Nevarran please. Would love to have a character with an accent like Cassandra's, and I find Nevarra to be particularly interesting.
But I wouldn't mind an Orlesian accent as long as the accent was close to Leliana or Riordan, rather than Isolde...
But I'm perfectly content to stick with the British accent.
Nothing but American for my dwarves and qunari.
With elves I would have preferred a Welsh accent but I can settle for British.
With humans I would have liked a Scottish option but British is fine.
If stated like how you did then yes very mature. How OP stated it IS immature. So far many responders are being mature about the topic. Yes disliking a accent is a opinion but if presented like your post is acceptable instead of how OP stated it.
I agree a topic to show we love the idea of more accents in the future. I'm just wary of these topics because they usually go into bashing threads too easily :/ I just want that boot to be the case all the time...
Well that's contradictory as I am the OP and the previous poster...
XD
What exactly was "immature" about the first post by me? The English voice is posh and the American one will probably sound modern judging by past DA games.
I hardly see how we are *doomed* with always using English / American voices. If they wanted to include other's I wouldn't care as long as a English / American voice is a option , If i was forced to have a Orlesian one.. very likey would play muted. As for the others ,
Antivan- maybe ,
Rivani- based off how Isabela sounds could probably stand it
Nevarran- Based of how Cassandra sounds , probably would be fine
Anderfels - don't know if we have heard that one yet.
In a perfect world , we'd have 1 of every accent for both genders but that's just a impossible thing to have happen lol
Well I say that because when was the last RPG with a protagonist who could have a foreign voice?
We could choose some foreign sounding voice sets in Neverwinter Nights but most (if not all) recent RPG's have always had the protagonist with an American/English voice.
But I wouldn't mind an Orlesian accent as long as the accent was close to Leliana or Riordan, rather than Isolde...
I could have lived with an accent like Riordan's or some Italian/Spanish thing, but going with American/British is pretty neutral as well as easy to do.
Yuck. I thought even Leliana and Zevran, characters I adore, sounded like they were trying to talk while juggling marbles with their tongues. Neither Orlesian nor Antivan accents do much for me. I wouldn't mind them, if others would gain something from it, but I'm not sorry they don't exist.
Riordan's voice was plain awesome.
It was indeed. I'd actually be fine with the idea of Riordan's voice actor voicing a future protagonist, should they be from Orlais.
I'd have liked to have had an Orlesian protagonist, and the accent naturally follows.
Really not wanting to dig at the french here...
But i honestly would have the game on mute if my inquisitor had an orlesian accent
Haven't really had that much real life experiance with the french accent.. but how Bioware does the orlesian one... i just can't stand it...
I can barely get through Leliana talking to 2 minutes... let alone Marjolaine's 'pretty thing'
Nevarran please. Would love to have a character with an accent like Cassandra's, and I find Nevarra to be particularly interesting.
But I wouldn't mind an Orlesian accent as long as the accent was close to Leliana or Riordan, rather than Isolde...
But I'm perfectly content to stick with the British accent.
Berenice Marlohe for Orlesian protagonist in DA4.
Make it so Bioware. 
If I recall correctly, the Rivaini also speak with a British accent.
I don't think we know that for sure. Isabela's probably done enough globe-trotting in her time that her accent may not be indicative of Rivain as a whole.
A proper "Orlesian" (I mean a proper French accent, from an actor in France and not just French-Canadian) would be perfect for me.
I've disliked nearly all Orlesian accents in the game, even Leliana's. Probably why I never really got invested in her character much.
Also, I prefer a silent protagonist still, but that's probably not gonna happen. : P
You mean, we're not going to have an Orlesian accent? And no Antivan, Navarran or Dalish accents either? How lame.
I bet it's 'cause BioWare is afraid of how people would react if our character had a French accent. I blame the weird French and/or Orlesian haters.
There’s a distinction between the accent and the actual voice. Ideally, you want a slight accent. It has to be barely there, just enough to be recognizable. Otherwise, there are too many people – both native English speakers and others – who get annoyed, miss things or just get mentally tired.
How an accent is perceived is partly due to the voice itself. Corinne Kempa as Leliana had a slight accent (sometimes it was hard to notice it at all), but she used a very distinctive, soft, ‘young’, almost childish voice. Some people liked this, others didn’t. Personally I thought it very irritating.
The actual voice matters just as much as the accent.
For instance, I would gladly have an Orlesian inquisitor who sounds like this:
But at the same time, he clearly means business and sounds rather stern and uncompromising. Not the right choice if you want your Inquisitor to be a lovey-dovey compromise-making let's all get together sort of politician-diplomat.
Anyway, for Bio to do a foreign accent for a player Avatar right, they would have to find two additional voice actors (male and female), who:
1) Can do a slight accent that is still recognisable as such and sound authentic while doing it (not the same as actually being authentic, by the way)
2) Can do this in a voice that is neutral enough that it ‘fits’ a range of races / body types.
3) Are available when needed.
I assume this is doable, but it is much easier and safer to go with some known British and American voice actors. After all, most gamers want to do a ‘fantasy you’, play a power fantasy, rather than roleplay a character from another society and culture. With a ‘neutral’ American accent and an English one (RP accent) you pretty much cover 90% of the native English-speaking market. Antipodean accents can be dispensed with, and non-English speakers who buy the English-language version are just out of luck.
There is one thing I am wondering about though. All human Avatars are nobles from the Free Marches and all are from the same family (and presumably the same city or state).
In this context an English RP accent sort of makes sense, since it’s traditionally associated with the upper classes.
Giving the choice of an American accent for a Marcher noble doesn’t quite feel right. It already felt odd for Dwarves, who traditionally use Scottish accents*.
Conversely, having a female Qunari speak like she’s trying to emulate some BBC broadcaster also feels very weird.
Sure, you can cook up some explanation why people speak with an unexpected accent, but then you’re totally ignoring the reason why accents are used in books, movies, music and roleplaying: To mark out a person’s ethnic and social background.
*Alternatively Scandinavian or German accents would have made sense, since they’re thick on the ground in Scandinavian and German mythology.
For future games, I'd be cool with Italian and French accents because those are the sexiest accents in the world! For a French accent, it would have to more tamed than an Isolde, more like Leliana's.
I'm not a fan of both accents. I can do without.
You mean, we're not going to have an Orlesian accent? And no Antivan, Navarran or Dalish accents either? How lame.
I bet it's 'cause BioWare is afraid of how people would react if our character had a French accent. I blame the weird French and/or Orlesian haters.
Maybe but I must give great credit to Bioware for bothering to include an American accent which I'll probably use on my Qunari and Dwarf (I think it'll suit them more). It's nice that we have that choice.
But perhaps in a future game, we'll get the choice of Antivian or Orlesian if it suits the protagonist's background.
I'd love to play an Antivan character, complete with the accent. It's currently the nation that interests me the most in Thedas. My ideal DA persona would certainly be from Antiva.
I would have liked an Orlesian accent instead of a Ferelden one.
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