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Tobias'' accent

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Post Sun Jul 27, 2003 1:35 pm

Tobias'' accent

Fair play, Tobias' Welsh accent is f**king awful !!

Why didn't they get a real Welsh person to do it? Rhys Davies might have been born in Wales, but since he moved away when he was a babe, that doesn't qualify him as Welsh in my book, and his accent certainly disqualifies him........

Post Sun Jul 27, 2003 1:54 pm

Who cares, we all know the accents suck. Rheinlanders and kusari and Britonia regular NPC's all have amarican accents, eccept for a few and those are usually fake.
I suppose it's becouse MS pressed the release so DA didn't have enough time to cast good people to do the proper vocals.

Post Sun Jul 27, 2003 6:43 pm

well since most of the voices are comp generated like in MSfightsim 2002 no they didn't cast any good people

Post Sun Jul 27, 2003 6:49 pm

well, i kind of miss there's not more of the accents.

the whole thing becomes so static.
but i guess the game is made for an american public
who doesn't appreciate the fun in different accents...

ehum.



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Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:07 am

Hey! I'm a fan of Rhys-Davies! He was perfectly cast as Tobias!

But I must agree, that "Japanese" garbage is just too much. It's all to common nowadays to hear ugly-sounding "English Japanese" voices these days. It would be much better to just have real Japanese speech, perhaps subtitles... and Trent saying "What the hell? I can't understand a word of it...", and then Juni giving a succinct translation. I know, however, that this would call for drastic modification of the game's flow. Oh well...

Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:12 am

But you have to admit, Tobias is the most entertaining character in the game

And for those that prefer Juni just because she has a "cute butt", for gods sake go look at some real porn

Just my $0.02, but it could just be the cardamine talking.
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Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:13 am

I agree, Tobias is the only funny person in the game

Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:07 am

bogsnot remember kazaa users can get sued, even by porn producers, so i doubt they wanna take that chance and wackoff to juni...



as for me? well hell i dont share my files.

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Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:43 am

Another thing... this is supposed to be waaaay in the future, I doubt the accents of the various cultures would remain the same they are today... Actually that was one thing I found kinda wierd... the colonies were not in contact with each other for a while as they grew and spread, and instead of developing new unique cultures apart from those back on Earth, they just kept the same ones and all decided to speak English too. lol

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Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:49 am

I agree, it isn't realistic .. also, uhm, odd, is that once again there are a rebel group who want the liberation of dublin (mollies)

Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:54 am

These are all good points but I'm afraid that you all are missing the single most important point. THE GOD D*** MONKEYS KEEP INSISTING THEY KNOW ME! They belong in a zoo... or if you're in India, on your dinnerplate.

-Maybe it's the Sidewinder Fang... or the Cardamine, but d*** you look fine-

Edited by - Maverick88 on 28-07-2003 05:55:29

Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:56 am

Ozu ("Mr Sulu" speaks proper Japanese... probably because he's a Japanese-American. But the others are ridiculous. Ozu pronounces Kyoto correctly ... and Juni repeats it incorrectly! But then some of the "Rheinlander" pronounciation also makes me cringe. Couldn't they at least have looked up the proper pronunciation in a gazeteer or whatever for the thicko under-educated actors to say??? Obviously, Monkeysoft just doesn't give a fig.

But why would Richard Winston Tobias have a Welsh accent on Leeds anyway? Do you suppose 1100 years from now in another galaxy people still sound like they are from Brecon??? (Or for that matter, what the hell are Bubba and his assinine drag race doing so far into the future?)







Juni: "Trent, we've got to go faster!"

Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:03 pm

If he sounded like he was from Brecon, then he'd have a snobby SE English accent !! I don't think there's any Welsh people living there anymore !

Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:06 pm

So I was right ... I told my wife that MR Sulu had saved my skin when I met my first Nomad.

She didn't believe me...

WOOT! It was MR Sulu!

Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 5:58 pm

Maybe you have a point there. The only people I know from Brecon are living elsewhere and say their Welsh is becoming very rusty.



Juni: "Trent, we've got to go faster!"

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