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Couple new Yakuza english dubbed videos
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Doom_Bringer
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telecharging!
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Those were some really loud footsteps.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Amir0x said:
Yeah! That's who I thought it was. He was practically using his joker voice. I was half expecting him to call somebody 'bats'.
Doom_Bringer
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looks alright to me! I don't really care about vocie acting that much 
Kabuki Waq
Member
jett said:
and yet so much better than Kingdom hearts 2
I doubt it.SuperPac said:
The best dubs usually receive a lot of praise due to the lack of faith in companies that typically handle such things. When a great dub shows up on occasion, most are shocked by its quality and, if anything, it would become overhyped on GAF.
Their complaints are legit here, I believe. The voice acting in the original release was of extremely high quality and perfectly captured the subject matter.
I'd have to look, but MGS is the first to come to mind.lachesis said:
I seriously feel that the MGS English dub is vastly superior to the Japanese dub. I love Akio Otsuka as Snake, but the rest of the cast isn't as well done. I believe the fake accents add a lot of personality and are generally handled pretty well. MGS2 and 3 were not done as well in English, unfortunately, but I always felt that MGS is one series that benefits from the dub.
I own English and Japanese versions of each of the MGS games (excluding Twin Snakes), by the way, and am able to perfectly comprehend both versions of each (so both of them are being judged fairly).
The problem with this comparison and why it would difficult to find many superior dubs is simply due to the fact that they ARE dubs. In general, I find that original voice recordings are the best fit as they were tailored for the content. Even when dealing with languages that I do not understand, I tend to prefer the original voice recordings as the general emotion can still be conveyed through the sound of their voice and the meaning through text.
edit - As jett said, the Kingdom Hearts games are probably great examples. The voice work there was fantastic and more accurate for the characters.
lachesis
Member
dark10x said:
I agree with you mostly regarding MGS - but same thing can be said to most of other games. Let's take Shenmue per se - and some of the characters, IMO, is done better in US ver. I actually prefered some characters (such as Nozomi and Chai) better in US dub. Ryo, about the same, but most of them alot worse. I also liked David Hayter as snake - but I had to laugh at some of the others voice acting too - but I also do favor original ones because of it's authencity in all the cases. In the end and when counting everything - I find everything just fails to original.
However, if a dub has to be done under SCEA's rules, then we'd should be more fair regarding dubs - and I honestly don't think this Yakuza dubbing isn't that bad at all. In fact, it's better than most of other Sega games, if not the best dubbing for a Sega game.
Anyhow, I actually grew up with a dubbed Mickey Mouse voices - and I was shocked when I heard first time of Mickey's real voice - I thought his voice was too whimsical and wussy. Probably same could be said to JP voice overs...that they are not used to the original cast's voice because they grew up with dubbed voice anyhow...
Damn, all this dubbing arguement is making me remember Michael Hosselhoff korean dubbing for the Knightrider...