Thoughts on your character's voice?

Syldras

It's kinda weird sometimes

Athan1 wrote: »

To me voices sound very inconsistent, which sometimes makes me doubt all emotes were voiced by the same voice actor for each voice. Idk like the laugh will be very high pitched and then the pant will be 3 octaves lower.

I seems to me that some animations/emotes use the same voice actor for a whole race instead of the different voice types. Like during that New Year dance quest in Stonefalls, I've realized that every male Dunmer basically sounds the same while dancing (there were several in the room), with an extremely "old", raspy, deep laughing. I'd call it a "sailor grandpa voice" or something Which is extremely weird, as my main is a younger guy and his normal voice sounds completely different (I actually really like that one, as it fits him). No big deal, though. I mean, how often do you dance in ESO?!

Starlight_Whisper

I don't really think about it

I spent 1000 crowns way back on a redo for looks so I assume I like it

UGotBenched91

Other

We need more options for voice choices. Also, the only time we even get to hear characters talk is during BG’s when a team mate of yours automatically makes a remark about you winning or losing. It would be nice if more opportunities were put in game to hear voices, especially your own.

TheImperfect

I love it!

I love it, made a different but similar character on the pts but the voice was just so different and off.

Nightowl_74

It's kinda weird sometimes

Most of the time it's fine but she makes a short, jarring yell when she takes certain types of damage. Or maybe just periodically when taking any damage at all, I'm not sure, it's something that didn't stand out during character creation nearly as much as it does during actual play.

NotaDaedraWorshipper

It's kinda weird sometimes

They do get weird sometimes. With some of the voice choices it sounds like they didn't get all the sounds recored so they had someone else do them, or they differ quite noteable in tone.

Doesn't help that the voice examples in the character creator is awful. Would be better if we could choose what emote it is for, or instead of a random vague mess, we'd get a voice sample that was always in a certain order. Like fighting and taking damage grunts, jump noise, mount sprint noise, laugh, bellylaugh, cheer. With the current one, you have no clue what they sound like when they sprint with mount or jump, nor can you tell what laugh is a normal laugh and what is the bellylaugh (Yes, they are different).

renne

Other

The voices don't bother me too much BUT I think they yelp and holler WAY TOO MUCH. I don't hugely notice it on my main anymore mostly because I think I tune it out, but when I'm on one of my trials toons or my tank, my god, they grunt and screech and carry on more than professional tennis players.

Suna_Ye_Sunnabe

I love it!

I love the voice of my main Altmer, and I like one of the shared ones for Altmer/Dunmer quite a lot. But all the other voices for males... there are only five in total that I would use. And only about three for females.

starkerealm

Other

I tend to be pretty picky (and use this list as a reference when I'm rolling up characters.) Beyond that, I don't tend to think of it outside of character creation, unless the voice is especially obnoxious.

TPishek

I just wish the order of the voices in the character creation was consistent and I didn't have to listen to random screams and yells until I find the one I want.

Bradyfjord

I don't really think about it

I forget my guy has a voice at all. Most of the time, your character will say nothing for entire swaths of time. All of a sudden, he yells as he falls or something. It's not consequential, but if someone enjoys them I am happy for them.

Eccentric_Vampire

It's kinda weird sometimes

I didn't put too much thought into my character's voice because I got kicked from the character creator while thinking of a name and at that point I just wanted to get to the gameplay. I do however like the voice he ended up with except for when he jumps and sounds like he's been punched in the stomach or something.

phwaap

I love it!

Voice is one of things I specifically choose. There are some I just couldn't handle hearing constantly and a few I really like.

Nairinhe

Other

I'm satisfied with my character's voices, and spend quite some time picking them.

But I honestly wish they did some things with their mouths closed, like fishing. Nothing like cheering on top of your lungs in the enemy district in IC, right? Or jabs. I can't remember my nightblade or necro making a lot of sounds while fighting, but templar is so vocal I sometimes doubt that it's fighting that's going on.

Pauwer

It's kinda weird sometimes

Nairinhe wrote: »

I'm satisfied with my character's voices, and spend quite some time picking them.

But I honestly wish they did some things with their mouths closed, like fishing. Nothing like cheering on top of your lungs in the enemy district in IC, right? Or jabs. I can't remember my nightblade or necro making a lot of sounds while fighting, but templar is so vocal I sometimes doubt that it's fighting that's going on.

My breton templar healer also struggles with each skill, she's like one of those tennis players that go ughhhh and arghhh and uuaahhh with each ability. Hate it.

Integral1900

It's kinda weird sometimes

I just set them all to the same two options, one for male and one female. All the others seem to have at least one note in them that sounds like a tennis player in the middle of an earthquake. There are one or two at the bottom end of the female selection list that had my wife in hysterics, saying it sounded like someone having an intimate examination and the doctor had cold hands. So now I just set female characters to C and leave it there

TX12001rwb17_ESO

If you ever make a male Dunmer avoid voice type A

The general voice is masculine but some combat grunts are very obviously feminine.

DreamsUnderStars

It's kinda weird sometimes

The *only* "voice" I really like is the Argonian female E. All the others they tried too hard to make them sound heroic (I guess) and they just sound really bad.

Vevvev

It's kinda weird sometimes

TPishek wrote: »

I just wish the order of the voices in the character creation was consistent and I didn't have to listen to random screams and yells until I find the one I want.

Agreed, what if the devs actually took the battlegrounds callouts and put them as the samples on the character creator?

Odovacar

I don't really think about it

Well they don't speak outside of cheering, jeering, combat grunts, etc. I guess I really never think about it and during character creation I've never really cared. If they did speak here and there I would take more of an interest in how they sound.

Fennwitty

It's kinda weird sometimes

Krogmo wrote: »

I play with an Argonian with the, I think brave? personality and he sometimes starts screaming really weird like "HAAhee Jaaeee aa"

I do too and actually love it! Blaaheahah or whatever :P

But you may have a different voice.

Only real problem I have is when my Bosmer Nighblade takes falling damage. It's like a tennis player's grunt.

starkerealm

Other

Nairinhe wrote: »

I'm satisfied with my character's voices, and spend quite some time picking them.

But I honestly wish they did some things with their mouths closed, like fishing. Nothing like cheering on top of your lungs in the enemy district in IC, right? Or jabs. I can't remember my nightblade or necro making a lot of sounds while fighting, but templar is so vocal I sometimes doubt that it's fighting that's going on.

Templars and DKs are more vocal than the other classes.

Zulera301

Other

There's a bit of inconsistency. My Dunmer character has a low grunting kind of voice, but in battlegrounds, she has this high snooty sounding voice.

(For those that don't know, the voices you hear in battlegrounds come from your teammates. I heard my character from watching a video of a game my friend and I played. The other three on the team were two male Nords and a male Khajiit, so I am 100% certain the Dunmer was me)

So it's hit and miss.

UntilValhalla13

It's honestly one of the things that I go back and forth on when making a new character. Each race has, at most, 2 decent voices, and a few similar race types recycle the same ones, (orc and nord, for example).

The laughs are all kinda bad, and I wish they wouldn't play those the most when I'm testing a voice. I usually just base a voice off of the break free "YAAAAAAAAA" and the falling off of a high ledge grunt sound, because those are the primary sounds that you hear when playing.

I'll low-key use the same voice on multiple characters, just because it's one of the only good ones.

bluebird

It's kinda weird sometimes

Well... uhm... We all know which one is the odd one out...

Jokes aside though, so many voice sets are ruined by one conspicuous voiceline that's just too different from the rest. I'm convinced mine drops an octave or changes actors for her break free, lol, it's really disruptively different. They should have asked the voice actresses to do voicelines 'in character'... like "A" could be 'You're a haughty noble, go'; "B" could be 'You're a dainty jokester, go'; "C" could be ''You're a gruff brawler, go" to make all voicelines in one set similar-sounding. Right now, some sound like dainty jokesters while laughing but an absolute truck of a person while breaking free, etc.

LannStone

It's kinda weird sometimes

Yea, my first character - and still my main - is a Breton Templar. His voice sounded manly when I created him, but then I found out whenever he takes damage, like falling down a cliff, he yelps like a little girl

wild_kmacdb16_ESO

It's kinda weird sometimes

My character sounds like she is voiced by 3 different people.

Sylvermynx

Other

I just want the ability to mute the "character voice stupids" - like I already mute the NPC voice stupids.

Slyclone

I love it!

Female breton voice A is cute. Wish I heard full sentences from her with each of my quest choices.

Luckylancer

I hate it

Male voice E: one of the mounted sprint shout is female shout, it is very annoying