Oblivion did originally have the Morrowind gravelly voices, in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq3xTsn-8sE&feature=related you can see the E3 presentation. Why did they revert to the crappy generic elf voice??
Neither. Morrowind's were so comically gravelly, they were impossible to take seriously, and creepy in the few instances where they were cheerful ("What's the news, sport?"). Oblivion's were just annoying.
Both and more. I always took it that the Dunmer in Oblivion sounded different because they'd picked up a different accent living in Cyrodiil. Problem is even the ones who'd apparantly just moved from Vvardenfell sounded the same. I'd love native's of Morrowind to have their gravely voices, maybe ones from Cyrodiil to sound like they did in Oblivion and ones who were born in Skyrim to have a different twang to their voices. I agree that each race should have different variants. How about accents rather than just voices? Imagine an Imperial with a Vvardenfell or Skyrim twang! :tongue:
I'd rather they find a spot between the two, maybe just a deep voice instead of a gravely, rough one. In that Oblivion video shown somewhere on this thread, the voice didn't seem to fit.
I loved the voice in Morrowind. Not only the raspy voice but the often authoritative and intimidating tone. It really made them stand out from 'generic' elves that many people are used to. It really gave the dark elves a lot of personality in Morrowind, but considering they were the central race in the game I suppose that's logical.
I agree. I quite like races having distinct voices (instead of elves all sharing male and female voices, and female Imperials and Bretons sharing voices)--but it shouldn't just be one voice per race/gender either. What I definitely don't want to see is races sharing the same VA, especially since they're so starkly distinct in TES; Wood Elves and Dunmer should not sound alike, and Imperials and Bretons should not sound alike.