Why. does. the. narrator. talk. like that.

[afx]

First of all, great game, i played it before the Final cut and loved it. Thought I will play it again with the new voice overs. I hope I won't hurt any feelings, but: why. is. the. narrator. talking. like. he is. out. of breath. after. every. second. in my subjective little oppinion, the narrators voice over has no game. Maybe I am just too used to my inner reading voice, but this narrator dude really doesn't bring it over to me. He sounds monotone and kind of absent to what he is reading. And he is also talking for the psychology parts which is a letdown. They should sound unique. And cuno voice over is just a kick into my balls. His former lunatic voice is ghosting threw my mind and I just can't unhear the lameness of the new one. But I am all over the place now. I just want to say, that I think that the narrators voice is a really weak choice. Dull, non versatile, unemotional, weird pace. Doesn't fit to the clever and funny wrting at all imo.

[Faraz]

i like the narrator's voice and while i agree that they should've used different voice actors for the skills, i understand why they chose not to, the devs explained that doing so would "ruin the coziness the game provides to the players” and how it would make the voices cartoonish and overwhelming.

[afx]

i would have guessed a combination of hard to find right sounding actors and budget. maybe it wouldn't bother me if i liked the main voice i just don't dig his style. it sounds like he is focussing too much on just sounding cool and nothing else.

[parogen]

Voice acting is hard (not sarcasm). I'm glad you noticed. That's kind of what happens when you throw a million lines on one actor, who may not have been able to play the game.

You can't really fault him. How is he going to have the time to go through every context? He'd have to message the devs like 500 times if he really wanted to ace it. Another thing is ZAUM green light it, which means they really didn't care either. I think it's simply a time frame issue, based on how urgently they want this to "just work" atm with all the bugs.

[Wolfsmaul-GER]

i like it and i find it actually calming, its like in the stanley parable and actually a disembodied inner voice too, although i agree that there should have been a bit more emotion in some areas

[kdmiller]

The voice acting generally is pretty bad, but the narrator is just painful. It is far too slow. It is so slow that I have read what he is going to say before he is half way through his lines. The temptation to click on is then just too strong. We need an option to put him on double speed.

[RACHMANOVSKI]

Originally posted by kdmiller:

The voice acting generally is pretty bad, but the narrator is just painful. It is far too slow. It is so slow that I have read what he is going to say before he is half way through his lines. The temptation to click on is then just too strong. We need an option to put him on double speed.

Try playing with controller and in a couch, you'll appreciate the kinda slow but cozy voice actor.

Also you can always skip.

And the voice acting is definitely not "pretty bad" lol you hyperbolic twit, been a while since I enjoy good voice acting.

[Akm]

The narrator's either a bad voice actor or got bad direction. You're right about the last point, his voice bleeds all the witt and humor out of whatever he's reading.

[rav]

the voice acting in this game is great and it was a massive free update. i dont wanna know how many hours it took to record this huge amount of text.

theres always people that can complain about everything ....

[afx]

Originally posted by rav:

the voice acting in this game is great and it was a massive free update. i dont wanna know how many hours it took to record this huge amount of text.

theres always people that can complain about everything ....

dude, i just hope they improve next time. complaining doesn't always mean to be ungrateful, maybe it didn't sound like that, but it is meant to do constructive criticism for future titles. i mean so far people at least give good reasoning on why they think the narrator doesnt convice.