What would everyone think of a voice for the character?

Jackx343

I'm surprised this has not been discussed before (or i couldn't find a thread that addressed it and i do appologize even though this is well worth re-mentioning) but what would everyone say to your character in game having a voice and dialog that would interact with the world and gameplay?

Now the thing is there are some games that i think are much better with a speachless "stand alone" character for example i play alot of doom and i never want to hear a voice coming from doom guy, it just wouldn't feel right. Other games like dead space 2 added a voice alternativly to the first one and i really liked it! I thought it added alot of character depth. Subnautica i'm not entierly sure about yet but i think it could be really cool as i like my character to have a personality not necesarily defined by myself.

But what does everyone think about subnautica's lone character having a voice? Would it be nice for the story line? would it improve the feel of the game or degrade it? and if the feelings are completly mixed what about an option to disable/activate character speach?

paradine

They could use the text to speech programs that are already built into many os systems and other programs with the voice. This would let us use the pda to "record" an audio log as well as notes for ourselves. It can also help with other aspects of the game.

Bugzapper

paradine wrote: »

They could use the text to speech programs that are already built into many os systems and other programs with the voice. This would let us use the pda to "record" an audio log as well as notes for ourselves. It can also help with other aspects of the game.

Hmm...
Write your own background and narrative as a possible game option? I like that idea.