Total War: MEDIEVAL II - Definitive Edition

Total War: MEDIEVAL II - Definitive Edition

Dyslexamon Feb 21, 2018 @ 3:42pm
Is anyone else sick to their back teeth of Irish and Welsh factions using the voice acting from Scotland and England?
So after spending years playing this game, putting in over 1000 hours into vanilla, Third Age, Stainless Steel and Broken Crescent, I’m now playing using the Kingdoms Grand Campaign mod. First off it’s a brilliant mod that fixes a lot of issues with the vanilla game while still maintain the style and vision of Medieval 2.

One of the major selling points for me was the ability to play as tiny factions such as Ireland, Wales, and Norway etc. all of which have interesting unit rosters and play style. The mod achieves this by importing those factions into the main campaign from the Kingdoms expansion packs. I hadn't played vanilla Kingdoms in years and had forgotten about one of the major issues I had with the Britannia campaign in particular; The accents.

Basically in Britannia Kingdoms Ireland and Wales use the same dialogue as Scotland and England with key phrases, such as "For Scotland!/ England removed". This always took me out of the game as not only would Welsh and Irish accents in the game be cool but during the middle ages both Welsh and Gaelic we're still the first languages of the vast majority of Welsh and Irish people so it would be cool to hear the odd word of Welsh and Gaelic thrown in to dialogue lines for these factions.

This is actually made worse by Kingdoms Grand Campaign which removes the blocks on certain dialogue options. Nothing breaks immersion more than having Irish characters on the campaign map say "For the highlands!" every time or the Irish king giving a rousing speech ending with the phrase "So let your battle cry be Scotland the Brave!".

This truly boils my blood.
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Gigantus Feb 21, 2018 @ 7:15pm 
Then it will continue boiling your blood unless you invest hours of modding to set up a Welsh and\or Irish accent and dialogues yourself. Don't think anyone will for factions that are hardly been used. Although CA could have made that effort instead of tagging them to english\scottish accent pool.
Trust me - "hours" is an optimistic guess from my modding experience.
This would take voice acting and, as noted, something that will not come from a casual effort. Not just a matter of some guy coming on with an Irish accent, saying a few lines and leaving. Especially slow in the case of modders who are unlikely to even be able to pay for the talent.
Inardesco Feb 22, 2018 @ 6:13am 
Welp, DaC uses lines from BFME II for certain units.

Thus, maybe, if you could find sound files with Gaelic/Welsh and then input them you're golden. Otherwise...
Go Fish May 27, 2023 @ 1:49am 
THing is, you don't know how accents of old sounded, provided even language was different.
You would think they were speaking a mixture of French and Dutch. WIth a Polish\Russian accent.
Last edited by Go Fish; May 27, 2023 @ 1:49am
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Date Posted: Feb 21, 2018 @ 3:42pm
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