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[Thermopylae]

Peter Sellers doing an Inspector Clauseau speaking English. 

[katamuro]

Pretty much every single voiced protagonist has an accent, just because it sounds "normal" to you doesnt mean its the same across the board. Here in UK that means most protagonists have american/canadian accents. 

[Chealec]

I've only ever pronounced the word "letter" the exact way it sounds with double T's

 

Curiously in the south east of England, "letter" has a glottal stop... le'uh - true story,

[Panda]

Pretty much every single voiced protagonist has an accent, just because it sounds "normal" to you doesnt mean its the same across the board. Here in UK that means most protagonists have american/canadian accents. 

 

I think in this context accent is sth american and sth that doesn't stand out much. I don't personally hear someone speaking with accent if they speak with american accent until it's strong Texas accent or sth similar.

[SolNebula]

I wouldn't mind a protagonist with a South African accent I love that accent!!!!

[Black Jimmy]

Get the guy who play's Lito in Sense8 to voice the male hero.

He has a cool sexy accent.

[Suron]

Um...What particular accent? EVERYONE has an "accent' to someone else depending on where the two are from....

 

if you mean an accent in relevance to an "American" one...then of course I wouldn't mind.  Would I prefer it though? Not really.  As I have an "american" accent myself and I can get into the character more that way.  But if he/she does/did have an accent it wouldn't matter that much to me.

 

Ideally they do multiple voices like DA:I, but somehow I doubt it.

[Ashevajak]

Curiously in the south east of England, "letter" has a glottal stop... le'uh - true story,

 

True, but this still puts it above the south west of England, where they don't know what letters actually are.

[Indigenous]

If by accent you mean non-American, then yeah. Anything but an American accent for the protagonist.

 

Bioware did an amazing job of providing us with that option in Inquisition. Hopefully they don't take a step back in that regard. I didn't know how much I hated American accents until we were this option.

[DanAxe]

I really don't care for an accent or not, as well the main voice protagonist (male and female) are well done.

 

And i sincerely hope they don't give us the choice. They should choose themselves 1 voice for male and 1 voice for female. The resources and time spent in 2 second voice actors for the protagonist can be better spent on other parts of the game.

 

At first I was happy that I could choose british accent for my male Inq. But after a few hours i had to reroll simply because the british actor was completely off on some major emotional scenes. I wasn't happy having to go with the american accent, but unfortunatly the american voice actor was far better than the british.

 

It really breaks emersion when your Inquisitor is trying to make a joke using a tone like they are about to die. Or when you/someone else are about to die and it sounds like your having a lovely afternoon walking in the park...

[Steelcan]

y'all all need to be serenaded by the best accent there is, generic American with some slight southern influence

[Farangbaa]

Has Arnold Schwarzenegger done voice acting?
It would work well with the cover system, "GET DOWN!"
"I eat Krogans for breakfast and right now I'm very hungry"
"RUN! Get to the Mako!"
"It's not a lunar!"

This should happen.

Oh I want this so bad!

slightly offtopic, but this just popped up in my head:
does anybody know where I can find the Reaper version of the TomTom?
'I am the harbinger of your destination'

Eh. I should've googled before asking the question

http://forum.bioware...ces-for-tomtom/

edit99: Hmm, I seem to recall a much larger topic

[PhroXenGold]

I'd prefer they didn't have an accent. American voices are annoying.

[von uber]

Can someone tell me what an English accent is? I'm curious as to what they mean.
Birmingham? Manchester? Liverpool? Bristol? London? Norwich? Sheffield?
They a sound completely different and even have their own region specific words.
For example, my stepmum always used to tell me off for clorping on the butter..

[Kappa Neko]

I wanted to be a badass male Quarian with a cute Eastern accent in ME:A. Since I can't have that I'm indifferent. *pouts*

[Steelcan]

Can someone tell me what an English accent is? I'm curious as to what they mean.
Birmingham? Manchester? Liverpool? Bristol? London? Norwich? Sheffield?
They a sound completely different and even have their own region specific words.
For example, my stepmum always used to tell me off for clorping on the butter..

when someone says "english accent" they tend to mean a London middle class accent

 

when someone says American they tend to mean Midwestern

 

and so on

[Panda]

Can someone tell me what an English accent is? I'm curious as to what they mean.
Birmingham? Manchester? Liverpool? Bristol? London? Norwich? Sheffield?
They a sound completely different and even have their own region specific words.
For example, my stepmum always used to tell me off for clorping on the butter..

 

Something exaggerated that you hear in movies.

[Han Shot First]

Can someone tell me what an English accent is? I'm curious as to what they mean.
Birmingham? Manchester? Liverpool? Bristol? London? Norwich? Sheffield?
They a sound completely different and even have their own region specific words.
For example, my stepmum always used to tell me off for clorping on the butter..

 

People probably mean the posh accent BBC newscasters and actors in movies tend to use.

 

It is similar to people saying 'American accent' referring to the general American accent used by newscasters and actors in the U.S.

 

Both the U.K. and the U.S. obviously have many different regional accents, as do probably most countries. 

[Quarian Master Race]

I wanted to be a badass male Quarian with a cute Eastern accent in ME:A. Since I can't have that I'm indifferent. *pouts*

There's still hope that maybe we can have such a character in the MP again :3

[Sylvius the Mad]

when someone says "english accent" they tend to mean a London middle class accent

The simple answer is that they mean RP.

The more accurate answer is that many people can't tell the difference. Yorkshire and Liverpool may well be the same place to many American listeners.

If we are to have an English accent, I'd vote Gloucester.

[Steelcan]

The simple answer is that they mean RP.

The more accurate answer is that many people can't tell the difference. Yorkshire and Liverpool may well be the same place to many American listeners.

If we are to have an English accent, I'd vote Gloucester.

I vote one from the North, say Nortumberland, just for fun

[von uber]

Not!Shepard should be voiced by Sean bean. Proper Yorkshire like.

[Han Shot First]

Not!Shepard should be voiced by Sean bean. Proper Yorkshire like.

 

Well, we know that game will end.

 

RIP Andromeda hero.

[Tyrannosaurus Rex]

when someone says "english accent" they tend to mean a London middle class accent

 

when someone says American they tend to mean Midwestern

 

and so on

 

Or people can just be using it as a "catch-all" word to refer to all accents found in the region the word refers to, ie. English accent refers to any possible accent found in England.

[Gothfather]

We had that in DAI . female Inquisitor one accent was british and the other american . 

 

Accent is good..as long as they give you more choice in case it isnt to the taste of everyone . 

 

I honestly dont care , the whole voice package + accent help you choose wich voice set you gonna pick . 

 

I disagree with this.

 

More choice isn't always better in my opinion because more choice always comes at a cost. DA:I did us no favours giving us 4 voice actors, 2 per sex because it directly impacts on the amount of dialogue we have. David Gaider explains the process of Dialogue and how it is created here http://www.makinggam...mbers,6845.html

 

Clearly have 4 voice actors vs 2 voice actors means the overall dialogue 'budget' has to be made smaller to pay for doubling the amount they have to pay actors to give voice to the Main character. I'd much rather have fewer options in voice and get more dialogue in the gave over all then have 6 options of Pc voice and get fewer dialogue choices with those voices.

 

We see the disadvantage of choice in other areas of DA:I. In DA:I we got 12 companions/advisors giving us great choices in who to take in our party but it was not free. This plethora of choice came at a price. look at the companion story arcs in DA:I they are very shallow. Cullen goes through withdrawal and poof it is over because there was simply no budget to explore it in depth. It was literally I am getting of lyrium and poof withdrawal all better. The Iron Bull and leaving the Qun, one conversation and poof this major life choice is no longer an issue. What really that's it? Cassandra has a crisis of faith after finding the Lord seekers book and after ONE conversation poof crisis of faith resolved. All most all the DA:I companion story arcs are resolved this way because they simply didn't have the dialogue 'budget' to explore them more deeply.

 

I would much rather have less choice but a deeper experience then lots and lots of choice and a shallow experience. i will grant that this is a subjective preference and thus there isn't a right or wrong answer here just presenting a counter to your position.

 

 

With regards to the OP...

 

I personally would like to see them step out of the norm for a voice actor. We usually get Main Characters in games that are either North American or from the UK. I would like to see them take a more obscure sounding accent and use that person for the main character. The world is full of accents that could give us a unique yet easy to understand accent. But this is a low priority for me. I really just want GOOD strong acting from my voice actors. Let them run with the role, too often we get wooden acting because it appears like the direction they get is always 'can you say it again but this time with less emotion?'