Not really, Bethesda should know that having just two voices for the pc really kills the over all replay value of their game, something their games are known to strive for. A dlc voices pack some time after release, would solve this for the most part though.

I knew they were Nazis!!!!!

Uh, that is exactly what your are complaining about, there is only one voice per six, and not multiple voices per six based on race. Also, the post directly under your last post complains about only having one voice per six. Offering more choices would surely lead to more complaining about the choices offered, and a few defending the choices and the fact that you have choice.

this thread is yet unique no one before was bothered by this issue. people however were complaining about the fact that the protagonist is heterosixual in multiple threads before.

Well you will always have people who will complain and find a excuse to be the victim online. I want more voices not because of the race of my character but that voice might not fit the kind of character I want him to be. I think it's ridiclous to say they shouldn't be more voices because someone will complain their character now sound "too black" when they can just change it back.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Back before E3 confirmed that we were going to be listening to this yet to seem exciting vocal performance by Brian Delaney, several people, including myself, expressed extreme displeasure at the prospect of being stuck with only one voice. Our reasons ranged from forcing you to be at a certain age range, and forcing the lines to be given in a certain manner (which, given the lack of any good performances from Delaney in anything we've seen so far, is extremely worrisome). People were saying that they were hoping for there to be several voices to choose from.

Plenty of threads were made to talk about the prospect of a voiced protagonist, and though race may not have made it into the title before, you can bet it came up in the actual conversation. Just as being stuck with one voice per six came up.

I'm a little upset that MY character will have a voice that isn't MINE. Just saying.

Too true. I am not bothered by the voiced protagonist, but that is likely just because I am a middle-aged white male that has been married with children, and I find my own voice too nasally when I hear it played back to me. I can understand people wanting to alter the voice to fit a certain style of character. I honestly am a little surprised that there isn't some type of voice altering system that allows you to at the very least alter the pitch and tone of the voices offered. With so much customization of your PC's appearance it would seem to make sense that you could alter the voice.

Who knows? This could be the first step in that direction where we will in fact be able to use a base voice for either six, and then alter it to fit. There may even be options in the future to alter the pattern and accent of the voice. Games have come so far since FO3, that FO5 may yet again give even higher degree of customization.

Bit of a let down I suppose but the alternative would be what? Eight different VAs? That's not a realistic expectation. Unvoiced protagonist? That ship has sailed. The era of the silent protagonist is pretty much dead in AAA titles.

I'm not even fond of the idea of a voiced protagonist. I don't need the game to tax my monthly bandwidth allotment by requiring me to download multiple voice types that I won't use to provide variety for a feature that I don't want.

They could do that to appease the PC police, but then the game would be half as big or even smaller in order to pay for the Native American, Asian, Middle Eastern, Russian voices. . . you get the point.

I can honestly say this...issue...never crossed my mind before reading this thread. But now that it has, it occurs to me:

- In junior high and high school I knew (vaguely, we weren't friends) an Indian girl who sounded just like the other preppy girls she was friends with. And this was the 80s-90s so think Valley Girl.

- Knew two guys, brothers, who were born and raised in New Jersey and sounded it. Asian ancestry of some kind, maybe, who knows, or Maori.

- There was an exchange student from Sweden. Try to imagine a blonde white girl using late-80s rural-Southern-US-black slang with a Swedish accent.

- Went to college with a black guy from London who had spent a few years in his teens as a homeless thug before getting his crap together and back in school. One of his good friends was a white girl from Germany who'd been raised in France before moving to England.

- I know a girl who's Chinese-Swedish, raised in Brookyln.

- Ever watch Outside XBox on YouTube? Jane Douglas, that is all.

So yeah. Not really an issue.

I wonder how much voices vary between various parts of North America. Here in Canada about 20% of the population sounds like that stereotypical Canadian that you see in movies, whereas the other 80%, myself included, sounds closer to the generic and soft North American accent you got on the Sole Survivor. I haven't travelled very much, never been inside the US, so I have no idea if you go to Boston and everyone sounds like The Scout or if its just a percentage thing.

To a dizzying extreme, actually, once you're in the know. You can tell the differences in accents from different parts of the same state, in some places. Someone raised in north GA will sound different than southwestern-GA me, for example, and we're 5 hours apart. We'll both have a bit of trouble (at first) understanding all the slang of someone from the Low Country of eastern GA and SC, and probably just be flat-out bewildered by Outer Banks NC-ese. Northern and southern CA might as well be different countries, north FL and Miami practically are different countries. It's crazy.

What exactly were you trying to say with this post? I sort of lost the entire point.

Ha. I guess that answers the question. English/Anglophone Canada sounds pretty similar to eachother, with the exception of Newfoundland far to the east. Most of the other non-anglophone parts of Canada do sound different, but you'd never run into a situation where a Inuit, Quebecois, and Anglophone person would have major trouble understanding eachother assuming they all spoke english. Hearing about different bits of California being extremely different to eachother does make a bit of sense, since CA on its lonesome has a population higher than all of Canada, and I would imagine the more population you have the more regional differences develop. Atleast thats how I understand it, im not educated at all in this stuff, but if there is a major regional variation in the US then it'd be interesting to see what kind of accents we meet in Fallout 4's NPCs.

Heh, in my rambling style: race and voice have nothing to do with each other.

Your voice is more a product of your environment than your race. If our character is white, black, or Asian, (s)he still grew up in the same place. So they'd have similar accents anyway.

Besides, audio files aren't exactly small. I'm fine with just one male and female voice.

Except for the Indian Girl you havent pointed out that all these people sounded just like the environment they happend to live in. And yes there are examples of black females that sound exactly like white females but overall/majority wise its different. you can state the basic race of a person from only listening to their voice with like 3/4 accuracy.

I think he/she means the EXPERIENCE of the person matters more than what he/she looks like or sounds like. If I were Asian and grew up in France, I'd probably have a French accent despite me not being a white person. It's the experience and surroundings that shape the person.

no doubt. but how does that tie in with the topic?

So awesome Shaft or Cleopatra Jones inspired character is definitely out...

Your first post specifically talks about different races sounding the same. I would welcome multiple choices of voices (Baulders Gate did this but with very few actual lines of dialogue) but I worry their attempt to cover multiple races would offend more than everyone sounding "white"

We don't want this https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=D0R6QO9LooI

Well hire blacks, asians, hispanics to do the voices and you dont have the protagonist sounding "white" anymore.

But ofcourse as i came to think of it wouldnt be possible anymore since there are no official racial distinction in the game and you cant attribute something with an unlike voice when it doesnt exist.