I want to see what you guys think, but personally I say no. Zelda is one of those games that have waaaaaay too much fantasy to be voiced. There is like no posible way to tell the story using voice acting and not make it cheesy at the same time. What are all your thoughts?
I thought Twilight Princess would've been a whole lot better if they did have voice acting. Hell, Metroid Prime seems to have VA that's well done enough, why can't Zelda have it?
With so much text voice acting would be bad because you would miss a lot of the text, while with reading you get everything. I said NEVAR but I think it would be best to have both as an option, hopefully if they do it ain't cheesy
[QUOTE="roflcopter616"]I don't care either way, but Link is NEVER allowed to talk.Abomination713
I agree. I don't care if any other characters talk, but Link should always be silent.
i agree with these 2. me and my bro were talking about this yesterday and came up with this same thing, but link can still scream ^.^ i like those screams of his when he gets hit.
Well if voice acting was done, I don't think that they should give link a speaking voice. He performs as the silent protagonist very well and that shoul never change. I guess I could see Midna or Zelda talk a bit. Plus, I have to admit that whenever Zant appeared I expected an evil voice to accompany. I still prefer silent zeldas though.
As long as it isn't link, because then you would expect that voice to be link everytime and I can see why ninty doesn't do a voice over, because each link for the most part is different from the other ones, and to have the exact same voice on each one would kinda take away from it. I can see for the more minor characters, but I'm iffy on zelda and gannon/gannondorf
I think TP would be a lot more enjoyable with some kind of voice acting instead of just scrolling through text after text whenever something is happening.
With so much text voice acting would be bad because you would miss a lot of the text, while with reading you get everything. I said NEVAR but I think it would be best to have both as an option, hopefully if they do it ain't cheesySt_muscat
Shenmue has some interesting ways around that by letting you see text still even if you skipped spoken voice.There is no reason for the series not to include VO, obviously not for Link (never says anything anyway, and in any case the few words he has spoken in the series have been VO'd anyway!). The NPC's and other major/minor characters should defintely be voiced, voice acting pedigree is such now that repeats of the Zelda cartoon or CDI games are merely a bad memory, not a reality or even the future.
No the game is ment to be with just text and no voice acting... Not only is it a style but reading lines is pretty refreshing in a game like this.sSubZerOo
They could always have a option to play wholly with text if you wanted to use it, disabling voices isn't exactly a hard feature to add.
Yes. People are afraid of change but voice acting would do the series some good. We can't stay stuck in the past, video games have progressed and so should Zelda.
Then again I kinda recall Link almost saying something in TP at the end. And then someone cut him off lol. I swear to god that happened but it was a while ago I saw the ending so yeah...
They could have voice acting but... I think it'd be great if you could just turn it off. There are a lot of great games with terrible voice acting out there... *MUTE BUTTON* But then you miss the incredible music...
ithink that twlight pricess was missing something. Matter of fact it seems all zelda games are missing something. don't get me wrong but i love the zelda franchise, but it seems more than anything they need to give link a personality. He never talks, he never acknowledges anyone. Just a speechless, non personality game character. I find that boring.
ithink that twlight pricess was missing something. Matter of fact it seems all zelda games are missing something. don't get me wrong but i love the zelda franchise, but it seems more than anything they need to give link a personality. He never talks, he never acknowledges anyone. Just a speechless, non personality game character. I find that boring. Oct0ber_Magic
He does show emotion though. So he kinda does have a personallity sometimes. Hes hows it through facial expressions.
a voice would take out all the excitement of the game when you dont think on how the chars voices are and i like it with them all mute or only yellina hah
Yes. Considering Zelda is a very expansive game with a pretty in-depth storyline the game would benefit from voice acting. The game is very wordy and if it gets too wordy it will end up like SPM. I say everyone has voice acting considering Link was originally suppose to be you just playing through a persona. He should still have a lot of personality; as much as he did in LOZ:WW and he can interact with all the voice acting that way. GTA3 did it and it ended up fine. The lead played the strong silent type, just like link always does. MP3 has voice acting why cant nintendo put some in for the Legend of Zelda series.
I believe that adding voice acting could add alot of depth to the game and perhaps give a more cinematic feel. There were moments in TP where the lack of voice acting really got to me, I don't know about you but i an no longer stand the grunting and uhhing. Now I know voice acting can come off as a bit tacky but if done right (elders scroll 4: oblivion anyone) it could really bring the series up another level. And yes Link should never be allowed to speak.:)
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