Bethesda is pretty much shooting themselves in the leg with this in my opinion. Skyrim's voice acting is great, but there's the problem that if you have to record every bit of dialogue they simply won't have as much as they would have if it was just written. Since all the dialogue is voice acted the npc can't just give you specific directions to places, people, etc, he information just magicly appears on your map or quest log.

I'm loving Skyrim, the combat and magicks are way cool, I haven't had any game-breaking bugs, still have hundreds of places to explore and the game is just beatiful. But the fact that all conversation with npcs are just a few lines and those can be just skipped since the quest markers will show up on your map, it's really immersion breaking.

I've no "solution" for this "problem" that would actually work, recording all those lines of dialogue that we had in Morrowind for example would be a gargantuan task and just dropping the voice acting for most part and having to actually read what the quests entail would drive away a lot of players. Personally though, I'd be happy with just written dialogue. So, anyways, that's my gripe with Skyrim.

Beth would get massive criticism for dropping voice-acting after all the work they've put into it in Skyrim. The American guy who plays Belethor, Mercer, Boetiah's Champion etc is used far too much IMO, I'm hearing him everywhere. But other than that, it hasn't been too bad - certainly a massive improvement on the one-voice-per-race Oblivion (even though it had the mighty Sean Bean).

My #1 issue with Skyrim. (Especially the quests part.)
I'd much prefer text only over the crap we have now in Skyrim. Questing is about as fun as trying to amputate your leg with a cardboard box.

And it can't be fixed with mods either.

They probably would get worse reviews and sells if they didn't voice act their games. Also there would be a [censored]load of fans raging about it here. Also you dont HAVE TO SKIP the voice acting if you find doing that immersion breaking...

i got an idea, just make a pop-up (a big one so evetyone can see it, like the oblivion quest pop-ups) appear after the conversation saying "so and so told you to go x way for y amount of time and you shoul come across z bandit camp/cave/ect with _____ item that looks like _______" or some messages alongthose lines that tell you so's directions and what so's item is and could be easily skiped by pressing whatver button (aftwards it gives quest markers to the compass/map fo those who want to use it), solves quests at least

I hate walking by a stranger and they they tell me their life story. WTF lol.
*walks by random dude*
"My name is Bob.... I was once captain but i retired so now i am living here with my wife, Wifey."

Either something is wrong or the people of Skyrim are VERY nice people.

Well I think even if they had as much text as in Morrowind, they could've voiced it ... Isn't it very easy to just read the sentances? And in few years, they could record unlimited material ... Few more dollars to the voice actors ... Still, voice acting is very easy and I would do it for free, just to become a part of the game, forever !

No, I suppose I don't have to skip the dialogue. But still the dialogue doesn't go into detail why I have to get object X from place Y or why object X is important or what history it has, or what kind of dangers I can expect on the road to Y or where Y is. Simply the dialogue options offered by Skyrim's npc aren't at all important, I'll just follow the magic marker on my map and be done with it.

I honestly don't understand this criticism. Most of what I've been doing in the game is listening to the NPCs talk. They have quite a lot to say if you want to listen. I don't like how everyone talks to me as I walk by them, though. That's something I've always disliked in these games.

You'd prefer a bunch of mutes flapping their gums, as babbling brooks, birds, bears, dragons etc add their noises to the background. And on top of it, you don't consider the fact that none of them could make sounds with their voices, would be less effective than actually allowing people, in a game made in 2011, to talk. I consider that a pretty nutty opinion, take it all 'round

I agree, but these are mainstream products now and the mainstream want voice acting. Nothing Bethesda can really do about it, honestly.

If they added text only now....the ES would cease to exist due to sales and criticism. I'd rather they keep the ES alive please.

I do not get why anyone rages over the voice acting.....IMO it is better then the lousy 7 to 10 people they used in Oblivion. Yes some of the stuff they say is no more corny and cliche as Ob had been. I swear the more people whine and complain, the more I see Todd and Pete chucking the TES franchise in the basket and ending it. Which would be sad as all h**l.

I wouldn't say people are necessarily raging over it, but it's not unreasonable to comment considering that many people feel that the voice acting is disappointing. Given that it's a major part of the way the player interfaces with the game, it's hard to ignore if one finds it somewhat lacking.

I'd like to not hear Farkas everywhere I go when it's not Farkas speaking. They use the same five voice actors way too much.

Well it would need to be text only, conversations between different NPCs could be in voice. Conversation between an NPC and the player could be in text, seeing as the player doesn't have a voice actor anyways.

I feel that it would just add much needed depth into the game if you actually had to "listen/read" what the NPC had to say about things, instead of maybe listening to them telling about some bandit camp and suddenly having that place appear on your map.

It's your choice to skip the dialog or not. If you're constantly clicking through conversations without listening, it seems to me that you don't really want to listen/read anyway. What's the problem exactly?

It's really odd, because I have Farkas as a companion, but often I find npcs who speak with his same voice.
And I don't just mean that it's obviously the same voiceactor. I mean the same tone, the same manner of speaking, the same attitude. Ok for using the same voiceactor, but actually pasting a character's personality? Do the voiceactors even kow their lines aren't always supposed to be spoken by the same character?

If you can't understand, try real hard to think about what the words mean

And yes, opinions can be very lousy when they are uninformed or not made with any consideration to what the opinion means, but you keep right on telling yourself that your opinions are always valid no matter what

Yeah most don't really give you the impression they're voiceACTORS. They could've just picked a guy off the street, offered him 50 dollars to say a few lines for 10 minutes and have a unique voice for every NPC.
I'm probably wrong but it seems to me they handled it rather badly.

Also multiple voice actors voicing the same line, such as "Trinkets, odds and ends. That sort of thing."... It's beyond me why they didn't just have every guy voice his own line to add some variety to shopkeepers.



Still not a clue what you mean. Maybe you should try and be more clear.
And my opinion is not invalid because I would prefer Morrowind's text style system over Oblivion and Skyrim's fully voiced over system. Don't be silly.

My problem is that I can't get immersed into the game like I could in Morrowind, when the NPCs just tell you "Get/Kill/Talk to X, in Y" and Y suddenly pops up in your map like you've always know it's there. It's really frickin immersion breaking, it feels like I'm playing wow again, running dungeons for valor points or whateverthehell they were.

Indeed, it feels very similar to MMORPG questing. Which is bad, yes MMO quests are genuinly bad.
People will most likely be petty and try to dismiss your argument because you mentioned WoW, though. For a community that constantly feels the need to voice their intellectual dominance over the CoD one people here are rather immature.

Not trying to be condescending, but it sounds to me like you lack discipline.

The trouble is that 99.99999999999% of gamers want voice and not to read. Dropping voice and having alot more text would make the company quickly go bankrupt for certain. It's not even a plausable option.

Honestly, I prefer voice and less text. Quality of quantity. Nothing adds more to the mood of a small tavern, dimly lit by a fire pit in the middle of the snowy mountains, than to talk to someone with a heavy Nordic accent.

Excuse me, but I don't get what you mean.

Your reply would have made perfect sense to me if it was possible to complete quests or find quests objectives without looking at your map or with the quest arrows toggled off, but this is simply impossible.



Fair opinion. However I feel that the quality of the quests has severely suffered due to voice acting, and quests are a quite essential part of an RPG.