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[Levi]

If you're going to pick on things for not making sense in the setting, well, you could be here a while... and Cait's daft accent is hardly the most jarring thing. As much as it did annoy me.

I had Hancock and Cait doing my Gardening.  And I gave Cait a nice plain dress, which made it 3 times more hilarious when she pulls out a big ass syringe of psycho to shoot up and then goes back to gardening.

[Glloyd]

If you're going to pick on things for not making sense in the setting, well, you could be here a while... and Cait's daft accent is hardly the most jarring thing. As much as it did annoy me.

Yeah, we've beat that horse to death enough times in this thread

[Flying Dice]

Didn't we already develop the idea that the accents are:

(Doyalist) A natural feature of a '50s pulp SF setting.
(Watsonian) The result of people picking up accents by listening to old holotapes.

[SOLDIER First]

Possibly the result of having a family line that descended from immigrants before the war, as unlikely as it is?

[KingofstarrySkies]

Figured that, yeah. That and the fact that foreigners do in fact exist in the real world and live in America, so I'm willing to bet they just passed on the way they talk. Or holotapes. Combinations.

Also: A Bethesda game with slightly mediocre voice-acting? what

[SOLDIER First]

[benny flashbacks]

[scriver]

Didn't we already develop the idea that the accents are:

(Doyalist) A natural feature of a '50s pulp SF setting.
(Watsonian) The result of people picking up accents by listening to old holotapes.

No, we accepted the idea that it was
(Bethesdian) Just moronic worked building, like usual.

Possibly the result of having a family line that descended from immigrants before the war, as unlikely as it is?

That would be even worse. Accents aren't genetic. You'd need an entire society of Irish only people to carry that tongue torch for 300 years.

[Teneb]

Frankly, what is most likely is that whomever wrote her character liked irish accents for whatever reason.

[Putnam]

Considering FO3's Colin Moriarty, yeah.

[KingofstarrySkies]

smooooooth like smooth little babies
At least he was the kind of villain you loved to hate. In my opinion, at least.

[SOLDIER First]

That would be even worse. Accents aren't genetic. You'd need an entire society of Irish only people to carry that tongue torch for 300 years.

It makes more sense than "because, go fuck yourself", at least.

Nah, Benny was an alright guy IMO. I mean, he kind of did shoot you in the head, and sends his goons up to murder you if you have low Speech, and doesn't do a goddamn thing for you except give you a snazzy suit... But he could have been worse.

[GiglameshDespair]

That would be even worse. Accents aren't genetic. You'd need an entire society of Irish only people to carry that tongue torch for 300 years.

Eh.
Most social groups seem to be very small, as you'd expect in a post-apoc wasteland. Isolated groups might keep their accents because they're not interacting with a society at large that could dilute it.

Think of England is quite a small country in size, but it's got such a huge variety of accents some of them are pretty much impossible to understand if you're not from there. And that's in the modern day, where there's regular transfer of communication, modern media, etc. The cessation of that flow of information isn't going to make them all adopt weaker accents. If anything, those like enclaves of irish immigrants or whatever are going to become more inwards-focused, because now strangers are actively dangerous.

Still, perhaps some cross contamination is possible, which is why Cait doesn't sound "truly irish" as I've seen people complain.

All in all, it's a relatively minor thing anyway.

[Rolan7]

And also, most people *are* isolated.  The world is incredibly dangerous and it makes perfect sense that some of the badasses who actually go out in the wastes would have eccentricities.  Do those isolated farms look like they have many visitors?  Of course they would retain family accents...

Also Fallout isn't freakin realistic, and nobody should consider that a personal insult.  It focuses on pulp tropes rather than hard alt-history.

Except for New Vegas, which tried to explain a lot of things, and did a pretty nice job in some places.  That was pretty cool, but it's the *exception*.

[Grim Portent]

Considering FO3's Colin Moriarty, yeah.

Didn't he mention that he and his father came to the Capital Wasteland by ship when he was a child? Pretty sure that was the explanation he gave in game for what an Irishman was doing running a pub in a radioactive crater.

[KingofstarrySkies]

And also, most people *are* isolated.  The world is incredibly dangerous and it makes perfect sense that some of the badasses who actually go out in the wastes would have eccentricities.  Do those isolated farms look like they have many visitors?  Of course they would retain family accents...

Also Fallout isn't freakin realistic, and nobody should consider that a personal insult.  It focuses on pulp tropes rather than hard alt-history.

Except for New Vegas, which tried to explain a lot of things, and did a pretty nice job in some places.  That was pretty cool, but it's the *exception*.

It explained most things, because Obsidian knows how to write and make the story fit in well with the setting. :3