Playable race with the best voice actor?

[mercury ranique.2170]

I've always been a big fan of Babylon five. It took me three years to climb from underneath my rock and find out that one of my favourite actors from that show voiced my main toon in GW2

[Doctor Minovsky.2958]

> Asura make voice in the lead….

 

Ah. Recognition!

[TwinFrozr.6214]

Knew I'd stand against the crowd actually preferring Charr female. Discrete and cozy, especially compared to yelly Humans and toilet-bound Asuras.

[Doctor Minovsky.2958]

> toilet-bound Asuras.

I feel personally attacked ❤️ 

Nah, the Charr female voice meta is pretty strong too. There’s room enough for both of us on the champion podium. 

[Gibson.4036]

Recently, as someone who doesn't play Norn, I've been surprised by the female Norn voice as I accompany my daughter through her story. There's something about her snarly talk with the Sons of Svanir that doesn't ring true, and somehow makes it more disturbing when she threatens them.

Like, if she actually sounded angry or powerful when threatening them, it'd be less jarring. Maybe it just starts to sound... sociopathic, instead?

Edited November 9, 2021 by Gibson.4036

[Borked.6824]

Definitely doesn't equate to the best, but "Pillage!" gets me every time 😂

[Valfar.3761]

Charr male is aesthetically my favorite race/gender combo, but when I do the story I prefer to do it as a male Asura. We already have a kitten snarker with Rytlock so my character feels redundant. The male Asura feels like the main character: he can crack jokes, but he can also be sincere.

[Zera.9435]

Female Sylvari voice actress Jennifer Hale is best. She conveys feeling into ALL voice lines so well. Her way of saying "I'll destroy you all!" when I activate berserker mode is the best version in the game.

I fell in love with the voice while I was doing the personal story section with the Order of Whispers trying to retrieve Caladbolg from Waine, the kitten that killed Riannoc. There's a particular line of dialog where the player character gets really drunk/drugged and talks about seeing oozes and Dredge where there weren't any. It was hilarious because of how well she delivered the lines. "The oozes! The ooooozes... and the dredge!"

And I can't forget to mention her amazing line delivery during the Order of Whispers mission where you win the drinking game while Tybalt looks for Demmi. "Sort of. The idea starts with 'run for it', and it generally goes down hill from there".

[Randulf.7614]

I can only rate between male norn, human and sylvari since I don’t play the others.

Id say male norn is the best of those three (given the watering down of the norn character he does a decent job with it) and human male is fine at least for noble style humans (which fits mine perfectly even though it’s not the best acting imo considering how brilliant the actor normally is)

Id vote male sylvari bottom by a landslide. I’d rather have Trahearne’s voice to be honest. 
 

Maybe I’ll try Asura. The race just doesn’t interest me from a playing point of view though.

[TheeBlackDeath.5692]

Male Norn hands down, can't go wrong with some Jotaro stando powah vibes.

[Yumenei.7943]

I mainly play humans, but even though I love female human voice I have to say that Sylvari (both genders) have the best VOs. Really fitting this race and pretty much every class combo. Both actors did excellent job and really breathe life into their characters. 

[Mungrul.9358]

"I'm Commander Mungrul, and Female Sylvari is my favourite voice actor in Tyria."

*Punches out Asari Asura reporter*

[ardhikaizecson.3697]

Other race and gender other than female human, that voice is awful and annoying. Especially the Warrior berserk mode one where she says shes gonna destroy them all, seems like a little girl or early teenagers throwing tantrum.

 

For the best im going for the male norn, because it's the first race I created for my toon and the voice acting sticks with me.

Edited November 27, 2021 by ardhikaizecson.3697

[SummerRayne.4672]

On 11/7/2021 at 11:22 AM, Tytos.3076 said:

No love for Claudia Christian's Norn?

I know many people are a fan of hers, but her voice acting for the female Norn is the one in the game that really annoys me. So much so that I deleted my first female Norn because I couldn't stand the voice acting. I get that Norn are meant to be tough and a larger race, but it sounds like she is trying too hard to sound tough and it just doesn't sound right, too unnatural. 

 

I really wanted a Norn ranger so I later made another one and have tried to get used to and ignore the voice acting. I have gotten used to it some over the years, but it's by far my least favorite in the game. On the bright side, I have gotten used to it enough to somewhat play my Norn now lol.

 

Edited to add which I voted for. I voted for sylvari female. I think the sylvari male is really good also and I do like the human female as well. But I do think the syvari female is definitely my favorite.

Edited November 28, 2021 by SummerRayne.4672

[Strixxe.2019]

Female asura voice is kinda cute and sassy at the same time. especially some  one liners.  You dumb, you'll die and you will leave a dumb corpse.  Cracks me up every time 😄

Edited November 28, 2021 by KrivukasLT.3507

[Dovienya.6597]

It's a tough call between all of the female voiced characters except Norn (don't hate it, but I don't love it either), but Sylvari is my favorite .