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Have you ever skipped or dropped a game due to the VA used in it?
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Shadow Broker
Banned
Fucking yes! Dragon Age Inquisition!
My Dalish Elf either sounds like the deep voice singer in Boyz II Men or a British dude who sounds like he just left a bag of his shit on your door step.
I mean, I intend to go back to it but the VA options throws me off every time.
My Dalish Elf either sounds like the deep voice singer in Boyz II Men or a British dude who sounds like he just left a bag of his shit on your door step.
I mean, I intend to go back to it but the VA options throws me off every time.
That's why you play a female Quizzy 👌👌👌👌
One of the worst ideas in gaming and to this day is another reason why the GBA versions are inferior.
Toad in Mario Advance makes the gutteral constant noise for every action. Same for the DKC games on GBA. So many unfitting and obnoxious sound effects.
I had the same problem. Could not believe that there was only the german VA. Finished the game anyway, it was just too good.
Shadow Broker
Banned
True but this my continuation from Dragon Age Origins where my Dalish Elf is taking up arms again to fight back against oppression and rasicism against the Dalish and City elves.
If I were to use a female elf I would have to find a way to replay Origins and start all over again.
Maybe one day I'll restart and put up with it.
I am not directing this at a particular person but has anyone else noticed a trend in people being annoyed at Aloy's narration and talking to herself in Horizon: Zero Dawn and that a lot of those same people have no problem or less of an issue with Nathan Drake doing the same in Uncharted.
I am not saying people are purposefully employing double standards but that it may be an unconscious bias that most people don't realize. I have read studies (can't look for them now but I will find and add them later today) where men overestimated how much women speak or their presence in an area.
It may be partly an unconcious bias in gaming that there is more of a negative reaction to female pc's and the amount of speaking they are doing.
And maybe a small segment of male gamers who find it jarring when they are role playing and are, in their eyes, 'taken out of the story' when the female character speaks. Just an observation i've made as a woman who plays games.
**Editing again to add that I don't think everyone who dislikes a female VA does so for this reason, I was just talking about a larger trend
If you want, the British female VA option is Alix Wilton Regan who played Samantha Traynor in Mass Effect and she does a pretty good job. I've used her for the Dalish Elf and the female Qunari and the human female and she fits very well.
*Editing because I didn't see your last reply. You can also keep the option if you ever want to do a second separate play through from your main canon
I am not saying people are purposefully employing double standards but that it may be an unconscious bias that most people don't realize. I have read studies (can't look for them now but I will find and add them later today) where men overestimated how much women speak or their presence in an area.
It may be partly an unconcious bias in gaming that there is more of a negative reaction to female pc's and the amount of speaking they are doing.
And maybe a small segment of male gamers who find it jarring when they are role playing and are, in their eyes, 'taken out of the story' when the female character speaks. Just an observation i've made as a woman who plays games.
**Editing again to add that I don't think everyone who dislikes a female VA does so for this reason, I was just talking about a larger trend
If you want, the British female VA option is Alix Wilton Regan who played Samantha Traynor in Mass Effect and she does a pretty good job. I've used her for the Dalish Elf and the female Qunari and the human female and she fits very well.
*Editing because I didn't see your last reply. You can also keep the option if you ever want to do a second separate play through from your main canon
Polioliolio
Member
What does this mean?
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I recall a lot of people skipped over Codename S.T.E.A.M. due to GamerGate---both sides, in fact. You had folks who didn't like that the main character was voiced by GamerGate "advocate" Adam Baldwin, and then you had folks who hated Will Wheaton being in it due to his anti-GG views.
A shame, really, as I consider the game an instant classic and it has perhaps one of Nintendo's most diverse cast of characters, like, ever. There were a lot of other issues that put people off it beyond the GG fiasco of course, but I recall a lot of people saying that was the reason they were skipping it in threads over here.
A shame, really, as I consider the game an instant classic and it has perhaps one of Nintendo's most diverse cast of characters, like, ever. There were a lot of other issues that put people off it beyond the GG fiasco of course, but I recall a lot of people saying that was the reason they were skipping it in threads over here.
Shadow Broker
Banned
Female VA seems better quality then male VA in DA:I. I'll probably start a fresh play threw with a female character. But she won't be a Dalish!
I need to create a new cannon for her. Maybe a Qunari lesbian because of the whole suppression of the Qun thing. I don't know yet. I need to flesh it out.
Passed on Web of Shadows because of it.
Edit : And also skipped on Saints Row 3 partly because of it. They removed the voice I used in SR2, the remaining voices were really obnoxious, and I couldn't even make a character that looked like mine used to since they gimped the character creator.
Edit : And also skipped on Saints Row 3 partly because of it. They removed the voice I used in SR2, the remaining voices were really obnoxious, and I couldn't even make a character that looked like mine used to since they gimped the character creator.
I skipped a few JRPGs because they lacked the original audio track (and also lacked any mods to get it).
A high-profile example (for me, since I love Atelier) was the original PS3 Atelier Ayesha release.
It was the first (and luckily only) single-audio release in the series after 8 dual-audio ones (and everything since then has been dual audio again).
A high-profile example (for me, since I love Atelier) was the original PS3 Atelier Ayesha release.
It was the first (and luckily only) single-audio release in the series after 8 dual-audio ones (and everything since then has been dual audio again).
Nostremitus
Member
It's not the same character...
It'll be really weird when
You A: meet characters from Origin who have no idea who you are and B: you try to find yourself to ask for help.
LukasTaves
Member
Star Ocean 4 the thread.
flatearthpandas
Member
Chloe and Rise had the same VA? Whoa. Anyway, no. Can always turn the sound off of it's real bad
NipplesAndToes23
Member
no, as long as the gameplay is good I'm going to stick with it. Valkyrie Profile had some bad voice acting, but my gosh was that gameplay phenomenal. It even influenced Lab Zero to make a game with that battle system.
Edit: Oh yeah, the Resident Evil series is another that consistently has bad acting, but shit a lot of people still play it for the gameplay and atmosphere.
Edit: Oh yeah, the Resident Evil series is another that consistently has bad acting, but shit a lot of people still play it for the gameplay and atmosphere.
I like both voices I'll be the peacekeeper for your meetingWe can never meet in person! It would destroy the world in a matter/anti-matter like explosion
I've never dropped a game because of a particular VA, but I have had experiences where I've wanted to stop playing a gane due to the VA's.
Ex. I hate Symphony of the Nights re-dub because I can't stand Alucard's new voice.
poodaddy
Member
Yeah actually I can totally relate to this. I find it difficult to deal with games that have extremely "anime" like voice acting. I had a hard time with both MGSV and FFXV due to my distaste of anime level VA, but I stuck through both of them due to the quality of the gameplay in both and I'm glad I did. I suppose I wouldn't drop an amazing game due to VA issues, but if the game is moderately enjoyable but not really holding my attention well then yeah bad VA could be the final nail in the coffin so to speak.
NinjaCoachZ
Member
Only in Dancing All Night. Laura Bailey wasn't available for that so Ashly Burch came in.
No....lol I don't honestly care about voices at all, or the music in a game though honestly.
Someone earlier said they almost quit Guilty Gear and BlazBlue because of the VAs...I mean, fighting games are some of the only games where playing with other music or headphones on won't make you miss anything. That seems weird that a fighting game VA would matter at all. Oh well.
Someone earlier said they almost quit Guilty Gear and BlazBlue because of the VAs...I mean, fighting games are some of the only games where playing with other music or headphones on won't make you miss anything. That seems weird that a fighting game VA would matter at all. Oh well.
Jeiiya
Member
I've never dropped a game solely because of voice acting, but it can be a factor if I'm having a hard time enjoying the other aspects of the game as well. One thing that does kind of get me is in action RPGs when the characters are spamming the names of their special moves over and over again. That can wear me down quite a bit on the voice acting.
FunkyPajamas
Member
I played through Halo 2 with Mexican VA. I can play through anything after that.
There are some really bad ones out there, and some personally annoying ones, but if the game's good, I'll still play it.
Jennifer Hale's voice bothers me, (she always sounds out of breath), but I still used FemShep in all 3 ME games.
The main characters of FFXV sounded like they either were:
A) Stoned
B) Clueless as to what was going on
C) Tryiing too hard
Yet I played that all the way through.
I do also enjoy watching bad movies though, so maybe my threshold and standards are just lower than most.
Jennifer Hale's voice bothers me, (she always sounds out of breath), but I still used FemShep in all 3 ME games.
The main characters of FFXV sounded like they either were:
A) Stoned
B) Clueless as to what was going on
C) Tryiing too hard
Yet I played that all the way through.
I do also enjoy watching bad movies though, so maybe my threshold and standards are just lower than most.
Its like they went out of their way to make it bad. A shame too because its actually a pretty decent game.
Dr. Black Jack
Member
I originally skipped out on Final Fantasy X because I thought voice acting in a JRPG was sacrilege.
It's still a pretty bad dub but I eventually came around.
It's still a pretty bad dub but I eventually came around.