Voice Actor Diversity

[Akboris]

Im finding it a bit weird how almost all the randomly generated survivors are voice acted by the same two black voice actors. Could they really not find more voice actors?

[Alex]

cost cutting

[WillieSea]

All? Sounds like a RNG thing, because my survivors have a few of the voices.
But the voices were reused a lot because of costs.

Each survivor is not 'randomly generated', there is a list of survivors, and they are all set in the files for look, voice, skills, etc..

[Akboris]

Publicado originalmente por WillieSea:

All? Sounds like a RNG thing, because my survivors have a few of the voices.
But the voices were reused a lot because of costs.

Each survivor is not 'randomly generated', there is a list of survivors, and they are all set in the files for look, voice, skills, etc..

Well I would assume they were randomly generated as an excuse as to why all the voices are mismatched.

[cruinne]

I believe it also has to do with the original game's tight restrictions on size due to being an XBox Arcade game. With tight requirements, a lot of nice things (like a wide variety of voices) get cut.

[Alex]

Publicado originalmente por cruinne:

I believe it also has to do with the original game's tight restrictions on size due to being an XBox Arcade game. With tight requirements, a lot of nice things (like a wide variety of voices) get cut.

why? voices are different size or what?

[WillieSea]

Publicado originalmente por Max Caulfield:

Publicado originalmente por cruinne:

I believe it also has to do with the original game's tight restrictions on size due to being an XBox Arcade game. With tight requirements, a lot of nice things (like a wide variety of voices) get cut.

why? voices are different size or what?

He said why. XBox Arcade games have (or had) strict size limitations when the game was created.
Sounds take a lot of file size, because each voice has a lot of things they can say. I went through them once, and there are pages of voice content for each.

[Alex]

Publicado originalmente por WillieSea:

Publicado originalmente por Max Caulfield:

why? voices are different size or what?

He said why. XBox Arcade games have (or had) strict size limitations when the game was created.
Sounds take a lot of file size, because each voice has a lot of things they can say. I went through them once, and there are pages of voice content for each.

that doesnt explain why one VA voices 2 characters

[Alex]

Publicado originalmente por WillieSea:

Sounds take a lot of file size

thats not how you says textures

[WillieSea]

Publicado originalmente por Max Caulfield:

Publicado originalmente por WillieSea:

He said why. XBox Arcade games have (or had) strict size limitations when the game was created.
Sounds take a lot of file size, because each voice has a lot of things they can say. I went through them once, and there are pages of voice content for each.

that doesnt explain why one VA voices 2 characters

Yes it does. How exactly can you voice every character with a different voice when you have limited space?

Publicado originalmente por Max Caulfield:

Publicado originalmente por WillieSea:

Sounds take a lot of file size

thats not how you says textures

What-ever you just said makes no sense.

[Magic Mark]

Publicado originalmente por Max Caulfield:

Publicado originalmente por WillieSea:

He said why. XBox Arcade games have (or had) strict size limitations when the game was created.
Sounds take a lot of file size, because each voice has a lot of things they can say. I went through them once, and there are pages of voice content for each.

that doesnt explain why one VA voices 2 characters

Oh God, this is so normal for this industry that it isn't even notable. Developers have been doing stuff like this for years to get the most of their resources. The same VA can play multiple characters in animated cartoons, why do you expect videogames to be above that standard?

It's quite simple - the game had a limited budget for both money and space. With each VA saying many lines and reactive dialogue that can applied for many characters, adding in even one more would be a sizeable chunk. The number now is the number they settled on during development, which is where they spread out as much of the XBLA space that they could.

[Alex]

Well if i would voice more than one character i would like to be paid twice duh. And what i said have sense because games are bigger not because of sound but because of better textures. so yea limited size my ass

[Magic Mark]

Publicado originalmente por Max Caulfield:

Well if i would voice more than one character i would like to be paid twice duh. And what i said have sense because games are bigger not because of sound but because of better textures. so yea limited size my ass

What? You have a huge disconnect with reality here.

...Sound files have size. And actors still need to be paid. These are very objective, simple truths.

2 gigabytes of space is not an infinite amount. It's not even lots. Cuts need to be made where they can. It's how the world works.

[Alex]

Publicado originalmente por The World's Loudest Ree:

...Sound files have size.

yea if they make it in wav

Publicado originalmente por The World's Loudest Ree:

And actors still need to be paid.

thats why i said i want to be pay double for making more than one characters duh. read carefully what i typed

Publicado originalmente por The World's Loudest Ree:

2 gigabytes of space

*laughs in #PCMR where games can be 100GB

[Sangra69]

well those same voice actors could of manipulated their voices for those different characters. That is what being a voice actor does in these tight situations.

[Alex]

Publicado originalmente por Sangra69:

well those same voice actors could of manipulated their voices for those different characters. That is what being a voice actor does in these tight situations.

ok i will say it different because some people dont understand or dont want to understand.
2 characters twice the pay