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Zkuq 4 hours ago
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JRPGfan said:
Alex_The_Hedgehog said:

Have you ever played an RPG where you can build your own character? Like Skyrim, or Fallout?

Well, those games have a character customization so you can "immerse" yourself into the gaming world. You can pick gender, physical appearance, clotches, and... Your name... And that's the point of this thread.

When I first played Skyrim, I thought for some time about the name of my character, so I could make the game more interesting. But there's a problem... I played it for about 12 hours, and not a single character called me by my name.

At first, they called me "Prisoner". Then, "Friend". Then, after a certain event, you will only be adressed as "Dragonborn". Seriously, this broke any kind of immersion I could have in the world of the game.

Yes, I know why that happens. Limitations. But man, I really wish they could find a solution for that, because I don't want to give my character a name, if no one is going to use it.

I think this destroys the immersion. If I'm not mistaken, South Park: The Stick of Truth threw a jab at that, when Cartman asks you for your name, and right after you input it, he starts calling you "Douchebag". I loved that.

But yeah, I hope we can see a fix for that in the near future.

They can.

By using A.I to voice all characters, killing all human jobs of voice acting in games.... such a thing would be possible.

Would you be happier with a somewhat robotic voice, saying your character name, and all other things in the game?
Or would you prefer a human voiceing dialog but resorting to "Prisoner, Friend, Dragonborn" ect ?

Also this is without a doubt, the route Microsoft is going.
So your in luck, the next bethesda games will likely have such.

It doesn't need to be everything or nothing. Voice acting can remain for other parts, but player names can be done by AI. I suspect it's not technically even hard to do and has more to do with what publishers/developers and voice actors can agree about. I can't really imagine voice actors being against using AI to mimic their voices for this single purposes - if not for a slippery slope argument perhaps, which might well be a legit concern.