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Non-American voice acting should be done by non-american voice actors.
empresslesbian
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after playing star trek online since its first release i find it hard to believe they havent gotten past this hurdle yet, personally the amount of supposedly british voices that are horribly mangled into oblivion over the years is insane, and im sure any other people from other contries are probably thinking the same, the most recent case of admiral kensington were i couldnt tell if she was supposed to be Queen's english, australian or south african shows this point to a tee, it wasnt until she said jammed (that was pronounced entirely wrong for the accent used) that i found out she was supposed to be the first! there are an excess of small time voice actors who are from the countriesthese accents come from who are trying to find a break, and are good! hire them so i dont have to hear the accents of the world be demolished.
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Doesn't invalidate your point about expanding voice actor assets.
Heard one or in ganes. My accent is fairly neutral and closer to RP English than.my native Liverpudlian. But with twangs and pings pongs and splatters of Welsh, Yorkshire and other accents that sort of come flying out of nowhere.
So to hear Kensington supposedly be British but actually just be what Americans think Brits sound like (E.g. Londoner.) was a bit jarring. There are British voice actors they could of used. Or at least found someone without a stereotyped accent.
British is more than London. There is another 99% of a nation to use for accents. Liverpudlian. Mancunian. Cestrian. Yorkshire. Edinburgh. Glaswegian. West Country.
Think of Fable. Those games were made by a studio based outside of Manchester in England and actors had accents from Liverpool. Manchester. Chester. York. London. Etc. Here a city or town can be 5 to 10 miles apart and the accent can be completely different.
Please get someone who is English to do a proper job so that we do not have to suffer such a false accent that no one can relate to.
There are British voice actors they could of used.
First, it's "could have used". 'Of' is a preposition and has no reason to follow 'could'.
Second, it's as @garaks31 said, their actors are required to be members of an American, maybe even local voice actor's guild or union. They probably can't pick and choose who does the part. But be glad they at least speak English. For many non-English languages in English media it's still not too uncommon to just speak complete gibberish and pretend it's a real language. And now I have to put a blitzen in my flachmantuche.
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Also I seem to remember that it was said somewhere that as a rule of thumb currently Cryptic can only afford voice actor's who
are members of the actor's guild and live in California.
Unfortunately they have to hire voice actors who are also members of the screen actors guild now, so it's limited mostly to cheap US based/Californian voice acting so they can spend more cash hiring Star Trek actors to voice their tv characters.
So voice actors like the British guy who voiced the romulan liberated borg Gaius Selan are out; Americans putting on dodgy accents are in.
This too. Since Cryptic are now limited to SAG members only, quality doesn't come cheap.
Yet, Whetu speaks and.. what even is that accent supposed to be? It's certainly not Māori.
A person who has never heard an australian impression of australians maybe?
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The thing is that it doesn't just that actor's have to be cheap, they have to be SAG members as well and there's few Kiwi actor's that are cheap, SAG members and willing to do game voice acting.