Will you read a VN without voice acting? Does it bother you?

[edwd2]

not a must, but preferred

[Helvetica Standard]

I'm okay either way.

If I had to pick, however, it depends on the content. Voiced H scenes tend to be awkwardly voiced and few VA's pull of

them properly. Some notorious H fails are Hoshimemo's Chinami and Grisaia's Makina. And conversely, some good H

VOs are Misaki from Yuki Sakura and Irina from Osadai.

[Flutterz]

I read a whole bunch of VNs with the voices off because I was initially put off by Japanese voices. Eventually I tried not turning them off, and haven't gone back, but I don't mind VNs not having them.

[Soulless Watcher]

It depends alot on the vn in question. If there is a great story involved, like tsukihime, the draw will negate the lack of voice acting. However if you are reading something that lacks heavy plot elements, like a moege, good voice acting can make a mediocre vn enjoyable.

[rakafatih]

i prefer the one with voice acting, but it's not bother me at all

[kingdomcome]

Katawa Shoujo was also my first, and it didn't have voice acting. So my problem was actually reading a VN WITH voice acting, I turned them off. Though now I'm used to it.

[ERO!]

sometimes its fun to voice them yourself with weird voices .

 

its very interesting when you do it with someone else.

[Kosakyun]

sometimes its fun to voice them yourself with weird voices .

 

its very interesting when you do it with someone else.

 

I wholeheartedly believe in this and we should actually do this sometime in the future.

[ERO!]

I wholeheartedly believe in this and we should actually do this sometime in the future.

i cant, i dont have skype anymore

[Maou]

My first VN was Three Sisters History...so I didn't know a voiced VN even existed, until I played "Hinatabokko" or it was "Da capo"? I can't remember which one.

 

So yeah, I don't care that much about voices.

[HMN]

i've read some without voices,wasn't particularly bothered by it.

 

 

its very interesting when you do it with someone else.

indeed :3

[LinovaA]

I PREFER voices, but I can live without them.

 

its very interesting when you do it with someone else.

 

H-scenes are absolutely hilarious. (´･ω･`) 

[mbl]

Rockin' the solo option 3 club. I wouldn't say I hate voice acting, but I generally mute VNs anyways for multitasking purposes.

[FinalChaos]

As many others have already said, I prefer Voices but not having them won't bother me too much.

[Alucard]

Back in my day VNs didn't have voices and they were perfectly fine

[ERO!]

Back in my day VNs didn't have voices and they were perfectly fine

How old are u alu-chan?

[MrBanballow]

I think I prefer to have them a bit, but lack of voices isn't something that will keep me away.

[Guest Gurluas]

While I can read one without voices, as I am practicing japanese having voices helps a lot.

[Kenshin_sama]

Seeing how there's a lot of voiced VNs I want to read, I'll likely be a lot less inclined to read the unvoiced ones. Heck, I'll probably even put off on Hollow Ataraxia until it has a completed TL and voice patch.

[Bolverk]

Voices are awesomeeee. They make the dialoges a lot more lively. Changes in pinch and deepness of voices can make a lot of mood. Just like a good BGM.

BGMs can do the same though, so that's the main point you don't "have" to have them for me. Voices are great to have though.

[bogdankl]

the idea itself bothers me, and i strongly prefer it to have voice acting, but when I played  katawa, which was my first vn I completely forgot about it, it's nice to have a reference point and have a general notion of the characters voice but when i play a vn with voice acting i don't usually listen til the end of the sentence anyways i just skip to the next, but maybe that's because i lack the creativity  to imagine an appropriate voice for a character, or i don't like to assume how a character would sound and in stead just have the game do that for me

  also i don't speak Japanese so that's a thing to consider to

[Chronopolis]

I feel like not having voices limits what I can imagine the characters' voices to what I can imagine. Compared to voices, where sometimes I can "feel" like the voice acting made help bring out that character or made them them. I can also react directly to the voice, rather than only react to the content, circumstances, and surrounding description of what is being said.

 

Probably the weakness of voices is when it removes possibilities that are useful, that is, the voice of a character would be better off left to the imagination, or the author wants to make the character's voice be propelled more through the text then the audio.

[ExtraMana]

If I wanted to read something with no voice acting I'd choose a book or a manga.

[Alucard]

How old are u alu-chan?

Old enough to know what a 56k modem is and that voices were far too big to be part of vns.

[ivanhoe88]

I think some visual novels could be best with voices, I like them, but not because one hasn't voices, isn't good. I think the voices are more like a plus. On the other side, if one is fanatic of the seiyuus, the whole experience changes (sadly, i'm not one)