I have to agree, Bioware went way over the top when it comes to voice acting.  While nice, it had to cost a fortune and how many people just ignore it by getting the quest and leaving the npc.  Personally I prefer the way Lotro did it, using it strategically in some spots.

If you want to throw money at a MMO, throw it at more content, voice acting should be way down the list of things needed.

You do know that there is a very nice option to "skip the videos" right. Try it and see if you like that better.

The voice acting is fine it's the rest of the game that suffers. I would trade VO for open space combat, housing, and improving the rest of the game. Without a polished game in all areas VO is not enough to hold me.

Originally posted by nilden

The voice acting is fine it's the rest of the game that suffers. I would trade VO for open space combat, housing, and improving the rest of the game. Without a polished game in all areas VO is not enough to hold me.

Absolutely agree with this ^

Originally posted by precious328

The Jedi Knight voice work was terrible. My character sounded like some anti-drug Captain America-type person at the end of some 80s cartoon.

The Sith Warrior, however was pretty decent.

 

Its quite funny considering the Jedi Knight is voiced by Solid Snake, however all i hear is negative things about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoOQdU3zMzM

jesus.

Originally posted by fony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoOQdU3zMzM

 

jesus.

Horrible...

Originally posted by heartless

Originally posted by fony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoOQdU3zMzM

 

jesus.

Horrible...

Possibly the most unromantic scene ever lol

They just stood there :P

I mean I think the voice acting was alright, but it didn't go with the character looks (well since its player created, they never look right for the part :P)

The huge problem is that, THEY DON'T MOVE XD, minimium hand gestures as well

Originally posted by xKingdomx

Originally posted by heartless

Originally posted by fony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoOQdU3zMzM

 

jesus.

Horrible...

Possibly the most unromantic scene ever lol

 

They just stood there :P

I mean I think the voice acting was alright, but it didn't go with the character looks (well since its player created, they never look right for the part :P)

The huge problem is that, THEY DON'T MOVE XD, minimium hand gestures as well

It's not just the lack of animation. If only it was that. lol The dialogue seems to have been written by a 13 year old.

"I might just once accept payment in kisses?"

Compared to that, "Twilight" is a masterpiece.

Originally posted by heartless

Originally posted by xKingdomx

Originally posted by heartless

Originally posted by fony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoOQdU3zMzM

 

jesus.

Horrible...

Possibly the most unromantic scene ever lol

 

They just stood there :P

I mean I think the voice acting was alright, but it didn't go with the character looks (well since its player created, they never look right for the part :P)

The huge problem is that, THEY DON'T MOVE XD, minimium hand gestures as well

It's not just the lack of animation. If only it was that. lol The dialogue seems to have been written by a 13 year old.

"I might just once accept payment in kisses?"

Compared to that, "Twilight" is a masterpiece.

Have you read twilight? I heard they are worse than that. :P

Well I was commenting on the overall dialogue, which wasn't too bad. So I don't want to say the entire VO was terrible just because of one line. But the character animation were terrible throughout the entire scene. I mean they kiss and go back to their standing spot, which guy will do that.

Originally posted by precious328

The Jedi Knight voice work was terrible. My character sounded like some anti-drug Captain America-type person at the end of some 80s cartoon.

The Sith Warrior, however was pretty decent.

 

David Hayter was spot on for the Knight voice in my opinion. 

Voice acting at first in game fun some of the acting is cheesy after a while it all seems to be the same to me somtimes seems to drag on forever. Game really needs a option to have have old fashiond you have to read option for those that dont like the voice acting.

Fully agree here. I felt the same. I just didn't need the life story of every small Trooper or Rebel, err Republican guy. It feels much like a waste of time and money. Also, it only barely masks how menial and mindless many quests actually are and not on par with the most recent standards. More like from the EQ2 days with a pretty coloured ribbon aka VO.

I completely disagree with the author and the trolls and haters here that most likely never played the game.

The voice acting is enjoyable and what sets this game apart from the pact.

The author showed his ignorance of the game by mentioning the power of hitting the space bar to avoid the voice acting. There is a box in preferances that allows you to completely turn off cut scenes. The its the same boring type of MMO that you all say is better.

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Originally posted by Keogh

I completely disagree with the author and the trolls and haters here that most likely never played the game.

The voice acting is enjoyable and what sets this game apart from the pact.

The author showed his ignorance of the game by mentioning the power of hitting the space bar to avoid the voice acting. There is a box in preferances that allows you to completely turn off cut scenes. The its the same boring type of MMO that you all say is better.

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I've played two characters in SWTOR before I got bored with the game. One was a sith socrcerer who I got to level 43 and the other was a imperial operative who I got to level 25.

The voice acting for both characters was great and the personal stories were pretty good too. Inquisitor's story starts out pretty fun but becomes more and more boring as you progress. Imperial agent's story is one of the better ones and I really enjoyed it.

What really got to me were the voice overs for the kill/collect x quests. You spend 5 minutes listening to some random imperial who basically tells you to go and kill 20 rackghouls or 10 space pirates. I never once skipped the story voice overs because I did enjoy them but the rest felt pointless and dragged out. Not to mention, most of the time your character's response was reused. I've must've heard "time to show you was a sith can do" and "there will be no survivors" at least 20 times. That's when I started "space barring" through the voice overs...

Originally posted by Malakhon

This "Article" could be gelled down to:

"I really want the game to be like World of Warcraft"

 

don't like voice acting and brilliant storylines?

Then shut the hell up, because I don't want biowares designers to listen to you.

You have "Every Other Game" out there

 

 

 

/sigh

And you can't play single player RPG to for voice overs?

Originally posted by Keogh

I completely disagree with the author and the trolls and haters here that most likely never played the game.

The voice acting is enjoyable and what sets this game apart from the pact.

The author showed his ignorance of the game by mentioning the power of hitting the space bar to avoid the voice acting. There is a box in preferances that allows you to completely turn off cut scenes. The its the same boring type of MMO that you all say is better.

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God forbid people have a different opinion than you, labeling them as trolls doesnt help getting your point through.

As you said, the voice acting is the only thing that sets this game apart from the rest.

The rest of the game is worse than the rest, heck the actual quests in WoW are more entertaining than they are in SWTOR, go watch a movie instead, seriously, you are not your character, realise it already.

It's funny, in a tragic way.   Did you guys not get the memo that BW was "going to put the RPG back into MMORPG".  You don't have to take the quest, you know.  Oh but you're forcing yourself to?  PEBKAC





Say it's cheesy and laugh at the writing all you want but when you start complaining about hearing everyone's life story or a Jedi sounding like what a paragon of defense and justice should sound like then you're just being silly and ignorant.

Is it just me but are a lot of these voiced mission givers actually text mission givers because they are speaking an alien language and you have to read the subtitles anyway?.