American Voice-Acting

[Hammer]

Please tell me the Americans will recieve their own voice-acting. as far as I know, the canadians have a British accent and I hope the yanks wont fall victim of the same thing.

[RedSkulls]

Yes the Americans have their own voice actors so you don't have to worry about that. And the reason that the Canucks sound British is that most Canadians who volunteered were actually British born so they did not quite have the Canuck accent.

[Coom Dimmadome]

Greatest part about the voices is muting them

[{OF-35} Blackadder]

Originally posted by Veers XII:

Yes the Americans have their own voice actors so you don't have to worry about that. And the reason that the Canucks sound British is that most Canadians who volunteered were actually British born so they did not quite have the Canuck accent.

I've heard this claimed before, but in the interviews I've heard with Canadian WW1 vets they had North American accents. Even if half were British-born they would have had Canadian accents if they grew up in Canada.

[{OF-35} Blackadder]

Originally posted by BruceBannaner:

Originally posted by |eG| Blackadder:

I've heard this claimed before, but in the interviews I've heard with Canadian WW1 vets they had North American accents. Even if half were British-born they would have had Canadian accents if they grew up in Canada.

true, but in all fairness, maybe they developed those North American accents they were rockin' during the interview in the years after they fought in the war. Just speculating

Accents are formed in childhood I think they would have at least had a muted British accent if they ever had one to begin with.

[moist newt]

I can do the voice for the southern guy!

[Hammer]

Originally posted by aiouqes:

I can do the voice for the southern guy!

heh. I could do the voice acting for a north west guy ;p

[Hammer]

Originally posted by BruceBannaner:

Apparantly the Canuck accent at the time was more "Britishy sounding".

I'm guessing the Yanks won't sound "modern" Merkin either :P

why not? only 100 years has passed, the accent should be almost identical, especially since there is audio of ww1 american vets and they have "modern" Merkin

[{OF-35} Blackadder]

Originally posted by DeadlyPig:

Originally posted by BruceBannaner:

Apparantly the Canuck accent at the time was more "Britishy sounding".

I'm guessing the Yanks won't sound "modern" Merkin either :P

why not? only 100 years has passed, the accent should be almost identical, especially since there is audio of ww1 american vets and they have "modern" Merkin

Some of the regional accents have changed a bit. But yeah, for the most part American English in 1917 sounded a lot like it does today.

[Bishop]

There's also the detail that by the end of the war at least 50% of the Canadian forces were born in the UK, so a British accent would make more sense. The remainder would be both Anglo and Franco Canadian. I've heard a number of Americans claimed to be Canadian to volunteer as well.

[[E. SURR. R] ksl94]

Americans back then had a much more pleasant accent that was very similar to the British one, at times I cannot tell Edwardian American voice recordings apart from British ones. As far as I know, this stereotypical accent came about after a lot of Eastern European people moved there decades later.

[Cpl. Burden R 3294]

Harry Patch, I believe it was, did a series of interviews before he died. His accent was one that has basically disappeared in modern Britain. Very odd. And that's someone who is a countryman of mine.

I am no expert on Canadian linguistics, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they would sound more "British" to modern ears than we would expect them to, especially for those of us who aren't Canadian (stereotypes are often wide of the mark)

[ACTiberius]

Not historically accurate, but I was full-on expecting James Cagney style speech, or old radio show voice acting like:
- now look here you yellow bellied rat; let me spell it out for ya, see? Them pointy hat mugs over yonder want ya dead, see? So forget your "what-gives", see? And get ya self over that top and give em what-for. My father will thank ya.
http://fikklefame.com/james-cagney-quotes/

[Lady Helen "Bio" Rodriguez]

Originally posted by DeadlyPig:

Originally posted by aiouqes:

I can do the voice for the southern guy!

heh. I could do the voice acting for a north west guy ;p

I could do the voice of the easily forgettable midwestern voice. Not the fun midwestern kind, the close to the eastern seaboard side.

[Warbear]

Can't we all just admit the developers were lazy and gave the Canadians the same exact sound file as the British.

[Groomer Doomer]

Originally posted by Westman:

Can't we all just admit the developers were lazy and gave the Canadians the same exact sound file as the British.

+1