Voice Acting Reaction Thread

[Bolivar]

not sure if this has been done already.

But how would you rate the voice acting in this game? Overall I think it was definately one of the game's strong points - most of the voices seemed to fit the personality of the character they were representing very well. And having the talking-through-the-helmet effect for the judges was such a little detail that made a big difference.

My biggest problem in games with voice acting, specifically xenosaga and FFX, is that alot of the time they talk slowly, i guess to allow the player to read the script simultaneously. It gets too slow for me. This one had a good pace, I was actually delighted when a few characters said things a little too fast, it showed they weren't going to have that fault.

[JonyH]

Yeah I enjoyed the voice-acting. Movie-quality is what I'd call it. That includes in-game shouts from characters. Just loved all the voices. And fair play to the genius behind Fran's accent. Bravo!

[PeneloRatsbane]

i loved the voice acting, Fran's voice is amazing, i loved listening to her talk, i like how she said "sup-por-ting" at the end. she juts sounds so cool.
Ashe's posh voice suited her, as vaan penelo and basch all very good voices too.
Loved Balthier's english accent, the guy that plays him, gideon emmory, was born in windsor which is litterally 15 minutes from my house.
Marquis Ondore???? what was up with that?!
B'gamnan i liked as well, all growly grrr

[Vivisteiner]

The majority of them were excellent.

Although I didnt particularly like Fran's or Vaan's. They spoke with such fluidity - if only they had had more to say!

[Bolivar]

i thought it was interesting how the archadians have english accents whereas the dalmascans have american accents. SE's play on the American War for Independence.

[atlanteay]

i heard fran and i was like: WTF!

her voice is so different from the JAP version. the other voices are fantastic. They should've done the cutscene-every-2-min-thing in FF12 instead of FF10 XD

[PuPu]

I think that the Japanese voice acting is just slightly better. To me, they sound like they put a bit more feeling to it.

For example, watch and listen to Vayne's attacks in the English version of FFXII. (Find a video on Youtube, play FFXII, etc.)

Now compare them with this:
YouTube - Final Fantasy XII Final Boss

Like I said, it sounds like the Japanese voice actors put more feeling to it. Especially when comparing the English and Japanese versions of Ascension, Gigaflare Sword, and Teraflare. I don't know if it's just me, but there are parts in those attacks of the English version where I can barely hear Vayne's voice actor at all.

However, I still think it was very good voice acting in the English version. It surprised me how close it was to being as good as the Japanese voice acting.

[Zeromus_X]

Yeah, it's a real shame that Vayne's English voice actor couldn't put the oomph he had in his out-of-battle lines as he did in-battle.

That said, I really enjoyed the English voice acting, although some voices like Fran's took some getting used to. Well, except Vaan's...he sounds like he always has a cold.

[hplvr]

i loved the voice acting, it was the best of all the final fantasy's, unlike X which was terrible
Frans voice is sooo cool, i dont knwo why alot of people dont like it

[Dr. Acula]

I loved the voices, especially Fran's, Balthier's and Ashe's. Vaan's voice I found a little annoying at first, but I eventually got used to it, and Marquis Ondore's irritated me a little. I wish Montblanc had voice acting.

[rubah]

I got tired of the accents, but it was pretty good aside from that.

[Xaven]

I very much enjoyed all of the in-game voice acting. Like most above posters, I feel the cut-scenes were well done too.

However, one peeve I had was Ashe's voice actress. For the first half of the game, I could NOT get Raine from Tales of Symphonia or the narrator from FF:CC out of my head when I heard her speak. Oh how I wish she had a different actress. :[

[PeneloRatsbane]

I didn't like Fran's japanese voice at all, i prefer her english one it suits her far better

[Northcrest]

I liked the voices very much I also liked how they chose Balthier with what I think is a good british voice. While Fran with a calm voice.

[PeneloRatsbane]

British voice? theres lots of different accents in Britain as a whole. Balthier has a posh southern "english" voice. but yeah i like it too