As everyone here is an avid gamer that can most likely play Super Mario on a kazoo, recite the names of the recurring summons in Final Fantasy, and can discover every skull and glitch in Halo I'm going to assume Luce played at least one fantasy video game. My question is this: has anyone ever noticed how every other race in a game have American accents while the humans have British ones? I know this isn't for every character ever but it's pretty common, why is that? What exactly separates Dwarven and Elven dialect from a human's so much that humans are British. I'm not hating the British but why isn't it possible for one human to sound like he has a plain accent. They don't even have to be an important character, if a developer wanted to he could create a character with an American accent that talks to the PC(he has a British one) and the main guy could be all confused. It could be like some kind of joke.
Like," Good morrow travelers! Might I ask what brings you into my shoppe?"
(just imagine Alistair is speaking for this part)"I say tha's a rather peeculiar accent you hav' thair,"
"Really? It's quite common where I'm from,"
(Alistair again)"it's so hard to understand you"
You know the guy that has this accent doesn't even have to be important, he could be a farce. I know Americans weren't around during the 17th century so our accent wouldn't exist, but when it's spoken by dwarves and elves, the furthest thing from human, it just raises questions. Why can't a human sound like this? Why is it that such an accent that is derived from humans be spoken by other races and not the source? Has anyone else noticed this?
My problem isn't with the fact that humans speak in an English tongue so much that it is that non-human races speak an American dialect.
Like," Good morrow travelers! Might I ask what brings you into my shoppe?"
(just imagine Alistair is speaking for this part)"I say tha's a rather peeculiar accent you hav' thair,"
"Really? It's quite common where I'm from,"
(Alistair again)"it's so hard to understand you"
You know the guy that has this accent doesn't even have to be important, he could be a farce. I know Americans weren't around during the 17th century so our accent wouldn't exist, but when it's spoken by dwarves and elves, the furthest thing from human, it just raises questions. Why can't a human sound like this? Why is it that such an accent that is derived from humans be spoken by other races and not the source? Has anyone else noticed this?
My problem isn't with the fact that humans speak in an English tongue so much that it is that non-human races speak an American dialect.
