Didn't the orc blademaster in warcraft 3 have a american-japanese accent? Anyway: No way hosay.

Hosay? You mean Jóse or José :rolleyes:
Oh and terrible idea imo :ermm: if Asian accents were to be implemented, I'd like them placed on people/beings from Akavir (yeah yeah, I know the Akavir ghost in the Draconian Madstone quest had no accent... so what )

You can't go giving races true accents. When it comes to translating, it will be a nightmare. Taking this thread as an example, it would mean in, say, the French translation, they need to hire trained voice actors who speak French in a Japanese accent. Likewise with German, Italian, Spanish, et cetera.

Their wage bill for voice actors would be astronomical.

And for that reason, I voted no.

God... No... Just no.

Well yeah, Nynorsk is closer to Old Norse, I really should've have written that down instead. Personally I would think that was kind of cool, but 90% of the market would be going :huh:
And you're right, Icelandic is even closer to Old Norse, I've got no excuse here, I just had a dumb moment and forgot about it plain and simple.

I always thought that the Orcs of the Elder Scrolls universe were more like the Mongols than the Japanese.

Japanese accent for Orcs?

So now Orcs would call you "Bendu Olo-san?" Aw, Oblivion no

Just give them some barbarian accent and we're golden.

As far as being Japanese go, Akaviris are the only race to get it. One look at that Akaviri diary and I was, like, yeah... Japanese alright

I'd say give them mexican accents. That'd add some flavor to Skyrim.

Imagine;
(Big tough orc voice) eh? Watcha gonna do 'bout it essay?

Those same Japanese people who have tiny pencses, small bodies and make weird gameshows and disgusting porm? No way are those the kind of people who should voice the barbaric, manly Orcs. No offense.

The very same Japanese guys who willingly strapped grenades on their body and charge while screaming "BANZAAAAI!"

Oh, and crash on enemy warships with exploding airplanes

In terms of exploding manliness, Japanese win in every aspect. Terrorists lose points because they do things discreetly and don't target warships

Although the small body part (see what I did there?) is true. But then again slap any accent without knowing where it's coming from and you can always get away with it

Ummmmmmm....no. No. No. No. :huh:

Lolwut.

No that would be awful.

In the words of Sten no

It is no way Jose. Jose is the Spanish version of Joe. Hosay is not a word in any language. Please change it.

I think id rather have http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSm9DDxQv8Einstalled ;p

^ Same.

No...orcs with a japanese accent just doesn't see right to me.
Also while on this subject.Does anyone know what all the races counterparts are?
I would appreciate that
I know a few.
Bretons: british/french mix.
Imperials: romans
Nords: vikings
As for the rest i'm not quite sure,coud anyone tell me or give me a link so i can find out.
Thanks in advance.

I live in New England, land of the American Irish. I myself am Irish. My family is full of Irish folks. And none of us have Irish accents

America is full of accents, but most of them are native to the country, with the exception of Spanish accents caused by a large minority of Hispanics who immigrate from Latin America.

Anways, I think Orcs should have Orc voices. Deep, almost bestial. It's pretty commonplace among Orcs how they talk. In fact, I think the interpretation on Tolkein lore is probably the best way to go in this case. What I do think should happen, though, is that the gruff male Dark Elf voices from Morrowind should make a comeback. I'm not going to go into any sort of merry delusion of how everything in Morrowind was a perfect, but I do think that their voices added a unique sense of character to the Dunmer that was absent in Oblivion. Part of the problem, perhaps, is that the poor voice actor couldn't stand to give extended dialog with that voice. Short comments are easy, but thousands of lines when speaking like that could tear up anyone's vocal cords. Fortunately, one of the things they've said for Skyrim is that there will be clear racial distinctions. That makes me pleased.

My question to the OP is..
Why are you associating cultures in TES with cultures on Earth? TES is not Earth.
Orcish armor does not look Japanese/Samurai-ish, it looks Orcish.
Nords are not Scandinavian, they are Nordic.
:shrug:

I thought all TES races were associated with cultures on earth,i would like to know them all.
Breton:french/british mix
Imperials: roman
Nords: vikings
Are they all associated,with earth races /cultures,i would like to know.

The cultures in TES definitely reflect on what is around us on earth. (As are with most made up cultures.)

Tsaesci imo should be more closely related to asian cultures because of the simple fact of Katanas.
Orcs I beleive there Armory is basically a replica of Tsaesci, but Tsaesci are fearsome so why wouldn't a culture learn and take from a warrior race... I know the blades did



http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Tsaesci

Ken Rolston set out to make that his goal, but I don't think it was fully decided that everything must have a real world counterpart, nor did everyone jump on board with that plan. One such example of this is the Dark Elves. Their culture is so alien, so unlike anything people are familiar with. Their architecture is completely unique, societal structure is pretty interesting, and there can't be any single inspiration for that in the real world. The Imperials, yes, they were like Romans. And I think the idea to make the Bretons semi-French happened first in Oblivion. I think the best way to see the true Bretons would be to experience High Rock in a modern game, and see cultural differences between the various kingdoms. Same goes for Oblivion, where you really didn't see the difference between the Colovians and Nibenese, which is brought up every so often. In Morrowind, the Bretons just seemed like old British scholars, while the Imperials were half like ancient Rome and half like Imperial England. I suppose the same applied in Oblivion, but the Imperial City brought out the Roman aspect more than it has been in the past.

Nords are very much vikings. I think the source inspiration for Skyrim that you see occasionally in the Game Informer videos should be evidence enough for that.
Khajiit are supposed to be like Persians. We haven't actually been to Elsweyr yet, but their culture, accents, and the description of their homeland is very Persian.
Argonians seem very unique. But there isn't much information on what Black Marsh is like outside of the Imperial-occupied cities, other than how swampy it is. If anything, you may see Aztec-ish architecture, but there is no evidence of architecture like that happening and we certainly haven't seen any of Black Marsh to get such an idea.
The Bosmer seem to be like Tolkein elves, though Elder Scrolls has added many unique features to them. They live in forests, architecture is based around trees, etc etc. For a city, think http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M2w-bXYi0EE/THY5DBEA1JI/AAAAAAAADSo/hbHT7nLl6kk/s1600/lothlorien+(1).jpg.
High Elves...not a clue. Shiny is the only word I can use to describe what their cities may be like.

Orcs have no real world equivalent, but they seem to be pretty based on traditional Tolkein Orcs. The only time that they've shown any real cultural equivalence with a real culture is with their armor, which was samurai armor in Morrowind. I don't think the reason for that is because the orcs are Japanese though. If you look at a typical set of Samurai armor, there is usually a mask. Oftentimes, the mask will be stylized as an http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs46/f/2009/249/c/a/Samurai_Oni_Mask_by_mshydeplz.png. I think, on implementation, oni masks resemble orc faces. In the Elder Scrolls world, that wouldn't happen by coincidence, though it could in the real world. Therefore, in the Elder Scrolls world, a mask like that would be like an orc, while in the real world people would recognize it as an oni. So, what Bethesda did was they added samurai armor, but because oni faces can resemble Orcs, it made more sense to call it Orcish armor than to name it after the samurai, who don't exist in TES.

:rofl: A thousand times no

The ideas of the cultures in TES reflect cultures and are based on cultures on Earth, but they aren't cultures on Earth. Orcs still aren't Japanese, because there's no such thing as a Japanese Orc. It's an Orc. Just an Orc.
Why would an Orc have a Japanese accent? There are no Japanese in TES.