Let down by poor voice acting!

[HellSpite]

Let me start by saying, I am a huge Borderlands and Borderlands 2 fan and have racked up enough game play hours to be embarrassed enough to hide it from my wife. So my disappointment was soul destroying when finally playing the much awaited Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel only to hear what are clearly NOT professional voice actors!
The emotions spoken don't fit with the situation. It sounds like it was created for a child audience with childish humour. I also get the impression that it was only a handful of people trying to putting on a variety of accents for different character. These people are not professional voice actors and you can tell!

There are moments when characters from the original series have spoken lines. When this happens, you can hear the stark contrast between the pros. This is not down to the Australian accent. I actually think that the concept to have an Australian sounding moon quite novel... but guys, make sure you do it right!

Strangely, I feel insulted that they think this is acceptable. It completely removes me (the player) from being immersed in the world. Its so poor that it has rendered me incapable of expression my true upset with words. I strongly recommend that this game gets patched with real voice actors. I know its unlikely, but I need to put it out there.

[dreike52]

http://youtu.be/Beq_AcaWq8s
Skip to 11.50

[✯ sp34gl3-3y3]

to be honest the german voice acting is pretty fine guys :) moxxis, athenas and jacks voice espeically are doing a fantastic job

[DeerTrivia]

引用自 ROSINHO：

Maybe we both got something different from the article and I apologise if I misread it, as its the main point supporting my opinion :) However, I think you are missing my point. "The team went into the recording booth" ..not professional voice actors. I have no issue with the accents being Australian or American. I just don't think the 2K team did a good enough job as a professional voice actor would. Likewise, I wouldn't ask a professional voice actor to do a level designers job or UV texture a NPC.

Placeholders, OP. Placeholders. As in, "they used their voices as placeholders until the professionals could come in to do their jobs." The placeholder voices are not in the final product. You are hearing the professional voice actors.

[tmwfte]

I remember Borderlands 1 & 2 with those professional voice actors Randy Pitchford and Mike Neumann...

[Batman]

I'm also, so very disappointed with the quality of voice acting in this game. I am a native English speaker and also an English teacher. I can not understand a good 60-70% of what the NPCs in this game say unless I turn the volume ridiculously loud and wear headphones, while scrolling the mission logs.

For the third time lacking local co-op and now terrible voicing, this game is borderline bargain bin.

[greenmonkey6]

引用自 Eriksen：

I also love borderlands, they are in fact my all time favorite games, including this one. I had no iussues with the voice acting in this game and i listen carefully to everything the npc`s says and i have no issues at all.

And please stop talking about thing you have no idea about, i am not beeing rude iam just telling you to stop stating facts based on your opinion of something. You are not qualified to tell of someone is a professional voice actor or not. Maybe this is exactly what they aimed for ? But it just so happend that you dident like it as much as you did in borderlands 1 and 2 ?

And iam pretty sure that Borderlands 2 was and is a much bigger title then this game and that they had way more resources behind the creation of borderlands 2 then they did on pre-sequel.

But in the future stop stating facts when you dont really know them. You have an opinion on something and that is all good but dont speak of it as the Truth

Your an ass for not adding to the topic just insulting people, and yes worst acting ever.

[greenmonkey6]

That voice acting for all the female and child npcs are all the same, it drives me crazy. Its like a big ♥♥♥♥ you for bying this game evreytime I hear that Picolo voice and then the same voice in a female npcs. And the writing dear god, go talk to Deadlift then talk to Squats then talk to Sprints WTF

[Lina]

american accents, huh in the country that i was told my whole youth is the smelting pot of dozens of cultures, in a place where i can walk down the street and meet and talk to people with accents from thick jamacan to stout south african, black and white, people still think we have a standard accent. Jesus even if it was all white just moving north to south, east to west you get wammed with so many different dialects and accents it silly. That aside, I dont have anything against australian accents nor the people nor the culture. I've watched tons of their movies, landscapes are usually stunning in them, and have heard some pretty thick accents and it has never bothered me. In this game however due to the way its recorded it is almost impossible for me to decifer alot of what is being said and still is. Now I am not saying they are not professional at all, how the hell do i know their track record in the business, but it does detract alot from the game's humor for me when I can make out what they are saying. I dont mean main npcs like springs, but the enemies. Most of my favorite lines came from enemies in bl2, their comedic one liners adding a verbal chaos to otherwise heated bullet exchanges. I saw one post be a guy from Australia that put it best first week of release of this game, he said most of the accents they chose were in poor choice concerning having people all over the world understand it. What we can understand is usually humor outside our culture so its not to funny to me and what others around the world can understand is in our culture and flies over their head due to it being to culturally specific.

Nothing wrong with taking the route they did for their voice acting, but this was bound to happen in any event going this route. Even in the case of borderlands 2 for all I know there were people all over the world failing to understand nomads, scooter, ellie and goliaths and would completely sympathize with them and understand their distaste for the game due to it.

[Handsome Jaques]

(Lightbulb)
1 reason you say its "bad voice acting" is because you dont understand australian lingo!
Time to make a thread...

[The Changeling]

The only thing I dislike are the lack of really insane lines from Lunatics. It was so much better in BL2.

Ravng Retribution dialogue RIP

[taheen]

pre-sequel is mediocre from every angle, voices included. those accents, yuk.
just one big boring DLC for BL2. And the season pass? what a joke - 2 not-so-great cahracters and a ♥♥♥♥♥ arena? really? money wasted on this one

[Sirius]

Dat necro though

[chonald]

I 100% agree I have just started the game and feel as though the accents don't quite fit the game.

[City Builder]

Love that 5 year necro.

[Draekus]

引用自 Chonald：

I 100% agree I have just started the game and feel as though the accents don't quite fit the game.

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