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[outlawauron]

Aura7541 said:

outlawauron said:

Aura7541 said:

There's also the fact that Japanese and American/English-speaking voice actors are paid differently. Voice acting is a huge thing in Japan and seiyuus get paid through huge contracts and sponsors. In contrast, American voice actors usually get paid in a per hour process. This is the main reason why a lot of localized games don't have both subs and dubs. And yeah, I agree, a dubbed game will never have bad translations since the voice actors will catch those mistakes.

I'm struggling to believe any of you actually play Japanese video games.

Um... Why would you conclude that I don't play Japanese video games because my viewpoints on bad translations vs. dubs do not coincide with yours? You know better than that...

It's that believing dub = good translation, because that isn't the case as we get subpar works all the time. The best quality the West sees still isn't very good, and that's several tiers above series like Tales or Ys. Even if the language "make sense" does not mean it's a good translation.