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schmutz.mashugana Jul 10, 2019 @ 11:21am
New player - voice acting?
I've tried FFXIV and I have struggled to get past level 20. One reason is that there is no voice acting for the quests. I was surprised by that since FF is known for its amazing story.

Is there voice acting? Or is the story mostly through written text? Maybe I am spoiled by other games but I find character voice acting to really pull me into a story. Paragraphs of text from NPC feels stale to me.

What do you think?
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Originally posted by Seralis:
Originally posted by schmutz.mashugana:
Thanks! I am thinking about giving it another try. I've played almost every MMO and the FF XIV people seem so passionate about the game I feel I am missing something. I'll just have to - gasp - read some text.

;)

the first 30-40 levels of story are really rough to get through. Thats the worst story-wise and thats where theres the least voice over. If you can get past that initial rough patch it really picks up and gets interesting. Thats where it starts to feel more like a final fantasy game with a story worth caring about.
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Ruse Jul 10, 2019 @ 11:22am 
The important cut scenes have voice acting. Everything else is text.
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VanGoghComplex Jul 10, 2019 @ 11:34am 
There are far more Final Fantasy games without voice acting than with.

As Alaska said though, the important main scenario cutscenes are voiced. The rest is generally text.

If the whole game were voiced it would be a 200gb download. There is a mind-boggling amount of dialogue in this game, like most RPGs.
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schmutz.mashugana Jul 10, 2019 @ 11:40am 
Thanks! I am thinking about giving it another try. I've played almost every MMO and the FF XIV people seem so passionate about the game I feel I am missing something. I'll just have to - gasp - read some text.

;)
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Seralis Jul 10, 2019 @ 11:55am 
Originally posted by schmutz.mashugana:
Thanks! I am thinking about giving it another try. I've played almost every MMO and the FF XIV people seem so passionate about the game I feel I am missing something. I'll just have to - gasp - read some text.

;)

the first 30-40 levels of story are really rough to get through. Thats the worst story-wise and thats where theres the least voice over. If you can get past that initial rough patch it really picks up and gets interesting. Thats where it starts to feel more like a final fantasy game with a story worth caring about.
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Merps Jul 10, 2019 @ 12:02pm 
Beware the build up to Titan. It's boring and fetch questy. When you're past that the game is great, I can recommend a great video that helped me understand the game better before getting into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7N2tkwiPI :) Hope you enjoy your time as much as I have this past few weeks.
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xabungle Jul 10, 2019 @ 1:22pm 
Playing this game for the story . And it has not disappointed.
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Shadezzz Jul 10, 2019 @ 1:34pm 
Your hardest challenge will be to get past A Realm Reborn and into Heavensward. ARR have always been dubbed the most boring part of the game by the community but once you get past that. The story really picks up and keep you on the edge of the seat
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Guardian of the Blind Jul 10, 2019 @ 3:25pm 
Originally posted by VanGoghComplex:
There are far more Final Fantasy games without voice acting than with.

As Alaska said though, the important main scenario cutscenes are voiced. The rest is generally text.

If the whole game were voiced it would be a 200gb download. There is a mind-boggling amount of dialogue in this game, like most RPGs.
I disagree with you there. it would be a few gbs more, but not 200gb. Elder scrolls online is fully voiced and has lots of dialogue. SWTOR is also fully voiced. this is just cost saving and no technical reason
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Skrublord Topheric Jul 10, 2019 @ 4:06pm 
Originally posted by schmutz.mashugana:
I've tried FFXIV and I have struggled to get past level 20. One reason is that there is no voice acting for the quests. I was surprised by that since FF is known for its amazing story.

Is there voice acting? Or is the story mostly through written text? Maybe I am spoiled by other games but I find character voice acting to really pull me into a story. Paragraphs of text from NPC feels stale to me.

What do you think?
I have been playing for about 3 weeks now and I just got to Heavensward(HW). A Realm Reborn(ARR) is a very base line game. And after 2.1 to 2.55 patches comes HW, Which has a lot more voice acting. The combat doesn't really pick up till about level 50 to be honest. I hope you decide to come back and enjoy yourself.
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Maddin Jul 10, 2019 @ 7:00pm 
The content after a Realm Reborn is better and has more voice acting. Albeit its an absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to get to that content. It almost made me quit like 3 times over.
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Xero Jul 11, 2019 @ 3:01am 
Originally posted by Guardian of the Blind:
Elder scrolls online is fully voiced and has lots of dialogue.

I remember ESO being some 100gb+ for size though.
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Guardian of the Blind Jul 11, 2019 @ 6:15am 
Originally posted by Xero:
Originally posted by Guardian of the Blind:
Elder scrolls online is fully voiced and has lots of dialogue.

I remember ESO being some 100gb+ for size though.
So what? Even SSDs cost like nothing anymore. you get 1tb of HDD for like 35€. Also ESO now has quite a few updates, dlc and expansions now. Also I did a little bit of research now. The voice lines for one language are around 11gb big.
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schmutz.mashugana Jul 12, 2019 @ 6:37am 
Thank you all! If I have a goal of level 40 I can quest away and have fun for 40 levels knowing that the story will come. Thanks all - I really was not enjoying reading all the dialogue boxes. I can skim them to get the base story and look forward to heavensward - thanks again all.
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=TIO=Tommy Aug 8, 2021 @ 1:46pm 
and in 2021 this is still the worst part of the game. Dont get me wrong, I love FFXIV, but if they did some voice overs for your character just for the specific cut scenes it would make it soooo much better. To top it off it would be nice to allow them to make a choice here or there since this game is very much story driven. Then again this is the opinion of someone who has played every role in swtor simply because of these two things. Since there has been such a large influx of players recently and I'm sure subs as well, this might be money well spent. I cant see them making any other improvements that would help more than these.
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Seera1024 Aug 8, 2021 @ 3:34pm 
Originally posted by =TIO=Tommy:
and in 2021 this is still the worst part of the game. Dont get me wrong, I love FFXIV, but if they did some voice overs for your character just for the specific cut scenes it would make it soooo much better. To top it off it would be nice to allow them to make a choice here or there since this game is very much story driven. Then again this is the opinion of someone who has played every role in swtor simply because of these two things. Since there has been such a large influx of players recently and I'm sure subs as well, this might be money well spent. I cant see them making any other improvements that would help more than these.

At this point, if they did anything like that, they would have to redo all of the cut scenes.

They changed voice actors between ARR and HW and it's already jarring for players going between them now, it would be even more jarring to go back and forth between them to get the missing ARR quests voiced.

And it was all voice actors that changed so it's not like it was just one or two who changed. It was all of them.
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