I just bumped into an NPC who was voiced by an Irish person : V - Skyrim

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:44 pm

^^
There are no spanish accents.
Most are scandinavian (nords), english (dunmer) and irish. For example, the stormcloak guy on the cart in the intro speaks with a scandinavian accent, with a hint of irish.

I love the voice acting in Skyrim, it's varied with obvious links to real world cultures (As in ALL fantasy) yet with a slight twist in places.
The guy that speaks like Arnie is a legend

EDIT: Are you from the US by any chance? I have an american friend who I have had this conversation with a few times, he has trouble distinguishing between english and australian for example.
We came to the conclusion that the wide reach of american born movies and television make it hard for people from the US to learn accents, whereas people all over the world can probably distinguish between a New York accent and a Boston one.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:59 pm

You're hearing things OP.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:31 am

I agree. I hear no attempts at a Spanish accent anywhere in the game, and I just ran around Riverwood to check.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:25 pm

I could've sworn I heard a Japanese person trying to do a French accent at one point.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:14 pm

[img]http://images.wikia.com/babylon5/images/2/23/Londo_motfl.jpg[/img]
Now say "Glildergleam" :woot:

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 6:25 pm

There are no Irishmen or Spaniards in Skyrim. Consider the NPC's accent a Tamriel one. Elder Scrolls races aren't meant to mirror real-world ones, so it is a little presumptuous to believe that voice actors are attempting real-life accents.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:58 pm

ITT: Americans who have never met a Scandinavian person criticizing Scandinavian voice actors playing Scandinavian characters for getting their accents wrong.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:08 pm

Hah! Yes. And for the record, I grew up and live in the south, and I've never heard anyone say 'reckon'. EVER.

Heh, I'm from California and people say reckon in my hometown all the time.

I'm not sure what constitutes a "Yankee" in this day and age but what I do know is that I find it annoying that in a lot of games/movies made by foreign companies Americans always have some kind of homogenous Southern or East Coast accent. I imagine the mock accents in Skyrim bother a lot of Scandinavians, or maybe we are all being very overly sensitive about something that really doesn't matter. Oh well...

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:27 pm

Not one youtube link example in this thread? Yikes.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:38 pm

ITT: Americans who have never met a Scandinavian person criticizing Scandinavian voice actors playing Scandinavian characters for getting their accents wrong.

Who are the Scandinavian voice actors?
I'm German and every time I hear a guard, all I hear is Austria. Some of the women sound god damned Romanian ffs.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:58 am

Yesterday i bumped into a woman in Windhelm with a Southern American accent. Not something i experience every day.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:36 pm

Who are the Scandinavian voice actors?
I'm German and every time I hear a guard, all I hear is Austria. Some of the women sound god damned Romanian ffs.

That's all I hear as well. Every time a male stormcloak guard speaks, it's Arnold Schwarzenegger. :ermm:

There are no Irishmen or Spaniards in Skyrim. Consider the NPC's accent a Tamriel one. Elder Scrolls races aren't meant to mirror real-world ones, so it is a little presumptuous to believe that voice actors are attempting real-life accents.

Exactly what I was gonna say. Maybe there's a region somewhere in Nirn that developed a (to us) Irish-Spanish accent.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:19 pm

Ohhh noooo, one character has a bad voice acting in my opinion, Bethesda svcks and Skyrim svcks cause that one 1 characters voice acting irritated 1 person. Bethasda should stop doing games just cause they svck so much at voice acting.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:27 pm

While this comes up with a fair point, there really are times when the voice acting is terrible, for the simple reason that the voice actor doesn't actually sound like they would if they were doing the scene on a stage. It sounds like they have missed the point of the line. I'm sorry, I'm practically speaking out of my ass because I can't think of any NPCs off hand who do this, but there have been a number of times when I've thought "hmm... that line was really badly delivered"

I'd appreciate it if you linked a youtube video with these elves speaking.

For a number of reasons. firstly I'm a new zealander myself and have not heard an NZ accent in the game yet. Secondly because I haven't heard an aussie accent in the game and thirdly because I'd like to hear it, identify it, and then inform you that they are not the same and that they are quite distinct from one another.

Edit: I looked up, and found the pseudo-aussie dunmer comment. So I went and had a listen to dunmers in windhelm.

That is most definitely not a kiwi accent! I'm not even sure it's aussie, I'm fairly sure it's english. I'm not exactly sure which part of england it comes from, and if an aussie was to come online and say that it was australian I wouldn't be surprised. But if you asked me what that accent my first guess would be english.

It is not Aussie, but not quite English either.
Bearing in mind that our accent still has traces of our English ancestors, but with certain vowel "modifications".
I'm willing to bet that the voice actor is American, and aiming for cockney. He's missing by a mile, but 100 x better than dike Van Dyke!
That could end up sounding like a vague Australian/Kiwi mix, which still has a lot of 19th century "Sarf Larndin" in it.
Just a thought.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:05 pm

It is not Aussie, but not quite English either.
Bearing in mind that our accent still has traces of our English ancestors, but with certain vowel "modifications".
I'm willing to bet that the voice actor is American, and aiming for cockney. He's missing by a mile, but 100 x better than dike Van Dyke!
That could end up sounding like a vague Australian/Kiwi mix, which still has a lot of 19th century "Sarf Larndin" in it.
Just a thought.

It sounds like a majority of American actors I've heard attempting an Aussie accent. Can never quite get it right.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:09 pm

It is not Aussie, but not quite English either.
Bearing in mind that our accent still has traces of our English ancestors, but with certain vowel "modifications".
I'm willing to bet that the voice actor is American, and aiming for cockney. He's missing by a mile, but 100 x better than dike Van Dyke!
That could end up sounding like a vague Australian/Kiwi mix, which still has a lot of 19th century "Sarf Larndin" in it.
Just a thought.

That voice sounds like Joshua Graham. If so, clearly American:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0mivVd5xU

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:18 am

So none of yah play Dead Island. Figures.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 6:41 pm

Maybe the guy was one of the Black Irish? :biggrin:

Anyway, nobody has more right to complain about this than southerners. For decades we've been watching Yankees play southerners in various movies and television shows, and every durn one of 'em acts like they're channeling the spirit of either Foghorn Leghorn or Roscoe P. Coltrane when they do their "southern" voice.

You think you've got it bad apparently the rest of the world thinks everyone in England speaks like a cockney or in queen's English

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:30 pm

You think you've got it bad apparently the rest of the world thinks everyone in England speaks like a cockney or in queen's English :tongue:

what everyone over there doesn't talk like Monty python?!?

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:53 am

ITT: Americans who have never met a Scandinavian person criticizing Scandinavian voice actors playing Scandinavian characters for getting their accents wrong.

Well Americans (no offence) are generally (those I've come across) lousy on determining accents. Basically, everything that is not English or "American-english" is labeled as French or Spanish...

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:31 am

You think you've got it bad apparently the rest of the world thinks everyone in England speaks like a cockney or in queen's English :tongue:

It's still better than what they think all us Canucks talk like, eh?

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:32 am

since real world countries and languages dont exist in skyrim i really dont give a [censored] and dont get why anyone else would

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:10 pm

Ohhh noooo, one character has a bad voice acting in my opinion, Bethesda svcks and Skyrim svcks cause that one 1 characters voice acting irritated 1 person. Bethasda should stop doing games just cause they svck so much at voice acting.

No, they just need to hire better voice actors. Perhaps if the VA budget didn't go to hiring one or two famous-ish people they could afford more than one person who's decent at reading their lines.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:25 pm

I think all Yankees think everybody in the south lives in the country and was fishing and hunting from the age of three, and bathed in a creek and crapped in an outhouse.

Next thing you're going to tell me is that there is no Santa Claus! Y'all at least eat grits every day for breakfast, right? :biggrin:

The things that bothers me about the accents is that they aren't consistent. If I recall correctly, in Oblivion, Orcs sounded like Orcs; Argonians sounded like Argonians; and so on. It's a bit more hodgepodge in Skyrim.

» Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:22 pm

It's still better than what they think all us Canucks talk like, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BFPt001PYU