Hi Dark, While I take your point I think the problem here is as much a lack of information as it is money. For example, you mentioned why not look around on songplanet.com. Until you mentioned it I had never heard of it. I hadn't heard of voices.com until Philip Bennefall brought them to my attention either. Unless a developer knows about such places, it is brought to their attention, or find it by a Google search that lack of information can and will effect the kinds of content available to them.
I know just typing in a search string like "royalty free music" or "royalty free sounds" will generate a lot of hits. Usually, one of the big name resellers like Sounddogs.com will be one of the top results. It can be rather daunting going through all the possible hits to find something within a developers price range, that is of decent quality, etc. As far as the 10 to 20 dramatic voice clips for the wrestling game goes that makes sense from a financial point of view, but also feels like an incomplete product to me. To me it is more jarring to go from a human to a SAPI voice. I'd prefer either all human voice overs or all SAPI but not half and half. Sarah is a case in point. While I do enjoy the game I feel certain aspects feel cheaply done. I can't help feel a bit jarred when I try to examine one thing and you have Sarah describe it in a human voice, examine something else, and have AT&T Crystal describe it instead. It feels, well, weird. Then, you have the Caretaker, who is a human actor, but the ghosts, suits of armor, etc all use SAPI voices. While I realize Phil was only using what he had available to him I think it would have sounded much better if the SAPI voices were completely swapped out for human ones because as it stands right now its sort of half and half.When you compare the human acting, which is decent, to the SAPI voices the contrast is quite apparent and feels like a low budget film where the actors were replaced by robots or something. Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
