Raiken Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Hi, not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I wondered if anyone else noticed the poor sound quality of some of the NPC dialogue in BG2? By poor quality, I mean some of the recordings sound distorted, almost like they've got a bit reduction effect applied. Its very noticable in Ireniucus' dialogue at the start of the game for instance. I thought it was my install or sound card, but I've extracted the wav files and played them through my soundblaster card and my E-MU usb interface and the problem is still there. The BG sound quality is great, and I can only think because BioWare squeezed more info into less space (4 cds for BG2 compared to 5 for BG1), that the compression has effected the sound quality. While I'm aware nothing can really be done, I just wondered if anyone else had noticed this? Ta. Link to comment
Miloch Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I haven't really noticed it, but the sounds are indeed different - different voice actors sometimes for the same NPCs between games (or at least they sound different). Could vary from one sound card to another too. Link to comment
Salk Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 In Baldur's Gate, there is an ambient music (outdoor) which seems to be disturbed by the ringing of a mobile phone ( ). I wonder if any of you noticed? Link to comment
theacefes Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 It was going to be used for one of those pre-show movie clips that tell you to turn off your phone before the movie but they left it out, and I guess Unfinished Business didn't pick it up either... As for compression on CDs, I don't think number of CDs has anything to do with the quality in this case...BG2 *did* use a newer version of the IE, so that might have had an effect on that...also, I've always felt that BG1 had more content anyway... Link to comment
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