Guild Wars 2

I love the Charr, really I do. I’ve got a white/blue female that looks sick (and actually looks like a female), and it’s an awesome hunter character.
But geez I can’t listen to their speech for too long.
I get uncomfortable. I feel like they’re drowning in saliva, losing their feline-tongues down their throats, or all have very bad cases of pneumonia.
Does anyone else feel the same way about this??

Well, with those chompers they shouldn’t really be able to speak at all, so…

Yeah, I noticed that too, especially on Rytlock. Ugh, I cringe everytime I hear him speak.

I think they decided to save effort for the voice actors by being like ‘hey, don’t worry, we’ll just play demented sounds over this later on to make it sound appropriately terrible'.

I think Rytlock’s voice is sexy.

Well i think Charr voices are just as they should be.What would you like,for them to sound like humans?That would defeat any fierce image of Charr.

Leo G.4501:

I think Rytlock’s voice is sexy.

Well, duuuh. https://twitter.com/blumspew/status/296779349401673729

This sound reminds me of something… sound of the dragons were making in Vagrant Story o_o

Tybalt? he always sounded like he was choking while talking. I liked it though, differentiates Charrs from other races, especially humans. And it makes sense.

Well what about the Tengu? It sounds like they’re talking out of an old fashion cassette recorder.

igibi.4937:

Well i think Charr voices are just as they should be.What would you like,for them to sound like humans?That would defeat any fierce image of Charr.

They’re going to sound like humans regardless, just ones that are talking weirdly. Anyway, it’s not the way they talk, it’s the random noises repeated in it that are too obviously not part of the voice.

Part of their voice-over techniques included a snarly snort when they talk. Its an attempt at realistic gutteral speech.

Ramethzero.3785:

Part of their voice-over techniques included a snarly snort when they talk. Its an attempt at realistic gutteral speech.

This is what I always figured…some of the voice acting isn’t the best but I like the Charr voices for the most part. If it doesn’t seem realistic try talking with a mouthful of fangs and a tongue that’s probably more feline than human and see how clear your voice sounds :p

Now if only female charr voices had it too..

I sense disrespect of the mighty Steve Blum in this thread. Terminate this thread at once.

caelstraz.6298:

If it doesn’t seem realistic try talking with a mouthful of fangs and a tongue that’s probably more feline than human and see how clear your voice sounds :p

That’s what bothers me about it in the first place. I mean think of the stuff that’s happened to your voice before… I’ve had it affected by all sorts of things: wisdom teeth cut out, talking through mouth guards, bit tongue, accidentally blew hole in tongue (it hurt, don’t eat explosives), drunken slurring, rasping out ‘I can’t breathe’… but as weird as you can make yourself sound, how often do you feel someone is following you around playing a recorded gurgling sound randomly while you speak? :P

LameFox.6349:

caelstraz.6298:

If it doesn’t seem realistic try talking with a mouthful of fangs and a tongue that’s probably more feline than human and see how clear your voice sounds :p

That’s what bothers me about it in the first place. I mean think of the stuff that’s happened to your voice before… I’ve had it affected by all sorts of things: wisdom teeth cut out, talking through mouth guards, bit tongue, accidentally blew hole in tongue (it hurt, don’t eat explosives), drunken slurring, rasping out ‘I can’t breathe’… but as weird as you can make yourself sound, how often do you feel someone is following you around playing a recorded gurgling sound randomly while you speak? :P

Maybe you should test out talking through a neck the size of a human torso and see if that might affect things :P

Leo G.4501:

LameFox.6349:

caelstraz.6298:

If it doesn’t seem realistic try talking with a mouthful of fangs and a tongue that’s probably more feline than human and see how clear your voice sounds :p

That’s what bothers me about it in the first place. I mean think of the stuff that’s happened to your voice before… I’ve had it affected by all sorts of things: wisdom teeth cut out, talking through mouth guards, bit tongue, accidentally blew hole in tongue (it hurt, don’t eat explosives), drunken slurring, rasping out ‘I can’t breathe’… but as weird as you can make yourself sound, how often do you feel someone is following you around playing a recorded gurgling sound randomly while you speak? :P

Maybe you should test out talking through a neck the size of a human torso and see if that might affect things :P

I’m not sure you’re seeing the point…

LameFox.6349:

caelstraz.6298:

If it doesn’t seem realistic try talking with a mouthful of fangs and a tongue that’s probably more feline than human and see how clear your voice sounds :p

That’s what bothers me about it in the first place. I mean think of the stuff that’s happened to your voice before… I’ve had it affected by all sorts of things: wisdom teeth cut out, talking through mouth guards, bit tongue, accidentally blew hole in tongue (it hurt, don’t eat explosives), drunken slurring, rasping out ‘I can’t breathe’… but as weird as you can make yourself sound, how often do you feel someone is following you around playing a recorded gurgling sound randomly while you speak? :P

I dunno man, I work at a haunt and I’ve made some pretty weird sounds trying to talk through a pair of dental distortions or scarecrow sabers

caelstraz.6298:

LameFox.6349:

caelstraz.6298:

If it doesn’t seem realistic try talking with a mouthful of fangs and a tongue that’s probably more feline than human and see how clear your voice sounds :p

That’s what bothers me about it in the first place. I mean think of the stuff that’s happened to your voice before… I’ve had it affected by all sorts of things: wisdom teeth cut out, talking through mouth guards, bit tongue, accidentally blew hole in tongue (it hurt, don’t eat explosives), drunken slurring, rasping out ‘I can’t breathe’… but as weird as you can make yourself sound, how often do you feel someone is following you around playing a recorded gurgling sound randomly while you speak? :P

I dunno man, I work at a haunt and I’ve made some pretty weird sounds trying to talk through a pair of dental distortions or scarecrow sabers

You what at a where now? …nevermind, the point isn’t that the sound itself is weird, it’s that it appears to be the same sound, over and over (though, this isn’t necessarily all voices, btw. I haven’t paid it much more attention than ‘well that’s annoying’ when I notice something of the sort).

I don’t know, probably most people don’t even notice it, but I’m weird about sound. I’ll hear a sound effect in a film or something and be like ‘hey, that was in <game/film I saw ten years ago>’ and everyone is just like ‘…oh’.

Yeah that’s probably it.

At first I thought this situation was similar to another poster who consistently describes Warrior’s Signet of Rage as looking like farts when farts don’t have a look…but I think he was just being silly.

If there’s a gurgle sound in the Charr male voices, I don’t hear it. A low growly tone when they hit a certain pitch? Yeah, but not like someone gargling or something in the background, at least not to me.

The particular sound I’m thinking of isn’t a constant thing, just repeated now and then.

I like the Charr speech sound, like the smacking of their jowls, makes them more animalistic