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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What an incredibly godawful, dumbass idea.

Look, I'm going to skip over issues of voice actors, quality, etc, and go directly to:

Your voice doesn't sound to you like it sounds to other people. Almost everyone hates playback of their voice. This is a great way to get people to haaaaaate playing your game.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Who says I have to use my own voice? I'm going to splice together clips of PeeWee Herman.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

In theory, the idea is okay. I wouldn't mind an avatar having my own voice.

In practice, fuck no. It's EA. I don't want my voice to live on producing new dialogue long after I'm dead in order to fill some corporation's pockets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure they could change the synthetic voice so that it sounds like your perception of your own voice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting idea, but I doubt that the modulation is the same for everyone, just cause our heads aren't identical in shape or size. I suspect that my head distorts my voice differently than most other people's heads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Idk, my kids love it, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's a lot more common than not.

I personally hate it, but then again I would also hate an avatar of myself as well in a game. I prefer to RP as someone else in games, not as myself (I like myself, I just don't like to be myself in games).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't particularly hate my voice when played back.

I just don't recognize it as my own voice at all.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We already fucking hate hearing our own voices on recordings or in Discord with feedback. Why does anybody think this is a good idea?

Not to dismiss people who are fine listening to their own voice but this feels like mega narcissistic at the very least and just plain weird to everybody else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I would get it to use my girlfriends voice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm okay with it if it's optional (some people love to hear themselves), but I am absolutely not interested. Then again, I'm pretty much the polar opposite here since I don't even like public recognition. My kids would love it though, since they love hearing and seeing themselves in videos and whatnot.

But if there's no way to disable it, I'm not buying the game, simple as that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

One, FUCK software patents.

Two, this is what AI means for voice acting: there won't be any voice acting. Nobody has to get cloned. There doesn't need to be an original performance to modify. We have the technology for artists to make up how a character sounds, the same way artists can make up how a character looks. Like how nobody plays a cartoon. There's still live-action, and mocap, and there will still be people's real voices behind imaginary faces. But that is now optional.

Three, nobody wants to hear their own voice. Morgan Freeman probably thinks he sounds weird and nasal onscreen.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That could be quite cool if done well.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If it were entirely local and respected privacy, sure.

Since there's no shot of that, it's a nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yup, my kids would love it (I would hate it though), but I'm not buying it if it's cloud-based.

That said, I avoid EA games in general, so it wouldn't impact me either way.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Meh, I don't really care and most won't either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know you are but what am I?