Guild Wars 2

First time I heard my own voice during the beta I was very happy and delighted. It creates so much more immersion.

I totally understand that in the living world, you can’t do full dialogues that tell the story. There are 5 different races, 2 sexes per race, so 10 different voices for each language. In total there are 5 languages, so 50 voice actors in total that are needed for each line of text. But hearing your own voice adds a lot of immersion.

My suggestion is to create a database of some common lines that can be used at the start and/or finish of dialogues and also in events inbetween.

For example.
“What, in Ogden’s name is going on here” (with the name even changing depending the race). followed by a text driven dialogue.
“Move out!” After a dialogue
“glad to be here”

Besides the battle quotes, such a database can add in my opinion a lot of immersion to the living story, even if the full dialogues can’t be spoken out loud due to development issues.

They have specifically stated that having your character speak is one of the things that they couldn’t do before in the living story due to tech limitations, but really wanted to and have now been able to bring it back for HoT and onwards, so yes, you should expect to hear more of it.