[lyxsus1]

Somebody, please explain me, why out of blue it became fashionable to put that native-sounding flavour of an accent in games and movies even when its story assumes almost every character in it is a native speaker?

I always find it disturbing. As every native Russian speaker, I tend to feel it perceive as beautiful and melodic. Just as any other Russian, Ukranian, Greek or whoever else. Sounds like a joke and not a good one. Makes me skip the whole title.

Why are they doing it? Does it really help anybody with immersion?

[ryacko]

I believe accents go along with a campy or cliched artistic aesthetic.

In any case, I think American evening comedy peaked before I was born.

[lyxsus1]

Surprisingly, that's how I thought about it.