Voice Acting?

[FHZebedee]

Voice acting can improve many video games, give them more ambience, make them far more impressive, or ruin them.

I'm wondering if most of you think that Legend of Dragon style voice acting (battle/cutscene only) seems incongruous with the whole idea of sprite-sized battle characters. I'm tempted to try it, and I know I can get the voice actors for it... But I'm just fairly perplexed on what most people think of it.

[ZeroKirbyX]

I've always thought that voice acting used sparingly could be cool. I'd only use it in battle for special moves and the usual "Augh!" and in cutscenes like Skies of Arcadia. Like when you have the coice "Let's stay" or "Let's go" selecting lets go will make him say  "Yeah!" or the likes.

[Darkfox]

I'd say voice acting is alright. CONSOLE games without them actually get points counted off. Take Devil Summoner for instance, it was all text and just the occasional grunts and yells. Lost a few points there.

Btw, I do an awsome Marvin Martian impression. XD

[DragonBlaze]

Voice acting is cool, I use it for the battles in my game. All the spells, actions, and such have voices. But I don't think they should be used actually in the game, a few cutscenes could be cool. But it'd just be weird to have a little 16 bit sprite standing there and talking. But yeah, in the battles, some key scenes, and narations can be voiced over. Just be sure to watch the file size of your game. Anyway, you won't get any profesional voice actors to help you, but you can have your friends help out on some parts and such. Whats really helpful is if you get a voice modifying program, that way you can do multiple parts yourself because it'll be hard to find people do do all the parts.

[Darkfox]

XD

*Imagines hero talking then a woman talks exactly the same way tone included*

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by Darkfox
XD

*Imagines hero talking then a woman talks exactly the same way tone included*

lmao, anyway, that would be kinda creepy. But yeah, there are a lot of good voice modifying programs out there that'll make your voice sound like the opposite sex, and it'll actually sound  very normal. Its really weird hearing your voice like that. If you're any good at voice acting, you can change the style in which you talk a bit for differant characters, modify how the actual voice sounds, and you wouldn't be able to tell that the two voices came from the same person.

[FHZebedee]

Do you think that forming a voice actors team would be too extreme, or would it work out well for people? Could it possibly get enough support from forum goers, even? I get a feeling that if quality voice acting was offered, more people with RPGMaker games would feature it.