Is it just me or is the voice acting ... off?

[Jorji Costava]

I don't know if i'm imagining things or something, but the voice acting in this game is so weird. Spoken lines seem so disconnected, like someone was reading directly from the script for the first time. It's not necessarily terrible but it seems like there are no breaks in dialogues where there should be breaks, and there are breaks where there should be no breaks.

[dracken]

Yes...it's just you

[Vibby]

Especially the Outsider. They ruined him.

[God, owner of the Universe]

After playing only the tutorial, I wrote this:

The voice acting in the tutorial sucks donkey-balls, seriously. Corvo and Emily both sound extremely pretentious, just like teenie wannabe-supercools who just learned how to make their voices/speech sound "big". It's like the Black Mesa soldier speech from the mod (Which they fixed properly in the Steam version.), except not in the form of effects used but in the expression. Sad.

But in the game so far, I got a different impression. I can't say for sure yet, though.

LOL at the "I'm hurt, and I tell you everything important you need for your mission, then I immediately die." trope they actually put in.

[pharmy]

I noticed that at the beginning with some of Corvos lines actually but for the most part its pretty good

[Mr JC Denton in Da Fresh]

I think Corvo's voice is fantastic. Gives me chills since it's Stephen Russell after all, I felt like I was playing the original Thief games once again.

[Vibby]

Originally posted by Mr JC Denton in Da Fresh:

I think Corvo's voice is fantastic. Gives me chills since it's Stephen Russell after all, I felt like I was playing the original Thief games once again.

Corvo ia fine, yeah.

[Ewokalypse]

You're definitely not imagining it. Corvo is good, but lots of bit characters rush their delivery and totally fail to emote. Just listen to how *bored* everybody sounds when Delilah deposes Emily in the opening cinematic.

[hennis]

Sorry for necroing, but...
I don't know, there's something about the voice acting that doesn't convince me.
Especially when I'm sneaking up behind someone and Corvo starts talking to explain something, the immersion gets ruined a bit.

And let's not ignore the fact that he speaks in a really disconnected way, it doesn't really feel like he's an assassin going on missions... he sounds bored.

[Jurassic Fart 2]

People don't pay attention to themselves when they speak; it's as if they can't hear themselves. When I was a kid, and the teacher asked me to read, I made every effort not to sound like the way the mouth-breathing morons did. I might have been stupid, but I sure didn't want to sound stupid, and thereby remove all doubt.

When you hear a voice actor sounding like he's reading a script, you're usually dealing with someone who has very little public speaking experience. A dead giveaway is an unnatural cadence, flow, to the dialogue, pauses where there shouldn't be any, and no pauses where there should be. It's really hilarious when you can tell by the way an actor mispronounces a word that he has NO feckin' idea what the word means.

Yeah, Mr. Actor running across a strange word in the script: Whatever the Hell you do, don't put down the script and pick up a damned dictionary. Heaven forbid you should actually sound like you know what you're talking about.

But, it's not always inexperience that makes a bad voice actor. I point you to The Knife of Dunwall DLC of Dishonored. Before I played the game, I really liked Michael Madsen movies. After, not so much. He sounds like a damned mouth-breather, and you can tell he doesn't understand all the words he's reading—and he so painfully sounds like he's reading!

Sorry, Mike, but you're an idiot. Worse, you advertise it when you read, like those guys whose lips move when they are reading silently.

[hennis]

Originally posted by Feiglingmörder:

When I was a kid, and the teacher asked me to read, I made every effort not to sound like the way the mouth-breathing morons did. I might have been stupid, but I sure didn't want to sound stupid, and thereby remove all doubt.

Same here... why would you read in such a dull way... ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GETTING PAID FOR IT?

[Zekiran]

Since I'm replaying Fallout 4 (romancing Nick! mods! whee!) I had forgotten that not only did the voice actor for Nick also (of course) play Nick's "brother" DiMA, but he's Corvo and whats'his'face from Thief too.... DiMA sounds so much like Corvo lol.