Poll: how would you feel about an optional voice for the player character?

BretonMage · January 2022

Completely unnecessary. I'd prefer if they recorded more dialogue for our current companions, who both sound like a broken record.

Amottica · January 2022

I think voicing the quests offers a great refinement to the game and increases immersion.

Considering the cost to go back and voice everything for at least two voices per playable race and it clearly goes against the design Zenimax employed where we create the voice for our characters, I am opposed to the suggestion. I think it works great where we essentially create the voice for our characters in our heads.

16BitForestCat · January 2022

Vevvev wrote: »

We already have a voice in Battlegrounds and we as players never hear our own characters, only other people's voices. This is how it should be, although I'd like the Battleground callouts to be the voice samples in character creation.

I'd also like to add, it isn't automatically the voice pack YOU chose that your character uses in Battlegrounds. ZOS seems to have just used about one voice per gender per race, at least as far as my two femme Bosmer characters are concerned. I picked two different voice packs for my two Bosmer, but when I hear them shouting over my partner's speakers as we're doing Battlegrounds together, they both use the same voice--and it's not the voice pack I picked for either of them in character creation.

SammyKhajit · January 2022

Good script and more interesting dialogue option make for better gameplay experience for this one.

WraithShadow13 · January 2022

It's not that i wouldn't WANT player voices, it's just that i don't trust Zos to not monetize that, overprice it, use cheap voice actors, and not include a whole lot of options.

etchedpixels · January 2022

Far more important would be screen reading support for the options rather than the final choice voice. Right now the game accessibility for those with visual problems reading text or dyslexia are totally inadequate.

NewBlacksmurf · January 2022

I would not like my voice in my head replaced by an actor. Games that do that IMO have a very limited role play value.

Consider on console we can actually use our voices not just in a party, this is much more rewarding.

Hapexamendios · January 2022

I'm fine with the player characters not being voiced.

Vrienda · February 2022

Not enough dialogue to be worth it. I don’t think a voiced protagonist is something that should ever happen in an elder scrolls game