Quote Originally Posted by Sir Beane View Post
Finding good voice actors capable of portraying accurate historical accents is more difficult than you might think. Even huge Hollywood movies with gigantic budgets have problems finding historical voice actors. And that means CA would have to pay more, for actors salaries, and for the cost of finding and recruiting capable actors.

I don't really find unrealistic voice acting offensive. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to watch any American movie or show with a British character, because they always have us Brits sounding like upper class twits. And to be honest no one I know sounds anything like that.

I'm a language student and I can fully appreciate the range of languages and accents that would have to be present to make a game like Empire at all accurate. The fact is though that even scholars of language disagree on how people of the time spoke. The debate only gets worse the more languages you add into it.

I would love it iff the Magyars, English, Americans and every other faction and group of people sounded accurate. It won't happen though., and I do think it is a little unfair to expect CA to do so.
Definately, which is why I said that they should just simplify it by using SE USA voice actors. It would be no more trouble than using Brit voice actors, and while it would not be accurate, it would be a lot MORE accurate. That is all I am saying.