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[byne]

Cmdr Pwn wrote...

I think what bothers me most is that such an advanced civilization shouldn't have a thick African accent......

"An advanced alien sounds like a black man? Well thats just silly! Maybe a race of brutes like the krogan could sound black, but never an advanced alien race!"

[TeffexPope]

I'd like to know how you can understand how he talks anyway since he's a Prothean. It's as if as soon as you bring him back to life the universal translator automatically updates to apply Prothean speech, even though we would only know writings and nothing about dialect, phrases, etc. all that stuff that makes true understanding of a language.

Maybe the explanation is supposed to be their translators use exactly the same technology as the ones made 50,000 years later.

And yeah G3rman, apply your own .gif to yourself please.

Modifié par TeffexPope, 24 février 2012 - 09:18 .

[slimgrin]

Gibb_Shepard wrote...

G3rman wrote...

Everyone here who is against it is just racist. Not even joking. The first character that gets introduced with the accent and all you can do is hate on it because it doesn't fit your "perfect" vision of protheans.

I like it, its new.

You are a ****ing idiot. There is just no other way to put it; i'm sorry.

Pretty much what I was going to say.

[laudable11]

So I guess most people would'nt complain if Prothy's voice sounded North American or European?

Thats been done waaaay too often. This is new and fresh,and the main reason some people hate it is because Prothy sounds African.

[byne]

TeffexPope wrote...

I'd like to know how you can understand how he talks anyway since he's a Prothean. It's as if as soon as you bring him back to life the universal translator automatically updates to apply Prothean speech, even though we would only know writings and nothing about dialect, phrases, etc. all that stuff that makes true understanding of a language.

Maybe the explanation is supposed to be their translators use exactly the same technology as the ones made 50,000 years later.

I dont know about the rest of your team, but Shepard actually understands Prothean without the aid of a translator due to having the Cipher from Shiala.

If you'll remember, on Ilos, Shepard could understand the recording of the ancient Prothean distress call but no one else could.

[Nima55]

finc.loki wrote...

Nima55 wrote...

finc.loki wrote...

Here is a perfectly simple solution to what Bioware could have done with the voice.

This is how the Prothean could sound and at least be SOMEWHAT ALIEN.

www.youtube.com/watch

Using this (they already have the capability in their sound studio) they could make a unique sound to the prothean, even if he speaks English.

umm... no
1) that voice is compeletly wrong for a character that is suppose to be a good guy (might work for a villan)
2) it's barely understandable

As I have said before I like the guy's voice. It has a sense of grandious to it and it really fit his character design.

So because he doesn't sound Human, like a British upper class, or Chinese, or brazilian, or American, IE EARTH.
Then he is a villain, LOL.

I want him to sound ALIEN, nothing like us.
What I posted was an example, he was using a voice changer, it could be sounding anyway they like.

Hearing The Prothean speak like a stiff upper lip British, or African, or Asian etc etc, does not fit the character.

Thane has voice modulation to make him sound different, Legion has the Machine like pitch.
Krogans have that deep rumbling voice.

I would imagine a Prothean could sound extremely different to us, The Elcor sound different too.

This guy sounds like he's African, it does not make sense at all, I just picture an African in my head everytime I hear the voice, not an ALIEN.
If I heard the "stiff upper lip Brit" I would picture a guy with tea and scones with a Monokel on his one eye and a snobbish look.
Not an ALIEN.

Let me know when it sinks in what I mean...

Yes I understand you want him to sound alien, also I may have been I bit disrespectful sorry. In my mind as long as a character is speaking english, they will never sound alien so I just want them to sound good and to fit the character.

[slimgrin]

byne wrote...

Cmdr Pwn wrote...

I think what bothers me most is that such an advanced civilization shouldn't have a thick African accent......

"An advanced alien sounds like a black man? Well thats just silly! Maybe a race of brutes like the krogan could sound black, but never an advanced alien race!"

Lets play teh race card yet again shall we?

[Niddy']

The voice sounds like Jacob's voice actor try harding a Jamaican accent. Anyone know who the voice actor is?

[lukex38]

deadshame wrote...

Man people just love to ****. I'll rephrase...The Bioware Social Network just loves to ****. I find it hilarious that the voice doesn't match what people had in their minds and they are throwing a hissy fit and getting their panties in a bunch.

yep

[Cmdr Pwn]

finc.loki wrote...

I just picture an African in my head everytime I hear the voice, not an ALIEN.

Me too hahaha

[Ecmoose]

It's amazing how one accent can garner so much racist reaction in so little time.

1. It's not Jamaican, but if it was, those Jamaican jokes would be even more racist and inappropriate.

2. "An advanced culture wouldn't sound like that" Why exactly? Any culture that has it's own language is going to sound accented when it tries to speak one not it's own. The only reason many of the more advanced areas of Africa have less of an accent is because of British colonization.

3. "I just can't take that accent seriously." It's good to know BSNers judge people based on their accents. Hey guess what, that's also prejudice! I don't know about all of you but where I come from (NYC) there are many successful businessmen with all sorts of accents and no one cares what you sound like.

You guys need to broaden your minds and learn to accept unexpected developments in a character that many of you know nothing about to begin with.

[ace1221]

the real problem here is that there are no russian accented characters...

[TeffexPope]

byne wrote...

TeffexPope wrote...

I'd like to know how you can understand how he talks anyway since he's a Prothean. It's as if as soon as you bring him back to life the universal translator automatically updates to apply Prothean speech, even though we would only know writings and nothing about dialect, phrases, etc. all that stuff that makes true understanding of a language.

Maybe the explanation is supposed to be their translators use exactly the same technology as the ones made 50,000 years later.

I dont know about the rest of your team, but Shepard actually understands Prothean without the aid of a translator due to having the Cipher from Shiala.

If you'll remember, on Ilos, Shepard could understand the recording of the ancient Prothean distress call but no one else could.

ohhh ya that's right. Maybe throughout the whole game they'll make Shep the only one to understand him. I'd be impressed if they paid attention to that much detail.

[Niddy']

laudable11 wrote...

So I guess most people would'nt complain if Prothy's voice sounded North American or European?

Thats been done waaaay too often. This is new and fresh,and the main reason some people hate it is because Prothy sounds African.

The reason people hate it is because it doesn't sound alien at all.  Nice job trying to inject racism into your argument.

[byne]

slimgrin wrote...

byne wrote...

Cmdr Pwn wrote...

I think what bothers me most is that such an advanced civilization shouldn't have a thick African accent......

"An advanced alien sounds like a black man? Well thats just silly! Maybe a race of brutes like the krogan could sound black, but never an advanced alien race!"

Lets play teh race card yet again shall we?

I fail to see anything other than racial implications in saying an advanced alien species shouldnt sound african, but that it'd be ok for a brute race like the krogan.

[Tasker]

I wonder if we can get him to say Beer Can, without it sounding like he's asking for Bacon.

TeffexPope wrote...

I'd like to know how you can
understand how he talks anyway since he's a Prothean. It's as if as soon
as you bring him back to life the universal translator automatically
updates to apply Prothean speech, even though we would only know
writings and nothing about dialect, phrases, etc. all that stuff that
makes true understanding of a language.

Maybe the explanation is supposed to be their translators use exactly the same technology as the ones made 50,000 years later.

And yeah G3rman, apply your own .gif to yourself please.

I wonder if only Shepard can understand him... Thanks to the fact that he/she had a mind full of the Eden Prime beacon.

Modifié par Orkboy, 24 février 2012 - 09:25 .

[Sith Reaper]

slimgrin wrote...

byne wrote...

Cmdr Pwn wrote...

I think what bothers me most is that such an advanced civilization shouldn't have a thick African accent......

"An advanced alien sounds like a black man? Well thats just silly! Maybe a race of brutes like the krogan could sound black, but never an advanced alien race!"

Lets play teh race card yet again shall we?

Did you read the post that byne is referring to? It literally insinuated that he didn't think that a black voice sounded advanced or sophisticated enough to be a Prothean. A krogan though, which in the Mass Effect universe has a reputation of being brutish, is fine.

Unbelievable. It's like no one has heard an accent before.

[Ecmoose]

Niddy' wrote...

laudable11 wrote...

So I guess most people would'nt complain if Prothy's voice sounded North American or European?

Thats been done waaaay too often. This is new and fresh,and the main reason some people hate it is because Prothy sounds African.

The reason people hate it is because it doesn't sound alien at all.  Nice job trying to inject racism into your argument.

Neither does Tali, or Liara, or Kirrahe, or Wrex, or any alien on the council, or any volus.

But no one complained then. In fact no one has complained FOR TWO GAMES that none of the acents sounded alien enough, but now that there's an african voice bsn is up in arms.

[laudable11]

byne wrote...

Cmdr Pwn wrote...

I think what bothers me most is that such an advanced civilization shouldn't have a thick African accent......

"An advanced alien sounds like a black man? Well thats just silly! Maybe a race of brutes like the krogan could sound black, but never an advanced alien race!"

this..

[Niddy']

byne wrote...

slimgrin wrote...

byne wrote...

Cmdr Pwn wrote...

I think what bothers me most is that such an advanced civilization shouldn't have a thick African accent......

"An advanced alien sounds like a black man? Well thats just silly! Maybe a race of brutes like the krogan could sound black, but never an advanced alien race!"

Lets play teh race card yet again shall we?

I fail to see anything other than racial implications in saying an advanced alien species shouldnt sound african, but that it'd be ok for a brute race like the krogan.

That's because you're projecting your racism.  I don't like the voice because it sounds like Jacob's voice actor trying to be jamaican.

Maybe it's my fault for expecting an alien race from 50,000 years ago to sound something.....alien and not one of my crew members.

[Nima55]

ace1221 wrote...

the real problem here is that there are no russian accented characters...

really? to me the quarians sound pretty russian/ east european. oh well maybe that's just me 

[slimgrin]

Ecmoose wrote...

Niddy' wrote...

laudable11 wrote...

So I guess most people would'nt complain if Prothy's voice sounded North American or European?

Thats been done waaaay too often. This is new and fresh,and the main reason some people hate it is because Prothy sounds African.

The reason people hate it is because it doesn't sound alien at all.  Nice job trying to inject racism into your argument.

Neither does Tali, or Liara, or Kirrahe, or Wrex, or any alien on the council, or any volus.

But no one complained then. In fact no one has complained FOR TWO GAMES that none of the acents sounded alien enough, but now that there's an african voice bsn is up in arms.

Please be so kind as to asign specific ethnic accents to the characters you just listed.

[Cmdr Pwn]

Ecmoose wrote...

I don't know about all of you but where I come from (NYC) there are many successful businessmen with all sorts of accents and no one cares what you sound like.

This is what comes to mind when I hear his voice www.youtube.com/watch   lol

[didymos1120]

Niddy' wrote...

Maybe it's my fault for expecting an alien race from 50,000 years ago to sound something.....alien and not one of my crew members.

He is one of your crew members.  Also, were you as upset about the perfectly normal sounding recording on Ilos?

Modifié par didymos1120, 24 février 2012 - 09:28 .

[byne]

Niddy' wrote...

That's because you're projecting your racism.  I don't like the voice because it sounds like Jacob's voice actor trying to be jamaican.

"You're projecting your own racism!'

"All black people sound alike to me!"

lolwut