Britain in videogames

[Maldeus]

Wait, what? They aren't the same person? You sure?

Yes. I checked.

Easy to tell apart. One has sunglasses, the other just plain glasses.

Although...Has anyone ever seen them in the same place at the same time? It's not that hard to rewrite the Wikipedia pages, after all.

So what you're saying is that when super-powerful Ghaddafi takes off his cape and puts on his glasses, he becomes mild-mannered Ghandi?

I'm just saying the resemblance between the two is similar enough that we might want to send an attractive female journalist of approximately the same age who works for the same newspaper to investigate the possibility.

 

[Alexander Cunningham]

Hector badge of carnage anybody? I think it is the first game ever set entirely in England populated entirely by English people and everything resembles real life England.

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

Jorge, anyone?

Jorge is south African.

 

[Hawf Wit]

Well the TF2 Demoman is Scottish, which is nice to see Scotland being recognised but i wouldn't say Britain is ignored. For alot of games with royalty, British voice actors are used as this is the accent in which this is recognised.
And there is always GTA:London

 

[repeating integers]

Jorge, anyone?

Jorge is south African.

Really? Huh, he has pretty much the same accent as us Brits.

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

It's nothing like any brit accent I've heard, deffo not from down south, and it's sure as hell not a northern accent.

 

[Liam Riordan]

Britain or United Kingdom in games = Good, accurate
British people in 'reality' games = Fairly accurate
British accent in games = Pure evil

Quite a lot of 'human' enemies are voiced by British, far fewer good guys than I can count. Feel free to correct me.

Even in the acting world, its been acknowledged that American media portrays British accents as sinister, or evil. We just pull it off better, is there still a subconscious mistrust to Britain in USA media? Or are they just pulling it because we speak English, and don't sound American, or "United Statan". According to the liberals.

 

[Lucifus]

and red phone boxes

The ones London has surprisingly little of?

 

[Jakub324]

Well, Britain does happen to be part of Europe. Also, while I can see why that'd be annoying, can you, off the top of your head, list the names and cultural features of every nation in Europe? If not, how can you expect people living on another continent to do so?

Actually we generally can, most people living here can name a good number of European countries and associated addenda (language, capital, head of state, etc.)

A good number, yes, but there will still be a number that are forgotten. You aren't going to remember everyone, there's no particular reason why those islands off the coast of France should be amongst those that are.

You can argue for more nations that aren't the US to included in games, but to ask why your country isn't included without worrying about the hundreds of others that aren't seems rather hypocritical. Excluding things such as historical games, when the nation in question played a significant part.

I've got a pretty damn good reason: my country had a globe-spanning empire and was the most powerful on earth for hundreds of years, and theirs wasn't.

Ahem. We were still the most powerful force on the planet in Ghandi's time. We only began to decline in the 1950's.

And now you're a third-rate world power struggling to keep its place as at all relevant on the global stage and can't even stand up to Gandhi. What's your point?

 

[Faux Furry]

Don't you forget about any games based upon Code Geass now! Granted, it's referred to as Britania there and the global empire has been maintained if not expanded, but it still counts!

Bayonetta has a British accent but then again, the same could be said for the cast of Dragon Quest 8 but, at most, they are from fantasy counterparts to Britain.
Then there's Para-Medic and Major Tom/Zero in Metal Gear Solid 3.
More notable is GTA:London 1961, an entire Grand Theft Auto mission pack set in 1961 London as one might have gathered from the title.
Dudley from Street Fighter 3 is a proper British gentleman boxer.
Windia from Deathsmiles is a magical girl hailing from England.

That ought to be enough to supplement the lists that others have posted.

They're not at USA or Japan levels of representation just yet, but Britain is holding at a comfortable #3 by a wide margin over the next runners-up.

 

[Nomanslander]

What? You guys make great butlers in games...

Anyways, fact is when it comes to English speaking europe, chances are you'll see a Scots or Irish before you see a Brit. They're just more likable...I guess?!?!?...=/

 

[Maldeus]

Ahem. We were still the most powerful force on the planet in Ghandi's time. We only began to decline in the 1950's.

No, you began to decline in the 19th century right after hitting your apex. That's what "decline" means. The 1950's is the point where your decline was more or less complete and your power was not only matched but dwarfed by other powers.

 

[spartandude]

but as someone said about Killzone, theres no excuse for that, i mean the country the main country that stood against the nazis from 1939-1945 gets shown as nazis and we are expected to take that, if they showed a game where we were fighting space soviets with american accents thered be hell to pay

Aren't you forgetting a small detail called the USSR..?

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Britain joined the war in 39, the soviets in 41

 

[Iwata]

Delete. Double post.

 

[spartandude]

also ive yet to see a single game made outside of the UK that has Welsh accents

 

[Iwata]

but as someone said about Killzone, theres no excuse for that, i mean the country the main country that stood against the nazis from 1939-1945 gets shown as nazis and we are expected to take that, if they showed a game where we were fighting space soviets with american accents thered be hell to pay

Aren't you forgetting a small detail called the USSR..?

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Britain joined the war in 39, the soviets in 41

I am quite aware of that. And yet, with a 2-year default in the war, the Soviets took a hell of a lot more punishment, delivered a hell of a lot more pain, and pretty much won the war. And I don't even like them! But any Western power claiming they were the "main" anything on the ETO after 1941 is severely deluded.

 

[ms_sunlight]

also ive yet to see a single game made outside of the UK that has Welsh accents

Dragon Age 2. Merrill is voiced by Eve Myles.

 

[Jakub324]

Ahem. We were still the most powerful force on the planet in Ghandi's time. We only began to decline in the 1950's.

No, you began to decline in the 19th century right after hitting your apex. That's what "decline" means. The 1950's is the point where your decline was more or less complete and your power was not only matched but dwarfed by other powers.

Whatever. I don't think about it too much. It reminds me of how David Cameron's brutalising the place. Anyway, we we had nukes, and that made us one of the three most powerful nations on Earth.

 

[blackdwarf]

atleast you are being potraited. i never have seen a dutchman (and many other countries) in a videogame.

 

[Iwata]

atleast you are being potraited. i never have seen a dutchman (and many other countries) in a videogame.

You get the same fate as us: you get portrayed in historical grand-strategy video games, and that's about it.