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Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

(…) complete with rubbish accents (as a Swede, we don’t sound like that here in the Nordics)

If you want a better viking game with much better Nordic sounding accents, Banner Saga is out there. Though there is only like 10 minutes of voice acting per game - but what is there is good! They used an Icelandic VA studio to make sure it’s authentic.

The best swedish accent I ever heard was that one blonde knight in Witcher 3 - Blood & Wine. Which is funny as I don’t think it makes sense for the setting at all, but accent voice direction in that whole expansion is a complete clusterfuck with zero consistency.

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Dojan@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The best Swedish accent I’ve heard was the Russian gangster father of Alfie Allen in the first John Wick film. Makes sense given that the actor, Michael Nyqvist was Swedish.

Skyrim’s NPCs sound and act like they’ve been lobotomised.

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- Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I meant in video games, of course. In films there are a ton of examples. I usually go for Ingrid Bergman’s accent in the Murder on the Orient Express movie, although that one - while accurate - is slightly exaggerated for effect, I think.
  
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  - Dojan@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s not like Bethesda couldn’t afford to hire Nordic voice actors. They just chose not to do so.
    
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