Dunmer Voices : V - Skyrim

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:57 pm

Personally i think every race/gender combo should have 3 different voice variants.

At least, and age should be taken into account

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:42 pm

Oblivion did originally have the Morrowind gravelly voices, in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq3xTsn-8sE&feature=related you can see the E3 presentation. Why did they revert to the crappy generic elf voice??

Disc Space, imo.

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:44 pm

Morrowind Dunmer voices.

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:12 am

Neither. Morrowind's were so comically gravelly, they were impossible to take seriously, and creepy in the few instances where they were cheerful ("What's the news, sport?"). Oblivion's were just annoying.

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:34 pm

They should sound like the bad asses from Morrowind, not the squeaky little munch kins from Oblivion.

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:39 pm

Both and more. I always took it that the Dunmer in Oblivion sounded different because they'd picked up a different accent living in Cyrodiil. Problem is even the ones who'd apparantly just moved from Vvardenfell sounded the same. I'd love native's of Morrowind to have their gravely voices, maybe ones from Cyrodiil to sound like they did in Oblivion and ones who were born in Skyrim to have a different twang to their voices. I agree that each race should have different variants. How about accents rather than just voices? Imagine an Imperial with a Vvardenfell or Skyrim twang! :tongue:

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:16 am

I'd rather they find a spot between the two, maybe just a deep voice instead of a gravely, rough one. In that Oblivion video shown somewhere on this thread, the voice didn't seem to fit.

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:13 am

Neither. The dunmer voices should be morrowind-like for refugees from areas around ashlands, but not for dunmer from outside of morrowind.

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:40 am

I pick the secret fourth option, dialog boxes.

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:04 am

I loved the voice in Morrowind. Not only the raspy voice but the often authoritative and intimidating tone. It really made them stand out from 'generic' elves that many people are used to. It really gave the dark elves a lot of personality in Morrowind, but considering they were the central race in the game I suppose that's logical.

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:16 am

At least, and age should be taken into account

I agree. I quite like races having distinct voices (instead of elves all sharing male and female voices, and female Imperials and Bretons sharing voices)--but it shouldn't just be one voice per race/gender either. What I definitely don't want to see is races sharing the same VA, especially since they're so starkly distinct in TES; Wood Elves and Dunmer should not sound alike, and Imperials and Bretons should not sound alike.