Reading Character Dialogue

[C. Turtle]

So, I've been playing a few more dialogue-heavy games lately, especially with the new Ace Attorney game just having been released, so I was kinda wondering, does anyone else read character dialogue aloud when playing a game? Personally, I always read dialogue aloud (provided there's no one walking past my door at the time), and I do my best to make a voice that fits the character, though that may just be a habit I picked up from doing Let's Play videos for a couple years. I was just kinda wondering if anyone else did anything similar.

[Etrurian emperor]

I most certainly would not. Lets players reading the game text to you while playing is actually a gigantic pet peeve of mine. If someone does it I immediately start looking for someone else.

[EricaofRenais]

I always read things in my head, I don't really like the way my voice sounds and my imagination does a better job of making the characters sound right to me.

[The Draco Knight]

I read the dialogues in my head, trying to imagine that fits the characters.

I don't know why, but when, instead, I try to read them with my voice, It sounds so...wrong to me.

[saisymbolic]

I most certainly would not. Lets players reading the game text to you while playing is actually a gigantic pet peeve of mine. If someone does it I immediately start looking for someone else.

I'm actually somewhat of the opposite. It annoys me when LP'ers tell me to pause and read; it really breaks the flow of the video that I have to pause every ten seconds when the dialogue can be read in the same time. Especially when it is a game they themselves have already played, so they speed through the dialogue.

As for me, yes, I read dialogue aloud.

It could be the RP'er in me, or that I just like reading to other people—or myself. I do it in my own voice, however. The only character I do tend to give a voice to is Prosecutor Payne from the AA series—and I tend to do it without meaning to. I can't help but give him this annoying, high-pitched voice.

Edited September 10, 2016 by SaiSymbolic

[Irony]

Like SaiSymbolic, I really enjoy RP-ing the characters, including giving them all of the voices. :)

[Sire]

I read the characters silently, but I do give them some sort of personality in my head when I do so.

However, every now and then I do enjoy others reading characters out loud as their own interpretation and in different voices.

[eclipse]

I don't like it when strangers read to me - I have my own ideas of how things should sound, and it almost always clashes with whatever the reader says.