Should Dwarves sound Scottish? (A Dragon Age question.)

I just completed the Orzamar section in Dragon Age, and the whole time I kept thinking to myself, "Boy I wish these Dwarves had Scottish accents." Am I the only one here? I blame this guy:

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YES!

I wrote this a couple of months ago in the Dragon Age thread:

By the way, I'm kind of disappointed that the elves and dwarves have American accents. Everything was going so well, Fereldans had British accents, Orlesians French, I believe the people from the Free Marches are the ones with the Russian accents...it makes sense that the Qunari have American accents since they're from a distant unknown land. I was so impressed that every nation had a distinct accent as opposed to everyone speaking perfect American, but BioWare dropped the ball with the dwarves and the elves. Dwarves should have Scottish accents. They tend to say "sod off" a lot and it just sounds weird when an American says it. Elves, hmm...Irish perhaps? Maybe even Indian since the Ferelden/Elf situation is obviously inspired by the American/European oppression of the Native Americans.

If not Scottish then Yorkshire. Yorkshire is the accent they used for the female dwarves in World of Warcraft, it works just as well.

Dwarves should not sound like they come from Missouri.

Scottish Dwarves FTW.

Why? Do all Dwarves hail from Scotland? :P

I do agree, though. A little more variety in the voice acting in DA would have been nice. Honestly, I'd love to hear voice acting similar to Brad Pitt's gypsy voice in the movie "Snatch". If for no other reason it would be fun to try to figure out what they are saying.

I just completed the Orzamar section in Dragon Age, and the whole time I kept thinking to myself, "Boy I wish these Dwarves had Scottish accents." Am I the only one here? I blame this guy:

shaunmc

I find it funny that Dragon Age was a reunion for the cast of Star Trek Voyager it seemed.

Also, I agree with the original point for one reason. Scottish people generally have the highest proportion of red/copper colored hair in any population, it would only make sense that aside from being short (not that Scots are mind you), they do at least have somewhat of the right appearance to match the accent.

I think what's weirdest is that the Dwarves and the Elves basically have the same accents, even though the Dwarves isolate themselves underground. They should really sound more exotic than plain ol' Vanilla American accents. Hell, I'd have settled for a thick Maritime Canadian accent. shaunmc

heh...if thats the case shouldnt the city elves sound "getto"? and no im not racist but i am a smartass

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I just completed the Orzamar section in Dragon Age, and the whole time I kept thinking to myself, "Boy I wish these Dwarves had Scottish accents." Am I the only one here? I blame this guy:

kamikaze_pigmy

Yes becuase dwarves only became popluar after tolkin and he had them with dwarven accents which sounded scottish.

Yes becuase dwarves only became popluar after tolkin and he had them with dwarven accents which sounded scottish.

Flamuel

just wait 'til you SEE a scotch, then you'll see the parallel :)

just kidding - am part scottish anyway so no h8n on me :D

I don't get it still... Even after playing WoW for sometime. Why in the world would you give a character that is not taller then 3,5ft. a Scottish accent... Have you ever seen Scottish their build like houses, ok the women are a bit small sometimes (lengthwise). If you gonna go for accent give 'em Japanese accents. xD

I don't get it still... Even after playing WoW for sometime. Why in the world would you give a character that is not taller then 3,5ft. a Scottish accent... Have you ever seen Scottish their build like houses, ok the women are a bit small sometimes (lengthwise). If you gonna go for accent give 'em Japanese accents. xD

Sunsence

You don't get it because you connect the two by looking at their physical attributes rather than attitude and personality. :wink:

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I don't get it still... Even after playing WoW for sometime. Why in the world would you give a character that is not taller then 3,5ft. a Scottish accent... Have you ever seen Scottish their build like houses, ok the women are a bit small sometimes (lengthwise). If you gonna go for accent give 'em Japanese accents. xD

UpInFlames

You don't get it because you connect the two by looking at their physical attributes rather than attitude and personality. :wink:

Yo didn't notice the xD? Implying not being that serious

Of course they should. Irish accents should have a place in such medieval fantasy epics as well, however.

I thought it was more jarring that all the elves sounded American in a land filled with Brits :P.Silent-Hal

The elves sound American? Wtf? :?

[QUOTE="shaunmc"]I just completed the Orzamar section in Dragon Age, and the whole time I kept thinking to myself, "Boy I wish these Dwarves had Scottish accents." Am I the only one here? I blame this guy:

kamikaze_pigmy

Both seem to be valid.And why is the only plural of elf "elves" then?

I just completed the Orzamar section in Dragon Age, and the whole time I kept thinking to myself, "Boy I wish these Dwarves had Scottish accents." Am I the only one here? I blame this guy:

shaunmc