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[UXLZ]

If they're going with dialogue choices how they're normally done in games like fallout, it should be easy to mod the MC's voice out of the game if there isn't an option in the menu.

If they're going to go with ME-style dialogue wheels even for the PC version... Well, first, fuck dat, second, I hope the FallUI mod that will fix the inevitably shitty designed-for-console inventory as well as that, third... Well, you'll need to go with a voice acted MC if you want to follow the conversations well.

[Krevsin]

I am not worried about shitty console UI design choices making it to PCs, much the same way I didn't care about it in FO3 and NV. It's just Bethesda following trends in game design like they usually do.

Mods will fix it for people who are bothered by it.

Because mod fix evertything.

[scriver]

I would only be disappointed by full voice over if Beth had any sort of track record of having expansive dialogue. Expanding their fully voiced policy to include the MC likely won't effect quality at all. It isn't really anything like deciding that you're going to fully voice act every single irrelevant line said by every single irrelevant NPC about which store they work at or what kind of crab they saw yesterday.

[Yoink]

why

did troy baker kill your goldfish

the dialogue is going to be the same regardless

No, but having some generic voice shoehorned in to represent the player character is only going to damage my immersion.
One thing worse than having a silly silent protagonist is having voice work for a character that's supposed to be of your creation.

[Putnam]

a character that's supposed to be of your creation.

have you played a bethesda game

they're pretty awful at that

like seriously

Fallout 3 had my favorite dialogue in the series

"I have a surprise for you."

Your choices are, of course, being excited or being annoyed.

If you choose being annoyed, your father says "Since when?".

So yeah, your character's already set in stone in 4 just like they were in 3.

[Yoink]

You don't seem to be taking this discussion very seriously, so I'm not going to bother continuing it.

[scriver]

No, Putnam's pretty much right on the point.

[Krevsin]

That he is. Dialogues in FO3 also seem to have this very Mass Effect kind of vibe, where whenever you have to express an opinion on something or someone, or make a decision, you have answers that fall into 3 very distinct categories, either "Wasteland Jesus", "Neutro the Netral Nutrient" or "The Very Incarnation Of Puppy Strangling".

The more things change the more they stay the same I guess.

[UXLZ]

Beth just sucks at everything but world building. Let us hope for mods.  However, maybe FO4 will break the trend? Let us hope.

[Krevsin]

Pretty much the only reason why people love their games is the amazing worldbuilding.

I find that Beth games are at their best when they center around that world rather than some overlying grand event or intense character drama.

[Yoink]

No, Putnam's pretty much right on the point.

Nope, he/she is not.
I'm saying having a voice actor attempting to portray my murderous psychopath will detract from the game's immersion. They are arguing that that is not the case. Unfortunately, it is.

[scriver]

Beth just sucks at everything but world building. Let us hope for mods.  However, maybe FO4 will break the trend? Let us hope.

The world building is pretty much the part they're the worst at. Hence Kidville, Teenage Vampyre Gang and Village-upon-Bridge, Posh Upper Class Tower, and all the other things about F3 that makes no sense at all.

[Krevsin]

No, Putnam's pretty much right on the point.

Nope, he/she is not.
I'm saying having a voice actor attempting to portray my murderous psychopath will detract from the game's immersion. They are arguing that that is not the case. Unfortunately, it is.

You'll get used to it.

[Yoink]

More likely I will play the game without sound...

[miauw62]

Or use the day 1 mod that disables the player voice :V