With the kind of voice talent they have for this game, it's kind of sad it's not all fully voiced. I wonder if there just wasn't enough in the budget to pay them for that much dialogue.

The little touches they have for the background voices are great too. Head to the market and you can just stand there and listen to them calling out, or head into the bar and hear people chatting. It's this kind of immersion that I like to see in my games.

Well, the script was 5000 pages and the "Dialogue Book "alone has 400+ Pages, that would have been a lot of voice recording, not to mention the storage it would take...

I for my part think, that, and I do exaggerate on purpose here, voice acting killed the story driven RPG genre!

To tell a good story and to build a good backround, you will need loads of text. Just compare Oblivion to Morrowind. The latter did just feel more "complete" than Oblivion.

Most modern games seem to fail in that department.

The infinity engine games got the balance absolutely perfect for me.

Just enough VA to get the feel of the character across.

It takes a lot of time, money and storage space to have fully voiced characters. The later Bioware RPGs have a lot less dialogue choice because of this.

My favourite has to be the voice of the bad guy from BG2 (won't spoil anything for anyone who hasn't played it yet), voiced by David Warner. You may also remember him asking Captain Picard how many lights there are... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR_fkXB86kg

He was a lot nicer as a Klingon. :P

He was also quite a nice guy as a reporter in The Omen.

And so miscast in Star Trek V. 8C

Was that Shatners feature length effort? Had no idea Warner was in it, but then i'm not sure if i have watched it all the way through. Gonna havta look it up now and check out his character.

But so nice and bumbling in TMNT 2....

Dave Warner knows an awesome franchise when he sees it. :D

He was really great in Fallout.

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The clever thing about the voice casting in Planescape, is that they
cast Michael T. Weiss as the voice of the Nameless one.
Now we all know what he's most famous for... lol

(and if you don't, well... pretend that you do)

Voice is nice, but sometimes I like imagining my own voices, like when reading a book.

::casts Resurrect on this topic::

So I know Torment is a little shy on the volume of voice talent, but the quality is fine indeed. I was wondering who is your (everybody's) favourite voice actor in the game.

Probably Tony Shaloub.
"May the water you find in the desert not shine at you in the dark."

Fallout fanboys have a few too many celebrity options, really.

Loved Tony Jay as the Transcendent one.

Tony Jay has always been a class act. It's a pity he's passed away. I remember being astonished when I heard him sing in (I think) The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

Mackie, who did Tony Shaloub voice? You're talking Fallout now, though, right? Not Torment.