A New Zealander in the the middle of the Nevada wastes?

Post » Tue May 24, 2011 11:43 pm

So wandering around the deathclaw quarry I find a couple of Great Khans up on a ridge, one of them approaches me with the unmistakeable accent of a Kiwi, (The Vault wiki says Afrikaans, but thats definitly not a South African accent...).

So yeah, WTH?
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Manuel rivera
 
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 4:06 am

Did you explain they were in tha Mojave, Middle Earth is a left at Albuquerque.
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xemmybx
 
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 5:44 am

Sounds south african to me but whatever. Not sure why a south african accent in the middle of NV would be any more or less rare than someone from new zealand.
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Multi Multi
 
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 4:05 am

so why would you nuke new zealand to begin with.....
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JAY
 
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 7:08 am

New-Zealander here. Whats wrong with the kiwi accent anyway?
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Kaylee Campbell
 
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 2:15 pm

She sounds Australian to me, but New Zealand is just a suburb of Australialand to us Yanks, so I wouldn't be able to tell a difference in accents, anyways. Certainly didn't sound South African - not enough of an accent for that, but my only real exposure to South African accents is films like District 9, so maybe it's actually South African after all. *shrug*

I found it rather odd myself, especially since her father doesn't have that accent at all (though he does say she takes after her mom, and she's not in the game at all as far as I know). I'm pretty sure her voice actor does other characters in the game and none of them have that accent, so it's probably deliberate for some reason.

Then again, F3 had the Irishman and at least one Brit, so it's not entirely unheard of.
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 4:46 pm

She sounds Australian to me, but New Zealand is just a suburb of Australialand to us Yanks, so I wouldn't be able to tell a difference in accents, anyways. Certainly didn't sound South African - not enough of an accent for that, but my only real exposure to South African accents is films like District 9, so maybe it's actually South African after all. *shrug*

I found it rather odd myself, especially since her father doesn't have that accent at all (though he does say she takes after her mom, and she's not in the game at all as far as I know). I'm pretty sure her voice actor does other characters in the game and none of them have that accent, so it's probably deliberate for some reason.

Then again, F3 had the Irishman and at least one Brit, so it's not entirely unheard of.

Say what? But then again, Americans are Canadians too.
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 2:03 pm

Naw - you've got that mixed up. Canadians are Americans, not the other way around. (Canada being the smaller country in that comparison, just like New Zealand is the smaller country in the comparison of Aussialand->Zealand)
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 1:54 pm

Naw - you've got that mixed up. Canadians are Americans, not the other way around. (Canada being the smaller country in that comparison, just like New Zealand is the smaller country in the comparison of Aussialand->Zealand)

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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 3:49 pm

It's defs a Kiwi accent.
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Dan Wright
 
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 11:02 am

Just checked the credits, she's voiced by Zoe Bell, so yeah, definitely a New Zealander :goodjob:
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 3:30 pm

Naw - you've got that mixed up. Canadians are Americans, not the other way around. (Canada being the smaller country in that comparison, just like New Zealand is the smaller country in the comparison of Aussialand->Zealand)

Some parts of Canada was populated before the US, thus US = canadian.
Then again, scandinavian vikings reached canada before anyone else, thus Canada = scandinavian.
ZOMG!!! in the end we're all middle-easterns!!!!
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 3:47 am

I've heard an Australian accent from one NPC ran into (my first playthrough, cant remember who)....
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 8:42 am

Canada being the smaller country
I assume you mean the country with the smaller population. Canada is, in fact, larger although less densely populated.

(What double entendre?)
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 4:44 am

Canada is geographically (barely) larger but politically/economically/culturally/demographically smaller than the US.
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 8:01 am

Gee ever heard of "immigrants"? Not too weird to run across someone from another country once in a while, if you ask me.
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Post » Wed May 25, 2011 9:42 am

Naw - you've got that mixed up. Canadians are Americans, not the other way around. (Canada being the smaller country in that comparison, just like New Zealand is the smaller country in the comparison of Aussialand->Zealand)


Naw - They are North Americans like the peeps for the US are also. But ultimately you are mostly British originally.
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