All of them are horrible imo. The English female voice is worse than
HitlerCelene.
This kind of talk is unecesarriy, saying somone is worse than Hitler when that person in that case she, have done nothing to you or anyone at least I think, joke or no. And no I am not talking about Celene I am talking about the english voice actor for female Inquisitors.
This kind of talk is unecesarriy, saying somone is worse than Hitler when that person in that case she, have done nothing to you or anyone at least I think, joke or no. And no I am not talking about Celene I am talking about the english voice actor for female Inquisitors.
Everytime I hear it I get this image in my head of a drill sergeant with a cigar stuck to one side of his mouth.
I'm inclined to agree
I think the British voice actors are just fine. I haven't tried the American yet, but from the snippets I have heard, they all sound good to me.
English Inquisitor probably has the best delivery of "End table for orphans!"
YES
My first time through with the English dude voice was a super, super, SUPER diplomatic elf fella. The voice was good for that, but it started to get ... dull. Because diplomacy is boring.
My current manquisitor is a human rogue who is EXTREMELY reluctant to be a hero and a super, super smart-ass. The English dude delivery of that line pleased me greatly. 
But what do I know, I also really liked the NA voice actress. Where other people hear "flat and boring," I hear "amusingly dead pan."
I'm definitely in the waaaaayyyyyyy too posh camp. I'm actually really regretting going with him for my dalish, because he sounds so... posh and formal and out of place at times. Bleh.
I think the British accents were intended for human Inquisitors, and the American ones for Qunari/Dwarves. (the American VAs have deep voices)
That sort of leaves the Elf Inquisitors with no VA that is a perfect match. You'll either end up sounding like a human aristocrat, or a deep bellowing voice is going to be be coming from your dainty elf.
Try the British VAs with a human Inquisitor. It's a much better fit than with the Elves.
I'm just happy there are options and they're not race/background locked. Listen closely to the voice samples in Character Creator, ignore accents and just choose the one with tone of voice that would fit your character's personality (and their face, as in what's their most typical expression, what will they likely say aloud when their eyes look like that), and at least for me everything went excellently. Two playthroughs with two different male protagonists.
Then again I'm not english speaker so I can't help missing stuff. Luckily it wasn't dubbed where I live though, we have enough of that with japanese games. Even as nonenglish I can say that anything we hear in Dragon Age is usually better than most of what's heard in jrpg dubs. (Some dub roles are good, but is that enough?)
I loved Hawke's (mine is a dude) voice in every situation, and love the character, but agree there was limitations in playing as him. I have three wardens and three inquisitors, but just one Hawke; even with some alterations (mage or rogue, diplomatic or witty) he's still the same character inside, otherwise there'd be too much overlapping between different characters, or making them into someone I'd rather not see as protagonist. (My Marian Hawke got nowhere, maybe because new sibling in same family felt odd.) For me it's more about how polite or blunt, honest or manipulative they can be in different situations and around different people, since being always generous or always aggressive by default doesn't seem as interesting.
I picked british male voice for my dwarf inquisitor who was polite officially but more easygoing and smartass in private life, opposed to my dalish guy with american voice who was sensitive, intuitively wise, yet unintentionally blunt. My qunari girl is supposed to be kind of artistic type (in my headcanon) and therefore living too much in her own world to think about others as much as my previous guys (so I can pick new, outright ignorant options without making her too jerk - I kinda like artistic jerks). From what I heard so far I think the british female voice can pull that off, she was cute enough.
So your ssying he makes the Inquisitor sound like a total badass
I meant that in a bad way. 
Just dropped in to say that he got quite a bit better after Haven. Weird how it scales from absolutely monotonous to expressive in some dialogue scenes.
Just dropped in to say that he got quite a bit better after Haven. Weird how it scales from absolutely monotonous to expressive in some dialogue scenes.
Yeah all the voices have their quarks like that. I'm having your problem with Sumalee's voice, most of the lines seem monotonous. I'll keep trucking with it though like you are and hope I can find something I like about it.
He's not that great, those heaping praise on the English voice must all be Americans in awe of hearing English spoken properly! 
He's not that great, those heaping praise on the English voice must all be Americans in awe of hearing English spoken properly!
Damn you got me.
He's not that great, those heaping praise on the English voice must all be Americans in awe of hearing English spoken properly!
Well I'm neither American nor English so I suppose I could say I'm as unbiased as one can be regarding these things. And I have to agree with you on that that sometimes it is the case. Heh.
Yeah all the voices have their quarks like that. I'm having your problem with Sumalee's voice, most of the lines seem monotonous. I'll keep trucking with it though like you are and hope I can find something I like about it.
He surprised me at Adamant actually. I chose the "Stroud died because of your idiocy" choice and he really put the wardens in their place. 
I love his voice and it really suits my Dalish elf and his personality. For the first time I really seem to have both the look and sound that I want for my elf guy. It makes the game so much more enjoyable when I genuinely love my character and like being in their company.
I used the english male voice for my qunari and it's pretty funny really having this tall built qunari talking in a posh accent , kind of like beast from x-men
he's alright, he was definitely lacking in parts.
like from the beginning i knew something was off, when the divine is screaming "RUN WHILE YOU CAN!" and the inquisitor just calmly says "...whats going on here..." when seeing the divine about to be murdured
a very stark contrast to the american accent voice which actually yells "WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!"
I hope for the next game they get Mark Bazeley to do the english voice, he did a freaking awesome job as the sith warrior in SWTOR, and he did some work in DA:I as well.
although i will say mr. hadden-paton def got some parts right - the siege at adamant for instance was pretty good.
^THIShe's alright, he was definitely lacking in parts.
like from the beginning i knew something was off, when the divine is screaming "RUN WHILE YOU CAN!" and the inquisitor just calmly says "...whats going on here..." when seeing the divine about to be murdured
a very stark contrast to the american accent voice which actually yells "WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!
^THIS
I've done 4 playthroughs each using using a different voice and Curry is the ONLY one who sounds the slightest bit concerned that all these mages are gonna murder this old lady
Seriously he came in there, kicked in the door demanding some goddam answers while everyone else sounds like they walked in on a surprise birthday party "umm...er...what going on hur..."
I'm pretty sure there's a weird coding error with that line. It actually comes up two more times in the game- when the Inquisitor interrupts Dorian and Giselle's argument, and when the Inquisitor gets their memories back in the Fade. In the former, it sounds identical to the prologue, in the latter, it sounds urgent and a little angry. It's entirely possible who ever linked the voice files in the first cinematic chose the wrong version of the line for three of the four voices. Either that, or the spirits around the Breach were chill as **** when it all went down.
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