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FFXVI will have British accents only, to avoid the usual complaints that "if it's in fantasy Medieval Europe, why do they speak American English"
- Thread starter DiipuSurotu
- Start date
- Square Enix
Bit of a dumb reason but cool I guess. I always go back to Last Story, which had a diverse set of British accents which I appreciated.
IF it's set in medieval Europe, why are they speaking a language that's comprehensible to modern English speakers at all?
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You trust Square Enix to make an FF where all the characters have African accents?
You can definitely have variety in accents while having everyone have a British accent. Its not like "British" is a single accent.
That's dumb, americans seem to have no issue turning on Japanese tracks for all of the JRPGs clearly set in not Japan.. Also soft-confirms we're going the standard route of all whiteys again, cool.
The USA is not a land of fantasy, Yoshi-P confirms.
Good. Xenoblade Chronicles has my favorite RPG dub. "What a bunch of jokers!"
Good. Xenoblade Chronicles has my favorite RPG dub. "What a bunch of jokers!"
XIV is really well dubbed and this one is even made first with the english dub in mind as far as I am aware. They have a rly good dubbing studio they are working with.
Works for me. The setting certainly seems like it would need more European-style voice actors, though I wouldn't mind some non-English accents as well. Bring in some Welsh people, some Irish, some Scots, and maybe even some folks from mainland Europe.
I don't remember giant crystals and rock people on medieval europe...but sure, w/e, I'll play it with JP voices anyways XD
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I mean London alone has tons of accents
Also they say British English not English English, so we might have accents from Scotland, Wales, etc.
ah yes, the famous "British accents" of medieval Europe; a time-period where Latin was the dominant language for important discourse and modern English didnt even exist :P But I guess that fantasy always takes place in England.
That's a lot of faith you have. I don't think I trust any dev with that.
Yeah, I do. They're making Forspoken and that game's black protagonist seems fine so far (despite some insensitive comments from Square).
They have to go all the way so people have no basis for their "concern," (e.g. Black Panther, set in an African country, virtually all-Black cast with variety of archetypes, etc.). If it's solely a black/African-inspired protagonist, people say they "don't fit" the setting and "aren't relatable," for any number of arbitrary reasons.
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Well, unles it's like something from the developers of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurion:_Legacy_of_the_Kori-Odan
If I ever did my one of my dream games, a Late Roman Empire sandbox rpg (like Mount and Blade) I would give Italo-Romans American accents and Roman Citizens in the Greek East would have English accents.
How many British accents have you heard that aren't from the South?
There is a massive range of British accents and to be honest most do not sound classy at all.
And I say this as someone from Yorkshire. The least classy sounding region.
Oh wow that's cool. Yeah, something like that or doing intense research and working with the right people.
To be fair do you really see people who look and dress like these characters talking with Boston or New Jersey accents? It'd be funny for 5 minutes but it wouldn't really feel like a real setting.
More importantly it means we won't have to deal with the same exact cavalcade of generic American anime VAs who all do the same voice every time they play a role, or The Cast of Critical Role(TM) for the eleven billionth time. We might actually see some distinct performances for a change.
It sounds stupid, ideally each town would had each own accent/words like they did in medieval times if they want to go the extra mile.
