The Old Republic: The Power Of Voice Over – Video Documentry
July 18, 2009 by admin
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The Old Republic official site have released a new video documentary which basically goes over the how the voice over bring The Old Republic together. It’s a pretty cool watch so make sure you check it out.
As revealed during E3, Star Wars™:The Old Republic™ will be fully voiced. Watch our third Video Documentary, where we explore how voice-over conversations deliver a deeper level of immersion and connection to the story and development of characters. Every playable character and every non-playable character in the game will be brought to life by voice actors — resulting in several thousand speaking
roles and hundreds of thousands of recorded lines of dialogue!
The Old Republic Script Length VS KOTOR Script
Ever wonder when the producers of Star Wars: The Old Republic tell you that we’re not getting a Knights of the Old Republic 3 because The Old Republic is like having a KOTOR 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 all in one, just how big the game actually is? Well they aren’t lying to us anyway.
In actuality, The Old Republics script is 10 times as big as Knights of the Old Republics. Yup, that’s right, there are 10 times more lines of dialogue in The Old Republic, so really, it could be considered that this is KOTOR 3-10 and maybe even more. That’s pretty amazing when you think about it, just imagine how long this game is going to take, it’s going to be quite incredible.
According to Ohlen, a quick estimate would put the line count in the hundreds of thousands or if you want to get technical, “approximately 40+ novels worth of content.” and also according to Ohlen, after the game is complete, the audio team at LucasArts would have put in over 4,000 hours in voice-over sessions. That’s crazy!
This game is looking more and more appealing to me all the time. At first, I was kinda disappointed, but now i’m starting to get a little excited, don’t get me wrong though, I would still absolutely love to see a Knights of the Old Republic 3.
BioWare: Mythic will help Star Wars MMO
It looks like Mythic Entertainment (Creators of Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer online) will be helping out Bioware with the forcoming Star Wars game, The Old Republic.
Courtesy of Eurogamer.com:
“BioWare has told Eurogamer that Mythic Entertainment will “without a doubt” help out on Star Wars: The Old Republic, as there are “absolutely opportunities to share and learn” within the newly formed RPG/MMO group.
As for BioWare helping Warhammer Online, however, co-founder Greg Zeschuk is not so sure.
“I think we always have lots of opinions to share, Ray and I,” said Zeschuk in an interview published today. “We’ve both played Warhammer, and actually I’ve still been playing it on and off for a while, so I think for us it’s not to much a popularity boost as just the fact that we can probably bring perspectives to the table that will be new and perhaps helpful to the guys from Mythic in the same way from an online perspective they can certainly share with us.
“To give credit to the Austin team [making Star Wars: The Old Republic], we have a number of serious MMO veterans on there, so it’s certainly not neophytes, but there’s absolutely opportunities to share and learn things back and forth.”
BioWare’s other co-founder, Ray Muzyka, will head the RPG/MMO group, with Zeschuk installed as group creative officer. But despite the reshuffle, Zeschuk reckons “not that much” has changed.
“I think because we had been already working side by side within EA, we had already been sharing stuff back and forth, so there wasn’t any, ‘Oh no, now we’re forced to share things, how terrible.’ We’ll just continue what we’re doing, which is actually sharing technology ideas,” he explained.
“I think it will work very much like the Austin studio. Austin is one of the BioWare studios, but they’re very independent. They manage the internal processes, they run it like a BioWare studio, but in the Austin vision.
“They’ve got stuff they’re working on, Mythic’s got stuff they’re working on, and it’s going to be a great team there. We’ve known the people there for quite a while, so in general, they’ve got their agenda, we’ve got our goals, they’ve got their goals, and what Ray and I do at an overall group level is try and make sure that everything is aligned and all the sharing is happening and everyone’s supported and getting the resources they need,” added Zeschuk.
Star Wars: The Old Republic still has no release date, and Warhammer Online hasn’t announced any drastic changes since the merger.
BioWare, of course, has plenty of other projects to worry about: Dragon Age: Origins in particular, which launches on 23rd October for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.”