Guild Wars 2

Apologies if these has been addressed before…multiple times.

While a lot of people seem to be complaining about the lack of lines given to characters or bad voice acting in general I’m not too bothered by either of these in truth.

I generally play as human female characters (though I do have one male Asura character which I actually really like the voice of) which means that all of my characters have exactly the same voice. I think it would be great if there were more choices in voices to give to characters upon creation to add a little variety. Hearing all my characters with the same voice is a little boring and I’ve ended up skipping all cutscenes now as the voice doesn’t seem to fit with some of my characters.

I tried making a Charr character but the voice just didn’t get with the way I envisaged it whatsoever and I actually ended up getting rid of it. I’m not exactly into the roleplaying element of the game or anything but it would be nice to be able to add that extra level of personality with a couple more voice options even if they are your stereotypical archetypes (heroic, gruff, humble etc).

This is the one problem with having voiced player characters in that you’re basically stuck with whatever they (the devs) give you. I would love to be able to customize my characters’ voices a bit more, but I imagine that would not be cost-efficient for the company having to record so many lines.

5 races x 2 genders x 3 voice actors (at least) = 30 people. Thats quite a lot of work…

Maybe they could take the same lines and just adjust the pitch, to create a higher and a lower version alongside the default? It would be a lot cheaper and still give players a little bit of variety between characters of the same gender/race, or to have a more fitting voice to their appearance.