VanceIX said:
Super_Boom said:
VanceIX said:
And yes, Voice acting can completely break a game, and Nintendo has little to no experience making VA in games. Plenty of games have characters that the fans hate just because their VAs sucked. Keep it out of Nintendo games, please.
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I'd actually argue that many recent Nintendo games have done a great job with voice acting, with Kid Icarus Uprising and Fire Emblem Awakening being the first examples that come to mind, with the games using professional voice actors rather than unknown ones. Admittedly, this trend is a recent one, but still gives me hope for continuous improvements in that area.
That being said...I guess I'm one of those fans that dislikes the idea of voice acting in Zelda, simply because I fear it would change the game experience to something more cinematic than I'd prefer. The Zelda franchise has always been more of an experience akin to reading a storybook, rather than watching a movie. It might appeal more to everyone else, but I'd personally be pretty dissapointed if one of my favorite franchises made that change. Of course, I'd gladly eat crow if they can keep the atmosphere of the series even with voice acting. I'm just not very optimistic about it.
Off-topic, but has anyone here watched the Magi anime dub? I read that the English voice actor for Chrom in FE:A does Sinbad. Kinda makes me wanna watch the anime again. XD
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THANK YOU. Exactly what I'm trying to say. Zelda is a different experience for everyone, and everyone imagines it a different way. For example, Ganondorf's voice. I don't know if any actor could get down what I imagine in my head exactly into words. I imagine a spiteful omniscient dark god, and no VA could ever match that tone. Others may imagine him differently as well, and they might be disappointed by the VA. I know I was when I heard Samus's voice in OM.
That being said, FE:A did do it well, I'll give you that, but it only fully voiced three or four characters, and even that only during very short cutscenes. The other dialogue was more just grunts or small words, really, not too much different from what's already in Zelda.
Can't comment on Kid Icarus since I never got around to playing it.
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