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You know that will never happen.

Erm, Morrowind?

That was TES III. This thread is about TES V. It will never happen for TES V.

no celebrities, I don't want to hear them, I would rather hear NORMAL people that possibly volunteered to do some dialogue; Seriously, I would pay THEM to be some dude in the game, so I think they should really get some outside people to tryout for it.

Terrence Stamp really helped make the character of Mankar Camaron for me, However I am bias, cause I love Terrence Stamp's voice ^_^ I want him to read me bed time stories!

PLEASE...NO CELEBRITIES! :nope:

If you're going to have spoken dialogue, then at least don't blow your budget on a celebrity for ten lines of dialogue.

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Why dont they just go around to thier 100 staff memebers and all ask them to say hello into a microphone, then ud have 100 hellos to choose from, rather than 3.

That actually is a damn good idea. Alot cheaper than paying celebs to do it. You get a thumbs up, good sir.

Because then you'd have the mismatched everything else beyond the "hellos" in the dialogue. gamesas employees may be wicked developers, but they are not voice actors. And though I don't want them to sell the kitchen sink getting big-name guys in there, nor do I want them to skimp and try voice-acting themselves. It does take skill to voice-act successfully with feeling and tone and emotion. Hence why they need to hire professional voice actors like Wes Johnson (Morrowind - Imperial Males; Oblivion - Imperial Males, Dremora, Arena Announcer, and Sheogorath; FO3 - Mister Burke, Fawkes, Protectrons, Sentry Bots, and Scribe Bigsley) and Jeff Baker (Morrowind - Male Dunmer; Oblivion - Haskill; FO3 - Stanley Armstrong, Hannibal Hamlin, Sergeant RL-3) and the lot who are skilled at what they do yet cost a fraction as compared to Patrick Stewart or Sean Bean.

Honestly if next time they boast with "WE GO CELEBRITY XXX FOR THE GAME" then they just deserve SHAME. I want CHARACTERS not animated celebreties.

...I think only Patrick Stewart fit.

"Santa!!!!!" :rofl:



Agreed, would just cost too much of the budget for celebs.

I would love to hear Salvesta Stalone do the voices for the guardsmen.

I AM THE LAWWW!

QFT.

since going multiple systems aka consoles, sadly no.

Eh... Morrowind was released on the PC "AND" the XBOX.

Why do you throw the consoles into that discusion?

I might remember wrong, but this isnt the first time i see you put the consoles in a negative light, is it?

Why would you want to go back to text and no dialogue?

Perhaps because of all the extra information the NPCs could give you?

Personaly, i would be fine with mostly text but asuming there is no spoken dialog i would rather see something like in Zelda: Twilight Princess... you know, they actually talk, you just dont understand it, which would be okay since we are on another planet anyway.

What was that saying...oh yes...wise words from wiser men (women to any who i forgot)...need i say more...yes.

The absolute and maximum that is acceptable for me, is having a voice-actor do it for FREE or no more than 1 dollar, for their whole script, and i'm talking AT LEAST 100 different voices in total:

10 races
2 genders per race
10 times 2 equals 20
100 divided by 20 equals 5
so 5 per gender per race


I think it's safe to assume that there are 5 NPC's for each races gender, that dont sound the same, RPG's are about immersion, not which actor we can hear <_<

Yes, but Morrowind was released for PC first and ported to Xbox later. Oblivion was designed to work on the Xbox 360 right away, which is the reason why the interface is as bad as it is.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niU1bRqxrIU

From what I've understood that's some local voice actor and the guy holding the torch is a Bethesda employee (don't quote me on that though). Isn't that much cooler than Patrick Steward? And much cheaper.

Many people are already going with 'nobody'. Diversity is a key factor to immersion, and a skillful, never heard of voice actor is better than two celebrities which you instantly connect to something else, not a TES game...
That said I liked Jen in ME, even though she wasn't brutal enough when the situation would have implied it. The Witcher had wonderful voice actors, and I think most of the funny stuff that rang to your ear was due to translation problems. Also, a good writing in dialogues saves a lot, even some bad acting.
Who I'd like to see is Michael Wincott. The guy with da Voice. (The Crow, Strange Days etc)

Come on, when it comes to the voice actors, that was a design decision. The XBOX 360 would be perfectly able to handle a text based dialog system.

well, i cant see it was the PC crowd that asked for full voiced NPCs? or was it?

and yes you are right, this isnt the first time i put the consoles in a negative light.



easier modding?