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cgruber · Feb 15, 2008, 12:30 AM // 00:30

Factions HAD to have been done purposely bad. It's some inside joke or something.

Nevin · Feb 15, 2008, 12:30 AM // 00:30

Koss, Vekk, and Jora get my votes for best.

Danika, Pyre Fierceshot, and Gwen for worst.

Age · Feb 15, 2008, 12:30 AM // 00:30

Prophecies
Best Evennia.
Worst Rurik

EotN
Best Gwen
Worst King Jalis

I can't think of the other camp except Factions Danika gets worst and there aren't a lot of good one except when My Char speaks.The same in Nightfall.

lucifer_uk · Feb 15, 2008, 12:52 AM // 00:52

Conners from Conflict Global Storm.... Aka the male prophecies character voice.

-Sonata- · Feb 15, 2008, 01:05 AM // 01:05

Proph
Best: Glint. I don't know why, I just love it.
Worst: Rurik. And while this may be off-topic, I still believe Ron Jeremy would play Rurik if Guild Wars was ever made into a movie.

Factions
Best: If I have to pick, with a gun to my head, Togo.
Worst: Let's see... Elder Rhea gets my #1 vote. Is she a chain smoker? Shiro is a close second.

Nightfall
Best: Joko! Fits the character perfectly. Also Varesh. I know many don't like her, but I do.
Worst: Kormir. I plug my ears, sorry. Plus, she always body blocks me so even more reason to put her on this list.

Eye of the North
Best: I really like Pyre. He's the Charr I love to hate and hate to love and sounds exactly how I imagined a Charr would sound like. A nice meaty voice :P

Worst: Jalis. He really, truly, sounds like my Grade 11 Physics teacher.

Buster · Feb 15, 2008, 01:33 AM // 01:33

Ghostly Hero's voice was pretty annoying.

Vekk and Pyre Fierceshot ftw !

Darkobra · Feb 15, 2008, 01:49 AM // 01:49

Who can say no to the Prince of Persia, Rurik? Him and Vekk.

Shiro's was just horrible. VERY poorly done. "The last time we fought, you stabbed me IN THE BACK!" "The last time we fought, you didn't use a monotonal voice with a sore throat!"

Kuhr · Feb 15, 2008, 02:00 AM // 02:00

Olaf Olafson is my favorite character in the entire game, so it's obvious where my stance is.

My least favorite characters/voices are Vekk and Varesh.

You can't see me · Feb 15, 2008, 03:02 AM // 03:02

Worst Voice Ever-

Elder Reah.

Best Voice Ever-

Vekk.

arsie · Feb 15, 2008, 03:09 AM // 03:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by -Sonata-

... I still believe Ron Jeremy would play Rurik if Guild Wars was ever made into a movie...

Thats a whole new great thread already. Cast your Guild Wars Movie Trilogy

HawkofStorms · Feb 15, 2008, 03:21 AM // 03:21

Best: Glint

Worst: Shirio

Johnny_Chang · Feb 15, 2008, 03:36 AM // 03:36

Glint's voice is horrible.

Livia's voice turns me on

Zahr Dalsk · Feb 15, 2008, 03:51 AM // 03:51

Best - Livia's.

Worst - the Player Character (particularly male in Factions), Mhenlo (his voice sounds fake whenever he's speaking, and I also hate Mhenlo), Danika (so annoying), Shiro Tagachi (his voice is just plain WTF?), Togo (also WTF?), Rurik (see Mhenlo), that Stone Summit king (just sounded retarded), etc. So basically everyone, yeah. What the GOREDENGINE happened to text instead of voice? Give me Morrowind dialogue boxes!

Nadia Roark · Feb 15, 2008, 04:51 AM // 04:51

I was surprised at how little diversity there was for player-character voices. I do not bother watching cinematics on my warrior since the male hero voice doesn't sound anything like the huge motherf*cker you inevitably are when you play warrior.

But the best performances I've seen in this game come from Stephen Jay Blum (he was Spike in Cowboy Bebop) as Justicar Hablion and Maurice LaMarche as Vekk. To this day my brother and I will periodically point to the screen whilst watching Futurama and go "That's Vekk!" Maurice LaMarche was a regular on Futurama.

EDIT:

Quote:

Originally Posted by arsie

Thats a whole new great thread already. Cast your Guild Wars Movie Trilogy

Then make it

Thorondor Port · Feb 15, 2008, 06:24 AM // 06:24

Honestly, the characters voices in the game are all pretty awful.

These stick out for major suck:
Togo
Shogo
Danika

Owait...those are all factions =]

edit: Shiro, not Shogo.....lmao.

Chik N Nuggets · Feb 15, 2008, 06:39 AM // 06:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by MSecorsky

Vekk: We must go back to Rata Sum and prepare for tomorrow night Gwen
Gwen: Why Vekk, what are we going to do tomorrow night?
Vekk: Same thing we do every night Gwen; Try to take over the world!

Vekk - best voice in all the games IMO. Lydia is good to.

Does she speak?

oh the memories you've brought back for me <3

but yeah.. <3 vekks voice

i also liked pyres, it didnt sound too good.. but he was a charr.. and we dont know how charr sound like in english.

worst: danika, shiro, fortune teller. </3 @ them

Abedeus · Feb 15, 2008, 06:51 AM // 06:51

Prophecies
Best: Evennia
Worst: Seer ;o

Factions
Best: Hmm.. Shiro wasn't THAT bad.
Worst: Danika was as bad as Fortune Teller.

Nightfall: Palawa Joko FTW!
Worst: Melonni FTL.

EotN
Best: Vekk, of course. Too bad he doesn't speak outside cutscenes.
Worst: King of teh Dwarves. Go back to WoW!

Angelic Upstart · Feb 15, 2008, 10:17 AM // 10:17

Prophecies
Best Jailis Ironhammer
Worst Seer

Factions
No comment

Nightfall
Best General Morghan
Worst Varesh

EotN
Best Pyre
Worst Jailis Ironhammer, awful not a patch on the Prophecies character

McMullen · Feb 15, 2008, 10:42 AM // 10:42

Prophecies:
Best - Rurik
Worst - The guy in the great northern wall who says "PRINCE RURIK!! PRINCE.. rurik" (sounds like he couldn't be arsed the second time) and Erol.. Cheesy as hell..

Factions:
Best - Mhenlo, Kisu
Worst - Shiro, Vizu (their cutscene makes me cringe) and of course, Danika..

Nightfall:
Best - Morghan (he has the sexy monotone voice thing going), Palawa Joko, koss, male player character.
Worst - Kormir.. felt like a half hearted performance from her

EotN:
It was pretty good all around, Jalis Ironhammer could've been better but since it was the same guy who did the voice of colonel campbell in the MGS games.. he did a pretty good job.. Gwen was a bit poor as well with some of the lines, but given the clichéd dialogue anyway there's not much you can do.

Zorian Direspell · Feb 15, 2008, 01:00 PM // 13:00

To an extent voice acting can be influenced by writing, so I'll judge both.

Prophecies
Overall Quality: B. Lots of good voice-acting, but some terrible moments as well. Generally one gets the sense that the lines were better written, which probably made the voice-acting easier.

Best VA: King Adelburn, Vizier Khilbron and Justiciar Hablion
Worst VA: PC voice, Glint

Factions
Overall Quality: D-. Terrible voice acting the awfulness of which was compounded by bad lines.

Best VA: Oracle of the Mists (actually got into his role), the old (flashback) emporer, the envoys
Worst VA: Danika, "eternal paradise" girl, Elder Rhea, Vizu

Nightfall
Overall Quality: A-. Great voice acting and decent lines. One gets the sense that the characters were a little more flushed out before their lines were written.

Best VA: Koss, Varesh, Zhed, Morgahn, General Bayel, The Hunger (actually the best scene in the game is the confrontation between Bayel and the Hunger)

Worst VA: Goren.

Gwen
Overall Quality: B. Great voice acting but uninspired or redundant lines. Notably, clicking on Gwen in the Hall of Monuments will produce the same "How can I help?" line (in the same voice and tone) as that produced by Imoen in the Baldur's Gate series. Similarly, Vekk had a great voice actor but terrible, uninspired lines that failed to distinguish the character.

Best VA: Ogden (fits character), Gadd, and, especially, Pyre
Worst VA: King Jalis, PC voice