In the fantasy MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online, German voices from Hollywood stars were hired to give the fantasy epic the necessary gravitas. An overview of the voice actors.
Yes, it’s John Cleese, the most famous Monty Python, who sits around with a pot on his head and mumbles wildly as Cadwell. That’s him in the original, and to ensure that it’s also him for his fans in German, the German voice of Cleese, Thomas Danneberg, was hired. And all the German voice actors that players will find familiar are now introduced in a video.
I think it’s so great that Saruman speaks for the Prophet
Overall, there are a lot of famous voices in the video about the voice actors for The Elder Scrolls Online (Hey, isn’t that Alec Baldwin?), but relatively few faces. That’s why it’s often said in the comments: “I think it’s so great that Saruman speaks for the Prophet.”
This feeling, by the way, is exclusive to us Germans. In the original, it’s not Christopher Lee (Saruman) who lends his voice to the frail Prophet, but Michael Gambon (Professor Dumbledore). The two actors share a voice in German: Otto Mellies voices both wizards and also the Prophet.
For other roles, the English and German voices differ a bit more. The Daedra Prince Molag Bal is voiced by Malcolm McDowell in the original, but in the German version, he suspiciously sounds like Al Pacino. For Mannimacro, a voice actor who specializes in video games was hired for the original, while in the German version, he is voiced by Martin Kessler, the voice of diverse US stars like Vin Diesel or Nicolas Cage.
By the way: The voice acting and the work in the studio not only ensure recognition value and atmosphere, but also contribute to the fact that patches for TESO always come in double-digit gigabyte sizes. The release is expected to be around 60 GB.
The work of the voice actors has now been summarized in a video on the occasion of the upcoming Konsole releases for Playstation 4 and Xbox One.
A selection of voice actors in The Elder Scrolls Online
- Otto Mellies (e.g. the German voice of Christopher Lee)
- Rainer Schöne (e.g. the German voice of Willem Dafoe)
- Klaus-Dieter Klebsch (e.g. the German voice of Alec Baldwin)
- Frank Glaubrecht (e.g. the German voice of Al Pacino)
- Thomas Danneberg (e.g. the German voice of John Cleese)
- Wolfgang Condrus (e.g. the German voice of Ed Harris)
- Martin Kessler (e.g. the German voice of Vin Diesel)
- as well as Bernd Rumpf (e.g. the German voice of Liam Neeson)
