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[Viper371]

Well... Me too

 

Cassandra, Mother Giselle and every other accent from a real country (in a fantasy world, duh!). You should pick actors who doesn't make such stereotyped pronunciation, it's annoying hearing the French accent in English, nobody speaks like that, come on. (As a French speaker, I can tell)

 

That's all I had to complain for now (except the whole EA stuff)

 

Happy New Year!

as a native French speaker too (from Quebec though), she sounds exactly as many European French speaking English, to me, at least.  A Quebec french accent would be very different, and probably not as nice to hear in game. 

 

I'll concede that it may be a tad exagerated in that, as an actress, she has a perfect pronounciation and always the right words although she speaks with a recognizable accent.  But otherwise, I find it fine for most Orlesian characters.  As someone else pointed out though, Leliana seems to have toned down her accent.  Could be explained because of so many years spent in Ferelden.  Or it could be that her voice actress has spent too much time in the US or Canada

[Basement Cat]

as a native French speaker too (from Quebec though), she sounds exactly as many European French speaking English, to me, at least.  A Quebec french accent would be very different, and probably not as nice to hear in game. 

 

I'll concede that it may be a tad exagerated in that, as an actress, she has a perfect pronounciation and always the right words although she speaks with a recognizable accent.  But otherwise, I find it fine for most Orlesian characters.  As someone else pointed out though, Leliana seems to have toned down her accent.  Could be explained because of so many years spent in Ferelden.  Or it could be that her voice actress has spent too much time in the US or Canada

England, actually. She lives there.

[Nyctyris]

Erm, Sera sounds like a stereotypical UK "chav". She says innit fgs. Not remotely american.

 

It's one of the reasons I really really dislike her, I don't think they should have done that. 

[Thane4Ever]

Is Blackwall's accent supposed to be English, or sort of made up? If it's English, what part?

[Thane4Ever]

Erm, Sera sounds like a stereotypical UK "chav". She says innit fgs. Not remotely american.

 

It's one of the reasons I really really dislike her, I don't think they should have done that. 

The "chav" character on Misfits was one of my favorites, so I personally enjoy it.  

[Nyctyris]

Blackwall has a regional English accent, yes.

 

Sounds quite Yorkshire to me but I'm a foreigner living abroad so no doubt an actual Yorkshireman can come along to tell me off 

 

I just don't find the chav imitation funny, I know that probably sounds like a small gripe to most but I feel like it's kind of mocking.

[jojobe71]

The only accent i found weird was the warrior you try to recruit but will not join until you kill a demon that is in a castle. I forget the name of the quest but you have to fight red chantry guards and demons to get to the castle( Orlais side, "liberate ... quest) Anyway his accent is from the virgin isles which is totally strange for a white guy. LOL White guy who talks Islander... its just unusual.

[Thane4Ever]

Blackwall has a regional English accent, yes.

 

Sounds quite Yorkshire to me but I'm a foreigner living abroad so no doubt an actual Yorkshireman can come along to tell me off 

 

I just don't find the chav imitation funny, I know that probably sounds like a small gripe to most but I feel like it's kind of mocking.

I really like Blackwall's accent.  I didn't want to guess to the region and ****** anyone off, but I do watch a ton of British TV and I don't think I'm familiar with a Yorkshire accent.  Yeah I read somewhere else that it's clearly a "posh" woman doing a chav impression.  

[Thane4Ever]

Antiva is supposed to be Italian, right?  Or Spanish?

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

This is also how people think every Minnesotan sounds, only not as quick.

 

I thought you guys all sounded like Northern Europeans, ya?

[Panda]

The problem I see with getting native speakers to do all the foreign accents is that one of two things will happen:

1) the accent will be so thick that the native speaker will mispronounce some words in English, to the point the player won't be able to understand everything unless s/he listens VERY closely and/or turns subtitles on.

2) the accent will waver-as non-native speakers get better at English, they tend to get more precise at stresses ing the right syllables, pronouncing the vowels correctly, etc. Except every once in a while they'll still miss up. So you'll have someone who will sound "English" for sentences at a time, then miss a few words, so it'll sound like the accent is inconsistent.

 

However sometimes those who speak english as their mother tongue likes cutting corners, speaking too fast and not pronouncing clearly enough when many who speak english as foreign language have more attention in their pronounciation which can make foreign speakers more easier to understand than those who are native speakers of english. Like this one british rocker, Matthew Bellamy, I can't really understand his english, he speaks too fast and unclearly to me.

 

I think since they are now having native english speakers speaking with fake accents (not all though) there is more change that the english will get unclear and mispronounced since these people aren't used in speaking english with that accent unlike foreing speakers are.

[MoogleNut]

I ...nYeah I read somewhere else that it's clearly a "posh" woman doing a chav impression.

That's incorrect. Robyn Addison who plays Sera is from Derbyshire. She uses her own accent.
And for the record, having a traditionally working class accent does NOT automatically equal "chav".
Sorry if I come across as snippy, but I'm really tired now of hearing people equate the two. ^.^

[Nyctyris]

I'm tired of people acting like they're some sort of experts on accents, tbh. You'd think they'd learn their lesson after Leliana in DAO.

 

Well technically, accent just refers to the actual sounds coming out of you specifically. 

 

The majority of this thread is actually a discussion on regional dialect variation 

[Nyctyris]

I didn't equate the two, I felt like it was exaggerated. I don't know anything about the actual VAs. 

 

It really is a small and unimportant complaint. If I liked the character more (ie even a little bit) I probably wouldn't feel like she was mocking.

[ruggly]

I thought you guys all sounded like Northern Europeans, ya?

 

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[BartDude52]

What accent were Bioware trying to give Orlesians? French? If so, then wow, because they're really bad. Honestly, the vast majority of them just sound like Americans/Brits/Canadians putting on an over-the-top faux French accent. I just can't take most Orlesians seriously with accents like that.

 

Does anyone know if most of the Orlesians are voiced more by French or non-French actors? If it's the former, then wow, because those accents are horrible. If it's the latter, then please Bioware, for the love of God, hire more actual French people to do the voices of Orlesian characters in the future, because they just sound completely ridiculous and/or annoying for the most part in this game (Celene and Mother Giselle immediately come to mind for me).

 

P.S. Though certainly not as annoying as the Orlesians (to me at least), Josephine's accent isn't exactly great either. Is it supposed to be Spanish? Certainly sounds quite exaggerated to me. Any Spaniards out there who agree with me on this?

 

If Spanish was what they were going for, I don't understand why they couldn't just, you know, hire a Spanish actress to do her voice. Would have been so much better.

[XxPrincess(x)ThreatxX]

Erm, Sera sounds like a stereotypical UK "chav". She says innit fgs. Not remotely american.
 
It's one of the reasons I really really dislike her, I don't think they should have done that.

Im not sure i understand your complaint, Sera wasn't ment to sound american in the 1st place

[Serza]

Well the problem is that only Cassandra's voice actress can get emotion past the gimmicky accent. She's just amazing.

 

As Mediterranean person Josie's accent is just annoying, it's like the accent that others make fun of us for having, just with a few more proper vowels.

 

I think the games could use more of the variety in British accents. And I mean true accents, not a cop out like Sera's american accent with two features vaguely from the Grim North tacked on. After Game of Thrones, the Witcher and other Euro-RPGS, and the popularity of period shows that are British or have British actors, Dragon Age's and Skyrim's American accents just sound off and almost immersion breaking for a medieval setting now. That being said intermediate accents can also work if everyone is like Viv

 

Since you're obviously such an accent expert, tell me where I'm from, based on this.

 

[XxPrincess(x)ThreatxX]

Can somebody explain to me how they got Sera's northern english accent confused with a north american accent? im genuinely confused how anybody could get them mixed up

[Nyctyris]

Im not sure i understand your complaint, Sera wasn't ment to sound american in the 1st place

 

It's not a complaint, it was response to someone else who complained about her being American... or something. Too lazy to quote. But I can't imagine anyone confusing her for American. 

[Elsariel]

The "chav" character on Misfits was one of my favorites, so I personally enjoy it.  

 

Ahem.  

 

[Serza]

Ahem.  

 

 

That reminds me of Scottish.

 

Not really sure if it reminds me of Scottish because it sounds similar, or because the similarity is in the difficulty of understanding.

 

Oh well, I'm not a native speaker, I understood the video well enough. Fine with me.

[AtreiyaN7]

P.S. Though certainly not as annoying as the Orlesians (to me at least), Josephine's accent isn't exactly great either. Is it supposed to be Spanish? Certainly sounds quite exaggerated to me. Any Spaniards out there who agree with me on this?

 

If Spanish was what they were going for, I don't understand why they couldn't just, you know, hire a Spanish actress to do her voice. Would have been so much better.

 

She's Antivan - they're basically Italian. It even says so in the wiki.

 

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Antiva

[Serza]

Josie sounds a lot like Zevran, accent-wise.

 

Considering Antiva is not a real country, I'd say the only accent they need to truly keep is the previous accent of the particular country.

 

Doesn't matter if they originally were for more of an Italian or Spanish accent - now it's Antivan accent.

Bite me for it.