Whats the point in having a good voice actor if you cant udnerstand the voice acting...
Whats the point in having a good voice actor if you cant udnerstand the voice acting...
"NPC: Sorry this house is sealed off because of Blight"
1. You feel the emotions of the character more clearly and the way they're intended to be.Originally Posted by Wuggly Blight
2. There are these things called subtitles so you understand what's being said. Don't give me that look saying you don't like to read >_< RPGs are all about reading lots of dialogue. Voice overs are 'extra features', not mandatory.
3. You can learn a foreign language.
After a while it would also get INCREADABLY annoying, sure there are subtitles, and I usually have them on anyway, there just is NO point in having agame with the voices in a forgien launguage, just because it suits the lip-sink better, its like a broken pencil. Pointless.
"NPC: Sorry this house is sealed off because of Blight"
Like I said before - EMOTION
You can't seriously play/watch/experience the story without it.
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If you ever take any type of speech class you'll learn very quickly that you don't have to understand a language to get proper emotions across. Sometimes in acting classes they'll have students play whole parts saying only a letter or number, for instance. You can watch two people have an entire conversation where student 1 is saying only "one" and student 2 is saying only "two" and completely understand what's going on. In RPGs, it used to be that reading was REQUIRED and constant throughout the game. Hearing the words in your language with a crappy emotive sense ruins the dialogue more than if there was no speech at all. At least when you hear GOOD Japanese voiceovers you're reading the dialogue and hearing the emotions shine through, it's actually quite beautiful. If you think reading dialogue is INCREDIBLY annoying well then I don't really think you should be playing console RPGs. enough said.
personally, i take acting/speech/drama classes, and i love the japanese language but it would drive me crazy not being able to understand what the ppl were saying. yeah there'd be subtitles but for ppl like me (with a.d.d) its hard to focus on both subtitles and voices. which is what would inevitably happen. no matter how much focus you'd try to put on one, you'd be drawn to the other. this would cause me a migraine and id vomit on my ps2. they should speak the language of the country its released in. its just less complicated that way
"I think good and evil are names for things people do, not labels for who they are" - His Dark Materials
No one's asking for a completly Japanese release, they're asking for the option of listening to the Japanese.
And if the voice-acting is bad, or annoying, or whatever, turn down the volume and read the text, just like the days before VA's. That goes for everyone.
But if they dub it in english, the VA will be bad. But if you turn the VA off, you'll feel something is missing, since a good game with VA will be engineered accordingly, so that you have to listen in order to understand it properly. But if they dub it in english, the VA will be bad. But if you turn the VA off, you'll feel something is missing, since a good game with VA will be engineered accordingly, so that you have to listen in order to understand it properly. But if they dub it in english, the VA will be bad. But if you turn the VA off, you'll feel something is missing, since a good game with VA will be engineered accordingly, so that you have to listen in order to understand it properly.
See where I'm going? It's catch 22.....
I'll feel something is missing? Not really. I did it during X (I liked the voices for the most part, I just got tired of hearing it sometimes(. And, in those days before VA's happened, I never heard a voice and understood it fine. I will survive even if the VA is bad. It's not the end of the world, and VA does not make or break a game for me, mainly because I prefer to be proactive and do something about it rather than just lamenting the fact that the VA sucks.
If I knew what I could do about the voice acting, I'd do it... any suggestions?
I already told you. Mute button.
Besides, it isn't a predetermined fact that the English voice acting will be worse than the Japanese voice acting. To use Disgaea for an example, the English voice acting was fantastic and I far prefer it to the Japanese voice acting.
I also already told you.... mute button is not an option.
I'll take your word for it. But Disgaea was not made/released by Square, so it's a completely different problem. I've said before that It's mainly Square of America who/which doesn't know how to cast VAs, not Nippon Ichi, Namco, Konami, etc.
Then just don't buy the game, jeez.
And there's your other option. Mute button is an option, whether you refuse it or not.
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