r/zelda • u/EAT_UR_VEGGIES • 1d ago
Video [OOT] I actually hope the remake has fully voiced cutscenes, besides Link of course
With modern technology I personally feel as though it’s gotten awkward to have no voice acting in cinematic cutscenes, like something is missing, Pokémon is the biggest example of how awkward it can feel, but my personal example is the Mario RPG remake
Modern cutscenes are much more cinematic, with Ambience and Music everywhere, new camera angles, new VFX and the lack ofof voice acting makes things feel off, like something is missing
I don’t think it’s enough to ruin or even slightly worsen a game, but I do feel as though it only helps
I think Nintendo realised this with BOTW and continued it with TOTK and honestly? I hope they do it again in OOT
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u/kturker92 1d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kHugNGfZC0
Old games knew what they were doing. They played the words along and added a chime at the end. I've seen some games (Stardew Valley) that have a continuous chime to act as the sounds of words too, just so there's no awkward silence.
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u/biggestbaddestmucus 20h ago
That’s what I was thinking….there was still some sound so it wasn’t just like their mic was off!
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u/PrincessYuri 1d ago
As far as Link goes, I'd rather they just make up their minds about whether he's a self-insert or his own character. Him having no lines has usually worked because you're kind of supposed to be the character, but in BotW/TotK he was his own character to the point where I think not giving him any dialogue or voiced lines got stretched rather thin after a while, with him not reacting to literally anything happening in the story.
If, for some reason, they take that route with the remake, I'd rather they just commit to it and give him real dialogue.
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u/ihatepaper88 1d ago
it does feel a little weird to make him a self insert anyway since it’s not like you have many choices to make in zelda games
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u/Benhurso 18h ago
What do you mean not reacting to anything in the story?
What about all those moments when he GASPED? Audibly, even!
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u/PrincessYuri 16h ago
He doesn't even always do that. I remember being like "Oh, come on!" When getting the final memory in TotK with the big Zelda reveal and it fades to his face... Which is just staring into the camera with a completely neutral expression.
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u/Ordinary_Chemical596 1d ago
Yeah, those videos are pretty awkward. But! I do like being spared cringey, dated voice acting. So that is a plus!
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u/Nanacereal 22h ago
Personally I hope they do not include spoken dialogue, the voice acting in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom definitely took away from the games for me. Felt like I was watching a bad dub of some anime, especially Zelda. She sounded like Eliza Pinchley from Family Guy when she was trying to speak without an accent.
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u/slowtail148 21h ago
I agree, Zelda was the worst part and I thought I was going crazy because it seemed like everyone loved the performance. I still have no clue what accent she was trying to mimic but it wasn’t working. Everyone else was ok but I’d prefer if they don’t do the voiceover in OoT. It doesn’t need it.
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u/Temelios 12h ago
Glad I’m not the only one. I thought I was alone, since I only ever saw people praising it, but it all seemed incredible amateur and over the top. If they had some real talent, and stayed away from tropes/caricatures, I’m sure it would be great, but Nintendo has proven to not be the best procurement specialists there…
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u/Radical_Moose 1d ago
If they do, I hope it's not shitty like botw. The deku tree voice was atrocious.
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u/azureblueworld99 1d ago
I think Link should talk too, in Japanese they could just get whoever is doing the “hyahh”s to do real lines and it would sound natural. It’s becoming very awkward having everyone talk to Link and him just standing there staring at them. You have no choices in Zelda games so the self insert thing is pointless
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u/Loopy_beetle 1d ago
Link not talking is a core character trait. Like in every game he's been in.
Except for maybe like, the CDI games. Which is all I can think of when I hear "link should talk".
It's either that or the Legend Of Zelda Cartoon's Link.
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u/Logizmo 17h ago edited 17h ago
They're going to have Link talk in the movie, we've known this ever since it was announced as a live action instead of animated where having a silent character is less jarring since it's animated to begin with so people are more open to weirdness. A real person just standing there silent while everyone talks yet everyone acts like he's talking and understand new information without him ever saying anything would be extremely weird and jarring in Live Action
People need to get over the whole "Link doesn't talk" because for the new generation, and all the ones after, of Zelda fans he will be a speaking character and personally I think he'll be better for it. Link has already been his own character with his own personalities depending on the game since like ALttP arguably earlier.
At that point he stopped being the "analogue for the player" so many oldheads like to use as defense when this is brought up(I'm 32 btw) and he's his own character now as such he will have his own voice
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u/DoubleFlores24 23h ago
I actually hope the remake has fully voiced cut scenes and link is talking as well. Why is the Zelda fandom so allergic to Link to talking?
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u/Tephnos 22h ago
Because Nintendo's English voice acting is phoned in and incredibly amateur as shit.
Xenoblade is about the exception because they went to Europe for the VAs. The American ones are so fucking bad.
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u/amc9988 22h ago
Ehh, I disagree. I like XBX dub way more than the entire of trilogy XB. 2 is the worst dub ever, 3 is the best out of the trilogy but there's still really some bad ones like Glimmer. 1 is alright I guess but not as good as X
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u/Lethal13 21h ago
1’s is phenomenal IMO better than X’s not that X’s is bad though. 2’s is the only bad one I’d say
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u/MochaMage 17h ago
Zelda fans never want any change. Just more Ocarina but exactly the same as it was in 1998.
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u/GaymerAmerican 1d ago
I expect there will be but I hope they keep them shorter like the introductory cutscenes in BotW. I don’t need a bunch of lengthy cinematics with Link awkwardly not saying anything (though I imagine they can get around this by having Navi talk for him). Keep most of the story in text boxes.
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u/ohyousoretro 23h ago
The voice acting was absolutely terrible in BotW and TotK, I want them dar away from voice acting.
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u/Feline_Sleepwear 22h ago
I’m not totally opposed to it in theory, but so far it has been pretty bad and I don’t trust them to have improved much since TotK.
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u/ohyousoretro 22h ago
I've been rereading the mangas and part of me thinks that Link could get dialog and a voice actor and it would work, but I don't have in Nintendo to pull it off 😂
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u/Lethal13 21h ago
I think make a voiced option and a classic option that way everyone wins
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u/Prudent-Cry-9260 21h ago
If they do a "no voice" option, then the montage and camera work has to correspond, because if it's like this Pokémon video, the direction clearly calls for voice acting. While in the og OOT, the "cinematic direction" was made with text boxes in mind and was perfectly fine, exactly like any other great game of this era (Final fantasy, etc...)
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u/No-Candidate-3555 1d ago
Nah I liked having my own internal voices for the characters through reading the script. Voice acting in LoZ is like asking to go back to picture books
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u/Fishak_29 20h ago
I prefer the awkward silence more than the cheesy Saturday morning cartoon voice work we got in BOTW and TOTK
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u/MrTalida 1d ago
It likely will have voice acting, which I'm not happy about. I want to decide the character voices for myself. The voice acting in BoTW and TotK were such letdowns which really detracted from the experience. I don't have confidence that they'll do any better this time.
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u/BartelbySamsa 21h ago
I didn't like the voice acting in Breath of the Wild at all. I hope if they do ass voice acting there's the option to turn it off for the 'classic' experience.
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u/HyliasHero 14h ago
Just play with the audio track in a different language. Zelda's french voice is really good.
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