Nice trailer - Terrible voice acting tho

Sorry didn't read cause i'm trying to avoid spoilers. Wasn't able to get to the 1.23 story fight yet but want to watch vid so bad ><;

Should i wait on watching the vid till after the fight? or is it spoiler free enough that it doesn't show paticulars of the post fight that i'll still enjoy it aswell.

very good trailer honestly, but I agree with many others the voice acting does not match the epicness of the trailer.

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Originally Posted by Andrien

No. The VA seems good to me. Problem?

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You know what I think.. I think some people are overreacting, like no matter how Good the Trailer is in it self.. there's always got to be something they have to point out ( even if its little).

SE needs the Feedback. Okay sure.. but this Voice acting thing lead to three other pointless threads.

Either way VA was awesome to me.. drawed me into it.. I watched it 10 times already.. Behemoth on the Snowy hill... was epic!

Lol same^

Behemoth gets me every time.

I find it funny how if someone simply states that they dislike something about the game.. on these forums it turns into, "You're over-reacting. You're such a nit-picker for pointing out this one thing you dislike. What a complaining whiner!"

As if people aren't allowed to ever dislike one detail. No, they must be someone who complains all the time because they mentioned this one thing. lol
Twelve forbid people have opinions on things.

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Originally Posted by Andrien

No. The VA seems good to me. Problem?

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Do you seriously not hear his clammy throat crawl weakly through the vat of cliche'd monolouge?

The voice is too young and soft, but he's trying his hardest to make it deep and powerfull, but all he can muster is a muddy whipe. He's speaking from his mouth and not his throat, and a fake baratone is a nasty meal to the senses.
I'm sure his voice is fine for other situations, but here he sounds like a teen trying too hard to make a movie reel.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Do you seriously not hear his clammy throat crawl weakly through the vat of cliche'd monolouge?

The voice is too young and soft, but he's trying his hardest to make it deep and powerfull, but all he can muster is a muddy whipe. He's speaking from his mouth and not his throat, and a fake baratone is a nasty meal to the senses.
I'm sure his voice is fine for other situations, but here he sounds like a teen trying too hard to make a movie reel.

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I think you're thinking to hard about it.

I liked the trailer, but I did think the voice acting was lousy. Sounded like an amateur kid attempting but failing to sound dark and mysterious.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Do you seriously not hear his clammy throat crawl weakly through the vat of cliche'd monolouge?

The voice is too young and soft, but he's trying his hardest to make it deep and powerfull, but all he can muster is a muddy whipe. He's speaking from his mouth and not his throat, and a fake baratone is a nasty meal to the senses.
I'm sure his voice is fine for other situations, but here he sounds like a teen trying too hard to make a movie reel.

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Thats exactly what i thought. I hope this isn't a sign of whats to come in the 2.0 voice acting....

VA did not match the impact of the trailer whatsoever. The trailer itself was extremely well done, but you'd probably enjoy it more with just cool background music.

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Originally Posted by Andrien

I think you're thinking to hard about it.

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I tend to do that.

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Originally Posted by Nabiri

I find it funny how if someone simply states that they dislike something about the game.. on these forums it turns into, "You're over-reacting. You're such a nit-picker for pointing out this one thing you dislike. What a complaining whiner!"

As if people aren't allowed to ever dislike one detail. No, they must be someone who complains all the time because they mentioned this one thing. lol
Twelve forbid people have opinions on things.

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Personally, I don't care for the voice, that wasn't really the whole point to the trailer, showing off the "transition" was the main purpose.

The trailer was cool enough to give me the chills. I don't feel this sensation in some good years already with games.

It was a little fast paced. So much detail packed into such a short trailer. Hopefully we'll be seeing more of those bits and pieces of FMVs that were mashed together.

The voice acting seemed fine to me. It was very eastern but that's not a bad thing.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

You know what I think.. I think some people are overreacting, like no matter how Good the Trailer is in it self.. there's always got to be something they have to point out ( even if its little).

SE needs the Feedback. Okay sure.. but this Voice acting thing lead to three other pointless threads.

Either way VA was awesome to me.. drawed me into it.. I watched it 10 times already.. Behemoth on the Snowy hill... was epic!

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They are not overreacting. And I totally agree with. SE , for not showing it a E3. Because of obvious reasons. At least they got it right. The voice acting wasn't on par with the epic trailer. I'm sure that they will get it right by the time 2.0 launches for real.

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Originally Posted by Ksenia

The voice acting seemed fine to me. It was very eastern but that's not a bad thing.

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I would have been fine with the Japanese audio with English subs. Bad English voice acting really puts me off, when watching anime I only watch dubbed if there is no other option. (Funimation has some really terrible voice actors).

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Originally Posted by Punainen

Thats exactly what i thought. I hope this isn't a sign of whats to come in the 2.0 voice acting....

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SE ISnt stupid, but some points gotta be made about voice acting. A trailer narrator, needs a great VA. They need to ace it. Second, all important people at the game, needs a great VA. Ex; emperor, white and black raven, lousioux, Cid, etc..

This guy that did the trailer VA, would be ok for a non important person. For a narrator he fails.

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Originally Posted by Noir

SE ISnt stupid, but some points gotta be made about voice acting. A trailer narrator, needs a great VA. They need to ace it. Second, all important people at the game, needs a great VA. Ex; emperor, white and black raven, lousioux, Cid, etc..

This guy that did the trailer VA, would be ok for a non important person. For a narrator he fails.

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It's a bit perplexing considering the quality performances by (most) of the voice actors in FFXIII.. Even the really whiney and annoying characters *cough*vanille*cough*emo/wristsboy*cough* were acceptable, IMO.

SE: If you have great voice actors that can speak English Fruentry, by all means go for it. I'm sure most of the community would understand and could care less if you had to resort having only Japanese audio.. Please stop insulting us with this.. voice acting that is barely passable.

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Originally Posted by Nabiri

I find it funny how if someone simply states that they dislike something about the game.. on these forums it turns into, "You're over-reacting. You're such a nit-picker for pointing out this one thing you dislike. What a complaining whiner!"

As if people aren't allowed to ever dislike one detail. No, they must be someone who complains all the time because they mentioned this one thing. lol
Twelve forbid people have opinions on things.

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Just put starlord on blacklist and you won't see those comments anymore since he's like the only one who says it, repeatedly.

The original trailer for the game did have very slightly better voice actors. That said, if hiring talent for voice acting in a trailer is where SE decides to skimp on costs, I'm totally cool with that. Putting the money into the GAME = better idea.

Edit: Also, i'm not sure if this is true, but I think I recall hearing that the voices in the Good King Moggle Mog fight were SE dev team members singing. What if it's voice acting by a Square Enix employee, in which case everyone is dissing on some poor dev team member doing his best to do a European accent? If that were the case it would probably be categorized under amatuer voice acting, and then it would be pretty impressive.

The man's voice is kinda scratchy, as if from a lot of smoking. Yoshi-P probably smokes a lot, even that drawing of him had a cig in his mouth.

OMIGAD WHAT IF ITS YOSHI-P DOING HIS BEST AND YOU ARE ALL DISSING HIS EFFORTS?!?!

THAT'S NOT COOL, GUYS.

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Originally Posted by bobbygunz

Just put starlord on blacklist and you won't see those comments anymore since he's like the only one who says it, repeatedly.

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Just stating what I feel, not saying they should stop, but just like you and everyone else, I have opinions and I will say them if I want too, you and anyone else won't tell me that I can't.

People can be extremely rude sometimes.

Are they using the Luminous Engine for the cutscenes? ;x
Nvm, doubtful.

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Originally Posted by Mudd

Are they using the Luminous Engine for the cutscenes? ;x
Nvm, doubtful.

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Already confirmed they rebuilt the engine specifically for XIV using methods from Luminous.

=p maybe should ask the voice actor for Caius in ff13-2 to do it. his vice is cool :D

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Originally Posted by Alerith

Here's a potentially more tolerable version if you guys want. Keep in mind that I'm no media arts major. xD

A Realm Reborn [Alternate Audio]

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o_O that's... a lot more dramatic, for sure. wow. XD

I'm ok without voice overs... XD

lol then again, it is Mind Heist from Inception. Anything's bound to sound way more epic... XD

Wow, that one without the voice acting gave me chills. Really, I don't know the first one just grated somehow.. Looks fantastic though.

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Originally Posted by JeanFrancois

Wow, that one without the voice acting gave me chills. Really, I don't know the first one just grated somehow.. Looks fantastic though.

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See? You landed on Eorzea just at the right time. :o

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Originally Posted by Emulord

See? You landed on Eorzea just at the right time. :o

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Maybe just a little late, but better late than not ever! ;D

The voice actor sounds like Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat 9 or the master from Kung Pow enter the fist!

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Originally Posted by Andreas-Lycaeus

I really was not a fan of the voice, but that's just my personal preference against cheesy voice overs in general. I'd rather just have some incredible music, sound effects, and the occasional text to read, rather than having someone read it out for me in a silly voice. I loved it though, and I can't wait to see more of the First Emperor of Garlemald, and some actual gameplay!

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I agree. It could have been so amazing without it. Now it's just a bit too shameful to share to my friends or anyone who's not a ff-fan.

Everyone I know had the same reaction that the voice seems off for some reason, poor actor guy I feel bad for him. Not that he's a bad VA, just for some reason he doesn't fit the tone I would have personally picked out.

Could be worse though, they could have hired Gilbert Godfrey to perform it instead!

When i showed it to my brother his reaction to it was "i wouldnt show that in the store that i work" so yeah.... the trailer would have been so much better without the voiceover. I just cant stand the trailers they've done with voice overs recently they make me cringe. Alot of players in my ls had the same reaction too when the link to the trailer was handed around.

Great trailer! Horrible VO. Seems everyone dislikes it. Guy is trying too hard. And using a really wierd accent-ish.

I really hope this isn't how the VO in 2.0 will be.

On another note I looked up the seekers of Adoulin trailer. Sounds fanmade. :P

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Originally Posted by bobbygunz

Just put starlord on blacklist and you won't see those comments anymore since he's like the only one who says it, repeatedly.

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I have nothing against him personally, so there's no need. My post wasn't directed at him anyways - just those types of comments. I was just making a point, not singling anyone out as you have.

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Originally Posted by Kio

Could be worse though, they could have hired Gilbert Godfrey to perform it instead!

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Oh man... don't make me laugh that hard... D:

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Originally Posted by Alixandir

Great trailer! Horrible VO. Seems everyone dislikes it. Guy is trying too hard. And using a really wierd accent-ish.

I really hope this isn't how the VO in 2.0 will be.

On another note I looked up the seekers of Adoulin trailer. Sounds fanmade. :P

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Did someone just say fan made?? =^,^= http://youtu.be/N6XxBd26JpU
rofl
I liked the trailer .. wish i had some video of it before i made that one :P

Yes, the voice acting wasn't the best. And yes the trailer was good it was just CGI, We all know SE can do good CGI's. Show me the trailer of gameplay, then i'll be happy.

Wow. Way better trailer. Pay the licensing fee, SE. It's not too late. lol

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Originally Posted by Alerith

Here's a potentially more tolerable version if you guys want. Keep in mind that I'm no media arts major. xD

A Realm Reborn [Alternate Audio]

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Originally Posted by Kio

Everyone I know had the same reaction that the voice seems off for some reason, poor actor guy I feel bad for him. Not that he's a bad VA, just for some reason he doesn't fit the tone I would have personally picked out.

Could be worse though, they could have hired Gilbert Godfrey to perform it instead!

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I don't know if the voice actor is really to blame. I try to never blame actors. It's the voice director that is to blame. Many people were responsible for how that sounds, who are certainly more to blame for how it sounds than the actor.

I think the trailer should have been introduced by J.K. Simmons. Same actor who introduces the Legend of Korra. That would have made this trailer epic.