Mo-Cap or Vocal Actors?

Just a small poll/What if/question to the playerbase. As of now, we've seen a lot of complaints (I'm part of it too) about the general lack of motion-capture use in ARR's cutscenes compared to 1.0, whilst the Vocal Acting has increased (but for some it's still not enough common).

Of course I do not know the reasons for SE to go the way they are with cutscenes, but just for this thread, let's assume it's to save money.

So here's the big Q:

Q: If Yoshida told you: "We can only afford paying Vocal Actors, or Motion Capture Stuntmen, not both. Which do you want?", what would you go for?

I'll start:

Motion Capture, 100%!

I'd vote for more voices; especially for npcs.

Voice acting for sure. I think that brings a lot more life to characters than motion capture myself. Of course best would be both lol

Definitely more voice acting. I have more than enough faith in the animation team to not bother with much motion capture at all, even when not using canned animations (ie. generic gestures during dialog).

I will go with voice actors out of personal experience with the Lunar games (only 1 and 2) which had such great voice acting

More voice acting, preferably at the same quality as what's already present. Sometimes the work feels spot on, sometimes it's just downright corny (Nabriales comes to mind as a prime example), but I find that it adds a certain charm to the game.

I'd prefer less talking heads and more action.

Mo-Cap please.

Another vote for voices. o/

Visuals are nice, but I personally feel more voices would be better.

Considering the game has points with no voice acting in the first place, Motion Capture would be the obvious choice. Though I'm not sure it's a fair choice to make. They both bring very important aspects to a scene. I actually have a GREAT video example for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny69S-GWcU8#t=105

Give that a watch (should link you to 1:45 in the video). Even though it's extremely subtle, that level of detail in facial expression can illustrate so much about how he feels during that scene. Don't need voice acting for that. However, having (good) voice acting increases the feeling you get by a lot. Having no animations can be fine too. Persona 3 and 4 largely functioned as visual novels with 3D character models making stiff movements for events. It had superb voice acting though, so it worked. There's no doubt in my mind if they had both though, that it would make all of the scenes that much more potent.

That FFXV video is kinda unfair comparison, it has had almost 10 years and god knows how many millions of dollars/yen in development :p

Edit: Also FFXV is probably running a different better engine then XIV/ARR with much less stress in the case of random multiple character movements (players) on screen unlike this game.

Personally I'd say voice acting as I like to sit back and chill while watching cutscene, I have faith in SE's animation departments for the visuals :)
I find the voice acting more immersive and its improved alot in last few patches, the cinematographpy and character movement is better too a lot more anitmated/engaging.

Voice acting. The "stock" animations are fine, but we could always use a voice we can remember for the ages.

I want 1.0's level of cinematography, and mo-cap back. More voice acting is great and should also come with improvements to the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ahpI7XvlU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD45euKWO1U

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

Why settle for anything less~?

I vote for more voice acting.

I miss Moenbryda's voice :(

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Originally Posted by Dhex

I want 1.0's level of cinematography, and mo-cap back. More voice acting is great and should also come with improvements to the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ahpI7XvlU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD45euKWO1U

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

Why settle for anything less~?

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Voice acting is great, but 1.0 did cutscenes right. I sincerely miss it.
There was some improvements I noticed in the rog/nin questline cutscenes but it's still far from what it could have been.

Another vote frm me for voice acting.

I recently replayed Saints Row IV and the level of VO in that is just awesome and really adds character to the game. Those singing sequences XD

well i hope in voice acting they get better, i've seen the voice actress of minfillia getting slightly better, the 1st cutscene with her voice was completely mechanic, the more recent ones it feels like she is trying to give some emotion, so i'm kinda betting on a dark horse there.

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Originally Posted by Milmoko_Gemoko

That FFXV video is kinda unfair comparison, it has had almost 10 years and god knows how many millions of dollars/yen in development :p

Edit: Also FFXV is probably running a different better engine then XIV/ARR with much less stress in the case of random multiple character movements (players) on screen unlike this game.

Personally I'd say voice acting as I like to sit back and chill while watching cutscene, I have faith in SE's animation departments for the visuals :)
I find the voice acting more immersive and its improved alot in last few patches, the cinematographpy and character movement is better too a lot more anitmated/engaging.

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Oh, I by no means am trying to say that XV animations are what XIV needs to aim for. I was just using it as an example to show that good motion capture can have a big impact on a scene. I'd say if XIV looked even half as good as XV did (not graphically, but animations) then maybe we might not need voice acting. It still wouldn't be an easy trade-off, I feel like both are so crucial.

Voice acting for me.

While I rarely remember hilariously bad movements/stiffness, I always remember bad voice acting..........so. Yep.

I say motion capture.

I would like to see better movement from our characters, if the elezen male was not so stiff in his walking, I would of chosen that instead of my cat.

Then later if you wanted to go back when you had money you could add voice acting.

Better the game movements first then fix the other stuff later.

Motion capture. These VAs are pretty bad for the most apart anyways.

Motion capture as well - I've never been a fan of voice-acting in games, and the FF series especially.

Id say hire better better/ authentic brittish people.

The fake english is glaringly obvious and grating to my ears

But the latest batch like moenbryda, eymeric are pretty good in comparison to the others

I'd vote voice acting.
I mean, it's pretty terrible at points, but that just makes me laugh and adds to the experience for me.

Clearly motion capture, the voice acting so far being plain bad, unfortunately. I usually end up turning the voices off all together. (The Japanese version might be the only one not cringeworthy, and I don't really speak japanese.)

I'd go for a bit of both. Split the budget ;)

Where mo-cap makes sense for expressing something use it. If voice acting can add a bit extra to it add it. But yeah there hav been certain instances where neither were really needed to convey the feelings in any way what-so-ever(post titan story comes to mind).

motion capture duh