Guild Wars 2

and you should feel bad

i find that the english voices are typical english voices for most games – terrible (although not as bad as tera thankfully that is fixed by changing the files with that of the japanese version)

i assume there is a japanese release of this game and so it would have its own voices is there any way that wont get me head caved in by the mighty ban hammer to get the japanese voices?

(also what audio slider does the combat grunts and screams my character makes? because they occasionally sound a little bit inapropriate – also chromes spell check does not appear to work here so this is causing me issues…)

They are fine, IMO. Haven’t played TERA much, but it’s definitely more annoying there.
And no, there aren’t a japanese (or anywhere in asia) release for Guild Wars 1&2. There will be chinese release for GW2 soon, though.

Is it just that you like Asian accents?

I think the OP is assuming this was originally a Korean game that got imported to the West. It’s not. GW2 is a 100% Western product, and they hired a ton of well-known American, Canadian, and English voice actors.

Dear OP – sorry that you don’t like western voices but the voice acting in GW2 is superb and you are definitely a minority.

The game was created by an American company and as such there are no Japanese voices since it has not (and likely will not) be released in japan.

Ignore these baka gaijin.

A quick search on your friendly search engine will help you.

I found it easy by typing in “Guildu Wars 2: Hyper Extreme Sacred Dimension Alpha”.

A lot of the voice actors are actually very talented in other settings, so I chalked a lot of the less-than-stellar performances up to less-than-stellar voice directing. Some of them still managed to make it work though – notably, Troy Baker as Logan, I feel that was actually well done. Even if you think the character is annoying, the acting is pretty good.

I actually severely dislike the human male voice…alot.

Charr voice… Don’t tell me that some manga scrub would do it better

Rym.1469:

Charr voice… Don’t tell me that some manga scrub would do it better

Racism will get you nowhere…
You also need to take into account that different cultures have different associations with voice and personalities. So what we expect ‘youthful’ or ‘fierce’ to sound like in English will not necessarily line up with what someone who is German or Italian or Japanese or Samoan would expect those attributes to sound like.

The voices are fine. It’s the script that is awkward. Why do characters always have to recite their orders? It makes them sound cheesy.

no… some of the voices are bad… Deputy Mira at Claw island for example, a horrible deliver of lines….
’ by the gods, there’s so many of them ’ delivered in a way that more resembled table reading than acting….

The English voice actors are wonderful. The problem is poor voice direction. My favorite example is from the ettins in Taminn Foothills in Queensdale. The big one is talking to a human NPC:

Ettin: Ettins no work good with other Ettins.

NPC: You mean, Ettins don’t work well with other ettins.

The NPC puts the emphasis on “other” instead of “well” where it should be, and the line sounds very very strange. It’s little moments like that that make me shake my head.

The only truly bad voice actress in the game is the one in Ascalon Catacombs that says “your plan is stupid, and won’t work.” I think that’s an awful line read. She shows up during the fire shaman world event, and she’s marginally better, but not much. She only has one line there, anyways.

Working in the audio business I’d love to say the acting is superb across-the-board; but then there’s Trahearne…

I once watched an episode of Air Crash investigation and I could have sworn the guy who voiced Trahearne did the voice-over for that episode. I looked it up and it wasn’t true, but the voice was identical. So our great commander sounds like a voice-over for a documentary. So inspiring.

OmaiGodman.2098:

So our great commander sounds like a voice-over for a documentary. So inspiring.

.. but oddly, it’s kind of apt before. I suppose you don’t automatically acquire a commander’s voice just because your mum sends you off with an oversized sword and a skill sets which varies according to plot needs.

I didn’t like the twig at first, but I feel sorry for him more often than not. :/

But I don’t disagree with the overall consensus of direction being less than quality in some instances.

My only problem with the voices is that all characters of a race/gender will have the same voice,

It gets annoying, having 6 characters that are all different shapes and sizes, but all sound the same,

I would have liked to have seen the option to choose between a few different voices for each character (changeable with makeover kits too)

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

My only problem with the voices is that all characters of a race/gender will have the same voice,

It gets annoying, having 6 characters that are all different shapes and sizes, but all sound the same,

I would have liked to have seen the option to choose between a few different voices for each character (changeable with makeover kits too)

That would be quite difficult because it would require re-recording all the dialogue with new VA’s, which costs a lot of time and money. Another option could be to have a slider during character creation to change the pitch of the voice. I know other games that have that and it could at least create a little bit of variation, without requiring all the dialogue to be re-recorded.