Are you guys playing with Japanese or English voices?

[Vakula]

Gotta say some of the voices sound weird as hell in english, like when you have an anime character speaking with a british or Scottish accent.

[Griever]

Originally posted by REBirthTheEdge:

Originally posted by Griever:

Not characters like Strohl or Hulkenberg or Louis.

Nobles and samurai exist in Japan.

None of these are samurai except heismay. You’re reaching hard. Plus these nobles are European not anything to do with samurai.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Also, the English dub VA call Louis name wrong, it should be Lou-ee, not Lou-eesh. Classic mistake from the English.

Unironically the Japanese voices are more accurate.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by Griever:

Originally posted by REBirthTheEdge:

Nobles and samurai exist in Japan.

None of these are samurai except heismay. You’re reaching hard. Plus these nobles are European not anything to do with samurai.

Heismay is a Ninja.

I am saying that Japan have the equivalence of nobles and knights i.e. the samurai.

[hydra-seal]

Japanese audio, some of these voice actors sound like they're Americans trying to sound Scottish/Irish/etc. or they're just bad vocie actors.

At least with Japanese audio I can't tell if they're good VAs or not. Now if only I could get Gallica to shut the hell up in battle...

[Restoni]

Usually anime- and japanbasedgames with japan voice.

But good dub could be strenght too. We didnt have choice with Dragon Quest 8, dubbed it is. But how awesome it was, i fell totally in love with Yangus cockney accent or king Toads scottish et cetera. Dub raised that classic totally to new heights.

[Syynx]

English is worth it just for Fidelio and Basilio alone

Some phenomenal work from the English VO cast in all though

[Tiasmoon]

JP voiceacting. More's lines when traveling on the map are the best. And ofcourse Louis's lines. Those 2 are the outliers, but the rest is pretty good too, since they have quite the voiceactor lineup.

[Sylph]

English because it has European vibes

[Giganx]

English ALWAYS. The English VA's are solid.

Weabo white kids pretending they understand Japanese is always hilarious to me.

[DmonHiro]

Have you noticed how many people preferring the English audio feel the need to insult the ones preferring the Japanese audio? Smells like insecurity in here.

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by DmonHiro:

Have you noticed how many people preferring the English audio feel the need to insult the ones preferring the Japanese audio? Smells like insecurity in here.

That's how it often goes. If there's comments about the 'other side' its tends to be:

JP voice person: ''the experience in JP is really better, so I advice using it (+ here is why)
EN voice person: ''you dont even understand JP, EN is great, better then JP, etc''

That's a generalization, ofcourse. But yeah.

For me its very simple. If EN voiceacting is also toptier you won't see me say anything bad about it. However due to a lot of reasons that is almost never the case. (atleast with translated/localized games) Which is also why there's always a good amount of people coping about the EN dub.

The unfortunate reality is that as long as people are fine with mediocre EN voiceacting, its never going to become as good as JP voiceacting. I dont see that changing any time soon. Especially not now that many people in the West just havent even experienced amazing voiceacting, like ever.

[Giganx]

Originally posted by DmonHiro:

Have you noticed how many people preferring the English audio feel the need to insult the ones preferring the Japanese audio? Smells like insecurity in here.

Reminding you that you're not Japanese and don't know a thing about Japanese voice acting isn't an insult, it's just reality.

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by Giganx:

Originally posted by DmonHiro:

Have you noticed how many people preferring the English audio feel the need to insult the ones preferring the Japanese audio? Smells like insecurity in here.

Reminding you that you're not Japanese and don't know a thing about Japanese voice acting isn't an insult, it's just reality.

Originally posted by hydra-seal:

At least with Japanese audio I can't tell if they're good VAs or not. Now if only I could get Gallica to shut the hell up in battle...

It is kind of true that we likely are just unaware of what bad Japanese dubbing sounds like but can discern crap English dubbing easily.

But like Restoni says:

Originally posted by Restoni:

But good dub could be strenght too. We didnt have choice with Dragon Quest 8, dubbed it is. But how awesome it was, i fell totally in love with Yangus cockney accent or king Toads scottish et cetera. Dub raised that classic totally to new heights.

English dub done right can be downright magical. It is more immersive to understand the language being spoken. DQ8 was dubbed very, very well.

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

If EN voiceacting is also toptier you won't see me say anything bad about it. However due to a lot of reasons that is almost never the case.

This can be true, too. That the number of games with fantastic voice acting doesn't balance out the bad.

It's probably more fair to just say "Take it as a case-by-case basis." That said, Persona has been a pretty great showing for voice acting... and what I hear from videos of Metaphor is also pretty solid.

[CTCOLA]

hearing them speak scottish is the biggest reason I have kept it on english. Love it

[ByTheNumbers]

Originally posted by Jouchebag:

Originally posted by Giganx:

Reminding you that you're not Japanese and don't know a thing about Japanese voice acting isn't an insult, it's just reality.

Originally posted by hydra-seal:

At least with Japanese audio I can't tell if they're good VAs or not. Now if only I could get Gallica to shut the hell up in battle...

It is kind of true that we likely are just unaware of what bad Japanese dubbing sounds like but can discern crap English dubbing easily.

This is true. I just play on English dubs. Don't care if they're considered bad. I can't understand Japanese, let alone be able to know if it's good voice acting or not as I have no frame of reference to compare to.