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What if GBA games had voice acting (Proof Of Concept) (ody.sh)
submitted 8 months ago by Yots92 to c/retrogaming
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[โ€“] Yots92 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is one very easy solution: toggle-ready voice acting, so that if one played the games already, they can keep having their canon voices play in their mind as they read the characters dialogues.

Well, voice acting can be very cost-effective if high-quality models are used for tertiary characters, for instance, such as "generic soldier #2" and the likes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Being able to turn it off makes it even less cost-effective - because as soon as a player turns it off, the cost spent on voice acting is wasted on them.

Your mention of models brought me some idea though - text-to-speech could make this considerably cheaper, thus more viable. And if the voice actors are decent enough, they could be even used for multiple main cast chars, to bring costs down further.