Voice Acting?

[Raijin]

Anyone else notice that the voice actors seem.. .bored?

[Anapoda]

I always found the english dubbing of DBZ to be extremely bad anyway.

[DJPenguin ♫]

Some of them do but it's not always the VA's fault in these situations. It could be the script and/or the recording director to blame. A VA needs to act out a scene with only their voice and if they're not given ample details about said scene there's only so much they can do to try and express their character in whatever the moment may be.

[Sika]

I think there were a lot of script problems and a complete lack of direction. The voice actors were basically given lines to read which the developers could then cut and paste into the applicable scenes.

For example it's pretty clear Sean Schemmel didn't know what he was doing with the line "Thanks for helping, Pan". A wayward comma got into the script so now you've got this bizarre scene where Goku, (stricken by sudden onset dementia,) believes you are his granddaughter.

[TwinShadow]

I will say the way the recording was done in this game is rather lacking, severely. I've seen bad dubs in anime, but in this game.. kinda takes it a whole new route entirely.

Most studios used to only do the recording with one actor at a time (or something like that, not doing the scenes in a group basically), so some of the feeling in some older shows tend to get lost in English, where the JP dub is well, normally better. Then there's the bit where studios now-a-days are doing the sound recording in a group, which actually helps with the interaction between characters. I've noticed in some shows (games I don't know, depends on who does the ADR and such) the interaction isn't quite right and lines overlapping. I've seen it in a few shows before, but I couldn't name them off the top of my head.

Anywho, Xenoverse dubbing is rather lackluster. But if I do recall, you can select JP I think in the options, so there is that.

[Raijin]

Yeah, it's true that anime english voice acting for dubs is bad, but I honestly like the english dub for DBZ (when it's done by FUNimation atleast....) but to hear a line stricken wih grief such as "Don't you dare talk about Krillen!" it's so sad to hear "Don't you dare talk about KRillen." come from the guy who made Goku awesome.

[Serious Dave]

The only voice you need to hear is male number 8. ;)

Ok srsly, overall the it's not very good. Trunks screaming "HEY!" evertime you talked to him was annoying till the end.

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

you can blame the japanese guy whos dosent speak english, sitting in the room giving them directions on HOW to speak english.

seriously, thats how DB voice recording has always been done. some guy who cant speak english, telling people who DO speak english what they should sound like.

the "bored" actors still sound far better than the 4 generic all sound the damn same japanese voices we get. its either the prebubescent child who screams, the letcherous old man, the way too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hapy 14 year old girl, or the moody japanese teenage boy.

[Auron]

Originally posted by anapoda2x2:

I always found the english dubbing of DBZ to be extremely bad anyway.

That, Abridged is much better than the original dub and that's very telling somehow. Also it's fine in Japanese.

[SenMithrarin85]

I'm in the UK and we had the Ocean dub (or bluewater) and imo it was better than the Funimation dub.

[Phalanx]

Originally posted by SenMithrarin85:

I'm in the UK and we had the Ocean dub (or bluewater) and imo it was better than the Funimation dub.

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