games with Irish characters in them

elpresdentde · 08-12-2009 04:35AM #1

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 · 08-12-2009 04:44AM

Henry from No More Heroes.

Lands Leaving · 08-12-2009 04:52AM

The irish team in FIFA

pwd · 08-12-2009 04:54AM

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 · 08-12-2009 04:55AM

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

TheCandystripes · 08-12-2009 05:01AM

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 · 08-12-2009 05:12AM

the main character in the saboteur is irish.

Kiith · 08-12-2009 05:33AM

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 · 08-12-2009 08:20AM

The snake from Shadowman - awful, awful game.

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

pwd · 08-12-2009 09:47AM

super_furry wrote: »

The snake from Shadowman - awful, awful game.

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

it was terrible alright!

Ross_Mahon · 08-12-2009 10:43AM

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 · 08-12-2009 11:11AM

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

smooch71 · 08-12-2009 11:21AM

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

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

08-12-2009 11:24AM

Nina from Tekken.

hooradiation · 08-12-2009 11:27AM

The entire cast of Folklore.

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

DOC09UNAM · 08-12-2009 11:27AM

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 · 08-12-2009 11:48AM

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Could be worse, they could have got our national flag backwards
MW2

Ivory Coast FTW

L31mr0d · 08-12-2009 12:18PM

Isn't Colin Moriarty in Fallout 3 Irish?

Dont be at yourself · 08-12-2009 12:26PM

One of the characters from Bushido Blade.

OK-Cancel-Apply · 08-12-2009 12:35PM

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

oceanclub · 08-12-2009 01:10PM

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 · 08-12-2009 01:12PM

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

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

Hercule · 08-12-2009 02:13PM

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 · 08-12-2009 02:16PM

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 · 08-12-2009 02:17PM

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 · 08-12-2009 02:56PM

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 · 08-12-2009 03:10PM

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

EDIT:

elpresdentde wrote: »

atlas from bioshock (kind of)

Doh!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 08-12-2009 03:15PM

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 · 08-12-2009 03:15PM

Best is deffo the ones in Broken Sword.

One of them sounds like Podge haha.

nix · 08-12-2009 03:22PM

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 · 08-12-2009 03:26PM

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

games with Irish characters in them

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