Guild Wars 2

For such a polished game that has been so lovingly crafted why have you made the voices so bad?
Ok, let me be more specific.

First it is the many times I find wrong pronunciation. One example being Centaur is pronounced “Sentor” NOT “Sentar” this one occurs so many places in the game as to drive me nuts! It is like many Americans say “erbs” and “erbal” when it is “herbs” and “herbal” A second example is some woman (I cant remember the exact place) pronouncing the word Quay “koo-ay” I nearly choked when I heard her! “I think you will find him down by the koo-ay” These are just two examples, there are so many! How did this pass Q&A?
Next is the general cheesey delivery of lines! I truly think you went to a renaisance fair in New York state somewhere and taped the local Americans trying to do “Ye Olde English” I was once in America on holiday and was forced by friends to go to one of these terrible events, listening to audio in your game reminds me of that terrible day /shudder
The way you have electronically treated any character voices that are large by slowing it down so it sounds deep really really grates on my nerves too. The only voice actor I have found has done a decent job is Felicia. Maybe you should take note and ONLY use gamers to do VOs. They seem better placed than anyone to know context and do not all sound like Cpt James T Kirk at a renaissance faire!
Seeing Charr females and then hearing the voice is complete disconnect for me. They sound like they are from the set of desperate housewife’s when they should sound like someone from the set of Mad Max. One example being the Norn storyline where you have to join a warband for being drunk and losing the cannon ball flinging thing. I was slack jawed and how awful it sounded.
Finally the use of modern language is farcical! “Moving on up Kid” Just one example.

I love the game, but for me personally I skip as much dialogue as I can. It just make me twitch every time I hear “the Sentars (Centaur’s) are coming, RUN!”

I am sorry to hate on your hard work. :-(

Yes because the only viable pronunciations are the ones you’re acquainted with and everything else is objectively wrong.

But seriously, words carry numerous pronunciations, none of which are ‘incorrect’, it’s horribly subjective. Gathering numerous VAs together for a project of this size (63 film’s worth of dialogue was a statistic, correct?) will inevitably produce a wide range of accents/enunciation. Sorry the game isn’t built around your own little world.

Yeah, little too much emphasis on pronunciation there. As you briefly point out, the issues with the voice acting go quite a bit deeper than that.

Megido.5061:

Yes because the only viable pronunciations are the ones you’re acquainted with and everything else is objectively wrong.

But seriously, words carry numerous pronunciations, none of which are ‘incorrect’, it’s horribly subjective. Gathering numerous VAs together for a project of this size (63 film’s worth of dialogue was a statistic, correct?) will inevitably produce a wide range of accents/enunciation. Sorry the game isn’t built around your own little world.

Never ever anywhere have I heard of a Centaur pronounced as a Sentar. Untill this game. And when you have two NPCs from the same race pronounce a word a different way, it is worse than potaahtoes and potaytoes or tomaahtoes and tomaytoes. There has been little to no audio testing IMO. Such a shame, cos for me it spoils the game. Listening to an American doing a posh english accent while pertaining to be a pirate “gets my goat”

Just alt tabbed out of the game to add to this thread Please NEVER again employ the person that did Lady Wi. She is simply too awful. She sounds worse than any voice actor in a game I have ever heard!

I’ve never heard Cantaur pronounced Sentor. Ever. Are you British? Are you aware that this is an American game and therefore is likely to have American pronunciations?

You need to be aware how many different dialects, accents, and colloquialisms there are of any single language.

Just because it doesn’t sound like they say it from wherever your home town is, that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

Pronunciation may be hard to argue about, however there are far more problems with the games audio. The actors sound WAY to scripted(maybe they recorded separately, which would be silly. With the Internet, theres no reason why you can’t gotomeeting with this), no emotion(I think this game’s BOTs could do better), pauses are WAY to long(If I am interrupted while speaking, why do I pause for 1.5 - 2 seconds BEFORE being interrupted), female charr voices don’t really match the look(Maybe more of a raspy voice, IDK), and that is just a few I can think of off the top of my head.

If you think thats bad, have a look at the foreign translations. The voice overs in the German version are so absolutely horrible that they at least make the English one look better. Every dialogue was obviously recorded completely devoid of context, the intonation of single voice clips is an abomination, and their timing is off all over the place. That the voices rarely fit a character does not make it better.

Not being a native english speaker, I am less worried about pronunciation. But I have to agree with the sentiments in regard to the general quality of the voice acting, it often does sound too much like people reading lines off a script. Trahearne to me stands out as being especially boring, which is a pity given he plays such an important role.

Well for the most part I really enjoy the voice acting. Sure, for a fantasy setting it would be much more appropriate and nicer to have non-american voices like in game of thrones/similar but it’s just how it is with this game :P

But the ONLY thing that is weirdly pronounced, actually surprised me was the word Minotaur, they pronounce it “Mee-no-taur”, I always thought it was “My-no-taur”?

And about the whole Centaur thing it depends. In my language it’s Ken-tah-orr, not “Sentor”. We can’t really argue about different pronunciations.