Breaking the silence
In a lot of games your character talks for you, in some games you select what your character says and then you have games where your character doesn´t say anything at all. It seems this is what we have to deal with, because the input you can have with your own voice is quite limited. But what if that would be different?
In this modern time with technology that seems to be able to do so much already, why isn´t there a game that works with your voice? For example you choose what you say against your companions or anyone else in the game, your voice is the voice of the character and it would be even more fun if you can actually decide what you say. Of course that would be quite difficult to make such a game, so it´s not weird that you´d have to say the options you get. At the same time people who don´t speak English that well can learn from this, which at the same time can pose a problem to those who have trouble speaking English and the game might have trouble understanding what you say. An accent could already be problematic with this, but just thinking of using my own voice for the character I created seems great!
It will probably start small, for example putting a name you chose into the game. You could pronounce your name or a name that you want to and the game picks that up and then uses that name whenever they´re talking to your character. That would already be awesome because it sucks when people talk to you differently than other characters in the game, also I´m done being the mysterious stranger (if you´ve played Knights of the Old Republic you know what I´m talking about). I want to be me, sure in some role playing games it´s nice to play a different role but sometimes it´s also nice just to be yourself in a game. I´d say the closer a game stands to real life the more you´d probably want to play as yourself, but it can also be funny to play as yourself in a world full of fantasy.
Maybe this idea seems far away, perhaps it´s even impossible. But I´d like to see it happen one day, hopefully before I´m too old to play games! I don´t mind playing as another character, but sometimes it´s also nice to just be yourself. I mean games are great for escaping reality but that doesn´t mean that I want to be someone else all the time, I think it´s also fun discovering a new world or going on an adventure as yourself. When I speak with others that I use my own voice instead of hearing someone else speak for me, I think that would be nice and I hope that it will be an option one day for gamers!
In this modern time with technology that seems to be able to do so much already, why isn´t there a game that works with your voice? For example you choose what you say against your companions or anyone else in the game, your voice is the voice of the character and it would be even more fun if you can actually decide what you say. Of course that would be quite difficult to make such a game, so it´s not weird that you´d have to say the options you get. At the same time people who don´t speak English that well can learn from this, which at the same time can pose a problem to those who have trouble speaking English and the game might have trouble understanding what you say. An accent could already be problematic with this, but just thinking of using my own voice for the character I created seems great!
It will probably start small, for example putting a name you chose into the game. You could pronounce your name or a name that you want to and the game picks that up and then uses that name whenever they´re talking to your character. That would already be awesome because it sucks when people talk to you differently than other characters in the game, also I´m done being the mysterious stranger (if you´ve played Knights of the Old Republic you know what I´m talking about). I want to be me, sure in some role playing games it´s nice to play a different role but sometimes it´s also nice just to be yourself in a game. I´d say the closer a game stands to real life the more you´d probably want to play as yourself, but it can also be funny to play as yourself in a world full of fantasy.
Maybe this idea seems far away, perhaps it´s even impossible. But I´d like to see it happen one day, hopefully before I´m too old to play games! I don´t mind playing as another character, but sometimes it´s also nice to just be yourself. I mean games are great for escaping reality but that doesn´t mean that I want to be someone else all the time, I think it´s also fun discovering a new world or going on an adventure as yourself. When I speak with others that I use my own voice instead of hearing someone else speak for me, I think that would be nice and I hope that it will be an option one day for gamers!
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