Is the game fully voiced?

[UK_John]

I am watching an LP on YouTube and this seems to be the case? Or is there a mod?

[A Rock Seller]

The game has a lot of reading. There's very few actual voice lines and they're mostly for little snippets of dialogue that have nothing to do with the main story. Aside from little "Hello" type lines NPCs won't have any voice acting.

[Sati44]

Not fully voiced but still has some of the most mind invading lines in video game history

"These walls contain the world's knowledge!"
"(Sigh). I should have joined the army."
"Yawn."
"Spare no one!"
"Forward march!"
"Get me out of this hellhole!"
"(cough) I think I'm coughing up blood!"
"(sigh) I'm sooooo tired!"
"Would ye like to play with me ditties?"
"Yip! Yip! Bark! Bark! Grrrrrrrraigh!"
"Don't touch me! I might catch something!"
"My hotel is as clean as an Elven arse."
"By Moridins Hammer."
"It may be a touch unladylike, but I'm gonna slit your throat I am. "
"So i kicked him in the head till he was dead, hahaha!"
"I hate dem flamin fist panzys"
"I could take Drizzit with both my eyes tied behind my back!"

I think only DAGOTHWAVE is worse.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Little voice-over, such as for the extra companions that have been introduced with the enhanced edition. And more voice-over for the Siege of Dragonspear expansion.

[UK_John]

Thanks guys, I just saw a video where a priest wanted to take a girl, and the gamer's party had to protect her. The Priest was voiced over totally, and so was the girl. SO generally, one or two words, but sometime a reasonable amount of voice over then?

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by UK_John:

a video where a priest wanted to take a girl

That's kinda vague and ambiguous, too, and sounds like the scripted introduction of Neera in the village of Beregost where a Red Wizard of Thay and his followers want to kidnap her. Neera is one of the new companions added by the enhanced edition of the game, and therefore she features more voice-acting than the old/original companions and related NPCs in the game.

BG2 features more voice-over regardless of whether it's about enhanced edition extra content. Just in case.

[philos3]

To add a couple of fun ones to Sati44's list:
"Why do I live in such a pissant town?"
"DON'T touch me, I'm super important!"

Also the party members have some funny comments if you continue to click on them when giving them orders. IIRC correctly they have 3 or 4 routine comments you have to go through twice then the funny ones kick in. Jaheira has some good ones like, "If a tree falls in the forest, I'll kill the b*st*rd what done it!" Dynaheir too, "Go here, do that! What about MY needs?"

[temps]

Not sure what is meant by "fully voiced." The voice acting sounds fine to me. It's similar to other games.

I mean it's not like the audio sounds like some guy put it together in their basement with a microphone they got at Wal-Mart if that's what you're concerned about lol.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by temps:

Not sure what is meant by "fully voiced."

Most likely is questions whether at least all dialogue (with NPCs and companions) is voiced. As the advanced form it is about all text, since some games feature a narrator, who reads the text shown on screen, such as for story-telling events, chapter beginning, cutscenes, ...

But no, the first BG game isn't fully voiced. As others have mentioned, companions and NPCs typically only say a single sentence (sometimes a random one) when they are selected. Such NPCs includes merchants, side-quest givers, story NPCs. And as pointed out, the new companions added by the Enhanced Edition feature more voice-over.

[Hamish]

Originally posted by Sati44:

Not fully voiced but still has some of the most mind invading lines in video game history:tgrin:

"These walls contain the world's knowledge!"
"(Sigh). I should have joined the army."
"Yawn."
"Spare no one!"
"Forward march!"
"Get me out of this hellhole!"
"(cough) I think I'm coughing up blood!"
"(sigh) I'm sooooo tired!"
"Would ye like to play with me ditties?"
"Yip! Yip! Bark! Bark! Grrrrrrrraigh!"
"Don't touch me! I might catch something!"
"My hotel is as clean as an Elven arse."
"By Moridins Hammer."
"It may be a touch unladylike, but I'm gonna slit your throat I am. "
"So i kicked him in the head till he was dead, hahaha!"
"I hate dem flamin fist panzys"
"I could take Drizzit with both my eyes tied behind my back!"

I think only DAGOTHWAVE is worse.

you missed the best one of all

"STOP TOUCHING ME!!"

[garytwinem]

"Go for the eyes, Boo, go for the eyes rwarrgh!!!"

[b4st13n]

Is there any mod or project to create a full voice acting system?

We have AI now. I tried to create the voices with some IA tool and it works. You juste need few seconds of original voice, an OCR tool to catch all texts and you can create all voices for all companions and all NPC in the game.

[Centurion]

Originally posted by b4st13n:

Is there any mod or project to create a full voice acting system?

We have AI now. I tried to create the voices with some IA tool and it works. You juste need few seconds of original voice, an OCR tool to catch all texts and you can create all voices for all companions and all NPC in the game.

Quite a few. There are some voice/banter packs. The NPC Project brings some more conversation BG2-style into BG1.

[b4st13n]

The NPC Project. You mean the https://www.gibberlings3.net/mods/npcs/bg1npc/ gibberlings3 NPC Project.

This is not about adding voice. It is about adding text to make NPC more interacting. And on the project page you can read "As we were unable to get the original character voice actors to voice all the new lines, we instead sought out music appropriate to each NPC to be played whenever they initiate banter. " So, no voice.

[b4st13n]

I'm looking for voices of all existing and original text. Not a mod that add new content. I want to play the original experience with just adding voices.

[Clockwerks]

The game isn't fully voiced but it could be, and for free even. https://www.tetyys.com/SAPI4/