Guild Wars 2

Alright, “Citizens!”, we have yet another very vocal shouter in Lion’s Arch for an event. Last time it was that gate keeper near the Fractals, but A.Net shut him up finally. This time we have Festive Lionguard shouting to everyone to give him attention.

So, has this caught your attention, Citizens? Please inform us.

OMG it’s back!!!

The crafting npc is the most annoying, seems like LA doesn’t have one though. I noticed the charr/human kid playing behind the bank got sound turned off though.

Sorry to piggyback on this post but I have to mention very annoying voices of ladies in Divinity’s Reach. I was crafting armor and all I could hear constantly is this obnoxious sound they made: ahh ahhhhh ah ah ahhh (as if eagerly accepting new information). Terrible…

emko.5632:

Sorry to piggyback on this post but I have to mention very annoying voices of ladies in Divinity’s Reach. I was crafting armor and all I could hear constantly is this obnoxious sound they made: ahh ahhhhh ah ah ahhh (as if eagerly accepting new information). Terrible…

OMG That drives me nuts!!!

“Oh my! I’m not brainstorming. I’m having a brain hurricane!”

LA bank, nuf said.

“Wintersday went splat. Giant clanker lied to us.”

Wintersday went splat, indeed.

moonjo.9831:

“Oh my! I’m not brainstorming. I’m having a brain hurricane!”

I like that one, it’s quaint. Also, it’s not as repetitive as the one in Lion’s Arch. Every time you pass him he’ll say “Your attention please.”, this is especially noticeable if you go from the bank to the auction house over and over again.

No, your face is funny!

Aaaaah, a ghost!

emko.5632:

Sorry to piggyback on this post but I have to mention very annoying voices of ladies in Divinity’s Reach. I was crafting armor and all I could hear constantly is this obnoxious sound they made: ahh ahhhhh ah ah ahhh (as if eagerly accepting new information). Terrible…

A few nights ago the same loop was taking place by the bank, but the woman wasn’t “ahhh-ing”, she was sort of yawning, I suppose… But having it on a loop like that and for the duration it was going… it certainly didn’t sound like she was just yawning, ifyaknowwatimean…

“Did you see what she was wearing?”

I think these wouldn’t be so bad if only they didn’t fire so often and perhaps cycled through variations.

There’s only one really annoying NPC in each town, the profession guy.

It’s really bothering to be aproached every 2 minutes, to just learn any profession. NO THANKS! -.-" You are FORCED to, if you want to shut them up, I’d rather like to see a dialogue, where you choose NO once, and then never be bothered again. ^^

Yes Divinitys Reach no matter where I am I can always here a woman making sounds, she’ll pick a certain sound and do it like 100 times at different pitches and speeds and then pick a new sound, and just keeps doing that always. So annoying.

Also LA when im crafting at the huntsman machines some human man constantly asks an asuran about outhouses like he has alzheimers or some kind of mental defect and the asuran dosn’t recognise him, I guess all Humans look the same to him…

Annnd…Hoelbrakk… every kittening time I walk to the bank that kitten from the vigil voices her increasingly annoying advertisment… “IS YOUR HUNT DISATISFYING?…”

Also the Grove has some wierd high pitch sqeek that I assume is supposed to be a bird noise constantly being played that kills my ears.

Thats about it for now, I’m sure theres more…

Edit: I just remembered Ebonhawke- Theres some broken NPC always running up to me near the bank saying “I need your help!” but then you talk to him and hes got no event quest to offer, but he just KEEPS coming back saying it over and over OMFG…..

Tsubaki.2508:

“Did you see what she was wearing?”

I think these wouldn’t be so bad if only they didn’t fire so often and perhaps cycled through variations.

It’s probably telling that without thinking, my brain added, “I was too busy looking at HIM.”

those kids behind the LA bank are annoying
and lets not forget ogden’s hammer, I know I wont

“Find any bargins today?”

“Today and everyday”

the moaning girls sound (ooh aahh ooohh ahhhh ) around divinity’s reach always makes me laugh. feels like i always walks around this people house at a wrong time while they were doing something naughty.

Well even if a few of the npcs can turn out to be anoying in some situations overall i enjoy the voice acting a lot
“you just need to know where to look and how to ask”

Ikittenar.6457:

the moaning girls sound (ooh aahh ooohh ahhhh ) around divinity’s reach always makes me laugh. feels like i always walks around this people house at a wrong time while they were doing something naughty.

This makes me laugh every time.

At least no-ones running around claiming to have taken an arrow to the knee…

well i cant get past the 2 npcs discussing the bargain prices in LA.

“By Ogden’s hammer! What savings!”

cracks me up every time. even got a skype picture of that XD

“I haven’t taken leave of my senses!”

“Got any charr iron?”

“And I used to think Iron Legion officers were abusive.”

I like that characters say things, but there should absolutely be none of them within an earshot of the trading post, the bank, or crafting stations.

MaideN.3284:

well i cant get past the 2 npcs discussing the bargain prices in LA.

“By Ogden’s hammer! What savings!”

cracks me up every time. even got a skype picture of that XD

Agreed! Maybe many people running by haven’t seen Galaxy Quest?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgv7U3GYlDY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Hilarious!

I usually tune out all of them, but my favorite is still “Which way to the outhouse?”

Love that exchange lol.

Ikittenar.6457:

the moaning girls sound (ooh aahh ooohh ahhhh ) around divinity’s reach always makes me laugh. feels like i always walks around this people house at a wrong time while they were doing something naughty.

Ok now i have to go see where this is. Where is this at? I’ve heard quite a lot of the other ones mentioned here never heard this one though.

I think the best one is the song that the banker golems play, that needs to happen more often!

I got a solution lodge a noise complaint with your local lionguard office……. Oh wait he is a lionguard maby you can bribe him. Or since it is sort of a pirate town you might actually be able to find someone to silence him for you maby try that inocent looking char guy selling apples close to the bank there is something off about that guy.

“We don’t have latrines. We have waterclosets.”

i believe the new mini gollem from the event also makes a terrible noise. i first noticed this noice today i never heard it before. im not 100% sure if it was that mini gollem tho.

At least none of the NPCs are as bad as another player using a short recharge shout on auto (or maybe they were mashing the key) while sitting in the LA bank >.>

Tsubaki.2508:

“Did you see what she was wearing?”

I think these wouldn’t be so bad if only they didn’t fire so often and perhaps cycled through variations.

They’re actually commentating on a female Norn NPC that walks past in a top that shows a huge amount of cleavage, complete with jiggle physics.

Oh, the absolute best is the exchange between the sylvari and asura portal guards in the grove!

I love Divinty’s Reach, I just can’t stand being there for more than 5 minutes. The… murderous laughs I hear when I’m in the city causes me to search for the exit immediately.

Compared to that, Lion’s Arch is fine.

So what do we do in the event of a golem uprising?

-Impossible!

“My ears! What an intriguing question!”?

Raincrow.1840:

“Find any bargins today?”

“Today and everyday”

I actually read that with their voices..ugh that was painful. I hate the whole conversation, especially the last line >.< shutyourmouthihopeacentaurrunsoveryou!

I actually really enjoy the conversation where the 2 Sylvari ask the Charr about war and he has some horribly brutal response. Even if I hear it a bunch of times I still enjoy it. I agree though hearing certain conversations in LA a bunch of times in a row gets annoying. However, I do enjoy the background noise in LA, Divinity’s Reach, and The Grove. I just consider the constant laughing and moaning to be some rather….“active”….citizens.

Toversletje.9345:

i believe the new mini gollem from the event also makes a terrible noise. i first noticed this noice today i never heard it before. im not 100% sure if it was that mini gollem tho.

They better not touch my my mini golem the sound he makes is the coolest part of the golem. Leave him alone i tell you he never hurt anyone.

Personally I think a slider in settings is the ideal solution to npc audible dialog. The slider would adjust the frequency of such dialog in a percentage adjustment based on a base interval for each dialog. Which would allow those who find certain frequent dialog annoying to tone it down etc. Basically allows everyone to adjust this kind of thing to their liking. Some of the stuff I find annoying other things I don’t and not everyone finds the same things annoying. In fact this allows them to retain all audible dialog instead of completely removing it to satisfy those who find it annoying.

Slider example: Far left 0% change far right 500% slower interval. So if the normal interval is 15 seconds then at far right it would be 1 minute 15 seconds. I don’t know if any npc repeats stuff that fast. Though the fractal npc was close to that. So if the fastest interval was like 30 seconds or 1 minute then with 500% at the right end of the slider would set them to 2.5 minutes or 5 minutes respectively.

“It’s a bad day to buy Wine”

" But it’s a great day to Drink it"

uhhgg

“Your face is funny, all squished and weird.”
“No, YOUR face is funny. It’s like a little raisin.”

I like the charr in WvW

“You break it, i break you!”

We have a running joke in our guild about the suburbs, thanks to a few guild gatherings at the Lion’s Shadow Inn in east LA.

NOTHING EVER HAPPENS IN THE SUBURBS.

“I’m rich, you know.”

“Responsibility isn’t easy.”

These make no sense in their context. lol

I have no problems with the repeating NPCs but seriously what on Tyria is that woman in Divinity’s Reach doing? Has she always been like that? It was the only town I went into in Beta and I leveled two humans so I have been there a lot in live but I don’t remember hearing it till I went there the other day for Wintersday.