this game is fully voice acted?

[Marlon]

This game have voice acting for all characters, or only in the main quests? Or only essential characters gained voiced or the only one related with any quest?

[Armanz]

Only main characters and usually only for the first couple of passages.
Sequel has full voice acting though.

[Marlon]

Originally posted by Armanz:

Only main characters and usually only for the first couple of passages.
Sequel has full voice acting though.

Main chracters of all campaign or only at some point?

[Armanz]

The main characters of the entire game.

[Marlon]

Thanks a lot

[Kill Switch]

Originally posted by Armanz:

The main characters of the entire game.

That statement is a bit misleading.

Yes, the main characters do have voiced lines throughout, but the game is very inconsistent when it comes to what is voiced and what isn't. While one sentence may be voiced, the proceeding line after clicking "continue" may not be. Sometimes only the first line is voiced, sometimes only the last. Sometimes the first and last are voiced, but with unvoiced lines in-between. There's no discernable, logical pattern to any of it.

I gave up and just read every line of text, instead of waiting for a voice that never comes. Typically, I like to read with the voice, but even that is a jarring experience in this game, since the text is written descriptively, as if it were a novel...

"Or someone role-playing," he said, as he turned his head slowly and began to glare at Obsidian.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by Kill Switch:

I gave up and just read every line of text, instead of waiting for a voice that never comes.

It could be that you are affected by a mysterious bug that affects a few (?) players. Typically, voice-over starts at the beginning of conversation. It may stop before the end of the text shown on one page, because there is no full voice-over, and it may continue at the beginning of the next page after you've chosen your next answer. Again for one or more sentences depending on how much has been recorded. However, if the beginning is silent, that could be due to a bug. Similarly, if there is a delay and only a few words at the beginning cannot be heard, that is a rare bug, too. Restarting the game would fix it.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Rather, the plan for PoE 1 has not been to do full voice-acting as in PoE 2 where it has been an explicit feature. Voice-acting is very expensive and complicates the game development not only because of re-recordings, which may become necessary.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Kill Switch:

Originally posted by Armanz:

The main characters of the entire game.

That statement is a bit misleading.

Yes, the main characters do have voiced lines throughout, but the game is very inconsistent when it comes to what is voiced and what isn't. While one sentence may be voiced, the proceeding line after clicking "continue" may not be. Sometimes only the first line is voiced, sometimes only the last. Sometimes the first and last are voiced, but with unvoiced lines in-between. There's no discernable, logical pattern to any of it.

I gave up and just read every line of text, instead of waiting for a voice that never comes. Typically, I like to read with the voice, but even that is a jarring experience in this game, since the text is written descriptively, as if it were a novel...

"Or someone role-playing," he said, as he turned his head slowly and began to glare at Obsidian.

You've actually hit a bug. Without bugs, there are no instances of just the first or last line voice acted.

In the base game without bugs, if a paragraph is voice acted, the entire paragraph is. But you will get main dialogue voice acted, then ask a dude question that isn't voice acted (likely more dialogue options added later in development).

And the only voice acted lines are ones that do with main or major quests, as well as pretty much all the dialogue in the expansion areas.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

"No full voice-over" means exactly that. If there is voice-over for text spoken by an NPC, it starts at the beginning of a page and may stop before the end of page. The next page may be entirely silent. And the next page after that may feature partial voice-over or full voice-over or silence again.