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George Washington sounds like Bill Clinton.
Great, now I'm never be able to listen to George without hearing Bill.
George Washington sounds like Bill Clinton.
Great, now I'm never be able to listen to George without hearing Bill.
With multiple leaders we'd currently have about five American Civs and three Englands and a few Frances instead of Polynesia and the like.
Oh boy, I can see the DLC possibilities right in front of me!
Thanks god they decided to do one leader.
Michael Curran: I think that the leader interactions are great in this game. For me, it really completes the players' immersion into the world of Civilization. It makes the game much more personal for the player when these leaders interact and respond to your actions. Along with the music and ambience, the leader speech really helps to create a world that is diverse and meaningful. The speech was written by Paul Murphy after a series of meetings with the Art Lead, Dorian Newcomb, and other artists and designers. These meetings were held to discuss and find the appropriate character for each of the leaders.
Once we had determined their character and what kind of voice they should have, we sent the scripts and suggested languages to company called Wave Generation in Montreal. They provided all the unit speech in Civilization IV, so we knew that they could find actors for any language we needed. They handled all the casting and recording of the leaders in Civilization V under our direction.
English-speaking leaders with comedy accents would be ghastly, and from a developer's perspective, far more people would notice. Not least the developers themselves: I wouldn't imagine someone who had spent hours recreating Otto von Bismarck in computer-graphic form would be all to pleased if he came out with things along the lines of "for you, ze var is ofer".
Because you can't find a native speaker for every language. It would look bad if Napoleon would speak French, Bismarck would speak German, Isabella would speak Spanish... and Ramesses woud speak English because there are no Ancient Egyptian speakers. This is kind'a what we have now in the game.I think the reason is, in order for it to be an accurate accent, you'll likely have to find a native speaker of that language. In that case, why not just have him speak the language?
It's worse because you'll have to find someone capable of speaking with a Korean or Quechua accent in French, Italian, German, etc.
Yeah, check out the language thread and see if it's still needed for Oda. My point was that he isn't speaking Medieval Japanese. I'm sure his modern Japanese is fine. But that's still very enjoyable.
Technically, Gandhi always spoke in English, but having him speak in Hindi is better to feel like you're playing against India.
There will be more like that in Civ. Upon defeat, the words of William of Orange will probably not be: "Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, ayez pitié de moi et de ce pauvre peuple", instead it'll probably be something in Dutch, eventhough William hardly spoke Dutch.Wait, Gandhi never spoke Hindi?
Besides, if you're going to have them speak English even for foreign audiences who don't speak English, why have them speak a language at all? Why not just have text?
The problem is that there are leaders who speak a dead language (Ramesses, Atila) or a language that was changed and is no longer the one they spoke (Montezuma, Alexander), so we get something less authentic.
Wait, Gandhi never spoke Hindi? I had no idea! Source please! I always thought the Gandhi movie had him speak in English just for convenience...
But honestly...who notices that ?
The forums are only a small part of the total player base, and not even everyone here is interested in that. I think most people are totally happy with whatever they hear.
This is something I don't really understand. Why do the accents have to be "comedy accents"? This is not what I meant. I meant using "serious" speech with an accent, something that sounds not like somebody making fun of a foreign language, but like a foreigner speaking English, which is not his native tongue, with his native accent.
Hi and welcome to CFC!Hi, I'm the very guy from Chuvash.org. Interested and following.