Voice acting is double edged, it has to be done perfectly or it will in fact take away from the quality and believeability of the game. There's people who read books because reading is fun and fundamental, reading in a game is a very minor thing if it's that much trouble go play a game like most FPS's where you can pretty much jump in without knowing anything about any story or any of the characters.

I read text even when there's voice acting and in the past have turned voice acting off 99% of the time it's bad and embaressing. It's a freaking insult most of the time. Gannon needs to be silent Zelda needs to be silent and Link needs to be silent. I've been playing Zelda since 1989 and there's no voice they could give to any of them that would be right for me.

P.S. I'm clearly insane by most gamers standards as I prefer slow pacing lot's of story and lot's of text. I'm that guy who talks to EVERYBODY in EVERY town in an RPG.

P.S.S. Yes even the animals. 

Zelda does not need voice acting.

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On topic:

Voice acting in Zelda would be a huge mistake imo. No matter how good the voice actors are, people will just complain that they are bad and that it ruined the series. ...Or at least I would.

Voice acting sucks ass!

*Looks at Oblivion*

i understand everyone's concern but in reality video game voice acting has come a long way over the last 10 years.

i remember in the mid 90s i was all out against voice acting. the voice acting you did find in those days was almost always terrible.

but nowadays many game designers are much more careful about who they hire to act in their games. On top of that, voice acting directors seem to have a better idea of what they're dealing with as well.

Games like splinter cell, jak and daxter, and god of war have great voice acting that really pushes the game forward. Same goes for metal gear solid.

I'm not saying text has to go away. Like with an rpg, i don't expect everyone in the town to talk, just the key players during key story related moments. I know that there are still games with bad voice acting but i have faith that nintendo could do it right. after all, look at metroid.

ps. some voice acting rocks. like house of the dead 2. even though it's done by people who have no clear understanding of the english language, it still rocks in that house of the dead sort of way.

LOL... the Voice acting in FF ruined FF 10 so....

i didn't care for some of the va work in ff10 but it had more problems then that.... like 1000 unskippable cinematics.

I'm all for Link speaking actually... Especially if they can teach Elijah Wood how to speak Hylian for the part and if the writers only make him speak the line "Well excuse me!" once in this or any other game, and that line also has to be in Hylian, along with everything else Link says, with the text serving as subtitles...

@ makingmusic476: Do NOT diss Charles Martinet... The guy is a voice-over GOD! He has voiced Mario ever since Mario had a voice... Seriously, go piss up a rope.