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Posted by: vonbladewing.5973

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so with this little tidbit of info about voice changes https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/meet-the-new-voice-of-the-male-charr-player-character/ and with including this information that given

“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/

and if i remember that when heart of thorns was announced John Collins said that one of the features of the new expansion will be the ability for the player to change the voice of there characters. So my questions are, is this one of the features coming into the next LSs3 update and if not is its still on the table?

Also what do the player base think?

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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781

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Can you find a source for giving players the ability to change the voice of their characters? My recollection is that they said it wasn’t going to happen — see the quote you have above: 40 actors per line, 1,500 lines of new dialogue in one patch. That’s a lot of effort and expense.

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Posted by: vonbladewing.5973

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it will take me time to find the video for the reference, but hey 40actors per line and 1,500 lines could be just a start.

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Posted by: Inculpatus cedo.9234

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I don’t remember any such statement. And, forgive me, who is John Collins? (I must be out of the loop.)

The statement I remember was that the player character would now be voiced, rather than just text.

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Posted by: Aidan Savage.2078

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it will take me time to find the video for the reference, but hey 40actors per line and 1,500 lines could be just a start.

You’re forgetting that they would ALSO need to re-record every single PC-spoken line from Personal Story (massive clusterkitten of lines right there), LS1 if they ever find a way to bring it back in a playable form, LS2, HoT, and the first episode of LS3. And that’s just what’s in game right now.

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Posted by: Ceridwen.6703

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it will take me time to find the video for the reference, but hey 40actors per line and 1,500 lines could be just a start.

40 actors per line =

4 languages – English, French, German and Spanish

5 Female characters – Asura, Charr, Human, Norn, Sylvari

5 Male characters (as above).

It’s not about extra voices to choose from in that particular quote, just an indication of how much work goes into voicing our own characters for release.

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Posted by: TheRandomGuy.7246

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I don’t remember them saying that. That “40 actors” stuff is just for the default character voice.

And, forgive me, who is John Collins? (I must be out of the loop.)

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Posted by: Redenaz.8631

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They never said anything about letting players change their character voices. The thing with HoT was that the player character would be speaking again, period, something that was missing from LS2. Same voices, just a lot of new recordings and (if I’m not mistaken) some new technology to let the player talk more.

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Posted by: IndigoSundown.5419

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Adding 2 options, which I would consider a minimum if they were going to offer options at all, would mean 120 actors per line. :O

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Posted by: sorudo.9054

sorudo.9054

a tone and pitch slider does wonders, but oh well….