"A little variety", he says.

There are over 70 voice actors who have lent their talents to the game. Seventy.

While I do agree that yes, hearing the same voice for a Redguard beggar in Whiterun and a Nord beggar in Ivanstead is a bit odd, I don't find myself caring that much.

There's such a thing as attention to detail, but there's also a thing as asking for asking for more than what is feasible.

 

Hell, give beta testers a few unimportant lines to record and have them send it in. It's not like they'd need in depth conversations, just a line or two that could be thrown in for added variety, and it'd up the immersion level a great deal. So far, it's the only peeve I've got with the game.


Well, that and destroying a dragon only to turn around and be raped by a bear...

 

The problem is that that it only adds to the workloads of the staff without providing much usable dialogue.

Even if you had 50 beta testers who sent their voices in with lines on their own, there would be a fuckton of problems. The quality of the acting would be impossible to know until the recordings were actually sent in, and it's unreasonable to assume that most of them will be of any professional in both acting and audio quality.

Voice acting requires strong supervision to get the lines red by the desired actors in the desired manner and quality, and the voices also have to be recorded with very good microphones and preferably in a sound-proof recording studio.

There's also the matter of payment for those who lend their voices and are actually used.

What would be best if a list of several named actors that the staff desired to do voices for certain characters were contacted with a job offer, and have a memo sent out for more minor roles and auditions to be held. Hell, that's probably what they did.

TL;DR, I think your suggestion is unfeasible, and the game's NPC dialogue is just fine as it is.

 

This. Last dragon I killed did not even hit me, and right after that an ice wolf(cat?) got me in two hits. This pure mage squishness is seriously making me consider rolling a spellsword.

Also, random hint: Try casting the muffler?(silence your footsteps spell) a few time in a row. Got 20 levels of illusion just by walking around in town just now.

 

The muffle spell is one of the only spells you don't need to cast at an enemy or on yourself to level. Stuff like candlelight does too, but in such small increments it doesn't matter. If you've got muffle, just cast it whenever you have the mana in towns and such. You'll level your illusion skill really quickly.

I'm finding with the perks that (for me at least) I really only want about six specific perks in the whole game and everything else is just a waste. For Destruction, now that I've completed the Lightning and Fire perk paths, I don't give the slightest shit about the rest of the tree. Since I'm not casting master-level spells, why pick up the perk? Seems all of the skill trees drop off at around 70 skill.

Speech is annoying the fuck out of me. I don't know who trains it, but the perk tree is pissing me off. I only want one perk, the one that lets you trade anything with anyone, but it takes 60 skill, and speech takes so fucking long to level its just pissing me off.

Also, finished the companions questline. I was expecting it to be a lot longer. It was only like 7 missions total. Now I'm going to do Thieves Guild and Mages College. Also, my crusade to kill all giants. I've eliminated a couple camps, but there are so many.

 

I found a wandering Khajiit that taught speech... but he was just that; wandering. I havent been able to find him again. Also, you increase your skill by selling and buying shit. Find something cheap and buy/sell it over and over. It takes a long as time, but you'll get your skill up.

 

I fucking hate giants. Seriously. Fought and killed a dragon while avoiding a giant yesterday, escaped the giant, then was attacked by another dragon. I killed that too only to turn around and realise the giant had followed me.

Club2face.

 

Huh. I've never antagonised a giant, apart from one time when a dragon attacked one and I got caught between them trying get the dragon. Even then, I killed the dragon, two giants and a mammoth. Running away and firing high-level destruction spells (ice spikes for slow/fire ball for more damage) with a very high mana-regen stat let me win pretty comfortably.

 

Mana?

Is that like magicka?

 

Woops, meant magicka. Too used to LoL and every other game that uses magic I guess.

 

Another random hint: if you want to level combat skills, attack your tutorial companion as much as possible during the tutorial dungeon. They don't attack you back until you leave the cave system. Went up ten Destruction levels before leaving thanks to that.

 

I really don't get how you find killing dragons so easy, I'm trying to kill my first just outside Whiterun at the moment. Died three times in a row as soon as I went in melee with it. I can drain it slowly with arrows, but I only the dragon goes down to the ground permanently at 50% health and last guards dies. My nord gets roasted to pieces, like 20% health left if I get hit by an attack :facepalm

 

I just don't melee dragons. That's what the bow is for. It might take me a while, but I've only died once against a dragon, and that was from trying to use melee. Of course, it's not the roasting that bothers me (Dunmer fire resistance ftw!), but the biting gets me every time, and the ice dragons are a bit of a pain too.

 

I constantly melee the dragons. A combination of my giant ass sword and shouts tend to get the job done.

 

I have the same problem Coleam has, I use a two handed sword and ends up eaten alive as soon as I enter melee. The trick might be the shouts, but they are only unlockeable by slaying dragons in the first place unless I missread the Dragon Tablet. No shouts for my little level 4.

I'll try scavenging more arrows then I suppose, regardless if it's a boring strategy.

 

Try and get a good shield, then bash it to death. Certainly worked well for me.

 

This, without a doubt.

I'm at level 25 now, and it takes me about 2 minor health potions each to own the fuck out of a giant or dragon period with a trusty sword and shield.

For a giant, shield bash it when it's about to attack to stop its movement, slash twice, bash again.

For a dragon, shoot at it until it comes down, and once it does, run up to its face and bash whenever it looks to attack. Hack'n'slash your heart out otherwise. Keep a close eye on your stamina though.

 

Killing dragons with my Nord Barbarian is a piece of cake. I just charge and slash. I haven't taken on any with my Elven thief/assassin, but dungeon faring is much easier as a stealth character; I just run and hide when my sneak bow attacks don't kill my foe. It's so fun to sneak through dungeons with the sleeping Draugr being none the wiser.

However, I haven't tangled with a Giant since my last little mishap; it smashed me twice with its club, and the 2nd blow launched me some several hundred feet into the air. It reminding me of GTA IV when you shoot a rocket launcher under your feet.

If you join the thieves, watch out for that lunatic in that meadery.

 

I think I've just gotten my fifth dragon.

There was the first one which was easy, because the guards and the Jarl's housecarl were drawing it off of me.

The second was the only one that killed me because I forgot I could heal for a moment. Reloaded and killed it with lighting.

Third was a random one who fucking attacked me out of nowhere. Got it though.

Four and Five were simple because they both attacked me in towns (Winterhold and that one hold in the middle of nowhere that has a name I forget). I just blasted them with lightning while they rampaged.

Good stuff.

 

Finally got to play this, and I'm loving it. Climbing up a random hill and seeing (I think) Bleak Falls Barrow in the distance was amazing. Haven't done much yet, a bit of random exploring and one quest for a trader (the Golden Bear Claw). I got an unreasonably big grin on my face when I realised I could use a wood chopping axe as a weapon. My first personal goal in the game is to find a werewolf and reenact Little Red Riding Hood.

My only problem is my tv being old and cheap, so the HUD and occasional messages disappear off the top of the screen. Well, that and the little twinge of guilt over all the writing I'm not doing when I play it, but fuck it.