Am I the only one who thinks both most the bandits and the Thalmor sound rather... British?


...I hope I'm just imagining it, as a Brit I'm getting sick and tired of every villain in every American game being voiced British - when I played portal 2 the lovable cockney AI core gave me hope for a moment they'd broken the mould but... oh no, there he goes, double crossed me. Seriously, it's moving beyond funny or appropriate and into offensive these days.

You mean http://www.zastavki.com/pictures/1024x768/2010/Animals_Birds_Kiwi_bird_026192_.jpg kiwi's?

The literal definition of Foreigner is of course = Anyone not hailing from the United States of America.

He means a New Zealander.

Because American and British are the only people that matter in the world? Is that the point you are trying to make?

Cockney? You sure you're a Brit lol? Stephen Merchant's got a VERY West Country accent! It's not Cockney at all!

That's it I'm making a Teesside Skyrim Mod with Northern British Accents from my area lol, it'll sound like Teesside Tin Tin -

(Note: Language in below link NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDA7Qm8HBhQ

I believe what he means is "native English speaking". People who don't speak English as their first language tend to have more noticable accents than countries where English is the first language; probably because we become accustomed to hearing English and American accents as they are common in our daily lives and media - Try listening to a white South African and you'll find they also sound "foreign" even though English IS their first language, lack of familiarity at work.

Now stop trying to make a strawman and flog it



I'm Cornish >_> - Thought it sounded like one of those funny London accents to my ear... can never keep straight which is which. That said EVERYONE is a northerner to me xD

Edit: Yeah listening to a clip of him again not sure why I got the impression it was a london accent, it's south west. Just show how long I've been living outside the country. Point still stands though... british accents = automatic villain ball.

I'm wondering if the European Forum (is there one?) has a parallel thread about the accents in the German version (again assuming there is one) and they are bickering over how some Nords sound more Swedish and others more Danish or even too American.

I half expect to hear "get to the choppa!" when I'm walking around winterhold.

I suspect the OP is trolling... and for that I apologize for the bump. ...just wanted to toss my 2 pence in. >.>

Personally though, I would be really disgusted if all the npcs sounded like they were from London. Its Skyrim. Its a norse/viking setting. Now if everyone had the Ahnold accent, it was be equally annoying.

I'm just sad nobody had a Canadian accent

Actually I was thinking about changing some of the guards to say "I'm a cop you idiot!" haha

As for English bad guys, yeah I guess it's a bit of a typecast role, I blame Alan Rickman. I think they'd have some serious problems getting a Geordie or Yorkshire villain in there though.

The Austrian accents (that resemble, and for all we know one of them could actually be the voice of Schwarzenegger) combined some of the draugrs uncanny resembelance to a partially de-fleshed T-800 is obviously a bit of subtle humor on Bethesdas part (like).

<----- from germany, so sorry for my english.

so far i played the game in english and german.

english version:
lots of strange (from my point of view) accents. nord females have some kind of a russian or at least eastern european accent. in germany or scandinavia no one speaks english with an accent like this (if he war born/raised and went to school here). for me this was confusing and i didnt find the accent matching to nords (vikings, scandinavians or whatever).

german version:
no accents so far.

Indeed. Not even german accents. High-German at its best.

English is a foreign language, too

(for me, at least)

Are you trolling? Burn the troll with fire
Get it? I just made an Elder Scrolls joke, hahaha. I crack myself up.
The Nords have accents semi-suiting to their "real-world" counterparts. Although some of them are horribly done and sound dreadfully fake.

I definitely think they could have gone over the voice acting better, but it's not out of place and if I heard a British accent I would probably immediately kill that person merely due to the fact that there should be no British accents in this particular game.

OP you're an idiot.

Is this for real?

Far too many "American or British" actors already in the game (unique voices not included). Why are my Imperials/Bretons American? Why is every Elf in existence British? (Though I agree, I'm not too fond of the Nordic voices, I preferred the previous ones, but I'll live)

I'm actually relieved to see that there is a place where not everyone speaks perfect american.


Now I do agree that some of them are over the top but hey, I'll take it.

Are ya'll really this ignorant?

The ridiculous nord voice acting in this game is nothing like the real deal, trust me.

Agreed, I sometimes even hear this weird German/Arnold Schwarzenegger accent

''Weeh should be taaiking theh Faight toh Theh Stormcloahkz''

This game was made in America, they don't know real accents

As an Englishman, I can tell you the british accents aren't accurate, either.

I'm sorry you aren't ready for globalization.

I liked all the different accents. Just wish that the kids had more of a variety of accents too.