Dragon Age: Origins voice-over cast 144-strong

I was just about to mention that.

Bestheda + Role-playing games = High-fructose corn syrup. Their far more worse than BioWare's role-playing games.

Damn, just about to post that. It is an annoyance to hear the same voice many times in Fallout 3, especially with the ghouls and old NPCs.

i was just thinking of that too. and the prison guard song. Hault!

How did i know that'd be the first comment??

I wonder if half the people who trot out the same old bitchy complaints each time have even played the games they bitch about... or if its just become some kind of internet meme to complain about.

Or maybe its more of a pavlovian response. "Voice actors" -> "Bethesda".

All games ever made have had duplicate characters and voice actors. I dont' remember everyone bitching that you had to kill the same ninja guy a thousand times in ninja gaiden. Or the same combine guy in Half Life 2.

Can't say i've ever even noticed that they all have the same voice in any game i've played... its just one of those things you accept as part of gaming. it's definitely never "annoyed me" or made me want to moan about it online.

People moaning about it annoy me now though...

Fallout 3 is by far the most diversely voiced game of Bethesdas. Which says something. What were there? Six to ten voice actors in all of Oblivion or Morrowind?

It is a legitimate complaint.

Seriously??

Guys? er.... guys????

I can't believe you can claim you've never noticed it, I think it's definitely a big issue. When I'm walking through a town, strolling past a group of people and EVERY one of them sounds the same and kind of ruins the atmosphere.

When games like Halo 3 can have a ridiculous amount of different voice actors with different lines, you'd think Bethesda could put in a little more effort for an RPG, especially ones that are supposed to be so immersive.

Its not exactly that i've never noticed it, its that its one of those things that happens in every video game ever, so you automatically filter it out. Its like seeing repeated enemies, or seeing the same items/level parts over and over.

I can 100% honestly say its never bugged me in the slightest. And on the list of things in video games that might bug me its way down the list.

Very few video games have the size of bethesda games, and very few have thousands of NPCs wandering around. Heck, before oblivion almost no large scale RPGs even had voiced parts. Most just used text to get around the fact they had so many NPCs. I can't help feeling people would have complained a lot less if bethesda had just used text.

Maybe its because I grew up playing video games where you had to overlook huge shortcomings/issues in order to enjoy the game... so little things like this no longer even register.
I guess if you were new to video games and were only used to polished modern games maybe it'd be more obvious.

(Fallout3 had 35+ voice actors btw...)

I'm sure I've been playing games for at least as long as you, but I don't see why that's an excuse for developers to put in less effort, just because we didn't have anything like that in the "good ol' days."

less effort than what? the amount of effort that goes into making something like oblivion or fallout3 is immense. Maybe i just don't feel i'm automatically entitled to something just because it'd be nice.

the gaming time thing wasn't meant to be a competition by the way... not everything has to become a big contest...

the differences is that the ninja dont speak, arent supposed to be individualized and hide their faces. The Combine even more so, they're called the Combine for fucks sake, they're SUPPOSED to be exactly the same. In Fallout 3 and Oblivion they're all supposed to be different, with the exception perhaps of supermutants since they were said to have become asexual it's possible all their vocal chords mutated the same way

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Sorry, the graph should be:

- - - - - - - OK
\ / \ / \ / \ / OK
- - - - - ,
- - - - - ' (What this article's comic does) NOT OK

I read it properly the first time. And it is much more natural to alternate to right-to-left reading order, every other line. Would be more natural to have every other line mirrored as well.