Seviraph Posted July 22, 2012 Posted July 22, 2012 I don't mind Farengar too much, the voice acting at least. I think the dryness is part of the personality of the character himself rather than incompetence on the part of the voice actor and I'm pretty confident that the voice actor did multiple NPC's besides Farengar. Just my personal opinion. But I'll second the "Esbern's voice drives me insane" vote. He does have too many fluids in his mouth... Not that the voice actor is bad but just the approach used and how he sounds all the time just makes me instantly dislike him, the fct that he wanted me to kill Parthurnax certainly didn't help his cause either though. I've never really been bothered by Esbern for some reason, and at least he isn't as annoying as Delphine when it came to that demand Farengar has to be one of the worst voice-overs ever, is he? Can anyone think of anyone worse? I'm sure out of Skyrim there is bound to be a worse one somewhere, but I mean whithin Skyrim. And maybe out as a side-venture. I ask because I just realized just how incredibly dull and off key it is. He sounds like whoever voiced it did it on the first time without ever reading the script before and they decided to use that first go. Yes yes yes! I thought it was just me. It's the timing as much as anything, it just doesn't sound like the tempo of any human's speech the way he moves from one phrase to the next. The voice itself is fine, but it doesn't even sound like a recorded take, it does literally sound like he's reading a script and trying the voice itself before paying any attention to what the words mean, the context, or the beat and tempo of speech. Generally all the voices in Skyrim are well done even if they are sometimes dislikeable, the real problem is the monotony, the majority of people really do sound the same after a while. Especially the male "commander" type voice, that's just everywhere. he's not human (I know what you mean, just kidding)
tricker258 Posted June 5, 2013 Posted June 5, 2013 I love Farengar's voice. He is my favorite voice in the whole game. I had no idea others thought so poorly of him!
RatcatcherOfKvatch Posted June 12, 2013 Posted June 12, 2013 The voice-actor is used in several places. Often he's in-character; sometimes, as with poor Farengar, he's most definitely not. I can even hear, based on the script, the inflections the actor should be using but isn't. It drives me crazy.
RaktoastTheSandwichTopper Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 farengar is annoying but esberns voice IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST >:( every time he opens his mouth i have to resist the urge to impale him and destroy my laptop
AlduinWorldEater Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 Personally, my least favourite voice belongs to Ulfric Stormcloak (Vladimir Kulich). When he yells "WE NEED TO MOVE! NOW!", it sounds like he's doing a piss-poor Arnold Schwarzenegger...it's like Kulich has an accent that he sometimes forgets to stamp out for professionalism's sake. I don't really mind Farengar's voice, there's two other qualities about him that bug me. One is his dryness...it's as though he thinks he's above everyone else (leave the details to your betters, am I right?)...and the fact that he's a Nord with an Altmer name (though if he were raised by Altmer, it might explain his attitude). Esbern's voice irks me too. Max Von Syndow might be an award-winner, but this particular role won't win any awards from me. Here's a real kicker, since we're discussing voice actors - did y'all know that the guy who voices Paarthurnax (whose name escapes me atm) also voiced Mario in the Nintendo64-and-forwards Super Mario games?"It's-a me, Paarthurnax!"
welsher Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) Farengar's voice actor is atrocious imho. He just sounds like a guy reading from a script, he's completely monotonous and emotionless like some sort of Nordic robot. Edited June 13, 2013 by welsher
rizon72 Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 For me the voice that makes me want to punch the screen is Ulfric Stormcloak. I'll play the Imperials just so I can get rid of him.
Maverick827 Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 Pretty much all the voice acting is sub-par compared to BioWare games. Which is fine, it's not their forte. But BioWare is making their next game a little more open world, so maybe Bathesda can make theirs a little better voice acted.
kingkoopaboy Posted June 14, 2013 Posted June 14, 2013 (edited) What about the talking dog "Barbas". Completely out of place.http://youtu.be/P_qlBDdqDao Edited June 14, 2013 by kingkoopaboy
RatcatcherOfKvatch Posted June 14, 2013 Posted June 14, 2013 He's a talking dog who fetches things for a Daedric Lord. Why shouldn't he sound like a New York UPS delivery guy? "Here ya go, Mister, uuh, Dragonborn? Yeah, dat's right, a sig-na-ture, wise guy, dat's when you write your name. You do know how ta write?So just sign right dere and da package is all yours." I can see that.
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