But you keep the cheapest sounding native voices I have ever heard for the Haudenosaunee. It sounds like they put a teenager up to the task of doing the female villager voice lines, but she wanted to use her $30 walmart microphone and put her mouth right up next to it. There is absolutely no emotion in most of their units voice lines, everything is monotoned.
And paying 25 wood to unlock access to mining gold feels clunky. I feel like that added absolutely nothing at all to the game because youâre still âminingâ gold. Make it independent from your gold mines or something, itâs just really weird right now.
Also⊠A single voice actor for every single unit: villager, explorer, everything⊠So cheap. If they couldnât afford a new professional voice over for the civs, just dont make anything, as this is a huge downgrade.
Yeah, I agree. The ânewâ ones are a downgrade (why were they replaced, actually?). The person who did these - as well as the female villagers - sounds incredibly lifeless and bored and the worst part is, they are completely uniform across multiple units. Thatâs a jarring inconsistency and absurd.
Even the Incaâs got a better deal than the Lakota/Haudenosaunee. Why?
Gonna be frank, but as a Lakota native who hears a lot of Lakota being spoken⊠being monotone is part of the language. Itâs tonal. Being expressive like you want would change the meaning of what is being said, or make it unintelligible.
I hate it too, donât worry. I wish my language was a little more exciting to listen to lmao
I wish theyâd hire a few more actors for the voice lines rather than using the same two actors for every unit. Itâd clear up a lot of game play confusion if the units had different voices like they do with every other nation.
I am curious on your thoughts about the complaint that the volume of the speakersâ voices is too low. Does it feel that way to your ears, as well? Could the volume be raised without impacting the language?
The volume absolutely needs to be raised, and they need more voice actors for the lines. It is literally a game-balance issue to have every Lakota unit speak the same way - the player can no longer click on a unit and know exactly what unit it is by sound alone.
This is especially relevant in the Definitive Edition where itâs gotten more difficult to discern which unit is which when many are packed closely together.
As much as I hate to say this, I would prefer they revert to the old voiceovers until such a time that they can actually make a full voiceover for the entire civilization. Same with the Haudenosaunee.
