Variety in vocal cues

(Jess Alon) #1

Watching this video has me worried that I’m going to be hearing the same vocal cues over and over like “mucho bad guys spotted” and so on and so on" with the exact same inflections and everything. I know a lot of forethought is going into the programming of the game but is this something that might get forgotten?

I think making sure there are a lot of different inflections and so forth would make the player feel like his character doesn’t sound like every other character even though they all sound the same (if they choose the same accent.)

I’m just wondering if this is one of those things that tends to get wrapped up towards the end of the process.

(LyndonL) #2

The SD guys have been playing this game for testing every day for the last how long? I’m sure if anyone were in a position to find something repetitive and annoying it is them…

(Senethro) #3

voices in games sound weird when they’re not american and I’m not american

(Kinjal) #4

wonderbar!

(Jess Alon) #5

Yeah… I am really hoping for a crapload of vocal variety.

(SockDog) #6

I believe they were going for a wide variety of worldwide accents which would then limit them slight variations. Cost of recording aside this would be great stuff to add as Free DLC.

(H0RSE) #7

They said they were going to have 8 voice options and some special Commander-only voice options. The question is, what would be the most likely choices for those 8?

(Jess Alon) #8

That’s why I worry about the inflection stuff. Because I imagine they have lots of different accents recorded and they switch them out to keep it from driving them crazy… so when they choose the 8 it’ll most likely be by the 8 bigger commercial markets that speak english. So british, american, and I guess whatever other english speaking countries? Or maybe the more infamous “english” accents. The accents that come to mind for me are french british russian german spanish african (french/portugese? with that unique inflection) and finnish and swedish. I would imagine that there would be some sort of generic “asian” accent too. You know how that goes sometimes. But for the ones they do stick with a spectrum of inflection and variety will go a long way. Even though I’ll most likely be too caught up in the action to worry about it.

(H0RSE) #9

Well, I think they would try to cover each continent, but if they are only going to have 8 voices, that’s really slimming down the choices.

(MatthiasK75) #10

i just dont want a southern one, i live in TN i hear it enough as it is

(Cankor) #11

Was worried about it as well back when I first watched that video. “Brothers, they are stealing a command post” over and over again. There was an interview where one of the devs said they toned down the quantity of vocal cues because it was real spammy.

Also, my understanding was that every player has there own voice, and the vocal cues which go out from your avatar (like need ammo) are in your voice? So maybe these automatic ones are as well (someone has to be saying them, I mean if a command post is getting captured and there’s no one to see it there shouldn’t be a vocal cue right?)

(LyndonL) #12

There’s a few Aussies in the ranks at SD… I hope we get a look in - SD has used Aussie content in ETQW before (Canyon), so hopefully :smiley:

So long as it’s not a fricken American version of the Aussie Accent eugh.

(3Suns) #13

Voices in Wolfenstein games sound weird when they don’t have an “Arnie” accent - and I am not American or Austrian. :wink: lol

And yes @ Lyndon, “unauthentic” “accents” are extremely unpleasant.

(.Chris.) #14

Please no god dam Eastenders accents.

#15

There’s a question regarding this in our Q&A, so hopefully we should get an answer soon for you guys.

(Vaporman) #16

[QUOTE=LyndonL;256081]There’s a few Aussies in the ranks at SD… I hope we get a look in - SD has used Aussie content in ETQW before (Canyon), so hopefully :smiley:

So long as it’s not a fricken American version of the Aussie Accent eugh.[/QUOTE]

Nope. I heard they signed Paul Hogan for that part. But only after SD agreed to make every vehicle in the game have a Subaru logo on it somewhere.

(Protector) #17

DLC Voice pack! I want a little Irish leprachaun voice! Potato!

(Apples) #18

Custom sound mod ftw, I want to include all the worms armageddon’s voice into brink XD

(light_sh4v0r) #19

lol, that would probably be possible xD

(Apples) #20

Well with the md5 stuffs and pure server check it might not be possible :wink: