» Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:35 pm If this has been brought up and discussed previously, my apologies. But I've been logging some pretty serious hours into Fallout 4 and I've loved every minute of it. I know there's a lot of disagreement on the voiced protagonist. Some love it while others hate it. Myself, I'm rather indifferent really. But it got me thinking about my beloved Elder Scrolls series. Bethesda has said on more than one occasion that if you had ever played one of their games before you'd expect the protagonist to have a voice. It's just how games are made (typically) today as we're all aware. However, I started to think about a voiced protagonist for the next Elder Scrolls game and one huge potential problem seemed to present itself. That is the different voice types for each race.
I know in Fallout they tried to get a neutral male and neutral female voice to fit any type of character that we could make. To me it works because, black, white, or whatever, we're all human and you can pass the voices used off as realistic. However, in The Elder Scrolls we all know that each race has distinct sounding voices. It would essentially require 20 total voice actors to pull this off. One for each race and then one for male and female. There's really only a few ways that Bethesda can go with this if they do in fact include a voiced protagonist in the next Elder Scrolls game.
They can...
1. Have one male and one female voice which would break lore and not be completely believable in my opinion.
2. Have 20 total voice actors recording thousands and thousands of lines of dialogue. This seems like an unrealistic option to me.
3. Not have a voiced protagonist which goes against what Bethesda said about the feature recently.
4. Have one or two voice actors for each race. Maybe give us two or three options as a male and two or three options as a female. Honestly, I think this will be the route they go. They may get one voice actor to record lines with three different "voices." This would save them money and time but to me it's not the best option at all.
It seems Bethesda has created an impossible situation for themselves in this aspect of future Elder Scrolls games. It will be interesting to see how they handle it. What do you guys think they'll do?
