Unexpected discovery but... I am more immersed when I turn dialogue audio off

Glorious_Platypus · August 15

Because I have actually read the text and comprehend it.

You know how some people have to read along with the audio, like they'll get an audiobook and the actual book and read it that way? Well I can do that of course but I have found that it's better if I just pay attention to either 1 or the other, not both. And if the quest dialogue is up on the screen while they speak I will often read it anyway and then the audio trips me up and I end up not understanding any of it lol.

Now with this change to turn off the quest audio it is more like how I grew up with gaming. Ironic, because ESO's voiced dialogue is one of its absolute best features, I whole heartedly recognize that and it is awesome. But this is like one small secret change to make it more tailored to how I personally actually like it, instead of going with how I think it is supposed to be experienced. It's just ironic because it is a reversion, or stepping back in time almost in terms of gaming "quality" and I like it more that way.

Anyway, gonna continue with it like this for the weekend and see if it's a change that will stick. It would be cool to have the option on the quest dialogue screen itself, to play the audio, even though my dialogue audio is turned off, if I wanted to. Instead of going in and out of settings for that.

Nemesis7884 · August 15

weird, to me its, after playing eso i absolutely can not play mmos anymore that are not fully voiced...

Radiate77 · August 15

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

weird, to me its, after playing eso i absolutely can not play mmos anymore that are not fully voiced...

Exactly, my biggest problem with Chrono Odyssey alpha was the lack of voice acting for questgivers.

YffresTrill · August 15

If that works for you, awesome.

I had some audio issues a few weeks back, and it was driving me crazy not being able to hear dialogue and background music (in ESO as well as other games), to the point where all I could tolerate playing were arcadey indie games.

I can play older or text-based games fine, but when I know there is voice acting but cannot hear it, that really takes a lot out of the experience for me.

Glorious_Platypus · August 15

Radiate77 wrote: »

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

weird, to me its, after playing eso i absolutely can not play mmos anymore that are not fully voiced...

Exactly, my biggest problem with Chrono Odyssey alpha was the lack of voice acting for questgivers.

I looked into this game and started watching the first video on its steam page and when it mentioned Time Portals, lost all interest. Lol I just hate time travel in games. Except for Last Epoch, that one was fine I guess

Glorious_Platypus · August 15

Ahhh!! No this isn't good haha.

I summoned Ezabi and of course it was silence / no audio on her dialogue. I love her and the way she speaks, she is so cute omg

See I really want the ability to selectively turn it off and on now lol

Cruxanero · August 15

Therefore I use an addon that disables the text in dialogues (you can still see your own text dialogue ofcourse, only the NPCs is invisible), so I can just listen to them without being distracted by the text.

SilverBride · August 15

I rarely hear all the voice acting because I read much faster than they speak and get impatient waiting for them to catch up.

Angnos · August 15

I play this game for years without Audio on. I started to do it so I can hear my guildies better on Discord when we where raiding. And it just stuck for me.

Glorious_Platypus · August 15

Cruxanero wrote: »

Therefore I use an addon that disables the text in dialogues (you can still see your own text dialogue ofcourse, only the NPCs is invisible), so I can just listen to them without being distracted by the text.

Yeah I need the opposite of this lol

Elvenheart · August 15

SilverBride wrote: »

I rarely hear all the voice acting because I read much faster than they speak and get impatient waiting for them to catch up.

Me too 😂

Marronsuisse · August 15

I’m the same, although I suspect we’re in the minority.

Voice acted cutscenes in games are fine for me. Audiobooks are fine for me. I’m an avid reader.

But somehow when you smoosh it all together into a static NPC gesticulating while they slowly narrate a chunk of text... I just can’t focus.

My solution has been to stop questing, but maybe I should try it your way haha. OG unvoiced Elder Scrolls vibes.

shadyjane62 · August 15

Welcome to my world. I haven't turned the sound on in 24 years since my first MMO.

Ravenshadow6513 · 3:53AM

I've been using the Immersive Interactions addon so that it hides the dialogue until I hit a key to show it.

C_Inside · 11:08AM

I also find the game more enjoyable without voices but for a different reason. I do trial HM and trifecta progs which entails a lot of restarting and doing the same content over and over. So hearing the same tired old voice lines just gets annoying. The same is also true about all the quest giver npcs constantly pestering me about their meaningless quests when I'm just trying to buy Dragon Rheum from the guild merchant nearby (hEar yeEE, hAre yAe. TeST yUOr wITs aND PouraGE iN a BRanD nEW Car GAEM. TaELs oF TrIBUeT!)

I also turn the music off for the same reason. Hearing the same combat music over and over just gets tiring. And as @Angnos said, it's a lot easier to hear callouts and guild chatter without auditory distractions.

CoronHR · 11:18AM

i do wish the presentation was more like skyrim, or even oblivion, where the npc is centred in the frame and their dialogue appears at the bottom as they speak it. i feel you would get a better experience of the world you're in if presented this way. mind you, i'm not a big fan of eso dialogue because it's very unimmersive, in the sense that they sort of gab and gab and gab, and you technically don't even know who they are or why you should even care about their predicament. so in this more idealised (in my opinion) presentation, i might very well just skip a lot of the dialogue anyway, just as i do now. so i guess ... better presentation AND more compellingly written dialogue? (and yeah, too late for all that)

spartaxoxo · 1:51PM

CoronHR wrote: »

i do wish the presentation was more like skyrim, or even oblivion, where the npc is centred in the frame and their dialogue appears at the bottom as they speak it. i feel you would get a better experience of the world you're in if presented this way. mind you, i'm not a big fan of eso dialogue because it's very unimmersive, in the sense that they sort of gab and gab and gab, and you technically don't even know who they are or why you should even care about their predicament. so in this more idealised (in my opinion) presentation, i might very well just skip a lot of the dialogue anyway, just as i do now. so i guess ... better presentation AND more compellingly written dialogue? (and yeah, too late for all that)

There's an add-on that does that