Why those games almost always in Japanese dub only?

[Killer0pro]

Is there some logical explanation why they keep doing it? Wanting try out those games, but no eng dub always push me away.

[Khanjima]

Go play the original PS2 games or even Yakuza 7 for the funky sounding english dub

[retsa2b]

Dubbing a Yakuza game is a challenge, and in modern times, they only took it on with the most recent "canon" entry. Even then, they didn't bother dubbing most incidental street conversations and enemy taunts and stuff. You can bet they'll dub "Like a Dragon 8".

The voice talent they for for Y7 is pretty good. I was particularly surprised that they found a voice that was a good match for Zhao. Unfortunately, the script was off the wall, and the direction was poor. Good example of poor direction points back at Zhao: He's supposed to have a low, sarcastic tone pretty much 24/7, but is various calls during fights are too energetic and very out of character.

[Shofi]

Its because eng voices just sucks in this games. We have eng subs, isnt that enough to play them?

[Killer0pro]

Originally posted by Shofixti:

Its because eng voices just sucks in this games. We have eng subs, isnt that enough to play them?

No, not fan of that, especially when yakuza cut-scenes can be super long.

[Khanjima]

Originally posted by Killer0pro:

Originally posted by Shofixti:

Its because eng voices just sucks in this games. We have eng subs, isnt that enough to play them?

No, not fan of that, especially when yakuza cut-scenes can be super long.

Yknow reading is good for the brain right

[Killer0pro]

Originally posted by The Mad Dog:

Go play the original PS2 games or even Yakuza 7 for the funky sounding english dub

Yakuza 7 sounds fine to me, watched it a bit. Mc sounds really great, waiting for sale to get this game.

[MisterPool]

Originally posted by retsa2b:

Dubbing a Yakuza game is a challenge, and in modern times, they only took it on with the most recent "canon" entry.

At least one of the original PS2 games was dubbed. I believe Mark Hamill (Star Wars, Batman the animated series) was one of the voice actors.

[vocab]

The logical answer is that its expensive. Seriously, think about about how many lines of dialogue your average yakuza game has, and how many characters that have voiced dialogue. It's a lot. The anime industry in north america learned a harsh lesson during the dvd era that dubbing everything in multiple languages was not a sustainable model. Many companies folded because some of the titles they banked on didn't perform. It's not too different what happened with Y1 on ps2.

Ishin is a spinoff, and a fan service title. While fans will eat up the game, new comers might not simply bother at all. RGG will dub the titles that seem viable from a business standpoint, but I have no doubt that Ishin was seen as a small scale project (despite the amount of work needed to put it on UE4), and dubbing it would of drained further resources that could be put into 7.5 and 8's development.

[Septim]

English voices sucks. We don't need them at all

[Khanjima]

Originally posted by vocab:

The logical answer is that its expensive. Seriously, think about about how many lines of dialogue your average yakuza game has, and how many characters that have voiced dialogue. It's a lot. The anime industry in north america learned a harsh lesson during the dvd era that dubbing everything in multiple languages was not a sustainable model. Many companies folded because some of the titles they banked on didn't perform. It's not too different what happened with Y1 on ps2.

Ishin is a spinoff, and a fan service title. While fans will eat up the game, new comers might not simply bother at all. RGG will dub the titles that seem viable from a business standpoint, but I have no doubt that Ishin was seen as a small scale project (despite the amount of work needed to put it on UE4), and dubbing it would of drained further resources that could be put into 7.5 and 8's development.

I'd like to add on to this with the fact that Ishin isn't just some well written in depth plot point story like the Yakuza games, Ishin is a straight up retell of an actual folk lore story in Japan so simply having an English Dub is like retelling Russian history and having everyone speak German, It just ruins the Immersion

[✘𝓒🅷🅸🆈🆄🅺🅸]

People who can't watch anything in another language because they are too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lazy to read are such normies man

[Khanjima]

Originally posted by ✘𝓒🅷🅸🆈🆄🅺🅸:

People who can't watch anything in another language because they are too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lazy to read are such normies man

Preach

[May]

Because it just doesnt fit, plus reading more than 2 sentences wont kill you

[Khanjima]

Who'da thunk the Japanese game that takes place in Japan with Japanese developers would hone on the Japanese aspect

[Killer0pro]

Originally posted by ✘𝓒🅷🅸🆈🆄🅺🅸:

People who can't watch anything in another language because they are too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lazy to read are such normies man

I can get a book if i want to read, i buy games to play them not read.