On characters and their language.

[Castyles]

One of the things I like about Tekken is the fact that each character speaks their own language and that everybody understands each other perfectly. Plus it's way out of place to hear everyone speaking english or japanese, even if the voice actors try to pull an accent, here and there, imo.

So it would be nice if Capcom decided to add the same feature in the Street Fighter games, especially since they're pretty clear about the place of origins for each character and that they're "world warriors" since the first game.

Thoughts?

[ShadowSplit]

Yea, that would be great.

[Swansonhart]

Originally posted by SHOKK:

I swear in previous games there was an option to adjust per character what language they spoke. (Usually just a swap between japanese and english cause that's all they hire to voice)
But unless I'm blind I haven't seen anything like that in this one which would at least help.

There is an option to adjust language per character. It's in the Language > FG/BH cabinet voice language settings > Custom. Then adjust in the setting Language > Character specific setting

[Septon]

Originally posted by Swansonhart:

> Character specific setting

This feature need to be unlocked first it seems, I don't know how.

[Swansonhart]

Originally posted by Septon:

Originally posted by Swansonhart:

> Character specific setting

This feature need to be unlocked first it seems, I don't know how.

Language > FG/BH cabinet voice language settings > SET TO Custom

[Septon]

Originally posted by Swansonhart:

Language > FG/BH cabinet voice language settings > SET TO Custom

Thank you!

[Castyles]

That individual feature was available since SF 4 but we need more languages.

[Mu'Ammar of Carthus]

You can already very much choose individual languages per character.
It's one of the very first thing I did first time I launched the game and realized they had Ryu speaking english.

[Mista Ree]

Capcom's official stance on the matter ever since SF4 is that you're hearing the characters speak through a filter. It's not that everyone is speaking English or Japanese but rather that's what you're hearing because that's what is convenient for the audience.

No matter how cool or interesting or fun it is in Tekken you're always going to end up with a large number of people who prefer being able to understand the audio regardless of how inaccurate it may be.

Look at the Yakuza series. The first game got an English dub but for the longest time subsequent games in the series never did because it was too costly. It wasn't until after Yakuza has started becoming more popular in the US that they did an English dub with Yakuza 7.

You might say "There's no point to an English dub with something like Yakuza because it's so Japanese" and normally I'd agree but there is obviously enough of a demand or desire for it that Sega is willing to spend the money to dub the games now in order to boost sales in a way they previously weren't willing to do.

It really doesn't gain Capcom or SF anything in the end as cool as it would be to see. A larger majority of people will always want it in English or Japanese than the audience that wants every character speaking their native language.

You should also take a second and ask why Tekken is the only fighting game series that does it despite other fighting game series like Street Fighter, Soul Calibur, Virtua Fighter, Dead or Alive, Guilty Gear, etc, all featuring a cast of world warriors as well.

[Castyles]

Originally posted by Mista Ree:

stuff

It would be optional because the crying would be endless.

Something like:
Options > Character Language > Classic i.e english/japanese or Modern i.e world.

And the other series, save for Soul Calibur, don't really portray the place of origin of the characters as Street Fighter does.

Plus Virtua Fighter is dead. It doesn't even count.

[Mista Ree]

Originally posted by Castyles:

Originally posted by Mista Ree:

stuff

It would be optional because the crying would be endless.

Something like:
Options > Character Language > Classic i.e english/japanese or Modern i.e world.

It doesn't benefit Capcom in any way to do it. They're not going to sell a million more copies of the game. Capcom has an official stance on the subject and that's that you're hearing the characters through a filter.

Again, ask yourself why Tekken is the only game series that does this? Why don't other video game series do this? Do you think it might have something to do with the fact that not only is it incredibly difficult to coordinate all of it but maybe because there's also no financial gain in doing so either?

And the other series, save for Soul Calibur, don't really portray the place of origin of the characters as Street Fighter does.

SF doesn't always put it front and center either. How overtly do they portray that Juri is Korean?

Plus Virtua Fighter is dead. It doesn't even count.

It doesn't matter if it's dead because it was still very much alive when Tekken started doing it and they like every other fighting game series, Tekken aside, decided it wasn't worth doing.

Mortal Kombat has characters not only from all around Earth but different realms yet they all speak English and that's perfectly ok with everybody and has been for years.

You don't have much of an argument here when Tekken is literally the only thing doing it. Again, take a moment and think about why Tekken is the only thing that does it?