While I agree entirely, are you sure about that last part? Several of Bethesda's employees (including the lead animator) apparently train martial arts. :pinch:

I think it's a good idea.

IF they do have it like Mass Effect that'd e great. That'd mean they haven't been sitting on their thumbs the past five years working on the engine and game, but voice acting as well. To be honest if any company could pull that off it would be Bethesda.

Just .... no. 10 races. 2 sixes. Characters with an infinite variety of RP. No way are they going to come up with sound files that match the voice I hear in my head.

In Mass Effect you can play 1 race. 2 sixes. The price you pay for a voiced character is the developer pre-defining your character to a much greater extent than Bethesda has done in the Elder Scrolls, and I don't want them to do that.

Not sure about the voice thing. I think player characters mostly listen, anyway. Usually pc speech is like. "Drats, missed again."

I did play DA:O, though, and I had forgotten about the voice choices. Later, while adventuring, I heard this strange speech. It was my character talking, lol.

Play your characters how you want, but MY characters will have a face, a gender, and an age, and perhaps even some cultural, or racial influences.

I like to move the camera a lot, so I do want to see my character, a lot. But sometimes I just want to view what is upfront.

It might be interesting, though, if my characters could say, "Hey, Good Lookin'..."

I wouldn't be out right opposed to it, but I don't see it happening anytime soon, at least not on this generation of consoles, simply due to technical and resource issues trying to voice this many variations of a main protagonist.

Nah,

I use my imagination.

A voiceover wouldn't be able to add the inflectin like I do, doesn't sound like how I'd want it, etc.

Although i like the sound of a voice for your charecter i dont think its that great. having played the demo for mass effect the voice chats all turned into cinematics which was not that enjoyable.

Absolutely this. Big NO to voice for the player character from me.

It's cool in games where there's only 1 race to choose, because they are done well cause they only need 2 VA for the PC. But in TES... Just no, It's not that kind of game really, I think it would ruin it. But in other games, Like DA2, ME, I kind of enjoyed having a voiced pc.

This! For example most of the time in Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 I feel I "am" Shephard (your character). Every now and then though I click an option and he will say something in a tone I totally did not intend to convey. With Mass Effect that's fine since I am directing him what to do but he is not an avatar for myself. In TES, however, that would be incredibly... spare me the outrageously overused term, "immersion breaking."

Dragon Shouts are obviously voiced though.

No, never. If they must, give me a very large selection of voices.

Though I don't mind player voices, the problem I have with it is I don't like reading a line, selecting it and have one of three things happen.

1. I sit there and listen to the line I already read.
2. The line is said differently then what I read.
3. The line is said differently then what I read AND in a different tone then I imagined AND the outcome is not what I wanted.

The main problem I had in Mass Effect 1 and 2 was that some lines I though were jokes, given the light mood of the current situation, ended up backfiring because the line I wanted was not said.

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. For all the reasons mentioned above and several others yet to come.

no no no,
if you have voices for player characters then you can only have a certain number of different voices available, most probably only 1,
and that RUINS replay value, plus it RUINS roleplay, plus it just RUINS everything,
gad, so sick of this fully voiced crap, seriously.
mass effect would be a good game if every time i played it I wasn't Captain Obvious Von Shepherd the Loser [censored] who can't Shut the [censored] Up.

I'd prefer to imagine my own characters voice. One of the things I like the least about the Mass Effect games are the fact that you're stuck with the name 'Shepard' and you have a voice. Really don't like things like this in RPG's. If it was in Skyrim I'd probably play with the sound off.

I agree I would not like having a voice pasted on a character I designed.


in additon to the Dragon shouts, I really hope they are reverbed and inhumane sounding to highlight their Magical Origins among Dragons, not a deep verson of the race's voice.

In The Witcher I did not notice it at first. Then, man, I really like my voice. I have a voice? Damn I'm good.

But that is one guy following a path.

I hate it when they just suddenly add a voice to the PC after consistently not doing in the last couple games. That is what happen to Fable3 and I absolutely didn't like it.

There's voices for things like grunts usually based on gender. As for full out voice acting by the players character, well thats a no. It isn't that type of game like Mass Effect. There's a multitude of RPGs that either voice the character or leave it an empty shell for the player. I like Mass Effect or one of the hundreds of japanese RPGs but in these type of games I'm against it. There's Cost reasons at the forefront as there's much more dialogue and content than a linear RPG like ME or open yet linear as Deus Ex. Second is that a lot of people enjoy roleplaying their character. In a game like Skyrim especially if they had a main character voice and wanted it well acted we'd be confined to one male and female voice for all races without serious money and using very nameless voice actors. A lot of peoples roleplays might be diminished by a voice they dislike.

doG damn DA2 and ME2 fanboyz. Keep your finkers outta mai Skairim! :brokencomputer: I like the OB system so many hundred times more than DA2s, I even stopped playing it just because of that.

no bad idea alltough it would be real awkward if the dragon shouts arent voiced just my opinion tough

Voices for your character takes heavily away from that character being yours. Text only dialogue options are restricting enough in that regard. With voices you lose control of the attitude and mannerisms and half the time what you pick to say isn't even what comes out.

I don't think it can be said any better than this.

This. So no for player voiced dialogue. If you could choose your voice for battle cry/pain etc. sounds that would be great. A totally silent player could be one of the options for those who don't want to hear their character's voice at all. At least I like it that my character has at least a pain and dying sound.