Josh-Sam

To be honest I'd rather listen to music...the crowd sound is bad enough...

GMcW

hehe I can still remember that commentary now.

"And he crosses it long to the far post..."

*30 seconds later*

"He meets it with a header"

*10 seconds later*

"The keeper parries"

*20 seconds later*

"And it goes out for a corner"

And the text commentary would also be quicker. So while you were halfway across the room celebrating your goal, you would then hear him go "And its a goal"

Amaroq

I doubt it will happen, if only because of the translation problem. It's not just hiring Andy Gray, its hiring a commentator for every language pack...

This is a massive problem in game development.

If you're going to include rare events, you have to include commentary for rare events. If you have commentary for rare events, its going to stand out in peoples minds. If it happens twice, its very blindingly obvious.

Premier Manager '98: "That reminds me of '66! Off the bar and in!"

... Every single time a goal scores after the ball clips the crossbar. I can still hear it, exactly, in my head.

On the other hand, you don't want to have your commentator spend hours and hours recording volumes worth of commentary which most people won't hear.

Another very good point against.

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JimmyIOCS

Voice commentary is rubbish in almost all games that decide to use it, combined with the other reasons such as the amount of languages needed, most people don't watch the full match, and most the people that do wouldn't want it anyway.

I couldn't think of an addition I'd want less.

Ter

Would be some work recording the names of the 200,000-odd players in the database in the many languages that we have in the game now. And that's before even thinking about the commentary.

I don't think we can compare it with the likes of Pro Evo either as it has a small amount of teams and players in comparison.

Ackter

Should just replace player names with "He" and team names with "They" - in combination with the text commentary that's all that's needed.

Then all you need is someone with an honours degree in Music Technology to do the recording

Skunner

I really don't think it would work for FM. It would be fun for a couple games, then it would get turned off.

Plus i'm guilty of doing my own commentary. I like to speak with English accent and round off the results of Champions league.

I live a sad life.

Macyst

Voice commentary might not be the best idea, but I'd love to see better fan cheering/booing according to the team performance. That could make the game more fun.

I notice that with larger stadium and attendance, the volume is higher but it's still pretty much the same sound throughout the match.