Interview The Sounds Of Skyrim

[commie]

Here's a thought: instead of using up most of the VO budget on celebrity voices which are still badly directed, bored, and have nothing to work with, why not actually use the budget for good writers and a multitude of unknown but decent voice actors?

but then they cant brag about how they got George Clooney voicing the beggars.

It's pathetic how they have to brag about such things as if that's the only thing they've got going for a game. In the past there were know actors doing VO and even live action and often they were hardly noted at all. Patrick Stewart did the intro of Lands of Lore, yet Westwood didn't crap on about it non stop like Bethesda did. Fallout didn't go on about Perlman, yet Bethesda made a big deal there too.

 

[Mastermind]

Looks like the dwemer are back.

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

It did strike me as odd replaying old small production games and seeing A list actors take part in them(famous even at the time).

It's unlikely but maybe as videogames became big business these actors started charging more for their performance making their appearance worth bragging about? Maybe with the new emphasis on marketing they've realized just how important celebrity endorsements are?

It's not like it's just Bethesda talking about it, in mainstream forums or youtube you'd see people raving about picard being in the game, so it seems to work.

I'm willing to bet however that celebrity voice actors are picked based on who the devs want to meet/are fans of rather than who would be best for the game/sales.

 

[Blind Eye]

This will be a long year...

Given the pace of news about this game compared to its release date, about when do you think Todd will show us his dildo collection?

He'll wait until the day the game is released, when everybody that buys into the HYPE will realize they just got fucked in the ass.

 

[poocolator]

An out-of-place musical theme... can ruin the immersion

Was I the only one who was immediately reminded of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA-rLV6hGY4&feature=related

Oh, man. Everything that comes out of Dragon Age is pure comedy gold.

 

[DraQ]

a poor voice actor in a key role can ruin the immersion, pulling players out of the excitement of the game.

Oh, can it Bethesda? Thanks for the sagely advice

This.
Was there any piece of VA that wasn't atrocious shit in Oblivious?

Also, it would help if the AI didn't see fit to taunt you in a fight with a "get out of here stalker" frequency.

 

[HardCode]

Skyrim is going to sound like a rumbling stomach and a flush.

 

[deus101]

Oh great...they are going to spend all the money on celebrity voice actors and give a damn about mechanics.

 

[Sad He-Man]

Hello codex, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because bethesda softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the bloom that was planted
In my brain still remains
Within the sound of Skyrim

 

[denizsi]

www.rim.com/jobs

 

[sah]

Hello codex, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because bethesda softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the bloom that was planted
In my brain still remains
Within the sound of Skyrim

Beautiful. I shed a tear and then pooped in my pants a little.

 

[DraQ]

Hello codex, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because bethesda softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the bloom that was planted
In my brain still remains
Within the sound of Skyrim

 

[Black]

More of the same shit from the guy who keeps rehashing his stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--rxf-28 ... re=related

Once you've heard one of his tracks, you've heard them all.

 

[poocolator]

Hello codex, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because bethesda softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the bloom that was planted
In my brain still remains
Within the sound of Skyrim

pffft
the soundtrack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbBLKet ... re=related

 

[chzr]

Hello codex, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because bethesda softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the bloom that was planted
In my brain still remains
Within the sound of Skyrim

pffft
the soundtrack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbBLKet ... re=related

oh you

 

[FatCat]

Skyrim will devour earth upon it's release than digest and shit it out and we will live in fucking Tamriel and 99% of codexers will be fucking annoying Bosmer >_>

 

[DraQ]

Hello codex, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because bethesda softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the bloom that was planted
In my brain still remains
Within the sound of Skyrim

pffft
the soundtrack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbBLKet ... re=related

This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Skyrim will devour earth upon it's release than digest and shit it out and we will live in fucking Tamriel and 99% of codexers will be fucking annoying Bosmer >_>

Shouldn't we canonically turn into orcs instead, then?

Hell, maybe we will get to persuade the emperor's agent to hand over the totem controlling the Numidium and make it stomp beth's HQ?

 

[poocolator]

This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Try this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-yuQdPr ... re=related

 

[Luzur]

This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Try this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-yuQdPr ... re=related

This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

 

[Drakron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLEmyeQlS5M

This one?

(I recognize that song lyrics)

 

[Gerrard]

You know, for some reason I ended up going to Soule's blog, and the second post I find there is this

http://jeremysoule.wordpress.com/2011/0 ... s-content/

 

[SimpleComplexity]

Skyrim's last quest won't have a quest compass so that people can claim they've played it over 9000 hours but still haven't beat the game.

 

[circ]

Haha Soule you loller you. Fuck your Youtube profits. The minute I hear Soule not recycling the same fucking tune, I might give a shit. Probably not, actually, but oh well. What the fuck do profits have to do with creativity? It's been proven in study after study that creativity doesn't spawn from monetary incentives shit for cocks.

 

[Drakron]

Dont get mad, his argument does not hold water and you just feel stupid when you start to deconstruct the argument.

Also he is using WordPress that right now IS FREE, also with the wordpress.com domain that means its being hosted FOR FREE as well ... maybe WordPress should be paying as he is creating content if we lived on his bizarre world were hosting companies have to pay the people that clog up their servers with useless data.

 

[roll-a-die]

Neither song sounds anything like the Skyrim theme. The bar for "ripping off" seems to be pretty damn low. As in "there's sound coming out so it was ripped off" damn low.

...The skyrim theme/melody is the same from oblivion/morrowind, you're missing the point.

Todd saw LOTR as the popular notion his audience had of a fantasy setting at the time and tried to make it so oblivion players would connect the two, have something familiar to them in the game.

Now he's making a skyrim game, he's going to again try to make the game live up to the mainstream's idea of nordic fantasy, that's Beowulf and it's reflected in the main theme that now has those deep drums, horns and macho choir, much like the memorable theme and intro to the most popular nordic fantasy movie in recent years(if not ever).

I disagreed with roll-a-die's notion/joke that it was inspired from an obscure music segment from an obscure movie that few people outside communisthan ever watched, especially considering that the whole macho choir+drums+horns isn't original in the least.

You know, I was kind of making that same point. It was kind of, a "GEE hasn't that been done before, pretty much everywhere," comment. Masked in a bethesda is ripping off things. Along with a link adding to my hipster cred, by linking both a semi obscure band, and an obscure movie.