Guild Wars 2

You like how that rhymed? Because I did.

But seriously, if you can’t get Felicia Day to record new VO for Zojja, I think players will be far more understanding of a new voice talent instead of having to put up with creative ways to not need Zojja’s voice.

Tara Strong did such a great job as Scarlet’s voice and she’s absolutely capable of voicing Zojja in a way that captures her spirit as the feisty genius we all know and love. She’s the first one that comes to my mind.

Any other suggestions for a new voice actor for Zojja?

I hate to say this, but I honestly am not in favour of a new VA for Zojja. While I realise they’ve had trouble getting Felicia Day back since launch, the fact of the matter is that a huge amount of Zojja’s character came from Felicia Day’s performance. Changing the voice actor would be fundamentally changing the character. I don’t believe Tara Strong or any other voice actress could do Felicia Day’s performance as Zojja justice.

Also, and this may be slightly digressing, but Zojja can easily come back in an expansion – with Felicia Day’s voice – since ArenaNet will have a much longer development cycle in which to book her and get her to a recording session. I’d rather them not arbitrarily change her voice actor so they can shoehorn her into the LW updates. So far we haven’t really had much need for her in them anyway.

Lasur Arkinshade.4107:

I hate to say this, but I honestly am not in favour of a new VA for Zojja. While I realise they’ve had trouble getting Felicia Day back since launch, the fact of the matter is that a huge amount of Zojja’s character came from Felicia Day’s performance. Changing the voice actor would be fundamentally changing the character. I don’t believe Tara Strong or any other voice actress could do Felicia Day’s performance as Zojja justice.

Also, and this may be slightly digressing, but Zojja can easily come back in an expansion – with Felicia Day’s voice – since ArenaNet will have a much longer development cycle in which to book her and get her to a recording session. I’d rather them not arbitrarily change her voice actor so they can shoehorn her into the LW updates. So far we haven’t really had much need for her in them anyway.

You’re right, changing the voice actor does change the character. There’s a certain point where you have to stop with the workarounds and move on. I’d rather we do that sooner instead of later so it doesn’t start feeling more tedious than it already is.

Felicia Day has stated that due to the constant harassment of women and herself personally whenever she’s involved in game-related work, that she’s drastically scaling back any work she does involving games. Let’s hope that GW2 has enough pull and credibility with her to entice her back.

So what are we to make of it that nobody else cares enough to respond to this thread? No one cares enough about the voice acting to bother? And yet all those folks who claim to hate Trahearne’s voice didn’t hesitate to show their displeasure. I guess once it’s done and it’s too late to change it, that’s when people decide they want to talk about it.

Well, if anything, Tara Strong is very good at mimicing other voice actors so she could probably match Zojja’s voice so closely that most people wouldn’t even be able to tell it’s not the original VA.

Oh Bobby, this made me happy! Please bring her back.

BobbyStein.2315:

Good morning! Allow me to clarify a few things:

• Felicia Day is still a cast member of Guild Wars 2. We have no plans to recast Zojja with another actor.
• It’s entirely possible that Zojja could show up in a future release. It all depends on what story we’re currently telling and which characters have an active role in it.

Thanks much.

Thanks very much for the clarification, and I am very happy that you’ve chosen to keep Felicia Day as Zojja.

Since it seems to be somewhat-related to the topic of the thread, I have to ask, given the fact that Trahearne is coming back into the story…

Can we expect Matthew Brenher to return as Trahearne? While a lot of people criticised his voice acting on launch, I honestly really liked it and hope to see the return of his distinctive voice. Much of it seems to have been an issue with voice direction, rather than a lack of acting talent or what-have-you.

Thanks, Bobby!

Didn’t Trahearne already have a few spoken lines in the latest LS release? Or was that recycled material?

OmaiGodman.2098:

Didn’t Trahearne already have a few spoken lines in the latest LS release? Or was that recycled material?

I believe there was one, where he shouts “The enemy is here, defend yourselves!” or something along those lines, but as far as I’m aware that was reused from the base game.