Builder voice acting

[البنُّور]

When its going to be added?

[Coltrek]

I don't it will, because of below...

样 [developer] May 27, 2022 @ 9:05am
As for now, we don't have a plan to make the MC dialogues because we think everyone gets their imagination to the MC, so either giving dialogues or the voice acting will define the MC, which is not what we want. We want to keep the diversity of personality and leave the room for players to imagine their MC.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1084600/discussions/0/3389534247558167328/

[Dex]

They got some pretty heavy negative feedback from the builder's voice from Portia so I think they decided it wasn't worth it. I personally turned it off immediately in Portia due to how weird it was, and I'm glad to have no voice here. It's not as if we have much real dialogue anyways.

[Aerogems]

I keep hoping, probably for naught, that they'll make it like an optional DLC download or something along those lines. People like me who want it can download it, everyone else is free to ignore it.

[AA]

Apparently, that didn't stop them from making some horrible choices with animal sounds either.

Originally posted by Dex:

They got some pretty heavy negative feedback from the builder's voice from Portia so I think they decided it wasn't worth it. I personally turned it off immediately in Portia due to how weird it was, and I'm glad to have no voice here. It's not as if we have much real dialogue anyways.

[البنُّور]

But... a mute builder? disappointed ... its something exceptional to give a voice to your character, always a huge plus for me and am sure for many others, am not why the negatively toward my time at portia's builder voice, I don't see a problem with it... have confidence in your work, players will complain no matter what.

[Aerogems]

Originally posted by Kendahna:

But... a mute builder? disappointed ... its something exceptional to give a voice to your character, always a huge plus for me and am sure for many others, am not why the negatively toward my time at portia's builder voice, I don't see a problem with it... have confidence in your work, players will complain no matter what.

I didn't really see anything particularly wrong with the builder's voice in Portia either. The English voice anyway. It wasn't like an award winning performance or anything, but it was serviceable. Well, the male voice anyway, haven't tried creating a female character on Portia, so maybe there was something about that voice.

Ultimately for me it comes down to "their game, their choice" but I can still express my disappointment at the decision. Certainly not enough that I won't play the game and enjoy it, but I might have been able to enjoy it just a little bit more otherwise. It'd be a little easier to slip into that lucid dream-like state when you don't have to read dialog choice options and then pick one.

[PacificCloud]

Honestly, I am not a fan of a voiced player in a game where you create your own character, it takes away from the RP and agency of the player. Like, say you make this cool and mature character but the voice doesn't match the personality, it's the worst.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

After playing Fallout 4, I never want any of my characters in an RPG voiced ever again.

[PacificCloud]

Originally posted by Havik:

After playing Fallout 4, I never want any of my characters in an RPG voiced ever again.

100% the same, this is the reason why I hold my current stance on voiced player characters!

[Sketch Elder]

No Voice is one of the options in character creation. It seems silly to give us 8 other choices and then provide no voice acting. That's forcing us all to take the No Voice choice whether we want it or not.

I always prefer having a meaningful choice, rather than a meaningless one, or no choice at all. I think this was a very poor decision.

[Errapel]

For me a good voice acted player character is amazing, a bad one is... not. I find silent protagonists disconcerting, like I don't really exist, I'm a ghost telepathically communicating a few basic words... Yeah that's probably just me.

I'm disappointed there probably won't be a a voiced protagonist, after-all it should be possible to just turn off the voice if you prefer not to have it. But it's hardly a deal-breaker for me, and I guess there's bigger priorities for the devs.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Originally posted by Sketch Elder:

No Voice is one of the options in character creation. It seems silly to give us 8 other choices and then provide no voice acting. That's forcing us all to take the No Voice choice whether we want it or not.

I always prefer having a meaningful choice, rather than a meaningless one, or no choice at all. I think this was a very poor decision.

Most people would prefer no VA for RP reasons.

I don't often actually care about RP'ing in games, but with games like MTAS/P, at least I can somewhat get a small sense of immersion, like it's "me" in the game.

Quite frankly, the voice acting in the entirety of Portia/Sandrock is just bad.

I don't wan't my builder included in that.

[Sketch Elder]

I don't think any of us are qualified to speak for "most people."

The No Voice option should be sufficient for all the people who don't want a voice, so there's no good reason to argue against giving a voice to the people who do want one.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Originally posted by Sketch Elder:

I don't think any of us are qualified to speak for "most people."

The No Voice option should be sufficient for all the people who don't want a voice, so there's no good reason to argue against giving a voice to the people who do want one.

Most people do not want voice acting. It's not about qualifications. It's literally about what I've seen people say lol.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Originally posted by Sketch Elder:

I don't think any of us are qualified to speak for "most people."

The No Voice option should be sufficient for all the people who don't want a voice, so there's no good reason to argue against giving a voice to the people who do want one.

And, again, the voice acting for EVERYONE in Portia and Sandrock is bad. Another poorly voiced character is not something that is needed.