Terrible Voice Acting

[HighVoltage]

Does anybody else feel that the voice acting is just subpar compared to the original? Especially in cutscenes, they just feel so lifeless and forced.

You can easily compare them by watching old cutscenes on YouTube.... this isn't just a nostalgic effect.

[Rhacius]

For me the biggest issue is that there is just no passion in their delivery, like the new voice actors were given no direction and generally just don't know how to convey genuine emotion. Like when Arkantos tells his son to stay at home, you can immediately tell he is making up an excuse to protect his child from the dangers of war, while in the new one he just reads out the line like any other.
Agamenon so far is the only one that adds some soul to his delivery when he proclaims that after you are done fighting he will swoop in and rescue Hellen.
So far the worst offender is Odysseus, he sounds like he consumed a weeks supply of downers, like he was a disinterested intern that could really not be bothered dragged into a recording booth.

For the love of god please hire some bloody talent for the full release. I don't have an issue with the voice lines being changed, not everything can stay the same, but if you change them we at least deserve something that can approach the quality of the original.

The late Ajax voice actor Charles Rocket left some really big shoes to fill and it would be nice if they could get someone to replace him that can do the character and the story justice, which currently just isnt the case.

[Fetchbunny]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von IEatCats:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von wolv:

1 word - placeholder.

Less than 2 months to release, there is probably not enough time to do actual voices from scratch if they haven't done so already. There is 0 need to do placeholders when the original voices exist

Does it mean they didn't learn from some of the defects of AOE3 DE? Hope to be wrong

if place holder they would actively be working on the replacements but at the same time why have these placeholder.

[Vein4Veil]

Nothing a mod can't fix, although I'm very sad they didn't remastered the old voices.

[Armilus]

I'm pretty sure, the voice acting is final, and nothing we say will make them fix it. This is something we'll have to do ourselves.

[Tux]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Grim T Reaper:

While the new voices aren't perfect, Athena and Arkantos actually do sound greek now, but yeah, I hope there will be a mod to switch them over.

I can't get over the "Da Comrade" feel whenever Arkantos speaks

[Freemawn]

mmmm i prefer the old for sure but i don't think the new is horrible

[J4MESOX4D]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Fetchbunny:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von IEatCats:

Less than 2 months to release, there is probably not enough time to do actual voices from scratch if they haven't done so already. There is 0 need to do placeholders when the original voices exist

Does it mean they didn't learn from some of the defects of AOE3 DE? Hope to be wrong

if place holder they would actively be working on the replacements but at the same time why have these placeholder.

There are no placeholders - that was just something people convinced themselves they were because they were of inferior quality.

[Javalin-197]

To me, It seems apparent that there was a creative desire to make the Character Voices Authentic to the Culture the Characters originate from. But in light of that fact, it seems like there was little to no voice direction given to these people. Like, the voice actors are forceing as many words out of their mouth as possible rather than, "ACT". Whats worse is that the original Voices are "ICONIC". The new acting comes no where near to the talent of the originals so far. I don't think I mind the voices getting replaced, as long as their acting is "GOD TIER" But right now, I'm very unhappy with it.

[u gay if you dont play expe33]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Grim T Reaper:

While the new voices aren't perfect, Athena and Arkantos actually do sound greek now, but yeah, I hope there will be a mod to switch them over.

Huh, no, they don't sound Greek at all..

[Rhacius]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w1lNtaaYaI&ab_channel=RemVeeGaming
it is not even funny how much better this is

[Blaze]

Somehow they make the timing a bit off compare to the original. I prefer if they just use the old ones.

[SirBob]

I'll be refunding if we don't get the OG voices in without a mod. I play AoE4 online for my RTS competitive fun and play AoM for my rts campaign fun.

The new voices are just comically bad. Trying to make it "realistic" with accents is just dumb because news flash none of this actually happened so either use the old voices or hire someone with voice acting experience.

[Salic]

I hope we can switch to vanila VO or at least a mode that will change it. As the current VO is flat

[Salic]

Someone said on reddit:

I tried replacing the new voice acting with the classic and it worked perfectly!

Extract the contents of the .BAR file, replace the new mp3 files with the classic game ones, repack the new .bar file and thats it!

[Teodor]

New voice acting sucks ass and they censored some stuff (skeletons, female gods) while also using AI for other gods (Ares, Apollo). I might get it months down the line on a deep sale when mods have fixed these issues.