will you play skyrim in english? : V - Skyrim

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:36 am

Well, it seems Bethesda has spend a huge amount of money in voiceacting, most mods will be in english, I'm comfortable enough with english to participate in this forum...

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» Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:03 am

I always play games in the original language. CoD, Halo, Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age etc in English and Metro 2033 in Russian with English subtitles. Makes the game so much better, in my opinion.

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:08 pm

One benefit of getting the US version is that it's standard for mod, also evades national censorship

Wait, what sorts of censorship? I always thought countries who generally buy video games are pretty opened about censorship?

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:35 am

Norwegian (nord) here

so english for me.

Wow. Ya Norwegian fellas are really that proud of Skyrim being based on Scandinavia? I don't think I've ever heard a Swede or Dane go on like you people do. (I'm Swedish by the way) (also, I'm not trying to be offensive or anything, just pointing things out.)

Anyway, even if Skyrim would get translated to Swedish, I would stick to the English version. Heck, my friends and I speak English all the time, for no apparent reason, and to the obvious dismay of the fanatically nationalistic creeps at school.

Although, I did once play through Half-Life 2 in German, as a weird little way of practicing the language

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:43 am

I still don't know...

I want to have the physical copy of Skyrim's CE, and I'm not eager to wait any other day than 11/11/11 to have it, so the logic solution would be to buy it at a local store.

On the other hand, I'm used to play TES in english and having it in spanish feels just....weird. Not to mention the spanish translation wasn't precisely the best of all times.

I'll maybe buy it in amazon.co.uk, and ask it to be an express package, so I can have it as soon as possible (maybe next day?)...or buy it on Steam, if the physical CE stuff doesn't interests me (which I doubt).

Pre-ordering online often means you'll get the game earlier than release date, not late.

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:02 am

Yeah i will play Skyrim in English .In fact i always play games / watch movies only on its original language with subtitles of language what i understand (Russian,Portuguese and English). :disguise:

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:50 am

Of curiosity how does a dubbed Oblivion sounds? If it's worse than the original it would be pretty scary.

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:32 am

French is my native language but I will play in English. Original version is always better.

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:54 pm

Of curiosity how does a dubbed Oblivion sounds? If it's worse than the original it would be pretty scary.

In Russian it was worst than original. :yucky:

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:36 am

Pre-ordering online often means you'll get the game earlier than release date, not late.

Even being it an international package? (I'm in Spain, you know).

The other issue would be the price of doing that. An international express package would be maybe as expensive as the game itself.

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:45 am

Of curiosity how does a dubbed Oblivion sounds? If it's worse than the original it would be pretty scary.

You really think Oblivion sounded bad?? I thought it sounded amazing, i thought the audio was one of it's strong points!

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:24 am

I think it's pretty awesome you all will be playing Skyrim in English, even if it's not your native language. I can definitely understand why though.

I'm actually currently learning Japanese, and I'm not sure if the same can be said of English, but there are a lot of things that simply can't be translated across languages. Watching anime, I'm constantly amazed at how different the subtitles are to the actual words the characters are saying.

For those of you that have played both an English version and another language copy, does the language have a big effect on the tone/quality of a game?

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:38 pm

I think it's pretty awesome you all will be playing Skyrim in English, even if it's not your native language. I can definitely understand why though.

I'm actually currently learning Japanese, and I'm not sure if the same can be said of English, but there are a lot of things that simply can't be translated across languages. Watching anime, I'm constantly amazed at how different the subtitles are to the actual words the characters are saying.

For those of you that have played both an English version and another language copy, does the language have a big effect on the tone/quality of a game?

Only if you play the original first and than switched to another language .

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:11 am

We don't get games in Ukrainian here, we get them in Russian instead, and I won't have any choice, coz english versions are not sold here, and local publishers almost never give the option to choose english version. But what's sad: most of the localizations are bad, I mean actors first of all. OB came out with eng voices and rus subtitles, and that was great, but than there was Gold edition, and they translated everything... poorly. So I really hope for subtitles...

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:40 am

You really think Oblivion sounded bad?? I thought it sounded amazing, i thought the audio was one of it's strong points!

My main problem with voice acting in Oblivion was that pretty often the voice changed dramatically, the female beggar in the marked district is the best example. But also many other characters had this dramatic change between personal lines and general rumours, other like the beast races avoided this and had a good voice acting.

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:47 am

For those of you that have played both an English version and another language copy, does the language have a big effect on the tone/quality of a game?

It does not necessarily have an affect on the quality or tone, but some things can be lost in translation. Humor is particularly hard to translate.

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:27 am

The original english version. Although I understand french, spanish and italian, I enjoy the original versions the most

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:08 am

Yeah, I always try to play games in their original language. And since I only master norwegian and english enough to actually play a game + the fact that I still have to find a decent game in norwegian = I play in english

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:37 pm

I play games in English because no game in history has allowed the option to change language to Maltese.

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:44 pm

I'll play it in English. And when I finish it, I'll start over in French. :foodndrink:

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:39 am

Yeah we rarely if ever get games translated into Swedish, just as we never get movies (other than children's movies) dubbed. I think this is a good ting since firstly, dubbs usually look and sound terrible and secondly, it's actually quite good to hear and having to understand English at a daily basis.

varf?r pratade du bara inte svenska med honom/henne? lol <-- Swedish

Anyways i will play in english since playing games in swedish just feels.... wierd. Even though it is based of Scandinavia!

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:49 pm

While I only speak English and a little bit of French, I played my first run-through Assassin's Creed II in its Italian dub. Not by choice, my mate changed it and i couldn't work out how to change it back, though thankfully the subtitles where in English. I then did a second run through after I worked out how to change the language back...

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:23 am

It does not necessarily have an affect on the quality or tone, but some things can be lost in translation. Humor is particularly hard to translate.

I didn't even think about the humor! Yeah, that's kind of important.

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:10 am

If they'd make a Swedish version of the game, I wouldn't trade it for the English one even if someone tried to pay me. Dubbing is EVIL!!! (Yes, that goes out to you, Germans and French!)

» Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:00 pm

I'm from Norway, and the very idea of Skyrim dubbed to Norwegian makes me cringe. I would never play it in any other language than English.