Xenoblade 2 thoughts (no spoilers)

[Lonely_Dolphin]

Jumpin said:

Lonely_Dolphin said:

[herp derp]You must not have played very many games then.[/herp derp]

But seriously, for me I suppose it didn't help that I just came off of Fire Emblem Echoes which has great voice acting, but even without that I still wouldn't like the voice acting in this game. Much awkward pausing, tone not matching the situation, and in general just doesn't sound natural, like actual people actually conversing. The obnoxious anime style dialogue, lack of lip synch, and stiff copy-paste animations don't help either. I love Nopons, and still do, but that "Meh" thing they do now is pretty dumb and annoying, I would love to know why they thought that was a good idea. Now if what you say is true then I don't dare imagine what Xenosaga must be like!

"Don't forget me!"

"Think you can take me!?"

"Yer done!"

Nevermind, this game has best voice acting ever.

Battle voices are kind of crap - but most of the issues are in the very early portions of the game. I’d guess the QA or producers did not spend much time on the early game battles. 

What I am speaking about is specifically the cutscene dialogue voice acting.

What I enjoy is how each nation has its own dialect. While Tora’s voice acting and dialogue isn’t the greatest, he is a Nopon, and they’re weird like that; it’s a big step up from Riki and Tatsu. While having American accents in a fantasy setting is extremely off-putting (especially when you have a medieval game and the characters sound like valley girls and effeminate guys from California, it doesn’t work), it makes sense that the characters who have those accents do. In this case they’re limited to those from Elysium such as Aegis and Torna people, and they’re kind of alien anyway.

I was mainly referring to the cutscenes also, the battle banter doesn't bother me actually, infact it's why I enjoy fighting Ardanian soldiers. The tantalese soldiers are also great with their "But how!?" when they try to attack God Tora, but sadly you fight them once then never again. In terms of voice I can't agree that Godpon Tora is better than Rikki, simply because Rikki doesn't do the meh thing, but eh, opinions!

On another note, maybe it has been mentioned here already, but if not then here's a heads up for you all. For Poppi's 3rd form, the 3rd skill slot from the left above the specials does not work period, it's a dead slot. Only yesterday after a long boss fight did I notice that the skill I had in that slot being Damage Heal never went off once. Tried a variety of other skills in that slot but none of them work, but they do work when put in any other skill slot. I certainly feel dumb for only just now realizing it after all this time, but the devs should feel dumber for letting such an thing happen to begin with!