You think energy saving light bulbs, central heating, double glazing?

For 150th time. You are wrong. No accent you hear today existed 500 years ago. You would not be able to understand a single word of medieval English. How can you not get this through your head. Your entire premise is flawed.

Read my last post. Any modern accent wouldn't sound right in this game if you're going for a more realistic historical setting.

Oh, geez, another one. Every accent you hear today is modern. They sound nothing, nothing at all, like the same language 500 years ago. And if you're pushing this game back to what actual earth trappings are represented in it, English as we know it didn't exist.

And American accents.


Yes I do. It shall take place on Earcyrodoommaderpahoth, the non-realistic, realistic, super accent homegoods opening fiction planet of the plates, where Half64 will be hired to point out the realism flaws in anything, ever.

That's like saying Bethesda used an accent in their game that was made 20 years ago and put in it their game which is based on accent workings. it just wouldn't fit, hence why American doesn't fit. What other elements should Bethesda put in their game that where invented in the last 200 years? You think energy saving light bulbs, central heating, double glazing?

Bethesda doesn't have the time and resources to hire dozens of historical linguists, determine what accents MIGHT have sounded like 1000 years ago, then hire voice actors who can quickly learn the accents and still make it understandable for you. It's not going to happen.

And to be honest, I don't think Bethesda is going for a realistic historical setting.

Why did Bethesda have to kill the immersion by using American voice actors? One of the biggest immersion killers with RPG is the fact that such games use modern American voice actors and accents and it sounds terrible. NO offence against the American accent but it just doesn't fit such RPG style games and the accent is too new.

Out of all of the voice actors in the world they pick American's and the kids in this game sound like today's America. The Witcher 2 and Gothic 2 are hardly perfect either but Elder Scrolls is terrible in this respect. It's just amazing how such game developers think American accents are normal in such a game and I've even heard accents that sound straight from New York. Can you not find trained American voice actors who can make their accent not so harsh? Clearly not.

Don't know much do you? Cockney has been spoken in London for more than 500 years and still is.

Don't know much do you? Cockney has been spoken in London for more than 500 years and still is.

Maybe putting a McDonald's in a stone building would please you guys then and bread wrapped up in plastic, after all, it's based on fantasy....... :rolleyes:

Maybe putting a McDonald's in a stone building would please you guys then and bread wrapped up in plastic, after all, it's based on fantasy....... :rolleyes:

Oh you want more modern Swedish accents then?

Maybe they should just put up an IKEA in Whiterun. :rolleyes:

we can't even create spells, how are we supposed to assemble stuff for ourselves

You have no clue about linguistics. Here's a poem in Middle English:

Adam lay ibowndyn, bowndyn in a bond,
Fowre thowsand wynter thowt he not to long;
And al was for an appil, an appil that he tok,
As clerkis fyndyn wretyn in here book.

Ne hadde the appil take ben, the appil taken ben,
Ne hadde never our lady a ben hevene qwen.
Blyssid be the tyme that appil take was,
Therfore we mown syngyn, "Deo Gracias!"

Here's another text:

Know or thow knytte; prove or thow preyse yt.
Yf thou know er thou knyt, than mayst thou abate;
And yf thou knyt er thou knowe, than yt ys to late.
Therfore avyse thee er thou the knot knytte,
For "had y wyst" commeth to late for to lowse yt

Not to mention English made what is know in linguistics as The Great Vowel shift about 500 years ago. The cockney accent of today isn't even close to 500 years old. The term cockney goes back to Chaucer's time but then it was derogatory term for an effeminate man. Only around 1600 was the term used to refer a particular region of England and English dialect and the accent even then is nothing like it is now. Accents constantly change. Why the hell do you think there are so many distinct accents in America alone?

Doesn't matter, I'd rather them speak with an ancient inspired accent than a Modern American one. America has been around for 250 years and doesn't belong in any kind of accent setting game like Elder Scrolls. You simply cannot plant a modern thing just because your modern world currently revolves around it.

Doesn't matter, I'd rather them speak with an ancient inspired accent than a Modern American one. America has been around for 250 years and doesn't belong in any kind of accent setting game like Elder Scrolls. You simply cannot plant a modern thing just because your modern world currently revolves around it.

Maybe putting a McDonald's in a stone building would please you guys then and bread wrapped up in plastic, after all, it's based on fantasy....... :rolleyes:

Seriously. You're just trolling now. You've already been proven wrong repeatedly. The different English, Swedish, and American accents are all linguistically modern. None of them sound like they did even a few hundred years ago let alone six hundred years ago. You've shown quite clearly that your real problem is just with America. Maybe you shouldn't be playing an American made game by a company named after an American city then.