Razz Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Why do no nintendo games have voiceovers? (or ones that could actually do with them?) Windwaker Metroid Prime Metroid Prime 2 Pikmin These are just a few of the games that come to mind that really annoy me becuase they have no voiceovers! At least Metroid Prime 3 will have them. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygo Ape Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Because the Ideology of Nintendo Games is to Educate aswell as entertain. Reading is one such way to educate whilst playing games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 I think voice overs would ruin some of the experience, to be honest. It's definitely not needed for Metroid. Samus is meant to be a woman of few words! Letting her run her mouth off would ruin that image. With the Zelda games, i think everyone has their own interpretation in their head about what Link sounds like. Having a voice over would, again, ruin some of the experience. This way, we all interpret it different about how Link sounds. Most games have rubbish voice-overs, and it can sometimes ruin the experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarka Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 With the Zelda games, i think everyone has their own interpretation in their head about what Link sounds like. Having a voice over would, again, ruin some of the experience. This way, we all interpret it different about how Link sounds. Most games have rubbish voice-overs, and it can sometimes ruin the experience. I'm pretty sure Iwata said something similar recently. Also, Nintendo said they might consider doing voice overs if they can do it with some mysterious new way of doing it. What other way is there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurtle Squad Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Yeah...I think the Main Zelda guy said something about maybe having voices in the next Zelda,thoguh Link would stay mute. I however prefer the noise voice things they do now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 I personally dont mind reading all the text. Im on playing Fire Emblem and that is really text heavy but it is so well scripted with plenty of humour and emotion that it doesnt bother me. Also Kurt your Trainer Card is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 There are lots of reasons. VO is expensive, prone to be horrible, you have to translate into other languages (unfortuanately) and the text has to be written very differently in order to sound right. It also takes some disk space and money. I don't mind really, for example Zelda is fine without voices it feels like a book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stefkov Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 I'm sure I remember someone saying that keeping them mute will give the players a chance o make their own voices for the character. Hearing 17 year old Link have a manly/deep voice, and i mean deep, wouldnt have seemed right to me in OOT. i havnt heard any 17 year olds voices very deep. but thats been mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurtle Squad Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 I personally dont mind reading all the text. Im on playing Fire Emblem and that is really text heavy but it is so well scripted with plenty of humour and emotion that it doesnt bother me. Also Kurt your Trainer Card is awesome. Thanks, I saw them on the Serebii.net forums ages ago, then I was going through the net doing stuff and found a Tutorial for making them , and I had nothing better to do and have been in a pokémood lately so... My main squad's going to completely change once I get to training though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Peeps Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 I prefer games to have text rather than voice overs, you can give all the characters their own voices in your head. Sometimes it's hard to hear anyway, especially if you have your own music on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konfucius Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 I think Samus could do with a voice, it would give her more character. I think she comes across much too wooden in the Prime games - the 2D ones are ok. However I think especially in RPGs it's much better to have text instead of voices. You can quickly shoot through it to the important points. For instance in Baten Kaitos I normally skipped the voice overs (except for Mizuti) although I didn't think they were bad. The problem is that I'm quite impatient and to hear a person standing still and speaking is quite boring when I can read it. However games like RE4 or killer7 absolutely need them, you can identify a lot better with the characters and the film like cutscenes also demand them. I wouldn't actually mind Zelda with voiceovers but only if they were restriced to certain script sequences. For instance Ganon speaking and such. I watched a Zelda Flashmovie parody and there appeared Phantom Ganon and said: "I'm Phantom Ganon" in a deep and threatening voice. This has been very memorable for me to this day and I wasn't actually sure whether it was from the game or the film until I reminded myself that the game had no voices. So in conclusion, voice overs at certain points would make many good Nintendo games feel even more epic and immersive but a complete voiceover is unneccesary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 I personally don't like adventure games with voice-overs. FPS are OK for the cut-scenes etc where the speaking doesn't really add anything to the game, but in adventure/RPG's with so much speaking it really would take away from the experience. In RPG's with voice-overs I just read the text anyway without listening to the voice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Wouldn't Zelda have not been VO'd because the original Zeldas obviously couldn't be, and it would be weird to later add voices? Or am I just hearing voices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue_Ninja0 Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Games like Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil need VO. Games like Zelda and RPG's don't, and should not have voice over. I hope they don't screw Metroid Prime 3. But then again, the game is in the hands of Retro Studios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 I'm sure nintendo said the reaon Link doesnt have a voice is so you can interpret him the way you want which als makes you fell more immeresed in the game. Or something to that effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zell Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 It all depends how good the voiceacting is. If done well, it is very effective and improves the game's overall presentation. If done badly, it can seriously detract from the whole experience. RPGs don't need voiceovers, if written well enough (and backed with suitable music) the whole mood and atmosphere can be conveyed easily. FFX had a decent enough story but some of it was spoiled by bad voice acting, especially in the case of Yuna. On the other hand, ToS had great voice acting, but it lacked that killer story to go with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goron_3 Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 It all depends how good the voiceacting is. If done well, it is very effective and improves the game's overall presentation. If done badly, it can seriously detract from the whole experience. RPGs don't need voiceovers, if written well enough (and backed with suitable music) the whole mood and atmosphere can be conveyed easily. FFX had a decent enough story but some of it was spoiled by bad voice acting, especially in the case of Yuna. On the other hand, ToS had great voice acting, but it lacked that killer story to go with it. ToS had great voice acting? I found it was rather good sometimes, but at other times it became very annoying (i hate genis and his voice). Also, adding voice overs ruins the magic to the game. If Link spoke and the voice over was terrible, my world would tumble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 The voice of Lloyd in ToS was done by the same guy who did Robin in Teen Titans. </random fact> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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