Funny accents kill this game

[diango12]

I thought I was supposed to be an Egyptian person exploring my native Egyptian country and talking to my fellow Egyptians. Speaking should sound natural. Right now it sounds like I'm talking to immigrants arriving to America. Really sad the unity accent controversy carried over to this game.

Accents limit personality and expression; its a handicap for speaking a foreign language. Not something that should appear when speaking your native language. But more importantly, its immersion breaking. Everyone I talk to is a Nigerian Call Center operator in this game. Except for Cleopatra, for some reason she talks just fine and expresses a wider range of emotions in the cutscenes.

[AC Denton]

Egypt then is different than Egypt now.
They were also not just a singular group, rather many people from all over settled there.

[diango12]

Egypt in this game is 1-800 nigeria tech support. Voice acting in general, excluding Cleopatara, is also abhorently terrible

[Gughunter]

"Everyone I talk to is a Nigerian Call Center operator in this game." Ha!

I remember when I was a kid, I made fun of The Sound of Music because it took place in Austria yet everyone had British accents. But once you have the suspension of disbelief allowing everyone to speak a different language in the first place, the accent is a side issue IMHO.

As you say, speaking should sound natural, though in my case that would entail about 75% of the characters talking like Larry the Cable Guy, not that there's anything wrong with that. Personally I like the accents in this game because they can give you an idea of a person's status in the world. E.g., Cleopatra, being part of the Greek Ptolemies and royal, speaks with a British accent.

[Fampai]

Originally posted by diango12:

Egypt in this game is 1-800 nigeria tech support. Voice acting in general, excluding Cleopatara, is also abhorently terrible

Do they have the same 10 canned responses/dialogue as well? Throughout the entire game????