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No, THIS is bad voice acting: BEHOLD

All American/Canadian voice actors sound off to me, because very few people sound like what I hear every day (in Georgia.)

Heck, the only character in any modern game or cartoon that sounded remotely normal for me was Applejack from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and even her accent was a bizarre combination of Texas and Tennessee.

Yeah Tataru and Merlweb(?) especially, were glaring changes in VA.

while yes a lotta ppl dont like the new VAs however the person who claims the voice acting is bad isnt even that far in the game yet, hes only see the very first voice acted scene if you start in Uldah when you first meet the Sultana and shes sitting under the Sultan tree... apparently everything in that scene is "bad voice acting"

In all honesty no acting is ever going to make 100% people happy and that my friend is fact. I found the voice acting much better this time around and still isn't perfect but unless SE spends the type of money to hire Hollywood stars who live on voice acting - its not going to happen. They have a set budget to stick to but I think they did well for an MMO that isn't exactly raking in millions of £££ every month in profit.

As for the "dumbest thing" I've heard far worse like the fact this game didn't bring any new content (even though you can list a lot of new things it did give us) may not of been new type of content but it still is new music, dungeons, jobs etc etc.

Still, I've heard far worse - usually from the stroppy teenagers who live at home with their Parents till they hit 40.

Two things...

1). I can't play Wind Waker because of its graphics style. I've tried, and it gives me migraines. I'm not saying that it is bad per se, but I've known a couple other people to say it does the same to them. When something like graphics style causes some people huge headaches, then there might be a problem with it.

2). I don't get where people are saying that FFXIV VAs sound "British". I don't have HW and I never got to see any of the new content (I tried getting back into XIV, but it is just 'meh'), but from what I do remember, the VAs sounded fine, even if they are articulated unusually well (which is a good thing, as I have APD).

I rather liked the VA in FFXIV; it is easy to understand, the accents are reasonable, and they do the job.

Normally, a lot of games that have VA, I find myself wishing they didn't as I'd rather read the text. XIV (along with Mass Effect) is one of the few that I didn't mind it. In Mass Effect, well what can I say? I always played as Fem!Shep. Anything Jennifer Hale says is music to one's ears.

EDIT: Let's not forget the Narrator from Bastion, too. That's like, one of the top 3 best things about Bastion.

Edited, Jul 23rd 2015 4:30pm by Lyrailis

I happen to like British.

Actually, even better, real cockney or maybe Australian "battler".

But I suppose I shouldn't be expecting a fantasy RPG to have everybody talking like they're from the land down under lol.

Bill Maher put it best.

That's a normal reaction. It has nothing to do with her accent.

I've had Japanese voices on since I started playing so I can't speak to the English voicework beyond what I heard in the HW trailer. Most of what I heard there DID sound a little like talking bricks.. lacking personality. The Japanese voices don't have this problem. That being said, there are a few characters that I've always figured should have English accents, like Alphinaud and Y'shtola. I don't know if they actually do or not in the English track, but it did seem appropriate for them.

That laugh scene. 'Nuff said.

That's a "grab the remote and mute it!" moment.

I didn't really like Tidus's voice much either, but I didn't hate it to THAT extent... except for that scene. Arrrgh. Now, the character's personality in general, I didn't like all that much. Young hotshot who thinks he's all that, but ends up making an idiot of himself 99% of the time and doesn't really get any better until way, way later in the game and even then, too little too late; the damage has already been done. And of course, like in a lot of later FFs, the clothing that they have these people wearing, esp the main protagonist, is a whole "who thought THAT up!?" deal. I miss the days when FF people wore normal clothing, lol.

As far as "English Voices never have emotion" .... sometimes Japanese VAs have too much emotion, like they're over-doing it or over-dramatizing it. That can be just as bad, if not worse sometimes, especially when it comes to cutey-cutey mousey young girly voices who are all squealing over the littlest little things in some animes. That gets on my nerves fast.

Edited, Jul 27th 2015 2:10pm by Lyrailis