tip to anyone making video games that have voice acting:
make sure your voice actors agree on the pronunciation of names, unless you have some reason for the *characters* to disagree on that
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@Felthry I think this is a symptom of the bizarre way video game voice acting is usually done. The voice actors rarely get to read a script, interact with each other, or have any real context at all. A line flashes up on a screen, they read it three times, repeat.
Picked up on this from interviews with Ellen McLain (GlaDOS, Portal) and Jennifer Hale (Shepard, Mass Effect).
@terrana This seems... strange. Why wouldn't they get to read a script?
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@Felthry No idea. The actors don't really like it either, as far as I can tell.
it's pretty distracting when, within a single conversation, the same place name is pronounced in like three different ways
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