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[Plaintiff]

Twisted Path wrote...

If the player character had a French accent it wouldn't bother me in the least. Some people seem to really dislike the idea though.

Same. I don't understand the big deal.

[Heimdall]

I'd like my character to be a Free Marcher from Kirkwall personally.

[QueenPurpleScrap]

Accent should be location based (as in where they are from), not race based as suggested earlier in this thread. I never understood why the Dalish in DA2 suddenly have a different accent than in DAO.

Having said that, I like Ferelden well enough but I'm ready to play as somebody from another country. As far as Orlesian accents go I preferred Leliana's and Duke Prosper's to those of the de Launcets and Baron Spoiled Brat.

I like the idea of throwing smelly cheese at your enemy. Maybe it could be something like the walking bomb smell and when it explodes pieces of it stick to your enemy and they have to find their way through a foggy, cheesy haze.

[Felya87]

I'm more concerned with the fact we don't have any races choise. I'd prefer have a Elf or Dwarf PC, even if he/she had a venetian or Genoese accent. Really care little.

With a silent protagonist, there would not be such a issue.

Still, I think the PC would be Fereldan, or at least he/she lived there enought to loose the Orlesian accent.

[esper]

Plaintiff wrote...

Twisted Path wrote...

If the player character had a French accent it wouldn't bother me in the least. Some people seem to really dislike the idea though.

Same. I don't understand the big deal.

Those people really need to play Jean D'Arc. French accents everywhere. But about five minutes into the game I was too busy killing englishmen and demons to care.

[Celtic Latino]

henkez3 wrote...

Okay, so the game will take place (mostly?) in Orlesia. Because of this I'd really want to actually play as an orlesian, not a fereldan.
The reaon I think BioWare might give us another fereldan is because so many here are annoyed by the orlesian (french) accent and will not want to play as someone with it. In Awakenings it was fine because your PC was silent. Voiced PC is already confirmed for DAIII, so I really, really hope I'll not have to play as a fereldan again. Is anyone with me on this or am I alone? Is there any other nationality you would like to play as?

I agree. 

I get tired of having to play England/English based characters (just like I get tired of movies where the hero is an Anglo-American and everyone else is just an exotic locale or bad guy for the hero, kind of reeks of neo-sensationalism). Fereldan is cool (and I didn't care so much in Origins and understood the context in DA2), but if every game has its protagonists and PCs from Ferelden, what about all the other nations of Thedas, such as Nevarra, the Anderfels, Orlais, Antiva, Tevinter and Rivain? Are they unable to produce heroes and compelling main characters just because someone might be bothered by their accent?

I'm not so worried about the accent as I am having to play the same nationality over and over again. I also get tired of the inside jokes as if Ferelden's the greatest thing and everyone else is just a Disneyland vacation exhibit. I actually don't mind French accents or the idea of my PC having one (or a Spanish, Eastern European, German accent for that matter...makes the game immersive). Would just like a bit of ethnic diversity in terms of who the PC can be, and not just in appearance but in culture too. 

Although I am also just as open to the 'other' option of the PC not having a defined ethnicity (ala Mass Effect not counting Sheploo...but that's another story for another time), allowing the player to define the character through their choices and story, not the entire character as a whole. 

Seeing as this will take place in Orlais though I can see room for multiple ethnicities, including classic (Fereldan), Orlesian, and possibly other faces if the backgrounds are done right. Let's remain hopeful at least. :innocent:

[GloriousDame]

Celtic Latino wrote...

Would just like a bit of ethnic diversity in terms of who the PC can be, and not just in appearance but in culture too.

Absolutely agree with you. The bad thing is people will complain and say "well why does this fantasy game have to be representative of the world we live in?" It doesn't, but because it doesn't, it almost alinates certain people (maybe not all felow Latinos, or members of other minorities, but certainly some).  I would love to see culture/ethnicity play a big role in the upcoming backgrounds (either in Inquisition or future games).

If not in DAIII, I'm hopeful that our future adventures in the Dragon Age universe will have us travel to other areas where we CAN have more ethnic and cultural diversity. It would definitely draw us in even more than the writers already make it so.

[henkez3]

Celtic Latino wrote...

henkez3 wrote...

Okay, so the game will take place (mostly?) in Orlesia. Because of this I'd really want to actually play as an orlesian, not a fereldan.
The reaon I think BioWare might give us another fereldan is because so many here are annoyed by the orlesian (french) accent and will not want to play as someone with it. In Awakenings it was fine because your PC was silent. Voiced PC is already confirmed for DAIII, so I really, really hope I'll not have to play as a fereldan again. Is anyone with me on this or am I alone? Is there any other nationality you would like to play as?

I agree. 

I get tired of having to play England/English based characters (just like I get tired of movies where the hero is an Anglo-American and everyone else is just an exotic locale or bad guy for the hero, kind of reeks of neo-sensationalism). Fereldan is cool (and I didn't care so much in Origins and understood the context in DA2), but if every game has its protagonists and PCs from Ferelden, what about all the other nations of Thedas, such as Nevarra, the Anderfels, Orlais, Antiva, Tevinter and Rivain? Are they unable to produce heroes and compelling main characters just because someone might be bothered by their accent?

I'm not so worried about the accent as I am having to play the same nationality over and over again. I also get tired of the inside jokes as if Ferelden's the greatest thing and everyone else is just a Disneyland vacation exhibit. I actually don't mind French accents or the idea of my PC having one (or a Spanish, Eastern European, German accent for that matter...makes the game immersive). Would just like a bit of ethnic diversity in terms of who the PC can be, and not just in appearance but in culture too. 

Although I am also just as open to the 'other' option of the PC not having a defined ethnicity (ala Mass Effect not counting Sheploo...but that's another story for another time), allowing the player to define the character through their choices and story, not the entire character as a whole. 

Seeing as this will take place in Orlais though I can see room for multiple ethnicities, including classic (Fereldan), Orlesian, and possibly other faces if the backgrounds are done right. Let's remain hopeful at least. :innocent:

Yeah, this, SO much. It's what I was trying to get across in the OP!

EDIT: It's really tiresome that game protags have to have brittish or american accents just because people who's native language is english get uncomfortable and annoyed whenever a hero isn't english or american speaking, it limits games so much and frankly I'm sick of it. I'm not saying ALL people in the anglo-sphere are like this, I bet some of them are tired of this too, but many of them refuse to play a character that doesn't speak brittish english or american english.

Modifié par henkez3, 11 novembre 2012 - 08:31 .

[Wifflebottom]

How about the multiple origins thingy being about the PC having parents from Orlais/Rivan/Tevinter or wherever but they were raised in Ferelden so that's why they sound like wet dog people.

[MilaBanilla]

It would be awesome if we could choose the accent but I highly doubt it. It would mean more work for the VA or hiring a VA for those accents.
I think it's more likely we could choose our PC's homeland instead of picking their accents :[
Since the game is in Orlais, I assume our PC is from/grew up in Orlais and will have an Orlesian accent.
We will just have to wait and see >.<

[cindercatz]

I really, really hope our PC is Orlesian, with an Orlesian (French) accent. I'm tired of Fereldan (British/Scots) all the time. I want every protagonist to have the accent of the home/primary nation in each game, at least until they can do multiple accent PCs. Also, nobody's done a French styled game in a long time, and I'm very much looking forward to that from Canadian BioWare. They've got a great oppurtunity to do it justice here.

Modifié par cindercatz, 11 novembre 2012 - 11:10 .

[Heimdall]

ArinTheirinCousland wrote...

Celtic Latino wrote...
Would just like a bit of ethnic diversity in terms of who the PC can be, and not just in appearance but in culture too.

Absolutely agree with you. The bad thing is people will complain and say "well why does this fantasy game have to be representative of the world we live in?" It doesn't, but because it doesn't, it almost alinates certain people (maybe not all felow Latinos, or members of other minorities, but certainly some).  I would love to see culture/ethnicity play a big role in the upcoming backgrounds (either in Inquisition or future games).

If not in DAIII, I'm hopeful that our future adventures in the Dragon Age universe will have us travel to other areas where we CAN have more ethnic and cultural diversity. It would definitely draw us in even more than the writers already make it so.

That's all very well and good, but how do you get around the fact that the entire setting has so far been designed as a series of European country analogs?

Modifié par Lord Aesir, 12 novembre 2012 - 03:25 .

[Tempest_]

As much as I love Ferelden, I'd also like the PC to be from somewhere else. I'd personally love a character from the Anderfels and am very much hoping we visit there in this game or the next.

Though an Orlesian/Tevinter/Antivan would be cool too.

[JWvonGoethe]

The reality is that accent doesn't really matter if the voice acting is good. At least, I can't think of any good actor whose accent has ever bothered me.

[Parmida]

I loved Zevran's accent.
Antivan Inquisitor FTW!

[Celtic Latino]

JWvonGoethe wrote...

The reality is that accent doesn't really matter if the voice acting is good. At least, I can't think of any good actor whose accent has ever bothered me.

It's not so much the accent for me as it is the ethnicity. I don't mind having Fereldan as one of the optional origins. I don't even care if the PC has a British/English accent. I just don't want to see the PC always HAVING to be Fereldan in nationality and culture. I understood Origins since we had a multitude of origins that made up for it. I understood DA2 for the context of Hawke's story. Heck despite Shepard being open as far as nationality goes the very name and poster boy implies someone who is Anglo/English (as are many of the NPCs despite it being in space). But now that DA3 is set in Orlais, it's time to break up the monotony of the same English protagonist over and over again. 

If the game is set in Orlais, I'd like the option or assumption my character is culturally Orlesian. I don't want to play a 'Fereldan in Orlais'. At least not every single character. For one origin it'd be fine. For every origin and assumption, no thanks. If that's going to be the case just set the game in Fereldan/Kirkwall like the others. 

[jbrand2002uk]

Orlais = French and French = Cheese eating surrender monkeys so thanks but no thanks

[sunnydxmen]

so sick and tired of fereldan i want my pc to be from tevinter.