Missing the Boston vibe...

One thing i'll never understand is why you can't ask people who have foreign accents how the hell they got over here...Here as in Post Apocalyptic Commonwealth..Surely they have some great stories about how they traversed the globe from one shit hole to arrive in another shit hole in America..by sea?...Vertibird?...A giant air ship like the Prydwen?..But no.. fucking nothing.
 
ChairMonster said:
One thing i'll never understand is why you can't ask people who have foreign accents how the hell they got over here...Here as in Post Apocalyptic Commonwealth..Surely they have some great stories about how they traversed the globe from one shit hole to arrive in another shit hole in America..by sea?...Vertibird?...A giant air ship like the Prydwen?..But no.. fucking nothing.
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Stereotypes. Irish girl as a hard drinking, tough, constantly swearing character. Russians with ridiculous accents that sell strong liquor? Not to mention that scribe with the British accent who was onboard the Prydwen. It makes it simple for the general audience to understand and remember. "Oh, I remember whatshisname who spoke like someone from the Metro series!" "That Irish tough gal companion, I can't find her in Sanctuary!"

Usually, this is used in conjunction with poor writing when there's no confidence by the developer that the writing can stand on its own, so rather than risk characters being forgettable, they make them a very noticeable stereotype loaded with clichés so that it's clear to the player who is who. British butler, cute quirky French, tough girl, Lois Lane, soldier guy/Buzz Lightyear, big dumb Hulk, etcetera, etcetera.

It's not a bad thing to use these common writing techniques, it's just that you're supposed to be building things on top of them rather than just multiplying their absurdity by ten. New Vegas had the grizzled military veteran with a dead family, and a tough hard drinking girl, but they both had their own personality, thoughts, ideals, moral standards, and personal agendas. That's fine! But that's not what Fallout 4 is doing!
 
I think that putting accents would've been a bad idea since I'm sure they would've likely over exaggerated them or made a parody Boston eddition. I mean listen to all the terrible voice acting in the game, you think that adding accents to that would've done Boston justice?

This is all my personal opinion of course so feel free to disagree with me but I think it would've made it worse.
 
MercenarySnake said:
I think that putting accents would've been a bad idea since I'm sure they would've likely over exaggerated them or made a parody Boston eddition. I mean listen to all the terrible voice acting in the game, you think that adding accents to that would've done Boston justice?

This is all my personal opinion of course so feel free to disagree with me but I think it would've made it worse.
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Bethesda needs to make a good game first before they even start considering the accents. If the dialogue works fine without voices, it will work better with voices (in the case of NPCs). But if your dialogue is already horseshit, then adding someone in yapping a local accent isn't going to fix the stupid crap coming out of his mouth.
 
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