend to be a bit wary of books turned into movies. They're usually ok, but I still get the "So and so doesn't look/sound like that!" reaction to some casting choices.

(I'm also not 100% sure how it's going to work in an MMO - we'll find out if it's great or a flop come December with SWTOR. But there, again, we're not using existing characters that have been around for years, or even touching on the movie characters, thanks to the timeframe, so that reaction won't be had. They do, however, give YOUR character a voice, which - in for a penny, in for a pound, but CAN end up a bit jarring.)

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I don't know where you learned how to count or what you think the definition of unanimous is but by my reckoning

4 people voted against your idea

4 people voted for your idea, 3 of whom want the added ability to turn it off when they so desire.

1 person only asked about Fran Fine.

That's not even remotely unanimous. Much closer to a 50/50 split at this point. So stop being so melodramatic.

This is the interwebs. Need I say more?

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I was hoping it was going to be, "is a new Frank Sinatra, so I can get you in bed."