I really wish Bethesda would go more towards giving my character a voice. It is amazing to me that with all the voice acting, thousands of hours, that every single character in the game has a voice but YOU!

I really loved the Gothic games were my character would speak.

You will soon find out that most people here disagree with you.

You are about to attract some serious, serious hate.

I still remember in oblivion a freaky incident where my own character got cloned; they sounded "wrong" when i spoke to them. Not how they sounded in my own minds eye.

Dunno if we need it ;p

No, no. That would take away our choice to decide what our character sounds like. Shouts already have a voice, but we can say that they are "Shout's Voices" not our real character's voices.

that would ruin your character for the fact that it would alienate him from yourself.

I downloaded a mod for Oblivion that did this. Personally, I didn't like it.

Same, it ruins the roleplay experience for me.

Honestly I think its better without voice acting helps you make you OWN character but thats just me...

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I must read too many books because I have no problem with reading and adding a voice to the character.

I prefer unvoiced. Voiced PCs never use the intonation I imagine my character using. They're also much more common in games that don't offer 10 playable races ...

It takes away from my roleplaying experience. I like to decide for myself what my character sounds like when he or she talks.

I agree, this won't be pretty for very long I think,

It's a roleplaying game. Hear the voice in your head, and you don't need anything else.

It's better than ANY voice acting, because it's the way your brain interprets it.

LOL. Yes to Gothic because you had a more or less fixed character and it made sense. In TES, however, there is so much variation possible that it wouldn't work.

When my characters speak, they cease being my character. They end up becoming the developer's character that they're just lending me.

Not a gigantic fan of that for RPGs. I'll accept it, but don't want to see it become the rule.

lol gothic games. Tried them all, hated them all. Love open world rpgs, but gothic is a [censored] joke of a series.

I think its better without the character speaking, that's how it's always been in TES games and probably will be

Never!

Voicing the player is for games that already pre-define lots of the aspects of the player (Mass Effect, for instance.)

Not for games that have the character as a "blank slate".


(And can you imagine how many voice files that would be? Minimum would be 10 races X 2 genders. And the PC has lots of dialogue. And that's the minimum.... in order to keep the character "your choice", there'd ideally be multiple versions for each race/gender - refined, common, gruff, disciplined, etc. Yeah, there are "make your own" character RPGs that have had choices like this, but that's generally just for a few dozen general combat & situational responses. Like Neverwinter Nights' "I need healing!" "I can't open that / it's locked" and various battle cries. Not a fully voiced game.)

I agree that I prefer voiced to non-voiced player characters. I don't agree that it would fit in an open-world RPG like Oblivion or Skyrim. In my opinion, it works in games like Mass Effect because the games are much more linear and goal-oriented. You are there to achieve an objective, and if you want to play the game, you have to go after that objective. In an open world game like Skyrim, where there is an almost infinite number of ways to play the game, I don't think there's any way to sucessfully implement an effective voice for the player character. I'd hate to see the game become significanly smaller just because myself and a few other players prefer voiced PCs. To be clear, I don't really care about the "no voice allows you to role play correctly" arguments. I consider that to be an argument from immersion, and no one but myself can determine what that concept means for me. I care that attempting to implement a voice in a Bethesda game would would be so unwieldy as to ruin the game as a whole.

In sum, I prefer voiced PCs, but not in Bethesda games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshkO8HqQ10

Half the fun in Skyrim is role-playing your character. And different characters have different voices.
In my opinion Bioware really dropped the ball when they started voicing the main characters.

For first person RPGs i don't think voice for the PC is required, but third person games like Mass Effect it is a must.

TES and FO games don't have voice for the players , and it's better that way.It's just like adding a multiplayer for TES , it would be terrible.