MORGAN.........FREEMAN rofl jk whoever did the voice of Jed Masterson from Honest Hearts, I'd love him to play some imperials
Edit: Also the voice of Joshua Graham =3

Ah yes... and how about instead of shiny visuals that do too much work of telling us what stuff looks like, we go back to entirely text-driven games?

If I wanted to read a book, engaging only the constructed sense of meaning applied to arbitrary symbols, I'd read a book.

For video games, I like being able to interact with full sensory input.

Are you the guy who manages Bethesda's finances?

I vote Bill Nighty as Alduin.

i love Patrick Stewart, ive got a man crush on him.

Im glad they used him for Oblivion. I only wish they use him again somehow. Great guy, actor, and voice talent.

i vote freddy highmore for breton youth voice

I read daily, 1st thing i'll do in Skyrim is find a book to read, but i definitely want lots of voice acting in my game.

Do you turn on the subtitles on a movie and mute it?

I hope Samuel Jackson can do a important redguard and lol wayne do an argonian lol.

I do, it helps me sleep at night.

But sereously, I could live without voice acting.... if it meant a better game. Do I want to live without voice, not a chance.

That isn't really unique to the modern age.

He did the male Argonians and Khajiit in Morrowind, too.

Yes. That's a huge number.

BUT THE EMPEROR IS!

I couldn't hear Arvel's voice in the demo becuase of the talking. Is there a video where his voice can be heard clearly?

I was just about to ask it myself. I hadn't even noticed that he was Imperial, wasn't he a Dunmer in the written previews from video game sites that saw a demo earlier this year?

EDIT: I just checked the demo again, and Arvel the Swift sure is a Dunmer. From where did you get that the same voice actor would voice both the Dunmer and the Imperial?

I didn't say that. Jeff Baker did the Dunmer and Imperial voices in Morrowind. He wasn't in Oblivion. Wes Johnson did the Imperials in that. He returned in Shivering Isles to voice Haskill.

I have a better one only cost a soul or two. resurrect DIO and have him only voice the liches and necromancers.

Steve Blum will probably show up somewhere. He always does.

The main reason I would like text only is because of the sure depth of dialogue and iformation you would get. This isn't a linear game that can have plenty of voice actors and still be entertaining. I like learning more aobut the giant realm of Skyrim will be in. It would allow for more quest dialogue trees, history, etc to be in in the game.

But it's also a ridiculous prospect for them to go backwards on a feature, and the vast majority of people found it tedious anyway, hence the move forward (plus immersion) and just because i dont want to read my video game doesnt mean i dont want to read books. In fact, inventions such as the kindle or ibooks show you how popular reading still is.

Unfortunately it's also unnatural, and not conducive to the portrayal of a living, breathing world. It's jarring and disruptive, which they're working to get away from as evidenced by how time keeps moving in dialog now and you're no longer frozen in place. It'd also prevent things like NPCs talking to NPCs... if it's text-based dialog, there's no unintrusive way for you to be able to "listen" in. Made worse by the fact that different people read at different speeds and will go at their own pace, which wreaks havoc on the intended pacing of the exchange (a book would have much more to work with to get across the intended pace of a scene than a video game with text-based dialog).

Text works where text makes sense. In-world books, notes, signs, etc. Using text in place of what should logically be heard (ie, speech), when dealing with an audio/video medium like video games, is backwards thinking. It'd be like going back to silent movies because you could skip having to film actors speaking their lines, thus requiring fewer takes and less overall production time, and just interject still frames with written dialog on them. You could even have much more in-depth dialog that way because more written dialog doesn't take as much time as more spoken dialog, and you'd have a greater pool of actors since you didn't have to worry about what they sound like.

Personally, I found Morrowind's dialog to be a good reason to move toward actual spoken lines. Morrowind's dialog was completely illogical if you tried to imagine the characters actually saying it. It was so descriptive and in-depth in places, that it felt less like a character talking to me and more like quest/reward descriptions put under the guise of "dialog". With Oblivion's dialog, the conciseness made it much more believable that it was something a character would actually say, which, along with the emotion put into the speech, made the character that much more real.

Hey Gregasaurus, you said that we could hear Jeff Baker's voice in the demo- which race was he voice-acting so that I can update the OP?

No one besides Max Von Sydow has been confirmed. Anyone else is pure speculation.

The Dunmer voice was too drowned out by background noise, and I haven't heard anything that clearly identifies Michael Mack, Lynda Canyon, Jeff Baker, or Linda Carter. Also, even if those voices are in the demo, that's no guarantee they'll be in the final game (Jeff Baker did Dunmer and Imperial voices in Oblivion's E3 demo, but he wasn't in the final game).

Perhaps, although the poster "Gregasaurus" seemed very sure of himself with regards to various voice actors that could be heard voicing various races in the demo. You have a good point however with regards to the fact that Jeff Baker voiced the Dunmer in the Oblivion E3 demo, and then was nowhere to be seen in the final version of the game.

Incidentally, does anyone know why he was in the E3 demo and why they decided to drop him? Why did the Dunmer have their classic gravely brogue in the demo but not in the final verison of the game?

People have confirmed that they could hear the old Morrowind Dunmer voice under all the noise in the G4 E3 demo. I could barely make it out myself but my hearing svcks. As for Michael Mack and Linda Canyon? Watch Gamespot's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5uNlJAgIO4 of the demo. You can hear a Redguard man and a Dunmer woman talking about Arvel the Swift. Their voices are clear as day. Those two have been voicing TES for eight years. (Thirteen years for Michael Mack, actually.) It's not at all unreasonable to assume that they're back.