i always play my games in english and i really fail to see how better english VA ruined the game for you its actually quite funny really. Id rather put up with the english than read text.
| Soriku said: lol. Yes, there really are VAs that are better in English :P It's not hard with a good budget. |
But you have to acknowledge that there is an entire industry dedicated to voice actors in Japan, with a competitive and crowded job pool to pick from than opposed to the US'.
i love anime i am a huge fan, i prefer my anime in english dubbed , but if its english sub titled than thats fine. my collection is over 375 dvd's so far , going for 500 by the end of this year. i loved the va in lost odyssey, thought it was really good. perfect example for me of english subtitled that i love and couldnt watch with english va is "macross 7", loved that series and wouldnt even try watching it if it was ever dubbed for english. i still think u should try and finish lost odyssey its a very good game. :) best rpg this gen hands down.
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Wow i hate hate people dissing english dub. English dub is great. I gave up on LO because i got stuck at the end of the 3rd disc with the ice boss. This is why JRPG's sell bed because of lack of save points, extremely hard difficulty, and the achievement/trophies are hard to get and not worth it.
| Nightmare24 said: Wow i hate hate people dissing english dub. English dub is great. I gave up on LO because i got stuck at the end of the 3rd disc with the ice boss. This is why JRPG's sell bed because of lack of save points, extremely hard difficulty, and the achievement/trophies are hard to get and not worth it. |
LO is a pretty hard game at times. I never beaten the game because the final boss's final form was too cheap casting stone on the entire party. I had to watch the ending on YouTube. Persona 4's idea of hard is a lot better because when you are killed, it's usually because you did not pick a good strategy or you were unprepared and not because the enemies and bosses were given cheap attacks unlike most JRPGs.
Also, JRPGs sell poorly because JRPG series that breaks conventions reegularly like FF and SMT are the exception rather than the rule.
| mibuokami said: I purchased my 360 around September last year, the combination of attractive pricing and the promise of some very nice JRPG confirmed a decision I've tentatively made near the beginning of the year. Along with my purchase I bought a copy of Lost Odyssey, it was a classic style JRPG that hit all the right button, the story sounds good, the graphic was decent and the combat system was fairly old schooled (my favourite!). One of the biggest bonuses was the fact that it had Japanese VA, it was a totally unexpected revelation and I was overjoyed. Fast-forward to a couple of weeks ago and I finally manage to make some headways with the game, first Cod:WaW then L4D killed my meager free time last year and Street Fighter IV and Killzone 2 sucked out my life and soul this year, but alas my JRPG urge has finally hit a breaking point and I popped the first disk in and began to play my 1-hrs in saved game. I got most of the way through the first disk before I gave up in tears and admitted defeat. Yes, I just couldn't do it. It was unimaginable, and something I never thought I'd contemplated but during one of the numerous cutscene I finally couldn’t take it any longer and snapped. I’ve had enough! I just couldn’t pretend it doesn’t exist any longer!
The Japanese voice acting had to go!
I never EVER in all my life thought I'd see the day where I prefer the English VA over the Japanese VA of a JRPG EVER, but here I am broken and humbled before the power of mighty Microsoft. With their cash they’ve made the impossible possible! The game was obviously design for western audience in mind because the lip synch of the Japanese VA was incredibly off; I could see the mouth moving but no voice! I could hear the voice but see no mouth movement! I could see the character's mouth open and close in perfect asynchronisation, it’s like they're timing the fucken sound to appear only when the character's mouth is close! It started out as a small pet peeve but quickly grew to become an incurable festering all consuming disease that completely consumed my gaming ‘zen’ and made me into a mindless ravenous beast. Lost Odyssey became unplayable with the Japanese voice acting on. It had to go; Lost Odyssey just does not feel like a Japanese game with English voice dubbing. It felt rather like a western game with Japanese voice dubbing (and terrible ones at that!). Not only was the English voice acting a superb effort, but it had excellent lip synch! They freakin match! And worst of all I liked it! I feel dirty even typing those words! Before I realize it, I was thinking: hey! maybe FFXIII will have better English VA too! Then I realize what I have just briefly imagined and gasped in absolute horror before curling up in a fetal position and crying myself to sleep.
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True story dat! |
Congrats on leaving your weeaboo self in the past.
I watched the videos with the Japanese VA. It's not that bad for the most part but Cooke sounds too old and Mack sounds too quiet. Atleast their English voices matched. English VA is still better though. This is in contrast to IU and SO4 where the Japanese VA is a lot better than the English VA. Even Lymle was well done in Japanese.
you sir are funny. enjoy LO
I will never understand why anyone prefers Japanese language tracks over English ones (besides, obviously, native Japanese speakers). Paramount to classifiable mental retardation in my book. And I'm a massive JRPG fan, the only genre I still really have enough interest to play regularly.
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