Japanese vs English voices are night and day quality

[masii07]

This game must be played in Japanese voices.

Sephiroth, Cloud, Hojo, pretty much everyone all much better Japanese.

More boom and impact. More 'feel' and 'realism" to scenes.

English sound like studio.

Yuffie is awesome, most memorable.

[Taika]

If I ever get time (yeah right) to play the whole trilogy again, maybe I'll do it with JP VA. :)

[Shout Out To Ground Pound]

Escrito originalmente por masii07:

This game must be played in Japanese voices.

Sephiroth, Cloud, Hojo, pretty much everyone all much better Japanese.

More boom and impact. More 'feel' and 'realism" to scenes.

English sound like studio.

Yuffie is awesome, most memorable.

are you a japanese native speaker ? No then how can you say that the Japanese Voices are better ? really weried people are around, do not understand a language and say the language is better, this game has good voice actors (not the english ones) but german and japanese are good, but i still bet you cant understand any word they say in JP Language.

[masii07]

Escrito originalmente por Shout Out To Ground Pound:

Escrito originalmente por masii07:

This game must be played in Japanese voices.

Sephiroth, Cloud, Hojo, pretty much everyone all much better Japanese.

More boom and impact. More 'feel' and 'realism" to scenes.

English sound like studio.

Yuffie is awesome, most memorable.

are you a japanese native speaker ? No then how can you say that the Japanese Voices are better ? really weried people are around, do not understand a language and say the language is better, this game has good voice actors (not the english ones) but german and japanese are good, but i still bet you cant understand any word they say in JP Language.

Umm. there are silent movies right?

You don't need to understand language to know good voice acting. That's why they are subtitles. The voices just sound much better. Same other many non English made games.

Especially when compared to English dialogue. They just feel like going through motions.

[Zerowa]

I'm pretty early in my second playthrough with all settings to Japanese. Biggest differences that I've noticed is that in my opinion Japanese voice acting is more direct with what the characters say (no flair or such) when in English there is a lot of added.
I like the English dub but it is interesting how much they tried to stylize characters through speech.
Other difference is in my opinion better in Japanese is how system is named. For example folios are skill books which to me is a lot easier to understand.

Only voice that feels weird is Barret's in Japanese because for me Barret having that rough deep voice suits him so well in English voice acting.
Then there is Cloud's voice that sounds more mature in Japanese and stoic compared to English. In this case I like Cloud's voice in Japanese.

[♅ - SaveTheBiscuits - ♅]

Remake/Rebirth is the first JRPG I consider the English dub to be superior to the JP version. The English cast really smashed this out of the park. I see no reason to play with the JP dub.

[sajmon]

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Escrito originalmente por masii07:

Umm. there are silent movies right?

You don't need to understand language to know good voice acting. That's why they are subtitles. The voices just sound much better. Same other many non English made games.

Especially when compared to English dialogue. They just feel like going through motions.

Then way a lot of japanese people consider japanese VA in a lot of games awful?
Its just people and their obsession with anything related to Japan.
They will say that japanese is better by default.
Also to people who say that playing games in native language is better, did you play Witcher 3 in Polish, STALKER 2 in Ukraine, Metro in Russian?
Ofc you didnt, that, playing in native language, is just biggest pile of trash someone can come up with.

I do not disagree for the most part, but i did in fact play Witcher in polish and its better than in english (same goes for books btw)
But Cyberpunk 2077, which comes from the same studio obviously, english version is better (imo)
I would love to play Stalker in Ukrainian too, but well...i dont know the language.

Its because of the setting, not necessarily who made the game.

[masii07]

Escrito originalmente por Stj.Srex:

Escrito originalmente por masii07:

Umm. there are silent movies right?

You don't need to understand language to know good voice acting. That's why they are subtitles. The voices just sound much better. Same other many non English made games.

Especially when compared to English dialogue. They just feel like going through motions.

Then way a lot of japanese people consider japanese VA in a lot of games awful?
Its just people and their obsession with anything related to Japan.
They will say that japanese is better by default.
Also to people who say that playing games in native language is better, did you play Witcher 3 in Polish, STALKER 2 in Ukraine, Metro in Russian?
Ofc you didnt, that, playing in native language, is just biggest pile of trash someone can come up with.

I did mention before playing in native language best for games I've noticed.

I did played all of Metro series and STALKER 2 in Russian. Having started in English, again the voice acting is night and day, and also Metro and STALKER have Brits/ Aussies / West Europeans, heck even Asians voice active in English 🤣.

So it's jarring hearing these accents on a character who has Ukrainian / Russian name. It's off putting. So even if don't understand language, which I don't, much better.

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But Cyberpunk 2077, which comes from the same studio obviously, english version is better (imo)
I would love to play Stalker in Ukrainian too, but well...i dont know the language.

Its because of the setting, not necessarily who made the game.

Yeah, Cyberpunk better in English. Set in USA, so makes sense. They had A list English actors.

[Unknown]

For best experience, native language (if applicable).
For convenience, dubbed.

There's a lot of WW2 movies out there where Germans are speaking English (like in Tom Cruise's Valkyrie from 2008) & it totally breaks the immersion. And stuff like Ghost of Tsushima just doesn't fit right if you play it in your native language or any other than Japanese.

Judging quality by language is a very poor argument unless you think your own language are spoken & acted better by certain foreigners.

[Melodia]

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Yeah, Cyberpunk better in English. Set in USA, so makes sense.

So for Japanese games set in the US (for instance Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth) you would consider English to be the better?

[Giganx]

I'm assuming you don't speak Japanese and thus have no idea what you're talking about.

For all you know the Japanese VAs are just grunting and gargling into the microphone and you're claiming the quality is great because you're too ignorant to know better.

Games are always best experienced in the language you actually understand.

[WT_Neptune]

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Remake/Rebirth is the first JRPG I consider the English dub to be superior to the JP version. The English cast really smashed this out of the park. I see no reason to play with the JP dub.

Strange

[WT_Neptune]

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I'm assuming you don't speak Japanese and thus have no idea what you're talking about.

For all you know the Japanese VAs are just grunting and gargling into the microphone and you're claiming the quality is great because you're too ignorant to know better.

Games are always best experienced in the language you actually understand.

I'm not sure you understand English based on this argument

[Giganx]

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I'm not sure you understand English based on this argument

Ugh, you weabos really are embarrassing.

A Japanese VA needs to just read his grocery list into the mic in the next game, and then laugh to himself while you dumb kids praise his great VA work.

[WT_Neptune]

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I'm not sure you understand English based on this argument

Ugh, you weabos really are embarrassing.

A Japanese VA needs to just read his grocery list into the mic in the next game, and then laugh to himself while you dumb kids praise his great VA work.

Here's a little trick

wakatta = understood
daijoubu = okay/alright

There, now you understand half of this game's script in Japanese and can now judge it on whatever merits

[ZYED]

Escrito originalmente por Giganx:

I'm assuming you don't speak Japanese and thus have no idea what you're talking about.

For all you know the Japanese VAs are just grunting and gargling into the microphone and you're claiming the quality is great because you're too ignorant to know better.

Games are always best experienced in the language you actually understand.

lol you don't know what you're talking about. Japanese VAs have way higher standards than any other in the industry. They literally have specific schools for those. saying "too ignorant" is just too ironic coming from you. heck do you even know what a "weabo" is?