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Star Wars: The Old Republic Is The Largest Entertainment Voice Over Project Ever

According to Guinness, Star Wars: The Old Republic has more voice over work than any other project ever.

The game has over 200,000 lines of recorded dialogue according to Guinness, easily beating out any feature film or other video game.

I'm curious what exactly defines "a project," though. Could The Simpsons be considered a project? That might have more voice work associated with it, if you take the entire series as a whole.

[via Guinness World Records]

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  • I'm amazed that they were able to put all of that dialogue into an MMO and make it work, it's pretty awe-inspiring if you ask me.
  • Dang, this is really just an impressive MMO. The more I hear it about it, the more advance it seems. Makes me wish more MMOs got console ports.
  • Impressive.

  • "...time to grow a beard."
  • Wow. Poor writers
  • That is going to be a hard record to beat, unless, you get Tim Turi and Dan Ryckert to do some voice overs or some good-old fashioned yelling.
  • Man, Bioware should be proud of the work they did with that game.

  • I love this game. :) I also love the story and I think the ones that I have played (not finished) are fantastic as in the bounty hunter and Jedi consular.

  • "Project" probably means individual work. As in a single movie, a single tv episode, a single game.
  • I really want this. A lot.

  • Over 200,000 lines? Wow, that's pretty amazing.

  • I appreciate the scope of the effort, but it still annoys me every time my character or my companion repeats a line of dialog-- which they do, a lot.
  • Well we sure as hell know it's not Zelda..hehe, anyways that's cool they put that much dialogue into a MMO. I'm glad to see less dialogue and hear more voices.

  • Wow, that's alot of dialogue.

  • Wow, that's impressive!  Wish I could play this game.  Still waiting on a Mac release.

  • That's an amazing number of recorded dialogue. My only problem with this game is that it's too expensive! (It's 60 dollars a month, that's 720 dollars a year.)
  • Holy crap!

  • I bet you that OverBlood 3 could beat this world record.
  • Does anyone else think that's kinda... sad? I mean, if someone gave me 300 million dollars and said "go make a video game", I don't think I would spend the vast majority on voice overs. I certainly wouldn't highlight it as one of the best features of the game.

    I don't know, I just feel like they could have spent a lot of that work/money/time on actually making meaningful innovations to the MMO genre, not just basically taking the standard formula and adding voice work to it. Especially when the voice acting is not always good in TOR.
  • Man, Kyle... You're just trashing everything tonight. I decided to look it up.

    495 Simpsons episodes, would need about 400 lines of dialogue in order to reach 200,000. Turns out, that's roughly what a half hour show has. So I suppose, they're about equal. Still, The Simpsons has been running for 22 straight years, across multiple seasons. I highly doubt that's considered a single project. Even if it is, Old Republic did that in a quarter of the time. It's impressive, not matter how you look at it.

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