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✭✭spartaxoxo wrote: »The whole issue is that it ISN'T a fake accent. It is a highly recognisable regional accent from the real world done very badly and inconsistently.
It is a fake accent that is inspired by a highly recognizable regional accent. The Reachman aren't analogous to any real world group, only inspired by them.
In all honesty the problem with this is that if you don't know what a Scottish accent sounds like you might be able to tell yourself that.
But if you *do* know exactly what a Scottish accent is, I'm not sure it's even possible for you to tell your brain "oh just pretend this isn't an awful Scottish accent it's a Tamriel accent that just happens to be completely different from one actor to the next and from sentence to sentence and to sound exactly like what would happen if actors tried to do Scottish and did it atrociously". Especially when at least one of the actors *is actually Scottish and is using a real Scottish accent*.
I strongly suspect a human brain can't do that without some quite severe psychological conditioning / brainwashing. At a bare minimum, if there's a fake accent, all the actors need to be using a fake accent that is recognisably the same. Which is what you see with the Khajiit.
It's interesting. The accents came up on reddit when the zone came out and it pretty neatly divided into North Americans who thought people were making a big deal about nothing and needed to give over and European English speakers who thought it was like fingernails down a blackboard and approached actually unbearable.Edited by Northwold on March 7, 2022 12:57AM8 -
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✭✭I don't really worry about it people have different voices not every character is going to sound the way you expect them to, so long as they are consistent between performances with the returning voice actors I got no problem with it and don't go overboard using the same actor for a large number of NPC's.
Half the time they take so long to speak the dialogue I have already read the text and selected the next dialogue option to move things along, I only listen to the dialogue if I like the sound of the voice actors voice.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭It's interesting. The accents came up on reddit when the zone came out and it pretty neatly divided into North Americans who thought people were making a big deal about nothing and needed to give over and European English speakers who thought it was like fingernails down a blackboard and approached actually unbearable.
Probably doesn't help that, as Americans, the accents that we do have (like Southern, or New Yawk, or Bahstan) come in a wide range from subtle to hilariously overdone media presentations. So we're used to accents being all over the map. They're just a thing, no big deal. And we don't have any national identity tied up in any accent, since we're a mess of immigrants & cultures & regions. /shrug
(there's just something funny about Sean Connery playing a Russian with his regular accent in Hunt for Red October. Or an ancient Egyptian Spaniard - again, with his usual accent - in Highlander.
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kaushad✭✭✭✭I'm blissfully unaware of the shortcomings of the Reach voice actors. I know that Wes Johnson (Ard Caddach) sounds off, but that's one character, not half the men in Markarth. As a (southern) Briton, I should probably know better. Can someone tell me which character(s) has the good Scottish accent?
I don't think of Bosmer having a bad Cockney accent, because there's nothing else Cockney about their culture, homeland or even names. It's effectively another fantasy accent along with Khajiiti.
I do dislike how some lines are misread, like when they put the emphasis on the wrong word. Today, I heard a character's line start with "Khah-khah-khah!. I assume that's supposed be a throaty cackle, because the sound at the end of "loch" and "Bach" is often represented by a "kh" in English phonetic guides, but it sounded more like "Car, car, car!". His acting for that character was pretty good otherwise.
I just remembered Captain One-Eye: Argonian monotone, but like a stereotypical pirate.1 -
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✭✭✭✭✭It's interesting. The accents came up on reddit when the zone came out and it pretty neatly divided into North Americans who thought people were making a big deal about nothing and needed to give over and European English speakers who thought it was like fingernails down a blackboard and approached actually unbearable.
I think this post actually had a pretty good insight into why that might be.Kiralyn2000 wrote: »It's interesting. The accents came up on reddit when the zone came out and it pretty neatly divided into North Americans who thought people were making a big deal about nothing and needed to give over and European English speakers who thought it was like fingernails down a blackboard and approached actually unbearable.
Probably doesn't help that, as Americans, the accents that we do have (like Southern, or New Yawk, or Bahstan) come in a wide range from subtle to hilariously overdone media presentations. So we're used to accents being all over the map. They're just a thing, no big deal. And we don't have any national identity tied up in any accent, since we're a mess of immigrants & cultures & regions. /shrug
Personally as an American the only time I really care about accents is when it's a biopic about someone important, and even then a lot of us don't care even then which is why all Europeans sound British in a lot of those movies.
So if I don't care about them trying to do the accent right on sitcom that's supposed to be accurate, I'm certainly not gonna care in a fantasy game where the accents aren't even meant to be authentic.Edited by spartaxoxo on March 7, 2022 2:29AM2 -
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✭✭I'm blissfully unaware of the shortcomings of the Reach voice actors. I know that Wes Johnson (Ard Caddach) sounds off, but that's one character, not half the men in Markarth. As a (southern) Briton, I should probably know better. Can someone tell me which character(s) has the good Scottish accent?
I don't think of Bosmer having a bad Cockney accent, because there's nothing else Cockney about their culture, homeland or even names. It's effectively another fantasy accent along with Khajiiti.
I just remembered Captain One-Eye: Argonian monotone, but like a stereotypical pirate.
Billy Boyd (Lord of the Rings) is Scottish and a very mild accent, which would be really difficult to imitate. I think his character is called Brendan or something? The sort of right hand man of the main Reach lady by the end. The worst accent is one of the reach women who literally drops into a Hollywood Russian accent from time to time (every other sentence) and then does a skip through Ireland. It's pretty bizarre.
I never really had a problem with the wood elves because it was just normal bad accent drift. It was annoying but not so bad I couldn't listen. The Reach was very noticeable though because it was so much worse.
@spartaxoxo The issue with the Scottish accents, specifically, is that Scottish is such a strong accent that some of the accents in Markarth are actually not that far off a Londoner being presented as a New Yorker or, indeed, a Russian who speaks English with a thick accent doing the same. They're not even on the same continent.
It's not the difference between a Midwest American accent and California. It's that the Scottish accent is *that* distinct that it's very, very noticeable. I mean, for the extreme example see any clip from Trainspotting, but it is something like Sean Connery or Ewan McGregor -- it is instantly and extremely different from the English of any part of England or America.
I mentioned South African above simply because it's another one that if it's done wrong it ends up *howling* wrong, so tends to be best avoided.
Anyway, I'm guessing at this point we've all thrashed the specific Scottish point out as far as it'll go. If nothing else it's clear (and genuinely interesting) that some people hear it much more than others!Edited by Northwold on March 7, 2022 3:41AM3 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »It's interesting. The accents came up on reddit when the zone came out and it pretty neatly divided into North Americans who thought people were making a big deal about nothing and needed to give over and European English speakers who thought it was like fingernails down a blackboard and approached actually unbearable.
Probably doesn't help that, as Americans, the accents that we do have (like Southern, or New Yawk, or Bahstan) come in a wide range from subtle to hilariously overdone media presentations. So we're used to accents being all over the map. They're just a thing, no big deal. And we don't have any national identity tied up in any accent, since we're a mess of immigrants & cultures & regions. /shrug
Those are dialects not accents, and every accent/dialect comes in a range from subtle to overdone, both in media and real life. No matter where they are from.[Lie] Of course! I don't even worship Daedra!2 -
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✭✭✭The only issue I have with the voice acting is the numerical lack of variety of actors.
There aren't enough different people doing the VA compared to the number of roles for just normal NPCs with speaking lines.
I'm not talking about the few big name *stars* doing the iconic speaking roles.
It's just that every Bosmer is the same guy or gal, every Altmer is a different same guy/gal, Orcs, Khajiit, etc.
There needed to be more variety in the other lesser roles for voice.
Clearly new DLC places like The Reach, for example, have some newer sounding people than earlier maps but other than that I just feel like I'm always talking to the same 6 or 8 people wherever I go.
Just to add my two drakes.
The VO in ESO is 100's of Voice Actors. True, some do a variety of NPC's, but it is FAR from 6-8 people.
Below is a link to the VA talent voicing ESO. A couple of big ones that people miss are Tim Russ (Star Trek Voyager), Linda Carter (Wonder Woman, voices in TES4 and TES5), Liam O'Brian (Critical Role), Kari Wahlgren , J.B. Blanc and Steve Bloom.
Also this is a older list and there are more VA's added with the later DLC's.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3485722/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
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✭✭✭✭✭HiveMind3006 wrote: »Yea but the Wood Elves arrrrrgh!! Cheesy Peeps its frickin BAD ! I'm Scottish, so I am used to terrible Jock impersonations from an early age (Russ Abbot anyone or am I just showing my age here?)
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But the Scottish accents in the Reach were a whole new level of atrocious and I had to turn the sound off.
I haven't spent much time in the Reach. I am currently 'mopping up' missed quests and other bits n bobs I've missed throughout the zones so I shall definitely make that my next port of call. Thoughts shall be shared.
If you think that's bad you should hear what my fellow Americans in media do to US Southern and Appalachian accents (which ironically descend from Scottish and Irish ones albeit closer to what those accents sounded like when Shakespeare was alive). Thank God that those aren't used in-game because it would be as bad or worse than the Reach. And speaking of the Reach accents... while it's clearly Scottish in a manner it is different enough that I kind of think of it as a different accent altogether (one that sounds like a Scottish accent or is inspired-by but isn't quite). That helps me keep some sort of immersion there without the accent bothering me too much.
I think certain areas in the US simply can't hear the differences in certain accents (sort of like the pin/pen distinction that many southerners can't hear) and honestly don't know that what they're putting out there is terrible sounding to those that have an ear for certain accents and/or are native to where they are spoken. I say that because I've noticed that non-US actors (even Canadian ones) have tended to do a better job with Southern and Appalachian accents than many (and I do mean MANY - prob. most) American actors that aren't from those regions and/or have had little exposure to them.
Just as an observation.. All of the accents in question have a certain rhythm or melody to how sentences sound -- I don't think it's the words themselves that the actors are saying wrong but rather they're screwing up how the sentence or paragraph sounds when it's all together. Much like being able to get the notes right individually but not quite being able to put the song together. And given how both movies and games are edited and put together in post (chopped up, rearranged and inserted), that may be why certain accents give big media such trouble.
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Yes, I think you have totally nailed it there.
Southern accents sound so unusual to other Americans that they completely over-exaggerate when they try to reproduce them in acting. A lot of times they equate deep Southern accent with the way people speak in Texas, which is not the same. Interesting that the tour guide in Elden Root somebody mentioned earlier sounds as much like a Southern accent to me as any NPC in the game might.
I sort of cringe at some of the accents in game, mostly the base game Nord accents. The worst one so far though was the undead werewolf Faoulchu in Camlorn. I don’t know what that guy is doing with his voice but it is awful.
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✭NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »Kiralyn2000 wrote: »It's interesting. The accents came up on reddit when the zone came out and it pretty neatly divided into North Americans who thought people were making a big deal about nothing and needed to give over and European English speakers who thought it was like fingernails down a blackboard and approached actually unbearable.
Probably doesn't help that, as Americans, the accents that we do have (like Southern, or New Yawk, or Bahstan) come in a wide range from subtle to hilariously overdone media presentations. So we're used to accents being all over the map. They're just a thing, no big deal. And we don't have any national identity tied up in any accent, since we're a mess of immigrants & cultures & regions. /shrug
Those are dialects not accents, and every accent/dialect comes in a range from subtle to overdone, both in media and real life. No matter where they are from.
That is not dialect. A dialect would be plattdütsch versus standard "high" German(Deutsch). Both german, but a most germans do not understand plattdütsch. Kiralyn's examples are accents.Veit ég aðég hékk vindga meiði á nætr allar níu, geiri undaðr og gefinn Oðni, sjálfr sjálfum mér, á þeim meiði er manngi veit hvers hann af rótum rennr.3 -
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Depends on your point of view, I guess. As an Aussie, I don't find our accent the slightest bit sexy. But those French, particularly the women... c'est magnifique.Sylvermynx wrote: »A "real Scots accent" is the sexiest accent in the world. Okay, it's actually equal in sexy with Aussie....PC(Steam) / EU / play from Melbourne, Australia / avg ping 3901 -
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✭✭✭✭That Bosmer in Elden Root sounds exactly like I imagine it is, an American trying a cockney accent.
It sounds jarring to me as I'm from the UK so I know what Cockney sounds like.
But for most the world, it probably isn't that bad.
Same with the Scottish accent in the reach.
I'm from Wales, so we rarely get represented in many games or media in general. Only one I can think of is Red Dead 1. Welsh's accent was what English people sound like trying to do a "Welsh" accent
Although it probably sounded ok to even English people, as a lot of English people seem to think we have one accent, even though there's at least 10 different Welsh accents, which to me are pretty different, especially north vs south.
But, like in most things, they just go for a "generic" accent for that region. We see it in films all the time.
Like when you hear peopl doing a "British" accent. Wtf does that mean? lol.
There's 3 different countries in Britain (4 in UK, and I think people outside of here use those two interchangeably). Even if you took the stereotype type of those countries, they're vastly different. Not to mention that there's many many accents and dialects in each country. I could comfortably identify at least 30 "British accents". But when I hear Americans (just as an example, not a slight), try to sound like someone from Britain, it's visually that upper class English sort of voice. How most British people sound in American films basically, that slightly upper class, middle or the road English accent.
Northern Irish is another good example. In quite a lot of things where someone is supposed to be from Belfast, they just sound southern Irish. Even though a Belfast accent is quite different from a Dublin accent for instance. But, that's because I live close to there and know IRL people from there, so know how they sound.
Australia probably has a lot of different vaccents. To me, I usually just hear one. Because I have less exposure. Same with some American accents. I could probably identify 5, maybe 6 accents. Texas and Oklahoma or Alabama sound identical to me, but they probably sound different to people who live there. To me, it's just a southern accent.
So in short, although sometimes it sounds jarring to me, I don't have an issue with the accents in game.Edited by Brrrofski on March 7, 2022 9:21AM5 -
Mallow✭✭✭ShawnLaRock wrote: »The woman giving a tour of the Graht Oak in Elden Root. <cringe>
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See, I always thought she was bad on purpose, much like this character:
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✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »A "real Scots accent" is the sexiest accent in the world. Okay, it's actually equal in sexy with Aussie....
Trust this one, you don’t want to be stuck on the plane with an Aussie suffering from a rising inflection (think Kath and Kim tv series) who goes on and on about “kardonney” being “noice” or that rose is “pacifically special “
Or the peculiar crime of pronouncing “fish and chips” as “feesh and cheeps”.
Speaking as an Aussie and layering on the stereotype.2 -
Magenpie✭✭✭✭✭SammyKhajit wrote: »Sylvermynx wrote: »A "real Scots accent" is the sexiest accent in the world. Okay, it's actually equal in sexy with Aussie....
Trust this one, you don’t want to be stuck on the plane with an Aussie suffering from a rising inflection (think Kath and Kim tv series) who goes on and on about “kardonney” being “noice” or that rose is “pacifically special “
Or the peculiar crime of pronouncing “fish and chips” as “feesh and cheeps”.
Speaking as an Aussie and layering on the stereotype.
See, people are going on about how the Bosmer have terrible Cockney accents. *I* thought they were terrible Aussie accents. Which sort of shows how terrible they are. I'd love it if the Bosmer were given proper Australian voices, it's not an accent you get much in games.
Mind you, I'd love it if there were a wider variety of accents across the board. Accents from all over the place! But I'd like them to be well done, preferably by local actors, and if they aren't done well, then I'd rather not have them. I mean, the game is making good money, it's a well established AAA MMO, it can afford the best VA and the best voice directors.Edited by Magenpie on March 7, 2022 12:31PM3 -
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✭SammyKhajit wrote: »Sylvermynx wrote: »A "real Scots accent" is the sexiest accent in the world. Okay, it's actually equal in sexy with Aussie....
Trust this one, you don’t want to be stuck on the plane with an Aussie suffering from a rising inflection (think Kath and Kim tv series) who goes on and on about “kardonney” being “noice” or that rose is “pacifically special “
Or the peculiar crime of pronouncing “fish and chips” as “feesh and cheeps”.
Speaking as an Aussie and layering on the stereotype.
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✭✭✭✭✭That Bosmer in Elden Root sounds exactly like I imagine it is, an American trying a cockney accent.
It sounds jarring to me as I'm from the UK so I know what Cockney sounds like.
Which just reminds me that, while I've heard the phrase "Cockney accent", I'd never actually heard a labeled example of it.
I had no idea that Bosmer were even speaking in a Cockney accent.
So I certainly couldn't notice or judge that they were bad at it.
Which means that I don't mind the Grahtwood tour lady. At least not for her accent, but only for the repetition because it's right at the wayshrine. Edited by Kiralyn2000 on March 7, 2022 1:37PM0 -
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✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »That Bosmer in Elden Root sounds exactly like I imagine it is, an American trying a cockney accent.
It sounds jarring to me as I'm from the UK so I know what Cockney sounds like.
Which just reminds me that, while I've heard the phrase "Cockney accent", I'd never actually heard a labeled example of it.
I had no idea that Bosmer were even speaking in a Cockney accent.
So I certainly couldn't notice or judge that they were bad at it.
Which means that I don't mind the Grahtwood tour lady. At least not for her accent, but only for the repetition because it's right at the wayshrine.
Michael Caine is (modern) cockney although it's toned itself down a lot over the years. If you see clips of Eastenders a lot of people will be speaking something close to cockney although, again, it's getting toned down with the passing years. Cockney is traditionally associated with East London.
I actually thought the wood elves were trying to do West Country or Norfolk/Suffolk (they can be similar, although not identical), in at least one case doing a very good job indeed. I'm not sure if that's what people think is supposed to be cockney or if I've wiped the cockney wood elves from my mind, although a bell is ringing somewhere of some sort of Devon-Rotherhithe mashup.Edited by Northwold on March 7, 2022 1:59PM0 -
Magenpie✭✭✭✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »That Bosmer in Elden Root sounds exactly like I imagine it is, an American trying a cockney accent.
It sounds jarring to me as I'm from the UK so I know what Cockney sounds like.
Which just reminds me that, while I've heard the phrase "Cockney accent", I'd never actually heard a labeled example of it.
I had no idea that Bosmer were even speaking in a Cockney accent.
So I certainly couldn't notice or judge that they were bad at it.
Which means that I don't mind the Grahtwood tour lady. At least not for her accent, but only for the repetition because it's right at the wayshrine.
Michael Caine is (modern) cockney although it's toned itself down a lot over the years. If you see clips of Eastenders a lot of people will be speaking something close to cockney although, again, it's getting toned down with the passing years. Cockney is traditionally associated with East London.
I actually thought the wood elves were trying to do West Country or Norfolk/Suffolk (they can be similar, although not identical), in at least one case doing a very good job indeed. I'm not sure if that's what people think is supposed to be cockney or if I've wiped the cockney wood elves from my mind, although a bell is ringing somewhere of some sort of Devon-Rotherhithe mashup.
Nah - def not West Country (am West Country lass), although West Country accents also vary a lot ofc. But I don't think it's an attempt at a generic 'Mummerset' accent. It's definitely a [LOL the forum bot won't let me type the name of the actor because it's decided the words are rude!] D ick van D yke 'Meeery Poppuns' type effort. That or an attempt at generic Aussie. Edited by Magenpie on March 7, 2022 2:43PM2 -
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✭✭✭newtinmpls wrote: »ShawnLaRock wrote: »The woman giving a tour of the Graht Oak in Elden Root. <cringe>
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I actually like her ... I stalled the other day, just listening to her cycle through the "presentation"; and I like that most of the time she is clearly sick of her job - but then when she is talking about the Spinners, there is this shade of something more in her voice.
It was years before I realized you could follow their tour all the way down to Haven.
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✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »That Bosmer in Elden Root sounds exactly like I imagine it is, an American trying a cockney accent.
It sounds jarring to me as I'm from the UK so I know what Cockney sounds like.
Which just reminds me that, while I've heard the phrase "Cockney accent", I'd never actually heard a labeled example of it.
I had no idea that Bosmer were even speaking in a Cockney accent.
So I certainly couldn't notice or judge that they were bad at it.
Which means that I don't mind the Grahtwood tour lady. At least not for her accent, but only for the repetition because it's right at the wayshrine.
Michael Caine is (modern) cockney although it's toned itself down a lot over the years. If you see clips of Eastenders a lot of people will be speaking something close to cockney although, again, it's getting toned down with the passing years. Cockney is traditionally associated with East London.
I actually thought the wood elves were trying to do West Country or Norfolk/Suffolk (they can be similar, although not identical), in at least one case doing a very good job indeed. I'm not sure if that's what people think is supposed to be cockney or if I've wiped the cockney wood elves from my mind, although a bell is ringing somewhere of some sort of Devon-Rotherhithe mashup.
Nah - def not West Country (am West Country lass), although West Country accents also vary a lot ofc. But I don't think it's an attempt at a generic 'Mummerset' accent. It's definitely a [LOL the forum bot won't let me type the name of the actor because it's decided the words are rude!] D ick van D yke 'Meeery Poppuns' type effort. That or an attempt at generic Aussie.
Raking through memory I think I know who the cockney complaints are about. There's definitely at least one wood elf who does a proper English accent that is a very decent olden times Somerset (or Norfolk/Suffolk, you may assassinate me for putting them all in the same pot slightly east of Ambrosia Devon Custard). But, aside from the Australians, I do remember something that sounded a bit like South London. Which was a bit strange.
Although I have to say I prefer it to the Anchorite's "I grew up in Bromley and went to an all girl's boarding school for the middle classes and, oh, what are you wearing that was last season" ennui.Edited by Northwold on March 8, 2022 11:21AM0 -
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✭✭✭SammyKhajit wrote: »Sylvermynx wrote: »A "real Scots accent" is the sexiest accent in the world. Okay, it's actually equal in sexy with Aussie....
Trust this one, you don’t want to be stuck on the plane with an Aussie suffering from a rising inflection (think Kath and Kim tv series) who goes on and on about “kardonney” being “noice” or that rose is “pacifically special “
Or the peculiar crime of pronouncing “fish and chips” as “feesh and cheeps”.
Speaking as an Aussie and layering on the stereotype.
See, people are going on about how the Bosmer have terrible Cockney accents. *I* thought they were terrible Aussie accents. Which sort of shows how terrible they are. I'd love it if the Bosmer were given proper Australian voices, it's not an accent you get much in games.
Bosmer are definitely Australian. I think a lot of people just can't tell the difference between English and Australian, and think everything English is Cockney.
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✭✭✭The accents never bothered me, but there are many times when I feel the actor has placed the emphasis in the wrong place in a statement, and I can't believe the director didn't ask them to try it just one more time to get it right. Maybe they have already gone through it 100 times and gave up.3 -
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✭✭The accents never bothered me, but there are many times when I feel the actor has placed the emphasis in the wrong place in a statement, and I can't believe the director didn't ask them to try it just one more time to get it right. Maybe they have already gone through it 100 times and gave up.
Depending on how it's done you may literally just get a type up of all your lines without any context at all, or just the lead-in lines. It depends on the game. And then when it gets put together it just sounds a bit random.Edited by Northwold on March 7, 2022 3:34PM0 -
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✭✭✭The accents never bothered me, but there are many times when I feel the actor has placed the emphasis in the wrong place in a statement, and I can't believe the director didn't ask them to try it just one more time to get it right. Maybe they have already gone through it 100 times and gave up.
Depending on how it's done you may literally just get a type up of all your lines without any context at all, or just the lead-in lines. It depends on the game. And then when it gets put together it just sounds a bit random.
This isn't the best example but it's the only one I can think of right now, the merchant in Belkarth who tells you it's been difficult getting everything she usually stocks, but so far she's managed. The last part of that seems unnaturally stressed.1 -
Northwold✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭The accents never bothered me, but there are many times when I feel the actor has placed the emphasis in the wrong place in a statement, and I can't believe the director didn't ask them to try it just one more time to get it right. Maybe they have already gone through it 100 times and gave up.
Depending on how it's done you may literally just get a type up of all your lines without any context at all, or just the lead-in lines. It depends on the game. And then when it gets put together it just sounds a bit random.
This isn't the best example but it's the only one I can think of right now, the merchant in Belkarth who tells you it's been difficult getting everything she usually stocks, but so far she's managed. The last part of that seems unnaturally stressed.
I know exactly what you mean. Just pretend they hired William Shatner. :-)0 -
SilverBride✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭The voice acting that bothers me are our character voices. They sound like wounded animals no matter which I choose.PCNA4
