Over 144 voice actors lent their talent to Dragon Age: Origins

So that’s about 124 more than the average Bethesda game

I’d just hire Hank Azaria.

God no kidding Benny. No offense to Bethesda, but Oblivion was the worst offender with voice acting. Sounded like they had 5 tops.

In oblivion, when you talked to a beggar and they talked in a very lower class cockney accent one minute then a posh upper class accent the next, was that deliberate on account of the beggars also being thieves guild spies or shitty oblivion voice over issues? Never could tell.

It was down to shitty voice acting and editing Stain.

Dragon Age:Origins seems very budget project
144 unknown and no talent actors

I’d rather an RPG had 144 no-body voice actors then one big name and about 5 unknown.

True. The coolest thing about Oblivion’s voice acting was Patrick Stewart. The rest was the suck, despite the fact I loved the game, just got tired of the same voices over and over again.

Made even more amusing/frustrating by all the same cast being carried over to Fallout 3, with only Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman (who is quite rightly in every Fallout game anyway) stepping in to fill Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean’s shoes. The rest of them are all generic imperial guard, token crazy old man, young woman, old woman yoinked right out of their plate armour and rags and chucked straight into slightly different plate armour and rags. Even the cat/lizard voice got carried over to be the ghouls and typecast villain master assassin Lucien Lachance popped up as his post-apocalyptic bomb-exploding equivalent, Mr Burke.

Don’t get me wrong, I love both games to bits, right up there in my top 20 all time favourites. But the first thing to hit me upon booting it up was “oh, crap, those guys agian.”

The worst part was that Captain Picard only had about 10mins of audio in the whole game!

Agreed Gekidami!

“Dragon Age:Origins seems very budget project
144 unknown and no talent actors”

If it’s the same unknown bunch from Baldur’s Gate II then we’re in for a treat. Minsc baby!