If there's one thing that has helped keep The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim in the gaming limelight, it's the dedicated modding community that keeps pumping out new projects. Even as a video game that encourages mindfulness, fans are keen for some action and high-stakes adventures with dragons and exploration and all manner of NPCs to interact with, but the main game is not limitless. As vast as the vanilla experience is, it's the mods that keep expanding the universe, and this new one injects that little bit more immersion to the game.
As spotted by PC Gamer, the «Say My Name» add-on created by Dan Ruta is a rather unique mod that does something likely many Skyrim fans have been hoping for. Ruta's modification enables it so that characters will actually refer to the player by their custom chosen name. Ordinarily, NPCs would just refer to them as «Dragonborn,» but this clever take on in-game voices means that, in theory, whatever name is selected at the start, will be spoken out loud. It should be noted that this seems to only be available for the Special Edition of the game.
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There are many amazing Skyrim mods out there, but this one seems pretty genius. A short video shows the mod in action, with a number of examples, including one player called xX_dragon_killer_420_69_Xx. It's impressive that the NPC dialogue is able to almost seamlessly speak out this moniker. The add-on actually works through another mod called xVASynth, which is described as an AI tool that generates high-quality voices. There are a few instructions on how to actually get «Say My Name» to work for anyone who's interested, but it seems as though it will be worth it for that extra bit of immersion, or
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