Stuga - Reused NPC voice.

Hellsbunnies

Hi,
I made an interesting discovery the other day, I was doing one of the small side quests in Alik'r, which I have done for a long, long time. As I was finishing, one of the NPC's said, 'Do you know how long I've been looking for you?' It wasn't the just same words, it was the same voice, same inflections. It did answer a question I'd always wondered, why Stuga's voice sounded older than she looked. The answer being that the original voice came from an older NPC and voiced accordingly. I'd love to know if this was just tacked on to Stuga as after recording, ZOS decided that she needed to call to the player before interacting. What I'd also like to know is if anyone else knows of any other incidents of key or unique quest NPC voicing being reused?
Anyway, I did a video highlighting what I've just been waffling about.

https://youtu.be/Y7DaYc-1rFw

Toodles,
HB.

Aliyavana

Noooooo, noooooo, noooooooooo

RefLiberty

What is so unusual for NPC's to share same voice overs. If you looked at the voice cast list, you will see that some actors voiced several different characters, all the same applies vice versa. Devs copied the Stuga voice over to some less important side quest NPC as cost effective solution.

MyNameIsElias

I also noticed this the other week when i was questing in the Alikr. Pretty amusing

CassandraGemini

RefLiberty wrote: »

What is so unusual for NPC's to share same voice overs. If you looked at the voice cast list, you will see that some actors voiced several different characters, all the same applies vice versa. Devs copied the Stuga voice over to some less important side quest NPC as cost effective solution.

It must've been the other way around, though, since that quest is part of a vanilla zone questline in DC. Don't quite remember which zone, but it's definitely part of the main game, while Stuga belongs to the Orsinium DLC.

Also, it is one thing to use a voice actor for more than one character, I mean, given the sheer amount of different characters that we come across in this game, anything else would have been difficult. But to just copy and paste a line that already existed is... slightly weird.

Honestly, I can never unhear this. She annoyed the hell out of me, but she also always made me feel special - like I was the sole purpose of her existence, to a point where she had to stalk me across town just to tell me how long she's been looking for me. Now that I now that these same exact words have been said to somebody else before... I'll never believe her again.

Veinblood1965

Stuga is most likely related to the previous NPC you mentioned. It's not uncommon in certain parts of Tamriel.

ShawnLaRock

I love that even after all this time Stuga continues to haunt us all in clandestine ways!

S.

Edit: grammar

Hellsbunnies

CassandraGemini wrote: »

RefLiberty wrote: »

What is so unusual for NPC's to share same voice overs. If you looked at the voice cast list, you will see that some actors voiced several different characters, all the same applies vice versa. Devs copied the Stuga voice over to some less important side quest NPC as cost effective solution.

It must've been the other way around, though, since that quest is part of a vanilla zone questline in DC. Don't quite remember which zone, but it's definitely part of the main game, while Stuga belongs to the Orsinium DLC.

Also, it is one thing to use a voice actor for more than one character, I mean, given the sheer amount of different characters that we come across in this game, anything else would have been difficult. But to just copy and paste a line that already existed is... slightly weird.

Honestly, I can never unhear this. She annoyed the hell out of me, but she also always made me feel special - like I was the sole purpose of her existence, to a point where she had to stalk me across town just to tell me how long she's been looking for me. Now that I now that these same exact words have been said to somebody else before... I'll never believe her again.

I just think they thought she's be an NPC of no consequence and hardly noticed.

Hellsbunnies

ShawnLaRock wrote: »

I love that even after all this time Stuga continues to haunt us all in clandestine ways!

S.

Edit: grammar

Did this aaaaaages ago. :P

https://ibb.co/Gv1JWG9

Tommy_The_Gun

Imagine if Stuga npc would met another Stuga npc... The dialogue would be probably something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZ9B7N6vHM

Hellsbunnies

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

Imagine if Stuga npc would met another Stuga npc... The dialogue would be probably something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZ9B7N6vHM

I would've lost my *** if that woman had walked past and said, 'DO you know how long I've been looking for you?'

dcam86b14_ESO

I want Stuga in our Skyrim expansion asking "do you get to the cloud district...of course not"

dcam86b14_ESO

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lci43ewRSiw

bearbelly

There's more than one actor with multiple voice parts in ESO.

That isn't uncommon in the province of Video Games in Voice-Acting Land. Lots of voice actors do multiple voices in a single game.

Hellsbunnies

bearbelly wrote: »

There's more than one actor with multiple voice parts in ESO.

That isn't uncommon in the province of Video Games in Voice-Acting Land. Lots of voice actors do multiple voices in a single game.

True but if you watch the video it's exactly the same audio. This happens but generally just on non-interactable toons.

SlowBadger

I noticed a similar thing the other day as I wandered Tamriel looking for public dungeons I hadn't finished. Made a stop in Vukhel Guard and there was this...

https://imgur.com/a/W26avab

...and then later in an Outlaw Refuge in Shornhelm, this.

https://imgur.com/a/iRUQ2TV

Same line by same VA delivered the same way.

...maybe it's an entire family of Altmer dedicated to banking?

Nestor

ZOS has changed up voices on the barkers over time in the game for various reasons, most common is to keep things fresh.

And, intentionally or not, they have reused existing voice snippets, usually on minor characters.

This could be a case where the dev just grabbed the wrong voice file.

I wonder what the close caption on this one says? I think those are manually typed in so do not always match the recordings.

Katahdin

There are lots of NPC voices that were done by the same voice actor

TheShadowScout

RefLiberty wrote: »

What is so unusual for NPC's to share same voice overs...

Nothing, that's what.
If I had a crown crate for every male nord that sounded exactly like Shalidor... well... I probably would have an apex mount from that alone!

And yes, we all wish they had way more voice bits of different sorts. But... effort and profit, huh? Also filesize, easier to reuse stuff, including audio files, in some corners where its not too noticable, but of course sooner or later someone notices anyhow... so, everyone who notices, give yourself a pat on the back for noticing, smile, and then keep on gaming!

Saucy_Jack

Coming in here, I fully expected a clip of Stuga saying "Neither a borrower nor a lender be!"

I gotta say I was disappointed. Nice find though!

MehrunesFlagon

Shalidor's voice is the same just about any Nord I can tell.They need better voice actors if they can't provide variations.They just sound the same.

CassandraGemini

I'm pretty sure that Shalidor's voice actor was in Skyrim already. Wasn't he the one who voiced Vilkas from the Companions?

MehrunesFlagon

The problem is he sounds like every other Nord.

Hellsbunnies

CassandraGemini wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that Shalidor's voice actor was in Skyrim already. Wasn't he the one who voiced Vilkas from the Companions?

Apparently he did the voices of Acolyte Jenssen, Alvor, Arnskar Ember-Master, Balgruuf the Greater, Barknar, Beirand, Belrand, Bersi Honey-Hand, Bolund, Brunwulf Free-Winter, Calder, Falk Firebeard, Filnjar, Fultheim the Fearless, Golldir, Gorm, Hadring, Hafnar Ice-Fist, Heimskr, Hjorunn, Hod, Hunroor, Jon Battle-Born, Jorn, Kjar, Kjeld, Korir, Kraldar, Kust, Kyr, Lodvar, Lortheim, Lucky Lorenz, Odar, Oengul War-Anvil, Ogmund, Pactur, Phantom, Ralis Sedarys, Ralof, Rissing, Roggi Knot-Beard, Roggvir, Skaggi Scar-Face, Skulvar Sable-Hilt, Sond, Svaknir, Talsgar the Wanderer, Thalmor Prisoner, Thjollod, Thongvor Silver-Blood, Thonnir, Thorek, Thorgar, Torkild the Fearsome, Ulfgar the Unending, Vekel the Man, Viding, Vilkas, Vilod, Vipir the Fleet, Vulwulf Snow-Shod, Wilhelm.

16BitForestCat

Yeah, one of my guildies made a post about this a few months back, and we all had a good laugh/reawakened trauma at THAT Stuga Line showing up again (though technically Stuga's line would be the imitator, not the originator...but hers is the one that causes the trauma, so....) XD

CassandraGemini

Hellsbunnies wrote: »

CassandraGemini wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that Shalidor's voice actor was in Skyrim already. Wasn't he the one who voiced Vilkas from the Companions?

Apparently he did the voices of Acolyte Jenssen, Alvor, Arnskar Ember-Master, Balgruuf the Greater, Barknar, Beirand, Belrand, Bersi Honey-Hand, Bolund, Brunwulf Free-Winter, Calder, Falk Firebeard, Filnjar, Fultheim the Fearless, Golldir, Gorm, Hadring, Hafnar Ice-Fist, Heimskr, Hjorunn, Hod, Hunroor, Jon Battle-Born, Jorn, Kjar, Kjeld, Korir, Kraldar, Kust, Kyr, Lodvar, Lortheim, Lucky Lorenz, Odar, Oengul War-Anvil, Ogmund, Pactur, Phantom, Ralis Sedarys, Ralof, Rissing, Roggi Knot-Beard, Roggvir, Skaggi Scar-Face, Skulvar Sable-Hilt, Sond, Svaknir, Talsgar the Wanderer, Thalmor Prisoner, Thjollod, Thongvor Silver-Blood, Thonnir, Thorek, Thorgar, Torkild the Fearsome, Ulfgar the Unending, Vekel the Man, Viding, Vilkas, Vilod, Vipir the Fleet, Vulwulf Snow-Shod, Wilhelm.

That's quite the list Gotta admit I'm drawing a blank with most of these names, but I do remember some of them, like Balgruuf, Bersi, Brunwulf, Oengul and that super-annoying Heimskr, and when I think about it, it's true, they all share the same voice. Guess I could only come up with Vilkas so readily because I always marry him

Inval1d

They do recycle voices all the time tho, just look at the bankers on most of the outlaw refuges...

Hellsbunnies

They do but I'm more referring to more prominent NPS's, rather than passing ones.