having actual Scandinavian voice actors : V

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:07 am

im really hoping that they if they have voice acting, the nords are voiced by actual Scandinavian people, because from what i heard of the teaser, it was an american trying to sound nordic which kinda ruined the atmosphere a lil, but overall still a good video!

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 12:27 pm

The voice actors aren't so important to me that much. As long as they fit the characters/races, It doesn't matter where they're from.
And by the by, the voice actor in the teaser was Max von Sydow, and he is infact Swedish. :biggrin:

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:27 am

im really hoping that they if they have voice acting, the nords are voiced by actual Scandinavian people, because from what i heard of the teaser, it was an american trying to sound nordic which kinda ruined the atmosphere a lil, but overall still a good video!

That would be kinda nice... ship some dan/swe/norway people over and get em to talk!

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:54 am

The voice actor's don't really matter to me that much. As long as they fit the characters/races, It doesn't matter to me where they're from.
And by the by, the voice actor in the teaser was Max von Sydow, and he is infact Swedish. :biggrin:

wow that shows my ability to judge were people are from

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:12 am

The 'American from the trailer' is actually a Swedish actor named Max von Sydow.

EDIT: And also it is not important where the voice actor is from, just that they are good.

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:03 pm

But they areb't scandinavian. And it would just sound silly to have a bunch of scandinavians speaking english in scandinavian accents when voicing people loosely based on scandinavians. Especially since no other Nord has had a scandinavian accent.

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:12 am

im really hoping that they if they have voice acting, the nords are voiced by actual Scandinavian people, because from what i heard of the teaser, it was an american trying to sound nordic which kinda ruined the atmosphere a lil, but overall still a good video!

I liked the Nord voice actors in the past, but yeah, it would be a lot more interesting to hear a thick accent when in an isolated mountain village.

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:02 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcE9QgqnPQ

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 4:56 pm

I don't think this is important at all. Skyrim isn't located in Scandinavia so I see no reason for why that would be the case.

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:18 am

Now that would be funny to hear. Especially if they couldn't care less to hide their accent and I guess that's what the OP wants. :thumbsup:

Or just give them a potato and you get close to something. (Yeah, I know that one is old)

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 1:31 pm

Honestly I wouldn't mind if they just got all the voice actors from Oblivion again. Along with some new ones.

I like the Oblivion Nord voice.

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:21 am

I definitely agree with this, BGS is at the level now where they can recruit from a wide source of actors/actresses and one hopes for some genuine scandinavian voice acting. Max von Sydow is so famous/perfect that I wouldn't have anyone else there (like Patrick Stewart in Oblivion, GREAT choice!). But for at least some of the towns and voice acting, real accents would be nice!

Miax

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:31 am

Hmmm . . . Max is swedish, so that makes the hole setting more credible.

Yeah, Skyrim is Skyrim, it is not scandinavia, but it is full of scandinavian influences.(Architecture, nature and names.)

Anyway, it does not really matter. The other TES games had voiceactors with quite thick american accents.

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:05 pm

I don't care where the voice actors come from, but I want the actors to be able to ponounce the Scandinavian-inspired words correctly.
As a Norwegian I find it a pain to hear a nord say a word you know, and it's pronounced really bad. "Udyrfrykte" comes to mind.

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:46 am

well of course your not going to find actors with 'skyrim' accents because skyrim doesnt exist lol, but imo, having some big scary person with an unfamiliar accent roaring at you with his axe held high over his head....bliss

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 4:40 pm

I don't care where the voice actors come from, but I want the actors to be able to ponounce the Scandinavian-inspired words correctly.
As a Norwegian I find it a pain to hear a nord say a word you know, and it's pronounced really bad. "Udyrfrykte" comes to mind.

Or the names of the people. Just sounds wrong in my norwegian ears.

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:48 am

I don't care where the voice actors come from, but I want the actors to be able to ponounce the Scandinavian-inspired words correctly.
As a Norwegian I find it a pain to hear a nord say a word you know, and it's pronounced really bad. "Udyrfrykte" comes to mind.

No offense to the rest of the world, but there are very few people who can and care to do so unfortunately...

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:35 pm

scottish people are cool.

i just hope there is less american voice acting

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:45 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoE18IgEVf0

this is what you want?

haha, i never get tired of listening to petter solberg...

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:43 am

scottish people are cool.

Speaking as one, I strongly disagree.

American actors are fine but the more classicly trained style of voice is much more fitting than the sweet valley twang or a nasal New York accent.

Generally the more actors the better.

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:50 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoE18IgEVf0

this is what you want?

haha, i never get tired of listening to petter solberg...

Haha, no... I just want someone who can pronounce Norwegian words (and English words of course) in a somehow proper manner. :laugh:

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 8:32 am

I want this as battle music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aID9DqIkuw8&feature=related

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:33 am

Having scandinavian voice actors is not that important imo. But the main issue with having non-scandinavian actors TRYING to sound scandinavian/nordic, is that they cant for life pronounce our names.
And nords do almost always have nordic names such as Olaf, Ragnar and so on. Americans cant pronounce the names at all so it sounds ridiculous for us who know how they are supposed to sound you know. But still, not a super big deal. And there's no easy way to get around the problem either i think, since americans trying to sounds scandinavian sounds even worse then it would if you just used scottish and british voice actors or something.

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 12:56 pm

No, I would hate this, scandivian accents sound awful, I've done everything in my power to rid me of my own (and succeeded). Besides, has people have said, Skyrim in inspired by scandivania, it's not the actual place.

» Sun Nov 14, 2010 1:02 pm

No, I would hate this, scandivian accents sound awful, I've done everything in my power to rid me of my own (and succeeded). Besides, has people have said, Skyrim in inspired by scandivania, it's not the actual place.

Hah, im the opposite, i actually treasure my accent when talking english. Far more unique and cool then talking some wannabe american-english accent. The European english-accents are all very cool imo. Russians, Germans, Scots etc..