Having said that, it baffles me that people know or even care about who a voice actor is It blows me away that people dont understand that the “i want 3rd” and “i want voiced” and “i want xyz” requests are so naiveĮspecially considering the budget and limitations of this console-first game

I can only speak to Bethesda's Creation Engine, but animations are hard tied to the audio file, and that makes it really hard to just switch off the voiced protagonist. That means now you have to add animations for talking. If, for example, TOW2 had an option to play in first and third person perspective then I would also expect them to use the same cinematic camera style used in the first game. I'm sure Ashley Burch is starting to get up there in cost too, as so many people really enjoy her work in games.Īs to turning it off- that depends on how it's done. Getting a Jennifer Hale (female shepard) or Courtney Taylor (ADA, Lilya Hagen- TOW, Nora- FO4) level voice actor is not cheap. This process also takes time to cast because you want them to be the best you can get due to voicing the primary character in the game. So you need at least six quality voice actors to come in and do tens of thousands of lines. I'm not sure how many languages Obsidian did localization for with this game, but it was probably at least 3. It does add a TON of cost to the making of the game. Voice them take nothing away from the game and doesn't limit the game in any way Most of their meaning are clear no matter what voice are given to them I'm not saying that a voiced protagonist can't work when the game has an established character, such as The Witcher and Mass Effect franchises, but for a game like this I really don't think it would be a good fit.ĭialogue option are already defined what the main character can be That is a serious chunk of their limited budget which was thankfully spent elsewhere. The Outer Worlds has a lot of dialog and as such, a voiced protagonist for the male and female player character would require two voice actors to record more lines than any other character in the game. That was the least of the game's issues of course, but it stands to reason that I've only ever managed to play the game through once. The fact that your character has a backstory loosley determined by the developers and a voice that might not match the appearance that you create at all, it creates a disconnect with the character I was asked to create. I've said it before that the protagonist in Fallout 4 was a catastrophe. I much prefer imagining the voice for my protagonist in a first person RPG.

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