TMG I did take a fresh look at 'Papers Please', but decided it just wasn't for me - just to clear any confusion up 
You have all so kindly recommended various games to me since I joined, and I can't remember who suggested what now. I might well take you up on the offer of help with FTL - but will give it another go first. I just plain forget what the tutorial says....
Patriot ( you are not the same Patriot as is on Worthy are you?), I think I got the 'shucks' from Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. As we get so many programs from America over here ( Big Bang Theory, NCIS are two that come to mind, but there are many more), American accents -meaning 'oh yes, this person comes from America' -are common enough in ads not to be noticed, but regional accents from the USA, unless they are trying to portray a product in such a way as to associate it with the activities, values or qualities of a particular type of person ( he-man lumberjack, cowboy, down-south lady), then I would say, no, not obviously - is that what you mean? We have dialects in UK as well of course, and I have noticed that the announcers on rado and TV, where once they all spoke the same somewhat strange and artificial form of the Queens English (we are going back some 60 years here), slowly there has been a relaxing of standards, and people with 'local' accents now give out the news for their area, and not always with the best articulation. That makes them more 'one of us' I guess, if a Geordie man speaks in his own dialect rather than the 'BBC-speak' of former years, but sometimes I notice the Southerners ( where I live) add an 'h' to the front of words that don't require an aspirate ( whereas London Cockneys always drop it from words that do), and there is a growing tendency to say 'fings' instead of 'things', 'nuffin' instead of 'nothing' and 'innit' instead of 'isn't it', which is fine for us plebs ( innit!), but ought not to be encouraged in them as are supposed to speak proper-like on the TV or radio.
I have SkyRim - looked forward to it no end, but did not find it as appealing as Oblivion when I finally managed to buy it. I am hard to please ( I guess) as I do not much care for following the dictat of the main plot - I like to be able to go where I want and do what I want, when I want, and in Oblivion I could do that (and Fallout3 and STALKER), but not sure that works so well in Skyrim - though I have got meself a cosy little hideaway there, and the graphics are great, so I might get back to it, one day..
You have all so kindly recommended various games to me since I joined, and I can't remember who suggested what now. I might well take you up on the offer of help with FTL - but will give it another go first. I just plain forget what the tutorial says....Patriot ( you are not the same Patriot as is on Worthy are you?), I think I got the 'shucks' from Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. As we get so many programs from America over here ( Big Bang Theory, NCIS are two that come to mind, but there are many more), American accents -meaning 'oh yes, this person comes from America' -are common enough in ads not to be noticed, but regional accents from the USA, unless they are trying to portray a product in such a way as to associate it with the activities, values or qualities of a particular type of person ( he-man lumberjack, cowboy, down-south lady), then I would say, no, not obviously - is that what you mean? We have dialects in UK as well of course, and I have noticed that the announcers on rado and TV, where once they all spoke the same somewhat strange and artificial form of the Queens English (we are going back some 60 years here), slowly there has been a relaxing of standards, and people with 'local' accents now give out the news for their area, and not always with the best articulation. That makes them more 'one of us' I guess, if a Geordie man speaks in his own dialect rather than the 'BBC-speak' of former years, but sometimes I notice the Southerners ( where I live) add an 'h' to the front of words that don't require an aspirate ( whereas London Cockneys always drop it from words that do), and there is a growing tendency to say 'fings' instead of 'things', 'nuffin' instead of 'nothing' and 'innit' instead of 'isn't it', which is fine for us plebs ( innit!), but ought not to be encouraged in them as are supposed to speak proper-like on the TV or radio.
I have SkyRim - looked forward to it no end, but did not find it as appealing as Oblivion when I finally managed to buy it. I am hard to please ( I guess) as I do not much care for following the dictat of the main plot - I like to be able to go where I want and do what I want, when I want, and in Oblivion I could do that (and Fallout3 and STALKER), but not sure that works so well in Skyrim - though I have got meself a cosy little hideaway there, and the graphics are great, so I might get back to it, one day..
) but I'm not too sure I've noticed other variations. Not that it's entirely unexpected seeing how there is such a disparity over here and there is nothing particularly unique about the US (as humans go).