I didn't know that Khorinis was located in Brooklyn O.o

[To those who don't understand, the accents of the NPC's in Khorinis have a definite NYC feeling to them for me]

A merchant, Sarah, has a decidedly Southern drawl to her voice.

Gotta say, the voice acting in this game, so far, is quite good. Certainly helps with the immersion.

You won't say that after you meet Skip. :)

Really? I thought the voice acting for Xardas was ass, although the other NPCs are reasonable (except when you ask for directions, then they sound like a tour guide).

Yeah, I think it's decent. The voices / accents themselves might sound a little contrived but the lilt and cadence to the conversations sounds pretty natural.

But that's just me. Some games are real stinkers when it comes to voice acting, so this one stands out as pretty good compared to what I'm used to. Not real far into the game, tho.

I'm not absolutely certain, but I think the voice of Xardas was changed in 2 - but the original still does some of the other characters. I recall liking the voice in 1 better (providing I'm not confused - it happened, just not absolutely sure it was Xardas.

My favorite is one of the swampweed pickers in the first Gothic (forget his name). He has a thick New Jersey Italian accent and mentions how he's breaking his balls picking swampweed.

I wonder if the reason he was there had something to do with the Sopranos? :)))

Maybe that's it: it isn't the usual flowery elfy-dwarfy-epicy crap we'd normally encounter from this type of game.

Early on one gets the opportunity to team up with Bartok for some hunting and it just seemed to me like a conversation that, well, that we'd normally have but with different subject matter. Instead of something like "Let us hark over to yon woods, and smite those who wish harm upon us and the good people of Typical RPG-name Valley", it's more like "Holy crap - that was an orc, and so close to town. I'm done with this shit. You're on your own, bud."

And I liked it.