Ask my upstairs neighbors when I'm playing at 3 AM.

Yes... As long as my wife or anyone else never finds out.

Think of:

1. People who do not own microphones
2. People whose gaming areas are too loud for a microphone to pick up clearly
3. People with a heavy accent
4. People who can not pronounce the words right
5. Children with high pitched voices
6. Those who don't want to scream at their monitor
7. Those who play in "quiet areas" or can't want to make a lot of noise where they are playing
8. Hard core gamers who would scream at their monitor 16 hours straight
9. Teachers who will wear their voice out between their students and dragon shouts
10. Students who continue to play while their room-mate breaks the rule about "male-female interaction in the room"
11. People who just don't want to shout
12. People who play with absurdly loud music blaring
13. People who are on an airplane. (Isn't it bad enough?)
14. People who play while their wife/girlfriend is sleeping
15. Kids who snuck out at night to play
16. Anyone else trying while others are trying to sleep
17. Everyone at a LAN party
18. Kids trying to play in the back of Physics class while their teacher is in the front
19. Kids trying to play in any other class where they have computers
20. People trying to play on a train
21. People trying to play at work
22. Those who are trying to hide that they like RPG's
23. Those who play near people who don't know the difference between Skyrim and WoW
24. People who play while their wife is getting murdered
25. People who don't want to be the next unintended hit on Youtube
26. People who aren't supposed to be playing video games
27. People who don't speak the real language the shouts are based on
28. People playing in movie theatres
29. People who are mute
30. People who breathe on the mics so dang hard
31. People who don't like the sound of their own voice
32. People who don't like the sound of their character's voice
33. People who don't like my avatar
34. People who don't like me
35. People who don't like how this keeps going despite the fact that they can turn away at any time
36. People who are allowed to play while gagged as a hostage
37. People who just must play while a murderer is in the house
38. People who play in haunted houses that make weird sounds that might randomly set off a shout
39. People who play in dorms
40. Me
41. Babies who could be woken up (thanks, RobotMilk)

No. absolutely not.

lol if u wanna look like a dang [censored].

exactly

I don't see the reason for such negativity, especially since we're talking about it as an optional feature. Personally, I think if you have a mic, the circumstances are appropriate, and you feel like it, it would be nice to have such an option. If not, then you could still use the button. :shrug:

Freddo: "Fus, Ro, Dah!"

Mum: *looks towards the basemant* "What's that munchin? You wanna a soda?"

....

Freddo: "Yes mum..."

Haha, this makes me imagine some 14 year old emo kid shouting at his computer...

I think there is a direct correlation with speaking to your computer and diminishing your chances of procreation.
Wife: - come to bed
Husband - one more minute - Do - Re - MI!!
Wife - I'll see you tomorrow

I don’t think my wife would be super stoked when I woke her and the baby up with “dragon shouting” :swear:

I forgot about the waking the kid

Bwahahaha!

If it recognizes words as well as the headsets I use a work, then it would be a terrible idea. It would result in the kind of thing you just described. heh heh. lol.

true, but what about the same six? (+5%)

There's already a button for it, so why go through the frustration of yelling into the mic hoping for it to register correctly? :shrug:

Besides that, not everyone has a mic to use with your method, so when making a game, you have to consider people who don't necessarily have all the "hottest" gaming accessories.

it would be a nice option but there is no way in hell alot of people could use it. lots of people including me swear at our computers when something goes wrong or you die because of something stupid you did. ill be doing enough shouting without having to worry about doing dragon shouts as well.

@Spectre IV: With that approach there wouldn't be special hardware Most gamers doesn't own TrackIR or use FreeTrack, yet some games choose to support them and they work great. I have TracrIR myself, but I actually find it awkward to use, especially on foot. I have no plans of using a mic to do dragon shouts. But I think supporting it would be great for those who wants it. And by that I don't mean a builtin feature that only does dragon shouts, but a game feature that enables use of third party software for voice control executing game macros that in the end executes the dragon shouts.

Personally I support the idea of both voice control (via external software to control game macros, like the rest) and TrackIR, even if I have no plans of using either. Given that we loose speed in backtracking (and possibly side strafing) compared to running and sprinting forward, there has to be some kind of freelook system where you look in a different direction that you move. Arma 2 does this by holding alt to enable freelook. Hooking TrackIR/FreeTrack to freelook seems like a natural progression to support.

I'm actually shocked that there are 108 no/stupid votes and only 10 yes, have you guys no foresight at all?
http://www.dwvac.com/
The VAC system is a useful program which you use to issue commands to your flight simulator or role playing game.

@squeekers1234: PushToTalk

Yeah ... I'd rather not. :homestar:

....no it would not be a nice addition, all that hard work beth is putting in so that every word is vocalized for every race for both genders. and you want to yell at your screen/computer? no thanks. then only time I want to hear my voice playing TES is when I say.

Oh Shi*

WTF

PWNED

and Oh my god, I am going to die.

Breaking on Fox News! Game encourages Satanic rituals!

Since this is now duplicated, I'll leave the currently-active topic open.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1164908-dragon-shouting/