Originally Posted by Isaac Springsong
Originally Posted by merkmerk73
Larian has english accents for everything. It makes it sound more fantasy-ey

Baldurs Gate on the other hand was a total mix - it was kind of interesting.

Lots of NPCs didn't have english accents (Imoen)

But then again this game has nothing in common with Baldurs Gate except the name so maybe that's not a good comparison


Imoen actually had a Mid-western/Californian accent.

For reference, I've already brought up how immersion destroying and disrespectful to the source material it is to have *every single accent* in the entire game be English-adjacency -> https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=686843&page=1

Additionally, I think this is the greatest example of how insulting it is to the Baldur's Gate series that you get 5 different accents within the first few *minutes* of the game in BG 2, which is more than you get across the entirety of BG 3 at the moment -> https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=708249&Searchpage=1&Main=92555&Words=%2Baccent&Search=true#Post708249

English posters got defensive without reading because they assumed I disliked English accents. As opposed to my actual point, which is that I hate the fact that there only exists *one* accent in the entire game, regardless of which accent that is.



This is a very niche complaint. Almost every NPC in The Witcher is british and its just such a fantasy trope I didn't even notice. And no, I don't expect Larian to pay extra to get that authentic Baldurian or Sword Coastian accent, cuz there is none, that is your head canon. This is not the real world, and we have explored people from a very limited background (mostly come from the same region). Now when we meet people from other areas a variety of accents would be nice, but I don't think there is any accent established for the forgotten realms, this is an international game played all over the world.

Last edited by Bleeblegum; 12/11/20 08:37 AM.