Elaine's Accent?
I noticed that in Curse, Elaine had an obvious English accent, but it had somehow disappeared completely by Escape. I was just wondering if she'll have the accent again in Tales. I don't have a preference one way or another, it's just a curiosity.
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Sure. And why not give her a completely different accent for every single chapter. Scottish, Spanish, French, German, and then something completely random for the last one like pig latin or something. That won't be distracting at all.
I was just joking, though
I always foudn it odd how she was american in Escape, did her accent localise quickly or something?
Oh, I didn't know she's being played be the Curse voice actor. That's pretty cool, now we won't have to worry about Scottish accents.
PS. It's not the accent. In theory a British accent would suit her character. It's just the horrible intonation and timing on the VA's part.
Ding! You get the prize for best summing this up!
Thankfully Elaine was turned into a statue for most of CMI. The makers of EFMI obviously saw it was something that needed fixing and well, if they didn't go and fix it! It was probably, as you said, the only improvement added to the series by EFMI.
For what it's worth, I had personally always pictured her in my mind sounding basically like a slightly softer Marion Ravenwood from Raiders of the Lost Ark, but after much debate we went with the voice we thought most people would recognize, and the one which matched up with Special Edition.
Does that mean that Earl Boen is also around somewhere for ToMI?
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She'd just had an evil pirate curse placed on her, turning her into a solid gold statue. I'd be bitchy too.
Earl Boen is not in Tales of Monkey Island.
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haha, who exactly has no accent at all?
^ What he said...
Ah well, I suppose that we got used to Nowlin and Kasten's Sam and Max - they still did a great job even though it was odd at first - we'll just have to get used to the new LeChuck. Although it is strange that Boen is signed on for one game, but not the other.
Does anyone know why he is doing one and not the other?
Or maybe he wasn't interested in doing a series of games, but found it OK to go back and do one game for a company he has already worked with before.
I think thats pretty much how LeChuck is supposed to be...demonically evil in a lovable way.
Kind of a shame but not a big surprise. In the trailer he seems to be doing a decent but not-quite-there impression of Boen's LeChuck... hopefully once he's