Regarding voices for generals and campaign map characters

Hi all,

Being greek, it's funny that the spanish/portuguese/byzantines/milanes/venetians/blah.blah. ALL have the same voices!

Ex. A general loses a battles and says:
"There is nothing to salvage here, Eskata"

I first heard that when I chose to play the Byzantine campaign.

Do you know what "Eskata" means? Nothing in greek, BUT
"Skata" in greek means "sh*t" :oops:

Come on C.W. change the groove brothers!

hellas1- Malakizmena! (Greek word) They should've chose ME for voiceovers!
Check out MY renditions: "Ehasame, pisohoriste!) 'We've lost, retreat!"

I didn't realize that Hungary voices ARE Mongols voices until I 'toggle_fow' to see the Mongol army movements...

Not sure about Timurids though, haven't checked them...

I think its safe to say CA didnt spend much on voice actors. They never have IMO. Considering their take on historical accuracy I'm not suprised though. :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by hellas1

Hi all,

Being greek, it's funny that the spanish/portuguese/byzantines/milanes/venetians/blah.blah. ALL have the same voices!

Ex. A general loses a battles and says:
"There is nothing to salvage here, Eskata"

I first heard that when I chose to play the Byzantine campaign.

Do you know what "Eskata" means? Nothing in greek, BUT
"Skata" in greek means "sh*t" :oops:

Come on C.W. change the groove brothers!

hellas1- Malakizmena! (Greek word) They should've chose ME for voiceovers!
Check out MY renditions: "Ehasame, pisohoriste!) 'We've lost, retreat!"

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Well, similarly, I noticed the princess that greets you the first time ever you start the byzantine campaign to give you hints for strategic moves says "yassou" ("hello, greetings"), but with wrongly emphasising the -sou, instead of the ya- (it shoud be yaaah-sou).

On a related note, it's also odd to hear Turkish characters greet you in Arabic, like "Na'am Sultan", "As Salama" etc. It's like having Italians greet you "Guten Tag", "Jawohl Mein Koenig". :wall:

The difference between having spanish/portuguese/milanese/venetians/ use the same voice set is that these actually speak english with a funny accent in the game (instead of, say, the spanish greeting you in italian), so that you can imagine them being actually spanish/portuguese/milanes/venetians.

Whereas in the case of the Turks, it's really weird to have your characters greet you in Arabic. I kind of believe it was due only to budget and time considerations, but somehow somewhere inside I suspect there's also a small chance of a "hey, Turks are Arabs anyway!" thinking that might have taken place...

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...o=file&id=1010
Try that, it wont fix your game 100% but it's a start.

here's another geeky observation :)

one of the barbarian voices in RTW I'd swear was Gimli from the BBC radio series of LOTR.

Also, from the same series is one of Frodo's pestering Orcs appearing as a voice in MTW2

(coughs) sorry - as you were :D

What´s a lot worse, only the English version seems to have full pre-battle speeches for every faction, or at least the ones initially available, in localized versions only the faction representing that country (the HRE i the case of Germany) seem to get a proper pre-battle speech, the others get a one-line comment. That is a cheapskate :thumbsdown:

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Originally Posted by hellas1

Ex. A general loses a battles and says:
"There is nothing to salvage here, Eskata"

I first heard that when I chose to play the Byzantine campaign.

Do you know what "Eskata" means? Nothing in greek, BUT
"Skata" in greek means "sh*t" :oops:

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I always thought he was saying "There is nothing to salvage here, scatter, flee!" but in a funny voice myself.