r/runescape • u/Novel-Plankton7414 • 22h ago

Suggestion Voice Over for quests

I would love to see Jagex implement official Voice Over audio for characters during quests, rather than relying strictly on the traditional chatbox text.

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u/TonyBest100 Runefest 2018 22h ago

They already tried this in the past with a few quests, the main problem is that if they were to record voice acting for a quest then they wouldn't be able to make changes to the line after the fact without needing to re-record the line again.

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u/TheGreatZephyrical I pray to Seren’s booty nightly 21h ago

There’s also the additional issue of the simple fact that sound engineering is hard.

There’s lots that can go wrong, and unlike visual media, a defect in audio is immediately noticeable.

I dabble in a bit of sound engineering as a result of my day job and nothing takes the audience out of a story like crunchy dialogue, peaking or mismatched sound balances.

It’s much easier to simply write a few lines of dialogue without thinking of any of that.

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u/MidnightAlison 22h ago

some quests are voice over this is the list of the quests with voice over

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u/Novel-Plankton7414 22h ago

Yes would be nice for all quest to have

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u/Naive-Archer-9223 22h ago

Do you realise how expensive that would be lol?

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u/Novel-Plankton7414 22h ago

Could bring more players to the game , would make quests more entertaining

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u/fae237 20h ago

Other MMOs dont have any voiceovers and have strong player bases

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u/Trash_Man_12345 Brassica Prime 10h ago

Are you planning on funding Jagex?

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u/Naive-Archer-9223 20h ago

Yeah and it'd also cost a fortune. 

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u/CenaTheRedeemer 22h ago

They did for quite a while but it slowed down quest development a lot and most people still just spacebarred through quests, I personally enjoy it too but sadly we are not the majority

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u/zhyuv Archaeology 11h ago

potentially unpopular opinion, i don’t particularly care for voiceover. i described runescape to my wife as essentially a series of interactive, visual novels, with so many storylines built into the text for us to read. dialog is just one part of it but reading the dialog for me is integral to runescape’s identity the way it was founded. the few voiced quests we have are good lore generally in my opinion, not specifically because of the voiceover, but because of the story. i like reading. i like listening less.