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Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Finished my first BG3 run, man the acting is great, especially at the when characters get their big emotional moments. I'm thinking "that's acting!", also recognised Omni Man immediately.

Now I'm on to Alan Wake 2 and omg I can't take the dialogue and voice acting. It feels jarring. The prior game I played was Silent Hill 2 and I remembered it was OK, the MC was very chill in a horror game but its kinda explained by the story

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now that I think about it, the marvellous thing about BG3 isn't just the acting of the main characters but of the minor NPCs as well. It shows an unprecedented attention to detail and love and care.

I think the only "bad" acting I encountered in the game was that one kid who was apparently voiced by one of the staff's kids. And that's only because the model looked too old, for which I suspect that the kid chose their own model.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Agreed. Great voice acting is one thing. Quality voicing a cast that gigantic is another. I first noticed with that frog in the hag's area. You don't even get it if you don't cast speak with animals and talk to this random frog hopping around, but if you bother to, you get this short, amazingly acted dialogue.

The attention to detail is just off the charts.