Should Animal Crossing receive the voice acting treatment?

[Deleted member 31133]

Asking for a deep multilayered plot is another thing people are going to disagree with. That's not really the point of these games at all.
Are you asking them to voice hundreds of unique villagers, and then use the classic digital voice for unvoiced lines? that's an extreme contrast and there's 0 chance of Nintendo using "Hollywood voice actors".

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But why? How would adding a deep, multilayered story campaign, with Hollywood actors doing the voice acting, take anything away from the original experience? For the basic mode, you could have an option to turn off the voices of Danny Glover, Meg Ryan etc etc and go back to the standard voices. It would certainly add some spice to the series!

However, the poll is very against the idea so I'll let the dream die.

 

[Jawmuncher]

You really think kirby would be better with voice acting?

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The show was pretty good

 

[Fuchsia]

Nope. I don't really want it in any of the "big" Nintendo games. After BoTW's English VO and writing, I just need to see an example of them getting right before I'd trust them again. Animal Crossing needs to lean even further into the quirkiness of the first game in my opinion. Voice acting would push it away from that for me.

 

[LinkStrikesBack]

But why? How would adding a deep, multilayered story campaign, with Hollywood actors doing the voice acting, take anything away from the original experience? For the basic mode, you could have an option to turn off the voices of Danny Glover, Meg Ryan etc etc and go back to the standard voices. It would certainly add some spice to the series!

However, the poll is very against the idea so I'll let the dream die.

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Unrelated content developed just because absolutely can take away from a focused main experience. The idea of a story campaign for AC is ... It would be like adding say... A significant mario kart type racing game mode to fire emblem three houses. It might have been well developed and even good, but even the act of putting it in shows a complete fundamental misunderstanding of what the series is about, and could easily have better located the budget and development time for the product.

 

[GlitchyDegree]

What!? No that's a horrible idea! And the video you shared makes me hate the idea even more!

 

[Avacyn]

I love the talking sounds for Animal Crossing. I'd be very disappointed if they changed them and put in regular voiceovers.

 

[karmitt]

I want voicing in quite a few games - Zelda was a big one that I hope they continue to develop in that direction.

Animal Crossing is not one of those games. The conversation is light, the sounds are bubbly and cute, and having real voices would take away so much of the game's charm. The idea is just gross

 

[lvl 99 Pixel]

But why? How would adding a deep, multilayered story campaign, with Hollywood actors doing the voice acting, take anything away from the original experience? For the basic mode, you could have an option to turn off the voices of Danny Glover, Meg Ryan etc etc and go back to the standard voices. It would certainly add some spice to the series!

However, the poll is very against the idea so I'll let the dream die.

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And then what, employ the equivalent of every other languages Hollywood actors for their releases too? That's an absurd amount of money for something nobody asked for, and not something Nintendo would ever do.

 

[Obsonet]

I want voicing in quite a few games - Zelda was a big one that I hope they continue to develop in that direction.

Animal Crossing is not one of those games. The conversation is light, the sounds are bubbly and cute, and having real voices would take away so much of the game's charm. The idea is just gross

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Yeah Fire Emblem benefitted a lot from all the characters having all their lines voice acted, but not every series needs that

 

[Lua]

The show was pretty good

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Well kirby didnt talked on the show. If it's like that then sure.

 

[Nanashrew]

VA would actually cut into the amount of text all of the villagers have (which is a LOT). It would also likely cut into how many villagers would even appear in the game too.

The series doesn't even really need VA anyways, the Animalese is good and people love it.

 

[Rotobit]

For what it's worth I'm not against Animal Crossing spin-offs/adaptations having voice acting. Heck, that already happened with the cute movie:




But with the main game it's just dumb and limiting for no good reason.

 

[DynamicSushy]

No thanks. Same goes for Zelda, but I guess it's too late for that

 

[Yasai]

I SAY YES to voice acting that is modified to ultimately sound more like a computer generated syllable. You know like they kinda already have in the game only the words are actually easily comprehensible and have a lot more distinguishable characteristics because of the care put into the villager voices

I also love the way a japanese let's player did it for Wild World (DS) - essentially high/low-pitching the voices she recorded for the villagers - although she put a lot more effort into it, voiceing even some of the bugs and adding idle mumbling sounds to the villagers and so on:

 

[SuperSah]

Never

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one n done

 

[Deleted member 17207]

But why? How would adding a deep, multilayered story campaign, with Hollywood actors doing the voice acting, take anything away from the original experience? For the basic mode, you could have an option to turn off the voices of Danny Glover, Meg Ryan etc etc and go back to the standard voices. It would certainly add some spice to the series!

However, the poll is very against the idea so I'll let the dream die.

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That wasn't a dream anyway, it was a nightmare

 

[Deleted member 31133]

Unrelated content developed just because absolutely can take away from a focused main experience. The idea of a story campaign for AC is ... It would be like adding say... A significant mario kart type racing game mode to fire emblem three houses. It might have been well developed and even good, but even the act of putting it in shows a complete fundamental misunderstanding of what the series is about, and could easily have better located the budget and development time for the product.

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Come on. You know that adding a Mario Kart racer into Fire Emblem would be absolutely ridiculous. Like you said, it would add nothing and be very out of place. However, a deep, thought provoking story campaign in Animal Crossing is that out there. Still keep the same core gameplay, but add in an optional story mode voiced by some of the best actors on the planet. I'm not talking about getting Leonardo DiCaprio, but actors with unique voices, which is why I said James Earl Jones, Scarlett Johansson originally.

It would be pretty epic to have some dark, twisted, story mode in Animal Crossing and would definitely get me excited. Sometimes game devs throw a curve ball at their fans. The latest Yakuza game has turn based combat, which is a big departure from previous games. I think a lot of you just need to be a bit more open minded.

And then what, employ the equivalent of every other languages Hollywood actors for their releases too? That's an absurd amount of money for something nobody asked for, and not something Nintendo would ever do.

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Death Stranding had some big actors. Did Sony employ the equivalent actor in every language for that game? Nope. So there is no reason Nintendo couldn't chuck the cheque book at Al Pacino for example for the Animal Crossing story mode (Al Pacino was just the first actor that came to mind. I'm not suggesting him for Animal Crossing)

 

[Odeko]

But why? How would adding a deep, multilayered story campaign, with Hollywood actors doing the voice acting, take anything away from the original experience? For the basic mode, you could have an option to turn off the voices of Danny Glover, Meg Ryan etc etc and go back to the standard voices. It would certainly add some spice to the series!

However, the poll is very against the idea so I'll let the dream die.

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Once the argument has become "why don't they just make an entire second game with a huge budget that's not like the original one at all and package it in with it for free" I think you've answered your own question.

 

[EvilBoris]

Nolan North as a wise cracking Tom Nook?

 

[Odeko]

Nolan North as a wise cracking Tom Nook?

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Delete this, I want it gone

 

[--R]

Come on. You know that adding a Mario Kart racer into Fire Emblem would be absolutely ridiculous. Like you said, it would add nothing and be very out of place. However, a deep, thought provoking story campaign in Animal Crossing is that out there. Still keep the same core gameplay, but add in an optional story mode voiced by some of the best actors on the planet. I'm not talking about getting Leonardo DiCaprio, but actors with unique voices, which is why I said James Earl Jones, Scarlett Johansson originally.

It would be pretty epic to have some dark, twisted, story mode in Animal Crossing and would definitely get me excited. Sometimes game devs throw a curve ball at their fans. The latest Yakuza game has turn based combat, which is a big departure from previous games. I think a lot of you just need to be a bit more open minded.



Death Stranding had some big actors. Did Sony employ the equivalent actor in every language for that game? Nope. So there is no reason Nintendo couldn't chuck the cheque book at Al Pacino for example for the Animal Crossing story mode (Al Pacino was just the first actor that came to mind. I'm not suggesting him for Animal Crossing)

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Please tell me this is just trolling.

 

[SnazzyNaz]

Come on. You know that adding a Mario Kart racer into Fire Emblem would be absolutely ridiculous. Like you said, it would add nothing and be very out of place. However, a deep, thought provoking story campaign in Animal Crossing is that out there. Still keep the same core gameplay, but add in an optional story mode voiced by some of the best actors on the planet. I'm not talking about getting Leonardo DiCaprio, but actors with unique voices, which is why I said James Earl Jones, Scarlett Johansson originally.

It would be pretty epic to have some dark, twisted, story mode in Animal Crossing and would definitely get me excited. Sometimes game devs throw a curve ball at their fans. The latest Yakuza game has turn based combat, which is a big departure from previous games. I think a lot of you just need to be a bit more open minded.



Death Stranding had some big actors. Did Sony employ the equivalent actor in every language for that game? Nope. So there is no reason Nintendo couldn't chuck the cheque book at Al Pacino for example for the Animal Crossing story mode (Al Pacino was just the first actor that came to mind. I'm not suggesting him for Animal Crossing)

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Now this is advanced shitposting.

 

[Carcosan Stag]

Absolutely not.

 

[Deleted member 31133]

Please tell me this is just trolling.

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Now this is advanced shitposting.

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Holy shit. No it's not trolling or shit posting. Go through my 3k plus posts and you'll see trolling is not my thing.

It was actually something that I thought would be a good idea. I'll hold my hands up and admit I was wrong. Sorry if my idea caused grave offensive.

 

[StrappingYoungLance]

But why? How would adding a deep, multilayered story campaign, with Hollywood actors doing the voice acting, take anything away from the original experience? For the basic mode, you could have an option to turn off the voices of Danny Glover, Meg Ryan etc etc and go back to the standard voices. It would certainly add some spice to the series!

However, the poll is very against the idea so I'll let the dream die.

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Have you ever even played Animal Crossing? What on earth.

 

[LavaBadger]

Come on. You know that adding a Mario Kart racer into Fire Emblem would be absolutely ridiculous. Like you said, it would add nothing and be very out of place. However, a deep, thought provoking story campaign in Animal Crossing is that out there. Still keep the same core gameplay, but add in an optional story mode voiced by some of the best actors on the planet. I'm not talking about getting Leonardo DiCaprio, but actors with unique voices, which is why I said James Earl Jones, Scarlett Johansson originally.

It would be pretty epic to have some dark, twisted, story mode in Animal Crossing and would definitely get me excited. Sometimes game devs throw a curve ball at their fans. The latest Yakuza game has turn based combat, which is a big departure from previous games. I think a lot of you just need to be a bit more open minded.



Death Stranding had some big actors. Did Sony employ the equivalent actor in every language for that game? Nope. So there is no reason Nintendo couldn't chuck the cheque book at Al Pacino for example for the Animal Crossing story mode (Al Pacino was just the first actor that came to mind. I'm not suggesting him for Animal Crossing)

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This sounds so absurd, it's very hard to believe you're not trolling. If this is what you're looking for, it should just be a different game altogether.

 

[Naga]

Come on. You know that adding a Mario Kart racer into Fire Emblem would be absolutely ridiculous. Like you said, it would add nothing and be very out of place. However, a deep, thought provoking story campaign in Animal Crossing is that out there. Still keep the same core gameplay, but add in an optional story mode voiced by some of the best actors on the planet. I'm not talking about getting Leonardo DiCaprio, but actors with unique voices, which is why I said James Earl Jones, Scarlett Johansson originally.

It would be pretty epic to have some dark, twisted, story mode in Animal Crossing and would definitely get me excited. Sometimes game devs throw a curve ball at their fans. The latest Yakuza game has turn based combat, which is a big departure from previous games. I think a lot of you just need to be a bit more open minded.



Death Stranding had some big actors. Did Sony employ the equivalent actor in every language for that game? Nope. So there is no reason Nintendo couldn't chuck the cheque book at Al Pacino for example for the Animal Crossing story mode (Al Pacino was just the first actor that came to mind. I'm not suggesting him for Animal Crossing)

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Sorry to ask that, but... have you ever played Animal Crossing?

 

[Deleted member 5334]

The game has it's charm in how it handles the voice clips as it is and I feel by having proper voice acting, it'd ruin it a huge aspect of it.

We do technically have official voice actors for the series in Japan, due to it getting an anime movie. I'd imagine if the series ever gets another animated project, they'd likely come back, as well as (hopefully) getting English voices for a dub this time around. The voices they chose for the movie are fantastic and I do love them, don't get me wrong. I wanna hear them come back again. But for the games? No. It'd absolutely lose a lot of it's charm with the text to speech method they use.

 

[lvl 99 Pixel]

I can't think of two games more diametrically opposed than Death Stranding and Animal Crossing

 

[foxuzamaki]

Oh I believe you, but Nintendo and friends still need to look at who exactly is playing their games and at least looking into it. Even if they pulled an Oblivion and used the same actors for most of it.

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The main demographic for animal crossing are females like 15 and up I guarantee it

 

[Odeko]

I can't think of two games more diametrically opposed than Death Stranding and Animal Crossing

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I don't know, they're both about wandering around in nature and delivering things to people to build up relationships.

 

[EvilBoris]

Delete this, I want it gone

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Troy Baker as a New Yoik Mr. Resetti

 

[Melpomene]

Holy shit. No it's not trolling or shit posting. Go through my 3k plus posts and you'll see trolling is not my thing.

It was actually something that I thought would be a good idea. I'll hold my hands up and admit I was wrong. Sorry if my idea caused grave offensive.

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I mean, can you blame people? You're essentially suggesting Animal Crossing discard the better part of its entire identity.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Yes voters should be banned.



The only time I've seen Era universally agree on something was with Splatoon 2's Octo Expansion.

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That thread was great

 

[Wood Man]

While some series need the voice acting treatment, Animal Crossing isn't one of them. I like the cute gibberish voices.

 

[Deleted member 31133]

I mean, can you blame people? You're essentially suggesting Animal Crossing discard the better part of its entire identity.

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I was suggesting a separate, optional mode (deep story campaign with a list voice actors). The original game would still be there. I'm not ask Nintendo to flay the very soul of Animal Crossing, just a added game mode. Sorry that it's not a popular idea.

 

[lvl 99 Pixel]

I don't know, they're both about wandering around in nature and delivering things to people to build up relationships.

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Wandering around a small area full of characters vs wandering around an intentionally vast and empty landscape is a pretty tenuous connection. One is the definition of a cartoon-cute, quaint gamey game and the other is a produced, narratively driven, realistic styled cinematic story starring big name actors.

 

[Chorazin]

I was suggesting a separate, optional mode (deep story campaign with a list voice actors). The original game would still be there. I'm not ask Nintendo to flay the very soul of Animal Crossing, just a added game mode. Sorry that it's not a popular idea.

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Why would Nintendo pay all that money for an optional mode that goes almost completely against the core AC experience?

 

[Deleted member 24021]

No, the voices they have right now are too adorable to replace.

 

[Odeko]

I was suggesting a separate, optional mode (deep story campaign with a list voice actors). The original game would still be there. I'm not ask Nintendo to flay the very soul of Animal Crossing, just a added game mode. Sorry that it's not a popular idea.

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But that's such a massive departure from the base game that's it's basically like asking for an FPS campaign where I can mow down all my villagers or a grand strategy game where my island can put together an army and conquer the surrounding lands to exploit them for their resources.

It's not an extra mode at that point, it's a whole spin-off title. And I think if you phrased as "this could be an interesting spin-off like Detective Pikachu" people would be more open.

 

[Aprikurt]

This thread has jumped the shark and I love it.

Hideo Kojima presents
ANIMAL CROSSING
Divine Villager Retribution

 

[Pooh]

NO
Absolutely not

But also

How the hell would they voice act all of the custom phrases people spread in their villages?

 

[pillowtalk]

It's like asking for more combat elements beyond bug nets and shovel traps. Animalese is fine.

 

[EdgeXL]

Wow.

This thread is a rare instance of Era being mostly unified. I am glad this community came down on the right side.

 

[criteriondog]

This is like, the only game that I DON'T want voice acting in.

 

[nikos]

Absolutely not, I couldn't stand listening to that for more than a few seconds.

You can also hear the characters sounding out each letter of each word, which is pretty cool.

Animalese is the default spoken language of villagers and other characters in the Animal Crossing series. Each letter spoken is stated to synthesize the basic sound of a letter, leading to mispronunciation of some words. (i.e. "Animal Crossing" would be pronounced "Ah-n-ih-m-ah-l c-r-o-s-s-ih-n-g".)

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More here:

Language

Language is a setting in Animal Crossing, Wild World, and City Folk that determines the sound of characters' voices in the game when the player interacts with them. Since New Leaf, the player can't change the setting. Animalese is the default spoken language of villagers and other characters in...

animalcrossing.fandom.com

 

[Soap]

This is one of those games I would rather they did not. There is a lot of charm to the weird bleeps and blurbs of animal crossing.

 

[Deleted member 8752]

Come on. You know that adding a Mario Kart racer into Fire Emblem would be absolutely ridiculous. Like you said, it would add nothing and be very out of place. However, a deep, thought provoking story campaign in Animal Crossing is that out there. Still keep the same core gameplay, but add in an optional story mode voiced by some of the best actors on the planet. I'm not talking about getting Leonardo DiCaprio, but actors with unique voices, which is why I said James Earl Jones, Scarlett Johansson originally.

It would be pretty epic to have some dark, twisted, story mode in Animal Crossing and would definitely get me excited. Sometimes game devs throw a curve ball at their fans. The latest Yakuza game has turn based combat, which is a big departure from previous games. I think a lot of you just need to be a bit more open minded.



Death Stranding had some big actors. Did Sony employ the equivalent actor in every language for that game? Nope. So there is no reason Nintendo couldn't chuck the cheque book at Al Pacino for example for the Animal Crossing story mode (Al Pacino was just the first actor that came to mind. I'm not suggesting him for Animal Crossing)

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Just play a different game dude.

 

[BarringGaffner]

The last thing we need is Nintendo taking even longer to release these games.

 

[finalflame]

Congrats OP, I don't think I've ever seen a poll on ERA this heavily skewed.