Would you do your own voice-acting if you could?
Once in a while I think of a feature I've never seen in a video game, and I wonder if it exists. Most recently, I've been asking friends if any game has ever let a gamer record their own voice-acting for the character he or she controls. No one can think of any. Well, if it doesn't exist, I'm wondering if it should.
Maybe we should be able to be the voice of our characters. Why? If we are so used to taking control of the physical actions and comfortable with customizing the look of a character, why should we not be their voice? My idea is that, using a microphone and a script that scrolls on-screen, we gamers would have the option to also make them sound like us. We'd do the voice work, performing it live.
I have one friend who hates this. He doesn't want to yell "Where's the key?" at some character in a role-playing game. He wants to press a button and move on. But maybe it would allow gamers to feel more directly engaged with the rest of the characters and their own character encounters. I'm not sure. Vote below.