Tired of sounding like you're giving childbirth whenever you hit someone? Chose the 'young' female soundset and didn't realise your error until it was too late? Think that spells should be followed up with a goofy "a-hyuck"? Suspect the Koreans are subtly making fun of western culture by approving this garbage?
If you played during the closed betas, when Aion was still version 1.0, you'll have known that the voices were a lot cooler. Female characters sounded cute but strong and male characters had a certain Bruce Lee quality to them. That's because the voice pack was Korean. The 'westernisation' has then got to be a cruel joke.
If you think it's not all that bad, go and make a level 1 alt right now with the Female Young soundset. You don't even need to go into combat; just unsheathe your weapon. Congratulations, you now know what I'm talking about. It shouldn't be called 'Young', it should be called 'Mentally Deficient'. She sounds like she is wearing a colander for a helmet and drooling all over her straight jacket when she does something as simple as unsheathe a weapon. If you want to take it all the way, go into actual combat. Even better, make her a ranger and get to level 10. She sounds just as retarded with every. Single. Shot.
But there's light: the Korean voice pack is available for download and so is the Japanese voice pack. I've been playing with the Japanese pack for the last day and am quite impressed... I'm about to give the Korean pack a run. The only drawback to the Japanese pack? Shugo don't say 'nyerk' anymore :(
1. Download the Voice Pack of your choice:
2. Find your Aion folder. Extract the contents of the .zip to your Aion\L10N\ENU\ folder. If you're not using the English client, change the location as appropriate (eg. Aion\L10N\CHS for Chinese).
3. Play to the soothing sounds of Bruce Lee kicking some vespine arse.
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hits since August 10, 2009
As an owner of the young female pack (HHHHRRREEEEIIIIIOWWWW!) I approve of this message.
ReplyDeleteGonna give these a shot tonight. Experience tells me that Western dubs in anime are just tragic when compared to the excellent japanese seiryu.
Maybe now I won't have to picture my poor SM drooling in her colinder whenever I pew pew with my spellbook :<
After trying both packs, I much prefer the Korean pack (it also doesn't replace npc voices... nyerk!). Lovers of anime or japanese culture will probably sway towards the jap pack though. xD
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile... you need to label that video as NSFW :p The sleazy music doesn't help!
ReplyDeleteDepends on where you work ;)
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think it's stupid that we have to replace the lang packs at all. NCsoft should have left the voices alone. :(
ReplyDeleteThe voice acting of the Japanese pack is also FAR superior to that of the English pack, even though I can't understand a word they're saying.
ReplyDeleteOkay seriously that Japanese voice pack makes the females sound like their doing the 'slick shugo' if you know what i mean.
ReplyDeletegreg: I've noticed that. The actors really put their all into them. All in all I do prefer the korean pack though; the sounds seem to be a cross between the extreme asian-ness of Japan and the extreme colander-hat-ness of "the west", essentially what the game should have shipped with as standard.
ReplyDeletewhere's the pak of shugos' voices? So that I can either download japanase and in addition having the pleasure to hear a "Once you go shugo you never go back, akakakak" ^^
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