I do not know if this has ever been talked about before, I am sure it has. But what is up with Colin Moriarty's accent? I can not fathom how anybody would have an Irish brogue in the states 200 years after a nuclear war that just about destroyed everything. If he is from Ireland, How did he manage to get to the states? Just wondering.

It seems the Vault Wiki says so:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Colin_Moriarty

He is from Ireland and, just like how Allstair Tenpenny is from Great Britain, nothing in the game explains how they got there.


I don't understand how Herbert can tell the player yet we can't ask him directly.

It is in his terminal, I believe:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Colin_Moriarty#cite_note-0

Actually accents tend to be preserved in such situations. If you have a large community, particularly one with lots of interaction with other communities, accents change rapidly. However something small and isolated tends to have very little alteration.

Well its still weird that we can't even bring it up in conversation.

You can immediately tell that both he and Tenpenny are bad 'uns because of their British accents. At least, that is if my knowledge of American cinema is anything to go by.

After all, if it wasn't for us Brits, the Death Star wouldn't have kept running for as long as it did.

And of course there are all the evil robot butlers too. Like Milo the Nuka Cola forman.

I assume he took a boat. There's no reason to assume that the seas would be any more dangerous than they are nowadays, and if the Chosen One can get an oil tanker up and running in Fallout 2, there's no reason someone in the UK or Ireland couldn't do the same: while oil might be in short supply, they could use steam engines or sails, or being the future, cold fusion.

You know how in movies there's always those huddled 19th century European immigrants coming to America and making a big deal when they see the Statue of Liberty? I have this picture in my head of New York, even after 200 years, being seen as a haven for Europeans wanting a better life. Especially since what with the resource wars, Europe was probably post-apocalyptic even before the Great War. I'm sure there'd be people telling their children stories about crossing the Atlantic to make a better life for themselves.

Like Jara said, I never found the idea of Colin getting to the United States, I mean, it's not like I'd expect sea dragons and beasts to suddenly emerge in the Great War. At worst there's things like sharks that are nastier, but that's it. Just like travelling the Wastes wouldn't be THAT bad, it's all about prepration for various events.

That actually sounds interesting.

You travel states in Point Lookout, so I assume boat travel is still a go.

Wasn't it Colin's grandfather that came to America not Colin himself?

The Devs after Fallout 3 came out said Tenpenny was from the UK. A great example of how much Bethesda svcks as writing. They give him an accent but don't explain where he came from, in the game itself. We have to find out about it in a interview with a dev..

Wouldn't it have been awesome to have learned of how he got to America? What the UK was like before he left, the ship he was on. We missed out on a great story.

Don't forget Dukov, from the greatest country in the world

I thought this thread would be about how bad his accent is - i'm surprised he didn't have a green hat or pot of gold somewhere...

Another example of Americans knowing nothing about an Irish accent.