A New Beginning - Final Cut

A New Beginning - Final Cut

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Vash the Stampede 2013 年 1 月 3 日 上午 8:38
Truly terrible voiceacting
This game is great as long as you play it without sound. The voice acting is atrocious I had to turn it off. The translation is pretty crappy too. I don't think I could recommend this game unless you want to play it in the original language. (not sure what that is) It's unfortunate because the game has an interesting story and great visuals.
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OldSnakey 2013 年 10 月 31 日 上午 5:59 
The voice actress for Fay is just so bad, I can't believe she could accept that from herself. It sounds like someone teaching how to speak English as a second language it's so robotic and lifeless.
Void 2013 年 11 月 1 日 上午 7:36 
引用自 Seraphin
引用自 Slade
I find it odd that so many people are talking about Fay's voice being bad, but I found Bent's voice worse. Was the voice actor depressed ? I get the impression he should see a Doctor, he sounded suicidal ! His voice was the worst aspect of the game.

I don't know the English voice acting, because I'm a native German speaker. But for your comment, I really want to point out:

The character of Bent is depressed! If you're not able to recognize that because of his acting, you'll be able to find this information ingame too. So, it's not a sign of bad voice acting, if the Voice Actor sounds depressed. It even shows, he's doing his job quite well.

The english voice actor sounds bored not depressed. Big difference, really big difference. :P
DarkMoS 2013 年 11 月 2 日 下午 4:59 
I tried the french and english version and french one is catastrophic: really "text to speech" like, no intonation or emotions whatsoever. English is not perfect neither but already more enjoyable.
Trance 2013 年 11 月 12 日 上午 3:25 
Tried both the english and german voices. Both are terrible, not "Michigan: Report from Hell" - Terrible, but really bad.
They clearly just used the cheapest "voiceactors" they could get.

But the game makes up for that. Just suffer through the voice acting,m the game itself is quite nice. I enjoyed it.
Xuang101 2013 年 11 月 12 日 下午 5:35 
d00d this is not as bad as some other games heck this is heaven compared to other games i've played.
Vash the Stampede 2013 年 11 月 12 日 下午 11:01 
I guess you guys just play some truly horrible games.
Xuang101 2013 年 11 月 13 日 上午 12:11 
their not horrible it's just due to budget reasons that the hiring of voice actors aren't that great. Daedalic actually does a great job with that, though the writing could use a little work.
OldSnakey 2013 年 11 月 13 日 上午 3:11 
If you don't do it right, just don't do it. The game would have been better *without* voice acting period.
Delu 2013 年 11 月 13 日 上午 9:36 
To tell you the truth over here in Germany we don't currently have good voice acting in Games at all, every dev or publisher that manages or produces voice overs over here probably has a much, much smaller budget for voice acting, staff and implementation compared to US/ UK productions as Games are still consindered a less prestigious niche (even tho sales numbers obviously suggest otherwise) and are often treated inferior/ stepmotherly compared to other quality standards in entertainment by higher ups who front the money/ make the decisions.

That combined with shady work ethics rumored to be the modi operandi at Daedalic Entertainment (teams apparently in large numbers are based of unpaid interns or underpaid freelancers) sadly they and also locally the industry itself won't step it up anytime soon..

Many years back this was different, old school adventure games like Day of the Tentacle or later Broken Sword were done much better, but nowadays it seems that's over.

Some productions that invest into a few good voice actors still fail at execution as even those voice actors can only save so much without deeper involvement/ context/ bad working environments.

As awesome as Mass Effect's Voice acting was in english (FemShep' especially) for example - the german voice overs were just laughably bad. Voice acting like that of Jennifer Hale's or that in "Bioshock infinite" or even an older title like "Prey" (Tommy and Jen - awesome work) simply unthinkable/ non existant in German productions or German localisations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tph1FX1fBQg ("Prey" voice acting and writing)


I can only imagine it's partly because of much smaller budgets and also working environments without quality standards of US productions, and probably mostly work out of any context so a voice actor wouldn't know where or how it all came together and basically would voice in hours of text without any visuals or deeper understanding of what they were part of.

I remember Kiefer Sutherland once on a late night talk show commented on how tedious a Game voice over production he was part of was (and surely he was one of the properly "pampered" stars in that US production) - now imagine that over here with much lower prestige, wages, much less time and even less helpfull work environments not keeping anyone interested or happy and you got the result we see in I would say pretty much every German handled production. As a German I'm really angry over that but it sadly is the truth.

Specifically on "A new beginning" writing and story was so cliché I could not make it through large parts of the game without cringing or "fremdschämen" as we say in Germany.

That's another thing, where US productions have dedicated "Writers" or even a team of those as someone who did creative work in another industry in Germany before I know for a fact aside from some movie stuff this would not be a dedicated (as in paid solely for that) position in most German productions, and is also treated inferior/ stepmotherly, way less prestigious, that's also why most of these new adventures are mostly superficial/ shallow with their stories and one dimensional characters as it very well might have been written by an unpaid intern on the side (keeping that in mind it's not bad but obviously not what ppl would like to see).

Personally I think it has to do with an issue in our society over here, sadly often many arts don't get any recognition or are not valued at all if they are too far off the usual office jobs of average joe/ plain jane in our so called "Leistungsgesellschaft".
最后由 Delu 编辑于; 2013 年 11 月 13 日 上午 11:13
tahgtahv 2013 年 11 月 15 日 下午 8:27 
I honestly didn't think this game was that bad. In comparison I thought "The Whispered World" was absolutely horrible (grating). I had to shut it off after maybe 30 minutes, and unfortunately I don't imagine finishing it.

Related tho, some things did bug me slightly. I understand the animations were likely synced for German, but it would have been nice if they at leaset were cut to length of the audio files. Subtitles also were another issue, they often didn't match up with the dubbing, and they were totally redundant during the comic book style scenes, in many cases overlapping the chat bubbles and making neither readable. Would have been nice if those were able to be supressed just for the cutscenes, but I felt off was the better of two evils.
Dr. Galactus 2013 年 12 月 7 日 上午 10:38 
The game is very nice in my opinion Though I understand the company didn't spend that much money for a localisation in different languages the native german sound is quite a thing.
NewYears1978 2013 年 12 月 10 日 下午 10:21 
Agree..it sounds like robots..some of the phrases and stuff don't even fit together..it's...very weird..shame because the game is interesting and otherwise charming.

引用自 OldSnakey
If you don't do it right, just don't do it. The game would have been better *without* voice acting period.

Definitely agree..normally I would not like a game without voices..but in this case especially a PNC game..it would have been better.

I actually turned the volume off for speech. Maybe I should put it on the original language..then at least I have some VO..
最后由 NewYears1978 编辑于; 2013 年 12 月 10 日 下午 10:29
引用自 lingogaming
German is the "original" - the language the developers speak. The voice acting in German is brilliant.

Absolutly the voice acting in german is very good and some stuff only makes sense in german im sure. but hey english movies & games have aweful synchronisation in german too. i bet its the same everywhere.
Woeful Wraith 2013 年 12 月 18 日 下午 4:57 
Finally got to this game after it sitting in my humble bundle in box for awhile. Agreed on horrible English voices. Also, the dialogue itself is atrocious. The writing and dialogue is as important an aspect of these types of games as story is. Combine bad voice acting with bad dialogue and man this is a tough game to play....
NewYears1978 2013 年 12 月 18 日 下午 5:17 
引用自 Dragonwitch
Finally got to this game after it sitting in my humble bundle in box for awhile. Agreed on horrible English voices. Also, the dialogue itself is atrocious. The writing and dialogue is as important an aspect of these types of games as story is. Combine bad voice acting with bad dialogue and man this is a tough game to play....


I stomached my way through it..I enjoyed it overall though a proper localization and maybe a better ending could have made it a decent experience..or at least a better one ;)
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