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irstupid on 14 September 2017
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bigtakilla said:
irstupid said:

You were just the one I quoted. Lots of people complaining about the spotlight. If you noticed I said 'you guys" meaning more than just you. I was generalizing the reaction that this game has received every time it is given a new trailer. If a story trailer is shown off, complaining about wanting environments. If environments are shown off, complaining about something else. Never happy.

The accents are fitting in line with the british accents of teh first game, which was highly loved as I said to a cultish almost level.

But again my point is still the same. They coudl be the same voice actors of The last of us and people would still bitch because its a japanese game with english voice acting. For some reason they are ALWAYS ALWAYS complained about when first shown. There is always dual audio begging, ect. NEVER do i hear any VA bitching for western games. But its 100% with japanese games. Not watching youtube clip, but one example doesn't refute my point.

I don't bother arguing about graphics in games.

The accents however are not delivered as well as in the first game. I loved the British accents as well, and think they are fitting for Xenoblade 2, but listen to some Xenoblade voice acting then this. There just seems to be this veil of amatuerism lying over this project that's kind of unusual and is kind of off putting compared to really all of there previous works. I mean, Xenosaga Episode 2 is notorious for its bad voice acting, but it gets recognized, 

I'm just saying do the same here. Recognize the dialogue here is not delivered very well in some cases. 

Essemtially, it's a lot of small flaws in really every aspect of this game (as well as one of my personal pet peeves in collecting monsters, never been a huge fan). 

Again can't watch videos as at work, but as with most all game of this nature i try and not judge voice acting on trailers alone. The games are like 100 hours, and i'm supposed to judge on a sample size of .001% of the voice acting? Not to mention a lot of the time its a voice over and thus not matched with the lips on screen.

Take Zelda recently. She gets a huge flack for shitty va, but i thought she did great. Sure in the trailers and if you get none of the memories, her voice may seem weird. But her way of speaking and english accent really fit the character perfectly imo when you see all of her memories. It really fits this royalty that has been meant for something great her whole life, yet could never achieve it and was always dissapointing others in her mind. Wanting to do things that were meant for others, such as the shrines, ect. Knowing everything about her, the voice was perfectly done.

I think its a matter of perception that Japanese games get this bad rap. It's like in real life, you see a 6'6" lumbering dude, you expect him to have a certain voice. When he doesn't, its shocking and weird. When people see a japanese game, they subconsciously hear japanese accents in their head and when something else comes out they can't help but find it jarring.