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This article pleases me immensely. Official acknowledgement from the professionals that yes, voice acting is an extremely important part of the game experience, and that it is only becoming moreso as the industry blooms:
"There's an expectation by the gamer that the writing and the voice acting will be as professional if not better than what they're used to on TV, and so we need to constantly improve, make the dialogue snappier, make it more natural, and use top-notch voice actors to say it," Laidlaw says. "And I think gamers are recognizing that we're doing that and they're impressed by it; you read it on the online forums all the time. The one thing we can't forget is that if a character is going to look realistic, we can't make him sound like we hired someone's cousin Timmy to play the part."
There has never been a time when I did not loathe poor voice acting, so it comes as a vast relief to hear that the days of teeth-gritting embarrassment caused by the wooden intonations of 10th-grade dialogue by Kevin the QA temp in the role of the spacefaring supervillain are finally at an end.
More here [GameDaily]
