Forum:Accents, good and bad

In my current playthrough I've started to ask myself some questions about accents used by voice actors in the Mass Effect series. I don't in any way wish to cast value judgements on what accents 'should' sound like - just look at the talk page attached to Miranda Lawson page to see folks getting militant about accents and nationalities. What I'd like to discuss is which accents are what people think sound right, i.e. Oriana Lawson has a fake Australian accent, but a very high quality attempt at a notoriously difficult to mimic accent. (It took a few playthroughs before my native ear started to notice something was not quite right) Also which ones sound poor, i.e. Donovan Hock's over the top South African, Zimbabwean accent. And feel free to speculate on some puzzlers, i.e. if the quarians have a mix of British and European accents, but no North American sounding accents at all, then why do their offspring, the Geth, all have American accents? I've noticed some of our Brits commenting on poor quality British accents in the London parts of ME3. My Australian ear cannot detect them. Please feel free to explain which ones an why. Infiltrator N7 (talk) 02:45, August 6, 2012 (UTC)