I might not be very clued up on American history, but the american accent as we know it wouldn't have been a thing in 1777? Would it? I mean surely since most of these dudes would have had British accents? I thought ubisoft liked to be historically accurate when they could be?
Assassin's Creed III
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The fifth console entry in the Assassin's Creed franchise. It introduces the half-Native American, half-English Assassin Connor and is set in North America in the late eighteenth century amid the American Revolutionary War.
Why does George Washington have a contemporary American accent?
The convenient piece of fluff is that the Animus auto-translates to something the user can understand, right?
@Ubersmake said:
The convenient piece of fluff is that the Animus auto-translates to something the user can understand, right?
So what you're saying is that George Washington's Cockney accent is so thick that the Animus reads it as an entirely different language?
@Ubersmake said:
The convenient piece of fluff is that the Animus auto-translates to something the user can understand, right?
HA! A mate pointed the voice thing out to me to, I didn't notice it at first.
Northeastern American accent (stereotypical WASPy country club accent) is actually closer to 18th century British than modern RP British is.
More you know.
@nohthink: That made sense, he spoke Italian (you can select it in the options) but the animus translates it, this doesn't make as much sense. That said, if Ubisoft had him speaking with an English ascent they'd just confuse the audiences especially considering how he is seen as an American hero.
Also, it's a video game! :)
@Ninja said:
@Video_Game_King: I want George Washington to say "alright guvnor" to the assassin when he meets him, that's all.
@nohthink said:
Ezio also spoke English. Just saying.
He had a Italian accent though. I'm not speaking about language, I'm talkin' 'bout accent bro.
So Ezio speaking English with Italian accent doesn't bother you but George Washington speaking English in American accent does?
lol I don't know man. It never bothered me. I'm okay with George Washington with American accents.
I don't have a problem with Ubisoft taking a bit of artistic license. Once you go down the accent rabbit hole you ended up complaining about every historical epic that Hollywood ever produced.
Because VIDEO GAMES. That's like saying "how can Desmond go back in history IN HIS MIND and relive moments from his ancestors life".
@Ninja: Well he wouldn't necessarily have a british accent seeing as he was born in Virginia. Depends what kind of accents he was surrounded by. His accent is something that we can only guess on. Ubisoft most likely decided "fuck it. lets make him american sounding"
Outside universe reason, what are sales potential of an Arab protagonist in the western world? Sadly, pretty low.
@peEtr said:
http://www.nicholasjohnpatrick.com/post/767354896/did-americans-in-1776-have-british-accents
wow MINDFUCK, also PEOPLE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING!
@Marz said:
how do you know what british sounded like in the 18th century? maybe british sounded american 600 years ago and the british accent evolved into what it is in modern times and the american accent is the true british accent!!!!
So maybe America is actually Britain, and Britain is actually America... crazy thought! :D
On a picky side note, there's no such thing as a British ascent nor is there one American ascent. There's so many variations of ascents in both countries it's sort of crazy. Hell, dudes on the internet think I'm dutch when I speak and I'm only from the Midlands :)
American accents were used back then because it was the british accent that changed as time went on.
Frink: "Yes, over here, [...] in Episode BF12, you were battling barbarians while riding a winged Appaloosa, yet in the very next scene, my dear, you're clearly atop a winged Arabian! Please do explain it!
Lucy Lawless: Uh, yeah, well, whenever you notice something like that... a wizard did it.
Frink: Yes, alright, yes, in episode AG04-"
Lucy Lawless: Wizard!—The Simpsons, "Treehouse of Horror X"
Once again the Simpsons has a very appropriate explanation OP it was a Wizard.
Ubisoft felt that the past Assassins Creed games were too historically accurate and so to attract more consumers they gave George Washington (also know as G Dawg* internally) a more modern accent.
*I don't want to spoil anything but keep on the look out for a CRAZY plot twist.
@Brodehouse said:
Northeastern American accent (stereotypical WASPy country club accent) is actually closer to 18th century British than modern RP British is. More you know.
Word, this is exactly it. The way people speak in England today is not the way people spoke in England in the 18th century, even less how colonials spoke. Same thing happened in France when Parisians wanted to distinguish themselves from the people who left for the new world.
History son! Also, video games son!
@nail1080 said:
@peEtr said:
http://www.nicholasjohnpatrick.com/post/767354896/did-americans-in-1776-have-british-accents
wow MINDFUCK, also PEOPLE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING!
thats asking alot of us. I'd rather not read anything thanks.
@Marz said:
how do you know what british sounded like in the 18th century? maybe british sounded american 600 years ago and the british accent evolved into what it is in modern times and the american accent is the true british accent!!!!
@peEtr said:
http://www.nicholasjohnpatrick.com/post/767354896/did-americans-in-1776-have-british-accents
Yep, that's pretty much it. American accents a closer to the British accents of the 1700s than most modern day British accents are. It's strange how few people know this.
@Kyle said:
@peEtr said:
http://www.nicholasjohnpatrick.com/post/767354896/did-americans-in-1776-have-british-accents
Yep, that's pretty much it. American accents a closer to the British accents of the 1700s than most modern day British accents are. It's strange how few people know this.
Us americans are stubborn folk when it comes to change.
Heck, we still use the imperial system over the metric system.
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