Yeah that's sad.. would love to see german voice.
But will play it with english voice because it's a puzzle game.. story not relevant.
And yes, voice actors are expansive.

The german voice in part 1 was outstanding! I really hope, to see the narrator back in part 2... This was a essencial thing for me, in the first game.

@Hugin Munin: I feel the same, these voice-actors did a great job, croteam should engage them again!

@Cerveyio: Of course you can play it just because of the puzzles, but in Talos 1 the story made it so special and was a further reason why it made such a big impression on me - almost "life changing".

Originally posted by Cerveyio:

story not relevant.

TLP 1 was maybe THE puzzle game where the story was actually relevant.
But I'm not surprised a Piefke wouldn't get it.

I'm pretty sure that more full localizations will be added with the launch. I can remember that was the same thing with TTP1 before the launch.

Originally posted by fletcher1:

Is it too expensive to hire some voice-actors with their native language?

Seems like it, unfortunately

Originally posted by fletcher1:

@Hugin Munin: I feel the same, these voice-actors did a great job, croteam should engage them again!

@Cerveyio: Of course you can play it just because of the puzzles, but in Talos 1 the story made it so special and was a further reason why it made such a big impression on me - almost "life changing".

you realize you can quote post multiple posts right old man

Originally posted by fletcher1:

As far i can remember Talos 1 was available from day one with 6 languages, later a few more were added. So why Talos 2 has only 1 language (audio)?
Is it too expensive to hire some voice-actors with their native language?

If talos 1 have so many dialogues and text to be voiced it will be only english too.

Just double the price. Why is the game so cheap? Or sell german voice as a dlc xD

The fact that there is no German voice output is a great pity. The German voice output in part 1 is great and gave the atmosphere that certain "extra".

And to all those who claim that the story in the puzzle game is irrelevant: That's nonsense! The story is the best part of the game! The story made me think so much that I'm still thinking about it years later.

I think we can hope so if the game sells well. Some games add translations long after release. We also have neural networks and, perhaps, some team will do voice acting using them.

Because looks like there are a lot of dialogues and small studio doesn't have money for it? Talos 1 only has dub for Elohim.

Originally posted by KoweK:

Because looks like there are a lot of dialogues and small studio doesn't have money for it? Talos 1 only has dub for Elohim.

Not just Elohim. All audio logs were also voiced.

Originally posted by Tshask:

Originally posted by KoweK:

Because looks like there are a lot of dialogues and small studio doesn't have money for it? Talos 1 only has dub for Elohim.

Not just Elohim. All audio logs were also voiced.

True but it was pretty much only Alexandra iirc, so 2 voices compared to the dozens here.

The first part was great and I'm currently playing it again. For me, a large part of the atmosphere was the wonderful German voice of Elohim.
To be honest: If the tests are good, I will probably buy it at some point. But with German voice acting, it would probably be sooner and I would have more fun with the game.

If I look at the first part, the translation was also quite “easy” to do. Since the voice always came from off-screen, there is no need to pay attention to mouth movements. The text can be translated much more freely, fewer takes are necessary during recording and the speaker does not have to be a professional dubbing artist; it is enough if he is a good speaker. All of this, with the small number of speakers, should have kept costs down.

Of course I can't say whether this can be transferred 1:1 to the second part. I would definitely be happy about a spoken translation.