For the first time ever, the player character in Fallout 4 will be fully voiced. The game adopts a Mass Effect-style dialogue wheel that allows players to select the tone of their response before having their character elaborate upon the text description seen on screen.
It's a formula that has worked well for other RPGs like The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age. It's a major change for the series, and now we know who will be voicing the male and female player character in the game.
That honor goes to Courtenay Taylor and Brian T. Delaney. Fallout 4 lead designer and writer Emil Pagliarulo tweeted out a picture of the pair who will be bringing the protagonists of the game to life.
Bringing F4 to life. VO director @KalElBogdanove protagonists @courtenaytaylor @Brian_T_Delaney designer Will Shen pic.twitter.com/G6eDXfCO8R
— Emil Pagliarulo (@Dezinuh) June 18, 2015
Taylor is no stranger to the Fallout series. She previously voiced Janet, Jas Wilkins and Gloria Van Graff in Fallout: New Vegas. She has also voiced characters in various other RPG series, like Bioware's Mass Effect series (where she voiced Jack) and in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
Delaney has had numerous smaller voice acting roles in games like Batman: Arkham Knight, Evolve and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. He can also be heard in Halo 5: Guardians later this year as the voice of Roland.
It's unclear if these will be the only voices available to choose from for the player character. From what we've seen of the game's character creation screen, players have near-limitless options when it comes to building a character exactly how they want. It seems a little curious, then, that there would only be one voice option each for the male/female character, but that may be the case.
We learned plenty of new details about Fallout 4 at E3, and news continues to trickle in after the show, like the fact that the game will run at 30 frames per second and 1080p resolution on consoles. You can be sure there will be plenty more details to come in the months leading up to the game's launch. Fallout 4 releases on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on Nov. 10.
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