The Chinese voice acting is so bad

[emmalilly3599]

Im someone who was really looking forward to the new dlc and hoping for a better experience to the Extended Ed. Whilst I think the maps are fun and a few have a similar feel to the fall of the trident campaign, my main issue is the voice acting. I'll admit I do use the OG voice mod for everything else. But these chinese voices are terrible. The best way I can describe it is, a middle aged white man doing a stereotypical Asian accent but making it soulless. The actors sound so flat and cheap.
Also if the devs are reading this, 1. please use well trained voice actors who wont butcher your characters and 2. the units move around very clunky still in enemy territory. When I click for them to move, they dont.

[Dakota]

I remember these same voicelines for units from age of empires 3: the asian dynasties. So it's rather nostalgic for me at least. I've yet to play the campaign though to see how that voice acting is.

[Holo]

The only gripe I have is the overall volume of the sound, it's so quiet compared to the OG civs and voice acting

[Zef]

It's the tonal balance that's throwing me off and the HEAVY accent focus when they are speaking chinese character names or those of mythological units.

Oh look "HEAVY CHINESE ACCENT FOCUS CHARACTER" is coming to save us from these "HEAVY CHINESE ACCENT MYTHOLOGICAL MONSTER", while all the rest is in a more neutral asian english speaking voice.

Either do it completely in chinese with english subs or more like the original americanized english VA campaign.

[gameruldeserviciu]

are they chinese?

[Dakota]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Zef:

original americanized english VA campaign.

Wanted to say, this is kinda the weird thing about voice acting overall in this game compared to the original. They went for an accent for wherever each character was from whereas the old ones went for a more theatrical haminess that was charming in its own way.

[PurSpyk!!]

So poorly done, its an embarrassment. You would think being a Microsoft game things would be better. Its almost childish in presentation

[renehvac]

Oprindeligt skrevet af PurSpyk!!:

So poorly done, its an embarrassment. You would think being a Microsoft game things would be better. Its almost childish in presentation

I'm starting to think that most of these level 0 accounts are just alts

[PurSpyk!!]

Oprindeligt skrevet af renehvac:

Oprindeligt skrevet af PurSpyk!!:

So poorly done, its an embarrassment. You would think being a Microsoft game things would be better. Its almost childish in presentation

I'm starting to think that most of these level 0 accounts are just alts

I am not a level 0 account?

[emmalilly3599]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Zef:

It's the tonal balance that's throwing me off and the HEAVY accent focus when they are speaking chinese character names or those of mythological units.

Oh look "HEAVY CHINESE ACCENT FOCUS CHARACTER" is coming to save us from these "HEAVY CHINESE ACCENT MYTHOLOGICAL MONSTER", while all the rest is in a more neutral asian english speaking voice.

Either do it completely in chinese with english subs or more like the original americanized english VA campaign.

I 100% agree with you. The tones in the voice and how theyre communicated is all fairly one note. The characters aren't making me feel the same emotions theyre experiencing in scenes as it comes off disingenuous. It lacks the charm the OG originally had.

[BadToast]

Oprindeligt skrevet af gameruldeserviciu:

are they chinese?

Yeah, they partnered with a Chinese/Singaporean dev team to work on this.