Game Announcer

(RasteRayzeR) #1

“Close, but no cigar !” … anyone who played QW remembers this sentence.

XT at the moment has only voices for a few maps, but bth I believe they don’t suit the game at all. Also there is no pun, no joke, no fun in them. And the way they are spoken looks fake to me. Also it seems there is more and more a need for good tutorials to get into the game easily, that could be the way to do it with the special SD trademark.

Simple suggestions:

  • have two announcers (male and female)
  • announcements for each objective and side objective (female for main and team help rewards, male for side obj and kills rewards)
  • announcements for time remaining to do an objective (mostly for SW http://forums.warchest.com/showthread.php/39929-Stopwatch-Timers)
  • have the female and male announcer argue or flirt sometimes when announcing the obj.
  • puns and jokes in the final announcement (game over)
  • don’t make it look too serious, announcements should be helpful and make you chuckle each time you hear them

Also, it could be crowd-sourced to the community to brainstorm on it. I’m sure there are crazy enough people around here to come up with great ideas !

(Glottis-3D) #2

more emotions!
i need to hear, that whoever speaks in the mic REALY CARES.

(RasteRayzeR) #3

[QUOTE=krokodealer;495160]
i need to hear, that whoever speaks in the mic REALY CARES.[/QUOTE]

AMEN bro !

EDIT: I don’t know any other game that has two announcers with this kind of interaction level. Might be my best idea today

(Kl3ppy) #4

We flushed them! Nevermind, Earth humor :smiley:

(Glottis-3D) #5

very this. +++

(Breo) #6

BulletRun (dead game) has AI casters but in then end almost everyone turn them off because they don’t give usefull info and they repeat same sentences in a random order xD

On some maps in Extraction there is already a voiceover that announce the objects at start of the map like Canary Warf? Also remember Brink? The guy that tell you to capture the forward spawn was pretty annoying :frowning:

(acekiller345) #7

“We saved the Bioscanner! Soon we will know more about them than their own mothers… assuming they have mothers. I’ll get back to you on that!”

(RasteRayzeR) #8

These were really funny. We need some of that humor in XT :stroggflag:

(Loffy) #9

Your ideas are bad. Report for mincing.

(RasteRayzeR) #10

More in details please ? So that I may respond to that in an appropriate fashion

(DarkangelUK) #11

It’s another announcer quote in QW

The Cave Johnson voice overs in Portal 2 were great as well

(acekiller345) #12

Its one of the QW quotes… its something like this:

"You failed to destroy the insert obj name here. Report for mincing.

(Loffy) #13

And I had no idea what the verb mincing ment, since English is not my 1st language, but Wils helped be translate. Map making was larger in ET:QW… is DB/Xt being developed on a smaller budget? (Rethorical question.) I honestly have no idea about game developing budgets and such.

(RasteRayzeR) #14

[QUOTE=acekiller345;495200]Its one of the QW quotes… its something like this-

"You failed to destroy the insert obj name here. Report for mincing.[/QUOTE]

Ohhh right, long time I haven t played QW haha. I remember only a few but they were really great. I miss that fub side of the game. XT could use some more fun like this.

(light_sh4v0r) #15

[QUOTE=DarkangelUK;495197]
The Cave Johnson voice overs in Portal 2 were great as well[/QUOTE]

Exactly, this is what I thought of as soon as Rasterayzer mentioned 2 announcers, perfect example of how having multiple announcers can be hilarious. Obviously Portal is a very different game and setting, but the humour needs to be there in my opinion.

(Rex) #16

The game announcer on the Strogg side in QW was super funny “The Makron will eat your eyes for this!” and many more… :smiley:
Having something similar in Xt would be great.

(Snotling) #17

“You don’t wanna see the stars? Have you no romance in your soul?” How often did I hear that when playing Quarry as GDF… :smiley: But the best quote is probably The Ark when GDF win.

(Bangtastic) #18

Announcer is fine as he is now. mercs should have some cool catch phrases.

(RasteRayzeR) #19

You cannot be serious ? It’s fake and not funny, like at all… :eek:

(Mustang) #20

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