Can you stop that guy reading stuff out?

[Abaxial]

It is most irritating that whenever you load a game, the text that appears on the loading screen is read out (hey, I can actually read, y'know) every sodding time. The only way I can find to stop it is to kill voices altogether, in which case you lose all the other voices.

Is there a way just to lose the loading screen voice?

 

[Duuk]

One does not simply STOP SEAN BEAN. Heathen.

 

[Turrdy]

One does not simply STOP SEAN BEAN. Heathen.

well you could switch to another audio-language. Voila, Sean Bean dead (again).

 

[Disgustipated]

I always minimize the game and check the news (or Civ Fanatics) while my game is loading. Load times are horrendous. This should get rid of the audio depending on your settings.

 

[DeutschDachs]

I almost have the stone age start memorized by now, it must drive my girlfriend nuts

 

[Leyrann]

I almost have the stone age start memorized by now, it must drive my girlfriend nuts

I have all ages memorized, as well as most of the leaders... I try to say them along so perfectly I cannot hear Sean Bean talking.

 

[WillowBrook]

Well, you could kill the voices while loading the game, then turn them back on. But, yeah, that's rather cumbersome.

 

[blackcatatonic]

I minimise the window. What annoys me more is the double-quote reading you sometimes get if you complete research and a Wonder on the same turn. I do really like Sean and his voice but that does grate somewhat.

I almost have the stone age start memorized by now, it must drive my girlfriend nuts

My boyfriend has developed the habit of saying "there go those beasts of the Stone Age again" every time I start a new game...

 

[Victoria]

I just turn sound off. Personally I would rather have Mr Bean than Sean.
Glad to be a heathen, the sound of silence.
One reason I do not watch play throughs. I loved @civtrader6 playthrough but often Sean just talked over him, so rude!

 

[earlc]

Yeah, I hate it too. I cycle through the other languages.

The intro text is typically OK, at least. Maybe cheesy and annoying, but not like most of the quotes for most of the techs, civics and wonders, all of which I find pretty terrible this time around.

 

[Duuk]

Though, to be fair, I kind of hate his tech/civic speeches. For Civ7 I hope they go back to "generic pleasant female voice"

 

[Dragabond]

As far as the techs/civics go, I make it a minigame to get Sean to say something entirely different by cutting him off.

For example, did you know that Sean claims that no man ever wetted? I tell him all the time that I think, in the long course of history, some man, somewhere, has wetted. (It was embarrassing, so I can understand the coverup.)

 

[AriochIV]

I like Sean Bean, but even his wonderful voice doesn't compensate for the execrable writing in the loading screens. I would welcome a way to turn it off.

I don't mind the tech quotes as much, but the frequent double-reading of quotes is just yet another glitch that makes the make seem unpolished.

Though, to be fair, I kind of hate his tech/civic speeches. For Civ7 I hope they go back to "generic pleasant female voice"

Go back to? When did Civilization ever have a female narrator?

 

[comatosedragon]

Finish all your games in one sitting, that way you only have to hear it once.

I mean, who actually comes back and continues from an old save?

 

[Disgustipated]

Finish all your games in one sitting, that way you only have to hear it once.

I play all my games on epic. And I do have a job. My boss doesn't like it when I call in sick to play civ.

 

[Lanthar]

I like Sean Bean's narration. That being said, I get sick of that (or anything) repeated enough that I just play with all sounds off after the first few months. I also tend to leave the game on (windowed) and go back to it from time to time for a few turns throughout the day.

 

[Depravo]

I press mute and reach for a book until the globe appears.

 

[sonicmyst]

But... but..but... muting also mutes Sogno Di Volare!

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

I like reading things myself too. Then again it's Sean Bean reading to me. I'll take the latter, in that case.
Much less annoying then the advisor.

 

[spfun]

I'm still hoping for a mod that uses civ 4 quotes. They never got old...