Beamdog - A request regarding voicesets.

Calemyr

Would there be any chance you'll add the voicesets from Icewind Dale EE to the Baldur's Gate EE games?
Particularly "Male Fighter 5"?

I've never liked the voiceset options for the Baldur's Gate series, I have to admit. They just don't sound right for either a rookie adventurer or even an adventurer in their prime. Male Fighter 5 from IWD, however, nails what I want in the Scion of Bhaal: quick witted, charming, and very, very sarcastic. This is the main character of Baldur's Gate, after all, the same adventurer who has a snide comment or a frustrated rant for just about everyone they come across in BG and BG2.

I mean, don't get me wrong. Your new additions are great, particularly the ones provided by David Warner and Melissa Disney. But the males just don't have a good counterpart to Disney's "relaxed" voice. And Icewind Dale has so many great voicesets...

rapsam2003

Well, that's a mod thing, for one. But two, there's currently a redmine issue dealing with this because using custom soundsets doesn't work in v2.1 yet: http://redmine.beamdog.com/issues/23231

smeagolheart

Feel free to put in a feature request.

I'm the opener of that redmine.

I have a mod that loads the iwd voicesets in my awesome soundsets mods.

It may be working with SOD (use modmerge first if applicable).

I was actually getting selection sounds in a quick test with this one for some reason, but not with my other mods.

Feel free to try, it will have the voiceset you are talking about. Let me know if it works.

download link
http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/rKDpyYTz/file.html

Amber_Scott

We were discussing this just today, actually. Technically there's no reason why we couldn't put soundsets from one game into another, the issue is the actor contracts for the VO. If we paid an actor to provide a soundset for IWDEE (for example) and then tried to put that soundset into BGEE, we'd have to negotiate for the rights to do so.

TL;DR: it'll take legal work on our end.

smeagolheart

An option could be to hire new voice actors, for say 15-20 voicesets, with express purpose of being used for all the games. Charge us $4.99 for DLC.

I'd buy it.

Gynsburghe

More sound sets, yes! I'd pay for well done, more varied sets.

I'd also really, really love to have the ability to use fan made sound sets completely again...

Poke... poke...

rapsam2003

smeagolheart said:

An option could be to hire new voice actors, for say 15-20 voicesets, with express purpose of being used for all the games. Charge us $4.99 for DLC.

I'd buy it.

But why would people pay for it when there's mods like yours?...

Calemyr

A couple reasons come to mind.

One, to do it legitimately (as Amber Scott says, these are professional voice actors and should have their work treated accordingly).

Two, it might just be me, but migrating new voicesets into the mobile versions is more problematic than the PC. I tried to put Female Relaxed and Male Commanding (Disney and Warner) onto my phone (may they officially come soon) and had no luck getting it to work. I really like having the game available on the phone - though the delay for the Android release of SoD is digging at me like a toothache.

Mush_Mush

I have the damned hot voice from IWD for my charname, the one that says "Make peace with your gods" mmm awesome voice

smeagolheart

rapsam2003 said:

But why would people pay for it when there's mods like yours?...

I would buy it if they were well done and integrated officially.

Even though I make great mods with attention to detail, I'm just one guy.

I'd rather have someone else doing the hard work and officially supporting the feature.

rapsam2003

Calemyr said:

A couple reasons come to mind.

One, to do it legitimately (as Amber Scott says, these are professional voice actors and should have their work treated accordingly).

Two, it might just be me, but migrating new voicesets into the mobile versions is more problematic than the PC. I tried to put Female Relaxed and Male Commanding (Disney and Warner) onto my phone (may they officially come soon) and had no luck getting it to work.

Good points. Hadn't thought of those.

Calemyr said:

I really like having the game available on the phone - though the delay for the Android release of SoD is digging at me like a toothache.

Yeah, I'm awaiting the iOS release, because I have BGEE on my iPad. I don't generally mod games on my iPad, so...in that sense, an official voiceset pack would be pretty cool.

smeagolheart said:

rapsam2003 said:

But why would people pay for it when there's mods like yours?...

I would buy it if they were well done and integrated officially.

Even though I make great mods with attention to detail, I'm just one guy.

I'd rather have someone else doing the hard work and officially supporting the feature.

Fair enough.

LoveViconia

Or you can make your own and import it there.