Death Knights receive unique voices
by Alex Ziebart 
Aug 30th 2008 at 1:30PM
The fine folk over at DeathKnight.info have posted a video of the unique Death Knight voices we've all been promised. They don't have an entirely new set of voice emotes (at least not yet), they took a slightly different route. There's actually a sound filter over the voices, making them sound echoey and spooky. The females have been described as sounding like banshees, which is pretty accurate I think. If you're not a fan of the voice effects, you're allowed to turn them off in your Sound control panel so you won't have to hear it. Other people still will, unless they do the same.
I'm definitely a fan of this for most of the race/gender combos. Some of them are lackluster (in my opinion) such as the Female Dwarves. The best? Male Blood Elf by far. That laugh? Awesome. Just awesome. I'm sure we'll see a couple of tweaks to this before the end of the beta period, but they're definitely on the right track, I think.
I'm definitely a fan of this for most of the race/gender combos. Some of them are lackluster (in my opinion) such as the Female Dwarves. The best? Male Blood Elf by far. That laugh? Awesome. Just awesome. I'm sure we'll see a couple of tweaks to this before the end of the beta period, but they're definitely on the right track, I think.
Filed under: Polls, Analysis / Opinion, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
silverUK Aug 30th 2008 1:37PM
yesh!
Ametrine Aug 30th 2008 1:47PM
Not too bad... for the females. Agree with the whole "banshee" opinion. Gnome giggle is creepy.
Men could use some work... they sound like they're in a well.
Ametrine Aug 30th 2008 1:50PM
Also, the Forsaken normally have that "echo" effect, so for them, it seems unchanged.
josh Aug 30th 2008 5:51PM
the male BE laugh sounded truly evil, almost like a good raid/5man boss
PimpyMicPimp Aug 30th 2008 7:25PM
Agreed. The Female Gnome laugh is deliciously evil while the Male Gnome cry is one of the most horrific things I've ever heard.
Can't wait to have Giggleknight the Gnome pwning face.
john ford Aug 30th 2008 1:48PM
Yeah, sure. Give Death Knights EVEN MORE cool stuff. It's not like they're going to comprise over half the playerbase already.
Jesus, am I the only one who thinks it's dead unfair that DKs are getting all this special treatment? Giefv Shaman tattoos, or cuts and bruises for my Warrior. Hell, give me Warrior a fighting voice!
Xino Aug 30th 2008 1:56PM
The elf's (Night and Blood) sound great.
Is it me or does this make Tauren females sound like guys.
lolwut Aug 30th 2008 2:38PM
..female?
I thought he showed us tauren male twice :S
Jewbanks Aug 30th 2008 1:58PM
I realize its promotion of there hero class.. but some clas specific customization of characters for every class would be awesome
Greenfield Aug 30th 2008 2:07PM
WoW Draenei male talks like Darth Vader im so gona be MR. Draenei Vader when WoTLK will come to us
dotorion Aug 30th 2008 2:46PM
Greenfield .. I'm your father !
Motecuhzoma Aug 30th 2008 2:09PM
i like the blood elf male voice, sounds much better than the original
Microx Aug 30th 2008 2:07PM
Females are better for now.
Microx Aug 30th 2008 2:28PM
gahh how come my avatar isn't changing
Dabura Aug 30th 2008 2:15PM
Where is the video set? Is it at the DK start zone?
Swoon Aug 30th 2008 2:17PM
Wow. How exciting. They added some effects to the voices that were already in-game. I guess I can understand it though. What with Blizzard being a small, indie company. They couldn't possibly hire people to record new, more suitable voices for their brand new Hero class.
Totally disappointing. Blizz could do so much better than this. It probably took all of five minutes to figure out the combination of effects to apply to a voice, then ran it as a big batch on all the voice files. So maybe a couple hours of work. Way to really put forth an effort Blizz. Way to go.
Microx Aug 30th 2008 2:22PM
How's Blizzard a small indie company?
dinosoar Aug 30th 2008 2:25PM
He was being sarcastic, Microx.
Ametrine Aug 30th 2008 2:32PM
It's beta. Everything has placeholders and is in constant states of alteration and change. Even voices.
Hilus Aug 30th 2008 3:05PM
Agree with you, Swoon. My thoughts exactly.
What it would be amazing is BRAND NEW VOICES for the DK, not the same old ones just with an "echo" effect...