Mon Mar 03, 2003 11:31 am by uly
I agree that voice accents are really all that much a big deal as far as gameplay goes. What _is_ really annoying, however, is that there actually _is_ attempts at accent every now and then, and they're invariably horrible. The fact that these cases happen only once in a while only makes them stand out more. The worst case has got to be Kusari's... Complete bastardized accents...
Well, true that it's an American game, but that doesn't mean gross American stereotype should be applaused. If they're gonna base the houses on the real world, they should at least put a bit of research into it. Instead, Bretonia is misrepresented as consisted of nobilities, sleezy cockney Scotts, snoby academics and Irish terrorist, Rhineland of nazis, napoleonic aristocrats, militant imperialists and metal industry workers, and Kusari of honor-loving loyalists, seclusionists, old-fashioned yakuzas, all of whom love fish and can't quite decide whether they're Japanese or Chinese and name their space stations after red light districts. But, hey, as long as they're Asian, right?
Actually, this is especially pathetic coming from a global corporation like Microsoft. Well, like I said, they want to be imaginative, fine, just don't do a half-assed attempt at being cultural such as it is.
