Confusing voice acting...

[Simulacra_53]

Terrible choice for English accent, very confusing to hear a black african accent as an ancient Egyptian substitute. Keep thinking of some Nigerian dude instead of a North African.

[Rautamies]

Most people won't know the difference anyway I'd guess.

[VTEBE]

lol, if you would to know what is terrible accents, try to watch RUSSIAN language in Origins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7lOpNfYYM0

from 11:59 lol

[Kev]

Isn't it same voice as Adewale?

[Rautamies]

Originally posted by SKEILPRO:

Isn't it same voice as Adewale?

It's not.

[Simulacra_53]

Originally posted by COSHIE™:

Most people won't know the difference anyway I'd guess.

Well sort of like a Texan drawl in place of the Queen's English - all the same right?!

[Simulacra_53]

Originally posted by ultravix:

lol, if you would to know what is terrible accents, try to watch RUSSIAN language in Origins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7lOpNfYYM0

from 11:59 lol

Unfortunately I am a little rusty on my Russian accents!

[Horny Shrimp]

Somehow the need to force English accents onto characters didn't make it with this one, unlike Unity... Why?

[Kira]

Originally posted by Simulacra_53:

Terrible choice for English accent, very confusing to hear a black african accent as an ancient Egyptian substitute. Keep thinking of some Nigerian dude instead of a North African.

This is not ancient Egyptian, it is hellinistic period. We really do not know how pharaonic Egyptian sounded like iirc because the culture and language were completely eliminated. There is really no accent that will adequately cover population of Egypt under Ptolemeids.

I did not like Jaal’s VA in MEA, but I doubt they slowed down the speech of their VAs to the same degree here, so it might be okay, just an unusually sounding English, why not.

[sonycman]

Originally posted by ultravix:

lol, if you would to know what is terrible accents, try to watch RUSSIAN language in Origins
from 11:59 lol

Is that a joke?
Sounds like a clean russian, without any accents at all...

[VTEBE]

Originally posted by sonycman:

Is that a joke?
Sounds like a clean russian, without any accents at all...

lol... because 1 russian voice-actor for all assassin's creed series

[randir14]

Who cares. You might as well whine about Romans always having British accents.

[Tallahasse V games]

Originally posted by Carefull:

Originally posted by Simulacra_53:

Terrible choice for English accent, very confusing to hear a black african accent as an ancient Egyptian substitute. Keep thinking of some Nigerian dude instead of a North African.

This is not ancient Egyptian, it is hellinistic period. We really do not know how pharaonic Egyptian sounded like iirc because the culture and language were completely eliminated. There is really no accent that will adequately cover population of Egypt under Ptolemeids.

I did not like Jaal’s VA in MEA, but I doubt they slowed down the speech of their VAs to the same degree here, so it might be okay, just an unusually sounding English, why not.

Well said indeed.

[Simulacra_53]

Originally posted by \\Thordin_Valhalla_Rising//:

Originally posted by Carefull:

This is not ancient Egyptian, it is hellinistic period. We really do not know how pharaonic Egyptian sounded like iirc because the culture and language were completely eliminated. There is really no accent that will adequately cover population of Egypt under Ptolemeids.

I did not like Jaal’s VA in MEA, but I doubt they slowed down the speech of their VAs to the same degree here, so it might be okay, just an unusually sounding English, why not.

Well said indeed.

Two observations.

First it only works if all Egyptians in the game will have the same African accent, or within the same range of accents - meaning consistency of accents and dialects - else it does not make sense.

...however your answer does not ease the confusion, because whatever period you place it, the accent sounds like a modern day African, cannot exactly place it nor determine if it is genuine, but it is African sounding. Not from Ireland, not from Yorkshire, not from Houston not from Greece etc.

So having the whole Egyptian cast use British / English accents would have worked fine, having them have North African accents would have worked as well and if you wanted Medjay to talk like a "Nigerian" (just a guess) fine if he is a black African - but he is not.

You can try to reason it, but the voice acting is confusing because it does not follow the conventions that are generally used in film and theatre. I believe the actor is not at fault, because he is capable of other accents, it is a poor choice by the "director" and it results in a less believable character.

That's why in movies Mozes does not sound like he's from South Boston and Egyptians don't sound like Italians.

[Simulacra_53]

Originally posted by randir14:

Who cares. You might as well whine about Romans always having British accents.

That's from British movie and theatre conventions. Patricians have an upper class and plebs a lower class accent, regional accents thrown in for variety. Like a northern accent for someone who went from rags to riches.

You can break conventions, but if you do it has to be done right or it does not work.

As games near theatre and movie productions when it comes to (voice) acting the same rules start to apply. Ignore at your own peril.

The Michael Bay generation might not care of course. The lack of comments on this issue proofs that many if not most players either don't notice or don't care...

[Alpharius Nox]

Actually Bayek is a Medjay.
Medjay were all Nubian.
Nubians were not North Africans, they were black.