147024-voice-acting-appreciation-thread

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One of the things that has impressed me about WS from day one is the voice acting, and Carbine's decision to hire professional voice actors, and I assume, doing more than one take on the lines to get things right. See, I come from a background of 10 years of WoW, and good lord, the voice acting in WoW... I'm convinced they just pull random people off the streets, have them read the lines once, and that's it, stick it in the game. My WoW friends and I always joked that Aronus, the emo drake, was voiced by the pizza delivery guy (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0P7s4dA8yQ) Here,the voice acting is almost entirely great. 
 
I mean there are some gratey bits here and there in WS. There the occasionally awful British accents on Dominion side. And there's the annoyingly vapid "Hey! Hey! Heeey!" and "Uh uh! Uh uh!" from female human NPCs. But over all this game is great when it comes to voices, and I really appreciate the effort. 
 
Edit: Just look at the talent on the WS voice acting list. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3712498/fullcredits/
			
				
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Fully agree about the voice acting, it's mostly very good, wish there was more. My personal favourites are the Chua and Lopp voices and especially Mondo Zax and Artemis Zin.
 
Have to ask though - why we can't have a discussion about this without feeling the need to bash on other MMOs? It devalues and cheapens your point.	
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Fully agree about the voice acting, it's mostly very good, wish there was more. My personal favourites are the Chua and Lopp voices and especially Mondo Zax and Artemis Zin.
 
Have to ask though - why we can't have a discussion about this without feeling the need to bash on other MMOs? It devalues and cheapens your point.
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While certain minor characters can have pretty bad voice acting, on the whole I really like WoW's voice work, no need to have a go at it. I could quite easily pick a minor Wildstar character and make fun of how bad their voice is too.
 
To the point though, I do agree that Wildstar has some really nice voice acting, Chua, Lopp, Artemis Zin, Axis Phaedra and Avra Darkos all have particularly great voice work.
			
				
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I feel that WoW's voice acting has been very good lately. To each their own, I suppose.
 
That said, Wildstar does also have great voice acting.
 
Belle Walker is probably my personal favorite. Her voice sounds quite melodious to me. ^_^
			
				
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I love the voice intros for every different area and expedition in the game. Those are just fun.
 
Probably the most grating voice in the game is that female Aurin voice that constantly sounds like she's talking to a child-- the one that's like "Oh no, this is just awful! I'm so upset right now!"	
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			Oh I love the voice acting in this. It's fantastic and I can't tell you how many times it's made me laugh. 	
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Don't I just love it when the forum logs me out while I try to post something and doesn't save a draft. Here's the short version then...
 
I've my client set to German so my voice actors are different. I still enjoy the work they do a lot. Or rather, I'm keeping it on German because I enjoy their work, there's plenty of games out there where I have to change audio language to English because the german VO just doesn't fit.
 
Special mentions go out to the holocrypt comments. I love those, they almost make dying a worthwhile endeavor.
 
I wonder who did the german voiceover for the mayor during the Shade's Eve instance. I heard him talk, started to grin and thought "hey, that sounds an awful lot like the voice dubbing John Cleese, the guy has to be mad" but that may just be me.	
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			I really like the Mechari voices. Female Mechari specifically sound great.  	
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I really like the Mechari voices. Female Mechari specifically sound great.  
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Superb voice acting indeed. My favorite voices are The Caretaker and Phineas T. Rotostar. I love the blatant and non-apologetic attitude and humour.
"Protostar: Making your dreams come true! For money!" (Protostar corporation is not responsible for making actual dreams come true.)	
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Yeah, definitely. They really nailed the Mechari's tendency toward subtlety and stealth.
 
Heck, their voices are so subtle, you can't even hear them!
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So we're talking about the player voice acting?
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Yeah, definitely. They really nailed the Mechari's tendency toward subtlety and stealth.
 
Heck, Mechari player voices are so subtle, you can't even hear them!
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			I second the holocrypt voice-acting appreciation. It comes off as very natural. I especially love the occasional change in inflection from dramatic narration to playful chiding.	
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Coming from almost 10 years of Warcraft, I have to say the voice acting on this game is 10/10
Really amazing. ...well except for the mystic coins page..that shit is terrible and feels cheap.	
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Hey there guys! (First post here ever so forgive me :) )
 
Quick intro: I'm VO Coordinator for Carbine (I also work with the Lore team as an Editor).
 
Just wanted to say that it's really awesome to see how much people enjoy the voice acting and I will definitely be passing these words along to the actors. They works super hard to do their best for the game and are really passionate about their work. 
 
And yes, we absolutely do more than one take of a line that's standard for everywhere really. :)	
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			The VA work in this game is just amazing! Mondo Zax hands down being my favorite. (( Who is also Cicero from Skyrim :3 ))	
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Gotta say that the level up announcements and holocrypt guy are my favorites.
 
Oh, and the protostar clones.
 
And the lopp.
 
And...
 
The humor in this game is absolutely delightful :-)	
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One of the things that has impressed me about WS from day one is the voice acting, and Carbine's decision to hire professional voice actors, and I assume, doing more than one take on the lines to get things right. See, I come from a background of 10 years of WoW, and good lord, the voice acting in WoW... I'm convinced they just pull random people off the streets, have them read the lines once, and that's it, stick it in the game. My WoW friends and I always joked that Aronus, the emo drake, was voiced by the pizza delivery guy (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0P7s4dA8yQ) Here,the voice acting is almost entirely great. 
 
I mean there are some gratey bits here and there in WS. There the occasionally awful British accents on Dominion side. And there's the annoyingly vapid "Hey! Hey! Heeey!" and "Uh uh! Uh uh!" from female human NPCs. But over all this game is great when it comes to voices, and I really appreciate the effort. 
 
Edit: Just look at the talent on the WS voice acting list. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3712498/fullcredits/
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Hey there guys! (First post here ever so forgive me :) )
 
Quick intro: I'm VO Coordinator for Carbine (I also work with the Lore team as an Editor).
 
Just wanted to say that it's really awesome to see how much people enjoy the voice acting and I will definitely be passing these words along to the actors. They works super hard to do their best for the game and are really passionate about their work. 
 
And yes, we absolutely do more than one take of a line that's standard for everywhere really. :)
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Hey there guys! (First post here ever so forgive me :) )
 
Quick intro: I'm VO Coordinator for Carbine (I also work with the Lore team as an Editor).
 
Just wanted to say that it's really awesome to see how much people enjoy the voice acting and I will definitely be passing these words along to the actors. They works super hard to do their best for the game and are really passionate about their work. 
 
And yes, we absolutely do more than one take of a line that's standard for everywhere really. :)
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			There should be a whole thread just to talk about how great the female draken's /cheer is. WHOOO!	
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For me voice wise its the little things that I find brilliant. Like the level up announcer who made me laugh a good few times on the road to level 50 or the red caretaker which I found was done brilliantly and whoever recorded some of his lines probably could have been heard from several blocks away during the recording session. 
 
But they add to the humorous nature and immersion of the game.
			
				
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			I especially liked the voice acting in the shades eve event. :D	
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			Chua voice acting is the best. If I didn't find the Cassians so obnoxious I'd have rolled Dominion just for the Chua.	
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			I would appreciate the voice acting more if my Mechari had a voice.	
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I would appreciate the voice acting more if my Mechari had a voice.
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Have you tried re-installing the sound drivers to your Mechari?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cree_Summer#Video_game_voice_acting
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISKaSVdT1sk	
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For me voice wise its the little things that I find brilliant. Like the level up announcer who made me laugh a good few times on the road to level 50 or the red caretaker which I found was done brilliantly and whoever recorded some of his lines probably could have been heard from several blocks away during the recording session. 
 
But they add to the humorous nature and immersion of the game.
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I really like WS voice acting, it's charming and well done.. Unlike a certain MMO from a major Japanese publisher whose English voice acting is so bad.. it's painful. XD
 
But I think WS VA work has a lot of personality, which I really appreciate!	
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Fun facts!
 
The level up announcer is also our trailer announcer and the zone synopsis guy. Also... Jariel from the Datacubes! (Mr. Fred Tatasciore)
 
The Red Caretaker is the same as our Green Caretaker and did those switches from sane to not all together in session. The talented Mr. JB Blanc is his voice. :)
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The Red Caretaker is the same as our Green Caretaker and did those switches from sane to not all together in session. The talented Mr. JB Blanc is his voice.
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I really don't like Blade-Wind the Invoker's croaking voice, especially since he does not shut up for all of STL. Spiritmother Selene's strained squawking and edgy lines are pretty bad too.
Trogun is great though	
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So I'm new to Wildstar, like, first character level 13 new. I've been pretty interested in this game for a while and now that I'm actually playing it, I'm completely blown away by the amount of love in this game, and the voice acting DEFINITELY ties it all together. It's like, the characters are already great, but then the voice lines make them come alive even more, y'know? I think the last MMO I played with voice acting was DCUO and the voice acting there would range from "oh that's nice" to "please put down your mic", so this is refreshing.
 
...Damn I love this game lol	
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Probably the most grating voice in the game is that female Aurin voice that constantly sounds like she's talking to a child-- the one that's like "Oh no, this is just awful! I'm so upset right now!"
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			Artemis Zin is probably my favorite VO, I adore her so much it's the biggest thing I miss playing Exiles., though Belle Walker is also great too VO wise.	
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Fun facts!
The level up announcer is also our trailer announcer and the zone synopsis guy. Also... Jariel from the Datacubes! (Mr. Fred Tatasciore)
The Red Caretaker is the same as our Green Caretaker and did those switches from sane to not all together in session. The talented Mr. JB Blanc is his voice. :)
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			I want to make holo-babies with the taxi driver. 	
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			Is that weird? 	
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Awesome to know, thanks for the info!
WildStar voice acting really makes leveling alts a pleasant experience even when dying (repeatedly) in ProtoStar or other dungeons.
I also am a bit silly and I switch my Transmat bind point and use it randomly just to hear the snarky comments.
How many of these silly comments (for dying/binding/teleporting) are there!?  I haven't heard a repeat of ANY of them!
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Fun facts!
 
The level up announcer is also our trailer announcer and the zone synopsis guy. Also... Jariel from the Datacubes! (Mr. Fred Tatasciore)
 
The Red Caretaker is the same as our Green Caretaker and did those switches from sane to not all together in session. The talented Mr. JB Blanc is his voice. :)
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So for the Holocrypt we have about 100 different options, the bindings have about 50, and the recalls have about 80. So there are LOTS of choices :) You will eventually hear them all if you keep playing, but not so often that they'll get annoying I think. :)
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So for the Holocrypt we have about 100 different options, the bindings have about 50, and the recalls have about 80. So there are LOTS of choices :) You will eventually hear them all if you keep playing, but not so often that they'll get annoying I think. :)
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Pranaya, thanks so much for the info! I've wondered: How many lines are there for the bounty board?? I swear I clicked on that thing 30 times in a row a while back just to hear more lines and I never got a repeat. Maybe I'm remembering wrong but it sure seemed like there were A TON. LOVE that guy too :D
 
Some of my favorites:
 
Male aurin /cry
Female mordesh player character sounds (using my innate on my medic: "Rrrragh!")
Ekose in general - for example: "You look like you don't mind some killin'!" and "Well, shipwrecks!"
Lopp talking about "Many things in this big wide world, because I am tiny, and world is huge!" (always giggle at that line)
Freebots!! Basically everything they say, ever
 
<3 Fantastic! So many little gems that make me smile any time I hear them
 
Also sorta related, but whoever is in charge of your sound effects stuff does a bangup job - in fact there's really only one or two sounds I hate but I rarely encounter them and all the super awesome, enjoyable, pleasurable sounds make up for it :D (hated sound effect that springs to mind is that gross "blorp" sound like when strain mobs cast that black sludge bubble stuff, or boiling cauldrons...) Everything for the most part has very satisfying impact, feedback, and rewards actions...really well done. Wildstar's sound in general is outstanding.	
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Also sorta related, but whoever is in charge of your sound effects stuff does a bangup job - in fact there's really only one or two sounds I hate but I rarely encounter them and all the super awesome, enjoyable, pleasurable sounds make up for it :D ... Everything for the most part has very satisfying impact, feedback, and rewards actions...really well done. Wildstar's sound in general is outstanding.
 
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Totally agree. The sounds in WS are amazing. Heck, they're so good that when a sound decision isn't so great it really stands out, like obnoxious mini pet noises (Space dagun, chompys, etc) or overly loud housing decor (marauder grill, etc). But over all sound in this game is great. 
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			Proffesor Rhoda wellspring makes me wet.	
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This thread is becoming a little too creepy, haha.
Let's keep things PG ok?  Ok ^_^	
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