They do not bother me. I do not like the rude ones, but I just make sure that I do not go near them if I pass them.

Hear, hear! Read my post as well, I guess I'm a bit spoiled with TW 1-2 and Nehrim!

Aleechemy.

Another child here to sound annoying and look like all others... good job.

I can't stand Braith, damn kid acts like a fighting woman on a waaaay to young age.

I find children to be the worst in the voice acting department. They don't just break the fantasy/period feel of the game with the North American accents, they also sound too 'modern' for my ear. Can't blame the kids too much though. They just aren't going to have the skills of an advlt, and it's up to the advlts to get the performance out of them.

Then it's settled, we'll get the German actors from SureAI's Nehrim to mod themselves into skyrim, heh, I know it's a pipe-dream, but still...

Hmm a Mod idea perhaps?...C'mon think about it, what better language than Deutsch in Skyrim?

Can't remember where I was on teh internets, but I saw a bunch of vocal auditions for people offering to be the voices in mods fro Skyrim... Some of them were really good too, with professional looking demos.

What's wrong with annoying kids in a game? Adds realism, doncha know?

Yeah, I'll say, this was when Oblivion first came out..Or at least a year into it though, Yes some were real good, but if you have Oblivion, you gotta check out http://www.nehrim.de/ It's a completely different game from Oblivion, it just uses the same engine! Also, they have another one called http://www.cube-experimental.de/ for FO3, not to mention the mosthttp://www.oblivionmodwiki.com/index.php/The_Dungeons_of_Ivellon

Ok, I'm done with the modder good karma points for now!

I want to punch that girl in the face (and often do) everytime she says "baby Battle-born" and tries to hold that kid up for his money.

For the German version, the childrens voices are excellent!
Sykrim is one of the few games that received a solid German localization.

Most are Nords, some are Imperial, Breton, and even Redguard. Of course, you can't tell this because they all look and sound....exactly....the....same.

And yes, they're annoying, but they're kids. Kids are annoying. But some of them are okay. I feel bad for poor little Lars Battle-Born.

And I want to see children from other races. I think little Dunmer children would be adorable with their pointy ears, child proportions, and big, red eyes.

I guess you don't have kids? The ones in the game are by far more polite,not as loud, etc.... Any parent who plays Skyrim will tell you that the Skyrim kids are pretty tame compared to the real thing.

Yeah, yeah we know already...Now quit your gloating! Hmmm, maybe I'll just buy the Deutsch version when the price comes down!

I work with my mother to sell fruits and vegetables. It's fun most days, but hard work ......

What? This line makes perfect sense, there where no child labour laws in the time period that Skyrim is loosely based and why wouldn't a kid be proud of helping feed the family?

Combined with the fact that they're all rude little bastards and that they all look the same (ugly), yes I hate them.

I guess I'm the only one who likes children in Skyrin.

I absolutely love how up in arms people are getting over what "realistic" Nirn-ian accents should sound like.

There's some ridiculous cultural expectation that everyone alive during a vaguely medieval period spoke with a British accent. This is not only silly, but completely false. The current prevailing theory is that medieval/renaissance English sounded closer to American Southern than to British as we know it today.

That said, I have no problem with the mix of accents that we find in the game, as they seem to be fairly well themed across the races. And the children are appropriately annoying.

I could have looked over the poor voice acting if they didn't all look the same and cover only three of the races found in the world. A bit more variety in clothes for them at least would have been good.

Exactly how I see it. I've even tried to mod in some facial differences. Couldn't do anything with them. There's only one model for kids, and there's no options to change anything. Only one or two eye colors, one or two outfits per gender, only one hair style per race... it's bloody awful. The kids in the Fallout games weren't like this; I really don't see why Skyrim took such a step back.

Bookmarked! Oh, for some free time!



To me it's not that the accents should be British, (plenty of Nords have northern European accents, after all), it's that of all the voice acting, northern American is the most jarring for me as a non-American. I associate American accents with CNN, sit-coms and lecture series by Bill Gates. ie, more recent world culture. I don't think it's wrong that we psychologically associate 'fantasy' in this context with the accents of older cultures of Earth. Add that the children have a 'modern' inflection with some snarky, cynical or worldly aspect to the delivery that just doesn't fit in Tamriel, in my opinion.

That said, I guess I've gotten into the habit of ignoring the children. They are kinda like chickens.

That's the thing, though. Older cultures of Earth didn't sound like those same cultures do today. So our expectations are entirely bound up in this expectation (created by film and TV) that all things medieval involve British accents. And yes, they could have other "old-world" accents, but is that really the first thing that pops into your mind when you think medieval?

I appreciate that Bethesda doesn't limit their voice actors to doing that kind of performance, because it has nothing to do with the reality of our world or the reality of the world they've created.

Can't argue that the kids don't sound a little modern though, and that's just something you have to deal with when actually using children to voice children.

I swear the boy voice was in Fallout 3