Valve Guy Says British Gamers Need to Speak Up

[Susan Arendt]

Two things:

1. Everyone should play Giants: Citizen Kabuto because not only is it a damn fine game, it's hilarious

2. I'm just plain stunned by the amount of "they make fun of my accent" that I'm seeing here. British accents are hot, people.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I beg to differ about us being quiet

And I think I speak for all the TF2 group when I say "Demoman?"

 

[GrinningManiac]

I don't talk much online, I don't have the breezy confidence of the yanks up there

I will be talking for Realism, though

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

Every time I talked on CoD4 I got berated for not being from the US.
Same with Halo 3.

I'd talk more if it didn't distract my team.

I dont know who you play with but Brits are WAY better than Americans when it comes to acually talking and being a team, and im American.

 

[Camarilla]

Oh we Brits talk, in fact, get enough of us together on a server (and add a little alcohol) and it's hard to shut us up. Seriously, you haven't heard 'Ruby' by the Kaiser Chiefs until you've heard it sung by 2 drunk scousers, a cockney and a Scot.

 

[Zeldadudes]

Correct me if i'm wrong though but wouldn't you want to play Realism mode with friends?
Whenever i play online i always play with my friends no matter what.
If we're notorious for being silent then that's a good thing. Its better to be quiet and not share anything about yourself to others then to immediately show everyone that you're a divorced alcoholic that still lives with his/her parents...

 

[ben---neb]

I've been playing TF2 for about a year now and never once have I come across anyone who is offensive or racist. Still, getting a headset tomorrow so should be fun to actual speak myself.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Hmm, well given how speaking over XBL usually gets responses like 'shut up you British fag, go fuck your mom the Queen', I can understand why people choose silence over communication most of the time.

I even get this, and I'm Irish. How the hell do they confuse a Cork accent with an English one?

 

[Camarilla]

I even get this, and I'm Irish. How the hell do they confuse a Cork accent with an English one?

I had an American call me French when I spoke on CoD4. To this day, I've been hoping it was intentional, though I well and truly doubt it.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Every brit I see gets shouted down in matches for his accent.

Luckily, im irish. Seriously, No country hates the irish at all. We are welcomed and loved everywhere if the americans hear an irish person talk in a match they cheer their fucking heads off.

I haven't found this. I need to Paddy up my accent a bit or something, because they always think I'm British.

One thing an Irish accent is definately good for... American women. You gals love our bogger accents!

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

2. I'm just plain stunned by the amount of "they make fun of my accent" that I'm seeing here. British accents are hot, people.

I concur. I do find women with British accents to be alluring. (At least smooth-sounding ones. The more "clipped" type that Anne Robinson [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Robinson] has sort of rubs me the wrong way.)

Anyway. I quite seriously apologize to our Britsh fellow gamers for the asshattery some of you experience from a selection of Americans. If it makes you feel better, they only feel the need to dump on you because they desperately need something to bolster an ego flattened by idiocy, mediocrity and sexual insecurity. Myself, I've grown up around people with accents- my best friend in high school was from South Africa- so many times I hardly even notice them, and I certainly don't consider them something worth insulting someone about. (Hell, hear me say words like "joystick" and you'll know just what a Jersey boy I am.)

My propensity to chatter on is inverse to the seriousness of the game being played. If I'm sitting out a round in Counter-Strike or whatnot and there's nothing else to do, sure, I'll chat about things. But if I'm part of a tight group stalking through Left 4 Dead, about all you'll hear out of me is stuff like "Contact, right" and "Hunter ahead". Sound is a big factor in gaming to me and I don't like to have it drowned out by idle chat, especially my own.

So, you know, if I ever start playing co-op games with voice again (as I might if I pick up L4D2), come play with me. I'm friendly, and I won't make fun of your accent! Although I do reserve the right to say "Jolly good, ol' chap" on occasion... which, of course, can be countered with a good "Yo, 'sup" in your best faux New Yawker accent.

 

[Bagaloo]

Every time I talked on CoD4 I got berated for not being from the US.
Same with Halo 3.

I'd talk more if it didn't distract my team.

This, this, a thousand times this.
Most of the times I have spoken over Xbox live or on the PC, I got abuse hurled at me specifically for being British. Why should I speak up when everyone is going to be a dick about it?

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I even get this, and I'm Irish. How the hell do they confuse a Cork accent with an English one?

I had an American call me French when I spoke on CoD4. To this day, I've been hoping it was intentional, though I well and truly doubt it.

Remember that scene in South Park the movie when the little French kid is giving Cartman instructions, to which he retorts 'I heard you the first time, you British piece of shit'

I think it says a lot about XBL, that scene.

 

[Chipperz]

Two things:

1. Everyone should play Giants: Citizen Kabuto because not only is it a damn fine game, it's hilarious

2. I'm just plain stunned by the amount of "they make fun of my accent" that I'm seeing here. British accents are hot, people.

Only to American women. These are American teenagers and people who don't know the difference between England, England in the 16th century, France and Australia we're talking about...

Of course, I care a hell of a lot more what American women think about my accent than what an American teenage boy thinks, but that is another story for another time

I even get this, and I'm Irish. How the hell do they confuse a Cork accent with an English one?

I had an American call me French when I spoke on CoD4. To this day, I've been hoping it was intentional, though I well and truly doubt it.

Remember that scene in South Park the movie when the little French kid is giving Cartman instructions, to which he retorts 'I heard you the first time, you British piece of shit'

I think it says a lot about XBL, that scene.

I think it says more that the kid is British, and that Cartman calls him a French piece of shit

 

[Amnestic]

So, you know, if I ever start playing co-op games with voice again (as I might if I pick up L4D2), come play with me. I'm friendly, and I won't make fun of your accent! Although I do reserve the right to say "Jolly good, ol' chap" on occasion... which, of course, can be countered with a good "Yo, 'sup" in your best faux New Yawker accent.

I actually say "Jolly good" during my normal speech. I started it as a joke and it just sort of became a habit. I don't often put on an "ol' chap" on the end, but there is the occasional 'milady' slipped in there.

 

[jamesworkshop]

Don't forget that Americans have the luxury of pretty much exclusivly speaking english whereas a european will have more trouble with english, french, spanish, russian, itailian as the primary languages voice chat doesn't work in a random group.

 

[Camarilla]

Remember that scene in South Park the movie when the little French kid is giving Cartman instructions, to which he retorts 'I heard yuo the first time, you British piece of shit'

I think it says a lot about XBL, that scene.

Indeed, in fact I will now try and track down a picture of the offender, just to check for the blue and yellow hat.

 

[Sulu]

I like the sneaky stereotype the author put in that article. I'm sure that foreign journalists/game bloggers have to by law make a reference to the 'stiff upper lip'! What of course he doesn't know is that we are all just silently judging you.

I find it hard to concentrate properly on the game while holding down the mic talk button and spewing whatever comes to me dunno about you guys.

 

[dallan262]

A lot of Americans online have a habit of being stupid while talking. I'd be silent too if I was British :<

not funny and not actually 100% true

considering in our 2section of storming the beach went well since we were bright and manage to launch our "funnies" (modded tanks) in time so they didnt sink to the bottom

and yeah im scottish the amount of american pricks that say atleast we fought for independence and won is rediculous not forgetting their poor attempt at copying the accent ...i dont do it to you guys FUCK OFF!! i just wanna play a god damn game of l4d!!