As the vote stands Bethesda made the right choice. All the new Fallout players probably don't even know that the last games were not voiced. I don't love the voice acting but don't hate it... It just is. The guy has a generic common protagonist voice.

Credit to Beth on the selection of the two PC voice actors and credit to the two voice actors for a quality performance

I voted no but I want to say the voice actor and actress do a great job, and my vote against voice acting isn't a judgement on them. It does help ease the pain some. And they don't suffer as much from the Bioware problem of the dialog choice not reflecting what you meant to say.

But I still want my unvoiced protagonist. Fewer and fewer rpgs feature these and Bethesda was one of the holdouts. Its like others said, I imagine my own line reading. And the writers are free to give you more choices.

Yes but it's the worst voice acted character in the game. I don't know about the female one. But male one's voice acting is not fluid and natural.

There's also the somewhat strong possibility that they could go the other way and chop Argonians, Khajiit and possibly Orcs (maybe even all elves for that matter) from the playable status in order to make a voiced protagonist work. However, considering that Todd Howard seems to prefer making the protagonist in his TES games a Cyrodiil native, they could potentially use that origin in order to keep the voice actors down to about two-to-four for the protagonist and still have all ten playable races (including Argonians and Khajiit). In all honesty, I'm still not 100% convinced that BGS' next game is TES VI anyway so a voiced protagonist in Fallout 4 might not be representative of what TES VI will have.

they of curse can improve, but i like how he comment stuff and speak when we do something.

I was wary of it before the game was out, but I actually kind of like it. It helps put emotion and that organic/human element into the interaction vs. just reading some dialogue options.

However, it does feel.. odd?.. at times. Of course I've only played the game for maybe 8 hours at this point, but right now I feel like I hope this isn't repeated in future TES/Fallout games. It's an interesting change, but I've gotten too used to having my own character voice in my head or inflection on words vs. getting stuck with what the voice actor has said. No offense to him (or her really as this would apply to either no matter my character's gender).

I thought it was a really dumb idea. I generally like to imagine the voices, but these actors have done a very good job. I've enjoyed both. Have been switching back and forth between them: four hours here and five there. Expected to be annoyed but am not.

I absolutely hated it at first, I felt like it made me feel very disconnected from my character. Then I realised a huge part of that feeling was coming from the dialogue camera, which seems cool in theory to allow you to see your own created character in action but in practice took me out of the game and made me feel like I was play/watching a cinematic game like Mass Effect rather than an immersive experience like Fallout. Once I turned off the dialogue camera I didn't mind the voice quite so much.

Still I'm against it for the restrictions it's put on my character. My characters for past Fallout games have ranged from cold emotionless psychopaths to spoiled arrogant jerks to super timid beta males. It's a shame I can't be any of those kinds of characters anymore. My choice is now limited to just what kind of a self confident emotionally healthy badass I want to be.

I've gotten used to it from playing The Witcher and Dragon Age Inquisition, so yeah, I like having a voiced character. I would like to see it in The Elder Scrolls 6 but only if they do it right. A different voice for each race. I don't want a Khajiit to sound like an Imperial.

I love it. I have always preferred voiced protagonists. Also, what I especially love is how companions actually engage in some of the dialogue you have with other NPCs. Every conversation feels natural and fluid - and the voice over work is actually pretty incredible (for both the PC and NPCs).

My only qualm is the loss of perk specific dialogue. It really helped characterize my builds a bit more and it provided some alternative inroads to dialogue. Like, one example i've seen on reddit was a guy being educated by an NPC on robots, despite the player having the robotics expert perk. That would have been an opportunity to say "hey [censored] off I know what robots can and can't do."

"You're gonna burn all right."

Favorite line from that game.

i made an account here so i could vote NO on this poll....

sure spoken dialogue when you're having a conversation with npcs can be cool. i share the sentiments of the above guys about deus ex, i love all the dialogue in that.

but when you are doing stuff in the environment and he (the protagonist) notices something it is REALLY annoying. for instance in the beginning of the game the protagonist goes, "wow a huge cockroach," this goes through my head- "yeah, wow, thanks jack-ass, i had that same thought MORE than a few moments ago, but thanks for the update bro."

im forced to repeat these thoughts by the protagonist that automatically cross my mind anyways via the environment constantly. why do i need this environmental narrative "wow a big cockroach" if i can already think that for myself? its not only redundant but annoying, and breaks immersion- which is harder than normal to maintain in the first place with this guy. im a third-party ghost floating around observing some other protagonist who's not me because hes speaking his own thoughts out loud all the time.

are the people voting 'yes' really into this stuff or are you guys just here because of that cool NFL fallout 4 robot? i guess times are a'changing and protagonists like Link and Doomguy will soon be relics of the past.

^LOL

Muh mershins

I just dont like kind of guessing what my character is going to say, but that is a dialogue option problem and not voice acting.

The voice acting in FO4 is the best i've heard in a Bethesda game yet. Not just the protagonists sound great, but also npc's sound much better. Preston, Piper, Nick, random people.

I don't think they'd necessarily have to do that many. Aside from the Argonians, everyone has human sounding voices, they just have different accents. You could just have one voice with the local regional accent (like if it was Skyrim, a Nord accent), one voice for an Imperial accent (or if set far from the Cyrodil, maybe the accent of the next neighboring realm), and then an Argonian voice. And just do that for each gender. Sure Dark Elves are known for having a kind of Australian sounding accent, but a Dark Elf who'd live his whole life in Skyrim or at least a large portion of it, might have the Nord accent instead.

Actually, it's more 'muh ability to think for self'

Both the man and the woman are great voice actors.

That said, no I don't like the protagonist having a voice. Wanted to play as a different character each time - both the dialog options and the voice acting prevented me. It's almost impossible to roleplay.

Despite the voices being done well I am dead set against, it simply isn't a roleplaying game with a voiced main character. Fallout 4 is a nice action/adventure game with a defined character who I follow and guide. That's not roleplaying to me. If Bethesda wants to make action story type games that's fine, they can be great games. But don't abandon the roleplaying games in the process. It's not great in FO4 but it would destroy the very soul of The Elder Scrolls series if it happened there.

Of course voice acted protagonists are something that makes it all better, but not in the state Fallout 4's are. It'd be good for this kind of game only when we can select multiple voices, something that unfortunately can't happen very soon, or, it could've happened, if they spent less money on marketing...

All my D&D characters, from the male warrior barbarians to the female elven clerics had the voice of a boy going through puberty.

It wasn't a big deal then.

The first play-through it isn't much of an issue, but I don't like it. As I play other male characters ... it's going to be a jarring problem for me. I already saw a no-voice mod so I may have to grab that on other play-throughs.

No strong opinions for or against.

I don't mind the voice as much as I hate the incomprehensible dialogue system that leads the conversation down stilted paths. The only thing that really bugs me about the voice is the way my character says "Hey" or coughs every single time I click an NPC.

I like it so far. The female protagonist sounds excellent, and kind of reminds me of femshep, she's got that tough love attitude and personality. Doesn't sound whiny at all. I get why some people are not used to this especially if they are huge fans of the previous games, but the world is starting to move on from the silent protagonist, and people want to feel more involved in their games.