Should Animal Crossing receive the voice acting treatment?

[sanstesy]

Also, K.K. Slider with an actual singing voice and lyrics.

What do you think?

 

[Seiniyta]

Never

 

[Lite_Agent]

No.

Just, no.

Fake voices are just the best. So much charm.

 

[LuigiMario]

Nah fam

 

[Lukar]

No thanks. The gibberish is charming.

 

[SleepSmasher]

Nah. Part of the charm are the sounds the villagers make.

 

[TheStebe]

Not in a million years

 

[DCBA]

Make it optional and everyone is happy

 

[Deleted member 2791]

dear god no

 

[BradenAndEggs]

No. The "animalese" is now a part of the artistic direction and adds to the "feel" of the franchise as much as the art style itself does. There was a reason why they kept Nook's portions of the direct in animalese.

 

[Lego Killer Moth]

No it would irreparably ruin the series by stripping away what's probably the biggest part of giving it its charm.

 

[EliR]

I would never ever play it ever again.
Voice acting in games should be cutscene only anyways. I read waaaaay faster than people can talk.

 

[Fatoy]

God no.

 

[Shalashaska]

Nah I like the gibberish. It's charming.

 

[Lyre]

Good heavens no...also Animalese has such a distinctive charm.

 

[ShyMel]

No as I feel the funds needed for getting voice actors in multiple languages would be spent on just about any other feature.

 

[theme park joe]

No. It's an ~a~e~s~t~h~e~t~i~c~

 

[Aleh]

Big resounding No

 

[Platy]

...is it even possible to make it fully voice accted?

Like aren't some of the dialogue generated on the spot?

 

[Raijinto]

I'd have Link voice acted by literally anyone before I have to listen to voice acting for Tom Nook and K.K Slider.

And I absolutely do not want Link to be voiced either.

 

[ryushe]

Noooope.

Its weird voice acting is probably the entirety of its charm.

 

[show me your skeleton]

jfc no

 

[Neoxon]

Nah, just keep the existing gibberish.

 

[Vexii]

Why the heck do so many people complain about Pokémon not getting VA and then freak out when someone mentions it for AC??

I swear y'all don't know what you want.

(for the record VA would ruin both series equally)

 

[Exede]

Gibberish for AC all the way. We need a poll

 

[Fridaynightcatlady]

Why do people think voice acting improves dialogue in games somehow? I feel AC gibberish talk is very AC, it's an element that keeps it special and unique from other games. The fact that they've also created different tones between villagers and NPC's is also pretty cool. It's definitely something that I don't EVER want changed in the game, there's absolutely no need for it to be changed.

 

[data west]

Make it optional and everyone is happy

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I'm not happy that it's wasting my bandwidth downloading something I'll never use

 

[ned_ballad]

...is it even possible to make it fully voice accted?

Like aren't some of the dialogue generated on the spot?

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Yea, it would make the voices really jarring with the pauses to insert the generated content

 

[overcast]

No

 

[boris_feinbrand]

Anyone messes with KK's gibberish is due for a paddlin

 

[TheDinoman]

 

[Whatislove]

This would be an abomination.

 

[Yuntu]

I have the same view on this as I do with Pokemon.

As in: No. Hearing Pikachu and Eevee say their name is still sad to me.

 

[Bomblord]

Animalese is so darn charming but also part of the core identity of the series. It would be like swapping out the Animals for all humans or something.

 

[Faiyaz]

Hell no.

 

[Deleted member 5666]

Make it optional and everyone is happy

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Not sure that would work. As AC has a *massive* amount of dialogue. If they recorded all of it it would result In a much larger file to contain diaouloge for every language and not to mention they'd almost certainly cut down on the amount of dialogue.

So it'd just make those who don't want this far less happy lol.

 

[theaface]

 

[JimJamJones]

 

[DNAbro]

Absolutely not

 

[thecouncil]

since the last direct i was wondering how voice acting would sound with this game.

then i watched the op video.

turns out i hate it.

 

[Strings]

 

[ryushe]

Noooope.

Its weird voice acting is probably the entirety of its charm.

Edit:
Yeahhhh... Just watched the video in the OP and I couldn't even get 2 seconds in.

 

[Fridaynightcatlady]

Why the heck do so many people complain about Pokémon not getting VA and then freak out when someone mentions it for AC??

I swear y'all don't know what you want.

(for the record VA would ruin both series equally)

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I honestly don't get why people are so adamant about VA in the first place. And I agree w you, it would ruin both series (and many more, imo).

 

[banter]

1) No
2) No
3) No
4) it'd be really expensive going from zero voice acting to voicing ~384 unique characters for all of the possible strings of dialogue.
5) No

 

[Aleh]

Why the heck do so many people complain about Pokémon not getting VA and then freak out when someone mentions it for AC??

I swear y'all don't know what you want.

(for the record VA would ruin both series equally)

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It's completely different. Pokémon is a JRPG with cutscenes and a long standing anime that made people used to it.

 

[ned_ballad]

Why the heck do so many people complain about Pokémon not getting VA and then freak out when someone mentions it for AC??

I swear y'all don't know what you want.

(for the record VA would ruin both series equally)

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Probably because they're entirely different games?

Most of Animal Crossing's dialog relies heavily on player inputted words and random items from the game that are generated on the fly

Pokemon is 99% hard coded text with only minimal references to the player's name every so often

 

[Deleted member 17388]

Every character should say their name:

Isa-BELLE! Belle-Belle Isaaaa...

 

[Ravelle]

They already have beautiful voices.

 

[Kyrios]

Absolutely freaking not.

 

[Kneefoil]

The practically unintelligible synthesized voices are part of the charm, I think. So no.