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[RyuujinZERO]

Ahh, "accents", we have dismissed this claim

Modifié par RyuujinZERO, 01 février 2012 - 02:59 .

[FrostedIce]

Garrus has an American accent. You humans are all racist!

[Frolk]

There's a possible canonical explanation here: the universal translator is at work. Many of the characters that you meet may not be native English speakers.

[RinpocheSchnozberry]

When I was kid, 20 years ago, my best friend's father took a plane to work 2-3 times a week. It was a puddle jumper, sure, but the wacko lawyers that he worked for could afford it.

Mass Effect is set far in the fuuuuuuture. How quick do you think you could cross an ocean? Hours? Minutes? It's entirely conceivable that people in the fuuuuuuuture live on one continent and commute to work on another. The language they speak, even the names they use, might not be anything like what they would "really" be. But the story isn't about the language or their names, it's about Commander Shepard and her eternal quest to find ass to kick with her sweet biotic powers. There's something about death bots from mars, or whatever, but the key is hot bad ass chicks and explosions.

Asimov said something that I'm too lazy to Google, so I'll paraphrase. Don't invent **** that isn't pertinent to the story. Keep the unimportant things clear so you can focus on your story. I've always assumed Star Trek, Mass Effect, and Firefly used that guideline.

Frolk wrote...

There's a possible canonical explanation
here: the universal translator is at work. Many of the characters that
you meet may not be native English speakers.

Great in-lore solution!

Modifié par RinpocheSchnozberry, 01 février 2012 - 03:11 .

[Killitngrillit]

Volus Warlord wrote...

Killitngrillit wrote...

You know, people from different countries won't always have distinguishable accents. For example, watch one of the dev vids, you won't pick much "Canadian accent", except certain pronunciations, like ou in out, about, thousand, etc. At least, that's what Americans tell me.

People's accents in accross America vary greatly. 

They do, but I'll give you examples. I'm Canadian, livin in the U.S, and not everyone speaks with a wicked drawl, or some Jersey accent. To me, some sound normal. In Canada, I can definitely hear the accents on some people, but not on others. Point being, not everyone form a specific country will have their stereotypical accent.

[SnakeStrike8]

Frolk wrote...

There's a possible canonical explanation here: the universal translator is at work. Many of the characters that you meet may not be native English speakers.

This. I support this explanation fully.
And why's this such a deal anyway? So Bioware couldn't dig up Indian, Italian, Japanese or Hungarian voice actors. Let it slide, mates! We all need to work with what we have, and I think I prefer listening to American or Canadian voices rather than poor renditions of European or Asian accents. Anyone remember Samesh Bhatia from ME 1? That's an Indian name, and I was born and raised in India, learned English as a second language. I can tell you flat-out that his 'indian' accent was the most terribly forced thing I've ever heard.

[Zkyire]

RinpocheSchnozberry wrote...


Asimov said something that I'm too lazy to Google, so I'll paraphrase. Don't invent **** that isn't pertinent to the story. Keep the unimportant things clear so you can focus on your story. I've always assumed Star Trek, Mass Effect, and Firefly used that guideline.

Firefly, Mass Effect? Sure.

Star Trek? It's filled with so much technobabble, filler episodes, throwaway names/planets that most of it means nothing (and I'm a fan of ST).

[Atakuma]

Luc0s wrote...

I believe I heard a french and a german accent in ME1. Can't remember when.

And Donovan Hock (Kasumi DLC) had a Afrikaans/Dutch accent.


And what about Kenneth and Gabby? They both had an Irish accent, didn't they?

Kenneth was Scottish and Gabby was American.

Modifié par Atakuma, 01 février 2012 - 03:14 .

[RinpocheSchnozberry]

Zkyire wrote...

Star Trek? It's filled with so much technobabble, filler episodes, throwaway names/planets that most of it means nothing (and I'm a fan of ST).

Sure, but the language the characters speak has to be totally different from any current language.  Never mind the world war... the introduction of truely alien cultures would scramble languages.

[mauro2222]

The doctor on the Citadel, Chloe something, Chloe Michel I think.

[Homey C-Dawg]

The quarians have all kinds of accents. Funny the translators would pick that up.

[hawkens982]

Why does accents or where the crew is from in a game matter? Like the great Peter Russel said, all accents are ridiculous.

[IllusiveMike]

Duh. The omni-tool's universal translator converts all accents into a midwestern standard accent because Shepard is a North American.

It was a design decision.

Some characters have such outrageously strong accents that it "leaks" through in the translations. Technology can only go so far even in ME.

[Zatou]

IllusiveMike wrote...

Duh. The omni-tool's universal translator converts all accents into a midwestern standard accent because Shepard is a North American.

It was a design decision.

Some characters have such outrageously strong accents that it "leaks" through in the translations. Technology can only go so far even in ME.

Shameless self-snip

Modifié par Zatou, 01 février 2012 - 04:40 .

[Me vs Bioware]

Dragon Age did the accents right!!!!

[Il Divo]

Volus Warlord wrote...

Arcian wrote...

>Kaidan
>Greek
He was born in Singapore.

So Kaidan is greek.. is that why when it comes to personality he is BANKRUPT? 

Oh man, that was gold.

[IllusiveMike]

Zatou wrote...

IllusiveMike wrote...

Duh. The omni-tool's universal translator converts all accents into a midwestern standard accent because Shepard is a North American.

It was a design decision.

Some characters have such outrageously strong accents that it "leaks" through in the translations. Technology can only go so far even in ME.

There weren't any Omni tools in Mass Effect 1.

EXPLAIN YOURSELF AT ONCE.

Yes there were, did you ever use medi-gel?  Check the Codex in ME1.  My theory is unassailable.

[Zatou]

IllusiveMike wrote...

Zatou wrote...

IllusiveMike wrote...

Duh. The omni-tool's universal translator converts all accents into a midwestern standard accent because Shepard is a North American.

It was a design decision.

Some characters have such outrageously strong accents that it "leaks" through in the translations. Technology can only go so far even in ME.

There weren't any Omni tools in Mass Effect 1.

EXPLAIN YOURSELF AT ONCE.

Yes there were, did you ever use medi-gel?  Check the Codex in ME1.  My theory is unassailable.

Oh well. I completely forgot about that. My bad.
I made a terrible confusion about Omni-gel and stuff.

Modifié par Zatou, 01 février 2012 - 04:38 .

[ediskrad327]

Zatou wrote...

IllusiveMike wrote...

Duh. The omni-tool's universal translator converts all accents into a midwestern standard accent because Shepard is a North American.

It was a design decision.

Some characters have such outrageously strong accents that it "leaks" through in the translations. Technology can only go so far even in ME.

There weren't any Omni tools in Mass Effect 1.

EXPLAIN YOURSELF AT ONCE.

IIRC you can actually BUY omnitools in ME1

[Malanek]

Engineers (and the other techs) could equip omni-tools coundn't they? Or was that called something else?

[IllusiveMike]

Zatou wrote...

IllusiveMike wrote...

Zatou wrote...

IllusiveMike wrote...

Duh. The omni-tool's universal translator converts all accents into a midwestern standard accent because Shepard is a North American.

It was a design decision.

Some characters have such outrageously strong accents that it "leaks" through in the translations. Technology can only go so far even in ME.

There weren't any Omni tools in Mass Effect 1.

EXPLAIN YOURSELF AT ONCE.

Yes there were, did you ever use medi-gel?  Check the Codex in ME1.  My theory is unassailable.

Oh well. I completely forgot about that. My bad.
I made a terrible confusion about Omni-gel and stuff.

That's okay.  It was a fantastic and sporting battle of wits while it lasted.   

EDIT: Sorry to quote your self-snipped text.

Modifié par IllusiveMike, 01 février 2012 - 04:42 .

[Zatou]

IllusiveMike wrote...

Zatou wrote...

IllusiveMike wrote...

Zatou wrote...

IllusiveMike wrote...

Duh. The omni-tool's universal translator converts all accents into a midwestern standard accent because Shepard is a North American.

It was a design decision.

Some characters have such outrageously strong accents that it "leaks" through in the translations. Technology can only go so far even in ME.

There weren't any Omni tools in Mass Effect 1.

EXPLAIN YOURSELF AT ONCE.

Yes there were, did you ever use medi-gel?  Check the Codex in ME1.  My theory is unassailable.

Oh well. I completely forgot about that. My bad.
I made a terrible confusion about Omni-gel and stuff.

That's okay.  It was a fantastic and sporting battle of wits while it lasted.   

EDIT: Sorry to quote your self-snipped text.

Thou hast fought well. 

[spirosz]

Kaidan is Greek, since when?

[Icinix]

spiros9110 wrote...

Kaidan is Greek, since when?

He's growing a Kippo in the Normandy hangar bay in ME3.