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Final Fantasy 16 doesn't have American voice acting because of angry Americans
- kaan0200 4y agoMakes sense. I mean, in the past people have gotten funny about Assassin's Creed characters sounding too American. It's just about being consistent with your setting really... It would be weird if a game set in Medieval Spain had voice actors who simply sounded like Modern Mexicans. AFAIK, they have pretty big dialect differences.
- proc0 4y agoI think this is a bit sensational. I'd have to hear the interview, but it sounds like a playful comment. I would think the real reason is because it fits the story and setting, not because some people will get angered.
- krapp 4y agoBut if no one has an American accent, how will we know who the heroes are?
- the_hoser 4y agoThey think that is the thing Americans are going to get offended about? Come on, now. We're WAY crazier than that.
- swivelmaster 4y agoThis is fine. If anyone played the Mark of the Assassin DLC for Dragon Age 2, you might recall how utterly out of place Felicia Day sounded in that game. It was like if Larry David showed up in the Fellowship of the Ring, but everyone else continued to play it completely straight. Anyway yes, British accents in European settings are good (even though technically, if you go back far enough, Europeans accents sounded more like some parts of the American South now... it's all very confusing)
- swivelmaster 4y agoUgh typos, embarrassing. What I meant was, English accents used to sound more like parts of the American south.
- 908B64B197 4y ago> as the developers worried that American English-speaking characters would upset American players hoping for an authentic representation of medieval Europe. As if middle English sounded closer to British English than American English.
- rightbyte 4y agoMaybe they should have used Icelandic voice acting.
- purplepatrick 4y agoExactly. Contemporary British English is usually non-rhotic, so very unlikely to closely resemble anything prior to the mid-19th century…
- warning26 4y agoI wish more games used an all UK voice cast. American voices just sound bad in anything that doesn't explicitly take place in America, IMO.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoWhat a god damn rage-bait headline for something that is utterly non-news.