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Please. If you’re a white american who sees more of a problem with the thread than the game… leave before posting? It’s a backstory element and it will bother anyone playing enough attention. Were 343 hoping to achieve a nationalistic fanbase?
the UNITED NATIONS is composed of many countries. It doesn’t make sense that they’d all gain an american accent during the time between halo 3 and halo 4. I fully expect that someone will answer the question “why aren’t there any foreigners?” with the answer “because it’s the future!” Bungie made sure that it’s marines and scientists were diverse to fit the picture of a “united nations” future. bungie gave us a load of realy good accents and a realy bad Australian one. 343 give us a load of american voices and one irish one. But they still throw around the unsc emblem as if they know what it means.
There is one minor character in the entire game who doesn’t have an american accent. ONE single character. There’s also a total of one person with a name who isn’t white. (who’s still american) All people who aren’t white are pushed to the side as if to say that they aren’t anywhere near as important when it comes to saving the planet.
Even when Earth is attacked- Note that they use america to draw emotion… Combined with everything else It’s as if to say that nobody would care much if the diadect targeted Mongolia or if the Indian people of delhi got composed.
Eh, i happen to be some kind of white British-Australian creature. Not that im proud of that or anything. I just think it’s a good thing to mention so that you can all call me upset because the game doesn’t have enough tea drinkers and that crocodiles aren’t a vehicle.
They’re just voices really. Not something I’m really paying attention to unless its something squad based where you get attached to your squad members. Maybe it was cheaper and easier to hire local voice actors instead of ones all around the world? But I bet that never crossed your mind.
If you’re driving a 'hog and a marine dodges into you’re path, you want that marine to be an American if you’re not one. And as that’s what marines seem to do…
> Maybe it was cheaper and easier to hire local voice actors instead of ones all around the world? But I bet that never crossed your mind.
With the amount of money MS spent on Halo 4 I doubt that was an issue. Also your post seems to imply that there aren’t any foreigners in America, which is false.
I guess I can kind of understand leaving out some African/Middle Eastern accents because a lot of English speaking people find their accents hard to understand - but even some British, Australian, or European characters would have been nice. It’s not a big deal, but it’s something I noticed while playing and it irked me a little bit.
The developers are American and most Americans only see and care about Americans.
It didn’t surprise me but it is painfully, painfully obvious in this installment. H3, for example, featured very few American accents. It seemed most of the accents were Australian, which is fine by me. A nice, well-appreciated change.
“Dose it really matter? Truthfully dosent really matter. You play the game for fun not because of accents”.
I play the game for fun but almost every game, much of the Western world’s media and far too much else is overly saturated by Americans. Sad to see an exception, and a high-profile one at that, be sucked in. The American accents and American-inspired game world do limit my enjoyment of the game.
“LOCK. This thread is RACIST against white people. Really OP? Don’t post if your a white American?”.
Read and comprehend. It’s good for you. Also, crying ‘racism against white people’ is tragic, though amusing.
O by the way OP I’m an American citizen and I get screwed over by my government. My taxes have gone up 30% and I make just over poverty. Can I get help here
NO
So don’t act like its White Americans that ruined your game experience.
> Eh, i happen to be some kind of white British-Australian creature. Not that im proud of that or anything. I just think it’s a good thing to mention so that you can all call me upset because the game doesn’t have enough tea drinkers and that crocodiles aren’t a vehicle.
I was going to say polar bear but then realised their not really native to both contries (just in zoo’s), maybe an albino squirrel?
I’d say it’s probably as at some point the Americans nuked anyone who they didn’t like the accent of. Also, isn’t earth meant to be mostly Oriental? (don’t quote me on that)