Danika=Worse than stupid Rurik

Lol

The sceer {aka infusion queen} sounds like a horney 13 year old girl that will get you 10-20.

And you wonder why Shiro killed the Emperor? The woman drove him insane.

The voice of the ghost in the Crystal Desert still pisses me off more than any other in GW. It's slow, breathy, overdramatic, and horribly grating. If people don't skip cutscenes in the desert I mute my speakers. It's the only voice that has made me do that.

THANK YOU for speaking the truth, when ever i get in a group that wants to watch cutscenes i Alt+ Tab out and get on msn real quick

/deaths
You have died once, permanently, due to Danika's voice.

Seriously..her voice...what in the #### was guild wars thinking to use that?
Im not even joking I just....like....god....its so bad!

Its like taking the worst cut scenes ive ever seen (even broodwars are better!) and throwing in the worst voices.

Is guildwars strapped for cash? What the #### is wrong with them.

At least HA and GvG movies are skipped on a per-person basis.

I had this happen in release, and the mission did not end.

The Seer is worse. Though I dont know why people say Prophecies cinematics sucked other than that.

But atleast that was funny. This one is just ... bad lol.

O.o im kind of scared to get off newbie island now..

*shivers* ...

I like Rurik's voice. He has some good lines. I'm just glad he didn't have to do the voice acting for some of his ingame fighting text...

I swear every time I hear Danika I think Fran Dresher. Imagine everything Danika says in the voice of The Nanny and you'll crack up.

So true.

The reason I dislike that one isn't so much the voice acting - though it does sound like her voice cracks in mid-sentence - it's the writing.

...Seriously, that's some majorly lazy writing. Did they just come up with a pseudo-real-world curse and substitute a random Guild Wars god into it? Do they have any idea what the word "damn" means, let alone why it's so utterly ridiculous to apply it to a god in a polytheistic system??

If you're going to make up blasphemous oaths, try to come up with something that would develop naturally out of your theological system, thanks.

It's almost as bad as the bit in Prophecies where whatsername swears by all the gods that she'll make those very same gods "pay" if they mistreat thingamydoodle. And meanwhile your party bows reverently around her.

I was about to comment on my personal least-favourite voice bit in Factions, but then I saw -
...Are you serious? Vizu was one of the two voices who was technically incompentent in addition to having an unpleasant tambre in her own right.

(for those of you who slavishly follow my every train of thought, the other is Shiro - who wasn't a bad choice in himself, but he was chronically and consistently underrecorded! Good luck sounding menacing when they've turned the gain right down on your speeches...)

Vizu was badly recorded at the very least - her voice crackles at the top of the range. And for my record, she has the naturally-least-pleasant-to-listen-to voice of the entire cast. Elder Rhea and Danika at least have something interesting going on - a kind of textured ugly, if you like. Vizu? Whiny, idiotic woman whose only role is to telegraph the already pretty obvious final plot twist.

Happened to me two days ago - I was doing the bonus and some mapping. The game continued undisturbed...

`Danika's voice may suck but think of Shiro's when u beat him in the Imperial Sanctum


"this cannot be! " if you listen carefully you come to the conclusion ( well I did XD) that it is the voice of a woman lol

I forgot about him there, but I 111% agree with you. Mind numbingly slow and it sounds like he's choking on gravel. Worst. Cutscenes. Ever. One other thing I wonder about the ghosts though, why are they so damn tall? They must be like 10ft+...

She sounds too young for her look, which makes me cautious

Oh man! Evennia!! She clearly had dificulties trying to remember her lines sometimes. (Saidra's accent was ok)
Remembering her talk makes me realize the acting in Factions is in fact a lot better then in Profecies...generally speaking.

And Lyssa be damned is fitting because she is the goddess of good and bad luck as well as illusion and beauty.

The voice acting in GW (both Prophecies and Factions) has to be the worst I've heard in a long time. The people who did those voices (can't call them "actors") are clearly out of their leagues here. quite honestly, all the dialogs sound like they're made by bunch of algebra students in high school.

Ok, I'll make an exception for King Adelbern who was spot on, but the rest is just as pleasing as eating glass shards. Luckily I have a handy "mute" button on my keyboard so everytime someone doesn't skip... PIF!

According to the manual the voices are provided by a company called Blindlight, who have provided voice acting for other games. In theory, before any kind of voice acting gets into a game it surely must be approved by ANet (not only for quality but to make sure every line is "acted" according to the script). How could they have accepted this?

If they truly did have a short budget for voice acting than maybe Blindlight have provided ANet with a corresponding quality. Low budget = low quality. Or is it? I remember a while ago when a small game made it's way on the market, a game called "Thief: The Dark Project". Clearly Looking Glass (composed of university students at the time, if I remember) didn't have a gazillion buckazoids for their voices and yet they managed to churn out some of the most convincing voice acting in a PC game.

Why can't ANet?

Danika's voice, did not suit her at all. I would have expected something more deep to go with her whole dark, Gothic white skinned look (why IS she wearing a dress?).


Shiro's voice suited him. Shiro is a moron. If you have finnished the Factions campaign, you will know what I mean. He does some of the dumbest things I have ever seen.

"Well I'm an immortal envoy who can create a massive army out of people, what should I do? I KNOW! I'll become mortal again so that some bunch of people that I underestimated can kill me!"

Doesn't that just scream completely braindead? The Lich compared to this guy, is a super genius, at least he still wreaks havock after his death.


About the voices of both Dragons;

Glint is as old as Tyria, I'd love to know how you would sound after thousands of years of living.

Kuunavang is also very old, at least 200 years old. As well, she had just been released from Shiro's grasp, during which time she was being torn from the inside. Now try sounding good after that.

I didnt want to start a new topic for this but my list for worst voice-acting ever in guild wars.

by worst, I mean worst

1. Danika
2. The old fortune telling woman who made Shiro pissed and paranoid
3. Seer

Post your own lists

P.S. I liked Rurik's voice acting, but he's just stupid, I mean, he got stuck under a tree, and my party and I were just a few hundred feet away from him. We could've saved his ass

if the voice actor talks like that IRL, i feel sorry for her.

I bet a lot of people are glad we never have to hear Cynn talk!

Devona's intro voice is reasonable, but the Electra complex gets creepy after a wile. Maybe she needs a boyfriend, but i'm shure no one will ever be a match for her dad.

About the voice acting, the storyline and cinematics of factions:

I like Factions, there are a lot of cool stuff and features. Even some original missions, big maps, beautifull landscapes and so on...but the STORYLINE is ...gee man...it is absurdly low. The Dialogues are UGLY. I glitched on the floor while wathing the cinematics. The voice acting brought me to day-nightmare.

Voice acting - I remember when I donwloaded a StarCraft user campaign with voices of the dialogues. It was pretty jerky...BUT compared to this the voice acting of games like spellforce go up the sky of success. I don't know, who did the whole scheme, but if you MADE me do it for FREE I WOULD DO IT BETTER. I've done a lot more good voice acting myself (and some audio apps) just for a Icewind Dale 2 custom hero, for a Lan party. It took a while, but it was totaly worth it keeping in mind I was doing it for the first time.

Cinematics - Amm...er...ok...I mean....Profecies got simple cinematics, BUT Faction got so newbie ones, I died in frustation. Even I - the editor noob, did a lot better cinematics on the warcraft iii editor (RoC) and I am sure GW supports at least 60% of the flexibility of that. BUT ....Cameras, action, scripting, triggers.....OMG (I am actually Ateist, but used to help myself with this 'covert' call). Seeing you and Togo wanding a zombie...like 4 times, or VISU doing something beyond the camera, trembling with glitchy stance with clipping problems with ackward position, or enemies moving one threw another, characters going out of the camera, silly movements on the scene...wow....Some of the scenes were good, but other made my brain run and clash in skull with havoc.

Dialogues - Ok. Here is an example of the whole feeling : "I AM EVIL AND WILL KILL YOU! OH NO, HE WILL KILL US! WE HAVE TO KILL HIM BEFORE HE KILLS US. BUT HE CAN KILL US. HE IS EVIL."...like that. I mean it is like EVERY not sentence but a bunch of words were typed by different person and they merged them in a final chaos of insanity. I am hurting to type that, but I felt the Venesuelian soaps were somekind of verbal geniousity compared to this. I was happy for every 1 of 10 speeches which was reasonable to the whole situation. Most of them were not on place, non right and ... a pretty simple sighted for a grown persons.

Storyline - Well, get 3 random people of the street and they will probably make a lot better story. The whole plot is so leaking that it even was not funny. I was just ignoring the nonsense and enjoying the missions and quests. Shiro was some kind of stupid bully who was been deeply condused like a growing child by some old hag and doing stuff that he doesn't know why. It was like he didn't know what is bad and what is good. Like a fool living in a cage for 20 years with no contacts, and he was a pretty powerfull guy which also makes non sense. You cannot be super-hardcore sword master with a mind of child. Also some of the scenes were very strange. Like the 2 meter pile of rubbles which 'OH NOES WE CANNOT PASS' thing. Also why Shiro was so evil that after his death the whole continent got corrupted, why Visu - the so called powerfull slayer of Shiro was even more stupid than him...The whole Cantha is like some Stupid-o-world which people are so short sighted they scream in fear, fight eachother, give control on their primal instincs and so on. Reminds me of my old teen base school. Thus the hero must come and shoot wisdom over the poor men. Situation where Kurzick and Luxon ally was hillarious. They got like 4 turtles, but they fight hand to hand with several archers...then 6 muties come and they ally for teh win. The dialogue was so funny. Like two 7years argue and one 11 years tell them in an insight "We must not argue, we must do it together!".

Total - the whole combination of Dialugoes, Storyline, Cinematics and Voice acting brought the SYNERGY effect, making the scene pretty pity. I am sure Nighfall will be a briliant compared to this.

And of course, don't get me wrong, even I flamed so much about those things, I really like Factions. The story thing was a turn down, but all other aspecst of the game (except the faction grind) are good!

Ireally think that yes the voices of some npcs do suck but as to what Arcador said about the story line.... I got the guide and on the inside it tells you the story line there not like in game where its devided up over 5 cut scenes. So yes the in game story line is lacking

Bah, this is not a story based rpg anyway. The players should come up with their own witty dialogue wile playing imo. The more the gamers contribute to the game, the better.

Now stop slapping my monk's saintly pants you pervs!

You know, I probably could... but I didn't feel like it.

Rurik's voice was alright. The character was annoying, and the script was pretty shoddy, but the voice was okay. I actually like Danika's voice... somewhat. I hated everyone else's though.

Danika looks so elegant and powerful. Then she speaks and you get Lizzy Maguire.