NPC mods
velehal
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Are ther any npcs from mods that would be (almost) indiscernible from original Bioware npc? So no new enermous content and quest centered on npc, no huge amount of dialogues with charname but dialogues with other companions...
In the case of BG1 I take as the "norm" official npcs as they are enhanced by NPC Project.
In the case of BG1 I take as the "norm" official npcs as they are enhanced by NPC Project.
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I agree but with two caveats. I found his audio volume to be off a lot of the time, erring towards being too loud, which is a bit jarring. I also think his personal quest and rewards from it goes well beyond native NPCs but it is in the ballpark of NPC project. I still really enjoyed it overall.
I would also recommend White as fitting the OP's parameters. The voice acting is not up to professional standard but it is a player mod of course so no worry.
Vynd is really good too and funny, but still within the bounds of an original NPC enhanced by NPC project.
if i, that am not a native english speaker, would try to give my voice to a npc it surely would be odd.
but all the npcs but the bard ones are supposed to be common people, and to talkb as common people do, not like shakespeare actors do.
so a common npc voiced by a common person and not a professional voice actor seems to me quite natural, what i find odd is how irenicus is voiced, he is a mage, not a bard or an actor, why should he speak like an actor acting in a shakespeare piece?
i am perfectly aware that the voice actor that gave irenicus his voice did a fantastic job, don't get me wrong, but still i find the way he speak odd, while it would have been very appropriate for haer dalis.
if there is a british accent at all, to my ears to hear talking with the oxford accent, in cockney or hearing a scottish guy sound very different. while i probably would hear a difference between your texan accent, the one of the west coast or the one of a new yorker, i probably could guess roughly from which part of usa a man come listening him talk, but i find the difference of accent in great britain way more pronunciate.
i post this as i think that a view "from outside", like mine, can be interesting.
and by the way i learned on those forums that in english the dwarfs are dubbed with a scottish accent, like you may like to know that in the english movies dubbed in italian the people that in the original version had an italian english accent are dubbed with a south italy accent, normally the ones of naples or sicily (that are not similar at all).
now my impression from outside listening to irenicus is way more to hear a theater actor acting on the stage then hearing an english man talking to americans.
and i admit that @shabadoo 's reason for it can be a good one, he is an educated
anyway my original point was not much that he should not speak like that, but that for most npcs to talk in a very normal and common way, being dubbed by normal people and not professional voice actors, seems appropriate. they are normal people, at least in the way they are supposed to talk (maybe keldorn, anomen and nalia should be exceptions coming from noble families). while they are surely not normal in other aspects of life, being adventurers.
we don't know how jon acted before he became the way he is. maybe his over the top acting is to make up for the fact he has no emotions.