Two Peoples Separated By A Common Language

[FOZ_1983]

during the battle of britain as pointed out their were only a handful of americans (7) and not so many canadians (94)

Also the yanks were part of eagle squadron, well in game you dont play as eagle squadron. You play as some other random one and should in theory be hearing a british pilot, or the odd ozzie or kiwi maybe, wh oknows if your lucky you could get the czech, polish, jamaica (1 pilot).....

Point being, youre not in eagle squadron so for games sake you think you would be listening to an englishman. Not a mixture of both.

[phlux]

Originally Posted by Tudorp15

but still today over the headset, I get tired and embarrased to keep saying "HUH?"... Not to mention American's accent and how we really do butcher the English language.. hehheh..

Brother I'm right there with ya. I flew with a super nice guy a few weeks ago (I think he was Dutch) and had the same problem. Being from the deep south in the US I know my accent sounded as alien to him as his did to me.

[Oh DeaR iTz GaZ]

I Just found it funny shooting down Tuck
"What are you doing" "thats a friendly"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH"
lol

[Doktorwzzerd]

Originally Posted by mattd27

Voice chatter gives many lol moments. Though I get sick of hearing "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" screamed through my speakers every two seconds.

Well you need to stop waiting, obviously.

[kozzm0]

Originally Posted by Doktorwzzerd

Love the game obviously, but has anyone else noticed how much confusion there is in BoP between British and American accents? During the BoB missions we constantly hear American accents in the radio chatter, then during the last Sicily missions we are flying as a USAAF pilot in an early Mustang with British markings and American accents flying around all over the place. Huh?

Is this is a product of the Russian/English language barrier? Was there going to be some explanation for this involving Eagle squadron or something that never got put into the game, or just another sign of the rush put on the devs by the publishers, that they did one set of english language voice overs?

Its not a huge deal, just kind of a weird oversight.

Considering that all the video "diary" segments were done by the same Russian narrator, it's not surprising. Also there's a recession going on, they probably didn't have the capital to find and hire voice artists from the UK and US. Not so easy to hire when most don't speak Russian.

Also, the radio chatter and wingman responses are a stock set of phrases, and they seem to just get randomized here and there. In BoB the garbled words right before the American says, "you're breaking up, say again?" sound like Russian if anything.

It's not unusual to find Russians who can do good American accents with short lines. I've seen a few Soviet-era movies where the American characters sound almost perfect. They probably just misplaced some of them.

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983

Very true.

The voice overs for this game though are shoddy at best. Though one particlur bit of raido chatter i do like (love it infact) is when you fly against a 109 and your in a spitfire... you get a round off and you hear the german say "achtung spitfire" or something along that line, but "spitfire" is definately said, making it sound epic lol.

Kinda like in the movie The Battle of Britain, where instead of a German accent. The German bomber pilot, shouts "SPITFIRE!" in an English accent. I think it's somewhere between the smoking Spit, and the Black Lab with the sad facing looking on; and the final showdown at the end?

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

Kinda like in the movie The Battle of Britain, where instead of a German accent. The German bomber pilot, shouts "SPITFIRE!" in an English accent. I think it's somewhere between the smoking Spit, and the Black Lab with the sad facing looking on; and the final showdown at the end?

The black lab belongs to the pilot played by michael caine. The part you describe is when michael caine takes up a squadron of reserves for a training flight and they get jumped by the 109's. In the ensuing fight all bar one spitfire gets shot down, michael caine getting blown up in the process by some german major.

Im not to sure how the voice acting works with the battle of britain film. The "HE111's" though to be honest the only notable difference in the word spitfire between english/germn would be (the way they say it) -

English - spitfire
German - Shpitfire


lol, best i could do.

[Rhah]

Originally Posted by dazz1971

the radio chatter hasnt really bothered me much at least they didnt make us brits sound like the normal cheesy spiffs eg oh jolly good old chap tally ho oh spiffing etc it really cheeses me off when games do that and the odd film

Totally agree with you there Old bean... its just not cricket, is it?

I have to say that the Squadron leader during some of the RAF Campaign missions in Sicily did make me laugh though. Doesnt he have quite a strong cockney (East London, for those that don't know) accent going on? I never though I'd hear that in a WW2 Flight sim.

"C'or blimey Guv'nor, watch out for them 'Einkels!! They'll 'ave your guts for garters!" (or something to that effect)

[SURE SHOTZ 247]

I think its so funny that we are speaking the same language but with different accents and common phrases of dialouge,one of the most cryingly funny moments iv ever had online was on battlstations on x box,there were 2 americans and me(british)and another english lad from dudley in the black country,now i have trouble understanding people from dudley but the poor dudes from across the pond had no chance i spent the whole game translating dudley english to very confused americans!lol

[Doktorwzzerd]

Speaking of the Squadron Leader's cockney accent, it also bugs me a little bit that the game portrays members of the working class as officers. England still very much had a class system at the time and that system very much excluded all but the gentry from having an officer's commission, which was required to be a pilot. Generally speaking, the lower classes were restricted to serving as enlisted and NCO aircrew servicemen. I am sure there are exceptions to this, but generally speaking its true. See the BBC film "Piece of Cake" to get a sense of how rigid those social divisions within the RAF were.

Of course this has no effect on gameplay, but I can't stand it when games and movies attempt to graft modern personalities and social norms onto the people of the past, Brothers In Arms:HH being a game that particularly turned my screws.