Female charr player voice
I think my main issue is this: where the appropriate response would be wariness or alarm, the charr females always sound either totally apathetic or beyond panicked.
That’s appropriate for the asura – i can easily accept that a race of diminutive geniuses would be dangerously highly strung – but from a race of war-hardened, childhood-indoctrinated military personnel, it’s extremely jarring.
I basically can’t play female charrs or norns because this voice acting issue is adding to the feeling of being slow (due to size).
One of the big reason I’m almost always playing asura is because of the opposite effect : IMO the best voice acting by far (not only performance but also the lines themselves) and the feeling of speed.
That being said I’m not sure re-recording the quotes of a PC is really interesting for ANet in terms of ROI so I wouldn’t get my hopes high.
The norn one isn’t brilliant but isn’t so immersion shattering. But i agree, without a massive outcry i can’t see them being redone.
/sigh