Terrible voice acting? : V - Skyrim

» Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:15 pm

She'll almost certainly be back. But at least she probably won't be all the Female Redguards. Although, can you name a single female Redguard in Oblivion off the top of your head?

Tamika.

Actually, Tamika was the inspiration for my character Claudia. After the first time I talked to her, I decided I wanted a green-eyed Redguard of my own.

Also - Renault, Chanel, Rasheda, Shelley, Maelona and, though many don't seem to realize it, Rohssan.

» Fri Jul 29, 2011 3:15 pm

"YOU ENWA!!"

Die Fetcher!

» Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:11 am

The voice acting so far from the voices we heard are good... Also they said their were 70 voice actors, right?

» Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:29 pm

werent there only like 3-4 voices in oblivion for the general population?

argonians and khajiit shared the same voice, dunmer and altmer had the same voice, etc...

with 70 voice actors in skyrim, i assume it'll be spread out like this...

the general population, non-special NPCs:

one voice actor each for the males and females of each race, that is 20 voice actors right there, if each race and gender have a different voice actor.

then one voice actor each for the male and female children of each race, thats another 20 right there, again, if each race/gender gets their own child voice.

so thats 40 voice actors just on the general population.

the other 30 will probably be spread out on unique NPCs, dragons, etc.

hopefully i didnt word that too oddly to make it confusing, its hard for me to word it correctly.

I think this is an entirely accurate anolysis. I long while ago, I predicted the same thing. 40 actors for the shared general populace (which probably includes player character noises) and thirty for whatever they want. I doubt there will be just 30 unique NPCs, as I imagine that there will be some interspersed in perhaps the general Nords just to give it a bit more variety for the dominant race. I would think there are at least ten unique NPCs though, and that's including Mr. Sydow.

» Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:05 pm

Nords + Orcs = Same voice
Khajiit + Argonians = Same voice
Dunmer + Altmer + Bosmer = Same voice

That's 4 races without a unique voice. Skyrim will finally remedy this.

» Fri Jul 29, 2011 5:12 pm

The quality of the voice acting was never as much of a problem as the quantity of voice actors. That was/is always my main concern.