About Foreign Veterans...

[phred]

While I don't mind the foreign advisors voice overs, that battlefield announcer can get on my nerves.
But all in all, I prefer these voices to
"The Day is OURRRRRRSSSSS!" and "Yes, Strappy Horse"
The RTW voices bothered me far more than these.

and to the OP: If you haven't heard the crazy general speeches from RTW, the next time you play it play a Roman faction and watch for a general with a trait like "Hooting" - that's one of the early signs your general is a bit crazy. Make him your main general and as he gets more demented his pre-battle speeches get funnier. Also, make sure you let Jerusalem rebel and then read the description for the rebels.

[Erwin Rommel]

If your daimyo is to become Shogun, military ruler of all Japan.....

[Hardin]

I was always worried I was going to hear that. Well, my apologies to the actor. It just don`t sound real to me and I`ve spoken to some Americans.

Obviously not the right ones!

I know some people around here who have that kind of accent still. Remember that the US is a country with many different people and accents. Also I should say I think to me it sounds like a typical accent you would hear in civil war movies and reenactments and well just look at the years that fots is set in.

I think the humor in this game is appropriate for a total war game. They have always had some slightly silly things in them.

[Lord Baal]

I think they are fine, a little over the tone, I must accept the north American accent fell kind of forced but is still acceptable. In either case I think all those voices are modable, so maybe some one would make something a little more serious or fitting to some people tastes?

Besides I think there are bigger issues on the game that the voices, really.

[Ferdiad]

Or is it just because CA has bad writers?

Either way it doesn't bother me too much . I got a laugh out of "The damned enemy have damned ambushed you, sir!"

CA has very good writers, its almost a requirement due to how much text is in the game.

[Ferdiad]

I think they are fine, a little over the tone, I must accept the north American accent fell kind of forced but is still acceptable. In either case I think all those voices are modable, so maybe some one would make something a little more serious or fitting to some people tastes?

Besides I think there are bigger issues on the game that the voices, really.

Yes, death poems.

[Lord Baal]

Yes, death poems.

Meh

[Markas]

The American accent doesn't sound right? Can any American 150+ years old confirm?

[Lord Baal]

Well in that case many 150+ years old players are fine with it actually.

[Markas]

Well in that case many 150+ years old players are fine with it actually.

And people said CA were mad to have Ouija board support...

[Lord Baal]

Hahahah! By that I mean that it really sounds weird. If people talked like that back then well I don't know. The visual and the sound expectations of a player vary even for the same game.

One know how a samurai or a USA military guy from that century must look, (at least from movies in the worst case). In the case of voices one it's more difficult to know what to expect sometimes besides a vaguely accent, that's make it weird.

For instance the voice of the USA adviser did sounds like a modern (read today's, year 2012) northerner trying to sound like a civil war southerner. If they talked like that in the past, I don't know, but for todays ears it sounds weird, funny, annoying, you pick one. Not that is terrible bad either, it's just a matter of tastes. Maybe some one have an uncle that sounds just like the advisor and for she/him is not weird, but the general consensus (at least here) seem to dictate that the voice is indeed funny at the best, irritating at the worst, but not taken serious in any case.

[Lazarus]

They've confirmed that the American voice was voiced by an actor from America. I dont know where they found him... perhaps there's still a colony of Civil War survivors holed up somewhere, maintaining their almost fake accent...

[Humble Warrior]

Oh come on guys, there`s bound to be people who know how people sounded 150 years ago. I doubt the accent`s really changed that much at all in that time in some areas. Heck, go to places like Cornwall and Devon and Yorkshire in England you can still find examples of accents similar to 150 years ago today. The words might have changed but the basic accents there. It isn`t that long ago, y`know.

Probably people still talking like that in remote parts of the US I wouldn`t doubt.

[fkizz]

If your daimyo is to become Shogun, military ruler of all Japan.....

Forgot by now how many times I've heard that

[♘Top Hat Zebra]

Oh come on guys, there`s bound to be people who know how people sounded 150 years ago. I doubt the accent`s really changed that much at all in that time in some areas. Heck, go to places like Cornwall and Devon and Yorkshire in England you can still find examples of accents similar to 150 years ago today. The words might have changed but the basic accents there. It isn`t that long ago, y`know.

Probably people still talking like that in remote parts of the US I wouldn`t doubt.

Maybe up in the mountains, or in the deep swamps of Louisiana.


Hell, they still speak French way down South.

[rasassfrass]

Maybe up in the mountains, or in the deep swamps of Louisiana.


Hell, they still speak French way down South.

yes they do any of you ever bother to speak to a cajun man speaking in english?

for those of you who havent I'll give you all a hint it dosen sound like english at all see the water-boy or swamp people on the histroy channel and you will get an idea.......

plus the advisior sounds like a dumb redneck mid-western to me..... and i should know I live in the godforsaken corn infested backwards-a## mid-west.....