Voice

[zuki]

Do you find it important that the characters have a real voice or do you prefer just the text balloons more ?

I was just wondering

[Rantz]

I prefer just having it in text! Gives another atmosphere to the games that I like better.

[MJN SEIFER]

This may be the wrong place to be talking about this, as this game doesn't use VO, but while I have nothing against voice acting as a whole, I always thought RPGs work better when it's text, there's just something endearing about having a moving story on screen.

[Remon]

Text. It helps with imagination

[kotora]

voice acting as long as it doesn't suck

[Jessweeee♪]

I like anything that makes the characters more lively. Text is nice, but the more a game relies on my suspension of disbelief, the harder it is for me to get into it. That said, if any pre-FFX titles were to be remade with voice acting, the entire script would need to be redone. Some enjoyable bits of dialogue would sound extremely retarded said out loud


Also, I can't smurfing stand it when a text box says something like "*sob* *sob*" Surely there's a better way to show that a character is sobbing? It just totally ruins a tragic and powerful moment when a character shouts SCREEEEAAAAAM. (But for comedy it is okay.)

[kotora]

why is this on the ff8 board anyway

[Shaibana]

i do prefer voices over txtballoons bcaus it makes the characters more alive. and u hear the emotions better.

but ofcourse it always sucks when the voice actor screwes it up

[MJN SEIFER]

I like anything that makes the characters more lively. Text is nice, but the more a game relies on my suspension of disbelief, the harder it is for me to get into it. That said, if any pre-FFX titles were to be remade with voice acting, the entire script would need to be redone. Some enjoyable bits of dialogue would sound extremely retarded said out loud


Also, I can't smurfing stand it when a text box says something like "*sob* *sob*" Surely there's a better way to show that a character is sobbing? It just totally ruins a tragic and powerful moment when a character shouts SCREEEEAAAAAM. (But for comedy it is okay.)

I'm kinda the opposite. I for some God Mistaken reason, found that adding voices to FFX made the characters flatter, and less real - I know it's strange, but I kind of find RPGs to be a kind of "story" you're in contol of, and it loses it in voices. Also certain failed scenes like the Laughing Scene in FFX would have been better received - nobody got that Tidus was only laughing as a joke! That's why it sounded so unconvincing - it would have been more clear in text.

I agree with you about when they say what they're doing though - I can't think what I'd do for sobbing, but if I wanted my text based characters to scream, I'd probably type "AHHHHH!" or something like that, maybe there's a way to phonetically type a sob, or perhaps I should just break appart the normal dialogue, to show it. Either way, there's a better way than just "sob".

[kotora]

I thought it was pretty damn obvious they were fake laughing because it sounded super fake. How do you suppose people would have gotten that from a text balloon?

[Roogle]

Also, I can't smurfing stand it when a text box says something like "*sob* *sob*" Surely there's a better way to show that a character is sobbing? It just totally ruins a tragic and powerful moment when a character shouts SCREEEEAAAAAM. (But for comedy it is okay.)

Yes, this is one of the problems that I have with text boxes. It is very difficult to see the subtlety of emotion in a dialogue unless you fully understand the characters and the situation. Voice acting allows the characters to convey their emotions much better.

[Mirage]

I prefer voice acting if the voice acting is actually good.

[Roogle]

I agree. Poor voice acting can make a game memorable for the wrong reasons. For example, Resident Evil comes to mind with its camp voice acting. Have you ever heard any audio clips from the game before?

[MJN SEIFER]

I agree. Poor voice acting can make a game memorable for the wrong reasons. For example, Resident Evil comes to mind with its camp voice acting. Have you ever heard any audio clips from the game before?

STOP! Don't... Open...that door!

[Hot Shot]

I agree. Poor voice acting can make a game memorable for the wrong reasons. For example, Resident Evil comes to mind with its camp voice acting. Have you ever heard any audio clips from the game before?

STOP! Don't... Open...that door!

It's a memory that's better when forgotten. But a good point none the less.

I don't think any of the pre-X FF games would have worked with voices imo. Similarly, the newer voices wouldn't have worked without voice acting. I dunno why people complain about X's voice acting, I think it's better than XII and XIII.