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[Orian Tabris]

I don't know why, but for some bizarre reason, some members of the BSN seem to believe that the accents some characters have are "forced" or "fake". I remember reading someone actually believed Merrill's voice had a forced Welsh accent, even though it says on her wiki page that she is voiced by Eve Myles in DAII. Eve Myles being, a Welsh actor 9perhaps) best known for her role as Gwen Cooper on a show called Torchwood. If you look her up on Wikipedia, you'll see she is actually Welsh. And some people believe that the Dalish in Merrill's former clan had fake Irish accents too. There's also the Orlesians and their French accents, which people foolhardily believe to be faked.

Is it just me, or do people actually believe that BioWare would hire actors to do cheap imitation accents? Because it seems that people either don't know the difference between true accents and fake ones, or purely just want something to complain about. Please, someone correct or explain this to me.

You could do a long-winded thread about why people here don't want to be forced to listen to Orlesians doing French accents, though the clear-cut reason is that some Americans have this thing about hating the French and their accents. As someone who isn't American and has never lived in America, I find that very puzzling, but that's not the point of this little inquisitive rant, o' mine.

[David Gaider]

Plaintiff wrote...
I find it hilarious that people cry foul over Leliana and Merrill's accents (both of which are totally genuine), but nobody ever makes a fuss about Zevran's sounding fake, even though it actually is.

Yes, it's interesting. We tend to use genuine accents whenever we can, though that's not always possible-- it's sometimes difficult to find someone with the needed accent who has both the voice we want (as in the sound of it, not just the accent), the acting ability we like and who is available. This is getting easier as we develop relationships with certain studios overseas-- for instance, it used to be a pain to record in England, but now it's actually our default and almost easier than recording in L.A.

As for the Orlesian accents, as I've said before if we have a game where a greater volume of Orlesian accents are necessary then we'll simply change our approach. We can have more varieties in the regional accents we use, as well as their intensity, since there's no need to highlight an Orlesian in such an instance as being somehow unique.

Does this mean there will be less people complaining about all the "fake" accents? Nah. Sometimes people have strange ideas about how an accent is supposed to sound. If it doesn't sound like they think it should, they think it's fake. It may very well be (chances are it's not), but that's also not necessarily a bad thing except in the minds of people who probably aren't expressing themselves very well. You don't need a justification for not liking how someone sounds, after all, regardless of how authentic their accent may or may not be.

Modifié par David Gaider, 20 septembre 2012 - 04:56 .

[David Gaider]

Gabey5 wrote...
I think people ae confusing fake accents with heavy or aristorctatic ones, that come across as exagerated.  Having regional accents with less intensity seems like a good move.

Lastly Zevran had a great voice actor. Went well with his character

Yep. I didn't realize until I met Jon Curry that he was a tall, Nordic-looking man-- it was amusing, considering Zevran's appearance. Zevran was one of those situations where we turned down a number of actors with more authentic accents because they didn't have the sound we wanted.

As for the oft-maligned Isolde, her voice had the aristocratic quality we wanted-- not to mention the actress had stage training and could turn in the emotional performance we needed. The scene where she pleads for Connor's life still chokes me up when I hear it.

So, in both these cases, going for authenticity over other considerations wouldn't have given us what we wanted. Though it is a consideration even so, regardless of the fact that authenticity is something many people don't really appreciate like they seem to think they do.

[David Gaider]

Wulfram wrote...
I suspect it's more because they really liked Eve Myles but found locating people capable of doing welsh accents more difficult than they originally imagined

No, we knew that getting a lot of Welsh accents would be difficult. Hence the Dalish use both Irish and Welsh accents.

[David Gaider]

katling73 wrote...
Unfortunately that was quite jarring for someone like me who has an English background because the Irish and Welsh accents are quite different to my ears. I was fine with the Irish accents for the Dalish but when we ran into Merrill, it threw me out of any immersion into the game I'd managed to achieve and I was thinking, "Why is there suddenly a Welsh elf in the middle of all these Irish elves?" It would have been far better to keep them all Irish or all Welsh.

And it would have been better if Carver and Bethany had accents from the same part of England as Hawke. Unfortunately, we can't always get what we want.

And can I make a plaintive request that if we're going to have more of Orlais and more Orlesians, could you make sure their accents are genuinely French instead of having them sound like a bad imitation of Maurice Chevalier?

You can request it, sure.