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The problem isn't voice acting, it's bad voice acting that takes longer than reading the text. Judicious use of good voice acting is engaging and adds value.
by CuriouslyC 4y ago
The problem isn't voice acting, it's bad voice acting that takes longer than reading the text. Judicious use of good voice acting is engaging and adds value.
- whywhywhywhy 4y ago> The problem isn't voice acting, It is when they literally don't hire enough actors. IIRC Fallout 3 was the worst offender for this, the first 2 hours of the game has like 6 celebrity VAs, the next 80 hours has like 3 male VAs and 2 female VAs and one of the male VAs has an insanely distinctive voice that gets used every other NPC and even on a child at one point. It's laughably bad no exec didn't push to fix that before shipping. But yeah probably blew all the VA budget on the celebs that can't fill the amount of voice required for the entire game, same issue with Destiny by Bungie where hiring too expensive talent even drove who got killed in the plot and who the stories were about.
- Blackthorn 4y agoSure it is. With voice acting, you can't have the sheer quantity of dialog that you could if you just used text. Voice acting takes time and dollars to produce. Text takes way way less of both, which results in allowing you to have a lot more of it (see: Morrowind vs subsequent games).