i have a question for everybody here who speaks english only as a second language!!
my first language is actually german but my english is as well as my german or even better since i don't live in germany right now... one of my german friends posted the gameplay trailer with german voices on facebook and it was just terrible...
http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1589&pk=15755

so my question for everybody is - will you play skyrim in english just because it is the original language and has better voice actors? another factor is that my version of oblivion had quite a few translation problems which i could just avoid...

I don't think they will translate to swedish so I'll play the english version.

Yes, I prefer playing games in English even though it isn't my native language. Some of the voicework/text quality is lost with translation.

yeah, my native tongue :toughninja:

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.

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).

I would like to hear people spek the language they actually do in Skyrim, but with englsish subtitles

I don't know how you could stand somthing like that, i never watch anything thats not dubbed into my native language, unless i'm extremely into it, or there is no other choice. Anime is a prime example, i love the dubs of it- but a lot of content isn't translated from Japanese.

Learn Japanese :shrug:

english, what are you talking about, they dont speak english in skyrim, they speak vahinkinshidk something, dragonborn language

Skyrim, as far as I can remember, is translated in french as "Bordeciel".

What do you think ?

Well, judging from the French voice in the trailer... I think I'll go for the English version XD

On the plus side, almost all Swedes can understand/talk English at an understandable level... It is even one of our core subjects at school, if a pupil fails that in the ninth grade, they can't move on to our version of high school (the other two core subjects are math and Swedish).
I can't stand dubbs regardless of language and especially not in anime, ie Japanese to English. It sounds wrong, and to see the mouth move in the wrong way is annoying. Not only that but the voice actors are often utter crap as well... All hail to subtitles and the original language.

By the way, I am going to play the game in English :whistling:

Did you really suggest learning Japanese just to watch the small non-dubbed content without subtitles? xD Come now, thats like suggesting someone learn the battle-cry language just to know what is being said in 0.1% of the game! I do know basic Japanese though..enough to generally get the gist of whats being said.

But back on topic, i find subtitles to be extremely annoying- your reading things at the bottom, while missing things above it. I don't know how anyone dose it.

Japanese i can understand... But i don't see why anyone would prefer dubbs over the original speech (with subs if you need some help).

Norwegian (nord) here so english for me.

I'll definitely play it in English, even if it means that I have to wait a couple of days before it gets here. Buying the German version is just never worth it, since I switch to the English one sooner or later anyway, because of the more active modding scene and usually because I don't like the translations for whatever reasons.

I wish more games would come out with the option to choose the language. But in the case of Skyrim, that would probably mean a full extra disc of audio files. Not that that would be impossible to do, but I don't see it happening.
Well, Bethesda can be happy, due to language reasons I bought Fallout 3 twice, and Morrowind three times (original in English, then bought the GOTY, noticed it's in German and bought the English one :facepalm: )

Same here. Although I don't think the Skyrim trailer dub is that terrible, it can't compete with Max von Sydow.
I switched to original (english) versions for movies and games a long time ago, if it's a language I don't understand I use subtitles. So much is lost by dubbing, you don't realize it until you switch to subtitles. It's way better even if you don't understand the language.

I don't know yet how I'll get my hands on the English version, but I'll find a way.



In German it used to be "Himmelsrand", but it seems they changed their mind and want to keep it Skyrim this time (at least they didn't try to pronounce it differently).

Hi,

I'm French but I think I will play in English.
Maybe...

I will just play it in french then when my mom asks me what I am doing I can say I am doing my homework

I agree, probably that you are used to Norwegian and Swedes has small languages so only child content get dubbed, the rest get subtitles.

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

Same as Zaria, I'm Norwegian and will play Skyrim in English; first of all because I seriously doubt it will be translated into Norwegian, and even if it did, it would probably svck so I would still play it in English.

English is my only language, so I'll play the game in English regardless.

However, I understand what you mean (OP). I used to watch a few anime in english, but found the voice acting from it's native language to be superior. I usually watch said shows with subtitles on simply because it sounds better. Frankly, the voice acting in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is the greatest game in the history of the universe.. I'd compare the final game's NPCs before settling for a foreign version. This is coming from a guy that svcks at learning a second language.

I think dubs are much better, you don't have the awkwardness of trying to get things in other languages- combined with great voice acting talent. The only times I've ran into bad voice acting talent was in the mid 90s and earlier, and with cheaply translated things. In the early 90s was especially bad, companies would change the names of characters and places because they didn't belive anyone would relate well to someone of a foreign name. This was extremely ironic, because only the most exotic names are considered foreign here, as 98.8% of our population came from immigration. Voice acting got a really bad reputation it can't seem to shake off too well, even when the voices are top notch.

Another reason for this is because people watch shows, and games in the native language (as the dub doesn't make it out first) and become accustomed to that voice, however when their own language comes out it sounds different and there for it doesn't "belong" to the character they had gotten to know so well, and there for shun the voice actor of the language because it's not what they know to be the 'character'. The lip synchronization is a problem for live action films, but unless games or anime are cheaply translated they normally reanimate the mouths to sync it up with the new language. It's a fairly easy process and i'm not sure why every dub company doesn't do it.

Very cheap anime and games are often associated with bad dubs, and for the most part this is a very accurate description from my experience. The publishers are often given a very small budget, and as a consequence they hire the cheapest actor/actress as a means to save money. However, most of these don't even get dubbed, they get subtitled and shipped out via special order or the internet and even then they have very bad subtitles as the translator is often not native to the language, and is paid very little.

For the most part, Japanese/English/German/Spanish voice actors are very much on par with each other (with the exception of the aforementioned circumstances) though i'm not familiar with anything other than German, Spanish, English, and Japanese voice acting talent, so maybe you have a different experience over in Sweden. German may be slightly inferior when it comes to dubbing anime due to it's much smaller fanbase (less money, less to invest, leading to lower quality talent being used)

Yeah, I hate dubbed movies/games, the lip sync is usually bad and it sounds horrible.