Tannakaobi wrote: »

Let that be a lesson to you. Don't spend gold on new characters. Make sure you like them first.

Now that's just crazy talk. It's much easier to make impulsive decisions and then veil your bad choices in "the game is broken" threads. It's the mantra of the new crop of MMO players.

There were a number of glitches with character customization the first week or so after release. Voice samples didn't always play, you couldn't get the facial close-up, etc. Why not offer a one-time reset that will allow those that ended up with something that, after weeks of play, they have come to really hate.

If this means that someone gets a one-time reset for nothing more than not exploring options, that's ok. You can give someone a break for not mastering the learning curve right out of the starting gate.

Just for anyone who doesn't know, you can in fact turn the music down while making a character at the creation screen.

I know, as I just did it since I couldn't hear the voices all that well lol.

Sarenia wrote: »

My recommendation is to not invest so heavily into new characters. Give yourself time to decide how much you really want to keep playing it. That was an error in judgement on your part, and I imagine you'll learn from it.

You are absolutely right! The complaint is almost legitimate though .... there does need to be a better sampling system for voices but at the same time you should always be damn sure about a character before investing too much of anything. Sooo I kind of agree with you both!

Not sure about voices, but the appearance can be changed in future the Dev´s said. If rumors are true then most likely with the addition of the thieves guild, like at Skyrim.

I will agree to this point. I picked my chars voice because it sounded good in CC... Her laugh is good and her general attack sounds are OK but when she jumps or gets attacked she sounds like a man. It's terrible. I won't abandon her based on that, but I wish the voice files used in CC were the ones that were used most when playing.

I noticed just recently, after playing my character for some time, that I'm really not a big fan of her voice style...and now I can't stop hearing it. It's way too late to re-roll, so I'm just going to have to suck it up for now, but I really do hope they add voice options whenever they add character re-customization. It's hardly something that will hurt anyone in any way, and could improve the gameplay for a great many people to whom things like this matter, so I'm not sure why anyone would be against it.

Turial wrote: »

I wonder if anyone else noticed that the "check voice" upon character creation is extremely low sounding, very hard to hear. I would like to see when they add character changers in the game that they include a free change for anyone who joined up to the first few weeks. We had that problem with non-zooming in the beginning and it would be nice to see, they are very good at compensating their players so far.

There IS a problem here though. Over the past WEEK I have made THREE different Dunmer. One with High Pitch, one with Low Pitch, and one that was kind of casual. HOWEVER EVERY FREAKING TIME I ATTACK ON EVERYSINGLE ONE HE DOES THAT STUPID HIGH PITCHED SQUEEL! NO MATTER WHAT VOICE I CHOOSE!!!!! I feel like something is wrong here.

I do hope they include voice changes in whatever upcoming barbershop system they come out with. Even if changing your voice doesn't realistically make sense, I think it's definitely something that a lot of people eventually regret their choice on and it's can be really annoying to live with, even moreso than looks if you ask me.

I agree the voice option previews could really use some work. I have spent sooooo long listing to those samples over and over and over with headphones on and the music turned off till I was about to go crazy, and still ended up not totally pleased with how some of my characters voices sound in game.

- for one thing the random sampling sometimes results in you listening to the same laugh or scream many times in a row instead of cycling through, it's annoying and sometimes you just can't get to the other samples for whatever reason

- I swear all the sample sounds that go with a single voice choice often sound like they are from totally different people, like a high pitched girly scream but then the laugh is this base guffaw.... I just don't even know how to tell what's going on with that

- when listening you can't always tell which action the given sound is meant to go with and may miss hearing some of the most common (and thus potentially grating) ones while clicking randomly through - if you're not suuper patient you may only hear 3 or so over and over again and have no idea that you're missing some horrible screech or whatever.

- I don't think any of the samples include the sound that goes with urging your horse to sprint, and I think there are a few other important ones that may not feature in the samples at all.

- it seems like in game some voices have more variety while others over-use the same sound, maybe that's not the case, but it sure seems like it from my experience with many many many hours of playing.... even if the specific sound isn't annoying in and of itself I get tired of the same distinct one on certain characters, while not noticing that repetitiveness on others.