Guild Wars 2

I don’t think the Charr player female voice fits into the lore of the game because it’s too “human” sounding, too mid-tone. Charr ears are made so that the top ones hear high pitched sounds, and the lower set hears low pitched sounds (this creates a difficulty hearing mid-tone sounds, and contributes to the stress between human/charr).

Just wondering if anyone else thinks the same. I would like to see an option for the voice or have the voice lowered in pitch.

Personally I like the voice. Sometimes it really annoys me like when you are low on health and she moans and says, “Ugh, the pain it hurts…” Sounds like a 5 year old who just scraped their knee. During most of the dialog though I enjoy it and other than some very occasional bad line readings

I think she did a good job. I think she has a voice that doesn’t need to be gruff and brooding, I don’t know how to describe it but she sounds like the leader type and not growling through everything.

I can see where people could say it isn’t lore friendly though, especially considering how different the female charr pc sounds to every other. Plus I have to imagine the face people choose can effect it, having the old face or the freaky looking ones can make the voice very out of place.

It’s been a while since I heard the voice, not having a female charr character but having made one in the BWEs, but I don’t think it sounded too “mid-tone” or “human sounding” to me.

Honestly speaking, though, it’d be more than just humans charr would have a hard time hearing if they had such as hard a time as implied by Ree regarding their hearing middle frequencies.

Also: keep in mind it’s not tones, but frequencies of the sounds. Low pitch or high pitch doesn’t solely dictate the frequency of the sound. I think at least.

Actually, by definition pitch is frequency.

I somewhat agree with the OP that the female player charr voice is too mid-frequency for the lore. Most of the charr female voices are too high pitched for my taste. I would have preferred something that was hardly distinguishable from the male voices, to further play off that inter-species tension.

But I’m assuming they were afraid it would make an already hard-to-relate-to race even harder to relate to, and that’s why the female charr got such different voices from their male counterparts. I might think its a bad trade-off, but with the stats showing that the charr are already the least played race, I have to wonder. (the other part of me wonders if it’s just too hard to jump with charr)

I like my female charr’s voice. I hadn’t considered the mid-frequency thing, which might be a good point, but for me it fits her personality. I love it when she says kick-butt things and puts NPCs in their place. She’s a lot of fun after playing two human females who are just much too polite all the time.

When I hear female NPCs say “Yesssssss?”, “Speak”, in a raspy low pitch sound, I always think “My female charr should sound like that !”

It’s much more charr like.

While I can see the point the OP is making about charr ears and the female voice… I rather enjoy the female charr voice. It’s just refreshing seeing a beastly like race with a “normal” voice for once. I don’t know, I guess I see it as steryotype for a beast race to have raspy voices, or simple ideas of hunt and prey. Granted, the latter is rare for the most part.

Still thats just my take on it.

Personally, I think that the female Norn and the Female Charr voices should have been swapped, the female Norn one sounded so much like how I imagined a female Charr’s would have and vice versa.