As it turns out, developer Embark Studios is using AI for essentially all the voicework in The Finals.
That wasn’t bad at all, it was decent. I get not getting behind AI to support the VAs but calling that bad is a reach.
This tech is going to be sooo good for the indie scene. Every single game and every character is going to have quality voice work from now on
We need to finally have RPGs where they refer to you by name
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Played a couple of matches already and I haven’t noticed. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. The announcers need to relay information about events in the game, but you’re focused on other stuff happening and don’t really have time to think about their voices.
Yeah I’d just turn it off tbh if I could, its only really good for keeping tabs on other trios.
Isn’t that what it’s there for?
Yea the gameplay is fun but I’m frankly not a fan of the whole sports theme. The announcers are pretty obnoxious to me.
Played it for like six hours last night and I didnt even realize the announcers were AI generated. It can’t be that bad if it’s passable to those who aren’t informed.
six hours last night
Bruh those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those up.
Tried again today, apparently my wins reclassified me and i got my ass kicked today.
I like to support voice actors, but the headline is exaggeration. The voice is not bad, not as good as a VA, but it’s decent.
Generative AI is getting better and better, Voice Actors should definitely start unionizing like writers and force studios to sign against using AIs to replace them.
Ai voice could work for rpgs where they never say your custom name
And for defending the city and its people, i name you Thane XxXPussy_DestroyerXxX of Whiterun
Not just saying your name, imagine having real conversations with characters, or better yet, having the characters come up with their own quest lines for you. Previously meaningless side npcs could in theory end up as a key character in an evolving story. Obviously thats probably a few years off, but it’d be amazing for variety and replayability.
The article title is misleading. “Quite nice” is misspelled as “Bad”.
Honestly I think that is great. It allows them to easily add stuff down the road. If they add a new gamemode for example that needs new voicelines - easy! Otherwise getting all the VAs in makes things way harder.
That being said, for a singleplayer game that doesn’t evolve being changed around all the time I would be a lot more critical.
I honestly can’t understand the people defending how it sounds. It sounds terrible. I’d honestly rather they not included the announcers at all and just saved the money. I’ve already disabled all dialogue in the game
Edit: I’m dumb and said this before reading the article. The voices are AI, not the dialogue. I think the voices are totally passable (if obnoxious). The dialogue is what grates against me so
No it’s not. I’ve played. The voice work was fine. Definitely would prefer if they hired VAs, but it’s not bad in-game.
Honestly expected them to be worse.
i played a lot on saturday and didn’t notice at all.
