Guild Wars 2

I would like more voice options for my character. I would like some evil and/or low voices for males.

I would like all games to stop hiring expensive voice actors. I really don’t know if GW2 does this. I didn’t look at the credits. But gaming corps shelling out big money for one famous voice actor is ruining most the games I play. I would rather have more voices by many average actors than one voice by one famous actor. And plz no pitch manipulation to get lower and higher voices. Once again I am basing this on other previous played games not GW2. Just warning what they’ve done wrong.

Do voice actors that are famous with in the gaming world count as “famous voice actor”. For Guild Wars 2, the voice actors that are famous with in the gaming world are:

Felecia Day
Troy Baker
Jennifer Hale
Steve Blum

Although the personal story has probably got too much voice acting in it to add new ones (especially considering that they’d have to record 10 voice sets to give one new for every race and gender), I’d appreciate if they implemented new combat voice packs.
What I wouldn’t give for a Risen voice pack… DEATH GOOD, EVERYONE COME!

While I’m sure some of the actors weren’t cheap, I’m not sure they were as expensive as recording “many average actors.” Remember, you have to pay other people that make and work with those recordings, then work those recordings into the game. It’s not just the actors, so unless they hire very cheap actors, I’m not sure the savings would be enough.

I don’t know if the French or German dubs use big-name voice actors, but multiple languages is something to consider. Even in the English version, it’s not like they splurged on blockbuster movie stars. (Which is no knock against the cast—Popular celebrities != great voice acting.)

I don’t think this will happen considering your character has fully voiced cutscenes. that’s a lot of time and money spent to hire new voice actors. I’d like variety too, but most games that have voice variety as an option usually just use them for combat grunts and the like instead of fully voiced lines, like Monster Hunter.

You know…i remember way back when the game first came out, i was running around with the charr racial skill equipped….and i swear i heard my character say “The Charr need no Gods” Whatever happened to that?? because it was awesome!

And i agree and disagree, more voices for skills please, maybe not new voices for the cutscenes because that would cost way to much, but new voices for skills at least! that way some variety existed so you wouldnt hear the same line each time you activated the same skill, or have to listen to a warrior group spamming their battle chant…

http://www.kylehebert.com/?page_id=241#1

According to Kyle Hebert’s FAQ, voice actors are payed poorly. Good hourly rate, but they don’t work regular 8 hour shifts. Like even if they pay 200-300$ an hour, it wouldn’t take more than two hours to get all the lines, as story NPCs probably don’t have more than 20 minutes of spoken dialog cumulatively.

Granted this is for anime not games, this seems to echo a lot of what i’ve heard from other VAs.

So I don’t think Troy Baker or Felicia Day are going to be budget breakers. Maybe if they wanted to get Liam Neeson or something.

Servanin.5021:

So I don’t think Troy Baker or Felicia Day are going to be budget breakers. Maybe if they wanted to get Liam Neeson or something.

Oh…my…god….we need to make that happen!!! Could you imagine a NPC who does the whole taken line? for one of the new adventures in heart of thorns? you have to get his daughter back! xD

While I would happily pay good money for more voice options (voice is literally the only reason I haven’t made a second character of any given race), it’s not going to happen. It would be an expensive undertaking for something that ultimately adds very little to the game.

Dante.1763:

Servanin.5021:

So I don’t think Troy Baker or Felicia Day are going to be budget breakers. Maybe if they wanted to get Liam Neeson or something.

Oh…my…god….we need to make that happen!!! Could you imagine a NPC who does the whole taken line? for one of the new adventures in heart of thorns? you have to get his daughter back! xD

I’d settle for an Asuran imitation for more laughs.

That said, getting more voices as custom options would be cool for combat but not for custscenes. There’d be too much extra work getting previous voices back to record dialog for new added content. I mean if currently you have 10 main-character voice actors that record every time new story content was added, and they add another 20 for extra customization, that’s just more effort. And if they can’t get the same voice actor, they’ll have to decide on an imitation (more likely when you have more people to refuse/be incapable of recording) and if they’re “cheap” voice actors (to me, that means getting your Aunt or some friends that wanted to try it. As was mentioned by another poster, it’s not like voice actors make huge bucks as it is) they’re more prone to give substandard and inconsistent performances.