[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

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Originally Posted by nukemind

Have a feeling it will just keep going in circles forever. No one is going to be convinced.

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+1 to your post.
Guess as this is feedback/opinion thread, becoming circular is kinda inevitable.

Sounds like African accent. I got no issues with it if Dawntrail is based on "Africa".

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Originally Posted by nukemind

Thread is going nowhere at this point. 25% of people are truly phobic, 25% just don't like the voice, 25% think everyone who doesn't like it is phobic and like the voice, and 25% think the voice is great.

Have a feeling it will just keep going in circles forever. No one is going to be convinced.

Though on one point- yes Hispanic accent would be a better term. Where I am (originally) from Spanish/Hispanic were used interchangeably as we had people from Mexico, yes, but also Guatamala, Honduras, El Salvador, etc.

Though amusingly when I visited Spain Spaniards hated the idea of a Spanish accent too- instead (much like any other country) it was Andalusian, Catalonian, Castillian, Galician, etc. Beautiful country. Highly recommend anyone who can to visit it, especially if you can speak Spanish (really made life easier for me there but like... I feel like that's the rule for all foreign countries).

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Hi!
Just to add a nitpick, there isn't any Catalonian accent, Catalan is a whole language on it's own compared to spanish

Then yeah there's multiple accents as you said on here too but just wanted to say

Whenever Wuk Lamat opens her mouth. And you guys said I just had to wait for DT and she'd totally be better lmao.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/25/97/2f/2...a63f13a16f.jpg

The voice did seem off, damaged and unnatural accent wise even for what they're going for, finding this thread kinda conveys the reason why.

Call it bigoted or what not but there is definitely an uncanny feeling when Wuk is present in cutscenes.

i personally don't think it's "off" because "her gender is wrong", i think it's "off" because it's someone speaking their native language with a non-native accent from outside their experience (because i've had the same "uncanny" feeling i think you're trying to convey here in previous expacs for similar reasons).

i don't think feeling that "something is weird about this performance/chartacterisation" is "bigoted" in and of itself, but it is weird to me that even people who had no idea this actor was a trans woman are suddenly retconning their own impressions to support pre-existing biases..

(just noticed the tags for this thread, y'all are killin' me with this twitter crap lmao)

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Originally Posted by Pavise

The voice did seem off, damaged and unnatural accent wise even for what they're going for, finding this thread kinda conveys the reason why.

Call it bigoted or what not but there is definitely an uncanny feeling when Wuk is present in cutscenes.

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Just DEI being DEI. At least now we have yet another meme about them, too bad it is in xiv tho.

Glad to play with german voices on this time.
Usually I put voices on English because the voiceacting is generally way better than the german one. But after having to listen to Wuk again in the first cutscene, I changed it asap. xD'

Now you can call me a bigot or whatever-phobe. It's not about identity politics. It's just about a person sadly being not very good at their job, which was already pretty clear when Wuk had her first appearance a few months ago. /shrug

Not a fan of the character - without spoilers is this character heavily featured so far?

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Originally Posted by Loonastra

Sadly, yes.

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Not what I was hoping to hear, but thank you!