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  1. #1281
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    Quote Originally Posted by Folsom View Post
    Accents don't make sense in Final Fantasy XIV
    English changes from country to country, and even region to region within the US.

    What doesn't make sense is to give accents in the game correlating to zones in the real world, and it's actually only a thing with Radz-at-Han and Southern Tuliyolal for some reason. Hien and company don't have a Chinese accent, Magnai and Sadu don't have a Mongolian accent, Garleans don't have a Siberian or Norse accent, Horse the Fount and company don't have a French accent etc. Once we get to Shaaloani, we get no more IRL region-corelating accents, not even some really bad Native-American one, thankfully.

    Overall, It doesn't bother me as much in general, but yes: It doesn't really make sense to have Spanish (or any other language) give region-corelating accents in XIV. I have no idea why they did this for Radz and Southern Tuliyolal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DiaDeem View Post
    English changes from country to country, and even region to region within the US.
    Right, but that's usually because of drift when people are isolated from each other (though it also happens because of exposure to and absorption of other language's traits) and aren't exposed to developing linguistic changes and youth slang. It's extremely unlikely that English would drift and develop a Spanish accent without actual influence from Spanish, which doesn't seem to exist on Etheirys at all. If people in Tuliyollal just speak Eorzean and didn't have contact with the East for some reason, they'd sound like the difference between New Yorkers and Californians or between Brits and Americans, not suddenly sound like they'd been speaking Spanish up until recently (but for some reason all the Spanish speakers vanished).

    But yeah, I agree. It's jarring that the peoples of the Azim Steppe are all just British, the Garleans are also British, and everyone in Eorzea's multiple regions are British, but Thavnair, Tuliyollal, and Hingashi (to a limited degree) are the only people who get accents, while the Dragons and Ancients-in-Amarout-but-not-Elpis are the only ones who get a language.
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  3. #1283
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    Quote Originally Posted by Folsom View Post
    It's extremely unlikely that English would drift and develop a Spanish accent without actual influence from Spanish, which doesn't seem to exist on Etheirys at all.
    True, and fully agree.
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    The weirdest part about the accent thing this expansion is that Erenville has an Icelandic accent and his mother and none of the people he grew up with have the same accent, which I'm sure SE just poorly planned for. That's fine, it didn't really bother me. But then Wuk Lamat's VA just puts on a really bad fake Spanish accent, you can tell it's fake, she randomly drops it all the time and it's hard not to be bothered by it. It genuinely would have been better if she didn't do an accent and it was just an Erenville situation instead.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DiaDeem View Post
    English changes from country to country, and even region to region within the US.

    What doesn't make sense is to give accents in the game correlating to zones in the real world, and it's actually only a thing with Radz-at-Han and Southern Tuliyolal for some reason. Hien and company don't have a Chinese accent, Magnai and Sadu don't have a Mongolian accent, Garleans don't have a Siberian or Norse accent, Horse the Fount and company don't have a French accent etc. Once we get to Shaaloani, we get no more IRL region-corelating accents, not even some really bad Native-American one, thankfully.

    Overall, It doesn't bother me as much in general, but yes: It doesn't really make sense to have Spanish (or any other language) give region-corelating accents in XIV. I have no idea why they did this for Radz and Southern Tuliyolal.
    I've been saying this for a while now, but I think the main reason why Japanese VAs are usually better it's because they have a much simple job: they just have to match the personality of the characters themselves and that's it. I believe it's the same for other dubs as well. But for some reason whoever directing the English seem to insist to bring in geography accent ever since Heaven Ward. This mean the English VAs not only have to worry about the personality of their characters, they also have to carry the extra baggage as well. This is a fantasy world, why they heck do we need IRL correlation?
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  6. #1286
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    Quote Originally Posted by BabySneed View Post
    Well the VA is Kate's friend, and I don't think it's unreasonable to say that Kate decided to get her amateur VA friend a big job and heavy promotion as a favor (over getting someone actually suited for the role), so that checks out.
    I am so tired of Kate on all aspects. I want...no we NEED Koji Fox back.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus View Post
    I am so tired of Kate on all aspects. I want...no we NEED Koji Fox back.
    Well as the VA ok koana said "Sena and Kate are the beating heart of Dawntrail, and if you disagree, you can kick rocks" I'm guessing Koji Fox is either slowly leaving in replace of Kate or he's taking a back seat, weird statement though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IvoryHawk View Post
    Well as the VA ok koana said "Sena and Kate are the beating heart of Dawntrail, and if you disagree, you can kick rocks" I'm guessing Koji Fox is either slowly leaving in replace of Kate or he's taking a back seat, weird statement though.
    That does explain why Dawntrail felt like a shambling corpse. There was no heart in Dawntrail.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Isala View Post
    That does explain why Dawntrail felt like a shambling corpse. There was no heart in Dawntrail.
    So it was or is the Zodiark of ffxiv.... where did the actual heart go... Elidibus where are you?!?!?
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    Last edited by Rannie; 07-19-2024 at 03:23 PM. Reason: Elidibus is apparently Eligibility now...

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    Quote Originally Posted by BabySneed View Post
    Well the VA is Kate's friend, and I don't think it's unreasonable to say that Kate decided to get her amateur VA friend a big job and heavy promotion as a favor.
    That's news to me. Can I have a source?
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