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[LordPorkins]

Dammit I quoted the wrong person

[itisnotlogical]

Considering how obnoxious Skyrim fans can be about lore-friendliness, there's a very small amount of Lusty Argonian Maid mods. Come on, it's canon Elder Scrolls erotica! Bethesda even gave you the script!

[Nighthawk]

Considering how obnoxious Skyrim fans can be about lore-friendliness, there's a very small amount of Lusty Argonian Maid mods. Come on, it's canon Elder Scrolls erotica! Bethesda even gave you the script!

This one is my favorite (yes, the page is safe, aside from crude jokes).

[Kot]

I am 95% sure that a porn recreation of LAM existed in Skyrim...
... or was it Oblivion?

[itisnotlogical]

Actually, the mod that I want is a "Realistic Bards" mod. Instead of playing studio-quality recordings out of their face, bards throughout Skyrim will now realistically play wrong notes, sing off-key, forget the lyrics, miss beats and even say "Wait, let me do that again..."

[Neonivek]

Actually, the mod that I want is a "Realistic Bards" mod. Instead of playing studio-quality recordings out of their face, bards throughout Skyrim will now realistically play wrong notes, sing off-key, forget the lyrics, miss beats and even say "Wait, let me do that again..."

It was actually pretty common back then for Bards to just... wing it.

[LordPorkins]

My character may or may not carry around both copies of LAM with him at all time.

[Kot]

... if you call what the Bards are doing a "studio-quality recording" then I am very much concerned for your psychical health and the condition of your ears.

[Rolan7]

Considering how obnoxious Skyrim fans can be about lore-friendliness, there's a very small amount of Lusty Argonian Maid mods. Come on, it's canon Elder Scrolls erotica! Bethesda even gave you the script!

This one is my favorite (yes, the page is safe, aside from crude jokes).

...Brilliant.

[Ultimuh]

Ah yes, the bards. There is especially one song I hate, not because of the song itself, but because some of the female bards is very off with how they sing it.
Ragnar the Red. As I said, nothing wrong with the actual song. But.. Really.. Are female bards tone-deaf whenever they sing that particular song?
Well, it might be just one specific bard, but still annoys me when she randomly sings that song when I don't expect it.

[Kot]

This is why you take one of countless Malukah or something mods that replace the multiple sentence singing with one continuous song that's actually worth a damn.

[Neonivek]

Ah yes, the bards. There is especially one song I hate, not because of the song itself, but because some of the female bards is very off with how they sing it.
Ragnar the Red. As I said, nothing wrong with the actual song. But.. Really.. Are female bards tone-deaf whenever they sing that particular song?
Well, it might be just one specific bard, but still annoys me when she randomly sings that song when I don't expect it.

It is because they used the same voice actress.

And frankly this game (and Oblivion) don't exactly have... good voice acting as it is.

Most of the gameplay is trying to sort of imagine that the characters actually have proper emotions and lives... In spite of the fact that the voice acting suggests that everyone is in fact a zombie reanimated by the king of worms.

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True talk... I don't mind the voice acting in the last two games. Though I will admit every time I hear someone talk it feels like they are reading exposition no matter what they are saying or talking about. So I just kind of imagined that this culture has very strict rules on etiquette and speech... A lot like if you were suddenly transported into Athens and had to listen to people talk.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. To be fair, this is only the 2nd generation of TES game with widespread voice acting. I don't think was ever a strong suit of Bethesda's. Fallout's is worse I think.

[Darkmere]

I'm pretty sure the problem with a lot of this stuff is technical in nature. Namely, you can't really have direction in voice acting, because the script is almost surely a huge list of shit to read off one at a time, MAYBE with emote instructions on some of them. The VA's aren't reading off every path of a dialog tree in sequence and since it's really expensive, writers are encouraged to re-use dialog (Patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter!) to minimize costs.

Bethsoft games are a lot more about piddling around a world, so more of the budget gets chucked at environment design compared to something like... say... Mass Effect. ME was all about the characters, so the VA budget and direction was pretty good, but the levels themselves tended to be directed and a little railroady, if polished.

[itisnotlogical]

The voice acting in Skyrim is functional. It's just that the characters are clipped off before they have any sort of progression. The most you can learn about an NPC is some trivia about their job, or a quest you can do with another NPC. So while the actors probably would do just fine in a role that allowed them to, the lines in Skyrim are so generic that it's hard to do anything with them.