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Yuran M. Bazil posted:people play fallout games in 3rd person? (Or indeed any bethesda game) I don't normally. I just like walking through the wilderness in 3rd person. Basically just long, on foot traveling.
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Yuran M. Bazil posted:people play fallout games in 3rd person? (Or indeed any bethesda game) hi, it's me, I'm the person who has finished full playthroughs of Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim in third person. It started out because I actually wanted to see my dunmer's badass armor and not just their hands so I figured I'd give it a shot and then it just... stuck.
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i think if bethesda explained the concept of modding to nintendo they would implode out of confusion "you mean these random people are allowed to put their own files into your system? uhhhh no no no we do not want that" I am super duper glad gaming in general has moved way out of japan
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I started playing Skyrim last week after finishing the Witcher 3. It's pretty neat but I really can't get over how they use the same voice actor with a very distinct accent for a handful of characters that you meet in the first few hours of the game. This one dude voices all of these characters with the exact same pitch, accent, and inflection which makes it incredibly distracting. I don't have a problem with recycling voice actors for different characters, but with such a distinct and recognizable voice it's almost comical. This guy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWAjD4wu7tk&t=95s Did anyone else notice this voice actor all over the place?
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Oct 21, 2016 19:15
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That's been a problem since Morrowind. Very noticeable in Oblivion too. Maybe even worse in Oblivion because thanks to the potato heads, everyone looks the sae too. It was less noticeable in Morrowind because the NPCs really only have short greeting lines. Bethesda has a very thin voice-acting roster. Or rather, the roster they have doesn't split up the work enough. The work distribution is insane, you have Peter Gough voicing like 50 characters including Ralof and the Jarl of Whiterun there, while Jonas Fisch only does Hadvar (Ralof's counterpart). Edit: Okay, "splitting the work" isn't quite the right term, because they're using the same lines for multiple characters, but it'd be less noticeable if like 10 people weren't the bulk of the world's interactions for minor quests and merchants. primaltrash fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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Oct 21, 2016 19:21
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"We could hire a lot of voice actor so that each important NPC has a unique voice and we still have something like three or four different voices per race/sex combination for generic NPCs... Or we could blow our budget on hiring Patrick Stewart to be the NPC you only see during the tutorial dungeon, and then I guess get like five or six voice actors to cover all the rest." "Let's go with option 2, I want to get Jean-Luc Picard's autograph."
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Oct 21, 2016 19:41
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Wasn't there a documentary/Making of Oblivion thing where Patrick Stewart showed up in the Bethesda office and everyone was nerding out over it but they weren't allowed to talk to him?
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Oct 21, 2016 20:41
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P. Stewart seems cooler than that though
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Oct 21, 2016 20:44
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They only had so much budget and had to get him out of there within an hour. If people were talking to him, that's more time.
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Oct 21, 2016 20:46
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I think we all know who would have given the order that nobody talk to Patrick Stewart.
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Yuran M. Bazil posted:people play fallout games in 3rd person? (Or indeed any bethesda game) Pikestaff posted:hi, it's me, I'm the person who has finished full playthroughs of Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim in third person. Same, and add the modern Fallouts to that list. I hate first-person perspective in video games. It just feels like I have blinders on since there's no sense of peripheral vision. Though I lie in my accomplishments, having not completed Skyrim, only having modded it.
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Oct 21, 2016 21:42
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I'll admit it: I would make thousands of nerds mad at recycled voice acting in a triple-A title for the chance to meet Patrick Stewart. I would sleep well at night, too.
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ROFLburger posted:I started playing Skyrim last week after finishing the Witcher 3. It's pretty neat but I really can't get over how they use the same voice actor with a very distinct accent for a handful of characters that you meet in the first few hours of the game. This one dude voices all of these characters with the exact same pitch, accent, and inflection which makes it incredibly distracting. I don't have a problem with recycling voice actors for different characters, but with such a distinct and recognizable voice it's almost comical. This dude more than likely has a nice contract with Bethesda/Zenimax or works for them doing something else. His voice is all over the place in ESO (He voices Shalidor, one of the NPCs in a group dungeon, and like half of the Eastmarch/The Rift NPCs; hell he even does some elf dudes too).
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Oct 21, 2016 23:11
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And yet, the guy who did the velvety smooth Khajiit voices in Skyrim hasn't gotten enough work.
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Oct 21, 2016 23:34
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A.o.D. posted:And yet, the guy who did the velvety smooth Khajiit voices in Skyrim hasn't gotten enough work. Just wait for The Elder Scrolls VII: Catastrophe in the Cat Box
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Trustworthy posted:Just wait for The Elder Scrolls VII: Catastrophe in the Cat Box Khajiitastrophe.
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armoredgorilla posted:That's been a problem since Morrowind. Very noticeable in Oblivion too. Maybe even worse in Oblivion because thanks to the potato heads, everyone looks the sae too. Oblivion was much much worse with certain lines being said by specific variations on a voice, so you'd be talking to one person and they'd use have two different voices based on their answer. Especially among the beggars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf573MBFq0I
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Hellsau posted:Khajiitastrophe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PvNU8lDa0A
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Trustworthy posted:Just wait for The Elder Scrolls VII: Catastrophe in the Cat Box Don't lie to the nice people, we all know Summerset Isles is up next.
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Guildenstern Mother posted:Don't lie to the nice people, we all know Summerset Isles is up next.
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Oblivions recycling was worse because they had way fewer voice types: basically one for each race/gender combo. I do like the voice for male Bretons in Oblivion. Skyrim has at least a couple dozen voice types, and with the exception of the beast races, they're not tied to race. I did like the oblivion VA cameos in Skyrim. The guy who did voices for male imperials in Oblivion voices both Lucien Lachance's ghost and the Emperor.
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Man Whore posted:then its a good thing he said VII, profligate Khajit has no words for you I read that as VI, my bad 
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Hellsau posted:Khajiitastrophe. Khajiitation Agents are GO! posted:Oblivions recycling was worse because they had way fewer voice types: basically one for each race/gender combo. I do like the voice for male Bretons in Oblivion. Not even that many. Redguards are the only ones to have their own voices not shared with anyone else. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Voice_Actors
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I think what made it more noticeable in Oblivion than Morrowind was less Sir Emperor Patrick Stewart's paycheck and more the choice to voice 100% of dialogue. Get rid of voice-acting I say. Then get rid of 3d graphics. Then 2d. All shall be made Text.
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Pikestaff posted:hi, it's me, I'm the person who has finished full playthroughs of Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim in third person. I respect you for your mental fortitude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdR1X0V7sI
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Nina posted:I respect you for your mental fortitude. Haha, I do love this video, but honestly it doesn't look too bad when you're running and when you've modded the game to hell and back. I liked my cool robes, and also ~photo ops~ 
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My Q-Face posted:Oblivion was much much worse with certain lines being said by specific variations on a voice, so you'd be talking to one person and they'd use have two different voices based on their answer. Especially among the beggars. 
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Pikestaff posted:Haha, I do love this video, but honestly it doesn't look too bad when you're running and when you've modded the game to hell and back. That screenshot would look 100x better without that ugly third person model out of the way.
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In Skyrim, is there a way to quickly toggle between melee weapons and magic without having to navigate through these loving menus every time I want to switch? I mean it works fine, it's just annoying and slow
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ROFLburger posted:In Skyrim, is there a way to quickly toggle between melee weapons and magic without having to navigate through these loving menus every time I want to switch? I mean it works fine, it's just annoying and slow Favourites.
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ROFLburger posted:In Skyrim, is there a way to quickly toggle between melee weapons and magic without having to navigate through these loving menus every time I want to switch? I mean it works fine, it's just annoying and slow F to favorite spells, items, and abilities in their respective menus, q to open your favorites menu during play.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:That screenshot would look 100x better without that ugly third person model out of the way. My Dunmer is cute I'll have you know  and I already have like 300 screenshots of sunsets and sunrises in this game sans player character, I have to mix it up a little.
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A.o.D. posted:F to favorite spells, items, and abilities in their respective menus, q to open your favorites menu during play. On your favorites list, use number keys to hotkey them. Lycus fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Oct 24, 2016 |
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So the new special edition on Steam will be a separate database entry from the original? Can't wait to have two instances of Skyrim at the top of my most played list 
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[CoNsPiracy][RUMOR][toddhoward WARNING] I think remaking the skyrim engine for the HD is a two-purpose deal. One so that they could rerelease skyrim, and Two....... so they could announce Skyrim 2. Skyrim has 1000x the brand recognition as The Elder Scrolls, they will already have a huge amount of assets and engine experience from this, I have no reason to believe the next game won't be Skyrim 2 as opposed to TES6: Summerset Isles bookmark this page, if I disappear find Todd
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They already made Skyrim 2, it's called Elder Scrolls Online.
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And they announced Oblivion 2 because Oblivion had 1000x the name recognition of TES. The Elder Scrolls has brand name recognition, and besides, everyone will be calling the next game 'Skyrim's sequel' anyways.
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I kinda figured the next one would be for VR? I thought T-Hows said at E3 they didn't have anything done on TES6 because the technology wasn't there yet. I'd still buy Skyrim 2 though. Put that on VR and have some naked elfs in it and I'd probably starve to death
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