TF2 Sniper: British or Australian.

[ydkwidrmw]

I'm Australian and no Australian I know talks like the sniper. Of course, all the foreign accents are offensive stereotypes in TF2.

 

[Hungry Donner]

Hrmph! Next we'll be questing the veracity of that Irish black guy's accent!

As you can see the argument is not that he speaks like a brit but that his australian acting is not perfect so yeah. There is an argument. Also "Wanker" is a lot more British than Australian.

"God save the Queen," also sounds far more British than Australian.

 

[jakjay1995]

Even without the accent the slouch hat gives it away.

 

[Capt. Crankypants]

Okie dokie, It's been fairly well established that the TF2 Sniper is Australian, and so one thing from the 'Meet the Sniper' video bother me. He's driving from the left.

No-one else notice this?

 

[JoshuaMadoc]

Sniper's voice actor is American. Sniper's accent that we hear is really stiff Australian that leans more towards British, which becomes more apparent when you listen to his voice very closely in the Meet The Sniper video.

It's only slightly iffy if you're willing to look past that subtle oversight/stereotype.

 

[Treblaine]

I too originally thought Australian but heard some much better arguments for British a while ago.

What's your take?

#1 he is DEFINITELY Australian, as in he grew up in the place known as Australia. It is obvious from everything about him.

#2 however the time period (late 1950's to early 1960's) it is actually pretty ambiguous if Australia was considered "British" at that time.

This was the time when an Australian with Australian passport could enter the UK as a British national without any need for a visa, and vica versa with Brit citizens going to Australia. It was a bit like being Scottish, you were Scottish but still British.

But some time in the 1960's that changed, Australia and the UK parted ways significantly and completely "devolved" became separate country with only a ceremonial Monarch in common.

The seeds of this seemed to have been sewn in WWII, where the Royal Navy and entire British War Cabinet admitted they had no capacity to defend Australia from Japanese invasion, it was entirely up to them. In the end it was the Americans who took up the vital logistical role to keep Australia in the fight. Most of the UK's fighting (English/Scottish/Ulster/etc) against the Japanese was an horribly drawn out conflict in Burma to prevent them invading India, that was mostly a stalemate with neither side making a strategic breakthrough for years. A vital conflict still for denying the bounty of India from Japan.

It was a fraught relationship between the yanks and ANZAC (common term for Australia-New-Zealand military alliance) made worse by the the forced abandonment by the UK and culture clashes with United States. When the Vietnam War came around, Australia and New Zealand joined that conflict assisting the Americans while Britain abstained from any support at all. So it seems the allegiances had changed though Australia (and New Zealand) today are very much more independent in so many ways they have pulled away from Britain, Australia and any other "greater" powers and is a regional power in itself.

Compare and contrast with the Falkland Island that the United kingdom WAS able to solely militarily defend from invasion. Falklanders explicitly consider themselves "British" and always have, especially since the Falklands War.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I'm an Aussie and he sounds like a Brit that has been smacked in the head a bit too much with a cricket bat , really doesn't sound like an Aussie to me, I thought Valve would've been able to scrounge up a Aussie just for the voice acting, guess they went with an american :/

Hurr hurr... do you speak from experience?

OT: Definitely Australian, all his bio/TF2 site stuff says so. Granted, I think his accent is a bad hashup of east-end and Aussie, I believe his voice actor's Hawaiian...

 

[AWC Viper]

Sadly, My roommate speaks exactly like him..

 

[chinangel]

He's supposed to be Australian. Says things like "thats how we do it in the bush" and he doesnt say "Mate" like people in blighty do, he says it in that Australian "Mayte" kinda way.
Speaking as a UK native, if that lends me any kind of authority :|

Ninja'd! >.>

but yeah, though I'm not a british native, I did live there for a while and when I heard the sniper I immediately though: "Australian" that and his clothes are very crocodile Dundee.

 

[Ixnay1111]

His accent sounds more English than Aussie... awful voice acting lol but i think theres a charm to that

 

[F'Angus]

I thought he was quite obviously Australian. He does use a lot of Australian slang.

 

[Spambot 3000]

You watch too much stereotypical TV shows pal.

... Noooo. I visit Australia every couple years. My sisters husband works in the mines. So yeah, I know exactly how Australians sound.

What, like that supposedly Aboriginal woman in that Dead Island trailer? We do have CITIES and you know, non-outback civilisation here as well. Where people don't talk like they enjoy wrestling crocodiles in their spare time.
And yeah I've been living in Australia, ah, only about MY WHOLE LIFE so I'm pretty certain what the average person sounds like too. But hey, keep your generalisation then, if nothing can change your mind.

... Oh? Please, point out the exact spot where I claimed you all live in caves in the desert. Please, you go find that spot.
You cant? Because I never said it? Then why the fuck are you going batshit about something I never said?
Take your period issues elsewhere chap or at least take a fucking midol till your time of the month passes.
And the whole "I LIVED HERE MY WHOLE LIFE SO I KNOW HOW WE SOUND!" is pure bullshit. You cant judge your own accent, you dont even notice it till you leave for a while and come back. So stop your bitching and attacking others for no reason and just suck it up dundee.

You said "They sound like this here person off Dead Island". You just need to put two and two together to see that only someone who has never gone into a city or suburb in Australia comes to that conclusion (Caves, though, that's new, no where did I also mention anything about caves) because the average Australian DOES NOT sound like some stereotyped character off a video game. I don't know ANYONE, myself included, who sounds like that person off Dead Island. Because I wasn't saying that you think 'we all live in out in the desert', but that you haven't met an adequate amount of people living in a non-rural area, otherwise your outlook would be different. Because yeah, we have a different accent, but that blatant stereotype off Dead Island (and the TF2 sniper), that you said Australians sound like? Ridiculous. But like I said before, keep your generalisation if nothing can change your mind.
Also, your extensive vocabulary amazes me. Sorry for 'attacking' you.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

He is a British voice actor, playing an Australian voice actor. Valve said (and I'm paraphrasing here), "well, we have shitty accents for Russians and Scots and Germans... might as well stick to our guns."

 

[the_green_dragon]

I hope he's British, because I've never met another Australian that speaks in that ridiculously stereotyped way he does. Valve probably thinks we all use kangaroos as our only mode of transport or something.

Hey Mate, you must be one of them city boys. Out ere in da bush we all use them Kangaroos to help us get to da shops and to work.

 

[Skobvs]

The voice actor is British, but as others have pointed out, the official TF2 bio of the sniper says he's Australian.

 

[Sethzard]

He's definitley Australian, his bio proves that, his accent proves that, his weapons/appearance proves that, one of his achievements proves that and his voice proves that.

 

[Fishyash]

Well, he sounds... kind of australian.

He sounds nowhere near english though (i'm english).

Well... you know the fake english voice acting that americans do that you can clearly point out if you're english? I'm pretty sure that the australians are feeling the same thing here.

It's close enough for pretty much every non-australian to know that it's supposed to be an australian accent.

 

[xchurchx]

as a brit i can confidently say he's an ausie, Mate!