Voice-over Actors : V - Skyrim

» Sun Aug 08, 2010 12:29 am

The way I see it, Oblivion was the first game Bethesda made where voice acting had a large role. Yes there were voices in Morrowind, but most of it was just text based. See, Oblivion was a horrific fail as far as voice acting, but it was their first time using voice acting so much. Now that they've read our numerous rants on the subject of voice acting, I'm sure they'll do something to change it. I don't care if they have two voice actors as long as those two VAs can do a hundred different voices.

» Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:11 am

Although it will never happen in a million years, I quite honestly would prefer Beth to go back to text-based dialogue, with snippets of speech for important bits, overheard conversations and so on. The amount of space that is taken up by the audio just seems a waste, considering the massive amount of text that could replace it, giving us more topics and so on.

Anyway, back on topic. Yes, I would prefer a little more variety in the voices we hear.

Couldn't agree more.

If we must have fully voice-acted dialogue (and it seems we must), at least don't confound the content, time, money, and resource cost by limiting the voice acting's quantity or quality. I would expect Bethesda to deliver in this regard, though, as it's an area of improvement that they've mentioned specifically.

» Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:12 pm

Although it will never happen in a million years, I quite honestly would prefer Beth to go back to text-based dialogue, with snippets of speech for important bits, overheard conversations and so on. The amount of space that is taken up by the audio just seems a waste, considering the massive amount of text that could replace it, giving us more topics and so on.

Anyway, back on topic. Yes, I would prefer a little more variety in the voices we hear.

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» Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:27 am

There are 5 voice actors for each gender voicing 10 different races.

They are 10 actors short.

» Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:05 am

There's a lot of good voice talent out there, probably some that would do it for little to nothing just to put Skyrim on their resume; just need to know where to look. I don't know how many guys they have working on voices and audio for Skyrim, but 60+ voices ( or what we would want) is a lot of material to work with.