You all remember the voice that you first heard while starting Morrowind. Really added a cool element to the Dunmer in TESIII. Bring it back Bethesda!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG8OjKiGAvE

Jeff Bakers! Go go!

No thanks.

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Where was that slave... Erm, yes. I agree, although it wouldn't hurt to have an occasional difference in those voices, if the Dunmer are going to have the scratchy, awesome voices they had in Morrowind.

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thanks for correcting Dragonbone!

Really? That voice was SOO much better for Dunmer IMO. Oblivion's was far worse.

Even the infamous Radiant AI demo for Oblivion had the "correct" Dunmer voice.

The demo is at 3:00.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG8OjKiGAvE

My vote... Yes. And they should be realy cold and pissed off too.

I mean the same exact voice for like 3 different races got to be a bit too underwhelming. Really liked the angry sounding and coarse voice that the Dunmer had in TES III. And definitely get some sweet Scandinavian sounding dude for the Nords :]

I'm assuming you're referring only to the male voice (It's strange how commonly people seem to assume the males of a race make up the entire race, sometimes), otherwise Morrowind and Oblivion shared the exact, same Dunmer voice on the female side of this. On the topic of the male voice, I really don't like it in Morrowind. I don't like Oblivion's either. How could every male of a single race possibly have such a nearly nonexistant voice? In contrast, the females somehow had actual voices while the males couldn't even utter a battle cry. I don't like it. The Dunmer culture must not get very many male singers or male public orators with such voices... or rather a lack of voices. I want male Dunmer to have a powerful, deep voice, but what they had in Morrowind could hardly be called a voice at all, so the key point is that I want them to have a voice... a strong voice. I don't want a struggling whisper (Morrowind) or a wimpy, high-pitched voice (Oblivion). I want a strong voice. The Dunmer are strong people, correct? Have their voices reflect it. The females have strong voices, and so should the males, in my opinion.

Personally I loved them in morrowind. The Dunmer were xenopobic, racist, and intimidating, and you know that was a lot better than in oblivion. At least in morrowind you could form a sort of grudging distrustful respect for them because they seemed more real, but in oblivion they just acted like emotionless zombies like all the other races. I hope they get Baker to do the voices again.

I still don't want it. Get a new one.

I can't imagine a better voice.

to me, it's like someone saying "I don't like Homer Simpson's voice, they should get a new one."

it just works so well for the Dunmer, and many people have already grown to love it, so no matter what we will resist a change in the voice (again, i mean, we resisted the change in oblivion), because it wouldn't be the one we know and love.

"There's something about that voice. When you enter a cave and have naked Dark Elf male run at you with wooden club yelling "YOU N'WAHHH!" with all his heart you know you are messing with the wrong race. Not to mention when the guards of the capital of Vvardenfell say that "We are watching you... SCUMMM!" especially while you are robbing great house vault."

If would be cool if that was one of 2 or 3 possible male dunmer voices (bethesda's not exactly hurting for cash) but I definitely want the morrowind one in there.

Exactly. However, I couldn't call the Dumner in Oblivion xenophobic or racist, since they were in the capital province out of choice. However, the Dunmer in Skyrim should be exactly like the Dunmer from Morrowind. They didn't go west out of choice... And I would imagine they wouldn't be the happiest people around. So please, bring back the Morrowind Dunmer voice!

Yeah I guess the dunmer in oblivion would be a bit different, but in general I think its interesting to give different cultures and races social flaws and prejudice. Cultures that share all the same values wouldnt be as interesting.

I can't really imagine why you'd be against something like that. Morrowinds Dunmer voice pretty much set the tone for what everyone thinks a Dunmer should sound like, it just makes sense. A dunmer shouldn't sound like a flaming homosixual, ala Oblivion. Leave that for the Bosmers sure, but not Dunmers. Those guys live in ash storms, their throats are bound to be scratchy.
I mean, maybe not the same voice actor sure, but that style is definitely what they should be going for.

That's what made Morrowind so great! It felt alive because of that culture full of social flaws and prejudice :foodndrink:

I wouldn't mind a gravely voice for the dunmer males.

I don't, however, want the "five packs a day and on the verge of hacking up a tar ball in the shape of a lung" voice we got in Morrowind and the RAI demo.

It makes them less human though. I mean, elves are so much like humans already, just with pointy ears. You got to set them apart somehow.

This. I agree. Just as the character models are getting a huge overhaul, I am sure we'll see some new voice work as well. If not, I'd be disappointed.

I had always thought there must be some historical explanation for the voice. I mean, they were changed to Dunmer, getting dark gray skin and red eyes....so perhaps they all inhaled a bunch of volcanic ash from the events at Red Mountain and then from subsequently living there. I mean, when I first heard that voice, the first thing that popped into my mind was: smoker.
Ever heard an old smoker? Or someone with emphysema? That voice is actually very similar to those imo. Perhaps that was the intent when they decided on a voice for them originally....

Considering they only decided to call the game The Elder Scrolls because it sounded magical and cool, why could they not have chosen the Dunmer voice for Baker to do because they figured the Dunmer might sound like that from living in Morrowind (AKA the Ashland)???

Anyway, whatever the reasoning for the voice, I think some updating and variety amongst NPCs, including male and female voices, are called for to make Skyrim that much better.

Considering that races of elves and men have a common ancestor in the Elder Scrolls universe, it makes sense that they're somewhat similar to humans.

I guess, but thats exactly why I like really alien races that look and think totally different from humans. Fiction is bloated with humanoid races, even so I alwasys kinda like the dunmer anyway, partialy because of their strange voices.

The Morrowind dunmer voice will always be the true dunmer voice to me :confused: