Dragon Shouting : V

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:48 am

I think it is a good idea if the dragon shouts can be implemented a là endwar... It will avoid having a VA for the PC and it will also avoid having to break immersion as someone has suggested.

Its just an idea that I came about brainstorming, if you own a ps3/360 you probably have a headset, which means that you can use the shouts just by pressing a button and speaking the shout into the headset.

Same with the PC.

I think it is a good idea, but I want to hear what everyone says about it.

Niker

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:28 am

Wouldn't you have to remember the words for each shout? Otherwise you'd end up summoning a dragon when you wanted to 'teleport' behind someone......

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:26 am

Nope... how would it know what you're shouting... and if your voice is a bit off then nothing will happen...

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:53 am

Well that will force you to at least make good use of the language created for that specific purpose. It'd be bad if after all this work they don't make you speak it.

Of course this could be an optional thing, as not everyone has a microphone, but it goes with the idea of keepign your character quiet, rather than adding a wierd voice over just for the shouts.

Niker

PS: It just adds to the immersion, Imagine running from a dragon and thinking what the hell was the spell to teleport or something.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:16 am

No thanks. I live in an apartment building like many students and well....I don't think my neighbors would appreciate me yelling during an all night Skyrim sitting. Plus, even if you wouldn't actually have to shout and just have to whisper it would be stupied...its a "shout" after all.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:45 pm

Well not everyone owns a Microphone, so theres a good percentage of people who can't even use a feature in the game. And I would much rather not shout at the game every time I need to use a Shout.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:08 am

I think it is a good idea if the dragon shouts can be implemented a là endwar... It will avoid having a VA for the PC and it will also avoid having to break immersion as someone has suggested.
Its just an idea that I came about brainstorming, if you own a ps3/360 you probably have a headset, which means that you can use the shouts just by pressing a button and speaking the shout into the headset.
Same with the PC.
I think it is a good idea, but I want to hear what everyone says about it.
Niker

Sorry mate, but that whole idea svcks bigtime. You need a voice recognition system for it to work -- there's NO WAY voice recognition software would be viable in this game.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:15 am

I think it is a good idea if the dragon shouts can be implemented a là endwar... It will avoid having a VA for the PC and it will also avoid having to break immersion as someone has suggested.

Its just an idea that I came about brainstorming, if you own a ps3/360 you probably have a headset, which means that you can use the shouts just by pressing a button and speaking the shout into the headset.

Same with the PC.

I think it is a good idea, but I want to hear what everyone says about it.

Niker

It would be possible, more possible than I expected as I was under the impression that mics on PS3 and 360 communicated through a service outside the actual game, it just pulled the information of whoever had a headset in the match or game or whatever into it's own room. I guess I was wrong. I would rather it not be implemented, I don't want to shout into my mic like a psychopath with gamer rage lol.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:53 am

It will avoid having a VA for the PC and it will also avoid having to break immersion as someone has suggested.

You had a voice in Morrowind and Oblivion, for your grunts and growls. Dragon shouts are not normal speech, they're words of power. Things blow up when they're used. I don't really see an issue with using the same racial voice that you have when grunting and growling.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:51 pm

In addition to the fact that very few people on PC seem to have microphones, wouldn't it also break immersion in a lot of situations? A male playing a female character is going to feel pretty silly using his masculine voice as though it is hers, same goes vice versa.

It's a cool idea, but I think it should stay as just that: an idea.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:19 am

yeah, my mum would take my xbox of me for getting to involved in it again :shakehead:

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:45 pm

No, I want to hear a badass do the dragonshouts. Besides, most people would end up doing them in a monotone voice lol

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:18 pm

I think it is a good idea if the dragon shouts can be implemented a là endwar... It will avoid having a VA for the PC and it will also avoid having to break immersion as someone has suggested.

Its just an idea that I came about brainstorming, if you own a ps3/360 you probably have a headset, which means that you can use the shouts just by pressing a button and speaking the shout into the headset.

Same with the PC.

I think it is a good idea, but I want to hear what everyone says about it.

Niker

With a pc you can download a program called http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/43006-13-shoot-voice-recognition. It theoretically should do just what you suggested above.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:46 am

Sorry mate, but that whole idea svcks bigtime. You need a voice recognition system for it to work -- there's NO WAY voice recognition software would be viable in this game.

It worked pretty good in SOCOM 2. I certainly wouldn't mind the thread author's idea, but it feels like this thread has already been made several times. And to those who argue that everybody doesn't have a headset - it can always be an option you know?

But I don't think they'll implement it, considering they can't even spend time on including spears

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:59 am

learning 60 words of another language just to play a video game, no. If you want to get the feeling that your actually shouting then shout into your mic and shout in the game at the same time

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:45 am

Also, windows has built in voice recognition, so if Bethesda chose to allow the game to access it, every verbal aspect of the player (ie talking to NPC + Dragon Shout) could be done via a headset on the PC. It would add to immersion for some who wish it, but it definately should be optional. My voice would be toast after a couple hours if I played as a Morrowind style Dark Elf. :tongue:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:52 am

Wow such hostility, I actually think this is a brilliant idea and one well worth implementing, of course you would have to include an alternate way to perform dragon shouts for the neophobes and those without a mic but this would have to be one of the best and most original ideas I have seen on these forums.

Does anyone know how the shouts will be controlled normally? I mean if it is somewhat like magic was in Oblivion making the shouts voice activated would free up the magic slot and you would have control of all the shouts at the tip of your tounge instead of having to equip a new one every time you wanted to use a different shout.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:50 pm

Wow such hostility, I actually think this is a brilliant idea and one well worth implementing, of course you would have to include an alternate way to perform dragon shouts for the xenophobes and those without a mic but this would have to be one of the best and most original ideas I have seen on these forums.

Does anyone know how the shouts will be controlled normally? I mean if it is somewhat like magic was in Oblivion making the shouts voice activated would free up the magic slot and you would have control of all the shouts at the tip of your tounge instead of having to equip a new one every time you wanted to use a different shout.

Exactly my thoughts, having to go into a menu to choose between 20 shouts, when you can simply implement a system ( that is already developed in a bunch of games ) to prevent breaking the game flow. Of course it would have to be optional, but one thing I noticed is that people don't like change.

When change is actually good sometimes.

Niker

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:27 pm

As an avid flight simmer (Microsoft Flight Sim X) I use a program called VOXATC that allows me to have all radio talk between myself and any air traffic control handled via the headset. Believe me it's a HUGE immersion boost. Something similar implimented into this game I think would easily do the same.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhf10dxQXUM. Bare in mind the air traffic control voices are computer generated where as Skyrim would have scripted NPC dialog with voice acting, just use your imagination to change the conversations to something more TES ish.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:13 pm

Why? What? They have already implimented the dragon shouts in-game. There's no way this will work out, lol.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:15 pm

Err, no.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:43 am

"Füs Row dah"
*Dragon keeps attacking*
"Fuss Row Day ! Crap, Fous roh dah Damnit !"
*PC dies horribly*

Death by Stupid French Accent. That ought to be interesting.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:05 pm

:thumbsdown:

I didn't like it in this thread: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1158242-i-suspect-that-dragon-shouts-will-be-performed-by-the-player/

And then when the invevitable (first) poll came along I voted against it in this one: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1160605-using-mic-for-dragon-shouts/

And now I've voted no for it again. :shrug:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:10 am

Nah. Yelling a dragon language to my screen probably wouldn't be to fun. Skyrim's all ready going to kill my social life, I don't need my roomates thinking Im crazy too. Besides, I don't know what it would register my saying with my Minnesota accent, and I fear for the few accent's out there that are even more exagerated than a minnesota one.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:46 pm

It might not break immersion, but my wife and kids would break ME when I wake them from their sleep! So, if it's....wait for it....OPTIONAL....then yes.

Then there's the matter of the game recognizing that when I say Oh [censored]!, I rreally mean that I want the blow everything up because I'm about to die dragon shout :nod: