Does this game only have southern accents?

[Yay_This_Is_Awesome]

Does this game only have southern accents?

[GhostyOsty]

Well RDR2 is based in the South... sooooo

[About47Pandas]

its early America, based in the 1800s-- Oddly enough the southern accent is also featured in parts of England, where our southern accent came from. Specifically the British Isles who moved to what is the US south now around the 17th and 18th centuries.

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

French accents, British Accents, Southern Accents, Spanish Accents, Creole Accents, Baltimore Accents, Native American Accents, Robot Accents, Serbian Accents, Cajun Accents, Italian Accents, New York Accents.

All kinds of accents. The characters Arthur interacts with is pretty diverse so it keeps it interesting. "the spice of life" as they say.

[Jynn]

dont' forget Asian, with the Asian population in St Denis

[Noah fp]

Originally posted by Brick Frog:

French accents, British Accents, Southern Accents, Spanish Accents, Creole Accents, Baltimore Accents, Native American Accents, Robot Accents, Serbian Accents, Cajun Accents, Italian Accents, New York Accents.

All kinds of accents. The characters Arthur interacts with is pretty diverse so it keeps it interesting. "the spice of life" as they say.

YOU FORGOT THE GERMAN GUY WHO GIVES YOU A GOLD BAR

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

Originally posted by Noah fp:

YOU FORGOT THE GERMAN GUY WHO GIVES YOU A GOLD BAR

Originally posted by Jynn:

dont' forget Asian, with the Asian population in St Denis

I knew i left some out. I'm embarrassed to say i read over my list like 10 times and i was like "i bet you i missed a couple"

There really are alot of southern dialects in the US. I'm from New Mexico and in some parts of the state they wont even serve you food if you have a Texan accent. When I moved from home I found out I had a "southern accent" too but its nothing like what I think of as being a southern accent like from Mississippi or Louisiana

Imo I dont quite hear any of those accents in red dead, it sounds like northerners doing old-timey cowpoke voices which is probably the truth. I was in Guarma the other day getting the last of the animals there and one of the locals said "hola" to me and I burst out laughing, he sounded like he'd never heard spanish in his life he pronounced the H and everything

I'm consistently reminded that this game is made by British people

[gaqo]

Originally posted by Scoobysnack:

I'm consistently reminded that this game is made by British people

I'm not sure if that determines the accents used though.
Don't they use voice actors from America?
I'm also playing WD Legion which I suppose you could say is Canadian and there's a lot of debate about the accents in that. But surely with so many people involved aren't these games international.
What happened to the KKK that were in the game, did they have Southern accents!

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

Originally posted by gaqo:

Originally posted by Scoobysnack:

I'm consistently reminded that this game is made by British people

I'm not sure if that determines the accents used though.
Don't they use voice actors from America?
I'm also playing WD Legion which I suppose you could say is Canadian and there's a lot of debate about the accents in that. But surely with so many people involved aren't these games international.
What happened to the KKK that were in the game, did they have Southern accents!

yeah i didn';t get what they were saying. The game is pretty authentic in terms of dialects/accents. debating accents is a whole other level that i never want to get into because it's a bit not worth the effort.

Originally posted by gaqo:

Originally posted by Scoobysnack:

I'm consistently reminded that this game is made by British people

I'm not sure if that determines the accents used though.
Don't they use voice actors from America?
I'm also playing WD Legion which I suppose you could say is Canadian and there's a lot of debate about the accents in that. But surely with so many people involved aren't these games international.
What happened to the KKK that were in the game, did they have Southern accents!

Its not British people doing the voices maybe but it is British people doing all of the worldbuilding and making the decisions about what people sound like in the game. When I said it sounds like northerners doing old-timey cowpoke voices I meant other US people yes. The KKK in the game in particular had exaggerated, almost comical accents if I recall. The accents are much more fictional than regional

[gaqo]

Originally posted by Scoobysnack:

Its not British people doing the voices maybe but it is British people doing all of the worldbuilding and making the decisions about what people sound like in the game. When I said it sounds like northerners doing old-timey cowpoke voices I meant other US people yes. The KKK in the game in particular had exaggerated, almost comical accents if I recall. The accents are much more fictional than regional

I think this game was probably inspired by Western films which were watched all over the world. There were some pretty dodgy accents in some of those as well(especially Spaghetti). So it's a sort of fictionalisation of a fictionalisation. (I'm English but lived in Colombia, so my Spanish is supposedly authentic Andalusian).

Isn't there some joke about Arthur Morgan being English. There must have been a real mix of accents from all over the world back then in the real world, never mind fictional.

I find the accents in Legion to be not far off for London for example, some exaggeration, but I think people hear accents in different ways and often some stand out to some people.

I just remembered I was playing GTAV yesterday and someone shouted out 'puta madre', which made me laugh!

Still both games are great!

Originally posted by gaqo:

Isn't there some joke about Arthur Morgan being English. There must have been a real mix of accents from all over the world back then in the real world, never mind fictional.

Roger Clarke, the voice actor for Arthur Morgan is from New Jersey. New Jersey accent is distinctly different from a southern one. He doesn't really sound anything like that though he's just doing a cowboy voice because he's seen the same westerns you mentioned and he knows what a cowboy is supposed to sound like. Its impossible to separate RDR2 from fiction because there's really nothing so fictional as a cowboy

I've never played WD

I've always felt the accents in GTAV were off too, I hear too many European accents for it to sound like LA to me. But its not LA its another fictional, almost comical world from R*

[gaqo]

Originally posted by Scoobysnack:

there's really nothing so fictional as cowboy

Very true about cowboys. It's strange that Sergio Leone is often seen as the best Western film director. I suppose GTAV was just based on films.

[ld-airgrafix]

Talking about accents, Marko Dragic, obviously based on Tesla, its so cringey when he cant even pronounce his own last name properly.

[gaqo]

Yes it must be strange if you see a fictional account of yourselves or the place you live.
I'm chuffed they set Legion in London and I always see the humour in these games, like GTAV.

Did you guys see this fictional documentary about the making of GTAV, The Gamechangers(2015) where they did some research in LA>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXcIVEgcLDs