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[Chealec]

The protagonist must have a british accent! Ideally Emily Blunt for the fem protagonist and Matt Damon for the male. 

 

I take your Emily Blunt and raise you a Bouff!

http://www.emilybooth.co.uk/

[BloodyMares]

How does that work? Did all countries and cultures on Earth cease to have their own languages, dialects and accents sometime in the future? Did multilingualism disappear?
 

 

Yes, it's the most logical decision, is it not? They do have a single government in the face of the Alliance so why not a single language to better understand each other? Let's be honest, we already speak English here but I doubt everyone is from English-speaking countries. 
Examples: Fai Dan and other Chinese people on Feros didn't have Chinese accent, Gianna Parasini didn't have Italian accent, Kasumi didn't have Japanese accent and so on. Very few people had accents for some reason and them being Dr Michel, Lt. Girard (French), Samesh Bhatia (Indian) and Yaroslav Tartakovsky (Russian or other Slavic accent). That's all I can remember. Now why of everyone in the Mass Effect universe only these four people have non-English accents?

[rashie]

Id love seeing some accents not being from an anglosphere country, but it probably wont happen. Bioware has a tendency to rotate voice actors they already worked with previously throughout their franchises.

[Wulfram]

Odds are they'll be mostly American and British because that's where they've got connections to recording studios and voice acting agencies.

Yes, it's the most logical decision, is it not? They do have a single government in the face of the Alliance so why not a single language to better understand each other? Let's be honest, we already speak English here but I doubt everyone is from English-speaking countries. 
Examples: Fai Dan and other Chinese people on Feros didn't have Chinese accent, Gianna Parasini didn't have Italian accent, Kasumi didn't have Japanese accent and so on. Very few people had accents for some reason and them being Dr Michel, Lt. Girard (French), Samesh Bhatia (Indian) and Yaroslav Tartakovsky (Russian or other Slavic accent). That's all I can remember. Now why of everyone in the Mass Effect universe only these four people have non-English accents?

Remember we've got universal translators going around. No reason not to use your own language when you can understand anyone's at the click of a button.

Perhaps having a foreign accent is a sign that you aren't using the Universal Translator and thus a sign of being particularly well educated?

[Lucca_de_Neon]

Yes, it's the most logical decision, is it not? They do have a single government in the face of the Alliance so why not a single language to better understand each other? Let's be honest, we already speak English here but I doubt everyone is from English-speaking countries. 
Examples: Fai Dan and other Chinese people on Feros didn't have Chinese accent, Gianna Parasini didn't have Italian accent, Kasumi didn't have Japanese accent and so on. Very few people had accents for some reason and them being Dr Michel, Lt. Girard (French), Samesh Bhatia (Indian) and Yaroslav Tartakovsky (Russian or other Slavic accent). That's all I can remember. Now why of everyone in the Mass Effect universe only these four people have non-English accents?

I disagree. Considering that there are goverments like today, different countries, traditions, religions and, of course, languages, a translator is the logical option, considering that you have alien species with their own cultural backgrounds too.

This was explained in ME1 already

http://masseffect.wi...ng_Down_the_Sky

[Halfdan The Menace]

Canadian accent for most characters (guaranteed by Bioware), French and Italian for funny/eccentric characters, Russian for serious characters. German for the villains. Swedish/Icelandic/Faroese for the player character.

[Shechinah]

Yes, it's the most logical decision, is it not? They do have a single government in the face of the Alliance so why not a single language to better understand each other? Let's be honest, we already speak English here but I doubt everyone is from English-speaking countries. 

 

As far as I know and from what I've read, the System Alliance is the representative political and military body of Earth and human colonies in space. It is not the government of Earth: it is even said to be backed by Earth's most powerful nations. The System Alliance was established by the eighteen largest nations on Earth as a result of the discovery of the Prothean cache on Mars. It is also said to have not been considered a serious political body as it was considered to lack the authority of the individual nations.
 

[Shechinah]

Examples: Fai Dan and other Chinese people on Feros didn't have Chinese accent, Gianna Parasini didn't have Italian accent, Kasumi didn't have Japanese accent and so on. Very few people had accents for some reason and them being Dr Michel, Lt. Girard (French), Samesh Bhatia (Indian) and Yaroslav Tartakovsky (Russian or other Slavic accent). That's all I can remember. Now why of everyone in the Mass Effect universe only these four people have non-English accents?

 

Is that supposed to be taken as an indication that there are only a singular language on Earth? I'm asking for clarification so I do not misunderstand what you are presenting examples of.
 

[BloodyMares]

Odds are they'll be mostly American and British because that's where they've got connections to recording studios and voice acting agencies.


Remember we've got universal translators going around. No reason not to use your own language when you can understand anyone's at the click of a button.

Perhaps having a foreign accent is a sign that you aren't using the Universal Translator and thus a sign of being particularly well educated?

I guess that makes sense. If it's like setting up exceptions to your translator about languages you speak.

[Lucca_de_Neon]

Is that supposed to be taken as an indication that there are only a singular language on Earth? I'm asking for clarification so I do not misunderstand what you are presenting examples of.
 

My guess is that he was lazy with his homework and that's it

[BloodyMares]

Is that supposed to be taken as an indication that there are only a singular language on Earth? I'm asking for clarification so I do not misunderstand what you are presenting examples of.
 

Initially I thought that people did have accents if they were born and raised on Earth but didn't have those when they were raised on colonies or were spacers. But if there are perfectly working translators then I guess this is easier to just use them than to learn English.

[Scofield]

A dont really care aslong as there good at there job

[Geth Supremacy]

A dont really care aslong as there good at there job

 

lol

 

It's true though.

[BioWareM0d13]

The majority will probably be American or Canadian just by virtue of Bioware being a company based in Canada. Most of the VA pool in North America is going to American or Canadian, with the occasional Brit who does work on the other side of the pond. 

 

That said I do hope there are more characters with backgrounds from outside the Anglosphere to better reflect the international composition of the Alliance (or whatever the human component of the Ark is called), and more VAs who either aren't native English speakers or able to do a passable foreign accent.

[rapscallioness]

Tired of British accents. Unless it's Jo Wyatt.

 

No, thank you to Emily Blunt. She seems like a lovely lady, but I can't stand her voice. It warbles too much. It was the same thing in DAI with the female Brit VA. Warble all over the place. She does okay over all, but the times when there needs to be power in her voice, she can't hit it without warbling.

 

I don't care what their accent is as long as they are very good voice actors; have good range and can deliver power in their tone when necessary.

[Timberley]

Warbling?  I'm not quite with you there... What do you mean?

 

I compared Alix to Sumalee, and the main difference I could hear was that Sumalee had more bass in her voice (beyond the accent)...

 

One VA I would like to hear in MEA would be Kezia Burrows, having heard her in both XCom 2 and as Amanda Ripley.

 

I do hope that Bioware has characters with more accents in MEA, as a range of American/Canadian English tones tends to get a bit samey after a while.

 

Tim

[SNascimento]

No, thank you to Emily Blunt. She seems like a lovely lady, but I can't stand her voice. It warbles too much.

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[rapscallioness]

Warbling...like a trembling of the voice when excitable. It's all in the throat. A quivering quality to it.

[rapscallioness]

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Too bad.

 

I don't want to trash on Emily Blunt,  but I certainly don't want to hear her voice for a whole game.

 

Nope.

[BioWareM0d13]

I'd rather the main characters aren't voiced by Brits as well, because of how many British actors there are in the Dragon Age series. As much as I like some of the British VAs, I wouldn't want Mass Effect to mirror it. If they go for VAs who speak English as their first language but aren't from Canada or the United States, I'd rather they hired VAs from Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, or Australia instead.

 

That said I think there should be some British VAs in the cast, just not as the main character. 

[Gannayev of Dreams]

Matt Damon for the male. 

 

Admittedly not my first choice, but I don't hate this idea.

[myahele]

Would be interesting if they go the DA:I route and have 2 different voices per sex: One American one European

[Gothfather]

I suspect we will not see any major characters voiced by anyone from the first trilogy, this is a common practise so that you don't associate the new character with the old one. There could be a fair amount of Dragon age trilogy cross over but i highly doubt there will be much original trilogy cross over. 

 

I personally think this is for the best to be honest.

[Geth Supremacy]

Would be interesting if they go the DA:I route and have 2 different voices per sex: One American one European

 

It would actually work on ME I think.  Go make a Qunari and choose one of those two soft ass voices and see how that works out.  Diversity is a great thing.  They needed someone with a deeper voice to cover the whole spectrum though.

 

You'll be walkin through like you're ready to tear someones arms off and beat them to death with them before they even bleed out, but sounding like a 12 year old boy.  Doesn't really matter anymore though.  DA = Never again.

[N7Jamaican]

Diversity is the key.