I want to play as a Half Orc but....

[Saiyansixx]

None of the voices sound anything like what a half orc should sound like. I really wish there was a voice that fit the race, as well as some dialogue changes to make my character seem more like the half orc character they are rather and some english gentleman. Game is great but i wish they put less time in letting us customize our tallywackers and more time into making sure we were able to roleplay as the half orc, dragon born and dwarves better with more immersive voices for them.

[pahrias]

Fair one. I think you may need mods however.

[Paroe]

Theres mods that offer many different voices. Go search for some, yeah?

[GrandMajora]

The only one that sounds even remotely close to Orc and Dwarf is Male 7, and that's only because it is mildly aggressive.

Making every voice a polite British was a bad call. It works for Humans, Elves and maybe Tieflings, but sounds really out of place for nearly all the other races.

[Bray of Cats]

Sorry, the VA team was to busy making pen physics, I guess?

[Boombastic]

How should a half orc "sound like"? I ask because I never met one :-)

[Fluffykeith]

I wish they hadn’t made the half orc faces so derpy myself.

I’d love to do a run with a half orc, but the faces don’t work for me

[GriffinPilgrim]

Originally posted by Boombastic:

How should a half orc "sound like"? I ask because I never met one :-)

Exactly the point. Even going by in-universe logic all half orcs wouldn't sound a certain way. Accents aren't defined by genetics, take a French baby, have them adopted in America and they won't have a French accent.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by Boombastic:

How should a half orc "sound like"? I ask because I never met one :-)

Probably halfway between an adult human and a crazy demonic monster with two tusks protruding from its face, not a posh Londoner

[GriffinPilgrim]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Originally posted by Boombastic:

How should a half orc "sound like"? I ask because I never met one :-)

Probably halfway between an adult human and a crazy demonic monster with two tusks protruding from its face, not a posh Londoner

D&D orcs aren't demons, they're perfectly natural humanoids. Their culture is violent and thuggish, hence why they tend to be placed in antagonistic roles, but very few half orcs are raised in orcish culture, as full orcs tend despise the "half tusks."

[Detective Costeau]

Originally posted by GriffinPilgrim:

D&D orcs aren't demons, they're perfectly natural humanoids. Their culture is violent and thuggish, hence why they tend to be placed in antagonistic roles, but very few half orcs are raised in orcish culture, as full orcs tend despise the "half tusks."

I could be mixing up my D&D and Pathfinder lore, but this is actually not true, as I recall. Orcish culture respects strength and not much else, so the single criterion for if they want you in the tribe is if you're strong enough. They're one of the only groups that has no problem with Ogres, for instance- ogres are strong, so of course you want them in the tribe. So as long as a half-orc is strong enough, they could even lead an orc tribe.

[ULTRA]

He's just saying that orcs are not infernal in nature, a point that is irrelevant once you realize that the cambions in the game themselves range between "cartoon demon bad guy" voices and "snooty, kinda effeminate schemester" based on convenience. But the fact remains that the original games had much more appropriate voices for half-orcs, regardless of whether you were playing a half-orc or not. It's comical that a character who looks like a bodybuilder went through the teleporter from the Fly with a wild boar necessarily has to have a voice that sounds like the same ones you'd choose for a 3 foot tall potbellied Englishman. I'm sure some people want to play an "intellectual" half-orc but most people aren't imagining someone that moans when they have to check a box for health potions when they make one.

[Pyromaiden]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Originally posted by Boombastic:

How should a half orc "sound like"? I ask because I never met one :-)

Probably halfway between an adult human and a crazy demonic monster with two tusks protruding from its face, not a posh Londoner

what are you basing this on

[GriffinPilgrim]

Originally posted by Detective Costeau:

Originally posted by GriffinPilgrim:

D&D orcs aren't demons, they're perfectly natural humanoids. Their culture is violent and thuggish, hence why they tend to be placed in antagonistic roles, but very few half orcs are raised in orcish culture, as full orcs tend despise the "half tusks."

I could be mixing up my D&D and Pathfinder lore, but this is actually not true, as I recall. Orcish culture respects strength and not much else, so the single criterion for if they want you in the tribe is if you're strong enough. They're one of the only groups that has no problem with Ogres, for instance- ogres are strong, so of course you want them in the tribe. So as long as a half-orc is strong enough, they could even lead an orc tribe.

Orcs have a cultural bias towards strength, yes, but (at least in the Forgotten Realms) they have certain preconceptions about who is strong. Humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes and halflings are seen as inherently weaker. A foolish position, given how many times orc hordes have lost to those races, but one the orcs hold as a matter of faith. As such a half orc's human heritage is seen as making them weak. Some orc tribes kill them at birth, others keep them but abuse them and use them for menial work. It's not impossible for a particularly strong half orc to get ahead in orc society but most don't.
All of which means that a half orc that is alive, healthy and somewhat accomplished like the PC was almost certainly raised by the human parent (or by two half orcs).

[GriffinPilgrim]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

He's just saying that orcs are not infernal in nature, a point that is irrelevant once you realize that the cambions in the game themselves range between "cartoon demon bad guy" voices and "snooty, kinda effeminate schemester" based on convenience. But the fact remains that the original games had much more appropriate voices for half-orcs, regardless of whether you were playing a half-orc or not. It's comical that a character who looks like a bodybuilder went through the teleporter from the Fly with a wild boar necessarily has to have a voice that sounds like the same ones you'd choose for a 3 foot tall potbellied Englishman. I'm sure some people want to play an "intellectual" half-orc but most people aren't imagining someone that moans when they have to check a box for health potions when they make one.

Since I'm wearing my "well actually" hat in this thread I'll say I was saying orcs aren't abyssal in nature. Demons are abyssal, devils are infernal.
Again, there is no such thing as an "appropriate" voice for half orcs, they're fiction beings. I get rather disappointed by how some people seem to think fantasy needs to stick to established stereotypes. Not every dwarf needs to sound like a grumpy Glaswegian, not every halfling needs to sound like Farmer McGregor and not every half-orc needs to sound like they just knifed you in a back alley in the East End.