Stoner Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 I hope thread name isn't too confusing... These little things had been nagging at me each playthrough. Example, Eder speaking (voiced): bla-bla-bla (no-spoilers ) - he frowns - bla-bla. I like reading everything, each word, not to miss single sentence, expression and etc. Main problem comes with voiced dialogues, you can follow text but pauses are too short to read entire text of the speaker in one go, so you have to listen and then re-read (with descriptions this time) full text. Voice acting is very good, even great, but it cannot express everything that's written inside dialogue window, sometimes it's mood expressions, sometimes pose shifts and gestures. I'm perfectly fine with games that have just text dialogues and no voices, but since it's done in PoE, and done very well, it feels bad to just turn it off. How to live with such a nuisance?... Does anyone else feel the same way? P.S. People in Eora are too grim, the frown way too much... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenixp Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 It is kind of annoying, I would have preferred something along the lines of <"blablabla" he frowned> and then you'd click a 'continue' button for another block of text to show and VO to continue. As it stands, I just read the spoken dialogue along with VO and then jump back to read the description bits. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messier-31 Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description description. "I got used to it." It would be of small avail to talk of magic in the air... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoner Posted October 7, 2015 Author Share Posted October 7, 2015 @Fenixp Yeah, I do the same mostly, but you have to agree - it breaks the flow a bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenixp Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 @Stoner Very, sometimes, the emotions were relayed rather poorly via the VO and reading the text significantly shifted meaning of the dialogue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4WhiteTiger Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 as a newbie to this game, I find it out of place. what I'm doing now is listening to dialog then when the voice over is finished I read the whole text dialog. good game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanis Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Maybe a narrarator could voice over the description text. I am listening to the voice over and then reading the whole thing again to get the description text in context. Not a big deal, but could be improved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ymarsakar Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 (edited) I don't have a problem on this issue. Then again I watch subtitled foreign shows, so my reading and audio data processing is on its own parallel tracks by now. Edited October 7, 2015 by Ymarsakar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flix Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I agree, a lot of times the description says that the character pauses to do something, but there's not the slightest pause in the dialogue. Mainly though what bugged me is that a character is described as whispering, moaning, coughing, gritting teeth, or whatever else, but the actor continues on in the same pleasant tone of voice. Feels like those descriptions weren't present at the time of recording. I had no problem keeping up though, in fact I'm usually way ahead of the voice actor, which can be its own problem. Lady Webb in particular talked excrutiatingly slow. The voice actor would get through half a sentence and I'd just have to click 'continue' because otherwise it'd take so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oralaina Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I agree, a lot of times the description says that the character pauses to do something, but there's not the slightest pause in the dialogue. Mainly though what bugged me is that a character is described as whispering, moaning, coughing, gritting teeth, or whatever else, but the actor continues on in the same pleasant tone of voice. Feels like those descriptions weren't present at the time of recording. I had no problem keeping up though, in fact I'm usually way ahead of the voice actor, which can be its own problem. Lady Webb in particular talked excrutiatingly slow. The voice actor would get through half a sentence and I'd just have to click 'continue' because otherwise it'd take so long. Yeah, I read really REALLY fast (1500 wpm).... Stuff like this drives me NUTS. I don't want to hear the voice acting for various reasons: first, it's so damn slow; second, I'm roleplaying a whole other game in my head, and this junk doesn't fit; third, I just don't think the VA adds anything to the game (personal opinion of course); fourth, I HATE chit chat and conversation IRL, and it's even worse in a game. Just TELL me what's going on and let me click through the screens as fast as I can read. I know I'm a minority there.... but it's an ongoing issue for me, has been ever since NWN maybe, not sure now when all that VA stuff started happening.... Don't like it, don't want it, please make it go away.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dog_days Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I don't have a problem with the voice acting, per se, but as textual learner I would rather there be no voice acting with the dialog box open but the VA left on during combat and while issuing commands for immersion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 4ward Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 i think it should be either VA with no descriptive text or without VA but with descriptive text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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