Dont get me wrong, i dont want/need him to talk. i am just wondering why some game developers just choose not too. and dont say because there cheap, or lazy. idk, give me your take on it.


EDIT: and you guys should all go to my Thank you, Bethesda thread and contribute, im writing down a big long list of heartfelt thank yous and stories to send to bethesda.

Is grunting good enough?

Because having a voiced player character in a game like this would svck. It's one of the things that lead to Dragon Age 2 being so awful.

It leaves more to the imagination. If there character spoke then that's how they would sound. If they don't speak, they can sound whatever way your mind can make up.

Because it's left to you to give them their voice. It's your character, and you take things how you want too. Having a voice narrows your role-playing.

Probly with a game like Skyrim there are so many types of races, plus male or female they can find 20 actors to do a whole bunch of lines.

They call it a role playing game. The character is supposed to be you. I do like voiced but I understand why they don't voice. There's more immersion if they pc isn't voiced.

I think there are as many players that prefer a non-speaking protagonist, as there are people who would like to hear some speech (the former might actually outnumber the latter). And so it is simply easier and cheaper to give the majority what they prefer.

Translations?

Breaks immersion when one doesn't hear their own voice?

Breaks immersion when one doesn't hear the voice the way they imagined?

Just more dialogue to slow things down when one can read faster?

Responses would get as overused?

Mkay. i was just watching the rage trailer and i just kind of was like.. wait. xD it makes sense.

Because players want to sound the way they want, so It would be impossible for Bethesda to please everyone. It just adds to the role-playing and lore aspect of the game.
In contrast, in games like Mass Effect where you ARE Commander Shepard, then voice fits. Catch my drift?

Roleplaying is a big part of TES, If you had a voice for the characters, Roleplayers would get upset so they would have to give you a list of voices to choose from for each race and six, But that would take up a lot of space.

cheaper. better for imagination. overall, a better choice for an RPG

takes away from the immersion element :shrug:

YES, I was thinking of Mass Effect and why that was voiced, but since theres only one main character type, which everyone calls by name... mhm, yes. it all comes together. xD

We can grunt and shout in a language we don't understand, it's almost like being drunk, but not quite.

and you guys should all go to my Thank you, Bethesda thread and contribute, im writing down a big long list of heartfelt thank yous and stories to send to bethesda.

Because to every individual player their charcter is their very own creation. There would need to be hundreds of different voices to choose from to make people happy rather than just giving them one default voice for their character.

One person may play a female Breton as a hard [censored] rebel another may play the same race and gender as a flirtatious theif. Both would need different voices to suit their personalities and there are dozens more apart from those 2 examples.

Simply if you gave every characer 10 voices to choose from thats 20 per race (male and female) that's 200 fully voiced characters you would need to record which would 1) be a waste of their budget, 2) take up a ridiculous amount of memory space and 3) even with 200 voices you still couldn't please everyone


What I was trying to say but much more snappy^ :goodjob:

he speaks the the languages of dragons......
plus a voiced main character means WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY less choice in dialoge. instead of 10 different things you can say to someone, thres 1 to 3. screw that. i like reading the option and clicking on it makes me feel as if i said it, cause you think it outload in your head.

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Its just another way to customize your character, it doesn't put a generic voice on YOUR character. Its probably also the reason they don't try to put a voice on Link again, because no one likes it.

THEY PUT A VOICE ON LINK? oh gawsh.

There are arguments for both voiced and non-voiced, but I would guess that primarily Beth does it for the immersion factor. Hmm... talking worked in the Mass Effects so *shrug* Its probably a space concern actually. Fully voicing all those conversations as many different characters... expensive and disk space prohibitive.

His throat hurts from all that dragon shouting.