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FlowerOfInfinity

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Funnily enough, a lot of what the person you quoted said about Dragon Age was exactly what I thought of Oblivion, I genuinely found it one of the dullest, most broken, dispassionately voiced and generally ugly games (particularly in character model terms) I'd had the misfortune to play and couldn't stick with it longer than 6-7 hours before finally giving up and uninstalling. Many people here would strongly disagree, point out amazing things that happen further in and had grand old times playing through it.

Like you say, if you aren't having fun after 5-10% of a game, it's almost certainly not going to click, you're better off moving on and enjoying something else.

Ulala, yeah I can really see where you're coming from with Oblivion, it did have a somewhat generic setting and the voice acting could be a bit odd, but Dragon Age just seemed to be much worse and the voice acting (sorry to go on about it) was a particular offender, partly because most of the actors sounded incredibly bored.

I think Oblivion's voice acting problem was more in the repetition.

Once you'd got to 6-7 hours in and you're still not enjoying it, you're perfectly entitled to give up!

I don't mean to sit here and tell people they're not allowed to like Dragon Age, just that I can see what the Edge reviewer meant.

This seriously annoys me. If you've played a game for three hours and you're not enjoying it, it's obviously i) got something seriously wrong with it or ii) it clearly isn't for you. I know in the past I've been one of the "LOL, you haven't played past the Assbeast of Rapetown, it's like Mario in Halo saving the Wastelands from Bayonetta" crowd, but I think you're perfectly entitled to have a negative opinion of a game three hours into it and trade it in.

I'm not sure what exactly is annoying you :unsure:

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FlowerOfInfinity

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Agree with the Oblivion voice acting comparison. As much as I loved playing Oblivion to completion, anyone would be hard pushed to call the voice acting brilliant. Sean Bean turned in a totally disinterested performance

Haha yes I'd forgotten Sean Bean's crappy performance in Oblivion! I remember now having to do all those little quests for him, and wishing all the time that someone'd sneak into that castle thing and cut the idiot's throat while I was out.

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Don't see this at all.

The gravelly voiced guy is OK, but jesus fucking H, that other guy sounds like he's escaped from the voiceover sessions for Crash Time on the 360. Absolutely dreadful performance, he sounds like the direction he was given was along the lines of 'imagine you're a first year drama student running through a play one of your classmates has written, and you can barely contain your disdain'.

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The gravelly voiced guy is OK, but jesus fucking H, that other guy sounds like he's escaped from the voiceover sessions for Crash Time on the 360. Absolutely dreadful performance, he sounds like the direction he was given was along the lines of 'imagine you're a first year drama student running through a play one of your classmates has written, and you can barely contain your disdain'.

Alistair does sound a bit off when you first hear him, but he's great when you get to know the voice.

I really think these isolated vids aren't doing some of the performances justice, as they turn really likeable pretty fast when you're playing the game through.

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The best voice acting to be found in any game ever is to be found in (SURPRISE!) Far Cry 2.

Have any of you guys heard of it? It can be purchased in Game currently for TEN POUNDS!!! brand new, which considering Modern Warfare 2, owner of some of the worst voice acting in games history, is £44 in the same shop, represents quite a bargain. China.

The game with the second best voice acting ever is Dead Rising, other than that I put all other games on silent mode and read the subtitles out loud to the dog in an accent of my choosing.

EDIT: Mind you, whoever did the voice acting for DJ STRYKER!! in Burnout 3: Takedown nailed it, so he gets an honourable mention. Did I tell you guys about a crazy WINE PARTY happening down at THE MARINA? Well guess what...the clock's already ticking.

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I love that someone trawled all the way through this apparently awesomely-acted game to find the one atrocious example and thus subtly sabotage all the positivity. That's genius trolling.

Seriously though, is that the quality of the stuff you guys are all crying about having been slagged off? It was awful.

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Jesus. That youtube clip was woeful. Not so much in terms of the acting, more because of the weird, artificial, gaps-between-lines-you-only-get-in-games thing.

And ZOK - Far Cry 2? Get out of town - everyone in that game talks about 200mph, AND they always sound really loud even when they're a good 200 meters away.

I'll give you Dead Rising though. Frank is a LEGEND.

INT. Security Room

FRANK bursts in through the door.

BRAD points his gun at FRANK with an ANXIOUS look on his face.

BRAD: "Where are the others?"

FRANK looks around.

FRANK: "I dunno... I'd like to think they got away..."

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Well, I've only played 20 hours or so but to me the voice acting is pretty good, not outstanding, but it certainly doesn't grate or stand out as bad. The writing is fantastic though, and there's a lot of genuinely funny banter between the characters... I'm liking Morrigan and her constant arguments with Alistair at the moment.

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Well, I've only played 20 hours or so but to me the voice acting is pretty good, not outstanding, but it certainly doesn't grate or stand out as bad. The writing is fantastic though, and there's a lot of genuinely funny banter between the characters... I'm liking Morrigan and her constant arguments with Alistair at the moment.

I'm not gettting on particularly well with morrigan and keep having to give her trinkets to keep her on side. Alistair mind you likes me a lot (I just recently kissed him.... :ph34r: ) but my heart is really set on Liliana :wub: . The voices and dialogue by the way are excellent.

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I haven't looked at the videos to be honest but I suspect that any video clip will be easy to take out of context or to miss the context completely so all you'll be concentrating on is how it looks and sounds, rather than what is actually being said. In the game though it's whats being said that matters really. I'm not particularly tolerent of npc conversations in games either (I totally hated fallout 3 for all the crap conversations that the game threw at me and {whispers} it should have been in third person any way) but just love the way they're done in Dragon Age.

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