ratboi Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 So I personally turn the voice acting off. I don't know why. I think its maybe because I started reading VNs because of love of novels and it just kind of felt weird with it on :/ and it's just something I still do I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipsed Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 22 minutes ago, ratboi said: So I personally turn the voice acting off. I don't know why. I think its maybe because I started reading VNs because of love of novels and it just kind of felt weird with it on :/ and it's just something I still do I guess You be best friends with @Rooke, Silvz, LiquidShu and Rose 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklord Rooke Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 Not listening to voices is just the logical thing to do, @Eclipsed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forgetful Frank Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 I would prefer the VN I'm reading to have voices, I like hearing the cute girls when they stutter and squee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvz Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 that's a hard question to answer. I mean, I love VNs with voice acting and when they doesn't, I cannot get fully imersed on the story. However, usually, almost always, I don't wait for them to finish before skipping the text, so I almost never listen to them completely. So yeah, I always, always leave them on - and kind of hate when MCs are unvoiced - but never listen to everything. The only exception, I guess, is Kanon, where the PS2 voice patch is terrible and buggy Meat_Bun1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFantasm Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 I've gotten in the habit of just setting it to auto when I play just so I can lay down and read. So yeah, voices on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkZedge Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 I do prefer having voices although I can read them without just fine as well, to me it's a nice plus to have and enjoy. Canicheslayer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosRaven Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Usually I have them on, but sometimes if a certain voice is particularly annoying, I switch it off. Like Natsuhiko in Root Double who forced me to switch off all voices because it was not possible to deactivate just a specific voice. Well, the quality of the voice cast wasn't particularly high anyway, so it wasn't a big loss... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XReaper Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 might sound clichee, but i dont fucking care, since to me a good and believable story is all that matters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deep Blue Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 with, although it doesnt matter if it's voiced or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyldstrykr Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 voices on, because i cant read the speaker's emotion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabu Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I always leave them on but I'm also perfectly capable of reading and fully enjoying an unvoiced VN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfbreezy Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Can't really enjoy a vn when it's not voiced... so far the only Vn i was able to do that for was fate/hollow and that was only because i'm a fate fanboy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleshogun Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Well, don't really care too much about voice here. But for preference, I guess it's a bonus if voiced VN had recognizeable seiyuu to me here. And of course there's some good unvoced VN out there. I think for now let's just said that I'm slightly prefer voiced VN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzu Fanatic Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 A tone of voice and emotions inflected in auditory verbatim help immerse me in a story a great deal more then without. But it's merely a plus - i can live without, but def. a plus. Fred the Barber 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasDice Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I used to read without voices, because squeeky girls yelling japanese through the entire neighborhood would've been way too embarrassing. This made reading VNs using the full-screen text format almost impossible to do, because they never put the name of who's speaking before a sentence and you have to figure out who talks by yourself. After a year or so, someone told me that headphones exist and I felt like the biggest idiot on the planet. Canicheslayer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canicheslayer Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I prefer voices. However I have no problem to read or play a VN without voices. DarkZedge 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ningen Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 As for me, I think some emotions can only be expressed through voices. Also, one of the best things (if not the best) about H-Scenes are the voices of the girls. Voices help understand the text as well, if your Kanji-proficiency isn't that good... Saying voices are one of the main selling points for me wouldn't be exaggerated. Though I've also played good VNs without Voices(checking Kanji all the time gets tiring, though) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Poltroon Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Voices are mostly optional. I can enjoy a really good cast, and there are voices which are just briliant -- see Steins;Gate's Okabe Rintarou -- but I don't think voices are all that important, and can do perfectly well without them -- see Higurashi and most Original VN's. havoc and Dreamysyu 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratboi Posted July 12, 2016 Author Share Posted July 12, 2016 13 hours ago, Rooke said: Not listening to voices is just the logical thing to do, @Eclipsed YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorp Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I do not really care. I read voices, I read unvoiced, important to have a good believeable (and with eroscenes, if they are supposed to be) story and good characters. Actually the perfect would be like it was in some console RPG - so just a few lines are voices, to get an idea what is character voice is. Much better, than have whole 60-hour story voiced, no one listen to them in full anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narcosis Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I don't mind good voice acting (it's actually helpful for learning japanese and at times, grasping things better in general), but I won't cry when they aren't voiced. Certain games can benefit a lot from good VA as much as there are titles, which will do perfectly fine without them; worst thing to happen is getting voice-overs, where it isn't really required (ENG dubs; murica, why?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daydreamer97 Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Voices are a nice bonus but I read pretty fast so I don't always wait for the voice to finish. I started by reading unvoiced vns so it doesn't really bother me if a vn has voices or not. I actually bought G-Senjou no Maou unvoiced because it's cheaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codesterz Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I only play VNs that have voice acting. This is one of the reasons I do not touch OELVNs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kooolm Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I never switch it off. It's way more immersin, at least for me, to actually hear everyone's voice, that's partially the reason why I haven't started hollow/altaraxia yet. Seiyus put a lot of work into it, so it's such a waste to turn it off! Though it really gets on my nerves when some characters have a very irritating voice (I'm looking at you, Hoshimemo) or some supporting characters are left unvoiced (Rewrite). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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