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games with Irish characters in them

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    #62
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,474 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Prepare to be appalled:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhTizv7XYeU


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    #63
    oceanclub
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭oceanclub


    kowloon wrote: »
    Prepare to be appalled:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhTizv7XYeU

    To be fair, while the Irish accent is bad, the French one is worse - it sounds like the waiter from "The Meaning of Life" ("a waaffer theen meent").

    P.


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    #64
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,474 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    oceanclub wrote: »
    To be fair, while the Irish accent is bad, the French one is worse - it sounds like the waiter from "The Meaning of Life" ("a waaffer theen meent").

    P.

    Perhaps the time is right for a game based on Allo Allo :D.


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    #65
    oceanclub
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭oceanclub


    kowloon wrote: »
    Perhaps the time is right for a game based on Allo Allo :D.

    At the very least, a "Capture ze Madonna wiv ze beeg boobies" mod for Company of Heroes.

    P.


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    #66
    noodler
    Registered Users Posts: 26,400 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    oceanclub wrote: »
    To be fair, while the Irish accent is bad, the French one is worse - it sounds like the waiter from "The Meaning of Life" ("a waaffer theen meent").

    P.

    OMFG ...."In for a penny....in for a fcukin pound!"

    I might play Saboteur for the pure comic value.


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    #67
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,434 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    kowloon wrote: »
    Perhaps the time is right for a game based on Allo Allo :D.

    Too late, there was one on the Amiga.
    Untitled Image




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    #68
    lazlo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 541 ✭✭✭lazlo


    Holsten wrote: »
    Best is deffo the ones in Broken Sword.

    One of them sounds like Podge haha.

    For sure! Lochmarne ftw


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    #69
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,605 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Hmm, I'm too lazy to check how true / false this is, but I am fairly sure I recall reading an interview with the makers of Saboteur & that they had initially tried casting a genuine Irish person in the role. After many attempts at getting the "right" sound they felt that the real, 100% genuine accent just was just too regional & colloquial, so they went for a foreigner putting on the Blarney O'Gill voice instead. It says everything about how the concept of accents is viewed in the entertainment industry. Maybe someone can confirm / deny this (I think it might have been a EuroGamer preview).

    To be fair though, we get off lightly compared to our European neighbours. Whether it's French, German, Spanish, Russian or whoever, the quality of the average non-English speaking accent is truly appalling. It must be so frustrating to French / German gamers who regularly find their accents butchered.


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    #70
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    NekkidBibleMan wrote: »
    One of the characters from Bushido Blade.

    wasn't he called black lotus...(or summit like that)


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    #71
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,581 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    He was indeed!

    http://na.square-enix.com/games/bushido/blackLotus-char.html

    What a game that was.


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