Elaine's annoying voice (bad recording)
Hey,
I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but at the Royal Chamber, when you're talking to Elaine, her voice is weird, it sounds like a cheap recording. I haven't noticed it in any other part of the game though.
Any thoughts?
I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but at the Royal Chamber, when you're talking to Elaine, her voice is weird, it sounds like a cheap recording. I haven't noticed it in any other part of the game though.
Any thoughts?
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Way too compressed.
Probably the voice clashing with the sound of the waterfall in some way.
I wouldn't mind downloading a bigger file if it meant better quality on the voices.
It has a couple of responses from TTG staff.
Does it matter? It could be one, the other or both - the fact remains that the speech quality is poor, and must be improved.
I sincerely can't hear anything wrong with it. Can someone please tell me how to hear poor sound quality? Seriously. I can't understand what anyone is complaining about. At least it's not SBCG4AP where you can hear words skipped constantly.
I noted no sound problems either. I think some [and note, I said some, not all] gamers are just at the peak of being spoiled this generation and are whining, as folk do, just because. :rolleyes:
I'm not a sound technician. As far as audio is concerned, I'm a simple enduser that has some experience with different sound formats, simply because it's necessary with the dozens of devices that I own.
Edit: Ok, maybe a little bit more than a simple enduser
The sound quality is low, the Speech file for Episode 2 is half the size of Episode 1, luckily Guybrush, LeChuck and Winslow seem to have decent bitrates but other characters are being reduced even more, Elaines first appearence in Episode 2 is done quite badly, spiking at the "s" sounds and to me, felt un adjusted compared to what was around her, later in the episode this is done a lot better however.
I'd just put it down to time, some characters seem to of had a rush job, like theyve taken the Master Recordings, quickly converted them down and threw them into the game without proper adjustments or checking, again, just for some characters.
This has been discussed here quite a lot really and the only thing we can hope for is that TellTale take another month out after Episode 5 to correct and increase the audio quality for the DVD versions.
And I can't believe that people with lousy hearing are telling others that they're "whining" when it's actually been a widely-observed and reported problem that's been acknowledged by Telltale staff in another forum.
Maybe your ears just aren't as sensitive, or your speakers are better/worse and for some reason don't make the problems as obvious.
Here's an easy way to hear some of it.
1. Start a new game.
2. Turn music and SFX to 0
3. Rush through to meeting Elaine for the first time, and listen to her carefully.
4. (guaranteed you'll hear this at least) Take the glass eye from the statue and listen to guybrush. There are five or six audible pops while he's speaking those lines.
I don't think anyone would mind a slightly bigger file size, if it meant avoiding things like this.
If you're using speakers it won't stand out so much I'm guessing.
I use speakers and it stood out a lot, but I am using surround sound.
I had no problems with both Laptop & PC.
Didn't use a headset.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the voice being recorded in another country and emailed to Telltalle. Or did I hear they used Skype? I saw that somewhere on another thread or was it on that interview with Alexandra Boyd?
Speaking of which, I had no problems getting stereo surround sound in chapter 1 but for some reason chapter 2 is only coming out of my two front speakers.
I have a 7.1 set up and Vista 64bit and have to set games in ALchemy if they use DirectSound3D. Does Tales of Monkey Island use DS3D? And do I need to add it to ALchemy? Or is the game supposed to sound this rubbish?