Guild Wars 2

I’m sorry, but I hate the audio in this game. It’s shocking. I am sick and tired of playing a character who is so stuck up and arrogant he always thinks he’s the best every bloody time I get an achievement. The ‘I can outrun a centaur’ line among others is getting really, really irritating, and I came into the game thinking there was going to be fully voiced quests etc. My mistake, instead I got some of the worst audio from NPCs in the history of video games. I’m sorry to compare to wow, but wow has better audio than this, even though it doesn’t have audio on its quests. That’s how bad the audio is here. The voice acting, some of it is good, (Nolan North) but most of it is terrible. The audio in the personal story (along with the famously shockingly bad writing and storytelling) is so bad you can just hear the voice actors reading it off the script, hardly any of it has any emotion or effort put into it. Did Arenanet get the cheapest voice actors they could get??? While I think I will turn the audio out right off, I do want the living breathing city feel and I’m not going to get that if I do. But if I turn it on, every minute I get my hearing plastered with more terrible quality dialogue and NPCs rubbishing on about the same thing they were whinging about 2 minutes ago. In addition, I was experimenting with creating a new character about five minutes ago but what was that in the background? Some poor quality audio with a whirring sound followed by some dude coughing up blood or something. I mean do they have to put THAT there when I’m trying to concentrate on creating a new character? Seriously, whoever decided to put that in the creation process must either think they’re really funny or has no sense of ambience whatsoever.

Ok, I have to say Jeremy Soule’s music is pure excellence. His stuff always is. But please, get rid of, or change the frequency, or the quality, of the audio in this game so I don’t have to turn it off in utter disgust.

Aefion.8719:

Ok, I have to say Jeremy Soule’s music is pure excellence. His stuff always is. But please, get rid of, or change the frequency, or the quality, of the audio in this game so I don’t have to turn it off in utter disgust.

Agreed 100%.

Give us a dialogue slider so we can completely disable the annoying banter / voice overs.

Thank you.

I agree.

Typical karma event on Orr:

“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” “FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” “FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” “FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” “FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” “FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” “FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” “FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” “FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” “FOR GREAT JUSTICE!”

Really?

Yup so tired of the repetitive statements it gets to the point where i want to stop playing. I wish I could turn it off.

I think you can turn all dialogue off. I think theres a slider for that. I just wish though that the npc’s near the bank would shut up and that you didn’t hear the greeting of an npc each time a different player clicks on it.

Give us the option to only hear our own abilites and attacks. Hearing swosidhsujdhgsyd7itftsud every time I go into battle with 4 other people isnt supernice. Works for shooters, but not for Mmorpg imo.

And yeah. I agree with the guy at the top, it’s just going to get even more and more repetive.

If it gets too annoying you can turn off the voice overs in the options. Dialogue volume slider under sound options. Just tested it on my warrior shouts to be sure, hear nothing.

I like to idle in Lions Arch at times and chat with guild mates and I’m always trying to fine a nice place where I don’t hear some random NPC blabbing.

Also when standing at a banker or trade post NPC, Why do I have to hear that NPCs voice when some other player walks up and talks to them? Wow that goes old real fast.

Nah, you know what annoys me? When I run on my own through orr and suddenly I hear female shouts like “Might makes me right!”, even though I play the male character. I always look at the map and turn around but there are no other players. It’s kinda creepy when you play at night with no music. It happens to me like 3-4 times a week.

that “hum” that goes after some player skills

The level to which you blow this issue out of proportions for attention was quite humorous. Thanks for a good laugh OP.

I dont dislike these “i can outrun a centaur”, its kinda ok. But the music is really depressing.

Join the cause :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Add-voice-packs-to-Gem-Store/first#post729288

If you don’t wanna hear what I have to say, get lost. And the GW2 audio is in fact some of the worst in the video games industry. Simple as that.

Isn’t Nolan North (who you said was good) the VA for the human male player (who you said was terrible)?

OP might have a somewhat poor grasp of the English language in his usage of the word “worst”, or maybe this is his first video game, who knows.

Typical of this kind of thing is in the Wintersday missions. When in with my guild, we’re on TeamSpeak. All of us – every single one – were saying, “Jesus! ANOTHER brain hurricane?! SHUT UP!”

It’s almost amusing once. By the second time, it’s annoying. By the 10th time, you want to hurt someone for putting it in the game.

And turning down the audio is not an option?

I don’t mind anyone else’s banter, I’d just like to be able to mute any sound coming from my own character. Turning down the Dialog is not an option because:

1) It doesn’t actually stop all your voices. Every time I get any sort of debuff she moans, groans and complains. It’s all the more ironic because my main’s a necro and getting the odd condition is not that big a deal.

2) It stops all the actually interesting dialogue. The banter between NPCs, especially when different races interact, is one of the strongest parts of the game but I have to turn Dialog off and mute them too because my own character’s voice is unbearable.

Some of the biggest offenders IMO:

Conditions. You get them all the time and every single time your toon has some repetitive remark about them. I just want her to stop complaining, stop groaning and be quiet.

New Area Discovered. How can you put hundreds of areas in the playable areas and not expect the two or three canned phrases to not get irritating?

Deathshroud/Elementalist switching attunement: Again these are things that happen all the time constantly throughout the game forever as long as you play these classes. Do you want to be hearing these same things a hundred times a day a year from now?

The “I can outrun a Centaur!” line is the audio mascot of this game. GW2 just wouldn’t be the same without it, including its frequency (just the line itself isn’t enough, you need to hear it often for it to be as significant to the game as it is now). Also, yes this is mostly sarcasm… mostly. The thing is that line and how frequently I hear it used to annoy me before, but now it’s like… I don’t know… like a reflex, like breathing… I don’t even notice it anymore.

The audio in this game is fantastic (Compared to Factions).