Shouldn't Voice Actors... act?

[Billy Blaze]

Sorry if I sound like a nitpicking a-hole.

When I play games with "Joh St. John" as a voiceactor, it's sometimes hard to tell.
In germany, we had the same actor for "Schwarzenegger" and "Stallone" and I didn't notice it for the longest time.

But this "Walter" guy in AC6, every time he talks, I just wait for the moment where he tells me that being a slave is a state of mind...
It also reminded me insantly that it's a "Bandai Namco" game.

Not gonna crap on the person, I think he has a really great voice.
I just wish it wouldn't be the 100% exact same voice for multiple games.

EDIT: Didn't know the name and simply found it out by looking for the "Tales of Arise" cast.
It's "Patrick Seitz".

[daicon]

"Walter" isn't just terribly miscast, it's an awful performance that's hard to sit through.

Recent games have made people expect great voice acting in FromSoft games now, where this feels more like a regular 7th gen game in its voice direction, typical of an older AC game. That's fine with me, but if they were going to go in that direction with its tone, why did they have to make the music so bland? Couldn't we have gotten music like the old games too?

[Leo]

Switch to Japanese VA as its far better than English VA

[Morton Koopa Jr.]

Who is Walters voice actor even.

[DeuceBane]

I think its meant to be a lot more satirical than people are realizing. Think Starship Troopers. Its deliberate

[Valar Morghulis]

Originally posted by Morton Koopa Jr.:

Who is Walters voice actor even.

Patrick Seitz. Small up and coming VA that isn't very well known just yet.

[Billy Blaze]

Originally posted by daicon:

"Walter" isn't just terribly miscast, it's an awful performance that's hard to sit through.

Recent games have made people expect great voice acting in FromSoft games now, where this feels more like a regular 7th gen game in its voice direction, typical of an older AC game. That's fine with me, but if they were going to go in that direction with its tone, why did they have to make the music so bland? Couldn't we have gotten music like the old games too?

Yeah, there isn't really a single track that sticks out to me.

Originally posted by Leo:

Switch to Japanese VA as its far better than English VA

Yeah, no sorry, I prefer understanding what's being said instead of gibberish.
And reading the subtitles while flying all over the place isn't an option.

Originally posted by Morton Koopa Jr.:

Who is Walters voice actor even.

If I would have to take a guess, it's "Patrick Seitz".

Originally posted by DeuceBane:

I think its meant to be a lot more satirical than people are realizing. Think Starship Troopers. Its deliberate

This has nothing to do with satirical acting... this guy just sounds like the same person in every single game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJyKMBW5ajc

[Pnume]

Originally posted by Leo:

Switch to Japanese VA as its far better than English VA

It's clearly better but damn I miss half of the in-combat dialogues

[Caramel_Clown]

I feel like it's quite bland and cheesy on purpose tbh. From are capable of writing good lines, and they often have outstanding VA direction. This just seems intentional. Kinda like ace combat games know they're goofy and cheesy. I can be wrong though, it can just be what it is. Bad VA directing.

[Call Sign: Raven]

The voices are the weakest aspect of the game. I turned them down to half volume and set it to Japanese. Much less distracting, that way.

[PSYCΦMMUnist]

The voice acting is AWFUL and they NEVER shut the Hell up. They also feel the need to throw in the word dog and or corporation to EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE. Armored Core 1 you used subtext to figure out; wait a sec, these missions are having me do really awful things, maybe I'm a bad person? (Until you realize why the things you did really were so awful in the end. Which was a fun mystery and twist.)

The human experimentation is hinted at, and builds up and you have to uncover the horrors Murakumo Millenium is unleashing through missions; which can even be missed if you take the wrong path. You even silence one of the ecapees from their labs.

They also did this crazy thing in the past where they NAMED CHARACTERS. I don't give a damn about 621, 123, ABC or whatever. I still remember names like Valkyrie, Tyrant, Pretty Kitty, Old King, White Glint, or even actual names like Joshua O'Brien or Hustler One just fine. Gee, I wonder why?

The PSX era voice acting being bad was campy like a B movie and half of it was actually great and just fine anyhow. The AI cockpits changed based on head and had a variety of pleasant tones. I'd much rather some Australian lady boot up my mission than some office worker who sounds dead inside and can barely speak up; how is that supposed to hype you up?

Also I couldn't even imagine if every single crane and MT and gun emplacement screamed FOR THE RUBICONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN YOU CORPORATE DOGGGGG DAMNNNED MERCENARRRYYYY. I can remember "A Raven!? I'm no match for one of them!" Just fine. It's almost like giving a name to the organization you belong to adds to the character rather than having it be one of the Mary Sue protagonists 15 callsigns.

I miss when not every game had to suck you off and treat you like you're so special. In old AC games you were independent, you didn't have a "handler" with some weird BDSM avatar. Answering some emails and going out and killing people doesn't require paying some obnoxious voice actor pushing his agenda down your throat with his dumbass catchphrase at the start of every single mission to get through. I would buy a ticket to space and frag Walter ASAP if I could.

[Pizzaman]

I watched some playthrough of the game in English, and the voice acting is rough…

I feel luckily Japanese is my native language.