English Accents...in the Empire?

[Bankstercide]

I've noticed that a lot of GW games use voices with Engilsh accents. That might work in Space Marine, but the Empire is clearly German/Holy Roman Empire inspired; the Human heroes even have german names. Well the Bright Wizard was born in Estalia, what we'd consider Spain. Why not have VO with accents to match?

I don't expect them to change the VO this late in the game, but the trend does seem an odd one. Your thoughts?

[Ruego Al Alba]

While I agree with you, it IS possible for them to retroactively replace the VOs. Perhaps they also had difficulty in finding people with heavy enough German/Austrian accents to have the proper accents in the game and opted to preserve consistency with what they could acquire. It would be rather odd to have half the cast of the Imperials speaking with an English accent and the other half German.

[base]

at least they're not american

[Bankstercide]

Originally posted by baselinestun:

at least they're not american

True; fantasy characters are so typecast into having British accents that using American accents gives the impression that they're being cheap or sloppy.

I'll bet dollars to donuts that the VO for Total War: Warhammer will also use British accents for Empire.

[Robin]

Originally posted by Bankstercide:

Originally posted by baselinestun:

at least they're not american

True; fantasy characters are so typecast into having British accents that using American accents gives the impression that they're being cheap or sloppy.

I'll bet dollars to donuts that the VO for Total War: Warhammer will also use British accents for Empire.

Or austrailian ones, they've used it for romans previously and everybody knows they spoke the queen's english ;)

[skinnyraf]

Originally posted by Bankstercide:

I've noticed that a lot of GW games use voices with Engilsh accents.

Maybe that's because GW is British? Maybe that's even a licensing requirement?

Orcs in Warhammer speak (and always had) like English hooligans :) Well, Cockney to be precise.

[Bankstercide]

Originally posted by Robin:

Originally posted by Bankstercide:

True; fantasy characters are so typecast into having British accents that using American accents gives the impression that they're being cheap or sloppy.

I'll bet dollars to donuts that the VO for Total War: Warhammer will also use British accents for Empire.

Or austrailian ones, they've used it for romans previously and everybody knows they spoke the queen's english ;)

I guess it'd be more accurate to say that they're typecast into using Received Pronunciation.

[Galactic Origins]

I love English accents ... especially the ladies!

[Robin]

Originally posted by Bankstercide:

Originally posted by Robin:

Or austrailian ones, they've used it for romans previously and everybody knows they spoke the queen's english ;)

I guess it'd be more accurate to say that they're typecast into using Received Pronunciation.

Indeed, was mostly poking fun at how romans always are given really posh english accents in movies and games even though it really doesn't make sense out of a linguistic point of view. If anything they should have italian accents, but I guess people's prejudices against italians and ancient romans don't really align ;)

[skinnyraf]

Originally posted by Robin:

Indeed, was mostly poking fun at how romans always are given really posh english accents in movies and games even though it really doesn't make sense out of a linguistic point of view. If anything they should have italian accents, but I guess people's prejudices against italians and ancient romans don't really align ;)

I don't agree that Romans should have Italian accent in English/American movies or games - cause this would be a "foreign" accent. A Roman would speak Latin with, well, a Roman accent.

Thus a Roman aristocrat, or an Imperial noble in Warhammer should speak posh English and a peasant should speak country English - British or American, whatever.

[Rufus]

Originally posted by skinnyraf:

Originally posted by Robin:

Indeed, was mostly poking fun at how romans always are given really posh english accents in movies and games even though it really doesn't make sense out of a linguistic point of view. If anything they should have italian accents, but I guess people's prejudices against italians and ancient romans don't really align ;)

I don't agree that Romans should have Italian accent in English/American movies or games - cause this would be a "foreign" accent. A Roman would speak Latin with, well, a Roman accent.

Thus a Roman aristocrat, or an Imperial noble in Warhammer should speak posh English and a peasant should speak country English - British or American, whatever.

+1 this.
Why are so many people unable to understand such a simple concept?