games with Irish characters in them

elpresdentde

been playing the saboteur for the last couple of days and im lovingthe game. its great to play an Irishman (even if the accent is terrible but the yanks expect us all to sound like darby o gill ) but it got me thinking which games have Irish characters.


the Green Beret from the commando games
atlas from bioshock (kind of)
the pilot from mercenaries 2
the gaa game for the playstation years ago

any more

Azza

Henry from No More Heroes.

Lands Leaving

The irish team in FIFA

pwd

most sports sims probably
you can play as the irish in freeciv...probably a few other games like that that allow it.
I think Anna and Nina Williams in Tekken are Irish

koHd

Bioshock. The guy that leads you around with instructions at the start.

TheCandystripes

Smackdown vs Raw series-Finlay *he's northern irish though*

I presume one of the McRearys in GTA could have been born in Ireland.

CutzEr

the main character in the saboteur is irish.

Kiith

The majority of Irish characters in games are actually Oirish. And even then, the accent's get pretty bad. Not as bad as Brad Pitts though :P

super_furry

The snake from Shadowman - awful, awful game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYuJRx0ihA0

pwd

super_furry wrote: »

The snake from Shadowman - awful, awful game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYuJRx0ihA0

it was terrible alright!

Ross_Mahon

Ewan [when being called in for helicopter transport] "Always counting on me to come save your bacon!"

Ewan "Fair bit of scratch in this place isn't there?"
Fiona "And you are?" *Points Gun at him*
Ewan "Intrigued..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6GNtRue9kU

Vyse

The scene in Broken Sword that was based in Ireland. Lots of Irish characters there!

smooch71

Isn't one of the player characters in Far Cry 2 Irish?

Can't remember the name coz the game was so sh1te

Nina from Tekken.

hooradiation

The entire cast of Folklore.

fun fact - the village of Doolin where the game is set was called lemrick in the Japanese version.

DOC09UNAM

elpresdentde wrote: »

its great to play an Irishman (even if the accent is terrible but the yanks expect us all to sound like darby o gill )

Could be worse, they could have got our national flag backwards

MW2

Ross_Mahon

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Could be worse, they could have got our national flag backwards

MW2

Ivory Coast FTW

L31mr0d

Isn't Colin Moriarty in Fallout 3 Irish?

Dont be at yourself

One of the characters from Bushido Blade.

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There a mercenary in Tomb Raider Underworld with an Irish accent (and a real one too as far as I can tell).

oceanclub

The hero Patrick Galloway from Clive Barker's Undying (great game - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Barker's_Undying)

Funny interview with Barker about the hero:

http://www.sharkygames.com/games/articles/undying_interview/

We had this fellow called Magnus. Count Magnus Wolfram. Who was bald, tattooed, looked like a comic book hero. And I got them all in a room, and I said, "Look, does anyone in this room know a count? No. Does anybody in this room know anybody called Magnus? No. Does anybody really want to be in this guy's skin? Since this is a first person play, why would you want to be in this man's skin? Why would you want to play [as him]?" And so we threw him out, and I said, "Look. You've got a gay man in charge here. Bring me somebody I want to sleep with. Bring me somebody fabulously sexy."

P.

Wossack

clive barkers undying - set in ireland in the '30s iirc

'Packie', irish lad in GTA4 (Im sure theres way more across the series)

Hercule

cant think of a single "decent" irish person in a game only stupid plastic paddies or diddly idle bleedin idle sterotypes - would love to see an irish person done right - sick of square jawed cut paste marines etc.

Any voice actor that bases their irish accents on the lucky charms leprechaun can gtfo (the guy that does the voice of saboteur is a prick)

nix

Vyse wrote: »

The scene in Broken Sword that was based in Ireland. Lots of Irish characters there!

haha was gonna say that one myself, had a blast playing through that game, and the second one.

I wish they stuck with the point and click style as the others just didn't keep me hooked

smooch71

L31mr0d wrote: »

Isn't Colin Moriarty in Fallout 3 Irish?

Yeah think he is to be sure to be sure to be sure.

Fa fa fi fa fa fo fa fa fum.

steviec

I recall there were a few characters in Dreamfall: The Longest Journey with Irish accents - not overtly Irish but they clearly had an Irish voice actor in the cast.

Aside from that, Broken Sword and Folklore are the obvious ones for me - the main female character in Folklore especially was pretty good I thought, although there were some really bad Irish accents in the game to go along with it. A couple of the sequels to Broken Sword also had Irish characters in them too.

Oh, and the narrator from Viva Pinata, nearly forgot that!

nix

Oh and was the guy in Bioshock Irish?

I only played through it in my friends so cant really remember as we wizzed through it and my memory aint what it used to be :P


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elpresdentde wrote: »

atlas from bioshock (kind of)

Doh!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i'm assuming the people raging about 'dem yanks' and oirish accents also spare a bit of righteous anger for the retarded french/german/every****ingaccentonthefaceofthe****ingplanet in games and movies?


there are sweet **** all people living on this Island, what do you expect them to do? every time they want an irish person in a game or movie they have to fly someone over here with a mic and a talent competition?

Holsten

Best is deffo the ones in Broken Sword.

One of them sounds like Podge haha.

nix

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

i'm assuming the people raging about 'dem yanks' and oirish accents also spare a bit of righteous anger for the retarded french/german/every****ingaccentonthefaceofthe****ingplanet in games and movies?


there are sweet **** all people living on this Island, what do you expect them to do? every time they want an irish person in a game or movie they have to fly someone over here with a mic and a talent competition?

No but they could perhaps do some "research" and refrain from using darby ogil and the little people as an example of what an irish accent sounds like :rolleyes:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

they're not making games soley for the irish market

whatever you think you sound like, or you think someone from mayo sounds like.. we all sound alike to people from other countries, and we all sound like diddly eye tweed cap wearing mother****ers.

deal with it

hooradiation

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

i'm assuming the people raging about 'dem yanks' and oirish accents also spare a bit of righteous anger for the retarded french/german/every****ingaccentonthefaceofthe****ingplanet in games and movies?


there are sweet **** all people living on this Island, what do you expect them to do? every time they want an irish person in a game or movie they have to fly someone over here with a mic and a talent competition?

Pretty much this.

And i like the "oirish" accents, personally. They're usually unintentionally hilarious.
And i can't really find it in myself to get all butthurt because a developer didn't spend money getting a "real Irish" person when it'd only matter to a tiny % of their market.

nix

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

they're not making games soley for the irish market

whatever you think you sound like, or you think someone from mayo sounds like.. we all sound alike to people from other countries, and we all sound like diddly eye tweed cap wearing mother****ers.

deal with it

But it's so much more fun to mock them :P

And your informaton is false, just so you know

Stercus Accidit

If you have a game like saboteur with an Irish main character, its hardly pushing the boat out to outsource your voice recording or even some of it, to an irish studio.

We have got internets here after all.

TheCandystripes

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

they're not making games soley for the irish market

whatever you think you sound like, or you think someone from mayo sounds like.. we all sound alike to people from other countries, and we all sound like diddly eye tweed cap wearing mother****ers.

deal with it

+1 Iaugh when people call that D4 accent american. If americans heard them speak they they talk with stereotypical accent. same way people in ireland always do that high pitched 'so cal' accent

Jazzy

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

i'm assuming the people raging about 'dem yanks' and oirish accents also spare a bit of righteous anger for the retarded french/german/every****ingaccentonthefaceofthe****ingplanet in games and movies?


there are sweet **** all people living on this Island, what do you expect them to do? every time they want an irish person in a game or movie they have to fly someone over here with a mic and a talent competition?

simon cowell is very very interested

hooradiation

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

If you have a game like saboteur with an Irish main character, its hardly pushing the boat out to outsource your voice recording or even some of it, to an irish studio.

We have got internets here after all.

But it's cheaper to do it locally and nobody but the Irish seem to care.

Lands Leaving

To be fair, we can distinguish American accents, I mean we're all aware that the 'so cal' accent isn't say a Texas accent. They're very different, as are most Irish accents. There may be less, but a D4 accent, a Dublin accent, Cork accent, etc. are all really different, surely the American or whatever country the producer of the game is based in can hear the difference.

Plus NO ONE talks like any American actor does an Irish accent! NO ONE!!!

Surely the person who thinks, lets stick in an Irish character has some affinity with Ireland, from parents, grandparents or SOMETHING! So they really should make more of an effort. They would get in serious trouble if they had some really stereotypical African, remember RE5?

Plus have they not seen a Colin Farrell movie... he sort of has an authentic accent... 'AH DAREDEVIL ME BLEEDIN HANDS YE PRICK!'

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I suppose it does sort of seem like anyone from outside of Britain (well, England anyway) or the United States in a game or film is not allowed to be a normal person, but has to be a stock character or walking stereotype.

hooradiation

Lands Leaving wrote: »

To be fair, we can distinguish American accents, I mean we're all aware that the 'so cal' accent isn't say a Texas accent. They're very different, as are most Irish accents. There may be less, but a D4 accent, a Dublin accent, Cork accent, etc. are all really different, surely the American or whatever country the producer of the game is based in can hear the difference.

Plus NO ONE talks like any American actor does an Irish accent! NO ONE!!!

Surely the person who thinks, lets stick in an Irish character has some affinity with Ireland, from parents, grandparents or SOMETHING! So they really should make more of an effort. They would get in serious trouble if they had some really stereotypical African, remember RE5?

Plus have they not seen a Colin Farrell movie... he sort of has an authentic accent... 'AH DAREDEVIL ME BLEEDIN HANDS YE PRICK!'

Oh hey, yank accents! Well we're talking about a country about as big as Europe, So guess what?
That Texan accent you think you can identify...As close to the real thing as the Oirish one you're complaining about.

Jesus Christ people, these accents like the Oirish one, the sterotypical british upperclass one or the mockney one, all those? They exist for one simple reason, they are almost universally understood in the western world.

Want to get across that Guy X is from Texas, stick him in a cowboy hat and give him a southern drawl that makes it sound like glacial drift is talking.

There, job done. Guy X is from Texas, everyone knows it.

It's not a vendetta against us or anything, grow up.

PogMoThoin

smooch71 wrote: »

Isn't one of the player characters in Far Cry 2 Irish?

Can't remember the name coz the game was so sh1te

Frank Bilders. If You played as him You never got to see him which happened to me. Didn't fancy starting again, the game was so repeditive I gave up*after 45-50%. Got to see him while the young fella was playing tho, didn't miss much

Lands Leaving

hooradiation wrote: »

Oh hey, yank accents! Well we're talking about a country about as big as Europe, So guess what?
That Texan accent you think you can identify...As close to the real thing as the Oirish one you're complaining about.

Jesus Christ people, these accents like the Oirish one, the sterotypical british upperclass one or the mockney one, all those? They exist for one simple reason, they are almost universally understood in the western world.

Want to get across that Guy X is from Texas, stick him in a cowboy hat and give him a southern drawl that makes it sound like glacial drift is talking.

There, job done. Guy X is from Texas, everyone knows it.

It's not a vendetta against us or anything, grow up.

I'm not really complaining, I just think it's a bit mad that they can't get the accent right at all. It's not a big deal really, just odd that it's so different from the real thing, even though there are Irish people like Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy who are household names outside Ireland and speak nothing like an oirish fiddle di di accent. You'd just think someone would notice... begorrah!

Risteard

I think there's a character in WET that's Irish. He's got red hair and the stereotypical 'Paddy' accent, so I'm going to assume he's Irish.

superfly

someone else had they same idea for a thread
http://www.thataussiegamesite.com.au/features/152-the-top-5-irish-game-characters-ever

TheCandystripes

we only know them accents because of americansation. 99% of us people never heard an irish person speaking. its like before my parents returned to ireland the only british accent i knew was the posh one, since ireland has so much brit media i can now recognise a manchester accent

Burgo

The vault dweller's dad from f3 voiced by Liam Neeson.

Agricola

Wossack wrote: »

'Packie', irish lad in GTA4 (Im sure theres way more across the series)

Just playing the Packie missionsin GTAIV now. Packie is Irish-American. New York accent.

Lands Leaving

Well, at least we're popular!

Now where's that shil... how do you even spell shileleah????

Um, now where's that... pot o gold? I know less Irish stereotypes than any American, maybe they know they accent better than us.

Stercus Accidit

Burgo wrote: »

The vault dweller's dad from f3 voiced by Liam Neeson.

I wonder how in the case of moriarty, someone 200 years into an apocalypse, would travel to the US?

Ireland must be worse off, super mutant mary harneys or something.

elpresdentde

hooradiation wrote: »

The entire cast of Folklore.

fun fact - the village of Doolin where the game is set was called lemrick in the Japanese version.

thats more then i was hoping for a half decent game set in Ireland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvdFH3TKFfw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yKFtAV0Lvs&feature=relate
the accents not too bad either

Grimebox

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

I wonder how in the case of moriarty, someone 200 years into an apocalypse, would travel to the US?

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