>'ello guv we're off to Ellisium we are but first we've gotta 'ave a punch up with that Mallos git. 'cor blimey Mythra you got a loisence for those milkers
I love this game. I have put over 70 hours into it, but it seriously has the worst voice acting I've ever heard. Had to switch it into Japanese to make it playable.
Why was the voice acting so much better in XC1? The english voices were even better than the originals, i don't know any other jrpg that achieves that
Jeremiah Ross
Better voice directors, the voice direction on XB2 was atrocious.
Kayden Robinson
>dub
Noah Martin
How is the dub in other languages? The English dub sounded like very rushed and half-assed.
Camden Martin
Xenoblade 2's voice acting is absolutely terrible. It's atrocious that they couldn't manage to sound even a tiny bit believable. That being said, it's not the worst one. Try listening to Chaos Wars voice acting.
Austin Foster
this, the cockney accents were a nice change of pace. then they fucked up by giving Pyra and Mythra that awful hoarse teenager voice that every popular actress seems to use nowadays.
stophesalreadydead XB2 is literally the Sonic 06 of JRPGs. Literally nobody on this board likes anything about it.
Leo Jackson
The deal with XC1 is multi layered, the JP cast was mostly amateurs with relatively poor direction and a rushed schedule while the EN cast were seasoned actors with good direction and a lot of time to get good work out of them. This basically never happens, it's almost always the reverse and that's why XC1 is such an anomaly among games.
If you think XB2's voice acting is the worst from any video game you're absolutely retarded. Try this on for size, faggot. youtube.com/watch?v=bangt7d9vGA
Dylan Flores
Legend of Dragoon had hilariously bad voice acting in the cutscenes.
Parker Taylor
Why are weebs so triggered by this dub? It's a parody dub for a parody game, it's better than the soulless sub where everyone sounds like a generic anime character.
Camden Anderson
The joke is bad, but the voice acting is fine except for the "shut up" at the head that has no impact whatsoever
I feel genuinely awful for anyone stubborn enough to stick to the dub because they're afraid of being called a weeb. This one was truly awful, imagine depriving yourself of JP Zeke.
Parker Evans
Zeke is based, he makes up for everyone else being lame.
Jayden Gomez
Only absolute plebians can't appreciate this scene
Elijah Cooper
The people they got for 1 were seasoned theater actors so they had a unique approach to it that turned out great, the people they got for 2 were just random interns/bums off the street.
Hudson Evans
this is comedy gold because of how generic, awkward and stilted it is
Did you fucking niggers ever listen to Arc Rise Fantasia's absolute clusterfuck of a dub ? Why do you keep talking when you have no idea what you're talking about ? youtube.com/watch?v=zygDzAkothQ
Hudson Stewart
DESE, AWRE ENERGY WESOURCES
Cameron Ortiz
The dialogue might be a little naff, and the delivery on the lines, but the transition into the battle is fucking great.
Xenoblade Chronicles and X came out less than ten years ago and they shit all over 2
Dominic Nguyen
I'm sure plenty would like to crucify me for saying it but I liked TMS a lot too. XB2 was great but could have been better, glad it got some decent post-launch support though. Loved P5 in the moment but not sure I'll ever replay it.
It's not hated, you just believe shitposters. The dub sounds goddawful, but the rest of the game is said to be amazing
Carter Allen
Rex at the end of the game completely ruins any sort of emotion the final act has. In japanese, rex practically screams his fucking lungs out. In English, it's like a fucking whisper yell. Hes just a little louder than normal. How the fuck did they go from XBC1 to 2 voice acting wise?
I know this is the usual shitpost, but you're beyond deluded if you think XC2 voice work is anywhere in the ballpark of worst.
William Flores
Absolute kino
Charles Price
>you know what would be really great? >if I filled a game with all the most tired, generic anime tropes and cliches from the 80s and 90s that were never good and existed entirely to please socially inept losers
Bentley Gutierrez
Boty Zeke and Rex are shellheads.
Jeremiah James
The only thing I didn't like about Zeke and Pandora was the typical stupid japanese shit where they have basically been a couple for 10 years but still haven't passed the handholding stage. Give me a fucking break. The game was about different relationships with Blades, Zeke being kicked out of the country for having sex with the royal treasure should have been one.
It's surprising that you dislike Nia's voice actress because I believe that the voice actress for Pyra/Mythra gets criticized much more.
Asher Lee
Imagine being this fucking mad at a single gag. That webm and the awkward dance have been forced so hard as them being representative of XC2 as a whole for a year and a half now.
It's the same fucking retard who has been shitposting XC2 since it came out, probably before that in all honesty.
And he's entirely fucking true. Japanese Nia sounds like trash and Japanese Rex is generic beyond belief (his english voice is rough, but he was mostly inoffensive outside of having trouble with yelling)
I agree, I forgot to download the Jap language pack but hearing Nia speak for the very first for convinced me to stick with the dub.
Joseph Smith
Why don't Yea Forums appreciate how each nation had different accents? That alone made this game's dub better than most.
Kayden Hall
If you think that's the worst then you haven't heard truly bad voice acting
Josiah Brooks
that is cool but it's been done before
Mason Rivera
>Xenofags basically never talk about Persona >Personafags constantly bring up Xenoblade What's up with this?
Nicholas Morgan
Personafags have always had an inferiority complex. Seems like they've finally accepted they'll never get any recognition from SMTfags and are just trying to compete with any jrpg now.
Robert Gomez
Jealousy
Dylan Ortiz
>Xenoblade - Von Leibniz, Platonics and Jung >Persona 5 - SHITTY ADULTS >people defend P5 over any Xeno lol
Carter Lee
How do I stop my cat from getting all mingy with me?
>you will never play XC2 for the first time again AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IT WAS SO FUCKING KINOOOOO
Ian Jones
Having British VA was genius >Best case scenario: The VAs are good and the game is well received >Worst case scenario: The VAs are dogshit and people think it's funny because accents
Owen Stewart
This video actually does a pretty good job explaining the localization changes from Japanese to English: youtube.com/watch?v=r460h4n9oI0
I personally prefer the Japanese, mainly because I don't like how they changed Nia's character and personality with the localization, but both aren't too bad aside from the mouth animations not matching the dialogue in English.
Jordan Jenkins
What Cockley accents? Rex has a Yorkshire accent and Nia is Welsh...
William Ramirez
in JP she calls him "kame atama" which means "turtle head" which is also a slang for penis
Thomas Brooks
Are they any good to play as? I dislike them so much that I completed the game without using them once
Lucas Ross
Haven't you seen Madagascar?
Julian Lee
The worst thing in this scene is the classic Japanese tradition of explaining the joke.
Hudson Baker
C H A O S W A R S H A O S
W A R S
Wyatt Butler
Nah, the ratchet and clank remake made me actually turn off voices when I got to the snow planet.
Jack Morgan
I first found this in one of these threads, and now I'm repaying that debt. youtube.com/watch?v=rFA08BJUtPo Feel the power of my.. maaAAaaagiiiiiiIiicc!
they tried hard to be like XC1 and completely ruined it.
James Brooks
The bread and water girl's moans kill me. I can't understand how the actors never figured out what a sound effect is. It reminds me of "mrgrgr" in Bravely Default.
William Thompson
why did you have english voice-acting on in the first place? retard
Aiden Gomez
>mrgrgr Never heard the english ver of it and if you're comparing it with alchemic drive's, i dont think i want to
Oh come on that's fucking kino. You flaming idiots.
Juan Kelly
Either Xenoblade 2 or Heavensward. >Hey, lets get an all english (The country not the language) cast but not bother to spend money on good actors besides maybe three or four
James Torres
I honestly have no idea why they chose that direction with the voice acting.. Why the heavy british? You also hear the clear... lack of interest in the voice actress. Especialy when you look at Nia during the "One Eyed Monster" bit. Whille the english one sounded like she was just talking normaly. Whille the japanese one shows that she was clearly agitated and pissy. The japanese va at least had some bite. English one had no bite.
Mason Ward
>Why the heavy british? 1st Xenoblade had it and people apparently loved it. Always thought it was horrible and I'm glad it came back to bite all of you.
Charles Cook
The thing that sucked was the shitty casting and direction. I've got no problem with different accents.
Logan Collins
I don't really think people liked XB1s voice acting because it was british, but because it was good. XBX had Shulks voice-actor as an option but the other characters weren't british, I think that they misattributed people liking the VA from XB1 being because british and not because it was quality when they made XB2
Caleb Robinson
People also had no real choice now did they. If they could have somene else do it better. I would have wanted some other people do the english va of that game. But this is what the localisation idiots were thinking was fitting. Good they kept the option to change languege... Otherwise listening to the british va would be unbearable.
This and other memes for XB1 that filled the board back when it came out have me 100% convinced people liked it ironically.
Sebastian Reyes
You should get some reading comprehension, he was talking about XBX. Infact, it's only 2 words before the word Shulk. >This and other memes for XB1 that filled the board back when it came out have me 100% convinced people liked it ironically. Ah yes, because gauging a community's approval of the voice acting based on a bunch of silly memes is surely the way to go. Not to mention that the other characters in the game make fun of Reyn for half his goofy expressions. People enjoyed the strong British talent because they were first and foremost a good job. The British accents part of it was just a refreshing, different flavour compared to the generic neutral American accents you get in every game.
>People enjoyed the strong British talent because they were first and foremost a good job Its the same as XB2 and you should feel bad for liking one and not the other.
Adam Powell
Why the fuck would anyone play a JRPG, out of all games, with a dub of literal whos instead of the top tier cast carefully picked up with the voices intended and the acting/takes validated by the director? And on Yea Forums of all places.
>Its the same as XB2 This is false. If you dislike it for preferential reasons then good for you, but the difference in quality between XB1 and XB2 is night and day because of how good of a dub XB1 is and how poor of a dub XB2 is.
Andrew Hall
COME AND BUY A PIXELIZER It's pretty poor compared to 1, but I've heard worse. Can't stand a game which uses a honorific in its dubs, no matter the quality. >JUNPAY-COON
People who believe the cringe from this scene stems from the dub and not the actual game itself are absolute children. Christ, how can ANYBODY play this game? Literally every scene is just le quirky humor where the girls get embarassed and everyone stands around awkardly. Get some self respect.
Aaron Lewis
I'm sorry but that can't be the original dialogue it has to be edited in someway
Jackson Hall
The quality varies a lot, often for the worse but welsh kot, scottish reverse trap and Malos were so good it made me stick with the dub
Everyone else sounded like they gradually got better as the game was nearing the end. But the voice actor for Rex just sound disinterested the whole time, no emotion and dead pan shitty acting pretty much 100% of the time. Definitely the last Xenoblade I'll play with the english dub on.
Grayson Scott
same shit mohammad.
Jeremiah Ramirez
Did Torna have a different voice director than the main game? I honestly think the dub of that was almost as good as XC1's, even Mythra's VA gave a drastically better performance there (just compare the two sleepwalking scenes).
Robert Morris
100% agreed, my friends and i could dub it better than this shit
I played in japanese after completing the game in english and I felt like 90% of the japanese voices didn't fit the character at all
Colton Russell
yes but I want mythra to pee in my mouth
Dylan Anderson
This, especially fucking Rex.
Juan Sanders
>How come after +90h of being with them I think I prefer the dub voices Yeah, that's called conditioning, user. Same way I got conditioned to like the Tales of Xillia dub, yet nobody can ever top Sawashiro. Same way I now can only watch the big movies of my childhood I saw dozens of times like SW, LotR, Back to the Future and many other in my europoor dub language, even though the original english voices are obviously better.
Played this last night and completely lost it at this guy.
Cameron Cruz
Eh, I actually enjoy the dub 90% of the time, though I can admit it definitely has some rough parts.
Matthew Mitchell
How much do I actually miss by switching to jap voice? From what I understand it is only the battle dialogue that is unsubbed but thats just "WE'LL WIN WITH THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP" and other such stock lines.
You're like the people complaining about Grandma Goku and how he doesn't sound like the stoic discount-Superman dubfags think he is. Jap Rex and Jap Goku is how the character was designed to sound like. Dub Rex and Dub Goku are practically official fanfic versions of the originald.
Nicholas Peterson
I showed a friend who doesn't even play vidya Rex's scream and he pissed himself laughing.
Adrian Watson
They're the only popular rpgs with simpler mechanics than purse owner. They need someone to look down on, even if the people they're looking down on barely recognise their existence.
Ryan Nelson
Japs sure are retarded.
Oliver Peterson
>kotaku video >its actually good and pretty informative N-NANI?!?
Parker King
Does he have bladder issues?
Evan Robinson
Best part is that the guy French guy is definitely an Australian VA.
Aiden Russell
Your post would've made sense if he said he literally pissed himself.
Joshua Morales
The camp value of these shouldn't be undersold. X7 on the other hand is legitimately godawful.
Jose Edwards
I want to know what the developers were thinking when they gave this the green light.
Jackson Jenkins
>complaining about Grandma Goku and how he doesn't sound like the stoic discount-Superman Explain to me why Goku is the only character whose voice never ages. That is the issue. Nobody would care if that was just kid Goku, but keeping Nozawa around just because "that's always been Goku's iconic voice" shows less about artistic intention and more about how retarded the Japanese are.
Easton Campbell
>Explain to me why Goku is the only character whose voice never ages Krillin too
There was no nepotism. The dude who directed the dub tried to get the game published sub-only, but that was against Sony's policies at the time (look it up if you don't believe - a number of other niche publishers had to put up with this for physical releases of their media). He was forced to make really bad lemonade from really rotten lemons.
Jace Anderson
Its an American thing. Meanwhile I can't stand the way America sounds. Listen to Trump vs. Trudeau if you want to hear what I mean.
That's actually the way Yea Forums shows affection.
Charles Ward
Yeah that's all you miss. Not sufficiently worth it to keep playing the subpar dub. You can switch to the dub for some battle to hear what they're saying here and there, and go back to the original voiceover easily anyway
>get proven wrong by showing a better one No. Persona 5 is a VN with some gameplay, Xenoblade 2 is a full old school adventure. The level design of the first titan is better than everything in P5
Jose Cruz
Go back to Resetera, they hated the game so much they banned discussion of it.
Tyler Watson
LETS SHOW EM A THING OR THREE!
Hunter Howard
It's like a bad anime
Mason Rodriguez
this is the actual voice acting in game? i thought it was a parody jesus
Jackson King
>its another "Yea Forums can't handle anything anime" thread
Cameron Wood
>Literally every scene is just le quirky humor where the girls get embarassed and everyone stands around awkardly. You haven't played the game >they hated the game so much they banned discussion of it Not true at all, a simple google search finds a very recent thread with people praising the game
They did the same thing in the Japanese voiceover. Weird.
Benjamin Scott
I get that a English VA may not be able to capture the JP voice acting and that they may have to compromise, but what in the ever loving fuck is going on with Feli in the dub?
In my opinion, outside of the censorship 4kids dubs weren't actually that bad in terms of voice acting.
Jordan Bailey
literally obsessed
Noah Morales
I love the obvious SEETHING by whoever made this, you can just feel how mad he was one while creating it.
Christopher Adams
I actually think 9 had even worse voice acting. 3's was at least funny enough to be so bad it was good, like the "I don't believe in magic" guy.. 9's is just painfully mediocre and flat.
but since this is cleary a xenoblade thread, let's talk. Xenoblade 2's voice acting is fine, but inconsistent. The actors do a generally great job outside of emotional scenes, except for Malos, who absolutely kills it every time he is on screen. During emotional scenes, most of the characters can't fully express the range they have to in order to match the scene. This creates a dissonance because we are often having very melodramatic, over the top scenes with full violin vocal sad tracks playing as OST, while the characters are only voicing mildy unhappy voices. Rex's english VA also cannot overact or scream at all, which fucking sucks, because nearly all of his major moments involve screaming and overacting. The english cast also visibly struggled with trying to match the Japanese lip sync, leading to awkward sounding delivery in many scenes- this is why post battle dialogue and hearts to hearts sound 100 times better than the cutscenes- the actors are not trying to match lip sync and can deliver lines naturally. Give Rex a voice coach to help him scream, let everyone redub with more direction specifically on overacting for emotional scenes, and then have animators resync the lips to the english voice cast after their lines are recorded, and Xenoblade 2 would have a perfectly solid dub.
Jace Brown
dude thats my fucking boy Elk even though the english voice is superior, suck my fucking cock
>Rex's VA cannot overreact Imagine if they got Azwel's VA in for him.
Also Pyrrha/Mythra were pretty shit
Colton Stewart
>but since this is clearly a xenoblade thread This is what pisses me off, make any mention of Xenoblade 2, and the XC2DF will take over the thread, and autistically fight anyone that doesn't follow the narrative of it being the greatest JRPG ever made.
They also defend the dub, and find it superior, but will get really pissed when you call them ironic weebs.
Ryder Roberts
thats just toddlers for you
Leo Sanders
Ironically laughed at the bad mutt dub
Joshua Howard
>post smt Kill yourself ASAP
Tyler Evans
>listen to a cuckold leaf Nah, you are a southeastern Asian sissyboy
Nolan Campbell
Oh yeah, it's THIS bad...
Ayden Campbell
context?
Dominic Perry
>this is why post battle dialogue and hearts to hearts sound 100 times better than the cutscenes afaik the battle dialogue and h2hs were also the last things recorded for the dub, meaning all the VAs were pretty used to voicing their characters at point
Alexander Lee
Nia is a great character in her own right, but the dub put her in wife for life territory with me.
I've wished a fictional woman was real as much as Nia.
>Azwel that could be cool. I think Pyra and Mythra did fine, although Mythra definitely was much better in Torna (as was the VA in general)
I'm the person you are replying to, Xenoblade 2 is in my top 10 for sure, and definitely the best JRPG in recent times. Like I said in my post, The dub is fine, but inconsistent.
This also played a part, I'm sure.
Kayden Ortiz
Does the first XC have an option for Japanese voices?
if you play the wii version, yes. they were cut in the 3DS version
Cameron Brown
I know this is supposed to be a Xenoblade hate thread but there are worst voice acting out there >Batten Kaitos >Summon Knight 6 >Arc Rise Fantasia Are all worse
the japanese dub was fine, and full of high-profile VAs. the first xenoblade's dub had a budget that likely wasn't any larger than this one's, but it still turned out amazing, because the directors actually cared about doing a good job, and did things like go over the japanese cutscenes with the VAs to make sure they were getting it right
Andrew Allen
>personas have creative designs >blades are just HURR WAIFUS MUH DICK kys xeno faggot
You know what's wild? Eric has posted that webm hundreds of times and every single time there are magically ~50 people that have never seen it before.
Aiden Adams
And a 300 page thread discussing how its shit.
Nicholas Gonzalez
>creative designs Creative=/= good if we talk about most of main cast. If you mean the general fusable ones, then I agree
Jaxon Cruz
People complain about the actors but it's the voice director's fault. I can ignore bad direction over bad acting. The Megaman clips are bad acting, the XB2 clips are bad direction.
Kevin Williams
Just like Yea Forums, it's almost like it's a bad game or something.
Benjamin Davis
where? I couldn't find it by googling
Aiden Allen
Damn, is this just a really niche movie or is pirating shit becoming harder these days? Barely anybody is seeding it, what are some good sites to download movies from these days?
Just don't use your dick to drive your movie watching decisions and you'll be fine.
David Walker
>agreeing with Reeeesetera Maybe you should go there, I'm sure they would love another convert.
Nolan Bennett
Wait, KOS-MOS's VA played Pico?
Nathaniel Taylor
>ANYTHING RESETERA HATE GOOD Let me guess, you're a YIIKposter.
Sebastian Davis
I'm not gonna watch it, just gonna skip to the good parts, I know there are clips online but they all look like 240p garbage
Ryder Price
Don't they hate that too?
Anthony Lopez
Exactly my point, you're acting like if ResetEra hates something, it has to be good, so we have to like a shitty hipster indie game to trigger them.
Justin Wright
>like a shitty hipster indie game to trigger them But that game pissed off everyone, so you have to be some sort of hyper contrarian shitposter to do that
Landon Garcia
There's also that generic zombie shooter that just came out that SJWs hated, should we like that just because it pisses them off?
Sebastian Long
>you have to be some sort of hyper contrarian shitposter You're on Yea Forums
Kevin Roberts
If you like generic trash, then sure. Same thing with XB2 outside of gameplay. Oh right.
Xavier Myers
Honestly XC2 gameplay doesn't really save it. At least X had good exploration and mechs.
Lincoln Martinez
I think Xenoblade 2's voice acting was bad as a whole, but I like Nia's English VA over her Japanese VA. I feel like her English voice fits her personality a lot more than her Japanese voice. If the English VAs had some good direction then this dub would've been great. Good direction makes all the difference. Even unknown VAs can steal the show with good direction.
Nathan Sanders
Definitely up there
Ethan Perez
>Welsh kot >Scottish reverse trap >Malos Unironically these 3 are the reason I can never play with sub. Especially Malos, man hams it up beyond all expectations and it's Glorious
Voice direction was definitely the downfall of this game. Obviously there's no Adam Howden stealing the show and carrying the dub, but for the most part the VAs are serviceable. Hell David Menkin's Malos is the best performance in the series behind Howden's Shulk, but the director for the dub definitely shit the bed big time
Ethan Baker
>The true power of the Aegis...aAMAAAAAZZIING >Hey, hey! No cheating! >This...is the REEAALL ME!! >all that dialogue during the final boss battle None of the battle dialogue was particularly important to the story, but I'm glad I didn't miss out on it, because all of Malos's lines were great.
Lucas Young
>Baten Kairos "Go away!" "I am hungry!" "Damn, the Bastards!"
Gibari is pure gold
John Green
I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT A REAL MAN OF THE SKIES IS MADE OF
Origins is a better game with actually decent VA but there's still some charm in the original.
Colton Baker
>carrying the dub I thought all the party members were pretty good; it was mainly the Mechonis characters who were pretty weak. I personally enjoyed Metal Face's hamminess.
Luke Robinson
Metal Face, Malos, Albedo How does the Xeno series create such charismatic antagonists?