Isn't Craig Sechler American? That said, I had some difficulty placing the accent.

Doesn't really matter. My point is they all sounded exactly the same.

The Dunmer of Morrowind were snarkier because they were choking on the ash :hubbahubba:

Oh, right, I see what you mean. Yes, there is that. I understand the technical limitations behind the small number of voice actors (or at least I think I do) but the answer would've been to not use exclusively voiced dialogue; I think Morrowind didn't have enough, but Oblivion took it to the other extreme. Anyway, hopefully Skyrim will use more voices one way or another.

Edit: the same is true of the female elves, too, though I hope if they also add more actors there, they keep the usual Dunmer voice.

agreed, I miss how they did the ash and ice storms. I think they should do the same in Skyrim.

but above all I miss........ LEVITATION !!!!!!

Strange then how there are many places in Morrowind where you never see Ash, yet the Dunmer everywhere still sound the same :wacko:

Oh yes, totally agree. Levitation was so awesome!

THAT one!
With Oblivion, I wasn't following the forums. And when I got the game, looked around mage guilds, arcane school, and I didn't find levitation, I was like O_O
But anyway, Oblivion was still a game that I played every year for quite a while, just like Morrowind+Tribunal+Bloodmoon

Hehe, that reminds me of something funny, I got Tribunal for my birthday "lots" of years ago(fyi I'm 21 now[soon]), and I didn't know the game, and also, my sister didn't read that it was an Expansion.
After I found that out on the net, I was like "Heeeeeeeeey, I need the original game too", so my mom bought it..... Hitting two relatives with one game... Or... something like that

Seriously though, what would they do if the guy/woman voice acting the Dunmer in Morrowind are dead? Moved to China? Lost their voice? In a coma?

10-15 years (depending on when it was recorded) is a lot dude, they could not be available for the job anymore.

EDIT: Well, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1198561/ had a couple of voices in Fallout 3 (2008) of some Robots and Ghouls, so he's likely live and kicking.

Morrowind took place on an island with a volcano in the middle. It was a maze of paths, valleys, and mountains that made finding a location difficult. I really miss that when compared to:

Oblivion, which took place inside of giant bowl that at no point in time prevented you from walking in a straight line to any destination. It lost 100% of the "journey" or "exploration" aspect of Morrowind.

Linda Kenyon's website is still online, so I assume she's also alive and well. If they weren't available then they'd just have to be pragmatic and get someone else; they've changed voices before, after all (I miss the squeaky-voiced female Bosmer of Morrowind, for example) although my preference would be to maintain continuity where practical.

What does this have to do with Skyrim? im just going to poke at the big ol elephant in the room. mind you all the series are interconnected and have alot to do with each other but you have to realize these games were made in different time periods, different game philosphies, and different technology. if Oblivion had Morrowinds complexity in terms of faction conflicts, exploration, and choices. wrapped all that up with decent combat and stuck to the lore sure it would have been even more sauce than Morrowind.

Todd an company as much of a grain of salt as I take with there words, already said they are going trying to bring back that sense of discovery and awe that was present in Morrowind but you can't say Morrowind was better than Oblivion because of its writing and your POV just as one can't say Oblivion was better than Morrowind because of Combat, the advancements in Combat was a given with time, just as Morrowinds story and complexity was a given with how games were back in the day.


after 2003 quality games tanked, it was around then we started hearing alot about Games being rushed and unfinished then the graphics craze came and it went all down hill from there.

Skyrims will be its own game just as all the other installments were, and anyone who keeps flaming about people looking for Oblivion 2.0 or Morrowind 2.0 in Skyrim can go to bliviongate: because that is an entirely false and stupifying statement to make.

The Dunmer voice is not so unique that only one person in the world would be able to pull it off. There are no doubt thousands of people capable of doing it and doing it well. (Probably any smoker )

Joking aside...

All Bethesda would need to do is recruit. Even if they used the forums to announce auditions, I bet you they could find people capable of doing it - easy.

Spears and medium armor.

You mean like cliffracers?

The atmosphere. Morrowind defenetly was unique. Oblivion felt... generic.

This thread is totally valid and justified IMO. It has everything to do with Skyrim because it's not entirely it's own game, it's a sequel. That's why all instalments have The Elder Scrolls in front of them.

People always compare any kind of sequel to it's prequel/s (and rightly so) because to a certain extent a sequel (by definition) has to stay true to itself and it's original content.

The option to go treasure hunting. There were no treasures in OB, only random generated loot.

It's easy if you stay at level 1. It's game-breaking if you play normally. More or less recently, I started a new game with an assassin. Got through the Thieves guild and the Dark Brotherhood. Now, I'm stuck (because I was tired) at Kvatch because I had to lower the difficulty to the bottom to not need to shoot 20 arrows while sneaking to kill a single enemy. Even then, enemies are still way too strong. I'm seriously wondering if I'll ever be able to complete the game because as an assassin, I don't only level up my archery skills, but sneak, alchemy and shortswords. It seems Oblivion thinks you only level up a single combat skills and scale the game accordingly. I don't know how they got beside that, and I don't know how they only say "it has problems". It has [censored] problems.

Actually no they are apart of a series not sequel,no game officially continues the main character in any game the only sequel that counts is chronological and beyond the universe and lore, each game is it's own game it's why we have seperate forum sections for each game....

The pedant in me wants to say that there were a few, but the point is still well made: there weren't many and too many boss-level chests still just contained random crap, which was disappointing. Though there was still some perverse entertainment to be had especially with FCOM where you'd get to the bottom of a difficult multi-level dungeon and your reward would be 7 gold coins and a carrot.

this and the diversity going through the region

WORLD DESIGN

Morrowind had much more interesting landscape.Due to technological limitations,it did not have deep forests or epic mountain sights(or did it have this? XD) but the regions were actually different.And original.
Stair step-like rocks of Sadrith Mora,Amazing architecture of Velothi,the building-city Vivec,weird trees of Molag Amur...

And what have we got in Oblivion? %100 realistic Medieval cities and only forest.The only exeption was the White Gold Tower,with the Imperial City being a Minas Tirith knockoff...

I'm wondering if Bethesda isn't working with the designers from Morrowind?

Series implies sequels or prequels.

So what? Still a sequel.

Not sure I understand all you say, but usually forums have a seperate forum for each game, being from a series or not, sequel or not. It's to put all the discussion about a subject at the same place, so people don't talk about totally different things. Nothing to do with Skyrim being a standalone game. Skyrim IS a sequel to other ES games, it IS from a series of games, thus we CAN talk about how it fares compared to the other games. We're not comparing Mass Effect to Oblivion here, but a TES game to a TES game.

Hm. I'd have to say the political jousting between factions, particularly the three Great Houses. Oblivion's felt very, ah...straightforward by comparison, tailored overmuch to character roles rather than cultural affiliation or personal creed. You were encouraged to join some of them for ethical or material reasons and not simply because "Mages join the Mages Guild, derp." Which was also present, if that's your cuppa joe, heh.