<I must be in a grumbly mood today.>
Waitacottonpickinminutehere.
We're supposed to take up arms against EA for getting an accent wrong?
As though the voice acting in computer games were *usually* top notch, but
they just screwed up *this* one because EA are a bunch of,
ummm, anti-Celtic bigots?
But were NOT going to get mad because the game, a FPS supernatural
horror game, portrays an Irish family as a bunch of bloodthirsty undead
monsters, which is totally OK because we all know it's just a game anyway,
right-O.
Let's boycott _Brigadoon_ while we're at it. Or march up and down
protesting "Highlander." And every local performance of Macbeth where
they screw up the accents. (In fact, I'm willing to bet that
*Shakespeare* either screwed up or didn't bother to emulate colloquial
Scottish speech.)
For that matter, let's boycott Japan for selling games into the American
market with lousy English. ("All your base are belong to us!") And
Taiwan for putting lousy English instructions in their light fixtures.
And on and on. And the BBC for portraying Americans as self-help
business-management-cliche-spouting morons.
Bah! Humbug!
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Kristin A. Ruhle wrote:
> Shame on Electronic Arts for cultural insensitivity. Tell them so
>
> I'm American, but many trade publications from different countries cross
> my desk. There is a computer game called Clive Barker's Undying. which I
> gather is sold in several nations. The game's hero is supposed to be Irish
> but they got an American actor to do the voice and according to the UK
> information tech magazine Computer Weekly, it's such a phony accent (goofy
> patois of mixed pseudo Irsih pseudo Scottish pseudo...) that it is
> insulting. (to anybody, I guess, from the British Isles that can actually
> tell accents apart.) If they are going to sell the product in the UK maybe
> they should have put out a redubbed version. I mean, few Americans would
> recognize the problem and I wound'nt presume to if I hadn't been told
> about it it- nor do I even own this particular computer game. Nor do any
> of you out there I suppose, but the company should not be allowed to get
> away with this sort of thing, not when they sell internationally.
>
> Trouble is, I can't find an Email address that is really the
> vendor/distributor's "corporate" one; on the web it seems to be all either
> tech support or where to apply for a job there. Anybody found out where
> the Complaint Department is?
>
> UK (or Ireland esp) readers take note: it's your culture or mixture of
> cultures....
>
> Kristin
> Likes to take up armso n behalf of complete strangers
>
>
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
