Any news about the voice cast yet..? : V - Skyrim

» Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:29 am

Maybe Christopher Lee for a villian?

This!

» Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:45 am

As long as Wes Johnson is in it. Im happy.

I don't think Patrick Stewart, Sean Bean, or Terence Stamp will be returning because all their characters are dead.

It would be cool if they hire a bunch of stars to play all of the essential or main characters.. Make it like Sin City, where every single person is someone big.

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:56 pm

I don't care who does the voice acting, as long as there is variety

» Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:48 am

I just hope that they give each race at least one voiceactor each. So no Nords and Orcs sharing the same voice, or all the elves sounding exactly the same. I want my grating Dunmer and pesky Bosmer and haughty Altmer back

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:04 pm

Voice acting in Oblivion was poor. They need varied voice acting, or none at all.

Here's a revolutionary concept - if they scrap voice acting, they could add so much more dialogue!

It would never happen, I reckon. Too many people would see it as a step backwards (reading not high tech enough, or something

). Oh God, if Christopher Walken, Brian Blessed and Christopher Lee were in it, I think that would automatically qualify it for best game of all time. OF ALL TIME.

» Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:08 am

It would never happen, I reckon. Too many people would see it as a step backwards (reading not high tech enough, or something

). Oh God, if Christopher Walken, Brian Blessed and Christopher Lee were in it, I think that would automatically qualify it for best game of all time. OF ALL TIME.

You're still a Stephen Fry short. :whistling:
Him as the new Sheogorath.

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:43 pm

I'd rather them focus less on getting a superstar voice cast and more on providing more variation between the NPC's voices.

Having one voice per race again would be a bit disappointing.

Agreed. And on giving us more than mere "mudcrab" dialogs.

Wouldn't mind either if they scrapped the face-to-face conversations altogether. Strangely felt more unrealistic than simple text did.

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:33 pm

They could just pick up a hundred random persons they meet and ask if they want to voice act one characters every option just for fun and they wouldn't get paid. How many of you would do it if you were asked?

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:43 pm

They could just pick up a hundred random persons they meet and ask if they want to voice act one characters every option just for fun and they wouldn't get paid. How many of you would do it if you were asked?

I know i would

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:35 pm

They could just pick up a hundred random persons they meet and ask if they want to voice act one characters every option just for fun and they wouldn't get paid. How many of you would do it if you were asked?

If you can live with "fly cliffracer fly" in a french accent, so in.

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:54 pm

I know i would

I would too and this would already make the game a bit better, just the two of us recording two more characters voices to the game :celebration:

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:03 pm

I would prefer no voice acting, and a return to dialog. There was so much more substance to it. But that isn't going to happen, since gamers are too lazy to read dialog. So, More than three voices would be wonderful. I don't need big names. They're usually minor parts of the story anyway. I would rather have varied voices in the bulk of the game.

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:46 pm

Epic lag double post.....

» Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:26 am

To be honest they just need to get a bunch of random average joes to do the voice acting on the normal NPCs. That way they don't all have the same voice. And if they really have to, just get a couple of big names for the storyline NPCs.

» Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:09 am

They could just pick up a hundred random persons they meet and ask if they want to voice act one characters every option just for fun and they wouldn't get paid. How many of you would do it if you were asked?

Im in.

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:16 pm

They could just pick up a hundred random persons they meet and ask if they want to voice act one characters every option just for fun and they wouldn't get paid. How many of you would do it if you were asked?

That would be incredible!

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:12 pm

You're still a Stephen Fry short. :whistling:
Him as the new Sheogorath.

And then some. Though I doubt if skyrim's got enough horses in it to assuage Brian Blessed's appetite.

» Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:21 am

There is software out there that noone uses that can generate great voiced dialog. I was following a game that was going to use it and some of the first test dialog was for an Orc voice and it sounded just like how I picture an Orc would sound. Sadly the game got canceled and I don't remember the name of the software they were using to generate the voices.

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:07 pm

I hope they keep some of the Morrowind and Oblivion race voice actors around, for continuity. Most of them were decent. More variety in voices would be nice, though.

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:13 pm

They still need to keep the original voice actors I feel.

» Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:43 am

Here's a suggestion for Bethesda which would get them a vast variety of different voices for the new game relatively cheaply..

How about a competition for fans here on the Official Forums? They could put up some samples of dialogue from each of the races in the geme, then invite forum members to send in short .mp3s of them reading it.. I'm sure that out of the thousands upon thousands of Elder Scrolls fans out there they could pick out a hundred or so with the talent to read the dialogue in the game. Most fans would do it just for the kudos of being part of an Elder Scrolls game, so it's a win-win for everybody!

Just a thought, Bethesda..!

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:20 pm

I am worried that if Bethesda hires some big famous people to do voice-acting they might not be able to add many variety in voice to NPCs.

However, seeing how FNV got a bunch of them and still managed to have 69 voice-actors it might be different.

» Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:09 am

If Brian Blessed isn't in this game then they'll not be getting my vote for game of the year...

This man speaks for me, too.

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:13 pm

I just hope that they give each race at least one voiceactor each. So no Nords and Orcs sharing the same voice, or all the elves sounding exactly the same. I want my grating Dunmer and pesky Bosmer and haughty Altmer back

I completely agree with this.

I'm listening to a interview with Max Von Sydow. It definitely sounds like him. And in this interview he seems like a really awesome guy. I'll have to check out some of his movies.

» Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:57 pm

I hope they bring in a new voice for the elves... I could not take anything said in that voice seriously. And I hope they bring back the dirty dark elf voices from morrowind.