What if the Player Characters Spoke with American Accents?

[KayO]

I've always been facinated with the differences between British and American English, and because Games Workshop is a very British company, they and FatShark put in a wide array of British and other European accents in this game.

But what if Games Workshop was American. What if FatShark hired a team of American actors to voice this game with different American Accents for each playable character? Here's what I would go with and why...

Veterans
Male Professional: As the most average and generic sounding character, i would picture him the most generalized American accent. Also known as the Midwestern accent.
Male Cutthrote: The thick cockney accent to me is equivalent to some working class New Yorker accent. Most likely a Brooklyn accent.
Male Loose Cannon: I'd give him a Texas accent.
Female Professional: Because she speaks with the Daniel Kaluuya/Idris Elba MLE accent, I think the American version should speak with an African American accent.
Female Cutthrote: Like with the male Cutthote, she should have a New Yorker accent. Her's would be more of a Bronx accent.
Female Loose Cannon: A different southern accent from the male loose cannon, most likely a Tennessee accent.

Zealots
Male Agitator: Because he's faking his ability to speak High Gothic, he sounds like an American imitating a British accent rather poorly. He actually has a Californian accent.
Male Fanatic: He speaks with a deep southern accent, mostly from Alabama.
Male Judge: Given his over-the-top nature, I'd go with a more upscale sounding New Yorker accent.
Female Agitator: She's also faking a British accent. Like the male agitator her real accent is Californian, but it's the more preppy valley girl kind.
Female Fanatic: She speaks with a thick South Boston accent.
Female Judge: I think I'd stick with a more generic Midwestern accent for her.

Psykers
Male Seer: Because he speaks with the posh Berkshire accent, I would go with an upper class Connecticut sounding accent.
Male Savant: I'd keep the Caribbean accent, but would change it to a Jamaican accent instead of the original Haitian sounding one.
Male Loner: I'd replace the German sounding accent with another New York. More specifically the Bernie Sanders Jewish accent.
Female Seer: Keeps the old lady voice, but speaks with a Chicago accent.
Female Savant: I would replace her French accent with a Canadian one.
Female Loner: Instead of a hard to define Eastern European accent, she should have a hard to define Latin American accent.

Ogryns
Bodyguard: I'd go with a rural Pittsburgh accent.
Brawler: A more slight southern accent compared to the others. Mostly a Virginian accent.
Bully: Speaks with a more Cajun sounding accent, like someone from New Orleans.

[Last Jackdaw]

What is an american accent?

[DLCI]

because, like most empires that were invented by the british

the imperium of man is loosely based on imperial rome, and therefore the language spoken by the citizens of the imperium must either be

high-gothic, which sounds identical to proper elizabethan era-english

or low gothic, which sounds like the grunts made by drunken cockney soccer-hooligans

[Demonocolips]

honestly due to how many different worlds there are in the imperium, every accent on earth should be represented. the lack of different voices is simply due to lack of imagination and not hiring out different voice actors from around the globe.
it would be nice but i would hope that if they implimented it they would allow you to completely remake your character at the barber shop.

Originally posted by DLCI:

high-gothic, which sounds identical to proper elizabethan era-english

americans speak with the original english accent. the current one was an affectation that came about later.

[Germaine's Bra]

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

What is an american accent?

There isn't one....

[PJ]

Originally posted by Germaine's Bra:

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

What is an american accent?

There isn't one....

People always think their own accent is "just talking normally" but fact is every person on earth has an accent. Americans think they sound normal when they talk but trust me ya'll sound goofy as hell to the rest of the world.

[Pain]

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

What is an american accent?

That is a mystery even Americans cannot answer as we have so many dialects in America alone, that foreigners wouldnt be able to keep up with them all.

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I always imagined the Catachans as having American accents since their regiment is based on the Vietnam war

[Sovery_Simple]

Boston accents are a mistake. Using them in anything is inflicting cruel and unusual punishment upon your intended audience.

[Pain]

Originally posted by Sovery_Simple:

Boston accents are a mistake. Using them in anything is inflicting cruel and unusual punishment upon your intended audience.

Only English accent more annoying is likely the Welsh or Sheffield accent.

[PJ]

Originally posted by Pain:

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

What is an american accent?

That is a mystery even Americans cannot answer as we have so many dialects in America alone, that foreigners wouldnt be able to keep up with them all.

Texan, californian, noreaster, new yorker(and there's like 30 sub dialects of this depending on what street you live on), ohio, baton rouge, mushmouth, chicago, arkansas, florida meth head, evangelical.... how many did I miss?

[KayO]

Originally posted by Demonocolips:

americans speak with the original english accent. the current one was an affectation that came about later.

I've heard that too. It's been said that the modern American accent is closer to the old fashion English accent than the modern British one.

One such example is that most modern British accents no longer pronounce the letter "R". For example, the rejects in the game call the enemy sharpshooters a "Snoi-pah" instead of a sniper (Sneye-perr).

[astgdzfgdsg]

Originally posted by KayO:

Originally posted by Demonocolips:

americans speak with the original english accent. the current one was an affectation that came about later.

I've heard that too. It's been said that the modern American accent is closer to the old fashion English accent than the modern British one.

One such example is that most modern British accents no longer pronounce the letter "R". For example, the rejects in the game call the enemy sharpshooters a "Snoi-pah" instead of a sniper (Sneye-perr).

Apparently it's a bit of a myth and both have diverged from the original accents

[KayO]

Originally posted by derpherpitucus:

Apparently it's a bit of a myth and both have diverged from the original accents

Here's a great video documentary about the subject and how it relates to one small facet of gaming...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hqbco5BmT4&t=447s

[Git]

Eww, no.

[DLCI]

Originally posted by KayO:

Originally posted by derpherpitucus:

Apparently it's a bit of a myth and both have diverged from the original accents

Here's a great video documentary about the subject and how it relates to one small facet of gaming...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hqbco5BmT4&t=447s

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