History YouNoTakeCandle / VideoGames

* ''{{Warcraft}}'':
** In this video game series, the "primitive" language is actually named "Low Common" in Warcraft [=DnD=] - implicitly there's a "low" form of many other languages, as well. ''WorldOfWarcraft'' actually subverts this at one point:

*** In the case of the Furbolgs it's justified in that the ones you talk intelligently to are how all Furbolgs used to be, and the brutish, animalistic ones are those that had been driven mad by the invasion of the Burning Legion during Warcraft III

** ''HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' has "YOU NO TAKE CANDLE" as the Kobold Geomancer's battlecry.

* ''{{Runescape}}'': The Ogres speak a vaguely Jamaican accent, which is commented on multiple times. Some Ogres that have lived with humans speak grammatically correct, albeit short, sentences. They still use lots of slang, making some sentences almost unreadable. The goblins, though speak in a 'stupid' way with incorrect grammar. In an inversion of this trope, they are revealed to be very smart, but most tribes of goblins care more about warfare and physical strength than science, art, and intellectuality.

* ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}: Cataclysm'': The [[HiveQueen Beast]] starts by speaking in broken English, and has an...idiosyncratic method of speech when controlled by the player. However, as the campaign goes on and the Beast adapts and learns, it finally speaks to the captain as an equal.

--->'''Human Infiltrator''': And you should have seen this Vanguard when we had to hunker down and upload some intel.\\
'''Vorcha Soldier''': Vanguard charge away! Upload go slow! Bad for team!

** The vorcha usually speak this way. They're the only species met so far to do so. This is justified in that their average lifespan is twenty years, if they're lucky: such short lives leave little time for them to become well-educated. Shepard does meet one or two well-spoken vorcha throughout the game, and even those that don't have a great grasp of Basic are not necessarily stupid, as seen by the vorcha soldier speaking to a human soldier in the third game's ''Citadel'' DLC.

* ''RedDeadRedemption'': Parodied. When Professor [=MacDougal=] (a KnowNothingKnowItAll ''par excellence'') introduces [[TheHero John Marston]] to his Native American assistant Nastas, he speaks YouNoTakeCandle to the latter. Nastas, with an air of NeverHeardThatOneBefore, calmly points out that they taught English on the reservation and he's fluent. This doesn't stop [=MacDougal=] from treating him like a stupid child [[spoiler:up to the point where Nastas is killed]], and makes it really satisfying in ''[[RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare Undead Nightmare]]'' when Zombie Nastas eats him.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls2'': "[[MemeticMutation Gavlan wheel, Gavlan deal!]] Gavlan want soul! Many many soul! What you want? With Gavlan, you wheel! You deal!"

** The kobolds in this series. Actually, being ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Kobolds, they're as intelligent as a human, and have a developed, if exceptionally violent, culture. Their poor language stems from their typical genocidal hatred of anything except dragons and other kobolds; they consider Common beneath them and don't bother to learn to speak it properly. A sample line from ''NeverwinterNights2'' (where orcs also speak a form of You No Take Candle):

** The Vorcha speak this way. They're the only species met so far to do so:
-->'''Vorcha:''' [[MemeticMutation COLLECTORS WANT PLAGUE! YOU WORK FOR DOCTOR, PUT CURE IN AIR! WE KILL YOU FIRST!]]
** Possibly justified in that a normal Vorcha lifespan is ''twenty years.''
*** Twenty years assuming they don't get killed. Though they regenerate insanely fast (on higher difficulties, a headshot is the only thing that is guaranteed to kill them immediately. Everything else can be healed in about three to five seconds), their culture is based on injuring each other to become stronger. Because they regenerate so quickly, being injured actually makes them stronger. Their culture has a ''lot'' of murder, according to the Codex.

** In ''Mass Effect 3'' however, Shepard does meet some Vorcha who actually speak in complete sentences.

* ''KingdomOfLoathing'':

* ''BanjoKazooie'': Both Mumbo Jumbo and Humba Wumba, in addition to a few side characters, in this series. Rather jarring in Wumba's case, being a heavily stereotypical Native American in a game released in ''2000''.
* ''CityOfHeroes'': The Trolls are a gang whose members take a drug that gives super-strength but mutates them into giving them their distinctive troll-like appearance; it also apparently causes their brains to degrade to the point they start speaking like this. Ironically, this is the ''only'' effect (well, that and rage issues) Superadine has on the brain. Trolls are still as intelligent as anyone else; it's just the language centers that are affected.

* ''NeverwinterNights'':
** The kobolds in this series. Actually, being ''DungeonsAndDragons'' Kobolds, they're as intelligent as a human, and have a developed, if exceptionally violent, culture. Their poor language stems from their typical genocidal hatred of anything except dragons and other kobolds; they consider Common beneath them and don't bother to learn to speak it properly. A sample line from ''NeverwinterNights2'' (where orcs also speak a form of You No Take Candle):

*** Since Cataclysm patch, alliance players can actually obtain [[http://www.wowhead.com/item=58903 a candle]] at Westfall.

** There are also Hozen, Monkey-men who pepper in common with words they seem to have made up themselves, they're only unintelligible until you figure out what means what ("wikkets" means outsider, for example). Justified by them only having a life expectancy of 20 years, well-learned Hozen are extremely rare, even if they're an elder. A few speak in more complete sentences, such as Tak-tak, a kite-glider pilot for the Horde, who transports Horde players to various locations for the Dominance Offensive quests and will comment on the questline's events during flight.

* ''FireEmblemAwakening'': Gregor be the suffering from bad case of this.

** Has a bartender who randomly adds unnecessary plurals to his speech ("You seek informations?" etc), leading to the [[MemeticMutation infamous quip]] "[[DoesntTrustThoseGuys Never trust]] a bartender with bad grammar." Amusingly this can't be a species thing because he's a Chiss, the same as the [[WickedCultured supremely cultured]] [[MagnificentBastard Grand Admiral Thrawn]].
** Not necessarily. With any foreign ethnic group you can find plenty of people with thick accents or grammar quirks and plenty of people without. Thrawn could simply have a better command of Basic than the the bartender, being much more highly educated and erudite, as well as a definite {{Omniglot}}.

* ''DarkForcesSaga'' (''Jedi Knight 2''):

** ''HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' has every kobold in the game yell "YOU NO TAKE CANDLE" upon summon.

** From ''Warcraft III'' itself, you have the trolls, at least in the French translation. With the notable exception of witch doctors, who talk sophisticated instead.
*** In English, they have Caribbean accents, which sometimes embody this trope ("Who ja wan' me kill?").

** There are also Hozen, Monkey-men who pepper in common with words they seem to have made up themselves, they're only unintelligable until you figure out what means what ("wikkets" means outsider, for example). Justified by them only having a life expectancy of 15 years, well-learned Hozen are extremely rare, even if they're an elder. A few speak in more complete sentences, such as Tak-tak, a kite-glider pilot for the Horde, who transports Horde players to various locations for the Dominance Offensive quests and will comment on the questline's events during flight.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'': The entire [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Nopon]] race speaks like this. They are fond of this way of speaking, and say that the Nopon that try to speak correctly like the other races are just trying too hard to be cool.

*** Also parodied in a later quest where you have to catch Kobolds with a net. One of the possible responses from the Kolbolds is "You no take... me!"

* The Chua of ''VideoGame/WildStar'' speak like this, and refer to themselves in the 3rd and 2nd person only, to boot. They are [[BrilliantButLazy extremely intelligent, but they just can't be bothered]] to speak like the other races. Time spent learning grammar is time better spent on research.