Play Baldurs Gate 3 with Australians. We’re awesome.
My current game was made alongside my mate who went by Ball Sack the Bard, an avid lover of g-bangers and facepaint. He carried his waifu’s corpse in his backpack and tried to bang anything that moved.
I remembered seeing this year’s ago and I just remembered it. They made a show about an Australian Wizard: https://youtu.be/yv3DedNXN4o
FAK MEY LAYBUR AYNT LETTIN MEY TACH THE FAKKIN DEAD. BANCHA FAKKIN POOSEES AAR GAVMINT. DANT NAA VA FEERST FING BAUWT RAYZIN ZOMBEYS VAY DOUW. EETS SAYF, AND YER SAUWL AYNT GONNA BEY DAMMED. OI JAS WON A FAKKIN ZOMBEY ARMI, AND THEM FAKKAS OVER IN CAANB’RA WONNA SPEET ON THAT.
YEER, MAYT. CORZ YA KAN YOOZ VEY AS A NEEKROMANTEEK KATTALEEST, REVOIVS MEY WONS OI GEET OWTA BEED, WORKS FER THA SKELLIES, TU. EET’S LOIK THEY SEL POWSHUNS AT THA SERVOW, NEED’TA TOLK TA SEVENELEVIN BOWT GETTIN’ MOI BREW STOCKED, PERFECTLY NATURAL, EETS ALL FEIR DEEKUM STRAYAN, BEETA YEWKALEEPTOOS AN BANKSEEA, VAT AWL.
I know someone who moved to the USA recently and learned English as a second language as an air and I had to explain this to them when they started playing Baldur’s Gate 3.
Western Fantasy is nearly entirely based on Dark Age and Medieval Europe, and for English speakers (in particular English speaking Americans) that usually means it’s based on England/UK in particular because it’s the country that speaks English.
So, a huge majority of fantasy characters have an English accent because it’s the accent associated with the only place in the world that spoke English during the vague target time fantasy is set in or based on.
Of course English sounded very different at that time in England, but the tie between them is so strong and has continued for so long it’s now the tradition/expectation.
Like, as an exercise, consider if you were to watch a classical Western-fantasy-type show like Game of Thrones or a Lord of the Rings series. If everyone had modern American accents (general, Southern, etc) wouldn’t you immediately notice and find it odd and out of place?
PS: the person in question was really quite great at English but had to install a mod to add subtitles in their native language because they struggled greatly with non-American accents.
British: a giant enemy crab
Australian: a crab
