Starfield Is Getting Roasted For Its "Insulting" Irish Accents

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Longtime fans of Bethesda's work will know that the developer has a strange weak spot when it comes to Irish accents. Fallout 3 had Colin Moriarty, a shady tavern owner whose accent was about as cartoonishly Irish as you could possibly get. Fallout 4 had Cait, a rough and rowdy cage fighter whose accent was extremely controversial at the time, with some going so far as to say that it completely ruined her character.

For some reason, Bethesda keeps insisting that at least one character in each of its titles has to have a dodgy Irish accent, so you probably won't be surprised to hear that Starfield has yet another Irish character that is being raked over the coals by fans. This time its Charlie Flynn, a stressed out medic who you can find in Cydonia City's Reliant Medical office.

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Some of Flynn's dialogue was shared by IGN editor Wesley Yin-Poole on Twitter earlier today, but you'd be forgiven for not realizing it was supposed to be an Irish accent to begin with. It's all over the place at the start, with little bits of American coming through on certain words, until the voice actor in question pulls out an extremely confident "EEJIT" as some kind of smoking gun. It's definitely not what you'd expect from a title as massive as Starfield, and it's getting a good ol' roasting online as a result.

Many are questioning why Bethesda doesn't just hire an Irish voice actor if it wants to keep putting Irish characters in its games, while others are calling the accent "borderline insulting" and "hilariously bad". You also have a few people jokingly defending the accent by saying it's just hundreds of years of accent shifts or that this is actually a new accent