Hiku said:
outlawauron said:
The instances of this happening to me are Fuuka from Persona 3 (although I don't hate her) and Milla from Tales of Xillia. I watched gameplay and stuff and both seemed to be characters I would like. Sadly, the voice acting in English warped my opinion of the character and similar to you, made me lose any sort of empathy.
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Ah, ok. Well, losing empathy for a character, and feeling like you're playing a different game are different things. Although the former can affect the latter.
I thought you were asking me for games where both occured. I can mention many more where I didn't like the characters because of their VA. Let's take Yuri and Karen (who are originally from Shadow Hearts) in the cross over game Chaos Wars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtC1SzWSXg
And pretty much every other character. A game with arguably the worst voice acting ever. The producers hired their friends and family to do the English voice overs.
But yeah, I didn't like Millia's English VA either. Didn't feel like it fit the character. I also didn't like Fuuka's English VA, although I felt like it could fit her. Still didn't like it though.
Did you play through those two games in different languages? Because I wonder if already experiencing a character's story and liking that character might make it more difficult to dislike them when you later hear them with a bad voice? Because you already know the character's story, so at times you can think and feel about certain things rather than listen, if that makes sense. I would think it can do that to some extent at least. Perhaps that's why I was all the more surprised in FFX that I suddenly didn't care for Yuna at all.
But this all makes you think about what a "bad protagonist" really means. It could be that some times under different circumstances, you'd consider that character good.
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This is a pretty interesting point. When I think of a good or bad character, I think of their story/history and how much they appeal to me. Whether the appeal is through dialogue, attitude, actions, etc. there has to be some attachment. If a character's basic actions grate you, then it'll be very difficult for you to ever like that character, because it tints everything they do so much.
For earlier, I bolded your lost empathy or how you mindset of the character changed after hearing them in a different way.
