I think the Advent have the best voices in the game. (That's not really saying much, but there ya go.)I don't think that cybernetically enhanced, psionic starship captains need to be grizzled old men with a voice born of decades of smoking and bad attitude.I think it's funny how many young men who play this game hate the Advent voices but like perfectly horrible voices like that of the Marza Dreadnought.
So true, so true. Young men.
I'll mostly play Advent and Vasari and like their voices very much. All of the voices in the game feel very professional and fitting in my mind, so it's strange that people keep complaining about advent sounding "childish". If you would be cybernetically and psionically enhanced and part of collective mind, you would be, in theory, able to command warships before age of ten! The most important aspect of your mind would be the creativity and imagination and not the amount of information; You're part of a collective mind, you don't need to learn anything, you just know what you need to know. And if you or somebody else learns something new, basically everybody in the vicinity (A planet, spaceship etc.) learns it too. Clear as liverpie.
Have any of you read Alastairs revelation space books? Conjoiners in these books correspond advent in SOASE very much, though they aren't fanatical about spreading their way of life like advent.
Back to voices: One of my favourites is Vasari capital carriers "Phase-jump... INITIATING!". I just love the tone of the captains voice, like the warping would actually be a bad thing. Go figure, If we think about Vasari lore, phase-jumping can actually be considered as bad thing for them; Their mysterious nemesis tracking them by following their jump signatures.
Funnily enough my friend (a good friend too, not some "just familiar") likes TEC voices and TEC overall. He's year younger than I but still seem to have that "young men" syndrome. Always picking the most masculine, militaristic and general humankind races and factions in games. For example in DOW:DC (FOK mod) he always plays with IG while I pick normal or chaos marines or tau. He says tau are for sissies and thinks them as pancy grots. Ironically he gets his ass handed over to him when I start playing around with microed stealth-suits and rail-gun equipped pathfinders. Watching a grown man cry can be pretty amusing.
This seems to be case for majority of teenager gamers and some older geezers who seem to have problems with their self-confidence as men, so they "remind" themselves that they are men by doing doing everything masculine way. And don't get me wrong, I'm pretty normal guy myself but have way too much imagination and thought to degenerate to the level of some people who think that physically stronger always wins. Greekah bundolo!
And if this offended somebody may I be spanked with powerfist for heresy!
