Guild Wars 2

I recently returned to GW2, and have been playing the story with my gf. It has been really fun, apart from one important aspect. The human male voice completely kills immersion for me. My character looks like an evil thief, he really shouldn’t talk the way he does. Pretty much any of the other male voice acting would fit better.

When I started playing 2 years ago, I thought that this was something that would definitely be added as there must be more people who dislike it as much as me. I am a bit disappointed that nothing changed on this front. Basically I am forced to mute dialogue, and skip all conversation scenes. I was wondering if there are more people who feel this way. I wouldn’t mind paying for a more suitable voice.

Norn female is worse imo. When they moan they sound like a guy.

Much as I’d like to see more voice options for our toons, the reality is that such a thing is probably a lot more work than it’s worth.

I can understand what you are saying that the voice does not suit your char’s theme. However I have to say that the Human Male voice seems about the best of them to me. I am doing the LS3 story atm on all of my alts and have done Human, Norn, Sylvari and Charr so far (only Aura left). Out of all of those races the Human’s voice to me seems to have the most character. Sylvari comes in second.

I don’t know what it is but I just think that the voice actor puts a bit more effort into it. There is one part in the story where Rytlock says something and the human char responds totally different than the other races do. It’s just a subtle thing in the voice but the whole response seems totally different to the other races and makes the situation feel more real.

Having said all that I did make an African American char and you are right OP, the human male voice certainly does not fit there lol.

It would be nice if they let us choose a voice for our characters. But it’s not really practical in this game because there’s a lot of dialogue and they have to keep calling them back to do the dialogue in the new storylines, which is more difficult (and expensive) if they’ve got more people.

Paulytnz.7619:

I can understand what you are saying that the voice does not suit your char’s theme. However I have to say that the Human Male voice seems about the best of them to me. I am doing the LS3 story atm on all of my alts and have done Human, Norn, Sylvari and Charr so far (only Aura left). Out of all of those races the Human’s voice to me seems to have the most character. Sylvari comes in second.

I don’t know what it is but I just think that the voice actor puts a bit more effort into it. There is one part in the story where Rytlock says something and the human char responds totally different than the other races do. It’s just a subtle thing in the voice but the whole response seems totally different to the other races and makes the situation feel more real.

Having said all that I did make an African American char and you are right OP, the human male voice certainly does not fit there lol.

It might just be that he’s a very good voice actor. The male human PC is voiced by Nolan North who has been in…basically everything. (I always find it amusing when I’m playing a male human and he’s talking to Logan because he’s voice by Troy Baker who’s in everything else.)

I disagree that characters with a different skin colour need different voice actors though. Whatever they look like your human character still grew up in Divinity’s Reach. They may have ancestors from Elona (heh, humans are not originally from Tyria so for all we know they may actually have ancestors from Africa and/or America), but their family has to have been living in Tyria since the continents were cut off when Zhaitan woke up 100 years before.

Honestly, even just a set of three voices for each gender and race would be amazing. I get that they’d have to hire voice actors to read over and record all the lines all over again, but really, I think it would be worth it to them in the long run. I know I’d happily toss all my gems at them just to have the option of a new voice and new phrases, rather than the “I’m wilting” sylvari male, or my dying cow Norn female.

Christina.7926:

Honestly, even just a set of three voices for each gender and race would be amazing. I get that they’d have to hire voice actors to read over and record all the lines all over again, but really, I think it would be worth it to them in the long run. I know I’d happily toss all my gems at them just to have the option of a new voice and new phrases, rather than the “I’m wilting” sylvari male, or my dying cow Norn female.

They already have to pay for 40 actors per line of dialogue. Adding 3 more per race per sex per language would cost far more than the few gems that they’d get out of it.

“with localized text and voice-over, and we do final testing of all that. To give a sense of the scope of this process, this update has about 1,500 distinct lines of new voice dialog, each of which must be recorded, integrated, and tested in each supported language. For the player character’s voice, we separately record each race/sex combination in each language, so that means 40 actors for each line.”
http://dulfy.net/2016/07/12/gw2-living-world-season-3-announcement/

Zero.6592:

The human male voice completely kills immersion for me.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but when I’m “immersed,” I accept that people speak the way they do. If you live in any sort of multicultural city in RL, you’ll meet people whose accents completely defy expectations.

Zero.6592:

My character looks like an evil thief, he really shouldn’t talk the way he does.

I didn’t realize there was a set way in which evil thieves spoke. Do they speak with an Evil Thief™ accent?

Zero.6592:

I was wondering if there are more people who feel this way. I wouldn’t mind paying for a more suitable voice.

Sure, I’d love the option to pay gems for more voices. As others have said, it’s impractical. To add just one alternative/origin to the game means adding 40 more voice actors, not just for existing dialogue, but for every single line of dialogue in the future. 5 races * 2 genders/race * 4 supported languages.

Mea.5491:

Norn female is worse imo.

Indeed. She sounds like an actor who is speaking the lines for the first time, without any context. She breaks immersion for me, not because I expect her to sound a particular way, but because she doesn’t seem to care about anything she’s saying. When she says, “the spoils of battle” (on finding a rare item), I keep thinking she stepped in something left behind by her dog.

Paulytnz.7619:

Having said all that I did make an African American char

TIL American imperialism extended to Tyria — I didn’t realize there were Africans, Americans, or anything other than Tyrians in this game.

Light-skin and dark-skin human character are all Krytans of one sort or another, some with ancestors from Cantha or Elona from before those areas became inaccessible, i.e. 250 years ago in game time. It’s hardly surprising that they sound much alike.

This is why I always preferred MMO’s and RPG’s to have silent protaganists. Leaves more to the imagination – the chosen voice risks not being in keeping with how I want my character to be and it can break that immersion.

I don’t think it would be a popular direction for GW though.

I’d love a larger range of voices, but I am fully understanding as to why it can’t happen. The only consolation is that at least the VA’s are improving. The PS VA was pretty dismal compared to HoT and beyond and that might go hand in hand with the general improvement in what is being written for them.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Zero.6592:

The human male voice completely kills immersion for me.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but when I’m “immersed,” I accept that people speak the way they do. If you live in any sort of multicultural city in RL, you’ll meet people whose accents completely defy expectations.

Zero.6592:

My character looks like an evil thief, he really shouldn’t talk the way he does.

I didn’t realize there was a set way in which evil thieves spoke. Do they speak with an Evil Thief™ accent?

Zero.6592:

I was wondering if there are more people who feel this way. I wouldn’t mind paying for a more suitable voice.

Sure, I’d love the option to pay gems for more voices. As others have said, it’s impractical. To add just one alternative/origin to the game means adding 40 more voice actors, not just for existing dialogue, but for every single line of dialogue in the future. 5 races * 2 genders/race * 4 supported languages.

Mea.5491:

Norn female is worse imo.

Indeed. She sounds like an actor who is speaking the lines for the first time, without any context. She breaks immersion for me, not because I expect her to sound a particular way, but because she doesn’t seem to care about anything she’s saying. When she says, “the spoils of battle” (on finding a rare item), I keep thinking she stepped in something left behind by her dog.

Paulytnz.7619:

Having said all that I did make an African American char

TIL American imperialism extended to Tyria — I didn’t realize there were Africans, Americans, or anything other than Tyrians in this game.

Light-skin and dark-skin human character are all Krytans of one sort or another, some with ancestors from Cantha or Elona from before those areas became inaccessible, i.e. 250 years ago in game time. It’s hardly surprising that they sound much alike.

Hahaha, it is quite funny that you are trying to criticize me because I say I dislike a certain voice a lot, and then continue to elaborate how a different voice breaks immersion for you, with some supposed reason why your argument is better than mine :’D

It was never my intention to elaborate on the details of why exactly I dislike this voice so much, because everyone has their own taste. I simply want to get an idea of how other people think regarding this issue. Looks like you agree with me, but you also like to be a kitten.

However, you aren’t really demonstrating cleverness. I was talking about a different voice for the playable human male character, not about adding lines. This can easily be done with one of the existing actors. Of course, I understand it may not be fair towards other races and genders if only one of the gender+race combos gets a new voice. But like I said, I don’t wish for a new actor. Just a different one.

I agree Randulf, a silent protagonist works usually. but when GW2 was initially marketed, they were basically boasting about the personal story-line. A silent protagonist doesn’t really suit this type of marketing I think. So yeah, no point in hoping for that now.

It’s all subjective; so no need for peeps to get their asuran panties bunched :P This will always be an issue for any fully voiced game, no VA will be liked by everyone. Check out SWTOR’s Male Consular and I feel your pain, I had to roll female I couldn’t stand the VA – also voiced by Nolan North (tho, cannot confirm Human Male is him). He also voices Nathan Drake. I’ve not actually played Human Male yet.

The Female Norn is the one I dislike. I will say I like most the VA. The male Charr fits so well, the male and female asura too, female sylvari is one of my favs. Fem Human is good, not best. I haven’t tried rest. Be lucky like SWTOR this game IS fully voiced (well almost fully).

It all is subjective though I know guildies/friends that love the male consular VA… so why would they change a VA because YOU or ME or a few dislike the person as there will be plenty who disagree and do like. It would be highly expensive to redo with a new VA, meanwhile there are royalties/contractual reasonings as well.

There’s a reason they stick to 1 male and 1 female per class in SWTOR and race here AND why many MMOs dont fully voice their games (Wildstar, ArcheAge (aside from being Korean import), etc.) It’s VERY expensive. The MC dialogue is so vast; and you NEED them for future content. So they all have contracts, and you continue paying them; add the side chars/etc. (a reason many are voiced by same actors and in many MMOs, ex: Logan is same VA as Theron Shan in SWTOR).

Much as it’d be nice to have multiple actors for one gender race it just will never happen in any MMO, unless it was a main point/issue for devs and the money went there.

I’ve always wondered about the possibility of a vocal pitch “slider” upon character creation that gives you a small amount of personalization to your character’s voice. But I have a feeling this is something that’s been discussed before, and I’d be surprised if Anet hasn’t already considered this as a workaround to re-recording each and every single line of dialogue in the game with different voice actors. Most likely, they considered the option, played around with it a little, and came to the conclusion that the pitch-shifted voices sounded bad in practice.

That said, I think hiring new voice actors for each existing race and gender is probably the wrong suggestion to make on this topic because as Erisk and others here have said, that option is prohibitively expensive.

Does anyone have a better idea for a technical way to alter the current voice recordings and make them sound new and/or different, without requiring massive development time to implement? If folks could offer up some fresh, approachable ideas, the devs might be more inclined to pursue them.

drunkenpilot.9837:

I’ve always wondered about the possibility of a vocal pitch “slider” upon character creation that gives you a small amount of personalization to your character’s voice. But I have a feeling this is something that’s been discussed before, and I’d be surprised if Anet hasn’t already considered this as a workaround to re-recording each and every single line of dialogue in the game with different voice actors. Most likely, they considered the option, played around with it a little, and came to the conclusion that the pitch-shifted voices sounded bad in practice.

That said, I think hiring new voice actors for each existing race and gender is probably the wrong suggestion to make on this topic because as Erisk and others here have said, that option is prohibitively expensive.

Does anyone have a better idea for a technical way to alter the current voice recordings and make them sound new and/or different, without requiring massive development time to implement? If folks could offer up some fresh, approachable ideas, the devs might be more inclined to pursue them.

It’s cool that you are thinking about something that Anet would be more likely to implement. I came up with the following idea:

I think it would be awesome if I could simply turn off the voice of my own character, and instead get some text that I can read aloud. That way I can do my own voice, which would be a lot of fun for me. To people who don’t actually do much role playing this option isn’t interesting, but not harmful either. It could be sold as a feature just for the role players of the community.

A way to go about it very efficiently is to simply cut the audio of the protagonist, and instead show a summary of what approximately is about to be said. Then if you aim your mouse at the line and hold it, you get a full text of what you could say. In practice this would be the exact wording of the actual voice actors. Then if you click on it, you tell the game that you are finished talking and conversation continues.

In the options menu, there could be a “role play your own protagonist” selection that is obviously turned off by default.

Mea.5491:

Norn female is worse imo. When they moan they sound like a guy.

Ursan spike in 3…2…1

Danikat.8537:

It might just be that he’s a very good voice actor. The male human PC is voiced by Nolan North

WOW THAT’S IT! I knew I recognized his voice but I couldn’t place it! It’s Nolan bloody North, the guy who phoned it in so badly as the male Consular in SWTOR that I quit the game because he was just that excruciatingly awful.

Needless to say, I dislike the human male voice acting here as well. It’s not quite as bad as ()SWTOR (though GW2 has a lot less of the voice acting) and he does a much better job in HoT, there’s just something so stodgy about his voice that makes a lot of the dialogue sound extremely scripted and unbelievable.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

[…] each supported language. […]

Wait a minute, that’s it!! There actually ARE 3 other human male protagonist voices! I can just change my game to German, French, or Spanish audio!! I am fine with any of those languages, so I am super happy. Can’t believe i didn’t think of this before ^^

I know what you’re talking about OP. I wouldn’t say the human male voice has ever broken immersion for me. It happens to fit my human male character pretty well so I can’t complain. The female norn voice does bother me though. The one that gets me every time is sometimes when I leave a merchant she abruptly says “I gotta go.” It sounds like she is in urgent need of a restroom…

My favorite of the protagonist voice actors is the male asura. That guy nails the asura inflections and nuances perfectly.

Orion Templar.4589:

I know what you’re talking about OP. I wouldn’t say the human male voice has ever broken immersion for me. It happens to fit my human male character pretty well so I can’t complain. The female norn voice does bother me though. The one that gets me every time is sometimes when I leave a merchant she abruptly says “I gotta go.” It sounds like she is in urgent need of a restroom…

My favorite of the protagonist voice actors is the male asura. That guy nails the asura inflections and nuances perfectly.

Interesting that so many people dislike the female Norn voice. I actually like it. She doesn’t sound like a wimp, as the humans do. But as I mentioned right before your post, I am pretty sure I have found my solution! I am currently excitedly downloading the German, French, and Spanish audio, can’t wait to try them all out!

Zero.6592:

Hahaha, it is quite funny that you are trying to criticize me because I say I dislike a certain voice a lot, and then continue to elaborate how a different voice breaks immersion for you, with some supposed reason why your argument is better than mine :’D

You should read what I wrote again. I think the acting (and the directing of the actor) was poor — I don’t think it met ANet’s needs.

In contrast, your criticism is that it doesn’t meet your expectations about how a particular character’s voice would sound. I don’t have any expectations about that.

Zero.6592:

It was never my intention to elaborate on the details of why exactly I dislike this voice so much, because everyone has their own taste. I simply want to get an idea of how other people think regarding this issue.

Do I agree that having a choice of voices would be good? Yes.
Do I think it’s realistic to think that ANet can consider this? No.

Zero.6592:

Looks like you agree with me, but you also like to be a kitten.

I like kittens; I wouldn’t want to be one. Try not to take that personally.

Zero.6592:

I was talking about a different voice for the playable human male character, not about adding lines. This can easily be done with one of the existing actors. Of course, I understand it may not be fair towards other races and genders if only one of the gender+race combos gets a new voice. But like I said, I don’t wish for a new actor. Just a different one.

Factually, no, it’s not at all easy to just hire a new actor, book studio time, and get them to record hours of dialogue and expect it to be any good. It’s similarly not realistic to think that it’s simple to replace an existing actor — one of the English-speaking actors couldn’t continue (Charr/male) and someone new was hired for LS3; they didn’t have that person go back and re-record all the old dialogue.

The closest they’ve come to admitting an issue is when they called back the voice actor for Trahearne for Living Story, they changed a small number of lines of his character for the personal story, primarily his “idle speech” (e.g. “this won’t end well” and “moving on”) and asked him to re-record.

There had been huge criticism of how the acting didn’t fit the circumstances. The actor agreed and was (reportedly) enthusiastic about giving it another take (and, one presumes, he got paid for it). In other words, the original acting didn’t work for ANet.

You’ll also hear his voice as some of the Asura in Verdant Brink and the guy near the mystic forge amazed at the huge collection of weapons Zomorros is amassing.

tl;dr The question is never “do I personally like the acting” — it is whether it meets ANet’s intended goal for the voice.

You don’t have to agree that the norm female acting is poor for any circumstances — that’s merely my opinion.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Zero.6592:

Hahaha, it is quite funny that you are trying to criticize me because I say I dislike a certain voice a lot, and then continue to elaborate how a different voice breaks immersion for you, with some supposed reason why your argument is better than mine :’D

You should read what I wrote again. I think the acting (and the directing of the actor) was poor — I don’t think it met ANet’s needs.

In contrast, your criticism is that it doesn’t meet your expectations about how a particular character’s voice would sound. I don’t have any expectations about that.

Zero.6592:

It was never my intention to elaborate on the details of why exactly I dislike this voice so much, because everyone has their own taste. I simply want to get an idea of how other people think regarding this issue.

Do I agree that having a choice of voices would be good? Yes.
Do I think it’s realistic to think that ANet can consider this? No.

Zero.6592:

Looks like you agree with me, but you also like to be a kitten.

I like kittens; I wouldn’t want to be one. Try not to take that personally.

Zero.6592:

I was talking about a different voice for the playable human male character, not about adding lines. This can easily be done with one of the existing actors. Of course, I understand it may not be fair towards other races and genders if only one of the gender+race combos gets a new voice. But like I said, I don’t wish for a new actor. Just a different one.

Factually, no, it’s not at all easy to just hire a new actor, book studio time, and get them to record hours of dialogue and expect it to be any good. It’s similarly not realistic to think that it’s simple to replace an existing actor — one of the English-speaking actors couldn’t continue (Charr/male) and someone new was hired for LS3; they didn’t have that person go back and re-record all the old dialogue.

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The closest they’ve come to admitting an issue is when they called back the voice actor for Trahearne for Living Story, they changed a small number of lines of his character for the personal story, primarily his “idle speech” (e.g. “this won’t end well” and “moving on”) and asked him to re-record.

There had been huge criticism of how the acting didn’t fit the circumstances. The actor agreed and was (reportedly) enthusiastic about giving it another take (and, one presumes, he got paid for it). In other words, the original acting didn’t work for ANet.

You’ll also hear his voice as some of the Asura in Verdant Brink and the guy near the mystic forge amazed at the huge collection of weapons Zomorros is amassing.

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tl;dr The question is never “do I personally like the acting” — it is whether it meets ANet’s intended goal for the voice.

You don’t have to agree that the norm female acting is poor for any circumstances — that’s merely my opinion.

You are having a discussion with your own misinterpretation of my words. You are still being a kitten, but perhaps I was wrong to assume that you enjoy doing that. Would only make it funnier if you didn’t :p

Female Norn voice takes the cake on how horrible they sound. It’s a very boring voice like “fine, Ill voice in your stupid game.”

human male sounds like a Little League dad

Odds, though people’s opinion is differs, I for one love the human male voice because it adds immersion to the game and they are voiced by an awesome voice actor, while i find human female voice is lack of ‘life’. and I also like Norn voices for both gender.

Inb4 human male voice deleted just like Human female idles.

Ughhhh I ABSOLUTELY HATE the Human Male voice. Wayyyyyyyyy to masculine/macho for my taste. The Male Sylvari voice is 1000 times better. He doesnt sound overly masculine. Sylvari males have the best voices IMO, they sound elegant, subtle with a dash of confidence. Wish the Human males got that.

Its one reason why I wont make a male Human… I feel like if I make a pretty man, his voice and face wont match. Ugh ANET. Thats why I main a Human Female.

Purecura.1795:

Ughhhh I ABSOLUTELY HATE the Human Male voice. Wayyyyyyyyy to masculine/macho for my taste. The Male Sylvari voice is 1000 times better. He doesnt sound overly masculine. Sylvari males have the best voices IMO, they sound elegant, subtle with a dash of confidence. Wish the Human males got that.

Its one reason why I wont make a male Human… I feel like if I make a pretty man, his voice and face wont match. Ugh ANET. Thats why I main a Human Female.

Hahaha when I read your words first I thought “cool, another person who feels the same way”. Turns out you are pretty much on the other side of the spectrum. To me he just sounds like a wimp :p

Zero.6592:

Purecura.1795:

Ughhhh I ABSOLUTELY HATE the Human Male voice. Wayyyyyyyyy to masculine/macho for my taste. The Male Sylvari voice is 1000 times better. He doesnt sound overly masculine. Sylvari males have the best voices IMO, they sound elegant, subtle with a dash of confidence. Wish the Human males got that.

Its one reason why I wont make a male Human… I feel like if I make a pretty man, his voice and face wont match. Ugh ANET. Thats why I main a Human Female.

Hahaha when I read your words first I thought “cool, another person who feels the same way”. Turns out you are pretty much on the other side of the spectrum. To me he just sounds like a wimp :p

Lmao oh gods… You must want him to sound like the hulk huh? I dont have anythinf against masculine men, I jus think ANET shouldve given us variety.

This has come up so many times since the game first launched.

I remember trying to get a friend of mine to play the game with me. He was super interested in it, and wanted to play as a human male warrior. He made his character black, got everything ready to go, logged in extremely excited and hit the first cut scene.

…

He logged out, deleted the character, and made a female norn… wasn’t really as immersed with this character, though, so unfortunately he did not play long.

Since then, the lack of voice options has been a sore spot for me.

Purecura.1795:

Lmao oh gods… You must want him to sound like the hulk huh? I dont have anythinf against masculine men, I jus think ANET shouldve given us variety.

Haha well, I guess I am a fairly masculine guy myself. Ultimately, the tone of someones voice just contains so much information. If that information doesn’t fit you AT ALL, it is normal that we don’t identify with that very well. I imagine you and me sound very different too, and would feel very weird if we switched voices :p

Tolmos.8395:

This has come up so many times since the game first launched.

I remember trying to get a friend of mine to play the game with me. He was super interested in it, and wanted to play as a human male warrior. He made his character black, got everything ready to go, logged in extremely excited and hit the first cut scene.

…

He logged out, deleted the character, and made a female norn… wasn’t really as immersed with this character, though, so unfortunately he did not play long.

Since then, the lack of voice options has been a sore spot for me.

Hahaha wow! That is funny, sad, and understandable at the same time xD
Hope he gives it another shot.

I love Nolan North and he totally fits my character. (aaand come on, guys, it’s Nathan Drake, how can you not love him?)
But I also must agree, that it’s actually hard to make a human male, that would actually look like a guy, who owns his kind of voice. He sounds more like his character in “Resonance of fate”. You know, a young, goodlooking j-rpg style guy. Not a kitten evil warbeast. So I suppose when it comes to “evil thieves” – it could be rather confusing.

Purecura.1795:

Ughhhh I ABSOLUTELY HATE the Human Male voice. Wayyyyyyyyy to masculine/macho for my taste. The Male Sylvari voice is 1000 times better. He doesnt sound overly masculine. Sylvari males have the best voices IMO, they sound elegant, subtle with a dash of confidence. Wish the Human males got that.

Its one reason why I wont make a male Human… I feel like if I make a pretty man, his voice and face wont match. Ugh ANET. Thats why I main a Human Female.

While the human male voice works well enough for my RP main (Thief yes, evil no, charming conman yes), I do greatly enjoy the male sylvari voice. Until, that is, he jumps, mines, or lifts anything. At which point he sounds like he’s having trouble, how shall I say this, dealing with waste products after a filling meal. Or else tearing open a hernia. I really loathe the grunts used for those moments.

Norn female has never bothered me. Actually I’m ok with most all the voice work for PCs and NPCs, though I have some nits to pick.

But man, those grunts. I wince every time.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Mea.5491:

Norn female is worse imo.

Indeed. She sounds like an actor who is speaking the lines for the first time, without any context. She breaks immersion for me, not because I expect her to sound a particular way, but because she doesn’t seem to care about anything she’s saying. When she says, “the spoils of battle” (on finding a rare item), I keep thinking she stepped in something left behind by her dog.

To be fair, that quote expressed in that fashion, more accurately mirrors my feelings on getting most rare items, especially when compared to, “Sweet, sweet loot!”

All of which suggests that preferring one voice over another is subjective.

Paulytnz.7619:

I can understand what you are saying that the voice does not suit your char’s theme. However I have to say that the Human Male voice seems about the best of them to me. I am doing the LS3 story atm on all of my alts and have done Human, Norn, Sylvari and Charr so far (only Aura left). Out of all of those races the Human’s voice to me seems to have the most character. Sylvari comes in second.

I don’t know what it is but I just think that the voice actor puts a bit more effort into it. There is one part in the story where Rytlock says something and the human char responds totally different than the other races do. It’s just a subtle thing in the voice but the whole response seems totally different to the other races and makes the situation feel more real.

Having said all that I did make an African American char and you are right OP, the human male voice certainly does not fit there lol.

but technically Elonians (the only people with darker skin in tyria) aren’t really in this part of the world THEREFORE ITS YOUR FAULT!

#I’mgonnagetbanned
#pleasedontkillme
#Elonianlivesmatter

I want an older voice.

I just wish he’d stop saying “Eat my dust!” worst line in the game. My Mesmer’s signet makes him spam that line over and over.

Doggie.3184:

I just wish he’d stop saying “Eat my dust!” worst line in the game. My Mesmer’s signet makes him spam that line over and over.

You can turn the character comments off

If I remember correctly it’s
In options
Advanced settings
Effects Volume
Volume of character effects, such as skills.

How can you not like the voice of Nathan Drake!!!??

Hey, maybe Anet will deal with this like they did the “immersion breaking” female idle anims, complete with calling it a “bug”

Fenom.9457:

Paulytnz.7619:

I can understand what you are saying that the voice does not suit your char’s theme. However I have to say that the Human Male voice seems about the best of them to me. I am doing the LS3 story atm on all of my alts and have done Human, Norn, Sylvari and Charr so far (only Aura left). Out of all of those races the Human’s voice to me seems to have the most character. Sylvari comes in second.

I don’t know what it is but I just think that the voice actor puts a bit more effort into it. There is one part in the story where Rytlock says something and the human char responds totally different than the other races do. It’s just a subtle thing in the voice but the whole response seems totally different to the other races and makes the situation feel more real.

Having said all that I did make an African American char and you are right OP, the human male voice certainly does not fit there lol.

but technically Elonians (the only people with darker skin in tyria) aren’t really in this part of the world THEREFORE ITS YOUR FAULT!

#I’mgonnagetbanned
#pleasedontkillme
#Elonianlivesmatter

Oh it’s my fault ANet gave us options for darker skin, okay that’s MY fault, sure….

Also how do you know exactly how Elonains would sound? Hmmm interesting……

I don’t recall if Koss ever had a voice acted out maybe I should go back and see sometime….

Shovel Face.4512:

How can you not like the voice of Nathan Drake!!!??

He sadly doesn’t have enough snark here, which removes points from his amazing voice. Nolan North requires both adventurous and snark to maximize the power of his voice. See Nathan Drake, The Prince (Prince of Persia 08), and Deadpool for examples.

Bruno.3812:

Doggie.3184:

I just wish he’d stop saying “Eat my dust!” worst line in the game. My Mesmer’s signet makes him spam that line over and over.

You can turn the character comments off

If I remember correctly it’s
In options
Advanced settings
Effects Volume
Volume of character effects, such as skills.

I know that exists but I have no issues with any of the other lines and it probably effects all characters.

Paulytnz.7619:

Fenom.9457:

Paulytnz.7619:

I can understand what you are saying that the voice does not suit your char’s theme. However I have to say that the Human Male voice seems about the best of them to me. I am doing the LS3 story atm on all of my alts and have done Human, Norn, Sylvari and Charr so far (only Aura left). Out of all of those races the Human’s voice to me seems to have the most character. Sylvari comes in
second.

I don’t know what it is but I just think that the voice actor puts a bit more effort into it. There is one part in the story where Rytlock says something and the human char responds totally different than the other races do. It’s just a subtle thing in the voice
but the whole response seems totally different to the other races and makes the
situation feel more real.

Having said all that I did make an African American char and you are right OP, the human male voice certainly does not fit there lol.

but technically Elonians (the only people with darker skin in tyria) aren’t really in this
part of the world THEREFORE ITS YOUR FAULT!

#I’mgonnagetbanned
#pleasedontkillme
#Elonianlivesmatter

Oh it’s my fault ANet gave us options for darker skin, okay that’s MY fault, sure….

Also how do you know exactly how Elonains would sound? Hmmm interesting……

I don’t recall if Koss ever had a voice acted out maybe I should go back and see sometime….

He did have voice acting in some of the cut scenes. If you actually want to hear it you can look through woodenpotatoes Nightfall Let’s Play for cutscenes he is in. Or maybe search YouTube for Koss.

Honest opinion: human male voice is bad, but norn male voice is worse. No offense to Matthew Mercer (who is also – fun fact – the voice of McCree), but it’s too normal for an eight-foot-tall hunk built like a wrestler!

I also dislike the human male voice, and I didn’t care for his voice acting in SWTOR either. I want the voice of the guy that did the male Sith Warrior.

How about allowing users to choose the voice for your character during the creation? Choose the voice you want for the Toon, can you image a Norn with a Sylvarin accent? lol