The male version of Commander Shepard is voiced by Mark Meer of Edmonton, Alberta and hence has the same flavor of Canadian Accent as I do so I tend to assume the character is sort of Canadian...
*** Aussies and Kiwis in Video Games ***
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anyone who played the mercenaries games.. christ that australian chick was annoying. same for one of those shitty james bond games.
however that random Aussie marine in halo is always good for laughs.
however that random Aussie marine in halo is always good for laughs.
It was a great game. Tiki the Kiwi however looked more like a canary with a thyroid problem rather than an actual kiwi.HSIAMetalKing said:
Both my grandfathers served in the Pacific, particularly in Papua New Guinea, during WWII so I for one would like to see a greater representation of the effort of Australian and New Zealand soldiers during this period.
Yea, it was the term GIs used to refer to the Japanese in WWII, kinda like Krauts for Germans. It's not exactly offensive (and really, if you get offended by anything on the internet you really shouldn't be on it), but some people are sensitive about these things.chozo_hybrid said:Really? I've never heard that one, not that I say it so no harm done.
I don't think I've ever seen a Kiwi in a game at all, I'm sure I would notice because being a Kiwi myself the character would be the only one without an accent. (because I can't hear ours ^^
There is James "Fins" Blackwood, the marine from the Commandos series. Somewhat of a steriotype, he is portrayed as an excellent swimmer, but with an Alchol problem (though apparently under control) and a problem with authority.
I haven't played many that have used aussie or NZ icons, but I wouldn't mind seeing them, as long as they don't stereotype them too much.
In Bioshock and Halo (note, the marine everyone talks about may well be british, that said in one of the Halo books a scene takes place in Australia) and Mass Effect 2 and Mercenaries you do occassionally run into people with obvious Australian accents but most of the time it's more of an Americanised industry and although every now and then you will find a game set in Australia it is usually designed by Americans and as such feels more like an insult to the Australian people filled with stereotypes and things that are not even from the country... see 'Ty the Tasmanian Tiger' for example.
I wouldn't mind seeing more games with American or even english protagonists but while I'm always a little happy to see my country depicted in games, I'm not the absurd kind of patriot who would demand it.
I wouldn't mind seeing more games with American or even english protagonists but while I'm always a little happy to see my country depicted in games, I'm not the absurd kind of patriot who would demand it.
Don't worry when they make a game out of the "tomarrow series" you guys well have all the repesentig you nee.
doubt any you have heard of that book and I also doubt they would ever make a game out of it, though if anyone did it would explode from being awsome.
EDIT: HOLY TITS!! sorry just found out there making a movie of it, hopefully it will come to the states.
oh the tomarrow series is like ?Red Dawn?, only with Australian kids fighting some unnamed occupying force.
doubt any you have heard of that book and I also doubt they would ever make a game out of it, though if anyone did it would explode from being awsome.
EDIT: HOLY TITS!! sorry just found out there making a movie of it, hopefully it will come to the states.
oh the tomarrow series is like ?Red Dawn?, only with Australian kids fighting some unnamed occupying force.
all of them lol?Anoctris said:
aussie or kiwi, in halo 2 especially he gets his own line when you drop down on the second halo ("it's like a postcard..")
Man, I KNEW something was up about Miranda's accent! I'm Australian, so it was sort of like hearing this strange LACK of accent in amoung all these american accents. Confused me for a bit. Space accents are weird, you never know if the googly-eyed alien is actually meant to have been raised in britian, or if it's just the actor.
Ok, I know some:
There's the "Ty the Tasmanian Tiger" kids games.
The Aussie in bioshock was pretty stupid- terrible accent, as I recall, and he set his password to the date of australia day. Big Australia Day poster in his office.
From the Nameless Mod, I know that Deus Ex mentions Australia in its backstory: Apparently it's the only continent in the Deus Ex universe that managed to avoid the huge conspiracies/plagues/ecenomic meltdowns etc (Woo!)- except that apparently there's a civil war going on between the aboriginal descendants and the british-convict descendants. No characters, though. Probably a good thing, considering how much they massacred other accents in that game.
But the best australian game character has to be Micheal Atkinson.
http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/galleries/display/61/61953.jpg
Ok, I know some:
There's the "Ty the Tasmanian Tiger" kids games.
The Aussie in bioshock was pretty stupid- terrible accent, as I recall, and he set his password to the date of australia day. Big Australia Day poster in his office.
From the Nameless Mod, I know that Deus Ex mentions Australia in its backstory: Apparently it's the only continent in the Deus Ex universe that managed to avoid the huge conspiracies/plagues/ecenomic meltdowns etc (Woo!)- except that apparently there's a civil war going on between the aboriginal descendants and the british-convict descendants. No characters, though. Probably a good thing, considering how much they massacred other accents in that game.
But the best australian game character has to be Micheal Atkinson.
http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/galleries/display/61/61953.jpg