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Developer Blog #10 - An insight into game dialogue

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 News
07-10-2009, 9:00 PM
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The official site has been updated today with another Developer Blog, this time by Shauna Perry, Director of Audio and Localization who talks about the process of scripting and recording the dialogue. It includes an amusing recollection of the dialogue between herself and the lead designer informing her of their plans to voice the entire [...]

Read the full story at starwarsmmo.net... (http://www.starwarsmmo.net/news/developer-blog-10-an-insight-into-game-dialogue/)
 DAWUSS
07-10-2009, 10:57 PM
#2
Having everything VO'd in a dynamic game such as an MMO kinda makes me nervous...
 knight 12167
07-11-2009, 4:35 AM
#3
This is exciting but it gives out no new info
 dmcNightmare
07-11-2009, 6:33 AM
#4
link broken?
 dmcNightmare
07-11-2009, 8:08 AM
#5
nvm
 Gurges-Ahter
07-13-2009, 2:13 PM
#6
This is exciting but it gives out no new info

Agreed - we didn't learn anything new from this - but I still appreciate the insight given by BioWare.
 Alkonium
07-13-2009, 6:07 PM
#7
Hundreds of voice actors? This'll be good.
 SW01
07-13-2009, 6:19 PM
#8
Certainly sounds very promising indeed - it would certainly make the general MMO experience more engaging than simply reading a series of text boxes.
 RogueJedi86
07-17-2009, 2:27 AM
#9
This does make me curious about how they'll refer to player characters. Being an MMO, our character names will vary wildly. Will they play the pronoun game, or maybe just refer to us by our class name? "Master Jedi", "Trooper", etc?
 GonkH8er
07-17-2009, 2:52 AM
#10
This does make me curious about how they'll refer to player characters. Being an MMO, our character names will vary wildly. Will they play the pronoun game, or maybe just refer to us by our class name? "Master Jedi", "Trooper", etc?


They'll just go "Hey..... you...."
 Web Rider
07-17-2009, 3:35 AM
#11
They'll just go "Hey..... you...."

Followed with: "I don't like your girlfriend!" Right?

Honestly, unless the compression is stellar, won't a bazillion VO's either be innumerable repeated lines or "ZOMG WTF SO MUCH DATAZ!!"?
 RogueJedi86
07-17-2009, 3:38 AM
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It'll be a very big game. EQ2(another voiced MMO) is 10gb I hear, just for the base game. I expect TOR to be even bigger. Better start saving up your harddrive space.
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