Would you mind if your character had a voice?

Post » Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:30 pm

I would. I HATE first person games when you have a defined personality. It ruins the point of being first person to begin with, at least from a story perspective. It's why Bioshock loses a lot of dramatic impact, why Gordon Freeman is an amazing Tabula Rasa yet still a character, and why we play TES in first person. Yes, you can play TES in third person, but it's not the way it's meant to be played whatsoever. If you debate that, you're wrong. I will stick with simply having the shouts and grunts. Do not give us voices. More detailed dialogue is a gigantic leap in the right direction instead of "rumors".
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Post » Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:17 pm

If any of you played dragon age, it could work like a system similar. You could choose a cocky, aggressive, etc type of voice. It wouldn't be that hard, just hire a new voice actor for every race and then just change the picth, etc


NO. Just no. Not one character is aggressive, cocky or what have you 100% of the time, and they woudnt give it justice. Besides, there are a lot of ways to talk and come off as aggressive, and they would not do justice to that either.

So just no.
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Post » Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:01 am

Yes, you can play TES in third person, but it's not the way it's meant to be played whatsoever. If you debate that, you're wrong.

"If you disagree with me, you're wrong!" is a very poor argument especially when third person modes have been in the series for a very long time and they are working hard to make third person much more smooth this time around.

TES is meant to be played however the heck the player wants, and if you debate against that you are wrong.

I don't want the character to speak either, but really now I've never seen anyone get so bent out of shape over what choice of perspective people play with.
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Post » Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:47 am

Yes, I would mind.
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Post » Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:29 am

I prefer not, I like to imagine what I say.
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Post » Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:54 am

"If you disagree with me, you're wrong!" is a very poor argument especially when third person modes have been in the series for a very long time and they are working hard to make third person much more smooth this time around.

TES is meant to be played however the heck the player wants, and if you debate against that you are wrong.

I don't want the character to speak either, but really now I've never seen anyone get so bent out of shape over what choice of perspective people play with.

As a design concept, it was made for first person. That is an absolute fact. Third person is simply and added option, and may be the preferred style of play for some, but it was not made with third person at the forefront. They certainly wish to improve third person in as many ways possible to accommodate those people, but the entire systems of how things are handled and targeting reticules being translated into interactive objects in the game world it is absolutely not designed for third person.
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Post » Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:14 am

IMO, giving the PC a voice only works in games where the story is more rigidly defined and your PC is a specific individual, with a predetermined role to play.

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Post » Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:41 pm

IMO, giving the PC a voice only works in games where the story is more rigidly defined and your PC is a specific individual, with a predetermined role to play.


This.

A voiced character is a specific character.


And

NO. Just no. Not one character is aggressive, cocky or what have you 100% of the time, and they woudnt give it justice. Besides, there are a lot of ways to talk and come off as aggressive, and they would not do justice to that either.


This.

Plus, making a Cocky / Seductive / Confident / Shy / Low class / High Class / etc set of voices, for each race and for each six........ unless you limited it to half a dozen combat phrases, it'd take up huge amounts of space. And still not necessarily match each person's character.
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Post » Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:39 am

Would I mind? Hell yes. Like others have said, and like I've said in past topics, fully voiced player characters doesn't work well in games like TES, where the character is extremely individualized. It is the player's character, and having a full voice can throw people out of their experience, especially if the voice is grating/annoying/just not what the player imagines his or her character to sound like. Mass Effect (being a hugely quoted example here) works, because no matter what, you are playing Commander Shepard. In the Witcher it works, because you are playing Geralt. Those are predetermined characters, while in TES your character is your own.

Only if i get a super stereotypical Indian accent. His battle call will be "Customer Service, how may I destroy you!"
Not racist just a joke, I'm Indian myself.


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Oh my god I'm tearing...that was the funniest thing I've read all week :lmao:
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