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[themikefest]

I'm currently on my 5th playthrough and used only AWR's voice. I'm sure I will use the American voice at some point. Don't know when.

[SpiritMuse]

Apparently the voice actors for the Inquisitor were directed to sound as "neutral" as possible a lot of the time. This because people complained about Hawke's voices being too expressive and creating too much difference between the "neutral" generic question dialogue options and the personality coded ones.

So... yeah. Damned if you do and damned if you don't, apparently.

Personally, I had the American voice for my somewhat older female human. I tried with the British one but she just sounded too light and young, so I switched. And it was awesome.

I think it's pretty cool that they have the whole massive set of dialogue voiced not two but four different ways.

[alwaysquestions]

Apparently the voice actors for the Inquisitor were directed to sound as "neutral" as possible a lot of the time. This because people complained about Hawke's voices being too expressive and creating too much difference between the "neutral" generic question dialogue options and the personality coded ones.

So... yeah. Damned if you do and damned if you don't, apparently.

Personally, I had the American voice for my somewhat older female human. I tried with the British one but she just sounded too light and young, so I switched. And it was awesome.

I think it's pretty cool that they have the whole massive set of dialogue voiced not two but four different ways.

 

 

That's really kinda silly though because sounding "neutral" doesn't enable you to play more kinds of characters, it just limits you to having a "neutral" personality. When I loaded the game for the first time with the british male voice it was immediately clear it's not gonna work for my tough soldier type.

[KaiserShep]

Apparently the voice actors for the Inquisitor were directed to sound as "neutral" as possible a lot of the time. This because people complained about Hawke's voices being too expressive and creating too much difference between the "neutral" generic question dialogue options and the personality coded ones.

So... yeah. Damned if you do and damned if you don't, apparently.

Personally, I had the American voice for my somewhat older female human. I tried with the British one but she just sounded too light and young, so I switched. And it was awesome.

I think it's pretty cool that they have the whole massive set of dialogue voiced not two but four different ways.

 

Yeah I love the American voice for the human female as well. The Hawke bug kinda ruined the experience though. I trust that the last patch fixed that but I didn't feel like going through hours of gameplay just to test it.

[SpiritMuse]

Yeah I love the American voice for the human female as well. The Hawke bug kinda ruined the experience though. I trust that the last patch fixed that but I didn't feel like going through hours of gameplay just to test it.

Well I can tell you the voice didn't change for me. So either my game never had the bug in the first place or it's been fixed.

[mireisen]

I prefer the British voice for my female Trevelyan. After testing the voice I wanted a face to match, so I got this 20-something year old out of it. And there are times that I feel that she looks very child-like. She's also cute when witty.

 

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[Hanako Ikezawa]

Of the male voices, I prefer Harry over Jon.

Of the female voices, I prefer Sumalee over Alix. 

All four are very good though. 

[Solbranthius]

Different voices fit different characters. I think the voice acting in this game is superb across the board, personally.

[DalishRanger]

Huh, I feel the opposite so far, at least as far as the male voices go. I find the American voice much more emotive than the British one, which felt a bit bland in comparison after doing my dwarf run. Could be that my elf was pretty chill though, perhaps. I haven't had the same problem with the British female voice, she works fine to me.

[Nefla]

The two American voices sound more rough and tough while the Brittish ones sound more gentle and classy. Both work for different things.

[Cainhurst Crow]

Female american voice and British male voice were better compared to their counterparts respectively, felt they could capture the lighter hearted scenes as well as the more serious and dark moments in playing the game.

 

Thought it might be because I played female qunari and male human respectively.

[errantknight]

That's really kinda silly though because sounding "neutral" doesn't enable you to play more kinds of characters, it just limits you to having a "neutral" personality. When I loaded the game for the first time with the british male voice it was immediately clear it's not gonna work for my tough soldier type.

I disagree. If games have to be voiced, which apparently they do now, then neutral allows you more room to rp your character as you wish. It's disconcerting if the emotion being portrayed is at odds with how your character feels and increases the likelihood that the character will feel predetermined in terms of who they are. For people who are used to action games where the character is absolutely predetermined, this isn't a big deal, put for rpg players, it's annoying and distancing.

[alwaysquestions]

I disagree. If games have to be voiced, which apparently they do now, then neutral allows you more room to rp your character as you wish. It's disconcerting if the emotion being portrayed is at odds with how your character feels and increases the likelihood that the character will feel predetermined in terms of who they are. For people who are used to action games where the character is absolutely predetermined, this isn't a big deal, put for rpg players, it's annoying and distancing.

I don't understand how it allows you more room? When your character is portraying a lack of emotion through his voice you're portraying an emotionless character, not my character whatever it is. How is a neutral voice not at odds with my gruff soldier or snarky rogue?

I've been playing RPGs since the original baldurs gate and for immersion no voicing is definitely best. But once you voice with voice comes character.

[CuriousArtemis]

Okay, I don't know if this has been brought up before, but the OP mentioned Mark Meer and seemed to imply he had an American accent... god no, it's so Canadian it makes me chuckle sometimes (And he is a Canadian actor, anyway.) That said, I did find Meer's voice a bit unemotive the first time I played, but I got used to it.

 

Jon Curry is awesome as Zevran or when he's speaking with his natural tone, but he dropped way low for this game, too low for me (but perfect for some people's inquisitors). So I'm stuck with Mr. British (forget his name). He is also not very emotional, very neutral and diplomatic, so I think they were simply directed to be that way. A real shame; I miss Hawke's various personalities; it allowed me to create so many different characters.

[Kingthlayer]

I went into Inquisition expecting to hate the "American" voice since I didn't want my guy to sound anything like Zevran, nothing against Zevran mind you, great character but a Dwarf Warrior he is not.  And I was far more than pleasantly surprised, I am astonished at that dudes range to nail a character like Zevran and turn around and give me the type of voice I wanted for my Dwarf Warrior was amazing.

 

On my Human Warrior, I didn't even give the British guy a chance, i went straight for Curry and only way I see myself going with the British dude, is if I ever do a Human Warrior or Elf.

[Arlee]

It never even occoured to me that the difference bettween the two was British or American. Seems obvious now that it's been pointed out...

[tmp7704]

I don't understand how it allows you more room? When your character is portraying a lack of emotion through his voice you're portraying an emotionless character, not my character whatever it is. How is a neutral voice not at odds with my gruff soldier or snarky rogue?

It's probably more accurate to describe the voice work as subtle, rather than neutral. They do good work portraying all various emotions of the dialogue lines, but do it without dialing these emotions up to eleven. As a result, when you switch between various line types (polite, troll and harsh) you don't get impression your character is bi-polar and flying from happy unicorn rainbow time to murderous rage in an instant and then back. Yet snarky and gruff remain recognizably snarky and gruff.

This allows more room in the sense you can pick lines from different moods and the character remains coherent. In DA2 if you strayed from one mood the results were.. questionable, which would lock down the way your character reacted to events around them more. Unless you actually *wanted* to sound like a madman/madwoman.

[QweenBeen]

Agree with OP. kills the medieval vibe. I'm american and there is nothing suave about a straight up northeast accent...southern...maybe...

[dragonflight288]

I like the American voice. It works well with the qunari and the dwarf Inquisitor. 

 

I sounds really odd hearing a dwarf or a qunari have a higher pitched british accent when I got used to the deeper voice of Sten and the Arishok. 

[QweenBeen]

I like the American voice. It works well with the qunari and the dwarf Inquisitor.

I sounds really odd hearing a dwarf or a qunari have a higher pitched british accent when I got used to the deeper voice of Sten and the Arishok.

Texan...a texan dwarf would be everyone's best friend. And qunari from...boston...rough around the edges think leo in the departed

[Gambit458]

The female Shepard voice was perfect the male was very dull. And so sorry you couldn't comment about the VAs Bann didn't mean to hurt you.

Female shep's voice is overrated. I've watched videos of her and tried playing as her and she really isn't as impressive as her fans try to make her sound. Male Shep's voice was fine. Mark made Shep sound calm and collected. He didn't need to sound emotional every time he talked because there was no need for it. His character got emotional when it was called for, like when Shep would get angry, but overall he was fine. Then again Hale voiced Palmer in Halo 4 and I couldn't stand that character so that might be part of why I prefer Meer

 

Anyways, I don't think the American one sucks..it just doesn't fit all the races. The British one doesn't either. When I was trying to make my elf Inquisitor, seeing that British voice come out of his mouth on the creation screen just did not fit for me. The American one however was bearable. They should've had more than 2 options for voices

[Mallika Surana]

I disliked the female American voice (have not heard the American male). It sounded like she was reading out of the phone book. I honestly couldn't continue with that character because the voice was, in my opinion, unpleasant.

[stop_him]

Actually, I think the American accent is perfect for qunari and dwarves. These races sound so ridiculous with the British one. Likewise, when I see YouTube vids of humans and elves (esp elves) with the American voice, they sound incredibly stupid.

[Hellion Rex]

Lies. The J