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

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I want a jive talking Alisaie.

[SenorPatty]

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

[Emstidor]

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

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.

[Hruodig]

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.

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.

[Kazgrel]

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.

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.

[CyrilLucifer]

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.

Lahabrea in 3.0 was definitely Scottish.

[Kazrah]

Lahabrea in 3.0 was definitely Scottish.

Really? Don't remember it at all.

[Lilseph]

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.

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.

[Kacho_Nacho]

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

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

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

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.

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.

Great point!

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.

Just a humor thread, Kazgrel.

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.

[Canadane]

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

Sign me up.