Western voice actors

[Forsaken Lover]

Well even if you don't like Cam, there's other greats like Patric Zimmerman as Ocelot and John Cygan as Solidus.

Oh and Phil LaMarr as Vamp.
Or as us FF fans might know him, Reddas.

I can't see why anyone would dislike his Liquid though. It must take a ton of talent to adopt a very smug fake British accent and then overlay that with a very smug American voice.

Liquid was Miller all along?!!!

[Roogle]

Star Ocean 4 is one such game that comes to mind for me. The two voice actors for the main characters were fine, but the voice actors for the rest of the cast were just absolutely atrocious. But to be fair, I usually don't see it get that bad. Most games that I can think of with bad voice acting left me with an impression of "the voice acting in it was kind of annoying" rather than "Ugh... the voice acting in it was smurfing terrible".

Star Ocean 4 is an example of a game from Japan that requires more than a translation. If I recall correctly, there is a character that speaks with a certain cute tone in Japanese whose English counterpart was forced to end every sentence with "... 'kay?" at random intervals. These types of things do not translate well. I feel badly for the voice actors that have to voice characters that will seem poorly portrayed no matter how the voice acting is handled. I mean, in your mind, how can you take the voice of a character seriously if they're forced to add on "... 'kay?" to every sentence? You have the choice to try to make it believable or to try and make it funny.

[RedPouch]

Yeah, that's pretty much the same way I felt about it in my post. I'm almost even afraid to admit that... I kind of... really like the voice acting in FFX. Hopefully this comment will be buried in obscurity in a relatively more quiet thread.

It's alright. The voice acting in FFX wasn't really that bad to me. I don't recall anything that annoyed me... except for that damn laughing scene uh, the laughing scene at least made me totally crack up due to its, erhm... stupidity charm, yes.

Star Ocean 4 is the first game is one such game that comes to mind for me. The two voice actors for the main characters were fine, but the voice actors for the rest of the cast were just absolutely atrocious. But to be fair, I usually don't see it get that bad. Most games that I can think of with bad voice acting left me with an impression of "the voice acting in it was kind of annoying" rather than "Ugh... the voice acting in it was smurfing terrible".

Star Ocean 4 is an example of a game from Japan that requires more than a translation. If I recall correctly, there is a character that speaks with a certain cute tone in Japanese whose English counterpart was forced to end every sentence with "... 'kay?" at random intervals. These types of things do not translate well. I feel badly for the voice actors that have to voice characters that will seem poorly portrayed no matter how the voice acting is handled. I mean, in your mind, how can you take the voice of a character seriously if they're forced to add on "... 'kay?" to every sentence? You have the choice to try to make it believable or to try and make it funny.

There was a great deal more that was wrong with the voice acting aside from the "kay?"s dropped in every other sentence though. My brother and I felt constantly irritated and annoyed by the constant, upsetting voice acting at every turn. Probably one of the worst characters handled was Arumat. Here you have a character that's already this annoyingly over-used cliché of a character, and yet they hire a voice actor that took the voice and made him even more prosaic. But I don't really want to turn this into another one of my long-winded Star Ocean 4 rants. There are several other games that suffer from poor voice acting [albeit to a lesser degree].

[Jessweeee♪]

I prefer to hear it in my own language, provided the acting/localization isn't terrible and much isn't lost. Also very subtle things like choice of pronouns can be difficult to translate into English and are often handled awkwardly in subtitles.

Star Ocean should always always be played with the voice acting off.

[Wolfen]

I prefer hearing voice acting in my own language.

And on that note, Mass Effect has some of the best voice acting I have ever heard in a video game. why can't Japanese games get the same kind of treatment when brought over here?

[blackmage_nuke]

I prefer to hear media in the language it was originally created (unless it's physically painful to listen to), the expression just feels more right even if i dont fully understand what theyre saying.