the voice acting in starcraft 2

Discussion in 'General StarCraft 2 Discussion' started by Aurora, Aug 1, 2010.

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What did you think of the voice acting?

  1. It was great.

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  2. It was decent.

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  3. It sucked.

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the voice acting in starcraft 2

Discussion in 'General StarCraft 2 Discussion' started by Aurora, Aug 1, 2010.

  1. Aurora

    Aurora The Defiant

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    Am I the only one who is feeling as if it could have been much better? The voices of units often sound a little hollow, and lack the variety they have in other Blizzard games. But that's not what was really bothering me in the end.

    The biggest problem, at least in my opinion, was the voice acting in the campaign. I felt like most of it was recorded separately, instead of as a full conversation between those people. It lacked emotion, and it just wasn't very lifelike in general. I recently replayed both Warcraft III: TFT and SC:BW, and found both of these to have very convincing voice acting, especially in cinematics between missions. When 2 people are angry or excited, I expect them to sound like that, and talk/react fast to each other. Not talk like 2 elderly people who just had their pills. Man up, Tychus, you sounded boring.

    To sum it up: starcraft 2 has great story telling, but Blizzard really let us down with some proper voice acting. Just needed to rant a little about that. ^^

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    Yeah, some of the voice acting was a bit emotionless.
    It felt like they were just reading at some points.

    Tychus was pretty good though.
     
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    Maybe it's because I expected the most from him. Not sure. Still, he started out pretty good, but near the end of the campaign he sounded so uninterested and emotionless. :/

    My fave char (when it comes to voice acting at least,) was actually Tosh, he was great. Also really liked Mengsk himself, and the guy in the Armory. Still, that's about it. Not that many things of which I can say: "wow, that really was great".
     
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    Does the news count? Because I absolutely loved the news lol....
     
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    Hehe, to be honest, I loved the ending of the news. Really made me laugh. Still, if a little gimmick like that contains the best voice acting in the game, then it actually feels like even more of a letdown. Lol.
     
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    Lol, yeah, the news was pretty funny and I actually enjoyed Tychus, at least in the early parts. Taking my time playing and replaying the campaigns for the achievements so I've only had a few conversations with Mr. Findlay. Swann was cool, too. The others are a bit melodramatic, Raynor being foremost.
     
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    I felt like they could be more on-the-edge, since there is close to none interruption and they often were quite, as Aurora said, slow.
    But i felt the history were quite immensing.