Poll: Should Zelda games have voice acting?

[wooty]

Besides that, I feel that voice acting is the lazy way out and often makes you miss certain things. I can recall plenty of text dialogue and scenes from the older Final Fantasy and Zelda games. Whereas modern games with voices such as Fallout, Fable or Skyrim, I cant remember a thing they said or know what the hell was going on in them games anymore.

 

[Euhan01]

Yes but not Link...maybe not Zelda, everybody else can, aslong as its done well. Don't mind if its English or Hylian, might be better in Hylian actually. They do need to get some good voice actors though, not the person who did Samus!

 

[LadyMint]

I don't want Link to talk. Period. Everyone else can. Everyone else does, just not with full audio. I don't know why anyone would have a problem with this, unless their imaginations are so poor that they can't think up voices for themselves. Personally, I find the grunts and utterances enough to help me imagine what their voices might sound like if they were actually speaking dialogue. What, are people just upset about having to actually read in a game?

IMHO, voices in games are a wary business. I always hate it when games with customization (like Guild Wars and TOR) give my character a voice because it's never the voice that I would have wanted. LoZ doesn't have those levels of customization but I feel the same way about voice potential here. Link seems just fine without speaking whole sentences (even though he clearly talks to people), because I don't want to hear whatever vocalized personality they would try to assign him.

 

[everythingbeeps]

Link must never be voiced. I guess I don't care about everyone else.

I probably prefer it just stay how it is.

 

[Balvale]

Yes. So long as there are decent VA's involved.

 

[Necromancer1991]

And that is where the majority of the blame rests with that game. However a good voice actor/actress should be able to improve on terrible writing, so the actress in this case is not blameless.
Now to amend my knee jerk reaction and say that giving Link or Mario a voice would lose a lot of their charm.

I do have to agree that the VA can improve a bad script, but even my favorite VAs would have a hard time making me like the "characters" in Other M, as for mario he's HAD a VA for a while, Charles Martinet (Although it's kind of limited to snippet of dialogue here an there and lots of grunting (Kind of like Link right now actually))

 

[WanderingFool]

You know, I saw the thread title, and knew right then and there that everyone would use the CD-i games as proof why Zelda should stay away from VA; quite frankly, Im tired of repeating what I saw about this so many times. Thats why im not going to bother this time, as just seeing the poll, I can tell where this thread is going.

So simply, I think it wouldnt hurt to put voice acting in Zelda, as long as its Nintendo overseeing it and they put some god damn effort into it this time (dont know what they were thinking when they when voice casting Samus...) Also, the CD-i games, all of them with Nintendo characters, didnt really have any Nintendo Oversight. Nintendo gave Phillips the permission to use some of their franchise characters in games. Plus very few games (on consoles atleast) had voice acting as it was new still, so obviously it would suck.

Also, as I view Selda to be happening in a basic Expy of Europe, I would saw english with various (fitting!) european accents... and a childhood trauma made Link a mute, thus still giving fans a silent protagonist.

Also, I didnt want to say this much, but did anyways... god dammit...

 

[C117]

Nope. Why? Because it would be awkward.

Remember Final Fantasy 10? Remember how you were allowed to name Tidus whatever you wanted, but not the rest of the cast? Remember how incredibly awkward it got when noone actually addressed him by name, and instead called him "him" or "Star of Zanarkand Abes" or "Mister Fancypants"?

Better yet, do you remember Suikoden IV (though I can't blame you if you don't)? Remember how you were permitted to name Lazlo something else entirely? Remember how they solved the issue by just having everyone else skip his name in spoken conversations, while it remained on full display in the textboxes?

Yeah, if we give Zelda-games voiceacting, THAT'S the end result...

 

[renegade7]

It all comes down to how people have thought of those characters over the years, I guess everyone really has their own opinion about the things each character would say and what their voice might sound like, so if they add voice acting I don't think anyone will really be happy...especially if Nintendo makes the voices suck, which they often do.