Re: Lifeline's voice

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@ferpesss wrote:

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A good friend of mine is half Asian/half Jamaican, and was extremely excited to finally have representation in a video game- and a main character to boot! But when he started playing Apex, and heard Lifeline actually speak... that excitement quickly turned into disappointment. He knew instantly that this accent wasn't genuine, and when he looked up the voice actress, his suspicions were confirmed. He can no longer plays as Lifeline because the fake accent bothers him so much.

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Wow. What are the odds.

I have a half pygmy half eskimo friend and he's really disappointed that he still hasn't gotten representation in a video game.

We've got a long way to go.

Yea I feel the same way it just sounds cringey and out of place. I can't really play lifeline because of it. I'm Caribbean but im not even from an Enlgish speaking Caribbean country, I'm Haitian, and oddly enough her accent is so bad that some people have told me that that they thought she was Haitian or Louisiana creole. Which is sad because its not just a bad accent its also bad patios which is a language. Her patios phrases have grammatical errors and pronunciation errors for example when she uses American pronunciations for the letter H in words. Its really bad. For people that have not been expose to people from the islands i can see how this might seem cute or whatever but if you're from the Caribbean it just sounds really bad for the great majority of us. Its like the white voice that some black comedians in the 80's would do but a little worse because at least some of those were accurately degree and it was clearly for comedic purposes. But this is poorly done, and is clearly just what someone from another culture, who has done no research which is sad for a professional voice actor, thinks we sound like and thats why its disrespectful because its suppose to be taken seriously and you're displaying someone else's culture. But besides that i love her. I had great games with her. I just wish they took the time to cast an actual person with the accent like how they got a korean american to voice crypto which was well done. I actually main crypto partly because i love the voice acting. I love apex and think its a great game however but that accent really has to go. And her skins are very ugly too. But i don't know if thats for gameplay reasons to make her stand out as a nerf because shes the healer but if not oh man.