Guild Wars 2

I created a Sylvari thief with the intentions of him being a silent assassin. I imagined him having a sharp, deep voice with a cold tone to it. Sort of like a “I-don’t-want-to-be-messed-with-so-kitten-off” type of voice. However, whenever he says something in the game, I consider deleting him just because of the amount of stupid his voice has in it.

For those unaware, he says things like “my power has no limits!” or “in the name of friendship!” in a super gay voice that makes me want to punch something. It would be like the Terminator having Justin Bieber’s voice. This is NOT what I imagine my kitten thief sounding like! I want a voice that makes my enemy’s blood run cold; not something that sounds like I’m handing out hugs or holding hands with everyone.

Hopefully I’m not the only one who feels this way. My Norn guardian’s voice is pretty supid too, but at least it sounds like a grown man is talking. I can live with the horrible catch phrases the characters like to say, but the voice tone is horrible.

Who cares about that, when you’re faster than a centaur? 8D

bu but his power has no limits!

I just look at subtitle & do my own voice-over when it’s my toon turn ^^v

Make a Charr then, not silent, but more baritone.

Yeah, really wish you could could choose a voice from a list. Kind of takes away from that whole unique character thing when everyone from the same gender/race has the same voice.

sean.6058:

For those unaware, he says things like “my power has no limits!” or “in the name of friendship!” in a super gay voice that makes me want to punch something.

Reminder: using the word “gay” in a derogatory or insulting way is not permitted in our community. Please find a way to constructively express your opinion instead of using terms in a way that insults any sexual orientation.

Actually, the word that he used, might have been better being described as “stereotypical homosexual male”, that actually describes the problem with playing the character itself, as I assume Sean doesn’t want his stealthy and evil Sylvari thief having that side of him. And even regardless of the sexuality, I might add that even if the character would be homosexual, given it adds some depth to the character, even give certain motivation for the character being so cold, as having to suppress this side of the personality as “not fitted for his image”, the comment does sound literally gay, in sense of: “merry – cheerful – jolly – joyful – blithe – mirthful” that is where the mocking word originated before it was sexually racist expression.

So, I DO catch your drift on the line of not using the word as in the common meaning it is used in the common language, but in this case it is something that defines the character to have a certain type of personality. As it is, would it be impossible for the voice actors (the ones that exist, and maybe even new personnel) to create more “voice profiles”, that people could choose from, so that role playing a character would be more “pleasant” in order that people could have chaotically mad Azuran scientists, or emotionally unbalanced Sylvari etc. giving the characters far more depth in the end, and would not conflict with the original idea of the character (as this would be a new improvement that many would probably wish to apply on Lv.80 characters even, I would give the people an option to change/keep the voice setting on characters that are in existence).

Now, I know that, as high quality soundscape means LOADS of space on discs, I would imagine that it would be wise and generous to provide option to download only low/high quality character samples, if the overall size of the game is used as an explanation of why it would be difficult to execute. However, if this is the case, I would feel that the same could be done for the textures, as higher resolution textures that are not used, are quite useless HD space used

Also, as it seems, people are annoyed by CERTAIN commentary, but not all, the tweaking could be taken so far that people could choose (tick use/don’t/disapprove) for their characters, and adding the “disapprove” in the mix would add more interaction for the in-game characters, given they can then comment (probably client side) on the expressions that other characters use. However, this means a loads of code, and being a feature that would not probably be in active use, I understand easily if this is not too visible in the menus (given it is implemented at all), but rather something people can tweak if they will from example opening a popup menu in the character selection screen, and choosing to “modify the commentary”.