Does Anyone Else Think We Should Have A Southern USA Voice Option?

Listening to the voice acting, it's clear we need a better English option. It sounds too proper and gets in the way of the scenes. Seriously, it sounds like I'm listening to an Alice In Wonderland audiobook. I think we need someone more down to earth.

How about a southern USA accent from Georgia or Tennessee voice option? Or perhaps a nice Chicago accent?

I'm totally joking, of course.

Sorta.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

Listening to the voice acting, it's clear we need a better English option. It sounds too proper and gets in the way of the scenes. Seriously, it sounds like I'm listening to an Alice In Wonderland audiobook. I think we need someone more down to earth.

How about a southern USA accent from Georgia or Tennessee voice option? Or perhaps a nice Chicago accent?

I'm totally joking, of course.

Sorta.

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Would love it if Alohinaud sounded like he was from Staten Island.

Being a Chicagoan native, I’d love to hear the Scions in our accent. DA WAHIOR OF LIGHT!

English canadian VA with their aboot and eh at the end of all their sentences.

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Originally Posted by Lord_Zlatan

Would love it if Alohinaud sounded like he was from Staten Island.

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Oh Twelve... *snerk*

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Originally Posted by AkashiXI

Being a Chicagoan native, I’d love to hear the Scions in our accent. DA WAHIOR OF LIGHT!

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*nods enthusiastically*

It would be wonderful!

Only if we get some south american accents for every male lalafell

I think it's aboot time we get a proper Canerdian accent in here, eh?

A deep, hearty, maple baritone with a soft and apologetic edge. Then again, saying "I'm sorry" or "My apologies, eh!" at the end of every recording line might put the studio way over budget.

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Originally Posted by SilverObi

Only if we get some south american accents for every male lalafell

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I'd love it! I used to have a Louisianan accent so thick you could cut it with a knife. Sadly, I lost it after living in Ohio for a few years. :(

Joke or not I can totally see it happening. So far every central character is a royal, very well educated, or a millenia old scheming ghost. If we ever get to a continent with lots of fantasy rednecks and some of them get important enough to get into the voiced cutscenes, I'm all for it.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

I'd love it! I used to have a Louisianan accent so thick you could cut it with a knife. Sadly, I lost it after living in Ohio for a few years. :(

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While that'd be quite funny as well, I meant more of a Mexican accent lol to pair with those simply dynamite mustaches the short folk get :D

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Originally Posted by SilverObi

While that'd be quite funny as well, I meant more of a Mexican accent lol to pair with those simply dynamite mustaches the short folk get :D

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Hahaha! I'd settle for a nice sexy latino accent like Enrique Iglesias's.

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Originally Posted by Kassiekane

...Joke or not, this does make me entertain the thought of Urianger's speech actually being understandable.

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Honestly? I could see them keeping him being barely understandable as a joke and make his voice be like Boomhauer from King of the Hill. "Dangnabprimalsandtheredangnabentrhallinginnocents...bydangmothacrystalweshouldputastoptothem. Mhm."

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

Hahaha! I'd settle for a nice sexy latino accent like Enrique Iglesias's.

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Silver's comment made me think more of Speedy Gonzalez.

No.

There's plenty of MMO's out there with nothing but American accents. FFXIV does things differently and is more in line with the style of FFXII - embracing a variety of British accents and dialects throughout it's game world. It works well and casts some light on lesser known accents that are not often mainstream outside of the United Kingdom such as Ilberd and Arenvald having 'Northern' accents.

If you really want to hear Southern American accents in a game so badly, you can go and play FFXV which was designed with them in mind.

Only if there are banjo's playing in the background haha....

If we're requesting dialect optiins I'd like to throw New Jersey in the mix, so I can truly feel at home in Eorzea.

Having lived in the usa south all my life, I despise the accent. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it. Somehow managed to avoid developing one myself thankfully.

This thread makes me shake my head. Some of these accents would ruin the game for me, I admit.

Good troll post though.

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Originally Posted by SilverObi

Only if we get some south american accents for every male lalafell

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Well, there are 12 countries (and a french territory) at South America with a wide variety of english accent.

There will be a wide variety of male lalafell options.

For a game that relies so heavily on voice actors from Europe, I'm surprised there aren't any Irish or Scottish accents in the mix.

Also, is it bad that I kinda want an NPC with an American valley girl accent? Preferably one that gets the Wile E. Coyote treatment.

I want a jive talking Alisaie.

I don't have this problem cuz I've been listening to FF14 in japanese a mere two weeks after I started playing.

It's been over a year and half and I have not regretted my choice :)

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Originally Posted by Hruodig

Having lived in the usa south all my life, I despise the accent. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it. Somehow managed to avoid developing one myself thankfully.

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Take it from someone who’s lived in Texas all my life and has no perceptible (to my ear) accent: You’ve got one, you just don’t hear it because you’ve normalized it to your ear. It might not be as pronounced as others’ around you, but if you travel out and ask a non-native for their honest opinion, they’ll tell you it’s there.

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Originally Posted by Emstidor

Take it from someone who’s lived in Texas all my life and has no perceptible (to my ear) accent: You’ve got one, you just don’t hear it because you’ve normalized it to your ear. It might not be as pronounced as others’ around you, but if you travel out and ask a non-native for their honest opinion, they’ll tell you it’s there.

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I've been told by plenty of non-southern friends that I don't have one though :( I do say y'all but that's just for efficiency's sake.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

No.

There's plenty of MMO's out there with nothing but American accents. FFXIV does things differently and is more in line with the style of FFXII - embracing a variety of British accents and dialects throughout it's game world. It works well and casts some light on lesser known accents that are not often mainstream outside of the United Kingdom such as Ilberd and Arenvald having 'Northern' accents.

If you really want to hear Southern American accents in a game so badly, you can go and play FFXV which was designed with them in mind.

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Being from the southern US, the first thought that sprang to mind the first time I saw anything of FFXV: “what the hell is this?”, albeit in a far more profanity-laced manner. :p

Having an in-game culture from somewhere that has the southern accent could be done in an interesting way, but I’m of the mindset that such characters would simply be stereotyped for sounding like a bunch of dumb rednecks. :(

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Originally Posted by Kazrah

For a game that relies so heavily on voice actors from Europe, I'm surprised there aren't any Irish or Scottish accents in the mix.

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Lahabrea in 3.0 was definitely Scottish.

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Originally Posted by CyrilLucifer

Lahabrea in 3.0 was definitely Scottish.

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Really? Don't remember it at all.

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Originally Posted by miraidensetsu

Well, there are 12 countries (and a french territory) at South America with a wide variety of english accent.

There will be a wide variety of male lalafell options.

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Thancred would obviously have an Argentinian accent.

I want Spanish voice acting ; ; But this game offers... almost zero Spanish support. There are games that were dubbed in Spanish that sound amazingly good: Diablo 3, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided or Batman (Arkham series), for instance.

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Originally Posted by Kisagami

This thread makes me shake my head. Some of these accents would ruin the game for me, I admit. Good troll post though.

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Aww, Kisagami. It's all meant in fun.

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Having lived in the usa south all my life, I despise the accent. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it. Somehow managed to avoid developing one myself thankfully.

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You think. *chuckles*

EDIT: Read your reply to another poster. Really? That's cool! I have the opposite problem/blessing. I pick up accents unconsciously just by being in an area and having folks talk to me. It just happens. My family has even commented on it. Funny thing, I can't actively do an accent if my life depended upon it. Hence, why I dropped my dream of being an actor.

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Well, there are 12 countries (and a french territory) at South America with a wide variety of english accent.

There will be a wide variety of male lalafell options.

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Great point!

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Being from the southern US, the first thought that sprang to mind the first time I saw anything of FFXV: “what the hell is this?”, albeit in a far more profanity-laced manner.

Having an in-game culture from somewhere that has the southern accent could be done in an interesting way, but I’m of the mindset that such characters would simply be stereotyped for sounding like a bunch of dumb rednecks.

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Just a humor thread, Kazgrel. :D

I actually have a high opinion of speakers of southern american and other regional accents. It's all part of our mixed heritage.

While I am under no illusion that SE will implement a Southern Ga. voice acting option, I'd suspect they wouldn't stereotype a bunch of characters based on their accent if they ever felt a region in their world would reflect that culture.

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Originally Posted by RubenSnizzle

English canadian VA with their aboot and eh at the end of all their sentences.

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Sign me up.

Make anyone from ishgard to sound like they come from the "bible belt" in the US =D

I agree. I want the text and npc's speak modern english instead of the gibberish they speak now. I also personally want a different person to localize it for modern english and not the current guy cause his translations aren't really good.

meh, fine as is. it'd kill the fantasy feel I think, I don't need modern in my fantasy MMO.

I love that this is one of the first actual joke topics we've had in weeks that isn't about parser salt or DF woes and some are acting like it's a troll or serious request

Will admit I switched the VA to JP due to getting irritated to the EU accents. All sounds the same to me /shrug

I personally don't like the English accent in everything either. Here is a funny video that explains the phenomena of using English accents.

http://youtu.be/fOWCnMwBJL0

Replace Alphinaud with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alisae with Sylvester Stalone.

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Originally Posted by SilverObi

I love that this is one of the first actual joke topics we've had in weeks that isn't about parser salt or DF woes and some are acting like it's a troll or serious request

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yup, even says in the OP its not serious >.>