Voice acting immersion

[Jon]

Love the game, but does anyone else get "pulled out" when someone with an American accent starts speaking?
It's not like the actors didn't do a great job, just kind of seems out of place. especially when places are pronounced differently in the same scene.
Any mods with replacement v/o?

[Cast Out Devil]

It doesn't bother me. I am so used to every foreign accent being English - regardless of setting, that an American accent is fine. The only voice actor that was offputting was Divish, the actor sounds way to young to play that character.

[crazyorse]

Father Godwin is the most annoying and just not plausible at all.

[Gibson]

Originally posted by Cast Out Devil:

It doesn't bother me. I am so used to every foreign accent being English - regardless of setting, that an American accent is fine. The only voice actor that was offputting was Divish, the actor sounds way to young to play that character.

I was thinking the same thing. His voice does not fit at all..

[Ghiyan]

To be fair, the game is Set in medieval Czech Republic. No one should be speaking english at all.

[Jigain]

I'm with Joey. I'm fine with it because it's not supposed to be English anyway. It should be Czech, which a minority of the world's population would understand, and honestly I personally would find it more off-putting if it was Czech-accented English than just plain American English. In my ears the absolute best option would be Czech voice acting with English subtitles, but American English voice acting is the next best thing.

[Ghiyan]

If you pretend that henry is hearing everything in Czech, then he would be hearing the different accents and pronounciations of words within that language, just like we have in English.

[Jigain]

Originally posted by Pharnham:

New Vegas was so fricking irritating because some of the actors couldn't pronounce Caesar correctly.

You mean all the non-Legion pronouncing it as "see-sar"? Or are you referring to a particular character?

[Cypher]

Well considering that the people of the time didn't often leave their town / Village for their entire lives there wouldn't be such a thing as a 'Czech' accent as everyone would speak slightly differently... even today we have different accents even in geographically small countries for the same reason... consider the classic "English" accent, or the "Queen's English", its spoken by a very small number of people, (Henry's accent is actually typical of North East England (York)

[Randox]

Inconsistent pronunciation I notice. The accents not so much. Some of Divish's lines make him sound too young. I didn't notice it at first, but it really stood out in From the Ashes.

New Vegas was pretty consistent with Ceasar as I recall. The legion pronounced it the Latin way, while everyone else pronounced it the modern English way.

[Cypher]

But surely your accent would affect your pronunciation? Isn't an accent just a different pronunciation?

Case in Point; "Bath"
in the south-east of England we pronounce this like "Barth". Up North, they say 'Bath' as it's spelled.

Same with "laugh", We say "Laarf" whereas northerners say "laff"

My point, accent and pronunciation are the same thing.

Now if the point was ppl in the same village having different accents, then that's an inconsistency that would definitely affect immersion in a medieval game.

[Hrochnick]

For me it's the consistency, or lack of that's a problem. I've just started the game but in the first two or three geographically close villages there are a range of accents from Germanic to northern English to Scottish and all the way to north American. It just wouldn't be like that, makes little sense and jars me.

I'm British but live in the Czech Republic and while I understand why they didn't use Czech for cost benefit reasons, the badly pronounced Czech names (people and locations) is just awful... I think the best solution would have been to use Czech actors speaking English for the Bohemians. That would have given a more natural feel to it.

[HunZolka]

I hear the similar accents in most games, so I'm pretty much used to that. The only moments when I'm pulled out of immersion are when the cumans talk hungarian. I don't know how it sounds for foreigners, but as I understand what they are saying, it sounds like the ones who did the voiceover didn't even try to make a quality job... like they dragged some pedestrians from the street to do the voice acting.

[BDK]

I actually prefer American in my medieval games, British is so overused in those types of games. Ulrich however was really bad. Yikes.

[-=Prepper_Jack=-]

Multiple accents in the game bother me? No. Bohemia was home to Czech, Slovak, Saxon, Bavarian Moravian, and Silesian peoples. Probably would have had some Poles in there as well (if I remember correctly, that's where the surname Kobyla was from). As the seat of the Holy Roman Empire, and one of the largest cities in Europe, Prague was home to many people with relatively diverse backgrounds. Probably had a fair number of Italians in the mix as craftsmen as well. They were part of the Empire too, after all.

Would people pronounce things slightly differently within a given region? I have no doubt.

[Cypher]

Honestly, I think you're all being a little pedantic. And as Malovane said, the seat of the HRE would've had people from all over, and to a lesser extent the surrounding areas.