Annoying Voices

[Spino]

Yes, the guy who was cast to do the Roman voices in battle is awful. Whenever I hear his voice my first response is always, "Oh, shut up you whiny gimp!"

Also, as much as I am loathe to admit it but I have come to despise hearing the voice of the man who made Minsc such a joy to hear! His voice is too cartoonish for me to take seriously as the voice of the Seleucids and other N. African/Middle Eastern factions.

I was so hoping CA was going to use a classically trained actor who sounds like Lawrence Olivier to do the Roman voices. I want to envision Olivier in full armor on horseback, not some dopey geek who plays the goofy best friend character in an American network television comedy!

The best voice actor I've ever heard play a Roman was the fellow who did most of the voice work for Caesar II, Impression's city building game. Now that guy had presence! Olivier would be proud... he was great!

"PLEBS ARE NEEDED!!!"

[Oaty]

Personally I think Carthages is horrible. Especially the intor video, the guy's voice sound like he just came out of an assylum and needs to go back

[Mori Gabriel Syme]

I can handle the voice-over for the Roman battles--as long as he doesn't warble, "The Day Is Ou-ou-ours!!!" at the end.

As a side note, I didn't really think of the voices as American until this thread, but I don't have TV & the voices sound nothing like the people I know. I suspect the accent is "American actor generic."

[Orvis Tertia]

I agree that the "day is ou-ur-s!" line is really terrible. That's the only one that genuinely gets on my nerves. Sure, I'd love to hear Shakespearean actors instead of American-ish voices (and it seems to me there are some Brit-sounding voices in the mix, but I can't think of where specifically). But really, having British voices would be no more relevant to Rome than American. Patrick Stewart and Brian Blessed would have sounded great, though.

At least we didn't get Kevin Costner.

Using the authentic languages would have been way cool.

The voices on the strategic map remind me of Civilization Call to Power, which was a horrible game, but it was put out by Activision, so I wonder if there is some direct connection...

I am soooo glad that they didn't do to the Total War series what Activision did to Civilization with that horrible Call to Power. But much of the strategic map looks like they borrowed some of what (little) was good about Call to Power.

[Tricky Lady]

I agree that the "day is ou-ur-s!" line is really terrible. That's the only one that genuinely gets on my nerves.

Re: "The day is ours!"

I bet they hired the same actor who does also Grampa Simpson's voice.

[Didz]

To be honest I got the impression that many of the voice clips used had been stolen from other games like Command & Conquer.

Considering the quaility of the rest of the game its a sad situation that they couldn't be bothered to put a bit of effort into the voices.

Has anyone investigated the feasibility of modding them from MTW?

[R'as al Ghul]

I didn't have any "latin" voices in MTW since I own the german version.
The same in RTW, german voices but also annoying ones.
What's the most horrible for me is the constant feedback of the units on the campaign map. Mrs al Ghul keeps shouting "Aye Sir" and "We can't go on" (their german counterparts of course) from the other room everytime I touch a ship. The agents sound a lot like AoE while the armies keep shouting "Herr" with a million "r" (meaning Master/Lord).
The more armies and agents I move, the more I tune down the sound.

R'as