Improve voice selection during character creation

stcairo · January 2016

I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with the poorly implemented Character Voice selection during character creation. Today you can choose to play random sound-bits for each of the voices, which are only labelled alphabetically. It is not easy to get a clear feel for each of the voices, and how they actually sound in game, because the samples are laughing and other sound effects that you rarely hear... When I finally finish the process of creating a character I'm really happy with, he ends up sounding Completely different when in-game. It's unbearable. You can't change the voice, and you can't event delete the character to re-create it with a new voice(if you have used up your "delete quota."

Can I please suggest that you label each voice with an appropriate flavour name and play the effects in a sequential manner, not random, and start with the sound effects that you hear frequently - like the combat sounds. Ideally, each sound sample should be labelled and selectable, so that you can compare it between the different voices.

CavalierPrime · January 2016

This is true. I picked a pretty heroic sounding voice for my character, but when he does the cheer emote, he (and with deepest respect to those with family members with special needs) sounds autistic. Like very similar to the young man with that disability who lives across the street from me.

I cheer no more

UrQuan · January 2016

Honestly, the voice is the one element of character creation that I don't care about at all. I can see why others would care, and I can see how it could be frustrating trying to pick one that was just right, but the voice just never bothers me.

Eiagra · January 2016

I had a similar problem. Most of the voices sound good, but one or two of his screams from long falls sound more than a little high-pitched (which I kind of get, but I wouldn't have opted for that voiceset if I'd known) and his cheer sounds like Super Grover.

My orc is not a muppet.

So, I am patiently awaiting the Appearance Change mechanic, which I presume will include voice and other options from the character creator (since there's no reason to lock them out). I've a few other tweaks to do with this character anyhow.

Kadoozy · January 2016

i felt the same way. the way my guy screams when i fall to my death you would think he is going through the first stages of puberty. hopefully when race change is implemented they will allow you to change your voice as well. it would suck to change to a default voiced character and not be able to select that again

TheShadowScout · January 2016

Agreed.

I also have one character I am very dissatisfied with, voice-wise (was supposed to be a soft spoken librarian, but growls like a gruff sailor in game) and am really hoping character recustomization will let me change my character voice until I feel better about that one.

But...

A better implementation of choosing voice would help. A lot. Even if it'd be only a button next to the current choice to play soundbit after soundbit, to get a better feel for the voice. Better if the voice choices were not just in order, but had more descriptive names...

Oh, and ZOS people? I for one would shell out crowns for more character voice options! Since there aren't all that many different voicebitsfor our player characters, it ought to be easy to refit more voices, right? Be it crackling witch or shy elf boy, whispering assassin or merry bearded guy visiting from a frozen land to bring cheer and turn bad people into coal (wait, what?), we could use some more voice choice!