Disco Elysium

Disco Elysium

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Is this me or the voice acting is kinda detrimental?
Who else thinks the same?
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ZenArcade May 25, 2021 @ 5:02pm 
It's not just you, lots of us agree, check the huge "Oof, Final Cut is a big miss" thread.
Troispoint May 25, 2021 @ 6:23pm 
Same guy who doesn't get why 80% doesn't mean 100% :lol_tk:
humblehome May 26, 2021 @ 12:04am 
I like it.
Isaac The Dad May 26, 2021 @ 3:28am 
Originally posted by Troispoint:
Same guy who doesn't get why 80% doesn't mean 100% :lol_tk:

Oh come on buddy, I was just trying to find out if there were any other hidden mechanics that one time :)
I like it, except for the times it doesn't match the written transcript.
Myrkul May 26, 2021 @ 3:09pm 
It's good for the most part. Definetly better than the VA in some japanese games, haha.
Last edited by Myrkul; May 26, 2021 @ 3:11pm
Telephoney May 26, 2021 @ 5:49pm 
The constant voice acting is a pretty big distraction for me. Makes it hard to focus on the art or hear the music or generally reflect on Revachol in a lot of the scenes with the constant narration.
Chibi Life May 26, 2021 @ 8:16pm 
Turn the voices off, jesus. This is why game developers give up on making good quality games and just milk money and focus on profit instead. Large majority of people were given the voice acting for free and instead of appreciating the money and time spent by the devs doing this they create a megathread to attack the devs. Gamers are the ones destroying the quality of the gaming industry.

Disco devs are going to learn from this mistake and every future project they'll focus on how much $$$$ they can milk from it, why? Because trying to give people anything will result in backlash. If you're going to get attacked anyways may as well make money instead of giving us anything for free right?
Troispoint May 26, 2021 @ 10:39pm 
Originally posted by Flow of Time:
Turn the voices off, jesus. This is why game developers give up on making good quality games and just milk money and focus on profit instead. Large majority of people were given the voice acting for free and instead of appreciating the money and time spent by the devs doing this they create a megathread to attack the devs. Gamers are the ones destroying the quality of the gaming industry.

Disco devs are going to learn from this mistake and every future project they'll focus on how much $$$$ they can milk from it, why? Because trying to give people anything will result in backlash. If you're going to get attacked anyways may as well make money instead of giving us anything for free right?
I can guarantee you the financial success of this game negates the stupid crap we see on this forum.
Originally posted by Flow of Time:
Turn the voices off, jesus. This is why game developers give up on making good quality games and just milk money and focus on profit instead. Large majority of people were given the voice acting for free and instead of appreciating the money and time spent by the devs doing this they create a megathread to attack the devs. Gamers are the ones destroying the quality of the gaming industry.

Disco devs are going to learn from this mistake and every future project they'll focus on how much $$$$ they can milk from it, why? Because trying to give people anything will result in backlash. If you're going to get attacked anyways may as well make money instead of giving us anything for free right?
as if a dev is gonna bother reading this ♥♥♥♥ lmao
Chibi Life May 27, 2021 @ 5:41am 
Originally posted by Donathan Cheadledge:
Originally posted by Flow of Time:
Turn the voices off, jesus. This is why game developers give up on making good quality games and just milk money and focus on profit instead. Large majority of people were given the voice acting for free and instead of appreciating the money and time spent by the devs doing this they create a megathread to attack the devs. Gamers are the ones destroying the quality of the gaming industry.

Disco devs are going to learn from this mistake and every future project they'll focus on how much $$$$ they can milk from it, why? Because trying to give people anything will result in backlash. If you're going to get attacked anyways may as well make money instead of giving us anything for free right?
as if a dev is gonna bother reading this ♥♥♥♥ lmao
I mean bigger developers don't read anything on the garbage cesspool that is Steam Forums but smaller indie devs get really emotionally attached to their games and don't know any better lol.
Ozone May 28, 2021 @ 12:57am 
i love what they did for free, could have just moved on but added this (a lot of fans wanted it) and new content! perfect excuse for a replay. hell, i would have happily paid for extra content for this game.

for constructive criticism, i wish the narrator was capable for doing more "different voices" considering that the skills are rather dissociated. and he just feels indifferent. at least it would have been somewhat better if inanimate objects that talk to you have a different voice than the skills. but overall i love the idea and i hope they do it again in the future (with the option to turn the VO off, of course)
Hashbear May 30, 2021 @ 7:05am 
I actually stopped playing through DE when I heard the final cut was being released, I wanted to get the most out of it and not replay the entire thing, but the main character's inner voice has such lacklustre delivery that it IS distracting, and I don't want to turn off ALL VA, just most of the stuff that was added. I don't think they're being attacked, I think if they're smart they'll balance opinions and take them into account, personally I'd give the option to revert back to the non-final cut version of the game, and consider that their decision to voice every line maybe wasn't the best.
Chibi Life May 30, 2021 @ 7:25am 
Originally posted by Hashbear:
I actually stopped playing through DE when I heard the final cut was being released, I wanted to get the most out of it and not replay the entire thing, but the main character's inner voice has such lacklustre delivery that it IS distracting, and I don't want to turn off ALL VA, just most of the stuff that was added. I don't think they're being attacked, I think if they're smart they'll balance opinions and take them into account, personally I'd give the option to revert back to the non-final cut version of the game, and consider that their decision to voice every line maybe wasn't the best.
Some of the inner dialogue voices talk so slowly that I have to skip it. It'll literally take 3 minutes to speak a paragraph that I'm done reading in 5 seconds and I'm a slow reader. This is valid criticism but I play a lot of visual novels personally and whenever I run into dialogue that's annoying me or is too slow I'll skip to the next dialogue instead of sitting there listening. I've played some games with even top notch voice acting and will still skip a spoken line that's being spoken too slowly.

I played one visual novel where the speaker paused for so long during an ampersand ( ... ) that I thought the game froze on me lol. It's a common problem and I get it from an artistic perspective in some cases but even then speaking speed should be reasonable.
The Dogfather May 31, 2021 @ 5:22am 
I think its great. I like to have every single one of my characters voiced in a video game. I held off on playing this because I knew the Final Cut was coming. I think the narrator does fantastic job. I love his voice. I find it calm and soothing.
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Date Posted: May 24, 2021 @ 1:09pm
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