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Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Finished my first BG3 run, man the acting is great, especially at the when characters get their big emotional moments. I'm thinking "that's acting!", also recognised Omni Man immediately.

Now I'm on to Alan Wake 2 and omg I can't take the dialogue and voice acting. It feels jarring. The prior game I played was Silent Hill 2 and I remembered it was OK, the MC was very chill in a horror game but its kinda explained by the story

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Femme V really nails the emotional arc of V's story in ways that the VA for masc V doesn't, to the point that I'm truthfully less invested in my current playthrough (male street kid origin) than I was in my original (female corpo).

That said, everybody who did voice work in BG3 did fantastic in ways that have made other things I've touched feel hit-and-miss -- I nearly dropped Avowed due to some early mid voice work making me worry about the overall quality -- but Neil Newborn has been rightfully getting acclaim for Astarion, and you have to hand it to him -- they gave him the character, but he was the one who decided "I'm gonna chew the scenery so hard I shit splinters" and made it work so damn well.