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wcus...@wppost.depaul.edu (Relax2Max) writes:
>>GM Enierga <gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>>>       As for Privateer... well, what can I say?  The voice acting was
>>>terrible, and that would be one of the game's compliments I think!  And anothe
>>>thing I cannot understand: when you release a speech pack for a game, don't yo
>>>EXPECT to mean FULL speech throughout the game, not just in the battle scenes?
>>>Or is it just me?

>I can't believe that companies are still trying to rip off buyers for an extra $20/30
>bucks by making speech packs available, instead of just putting them in the game
>and making it an install option. I mean really, when these guys (big game companies
>put out games that need 486/66, 8 megs ram, 100 megs hd space, do they really
>believe that you wont have a sound card in that machine as well? Maybe I'm just
>echoing old sentiments, but it just gets really upsetting when I see Origin and 
>the rest of the big game makers putting out speech paks and forcing gamers to
>buy them. My $.02.

	Agreed... if the speech packs really ARE that bad, like Origin's have
been.  But if the speech packs add full sound to more than 90% in the game
which is what one buying a speech pack would expect, then why not?  I would
buy it with no complains.  The "rip-off" comes when the speech pack basically
gives you only a few messages out of a potential huge amount.  Case in point:
I bought WC2, at a time I did not have a sound card.. and this was more than
2 years ago.  And I only got my soundcard about 6 months ago.  So what do I do?
I go ahead and buy the speech pack, because I would LOVE to hear speech EVERY-
WHERE in this game... after listening to the introduction, it was something I
always wanted.  And after installing all 3 or so Mb's of it, what do I get?
Speech in combat only...  Major disappointment or what?  And I bought it cheap,
too... consider all those disappointed people who bought it when it first came
out and paid ALL that money for it.  A great pity, really.
	Which also leads me to this point: Not everyone would want a speech
pack - firstly because they don't always have a soundcard and need the HD space
(as I described above), hence I can see why speech packs are sold separately.
	But darn it, if you make a speech pack, make it a GOOD one, eh?!?!?!?!!

							- Falcon