Does Bethesda think accents are genetic?

[Red Zinfidel]

Seriously, why does Cait have an Irish accent? As far as I can she wasn't raised in Ireland, it seems like she's never left the Commonwealth? So what's with the accent? Same goes for the Badinov brothers in the Dugout Inn. And no Kenji, I refuse to believe you even know where Japan is.

I can get wanting to add some variety into how characters sound, but why not American accents? It would be easier to believe that Cait was from Jersey than Ireland. Lots of American accents to choose from but instead they go with foreign ones? In fact there is one region of the US known for its incredibly distinct accent. Maybe you've heard of it? It's called BOSTON!

Again, seriously, no one in the Commonwealth has a Boston accent? One of the biggest missed opportunities in the game is to not have everyone in the Institute speak with a hilariously thick Boston accent. "Have you tocked to faddah? He's wicked smaht!"

And Nick Valentine is from Chicago! "Yao guai, huh? You know what we called them back where I'm from? Daa bears!"

[Païtiti]

The devs unfortunately missed the mark in many aspects of depicting a world 200 after a nuclear holocaust. I have seen what comes after the great war of 2032 and I doesn't like fallout AT ALL.

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This post made me curious, so I checked Uncle Google: As of 2024, Massachusetts has the second largest population (19%) of Irish decent immigrants in the US. That's over 1,3 Mil people. Moving on to 2077 when the Nukes arrived, that number would have been even larger, so it stands to reason then, that the Vaults in Boston and surrounds, would have contained quite a large number of occupants from Irish decent, and they emerged after all those years with their accent still very much intact, including Cait's parents.

I recon it's entirely reasonable for Cait to be speaking with quite the distinctive Celtic accent.

As for proposing that the game should have placed more regional American accents into play; customers outside the US would understand none of it.

Just enjoy the game man.

[Ludus Aurea]

*Ignores all the evidence of accents being genetic until a different accent is learned*

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SkunkPlaysGames a écrit :

It's so dumb. I despise Cait as a character. She's one of the most terribly written characters in the game. Her hooker with a heart of gold, butt-kicking hot house lily personality is as worn out as her long-for-rent kitty cat.

The hate is strong with this one.

[DouglasGrave]

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This post made me curious, so I checked Uncle Google: As of 2024, Massachusetts has the second largest population (19%) of Irish decent immigrants in the US. That's over 1,3 Mil people. Moving on to 2077 when the Nukes arrived, that number would have been even larger, so it stands to reason then, that the Vaults in Boston and surrounds, would have contained quite a large number of occupants from Irish decent, and they emerged after all those years with their accent still very much intact, including Cait's parents.

I recon it's entirely reasonable for Cait to be speaking with quite the distinctive Celtic accent.

As for proposing that the game should have placed more regional American accents into play; customers outside the US would understand none of it.

Just enjoy the game man.

Maybe her parents came from a secret, all-Irish vault. Which isn't shown in the game, for obvious reasons.

[Nitemares]

DouglasGrave a écrit :

🆄🅽🅲🅻🅴 🅹🅾 a écrit :

This post made me curious, so I checked Uncle Google: As of 2024, Massachusetts has the second largest population (19%) of Irish decent immigrants in the US. That's over 1,3 Mil people. Moving on to 2077 when the Nukes arrived, that number would have been even larger, so it stands to reason then, that the Vaults in Boston and surrounds, would have contained quite a large number of occupants from Irish decent, and they emerged after all those years with their accent still very much intact, including Cait's parents.

I recon it's entirely reasonable for Cait to be speaking with quite the distinctive Celtic accent.

As for proposing that the game should have placed more regional American accents into play; customers outside the US would understand none of it.

Just enjoy the game man.

Maybe her parents came from a secret, all-Irish vault. Which isn't shown in the game, for obvious reasons.

let me get this straight....

you're going to put a bunch of Irish, together, in a vault with no way out.....

I can not begin to express to you how bad of idea that is..

[Sir Darles Charwin]

Sofi a écrit :

"Woke" people use racism and sexism to push racism and sexism by blaming races and sexes for things. Like totally hypocritical.

Nobody mentioned politics. Also, that's blatantly untrue, but this isn't a good place to discuss it.