Britain in videogames

[6urk17s]

Bretonia in Freelancer:
http://discoverygc.com/wiki/index.php/Kingdom_of_Bretonia

Well, they do speak with an American accent like everybody else, but whatever.
And many more games.

Latvia, where i come from, has been in like handful of games, and its enough. There was a whole level set in Latvia in Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted scenes . But then again, we arent a mayor country and no-one really knows where Latvia is without googling it.

 

[spartandude]

Ahem. We were still the most powerful force on the planet in Ghandi's time. We only began to decline in the 1950's.

No, you began to decline in the 19th century right after hitting your apex. That's what "decline" means. The 1950's is the point where your decline was more or less complete and your power was not only matched but dwarfed by other powers.

Whatever. I don't think about it too much. It reminds me of how David Cameron's brutalising the place. Anyway, we we had nukes, and that made us one of the three most powerful nations on Earth.

Britain began declining after after Victoria and lost its top position after 1915. also while yes we may have been the third most powerful single nation but we werent all that powerful after WW2, our empire was collapsing, Soviets, America and Europe were growing strong while we were declining massively because we couldnt between the Empire, europe or America and tbh we are still choosing today

 

[Maldeus]

Whatever. I don't think about it too much. It reminds me of how David Cameron's brutalising the place. Anyway, we we had nukes, and that made us one of the three most powerful nations on Earth.

Look, even if your absurdly oversimplified notion of power was tenable, this isn't how taunting works. You're supposed to be witty about it, not just whine about whether or not the other guy's taunts were perfectly accurate.

You're also bad at quote tags. Text goes below the /quote.

 

[TheTurtleMan]

There would be more video games that featured Britain if the majority of video game companies weren't based only in America and Japan. It's essentially the same reason that Mongolia or Portugal aren't featured in a lot of games. Start making more video games in your country and maybe things will change.

I'm not even saying that there aren't games that doesn't have British stuff in it. Like people have already said, Call of Duty, Fable, and WH40k games all feature a fair amount of Brits in it.

 

[spartandude]

also ive yet to see a single game made outside of the UK that has Welsh accents

Dragon Age 2. Merrill is voiced by Eve Myles.

Fair enough but i will only be satisfied when i see Fallout: Barry Island

 

[Hawf Wit]

also ive yet to see a single game made outside of the UK that has Welsh accents

Dragon Age 2. Merrill is voiced by Eve Myles.

Fair enough but i will only be satisfied when i see Fallout: Barry Island

Heh i think we will be seeing Fallout: Hull or Fallout: Glasgow first

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

also ive yet to see a single game made outside of the UK that has Welsh accents

Dragon Age 2. Merrill is voiced by Eve Myles.

Fair enough but i will only be satisfied when i see Fallout: Barry Island

Heh i think we will be seeing Fallout: Hull or Fallout: Glasgow first

Fallout hull- experience the high-pressure tension as you FEED THE PIGEONS!
The survival as you DRINK TEA!
And the heart-warming adventures as you COMPLAIN!
Fallout: Hull.
Out now.

 

[Noodle Pritchard]

It's probably because most games are made by countries which hate us and portray in shit light and people who try to do HILLARIOUS british accents. I belive it was Yahtzee's Killzone Review where he NAILS it on the head, so yea if you havent seen it i reccomend you do.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Great Britain/England is overpowered as hell in Medieval II: Total War and Napoleon: Total War.
>_<

In Medieval they have armor-piercing Longbows, which are the best missle units besides the French Scots Guard (Which you'll probably never get anyway :l), and in Napoleon they have the best riflemen and light infantry in the entire game. Tain't fair. ;_;

 

[Jakub324]

Whatever. I don't think about it too much. It reminds me of how David Cameron's brutalising the place. Anyway, we we had nukes, and that made us one of the three most powerful nations on Earth.

Look, even if your absurdly oversimplified notion of power was tenable, this isn't how taunting works. You're supposed to be witty about it, not just whine about whether or not the other guy's taunts were perfectly accurate.

You're also bad at quote tags. Text goes below the /quote.

OK, I didn't get a word you just said. Firstly, I didn't realise I was taunting anyone and secondly, I'm just using the default quote tag thing.

 

[RuralGamer]

What about all the badass British Imperial Guard characters in Warhammer 40K games?

To be fair, i have never played that game. Are they evil?
And i only said most games, which i've found to be true.
Especially WW2 games.

How are British people in WWII games shown badly, they're usually shown as brave, witty soldiers.

As for Warhammer 40K, well everyone is a bad guy in their own way. The Imperial Guard have good intentions, it's just the way they go about it that can be questionable.

All I can say is Imperial Guard ftw; the fact they made them British in DoW2 just made them all the more awesome; it made them feel more to what I'd imagine the Imperial Guard to feel like. Lord Commissar is awesome, especially all his grumblings when ordered about.

I think the use of the SAS in Modern Warfare was pretty cool. In fairness I can't think of any games where we're portrayed badly, we show up well in all the ones I've played with main characters that are British. All, what, four of them?

What about Killzone?
Sure they weren't ACTUALLY British, but they had the accent!
And the ties with Nazi's which i found odd.

From memory, Killzone 1 wasn't too heavy on the British Nazis; most of them were just non-descript gasmask wearing goons with comm voices and I never felt that Scholar Visari sounded at all British. Their announcer in MP was pretty cool though, especially when he was counting down the time left. Of course since then its been BRITISH SPACE NAZIS FOR THE WIN!

 

[Maldeus]

OK, I didn't get a word you just said. Firstly, I didn't realise I was taunting anyone and secondly, I'm just using the default quote tag thing.

Bolded seems like a failure on your part. I don't see how I could've made things more explicit than "third-rate world power that can't even stand up to Gandhi."

 

[Norris IV]

Not really bothered tbh, ooo were not shown in some videogames, must mean we are inferior to the rest of the world (despite at one point owning more than half of it ) and yes before anyone mentions it I am typing this while enjoying a good ol' cuppa tea

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

Not really bothered tbh, ooo were not shown in some videogames, must mean we are inferior to the rest of the world (despite at one point owning more than half of it ) and yes before anyone mentions it I am typing this while enjoying a good ol' cuppa tea

Perhaps it's just the fact that i want to hang on to are old greatness that we once had, whereas we are inevitably slipping into decline and crumbling away into nothing like all the old empires?

 

[ms_sunlight]

also ive yet to see a single game made outside of the UK that has Welsh accents

Dragon Age 2. Merrill is voiced by Eve Myles.

Fair enough but i will only be satisfied when i see Fallout: Barry Island

Heh i think we will be seeing Fallout: Hull or Fallout: Glasgow first

Yeah, if Barry Island is in a game, it's going to involve a zombie apocalypse rather than a nuclear holocaust. Fallout: Hull I Can believe in!

Just thought of another game from outside the UK with Welsh accents. The Witcher 2 uses Welsh accents for people from one of the kingdoms, including the major character Saskia.

 

[Rule Britannia]

The British are portrayed as bad guys in Black ops when the NOVA gas is tested on the russian soldiers you escape and the british come and attack you with sten SMGs. RULE BRITANNIA

 

[Grimlock Fett]

You should play Medievil 2. I think that's a pretty good representation of Britain!

(Source: Citizen)

 

[MarcusD357]

-Snip-

All you have to do is play Henry Hatsworth And The Puzzling Adventure for DS. It may be a complete stereotype of us Brits, but it still shows us in a nice, posh, moustached light.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

-Snip-

All you have to do is play Henry Hatsworth And The Puzzling Adventure for DS. It may be a complete stereotype of us Brits, but it still shows us in a nice, posh, moustached light.

And i like the moustaches, i like them very much.
Very much...

 

[StBishop]

A harder challenge would be some Australian characters. With the exception of Under a Steel Sky (which was set in a future, distopian Australia where everyone speaks with an American accent), there aren't many other games set in Australia, or featuring Australians.

I can think of two Australian characters off the top of my head;

*Fiona Taylor from the Mercenaries series
*Rook from Modern Warfare 2 (the guy who dies at the end of "The Enemy of my Enemy")

Also in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction the ExOps headquarters is supposadly located in Australia.

Also I think there's a chapter in Sly 3 that takes place in Australia.

Oh, and I think Kano in Mortal Kombat (2011) is suppossed to have an Australian accent.

Jin in Tekken 5 onward, trained in Brisbane (where Yahtzee lives for bonus points) in Karate.