Her German voice has full-fledged Khajiit accent.

Mascen wrote: »

LalMirchi wrote: »

Somehow I feel that companions voices are extensions of their backstories.

Mirri is anxious, occasionally passive-aggressive and not easy to get along with, but she is agreeable (so she says). She is, however, very capable with the right build.

Bastian is good to the point of being too good, but he does ask you if you're alright after a fight. He is a good match for a lawful good character.

Isobel (my current favourite) is a knight. What's not to like. My lawful good Templar has put Baz on the bench for her atm.

Ember is a breath of fresh air. I for one like the absence of classic Khajiit dialect and phrasing as I feel that that would be rather cliché. She is what she is, rather young and very enthusiastic. Well done!

Ember is however an enigma to me. With her racial passives one will try to do a classic two dagger approach as she might be a mage now but an assassin she might be.

Mirri is posh and bookish. Her problem is that her damaging class abilities are all single target melee minus the ultimate and (according to nightblade mains ive spoken to) they gave her most of the worst abilities from the shadow and siphon trees. Most admit her Twilight Mantle got both morphs players have access to which is nice, but is hampered by the fact that its only activated at below 50% HP which makes the stealth semi redundant considering how most nightblades use both morphs in very different strategies.

Haven't played around with Bastian yet but yeah he's definitely a puritan and his skills are clunkier than Isobel's it seems which is why most prefer her over Bastian to tank. His potion skill also strikes me as extemely useless unless they're better than the ones master alchemist players can craft but again i haven't played with him much and like Mirri probably in need of a skill overhaul.

Mirri does have a non-class multi-target skill in Bow > Trick Shot which is quite useful. Archer is my preferred build for her atm Her roll-dodging and jumping around is rather amusing.

When testing companions I like just light attacking enemies then holding block and observing the companions do their thing (I love watching them) Maybe some healing might be necessary but I often let companions die to expose weaknesses in their builds (or the type of enemy that kills them).

In all fairness as you progress companions up through the games difficulty stages abject failure is inevitable as companions cannot and should not, be fit for solo (albeit semi-solo, here's where some judicious healing comes into play) fights against a World Boss for example. Companions AI is under-developed but that's another topic altogether.

My dearest friend Bastian is now a work in progress as a DPS 2-hander, both himself and myself agree that our sweet Isobel is a better tank and it's perhaps time to change roles. He is an easy going optimist just like his master.

Ember however is currently accompanying my main character as I'm very excited to see how she will eventually perform as a melee fighter. I like her voice and personality. We're both positive and looking forward to our adventures together.

Edit - Clarity

At least she sounds more interesting than the breton in all but race, bastian

My only question about Ember is... well. She sounds like a teenager. Maybe like 17 or something. So, my question. Is she of legal age for her race or not?

KittyHazWares wrote: »

Khajiit and people aren’t born with accents.. just like real humans… it’s good to have a lot of different characters.

I suggest looking up real life differences in vocal anatomy. Frankly, even between cats it is rather pronounced, where great cats can roar but can't purr, whereas small cats, vice versa.

So yes, they ARE born with accents.

I love her voice. Its perfect in my opinion.
She's the only companion I can actually tolerate using.

Her Darloc eyes do suck though, but I hate those eyes in general since they don't sit right on ANY character. I mean it's cool that they're bright and almost glowy and kinda magical lookin', buuuut....
They're not centered enough and always look like they're tilted lookin' down(?) too much on every single character I've ever previewed them on. They're just... off. They also don't fill the whole eyeball on Khajiit, since the iris isn't wide enough. Meaning you always have to see the whites of her eyes, which you typically never see on a cat so it's disconcerting.

TLDR; she should've had basic yellow Khajiit eyes instead of the eyes from the Crown Crates if they're never going to touch them up.

I think she sounds fine. If Za'ji is ok, surely Ember is. Between the two of them, I'd take her over the way Za'ji sounds any day.

Only Khajiit who grew up in the Elyswer area are talking like that.
Not every Khajiit call oneself just like "this one", or "rolling tongue" accent.

Her VA is literally not Khajiit like on purpose. When you place her as a houseguest , she actually say "People think it's strange that I don't talk like other Khajiit. I mean... I could try ! This one, that one, you one, me one. How's that ?"

Get used to it imho

I thought her voice was great, and the VA has done a fantastic job. I didn't find it far outside the range of Khajiit accents we've experienced in the game so far, and given the great size of Elsweyr, its conceivable to me we haven't heard every possible accent anyway.

I don't like the teen giggle thing, its a bit cringe for me, but that's likely to be personal taste.

I do agree that some of the Reachfolk accents in the Markarth DLC were pretty bad. Not even so much what the target dialect was meant to be, just the quality.

As an aside, I noticed with this chapter ZOS have used some different accents for some of the Bosmer. I'm not British and don't have good knowledge of the various accents but they might be Welsh or west-country accents? Either way, they sound amazing and really suit the Bosmer.

Jeffrey530 wrote: »

MreeBiPolar wrote: »

KittyHazWares wrote: »

Khajiit and people aren’t born with accents.. just like real humans… it’s good to have a lot of different characters.

I suggest looking up real life differences in vocal anatomy. Frankly, even between cats it is rather pronounced, where great cats can roar but can't purr, whereas small cats, vice versa.

So yes, they ARE born with accents.

Why are you bringing up real life vocal anatomy in a fictional game? Even so your examples are not even about accents.

In that case no character in game should have a health bar, we should get fractures when we fall from height or blocking heavy blows from monsters, you know real life anatomy involves bones.

Well, it wasn't me bringing that point in. I was responding to (pretty much as RL) point brought.

And following your logic, no character in the game should have any even vaguely recognizable characteristics, including general morphology.

starlizard70ub17_ESO wrote: »

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

She grew up in High Isles so you expect a more Breton accent to match her surroundings?

Remember that Khajiit we helped in Wrothgar? He was basically an Orc in a Khajiit body, his speech, culture, even his clothing were Orcish in mannor. He was raised that way as a very small child.

Maybe someone has mentioned but there is also a Khajiit in Reapers March main questline (where you may have to decide a particular favorite Khajiits fate...kinda...to proceed) who speaks with "I" instead of "this one".

Don't know if someone mentioned this already, but you really should hear her houseguest line about it lol:



I much prefer her voice as it is!

tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »

Don't know if someone mentioned this already, but you really should hear her houseguest line about it lol:



I much prefer her voice as it is!

That's grammar, not voice though.
(Been mentioned at least thrice already)