The voice acting for female V is amazing honestly.

[Hutetu]

I just bought this game recently since it was on sale, and gods Cherami Leigh does a good job. Huge props to her. I think she really nailed it.

[Holografix]

Originally posted by Phynrae:

Originally posted by Holografix:

"What's on the menu, today?"

I see what you did there.

i love female V's voice. Ms. Leigh did an amazing job.

[Hutetu]

Originally posted by xShapelessx:

Male V is amazing though and I dont understand how anyone says his voice acting isnt good. I couldnt imagine the game any other way

I personally prefer female voice actor for V because I found her so good at showing emotion.
I’m not too far into the game and i just recently got that scene where she finds out Johnny is “a part of her” and her frustration I found really believable, also how she expressed how sad the was about Jackie was done really well.

I can understand why some might like male V better though. It’s all up to preference with how you want your V to be after all.

[Holografix]

Originally posted by Hutetu:

I can understand why some might like male V better though. It’s all up to preference with how you want your V to be after all. :cat_cool:

yah, they're both excellent. i enjoyed both of them in multiple playthroughs with both.

[Tokenn]

Very much a matter of individual taste... I find Male V to sound a touch 'actorish'...but maybe that's because VA Gavin Drea is Irish and is 'doing' an American accent. I'm entirely okay with it...I find a lot of the VAs in the game, both the major and minor 'speaking extras' to sound a little theatrical, but I expect that in a game.

What puts Cherami Leigh into a category of her own is that Female V sounds completely natural...easy job, right?...except Cherami Leigh's own speaking voice is rather different from her performance as V..a lighter, more cheeerful tone. I was a little shocked when I first discovered this.

Shoutout as well to Jane Perry who voices both young Rogue...and sounds young, while old Rogue sounds more 'mature' as you'd expect in the role.

[Bjørn]

I played through about half of the game as male V, and now playing as female, and I definitely like female V's voice and acting the best, but when I played a male, I didn't react to anything particularly negative.

But I did the Chimera fight (the DLC mission with the president) yesterday as female V, and I watched a video of it just before, with a male V, and there was such a big difference! The whole attitude and delivering of lines were very different. I hardly recognized the voice of the V that I played the last time I did that just a few weeks ago, so that was weird!

Originally posted by Holografix:

"What's on the menu, today?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y-UVLdbIMI
@1:31

Thanks for sharing this! Wish we had more of Jackie throughout the game. Loved his voice acting and his lines in the game.

[Tijger]

Originally posted by Tokenn:

Very much a matter of individual taste... I find Male V to sound a touch 'actorish'...but maybe that's because VA Gavin Drea is Irish and is 'doing' an American accent. I'm entirely okay with it...I find a lot of the VAs in the game, both the major and minor 'speaking extras' to sound a little theatrical, but I expect that in a game.

What puts Cherami Leigh into a category of her own is that Female V sounds completely natural...easy job, right?...except Cherami Leigh's own speaking voice is rather different from her performance as V..a lighter, more cheeerful tone. I was a little shocked when I first discovered this.

Shoutout as well to Jane Perry who voices both young Rogue...and sounds young, while old Rogue sounds more 'mature' as you'd expect in the role.

With Cherami, I think, the emotional charge in some conversations comes through much better especially in her "talks" with Silverhand.

[TK]

Originally posted by Actalo:

Originally posted by xLєgєиdαяy:

i agree, she did a really good job, shame that no one talks about this

most player selecting the male V

Really? Are you sure about that?

[MGB | Screaming Internally]

Agreed. I struggle ever playing as male V since the difference in acting is so huge.

[Okkuas]

I find male V is great for the streekid background, but sounds off for nomad and especially corpo paths. The female V, on the other hand, is somewhat better overall but sometimes has the "wrong" inflection in her voice - that is, her voice has the wrong emotional tone to my response as a player (she might sound happy/angry/sassy when I just go meh and shrug my shoulders) - while the male V has a flatter, more generic emotional tone (i.e. responds to all situations with pretty much the same emotional tone).

[Magnouver]

I played corpo male first time and wasnt that impressed by the va, its not bad but just to monotone/stoic. Now i play woth corpo female V and imo the va is so great, she’s able to convey the correct emotions and certainly not “monotone”.

I havent tried other lifepaths tho so idk bout those. But for corpo i also think female V va did a better job

[Tijger]

Originally posted by TK:

Originally posted by Actalo:

most player selecting the male V

Really? Are you sure about that?

I think that is correct, CDPR has given stats on its Twitter channel and one of those was the romance percentage, Panam scored 67%...given that Panam can only be romanced by a male V....well. Conclusion would be that male V has somewhere in the region of two thirds of characters.

[Hex: Cuse Me]

Even female Vs German voice fits quite perfectly and that's not often the case in videogames.

[Phynrae]

Originally posted by TK:

Really? Are you sure about that?

Probably true, because it's always been true.

Most gamers are men, and most of them prefer to play as a male character. It's always been that way, and this is why so few games offer a female option. It's cheaper to just have a male lead and not bother with a female one, since that won't be played by as many people.

It's also almost always the same male character, stoic, emotionally flat, muscular build.

It's not what i would have chosen, but apparently this is what most players want, and that's why we keep getting more of it.

[Hutetu]

Originally posted by Phynrae:

Originally posted by TK:

Really? Are you sure about that?

Probably true, because it's always been true.

Most gamers are men, and most of them prefer to play as a male character. It's always been that way, and this is why so few games offer a female option. It's cheaper to just have a male lead and not bother with a female one, since that won't be played by as many people.

It's also almost always the same male character, stoic, emotionally flat, muscular build.

It's not what i would have chosen, but apparently this is what most players want, and that's why we keep getting more of it.

Sadly yes.
I’m glad at least we are getting the opinion here for female main character, because they could have easily cut the cost by not having the opinion in the first place.

But I remember when i first started gaming which was in early 2000 I really struggled finding games with female main characters. Now there are so many, mostly in indie games though, but we are getting there.

For me the opinion means a lot, since I can’t fully immerse myself playing as a male character.

[AstroCat]

V is the male V, the female V is the alternative world version. That's how I play the game. I have zero interest in playing as the female V, too far removed for me to enjoy the game, too disconnected. The male VO is perfect for the world, and the character, I can easily "get into" the game this way, otherwise there is another barrier between me and the game world and story, which is not enjoyable.