That sounds really stupid.

"Feeru my batoru akkusu?" "Feel my battle axe"

Now,I love Japanese stuff but this would be FAIL no matter how I slice it... :shakehead:

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.

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.

Proper Dunmer voices wouldn't be that much of a problem, look at the ghouls in Fallout 3, the actors there use the same voice technique and if used sparingly it won't do any harm to your vocal cords. With a few actors to share the work recording all those lines with the appropriate voices would be absolutely no problem.

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.

Exactly, take it from a vocalist who plays around with those kinds of harsh vocal techniques in his music, no vocal chords were harmed in the making of morrowind (as far as the actors are concerned)

this, will be one of the few times where Tracy Morgan is useful as part of my reply...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lffwR5-U0YE&feature=related

orcs would be incredibly ridiculous if they sounded like the japanese

The power of a Nord can be articulated into a shout, like the kiai of an Akaviri swordsman.

Kiai (気合?) (English pronunciation: /?ki?.a?/) is a Japanese term used in martial arts.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Children_of_the_Sky

That page is completely inaccurate and makes no sense whatsoever.

Nords do not have magic powers and do not shout to cause mass destruction and such, that's all just made up fan lore (But what more can you expect on UESP? Half the information there is unofficial)

The shouts they are talking about are dragon shouts and they are restricted to a specific group of nords and dragonborn.

Also I don't understand why you linked this in the first place.

Seeing as the Ocs culture and weapons armours and honour is Based on the Japanese Samurai's i thinkt the orcs should be given a deep japanese accent for skyrim1

Seeing as the Ocs culture and weapons armours and honour is Based on the Japanese Samurai's i thinkt the orcs should be given a deep japanese accent for skyrim1

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Children_of_the_Sky

Anyhow that wouldnt go over very well... especially since everyone hates/looks down on asians.