Is it really only me?

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latexlady

First time out of the vault
Okay people. Time to relief my anger, sorry in advance.
So I checked the official site on a regular basis, during the time F3 was still to be released. They had wonderful screenshots there, most notably the megaton bar with some guy sitting there and the ghoul barkeeper.
How wonderful that would be. Roaming free in such a world, drinking in bars, and so on and so on. The illusions we had.

Now I was really looking forward to leaving the vault, finding that bar and becoming part of the wasteland life. You all were too, right?

But before I even got there I was raped in the ears at my chara's birthday party :shock:

... EVERY... FRIGGIN... TIME... someone is drinking... or eating.... in this game... they make those GAWDAWFUL swallowing noises ALL THE TIME!!!

Doesn't this bother ANYONE?? It is most disgusting I say.

Since that crime is part of the effects, it didn't even help to erase the speech, no, it had to be all effects.

Now. What would one need to do to get this problem solved?
And... why does noone else complain?
Sorry for all this :|
But it is simply driving me insane.
Please help. Thanks in advance.
 
Dunno, I haven't bothered to follow people around that much to notice.

Actually, the only time thus far I -have- hounded innocent NPCs down is when I intend to smash them into tiny bits with any one of the countless and anomalous bloody barrels of (secret) doom.
 
Go the other direction. Add more effects. Have them do things like pass gas, vary the amount and size of such farts.

Have them say things like 'Man that squirrl and (insert food item here) went right through me, got to take a huge crap, hope the water in the toilet doesn't spray me in the ass so I don't get a couple rads this time!".

:)

The joy.

Pepper it into the background noise of the game occasionally.
 
I would say it's a blessing. Bethesda has a mountain of resources and they can't pull it off; what makes you think most modders can? This isn't a slight against them, it's just that most voice work I've heard in mods is very amateur.
 
Well I know it could be bad, but Bethesda isn't exactly a shining example of using good voice acting. There have to be some individuals out there who could do a good job and not want to get paid....anyone.....? Guess not...
 
Voice acting is probably one of the most difficult thing to mod. Most stuff can be done with a computer but this... Well it requires espensive studio equipment and a handful of voice actors that DON'T suck. Apparently bethesda had no problem finding the equipment, as for the voice actors I guess even I could've done better. A good mod would remove the voice acting... But to record new dialogues, I don't think anyone's ever gonna go that far.
 
I am a game and anime fan, I hate dubbing mostly because US voice talent is under developed. We do have some good VA's but sheesh the system or talent pool is er...lacking and over all inefficient.

I mean there are times when the time,care and budget is put into solid VA work but frankly its always 3 or 5 on the list of things to do.
 
Not meaning to mess with your head too much, but if you happen to speak Japanese their VA'ing is just as grating on the ears too.

The swallowing noise was a bit much, as I recall, but yeah, it shouldn't be hard to just remove the file and replace it with blank audio. That'd be the easiest way to remove the problem.
 
is the length of time dialogue is displayed for connected to the length of its corresponding audio file? if so, a very quick program could be written that reads in dialogue and generates blank files of the appropriate length.
 
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