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"The 'Stop The Bad Voice Acting' protest"

Man,

I've just about had enough of crap voice acting spoiling classic games. Why can't they just bloody leave the game in Japanese or whatever home language it was originally in. Give us damn subtitles instead if you are incapable of employing decent actors, which is far more exceptable than the impaired acting abilities you choose to use. I'll give you some examples where such talentless acting is evident. Vampire Night for instance, is a great game but cursed with awful, cheesy, and retarded speech. Dead or Alive 2 (PS2) is an ace martial arts fiasco, but spoilt by voice-overs that were done by disabled people. And the up coming Soul Calibre 2 that has lines such as,"You want a fight", by a squeaky female voice."Ooo arn't you the rude one", replies a Greek male bloke.

Why-o-why are the developers so voice-deaf? Can't they hear when cheesyness emits from a character's lips? If I was in charge of a major development house and I saw what the audio people who translate game languages had done to my masterpiece, I would say... oi! Voice acters! Noooo!

This problem is rife in anime movies if you havn't noticed. Where such classics have been turned into pokemon sounding cute things. I mean, I bought Akira, an old classic, and was excited about watching it with english dialogue, so my tired eyes didn't have to look down at the subtitles all the time, and now I wish I hadn't! Hadn't bought the dubbed version I mean. Just awful it was. Spoilt a well and true classic. I have learnt my lesson though, and will never buy another dubbed anime movie again. And same goes for games.

She's not real?!? Ahhh, pancake (that was funny to people who speak French). Anyway, its a shame really. Inevitable though. All the best looking people aren`t real. Britney's fake etc...

With her swirly eyes an' tight wet-suit.

She's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real, she's not real.

I'm okay

WHAT?
*** ** ******* * *** * * nice?
I absolutely agree. :D

Yeah, I'd rather aviod that issue as well.
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Well, she is *** ** * ****** * *** nice

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> True, true. But his Americanisms (Tidus's) do grate a little.

I guess :D He reminds me a lot of Michael J Fox.

> Wakka sounds class, though, and Lulu. And Seymour's voice makes you
> think he's even more of a stuck-up a***-hole : )

Yeh thats true! I also think Rikku's voice is quite cute... but I won`t go into the whole Rikku cute thing :D

ssxpro wrote:
> How da ya mean? Idiot as in, can`t understand English, do maths, learn
> science etc... or do you mean like acting a fool, seems like a
> moron?
>
> I might agree he seems a bit wimpy sometimes, but I think thats how
> he's intended to be, but characters like Auron show that they can
> create the opposite, with the tough warrior voice.
>
> Its the difference between "bad acting" and "acting
> bad" that you need to see when Final Fantasy and other games like
> Onimusha/Dead or Alive are compared

True, true. But his Americanisms (Tidus's) do grate a little.
Wakka sounds class, though, and Lulu. And Seymour's voice makes you think he's even more of a stuck-up a***-hole : )

How da ya mean? Idiot as in, can`t understand English, do maths, learn science etc... or do you mean like acting a fool, seems like a moron?

I might agree he seems a bit wimpy sometimes, but I think thats how he's intended to be, but characters like Auron show that they can create the opposite, with the tough warrior voice.

Its the difference between "bad acting" and "acting bad" that you need to see when Final Fantasy and other games like Onimusha/Dead or Alive are compared

I'd rather have speech than japanese blabbing and text anyday.
It's the lip-synch that's more of a problem, not changing from the Jap version.

FFX was much more enjoyable without having to wade through pages of text like the others. Even if Tidus does sound like a complete tw@t, it adds depth to the characters.



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Here's a thing I was doing with my sister : putting dodgy accents (Soucer, scoland) accents on FF4.
We were pissin' ourselves.

"Eh, eh. Let's go kick Golbez's be-hind, allright?" kind o thing

yeah on ffX tidus sounds like a right idiot

Yeh, but that didn`t start out life as a Japanese game...

As for the rest of them, I agree about Final Fantasy. The lip sync is obviously out as the length of each word and sentence, as well as each mouth shape is bound to be different, but I`d rather listen to 100 hours of decent English than having to read a load of subtitles.

Like the original post says though, there are loads of games out there with poor voices, and you`re right, I have no idea why games developers don`t notice how bad they are, but then Army Men gets released, so the voices thing is a minor flaw in comparison :D