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In honor of the new "Meet the Sniper" video on our beloved Steam, here's a class I wish I knew how to play better.Related content
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perfectly well executed pose and perfect style. kudos!
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Learn to aim, if you have full charge, don't worry about headshots, and watch out for medics and pyros for trick shots. Also, I prefer to move around incase of counter-snipers.
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I can teach you, heres how:
Aim. Shoot. headshot.
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Nice work. Keep it coming!
With regards to the video, let me rant a bit. And I'm completely valid in saying this as an Australian myself.
I'm glad Valve got the Sniper's manner of speech and words more stereotypically accurate than they did with his so-called Aussie accent.
"Wanker", is used all the time in the UK, Australia, New Zealand. It's the same thing as calling some one a "jerk-off";
From Wikipedia: 'Wanker literally means "one who wanks (masturbates)"'
And, being a wanker is like being a tosser, or a dickhead; it's used as a generally insulting negative term.
Anyhoo, enough with the lesson...
But I'm so upset the Sniper does not sound at all like a stereotypical Australian. And I'm not biased, I have no problem with people exaggerating and exploiting our accents. Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) has one of the best examples of the stereotypical Aussie accent, as does John Jarrat as Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek. I love both their performances and both those films.
So, why is it so hard for people to find a real Australian voice actor to put on the exagerrated Aussie accent - or, better yet, have it naturally?
This is the only thing Valve has ever done wrong, which is surprising since they have Australians working on their team. Seems a little half-assed to me.
The Sniper sounds like someone trying to sound like an Aussie, but don't realize they're hitting closer to an English accent.
The video was funny. I loved it. But I cringed with every line spoken.
Valve, come on you wankers, you can do better than that!
I was so happy they had an Aussie character until I heard him speak
Does anyone else agree?
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The German, Bostonian and Scotsman are hardly accurate, either. I figure it's just as silly as the rest of the setting, not much about the game is realistic. IIRC the sniper's voice actor has been in several valve games, he's married to the Announcer/GlaDOS voice actor, so there's tons of connections there they'd like to keep in with.
It doesn't really bother me. As a Brit I am more than used to my accent being bastardised in the media, haha.
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I dont make that much of a deal out of it, exact Aussie or not his voice is wonderful and the video is so good
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I think it has a lot to do with budget. If I'm not mistaken, the voice actor is one of their usual guys. He was also in Half-Life 2, unless I'm just hearing things. Anyway, sometimes a bad stereotypical accent is funnier than an accurate one. I don't know anyone who sounds like Soldier.
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Nice, I loved the Sniper video (and the Pyro achievements that came with it).
You do the 'crazed gunman' justice.
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What does Wanker exactly mean? Is this something like Redneck or Hill-Billy? *notfamiliarwithamericanslangexcuse*
Anyway, itΒ΄s a funny and well done picture.
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It means a dick or an person who is not very bright in the head, in Aussie/British terms.
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Ok. Thx. A dork. Right?
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Yes, in plain terms. How do I know is that I used to role play as Australia for Hetalia-Axis Powers for a while and gotten used to it, as well as some of the other slang that is still commonly used in the colonies of England, well, except for India, since it's different.
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Sounds as if you tried to play a perfect role when you cosplay. ThatΒ΄s cool
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Yep, it is and believe me, it's fun as hell!
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It's actually not American slang, though you do hear it rarely here. It'd be like calling someone a chronic masturbator, really.
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That too. It's mainly spoken in the British and colonial places, except for India.
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I would love to see the TF team do a animated movie based on this game. The "Meet the" videos are better than most Pixar shorts I've seen.
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I was thinking the same thing, theyre really funny.
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