WHAT RACE are these people? lol

[blackmage_nuke]

I dont think it's a problem or a screw up. I think it's pretty neat that they can have a vague race yet still look normal.

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[vorpal blade]

it doesnt smurfing matter. they all shouldnt look like 2 different people from fmv's to the fighting and what not. it doesnt make sense. u have to make games MATCH which is the same with the voices. it doesnt work which is why final fantasy 12 doesnt have problems with that because X screwed up in that department. done deal.

Actually, I don't think it matters if "they all... look like 2 different people from fmv's to the fighting and what not." You see, it's just a game. In certain areas (as in normal field/battle scenes) they'll pay less attention to ethnic details than other scenes (as in close-ups and FMVs). And that's because they're not obsessed with every minor detail.

Ditto for the voices. The languages are completely different (with the exception of borrowed words, like ファイナルファンタジ) so you can't expect them to match up all the time. If you can match them, good, if not, who cares. I don't mind the poor lip-synching; it looks funny.)

Besides, they're Spiranians.

[Tavrobel]

They are clearly the evil devil spawn of Psychotic.

[Joshcfl08]

THATS ridiculous with what u just said. "its just a game" its not just a game u cant create a game with that mentality. it has to match!

[LunarWeaver]

Goddamn that Square and their non-catering to Western audience's needs.

[blackmage_nuke]

u cant create a game with that mentality.

They already did and it was a screaming success

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[forgotten_fantasy]

Ethnicity of the real world doesn't translate into final fantasy, why should it? There is no Japan in final fantasy 10 so why do you expect the characters in it to look like they came from there. As black mage said they are spiran.

[ScottNUMBERS]

The game overall has far more of an Asian feel than its past three (or all nine for that matter) predecessors. The lip syncing IS crap, but it's their first shot, so I give them the benefit of the doubt.

Did they really change the animations in the game from Japanease lip sync to English lip sync? I was under the impression they didn't. If they did they needn't have bothered.

There is no Japan in final fantasy 10 so why do you expect the characters in it to look like they came from there.

There is also no Asia so why make them look Asian?

[Joshcfl08]

OKAY not thinking that they should like asian or japanese or whatever SQUARE SHOULD NOT MAKE THE CHARACTERS LOOK COMPLETELY different from fmv scenes to scenes and gameplay that arent in fmv. its as simple as that.

[rubah]

Alright, you can be in charge of writing the rendering engine for real time rendered scenes.

The characters in ff7 look completely different from their fmv counterparts in-game. So the ones in ff8. We still have things such as "technical limitations"

[Tavrobel]

The game overall has far more of an Asian feel than its past three (or all nine for that matter) predecessors. The lip syncing IS crap, but it's their first shot, so I give them the benefit of the doubt.

Did they really change the animations in the game from Japanease lip sync to English lip sync? I was under the impression they didn't. If they did they needn't have bothered.

What I meant that it was their first shot at voice acting for a series. I had not intended for that to be read as them changing the lips to match the syncing (which they did not do).

[cally777]

I agree that race should not really matter as its a fantasy world. However as Joshcfl08 says, there is a mix-up between the FMV and other cut sequences. Sometimes this is good, sometimes not. In FMV, Tidus looks like a weird mixture of races which I personally think is freaky, Wakka looks amusingly fat and Rikku rather cutely Japanese/anime. I guess its whatever floats your boat in the end.

[Joshcfl08]

okay at the time Final Fantasy X was a success but I gurantee if they did that screwup again it would not be. Technology is improving and things like that which stands out so much should be looked at and fixed. U cant compare technology from previous games u have to compare it to the technology that is currently at top. its expected that final fantasy x to be better than 7 and 8 so dont even bring those up in this topic. the scenes did not match which does not look good to the games reputatin therefore was a problem with the game no question. Okay there race is "Spiran" but that does not mean that they should look different from scenes u still did not answer that question which proves im right.

[N8V_Tidus25]

they're native americans for a lot of native americans have an asian look but you can also tell they are western, MO, hehehe

[Joshcfl08]

umm no