Voice acting in Zelda, How would you want it to be?

The Zelda fan base seems to be divided into many different categories when it comes to VA. It seems impossible to satisfy the whole Zelda fan base when it comes to VA. But I want to know which category would you fall into and why do you want the choice you selected.

No voice acting but if they did impliment it I would have to vote for Link to never speak a word

I voted for no voice acting for the sake of tradition but if they added it I would not mind.

Grunting Link. Always.

Yes voice acting would go very well with the series. Without Link talking of course.

Valve seems to be able to make great games where the protagonist never talks, but everyone around him does. I'd be fine with the majority of the characters speaking and a silent Link.

No voice acting. The simple grunts that we usually hear are enough to suffice.

No voice acting, please.

It should have voice acting, but if it doesn't, I won't be surprised, because it wouldn't be the first time the franchise has stayed in the past.

The last time Link got voice acting we got him saying such memorable lines like "Gee, it sure is boring around here!" I voted no to voice acting, keep it the way it is.Luigihat4

Or maybe Nintendo could just hire good voice actors...? The last time Link spoke, the project wasn't even by Nintendo's hands.

Everyone BUT Link talks LATIN. Simple. :P
But you have the OPTION for VA at the beginning of the game.
There's still gonna be text boxes and Nintendo can pull it off. SSBB's intro was in Latin, it's possible.

Everyone BUT Link talks LATIN. Simple. :P
But you have the OPTION for VA at the beginning of the game.
There's still gonna be text boxes and Nintendo can pull it off. SSBB's intro was in Latin, it's possible.

ANIMEguy10034

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Everyone BUT Link talks LATIN. Simple. :P
But you have the OPTION for VA at the beginning of the game.
There's still gonna be text boxes and Nintendo can pull it off. SSBB's intro was in Latin, it's possible.

BrunoBRS

I picked Latin because it's a dead language and stuff. :P
I thought those Hylian text were a bunch on scribbles or English backwards. :shock:
I never paid much attention to them.
Too bad I can't go back and look at those texts again. :x

I never seen LotR so I don't know about the elvish language. If they were able to sing in elvish in a matter of years, then I'll go with your suggestion. :)

It would be epic if fans learn to talk Hylian from playing too much Zelda. :o

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Everyone BUT Link talks LATIN. Simple. :P
But you have the OPTION for VA at the beginning of the game.
There's still gonna be text boxes and Nintendo can pull it off. SSBB's intro was in Latin, it's possible.

ANIMEguy10034

I picked Latin because it's a dead language and stuff. :P
I thought those Hylian text were a bunch on scribbles or English backwards. :shock:
I never paid much attention to them.
Too bad I can't go back and look at those texts again. :x

I never seen LotR so I don't know about the elvish language. If they were able to sing in elvish in a matter of years, then I'll go with your suggestion. :)

It would be epic if fans learn to talk Hylian from playing too much Zelda. :o

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[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"] why latin? they should speak hylian. there's a hylian alphabet, so why not speaking in hylian. if LotR actors learned elvish for some scenes and the freaking choir sings in elvish, why can't zelda have people speaking hylian.

BrunoBRS

I picked Latin because it's a dead language and stuff. :P
I thought those Hylian text were a bunch on scribbles or English backwards. :shock:
I never paid much attention to them.
Too bad I can't go back and look at those texts again. :x

I never seen LotR so I don't know about the elvish language. If they were able to sing in elvish in a matter of years, then I'll go with your suggestion. :)

It would be epic if fans learn to talk Hylian from playing too much Zelda. :o

So hylian would be similar to Midna talk? :?
I hope they talk slower than her. Only thing I learned from her was that "oolface" meant "Link" in her language. :lol:

No voice acting. Of any kind. From anyone. At any time.wiifan001

Yes or at least not until Nintendo has more then proving themselves in other games with good voice acting

No, just No, the day they add voices to The Legend of Zelda is the day they kill the series, voice acting, while needed for some games, is mostly for lazy people who can't read, that and I also can't think of a Japanese game that got good english voice actors, except Kingdom Hearts.

No, just No, the day they add voices to The Legend of Zelda is the day they kill the series, voice acting, while needed for some games, is mostly for lazy people who can't read, that and I also can't think of a Japanese game that got good english voice actors, except Kingdom Hearts.

spike6958

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No, just No, the day they add voices to The Legend of Zelda is the day they kill the series, voice acting, while needed for some games, is mostly for lazy people who can't read, that and I also can't think of a Japanese game that got good english voice actors, except Kingdom Hearts.

BrunoBRS

Obviously no voice acting is better than bad voice acting.

But, as long as the voice acting is good and the script is good, they should include it. Link though, needs to remain silent.

link stays silent, but everybody else talks. ive also heard an idea of making everybody in hyrule speak a fantasy language. id probably like that idea even more, but it would have to be a functional language (not just gibberish) because theres simply too much dialogue in a zelda game to get away with it.LoG-Sacrament

Nonexistant is fine with me.

None, problem is I have in my mind what I want Link to sound like ...so having VA if wrong one (eg. FF:Crystal Bearers -where the voice doesn't suit the image imo - sounds horrible) would pretty much ruin it for me.

No, just No, the day they add voices to The Legend of Zelda is the day they kill the series, voice acting, while needed for some games, is mostly for lazy people who can't read, that and I also can't think of a Japanese game that got good english voice actors, except Kingdom Hearts.

spike6958

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No, just No, the day they add voices to The Legend of Zelda is the day they kill the series, voice acting, while needed for some games, is mostly for lazy people who can't read, that and I also can't think of a Japanese game that got good english voice actors, except Kingdom Hearts.

Animatronic64

No voice acting at all. Silent heroes should be kept that way. Link grunts and shouts as it is, he doesn't need words to get his point across. And it would be impossible to find someone to voice such an old and loved character without uproar from fans.

No voice acting ever, anywhere. I actually dislike it in all games. I think it's a waste of resources and having some d-list actors recite ham-fisted lines really doesn't add anything to a game. Besides, I can read faster than the actors speak so I typically end up skipping the spoken dialogue anyway.

Eternal darkness had a really good acting cast, nintendo should call them again

No voice acting ever, anywhere. I actually dislike it in all games. I think it's a waste of resources and having some d-list actors recite ham-fisted lines really doesn't add anything to a game. Besides, I can read faster than the actors speak so I typically end up skipping the spoken dialogue anyway.

-wildflower-

If it's in some made up Hylian language and done well, definitely. Link always has to be silent for me though.

But I'm fine with no voice acting, too. in past zeldas NPC's would sometimes make some sort of grunt as well that would make it kinda easy to imagine how they would sound, so...

I'd prefer Dragon Age style. Silent hero but everyone else has a voice (Unless they can find someone who's as good as Kratos' voice actor to do a more mellow tone or something.) People in town actually talk about the world, ect. Ability to talk to people with different dialogue options, stuff like that. Oh ya, people have to pronounce names/towns/ect correctly. If it was like The Last Airbender dialogue, I'd destroy my copy of the game and burn it in righteous holy fire.

It should have voice acting, but if it doesn't, I won't be surprised, because it wouldn't be the first time the franchise has stayed in the pastVGobbsesser

I wouldn't go that far, it is definitely necessary for a lot of games. Uncharted, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Fallout, NMH; many of those games wouldn't be the same without voice acting. Whether its for constant character building even during gameplay like in Uncharted, jokes like in NMH or atmosphere like in Bioshock, it definitely has its place. People just want it in Zelda because its in everything else. Up until this point Zelda hasn't needed it for any of the things mentioned above; Zelda isn't big on the comedy, that isn't physical humor, Link spends most of his time alone and unlike Samus is not a constant character, so he cant really do the monologue thing and Zelda is not a game that crafts that Metroid like atmosphere throughout. So unless they changed any of that, its still not necessary. But it is necessary in many other games. Sepewrath

Yeah, I probably overstated my position a little by saying "all" when I would have been served by saying that "most" games don't need it. The voices in Bioshock did indeed add to the overall creepiness factor of the game much like they did in the System Shock games before it but games like Mass Effect and Fallout 3 (assuming you're talking about Bethesda's take on the franchise) in my opinion the voice acting added absolutely nothing and are actually perfect examples of what I was talking about.

In both games I read the text and once I was finished reading I skipped over the rest of the voice acting. Also, Fallout 3 had some of the worst voice acting I've experienced in some time. Often the voices would change in the middle of a conversation so much so that it was often like talking to a completely different NPC. Granted, this is a problem that plagues a lot of Bethesda's games (*cough* Oblivion *cough*).

I mostly play PC RPGs and from my perspective they really don't need voice acting or, at the very least, not in the amount that it's currently being used. Games like Fallout 1 & 2 (the real Fallout games IMHO) Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, Arcanum, Wizardry, etc. had limited voice overs and that was fine but the developers didn't feel compelled (and, yes, this probably had a lot to do with the technical limitations of the times) to have every mundane and inconsequential NPC speak. Sometimes, gasp, we as players actually had to read and use our own imaginations. Yeah, shocking I know.

I will freely admit that my bias on this issue probably stems from my being a fossil and that the games I cut my teeth on and that are still amongst my favorite games of all time didn't have a lot of voice acting so I've never really found it necessary and in some cases I find it down right annoying.