Hi Dark, Agreed. Back when I originally created STFC I scrounged the internet plus wwent through my TNG shows to get decent recordings of Picard saying things like "fire photon torpedoes, fire phasers, on screen, engage," and so on. It made the game extremely realistic as the orders to perform various actions sounded like the TV show. Having a TTS voice announce those things never felt that realistic to me.
I think if I were to do a new Star Trek game I'd get one of our talented voice actors to speak various commands like "arm phasers, arm photon torpedoes, arm quantum torpedoes, all stop," etc as that would really make that that much better. When an enemy ship approaches having the captain ordering the crew to battle stations really would make it more realistic. I don't care if Crystal or some other SAPI voice speaks menus, status reports, etc as you'd expect a computer voice for interacting with ship functions anyway. However, a human is better for the captain and crew. Even a quick "aye Sir" from the helm, tactical, or ops station is realistic where SAPI voices would be out of place. On 1/24/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > I'm not sure Jim. > > sinse obviously Homer though a cartoon character is intended as a human > being, albeit a rather stupid one at times, ---- therefore to me would be > just the same as using the voice of Luke Skywalker, Captain Picard, the > Terminator or any other character from a tv program or film. > > If your game includes those characters, it's best if you can have their > voices, however your game might be an original project and include entirely > new! characters which imho have to have their own voices. > > Look at Airik the clerric. Airik is a distinct person with his own voice (in > fact Bryan P's voice), and now if anyone else wanted to write a game with > Airik, it'd make sense that they have to have Bryan. > > That was why in Tdv, Munawar returned to play the agent from Treasurehunt, > sinse that agents' voice was! effectively munawars. > > Does that make sense? > > Myself I'd view most game characters as just as real as characters in a > film, play, or any other form of artistic expression, and obviously then you > want them as well portrayed as possible. > > Fair enough if you prefer sapi for everything Jim, I just find that a rather > strange preference myself for the above reason. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
