My native language is German and I live in the USA now. Will it be possible to play Skyrim in German when I buy a US version? Normally with other games you get French and Spain. In Europe you get every language. Will that be possible? I try so hard to get an answer!

Thank you

Oliver

you can install the game in whatever language you like, just set the according language in steam's preferences.

you'll have to reinstall for it to take effect though iirc

würde au?erdem empfehlen, die englische version zu spielen, zur not gibts ja noch untertitel

Ach so, can I play on English with German under text? I have a ps4 and I played it last on a PS3. I want to buy a copy from ps4 store or a DVD in a store.

You don't need to reinstall, it just downloads new language files. But this is an answer only about the PC version and might not apply in OP's situation.


As you mentioned, consoles usually have limited language options, so it would be best to confirm with the retailer before you purchase the game.

oh, sorry, totally did NOT consider console versions, just talking pc version.

on the other hand though, german isn't that uncommon, so i figure they'll have that covered for consoles too

...and in any beth rpg i ever played, it was possible to run the game in english with subtitles in any language they were available in,

which is pc again of course, but i see no reason why that'd be different in console versions

in doubt, just get the language files as rosveen said and try for yourself, nothing lost but the time for downloading at worst...

It is, that's why he's asking. Sometimes you don't get language selection at all, the game defaults to your console language. Sometimes a language is only available in some regions. This is also true for PC, in fact - for example in Skyrim or Dishonored RHCP languages were available only in games sold by Cenega in Eastern Europe (RHCP Dishonored still has a different Steam ID than the regular version).

oh. i wasn't aware of any of these.

(nor of what rhcp means, it'll not be "red hot chili peppers" or "right hand circular polarisation" here obviously

i'm apparently spoiled by being on a pc located in austria and having steam offer me versions in languages i didn't even know exist before that,

and that i can switch to anytime.

but since the op speaks german, they'll likely be in germany, switzerland or austria as well, so it might not be that different for them

edit: just occured to me what this might be about:

differing censorship rules in different countries = language versions

...which might be a problem for the op, depending on where exactly they are.

in austria, video games hardly ever get censored for anything, except nazi glorification. which might be why nobody cares what language version of a game that doesn't contain any of that i download from austria.

in germany though, the according rules are... uh-rhm... tougher (trying hard to suppress a facepalm here , thereby potentially causing language version limitations

When I played kill zone or residents evil, you can choose every language you want. But I don't know how that was with Skyrim. I tried to change it, but it was not working. I would love to have under text. Do someone know how to get in contact with one of the makers of Skyrim? It is easier to get a meeting with the pope then to get in contact with the people of Skyrim. Maybe they consider it to put all language in it or at least under text.

It stands for Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Polish. Cenega is the distributor of Bethesda games in this region and they often secure their sales by region-locking. It's not a big deal, but our DLC were usually delayed by months and the only way to circumvent it was getting our hands on the international version - for example, international Dawnguard could be giften to RHCP on Steam, but not the other way around. But that also meant giving up on translations to our languages. Skyrim was eventually unlocked though and Dishonored's last DLC came almost instantly after international release, so they're improving. No idea what happened with Fallout 4, I didn't buy it.

i see, thx for explanation.

so that's basically a distributor thing, not some attempt of, like, language grouping

(it'd appear pretty random as such, with hungarian not being related, russian having a different alphabet and half of the rest of slavian languages missing at all)

and, just that i get that right, this is NOT about any censorship laws, just really that "ceneca" only, right?

(maybe filing a complaint with beth could help

...phew, quite a hell of fuss turning up around the seemingly simple question of how to change a bloody video game's language (glad i'm in austria in that)...

you really should.

Nope, no censorship, the games are exactly the same. Part of the problem is that Bethesda is directly responsible for EFIGS* languages while other translations are done by local distributors (this was also the case with some Asian language in Skyrim - Japanese or Korean, I don't remember). So it actually makes sense that those weren't included in the international version, even if it's inconvenient sometimes.


*English, French, Italian, German, Spanish

thx