Fallout may be all the rage right now, but one content creator has managed to breathe new life into the other hit Bethesda RPG by creating a mod that will allow the chat of his Twitch stream to voice the NPC’s within his Skyrim game world.
And it is every bit as chaotic and wonderful as you may imagine.
I created a Skyrim mod that allows my Twitch chat to voice in-game characters (with mouth movements/subtitles/etc) *live* in real-time. It went as horribly as you'd expect.
— Blurbs (@Blurbstv) April 29, 2024
Also, if you die in the game: YOU DIE IN REAL LIFE pic.twitter.com/yTKUVnuMd8
Blurbs is a streamer most known for playing Sea of Thieves – but a recent experiment on his part has resulted in the most unhinged Skyrim experience you can imagine, by parsing submitted lines from his Twitch chat into the game – where some masterful Text-To-Speech magic will result in an NPC magically spouting the words in a compelling and believable fashion. Heck, it even nails the lip syncing.
To achieve this, chatters must be subscribed to Blurbs – where they can then follow the bot prompt to hopefully get their very own presence in the game:
Subscribers and VIPs can voice in-game NPCs live by creating a character using the following message: !addChar gender|voice|greeting. gender = m or f, voice = calm/creepy/angry, greeting must be < 300 chars.
Blurbs has been posting highlight reels of his experience to his social feeds – and the results are nothing short of breathtaking:
The post-viral Skyrim Twitch TTS mod has officially reached max levels of degeneracy thanks to the Internet.
— Blurbs (@Blurbstv) April 29, 2024
I formally apologize and regret my life choices. pic.twitter.com/FX9EKyShlw
It's day 3 of Skyrim Twitch TTS mod and you are all degenerates for encouraging this behavior.
— Blurbs (@Blurbstv) May 1, 2024
It's somehow gotten worse and NPCs are putting things in orifices...
Help me. pic.twitter.com/k5uNp6RLMU
At this time, the mod has not been released in any form – being Blurbs first foray into modding a game, one could imagine that what we are witnessing is a live beta test of its insane capabilities. It’s immaculate to see Skyrim’s finest try to break Twitch Terms of Service with the wide variety of crazy callouts being submitted – so if the mod has any hope of seeing public release, surely someone will need to implement a form of blacklist/whitelist option if only to avoid the worst that the internet has to offer.
I personally would love to see such a mod come to Fallout 4, if only for the immense comedy potential that could arise. Another settlement needs your help – and did you wash your ass today?
Make sure to check out Blurbs at his Twitch channel for his foray into the maddening dreamscape of Twitch-populated Skyrim, and tell us all about it on our social media or in the comments.
Known throughout the interwebs simply as M0D3Rn, Ash is bad at video games. An old guard gamer who suffers from being generally opinionated, it comes as no surprise that he is both brutally loyal and yet, fiercely whimsical about all things electronic. On occasion will make a youtube video that actually gets views. Follow him on YouTube @Bad at Video Games
