braham's voice actor overused

[DarkRam.1572]

anyone else think brahams voice actor is being used for too many characters?

hes a good voice actor for braham but cant really change his voice,tones or accents very well .

hearing braham all over the place is immersion breaking for me. if their going to reuse the same actor ateast try and make the different npc's sound unique

its not just brahams VA either,their making their other VAs do too many characters too.

again i dont mind if they reuse VA's but atleast put some effort into sounding different or editing the voice after.

[Ashantara.8731]

> @"DarkRam.1572" said:

> anyone else think brahams voice actor is being used for too many characters?

 

There was another comment yesterday stating the same. Yes, there were remarkably many "Brahams" on that map. ;)

[Strider Pj.2193]

I think you’ll need to buy more skins packs for that.

[Randulf.7614]

I imagine Graham McTavish for Bangor didn't come cheap, so keeping to one VA for as many other things as possible was prob a budget decision. To be honest, it's not any worse than when Taimi's voice and Eirs voice is used for so many npcs and I notice them a lot more than Ka-Braham

[Ryukai.6524]

It is very annoying, don't know why they can't get the general staff voluntarily involved too. Even though it's just 'background' npc's and one or two lines, it would really diversify the voice cast.

[LowestTruth.2635]

You guys should read up on voice-actors, the SAG, the 2017 strike and the ramifications of it. You'll get a good understanding of why it's so complicated.

 

Braham is subjective, but my own personal opinion is that Sam Riegel is a boss.

[Vancho.8750]

I bet it is scheduling thing, it is made somewhere around summer months so Sam was one of the VAs that had some time to spare. Maybe next time the devs will play more with voice modulation to get more variety of NPC chatter.

Even though it somewhat sounded that Braham was everywhere the chatter adds great atmosphere like a moving world. Also grats on Sam Riegel voicing most of it and still nailing Braham.

[Goettel.4389]

Killing Braham off would be my favorite fix.

[Teratus.2859]

I don't usually mind reusing VA's but there was a noticable amount of Braham voice not coming from Braham in this patch lol

 

I don't know how much work goes into recording voiceovers for the game nor the kind of tech and editing needed for it but i've always wondered why Anet hasn't asked some of the more known community members.. Youtubers/streamers etc if they're interested in doing some VA work for random background characters.

I'm sure a good number of them would jump at the chance to voice some NPC's.

[Randulf.7614]

> @"Teratus.2859" said:

> I don't usually mind reusing VA's but there was a noticable amount of Braham voice not coming from Braham in this patch lol

>

> I don't know how much work goes into recording voiceovers for the game nor the kind of tech and editing needed for it but i've always wondered why Anet hasn't asked some of the more known community members.. Youtubers/streamers etc if they're interested in doing some VA work for random background characters.

> I'm sure a good number of them would jump at the chance to voice some NPC's.

 

Many legal problems involved in that including contracts and upsetting paid voice actors by giving away their work

[Blockhead Magee.3092]

Its pretty clear its the same actor(s) on a lot of characters but it doesn't bother me much.

 

Keep making maps like this and I won't care if every character on it is done by the same person.

[Ara the Elegant.6825]

Braham's actor was used quite a bit, and it was a bit surprising to continually hear his voice from numerous different characters.

 

As I understand it, the Dead By Daylight devs exclusively use their own staff members to voice characters. Granted, it a different circumstance, but doing something similar would probably cut down a bit on hiring actors.

 

Beyond that, I don't think it's entirely necessary to have quite so many in-game characters given voiced dialogue. I know I'm in the minority on that, but I don't mind doing some actual reading. Classic RPGs such as Baldur's Gate have some partially-voiced lines, followed by non-voiced dialogue. There are options.

[Asum.4960]

> @"DarkRam.1572" said:

> anyone else think brahams voice actor is being used for too many characters?

> hes a good voice actor for braham but cant really change his voice,tones or accents very well .

> hearing braham all over the place is immersion breaking for me. if their going to reuse the same actor ateast try and make the different npc's sound unique

> its not just brahams VA either,their making their other VAs do too many characters too.

> again i dont mind if they reuse VA's but atleast put some effort into sounding different or editing the voice after.

 

Felt so as well, especially since it's not just ambient NPC's on the map, but almost every other Charr in the main story seemed to be Braham as well.

 

Especially with the Illusion disguise thing going on at some point, I at points genuinely thought I was just drunk Braham messing about being in Charr disguise as well, before realising no, it's just supposed to be another NPC with obviously the same voice actor, again.

[Teratus.2859]

> @"Randulf.7614" said:

> > @"Teratus.2859" said:

> > I don't usually mind reusing VA's but there was a noticable amount of Braham voice not coming from Braham in this patch lol

> >

> > I don't know how much work goes into recording voiceovers for the game nor the kind of tech and editing needed for it but i've always wondered why Anet hasn't asked some of the more known community members.. Youtubers/streamers etc if they're interested in doing some VA work for random background characters.

> > I'm sure a good number of them would jump at the chance to voice some NPC's.

>

> Many legal problems involved in that including contracts and upsetting paid voice actors by giving away their work

 

Yeah you're probably right.

 

Although I dunno if paid actors would be that mad about some cameo NPC voice roles from community figures.

It's not like they would be main characters or anything, just background NPC's.. and they'd only be brought in if the paid guys were too busy or something.

 

[Hellcop.4981]

I admit hearing Braham's voice coming from random NPCs was weird. It may have just been a cost thing, book the VA for a day and have them record as much as possible.

[misterman.1530]

If Anet was smart, they would have allow players to voice NPCs - nothing major - just the many random NPCs floating around everywhere. Pay the players in GEMS or something. Nothing they lose out-of-pocket...

 

Oh...wait...there are problem Union rules or some such stupidity that they would have to deal with.

[avey.4201]

Actually, I always wished they'd ban Braham, Would be hilarious for a company to ban an NPC, and remove him from cut scenes while leaving the space in time where he talked leaving plot holes, either leave his name in the dialogue, or replace it with [Redacted].

I'd play through it all for the hilarity, I never liked GW2 stories, but that would make them fun.

[MithranArkanere.8957]

What gaming really needs is natural voice synthesis.

 

Then we'd have the actors record inflection dictionaries as numerical data that takes way less space that audio, texts tagged for voices that will be used and settings to adjust for specific changes in voices, and some changes in pitch here and there, and we'd be able to even customize character voices.