Voice acting

[Mango]

hello people
ive heared very good things about the game, and thinking of buying it.
but i dont like reading a lot, and i prefer games with full voice acting, or even only the main questline voiced.
Is this game have voice acting? And if so how much of it is actually voiced?
Thanks

[Jeysie]

It does have voice acting, and IMHO very excellent voice acting at that.

Generally what's voiced is party banter, major points in romance arcs, initial encounters with major NPCs, and really big plotline-related dialogues. Incidental dialogues and and side quests are less likely to be voiced.

Since there's a metric boatload of text in this game and IMHO not even an AAA company would have the budget to voice all of it (plus IMHO it'd get a little wearying having that much text voiced).

[Ashley]

There's a lot of voice acting, but it's nowhere near FULLY voiced. Most of the voices are great, but a couple are kind of garbage (Jamandi's over-the-top hamming it up and Kressel sounds like she doesn't know what her character is supposed to be feeling... or what "feeling" is)

[Primed Disappointment]

Originally posted by Jeysie:

It does have voice acting, and IMHO very excellent voice acting at that.

Generally what's voiced is party banter, major points in romance arcs, initial encounters with major NPCs, and really big plotline-related dialogues. Incidental dialogues and and side quests are less likely to be voiced.

Since there's a metric boatload of text in this game and IMHO not even an AAA company would have the budget to voice all of it (plus IMHO it'd get a little wearying having that much text voiced).

Looks like you haven't seen Divinity Original Sin 2 yet! It's the same genre, but even bigger and better and has full voice acting, down to the most unimportant NPCs like rats and squirrels you meet in a forest. That company isn't AAA either.

[Divolg]

Originally posted by Primed Spoit:

Looks like you haven't seen Divinity Original Sin 2 yet! It's the same genre, but even bigger and better and has full voice acting, down to the most unimportant NPCs like rats and squirrels you meet in a forest. That company isn't AAA either.

Yeah, exept Larian is a studio with more than twenty years of history while P:K is the first game developed by Owlcat. So honestly, ♥♥♥♥ off.

[Balekai]

There's arguably not as much dialogue, text and story text features (like Kingdom Management in DOS2. It definitely has great and full voice acting.

They're both CRPGs, but not really the same sub genre. Pathfinder Kingmaker is an old-school like PnP based CRPG akin to BGs, IWD, Planescape, NWN 1/2 and even Fallout 1/2 (even though they're TB).

DOS2 is a modern day, non PnP based, semi action turn-based RPG with its own unique flavour. I wouldn't even say it's a reboot of old turn-based RPGs. It has its own unique flavour and style.

[dulany67]

DOS2 may be arguably better, but not bigger.

[erian]

Originally posted by Primed Spoit:

Originally posted by Jeysie:

It does have voice acting, and IMHO very excellent voice acting at that.

Generally what's voiced is party banter, major points in romance arcs, initial encounters with major NPCs, and really big plotline-related dialogues. Incidental dialogues and and side quests are less likely to be voiced.

Since there's a metric boatload of text in this game and IMHO not even an AAA company would have the budget to voice all of it (plus IMHO it'd get a little wearying having that much text voiced).

Looks like you haven't seen Divinity Original Sin 2 yet! It's the same genre, but even bigger and better and has full voice acting, down to the most unimportant NPCs like rats and squirrels you meet in a forest. That company isn't AAA either.

Divinity 2 is MUCH smaller textwise.

[Daidre]

Afaik D:OS 2 is roughly half of the length of P:K. ~50 hour RPG vs ~100 hour RPG.

P:K is a bit too long for its own good.