Please tell me you can play Final Cut update with voice acting turned off.

[DJ Dostoevsky]

ZA/UM's Final Cut update sounds amazing & ambitious. They're incredibly kind to offer it completely free to current owners.

But taking a million word script and converting it all to voice talent completely changes the nature of the game experience. Many will love it for that. Some may not. But either way it's not going to be the same as the title that shipped in 2019.

I actually enjoy reading in Disco. It's similar to Sunless Sea/Skies. The engagement with the game is different when comparing active reading to passive listening with voice acting.

Not making a judgement on which is inherently better. Just that they are two distinct experiences.

Hopefully can enjoy the game as originally released even after the Final Cut update.

[♡marcia♡]

Bruh

[yuniper]

I hope they add this option too, I enjoyed the game in its original form, I really like text adventures and that's kind of what drew me in. I even started to actually enjoy reading again a lot more after playing this game and getting some of the books the developers talked about, after years of feeling like books would drag on and on. At least I hope HDB won't be voiced because I feel like it will ruin the karaoke scene when you think you hear his voice for the first time but it's actually the Ancient Reptillian Brain. And voiced protagonists in RPGs kind of just make me think of how everyone said this exact thing was one of the flaws of Fallout 4 compared to previous titles.

[UnwiseTrout]

I can see where you're coming from and think it would be a good idea to have it as an option.

However, I'm looking forward to more Cuno.

[Avern]

I feel the same way. It's impressive that they're attempting this, and I'll definitely try a playthrough with it, but I hope there's an option to keep the original quantity of voiced lines.

I think if I were hearing every line, I'd feel compelled to click through to the next line to keep the rhythm of the conversation going, instead of going at my own pace. It's going to be a very different experience.

[Wasted_46]

I literally came to the forums to start a topic about this. God I thought I'm the only one. I much prefer reading the deeply engaging text in this game instead of it being read to me.

[TARS]

Will VO only be in english?

[BiskutMentega]

Originally posted by UnwiseTrout:

I can see where you're coming from and think it would be a good idea to have it as an option.

However, I'm looking forward to more Cuno.

Cuno gives me headache. I hope there's an option to mute Cuno.

[Daybreak]

Hope there'll be a toggle in the options to revert the VO back to 2019 version too, for those who prefer that.

[yuniper]

So far the developers have been really great with listening to their community, so it's good to know there are at least a few people who feel this way! Like OP said, it will be such a different experience once you don't read all the dialogue anymore. While it's such an ambitious update, the original game meant a lot to me, so I hope they'll also give us a way to keep that experience.

[Stheo]

I'm also hoping for this. Best case scenario would be if they released the final cut as a separate game and just auto-gift that to the owners of the original version.

It's amazing that they provide an upgrade this big for free, and I might end up liking it even more than the old version. But it would be a shame to have the classic version that so many people love essentially get patched out of existence, so I really hope the devs will think about the historical value of having both versions playable.

[loppantorkel]

Originally posted by BiskutMentega:

Originally posted by UnwiseTrout:

I can see where you're coming from and think it would be a good idea to have it as an option.

However, I'm looking forward to more Cuno.

Cuno gives me headache. I hope there's an option to mute Cuno.

-Cuno gives no ♥♥♥♥ what you hope. Cuno doesn't like being muted.


j/k :D I hated him too at start, then he kind of grew on me and despite how annoying he was, he made an impression (also was recruited)

[jack_of_tears]

I'd like the ability turn off the new voice acting, as well. Not that I don't like voice acting but I wonder how it will change the experience of the game and if I don't like that change, I want the ability to go back and play it with the minimalistic voice acting it had, before. Visual novels often give you the ability to mute certain characters, so this would be a perfect way of doing it, just let me turn off the voices I don't like and keep the rest.

[technoir]

I just don't get this idea that more voice acting is automatically better. Audiobooks aren't superior to real books, and some games are written to be read, not listened to. It's nice that they're doing this everyone who wanted more voices, but there needs to be an option to those who just want to read and not sit through endless monologues.

Plus, much of the voice acting in the game just isn't that good as it stands. For example, René and Gaston sound like (and probably are) 30-year-old English speakers trying to sound like two Frenchmen in their eighties. Joyce's VA is competent, but also makes her character sound much colder and unfriendlier than the writing suggests. Kim, Klaasje, Cuno and your nervous system are the only ones that nailed their roles, I think.

Also, I sometimes like doing the voices myself while playing text-driven games like this one, just for fun.

[Dani_ZAUM]

I can confirm you will be able to turn the VO off.

[TARS]

NICE