So... Merlwyb will be voiced

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

We made sure the person portraying Merlwyb would fit her personality just right! We hope you'll all be pleasantly surprised come launch!

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Seth Rogen

Any possible updates on the NA cast? Will we see some heavy hitting VA's (Jennifer Hale, David Hayter.... who also will be free to do some VA's considering Kojima didn't tap him for the new MGS)?

Are we gonna get Aeryn Sun again?

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Originally Posted by Mjollnir

Are we gonna get Aeryn Sun again?

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That woman could read a phone book and I'd be enthralled! :o

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Originally Posted by Abriael

Having worked with voice acting in French and German as well (as several of the DVD productions I worked on were tri-lingual for the continental European market), there isn't much praise to be done towards the voice acting efforts normally done in those countries. They have a very strong subtitling tradition, that in turn prevented them from developing an equally strong voice acting school.

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In germany you find subs only on DVD, Blueray and games .
Every serie, every movie, every documentation is dubbed in the german TV, no matter from which country.

The problem is only that the best voice actors works for the movies, while for animes the studios hire cheaper voice actors.

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Originally Posted by Felis

In germany you find subs only on DVD, Blueray and games .
Every serie, every movie, every documentation is dubbed in the german TV, no matter from which country.

The problem is only that the best voice actors works for the movies, while for animes the studios hire cheaper voice actors.

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Is that why Spanish dubs tend to have voices that sound too similar?

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Originally Posted by Felis

In germany you find subs only on DVD, Blueray and games .
Every serie, every movie, every documentation is dubbed in the german TV, no matter from which country.

The problem is only that the best voice actors works for the movies, while for animes the studios hire cheaper voice actors.

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i'm not talking about nowadays, but a couple decades ago.

On another note, to be honest I'm hoping for a feature that is not very flattering to SE and their voice acting efforts but I really hope we'll be able to turn of voices but keep the background noises, as we had it in the 1.0-CSes.
I am really sorry that I sound so ignorant here and I do appreciate SE's efforts but with many of the characters being around for a year or more I have already formed quite an accurate picture of them, also in voice and speaking manners.
I don't really want to mute everything (like turning off my speakers) because just having music and background sounds already helped me a lot appreciating the cutscenes. I actually heard all the relevant voices/dialogues in my head.
I'm hoping for this because in some primary cases (when it comes to chars that I like a lot like Merlwyb, Kan-E-Senna, Y'shtola or Raubahn) I already have voices in my head that fit my understanding of the characters perfectly (perfect for me).
Not to have anybody dub them might therefore stabilise my immersion much more than having voice actors. Because if the voice actors - and they might do an awesome job nonetheless - are off too much of how I imagine a character to be then it would just sort of break my image of the character and with this break my immersion (yes, that sounds really comical but as sad and corny as it is - it's true v.v ).
Of course there is the possibility that I love the voice actors but in case that I don't I'd rather have the option to enjoy the story with my own imagination (but not cutting out all the sound - I really enjoy the music and background sound design).

I have no idea if anything regarding this issue was stated. If so, can anyone provide me a source and if not so, could a dev give an answer to this?
That would be really great!

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Originally Posted by Goufunaki

That woman could read a phone book and I'd be enthralled! :o

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Claudia Black, yes please! <3

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

We made sure the person portraying Merlwyb would fit her personality just right! We hope you'll all be pleasantly surprised come launch!

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Originally Posted by Loggos

On another note, to be honest I'm hoping for a feature that is not very flattering to SE and their voice acting efforts but I really hope we'll be able to turn of voices but keep the background noises, as we had it in the 1.0-CSes.
I am really sorry that I sound so ignorant here and I do appreciate SE's efforts but with many of the characters being around for a year or more I have already formed quite an accurate picture of them, also in voice and speaking manners.
I don't really want to mute everything (like turning off my speakers) because just having music and background sounds already helped me a lot appreciating the cutscenes. I actually heard all the relevant voices/dialogues in my head.
I'm hoping for this because in some primary cases (when it comes to chars that I like a lot like Merlwyb, Kan-E-Senna, Y'shtola or Raubahn) I already have voices in my head that fit my understanding of the characters perfectly (perfect for me).
Not to have anybody dub them might therefore stabilise my immersion much more than having voice actors. Because if the voice actors - and they might do an awesome job nonetheless - are off too much of how I imagine a character to be then it would just sort of break my image of the character and with this break my immersion (yes, that sounds really comical but as sad and corny as it is - it's true v.v ).
Of course there is the possibility that I love the voice actors but in case that I don't I'd rather have the option to enjoy the story with my own imagination (but not cutting out all the sound - I really enjoy the music and background sound design).

I have no idea if anything regarding this issue was stated. If so, can anyone provide me a source and if not so, could a dev give an answer to this?
That would be really great!

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Who knows, maybe they sound exactly how you imagined them! Wouldn't you want to find out!?

Our gridanian leader sounds exactly as I pictured her sounding in Japanese, so I'm pretty sure SE has a handle on it.

FF has great voice actors.. I wish all of the FF characters were voiced.
It would make the game so much better imo.

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Originally Posted by Loggos

Of course there is the possibility that I love the voice actors but in case that I don't I'd rather have the option to enjoy the story with my own imagination (but not cutting out all the sound - I really enjoy the music and background sound design).

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I included this option from the start. >.>;
Of course I can't tell by now what it will be like, neither do I try to. But that doesn't mean that the case of not liking them can't happen to me either.

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

We made sure the person portraying Merlwyb would fit her personality just right! We hope you'll all be pleasantly surprised come launch!

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Hi Hvinire / Community Reps,

Thanks. Also, if it's possible, can you confirm with the Dev Team if they are still planning on giving players the *Option* of choosing Original Japanese Language with English Subtitles for FF XIV 2.0?

I know Mocchi confirmed this for us last year (08/2012):

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Originally Posted by Mocchi

こんにちは。

新生版でのカットシーンは、ゲームに設定している言語以外の言語の音声や字幕を ゲーム内のコンフィグで選択出来るようになる予定です。その中で、音声ボリュームを調整する機能の実装も検討しており、そのボリュームを0にすることで音 声をOFFにすることも想定されています。また、キャラクター選択画面や、ゲーム開始前のコンフィグでも設定できるよう検討を進めています。

また何か気になる点がありましたらフィードバックをお寄せください。

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But that's from a long time ago.

Considering that at the recent Nico Nico Chokaigi 2 Event, Yoshi P confirmed that our old Battle Regiment System is now going to be just the Limit Breaks they are showing us (i.e., simplified / not quite the same as doing Skillchains), I just want to make sure they haven't forgotten (or might drop) this Option for players that do want it (Option to Choose Spoken Language with English Subtitles).

Thanks! :)

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Originally Posted by Loggos

I included this option from the start. >.>;
Of course I can't tell by now what it will be like, neither do I try to. But that doesn't mean that the case of not liking them can't happen to me either.

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I was joking. Yeah, all the power to having options.

I'm sorry. I can hardly differentiate between irony and seriousness on the internet. I need the sound of the voice to tell those two apart (oh, the irony). :)

Another example, that I might find even more suitable is Emma Thompson in the style she did Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet in. Maybe a little colder. (It's funny how many of the examples that I like hold roles similar to Merlwyb such as Aeryn Sun, Seargent Calhoun or Captain Amelia...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQkt7_Gq4k4