What even is Cid's NA accent?

You know as much as I love this game, it's mechanics, and overall systems, some of the voice acting makes me want to crush my left kidney.

Now I point to the elephant in the room and listen to Cid's. Is he trying to do an accent? He really like to hold his "s," and slightly silences some consotance I-I just don't understand, I looked up the VA, he seems pretty experienced, but what is his game.

His game is Ironworks. :P

He's a garlean deserter.

Its an old magicians trick.

A magician would ask a person a bunch of questions, often pausing and going "mmm" mid sentence. Then outta nowhere they ask the person to write down a letter for the magician to guess, and most of the time its the letter M. This is because all the "mmm" during the conversation planted that letter in the persons mind.

Sid holds the "S" so that when someone asks "so what do you think of Cid?" the first thing most people say is "Sexy."

I don't really understand the over exaggerated grudge people seem to have with the voice acting in this game. I never thought any of the voices were that awful.

Probably doesn't help that the acting in general is pretty flat.

Wait, he has an accent? I find it hard to pay attention to what he's saying when he's on screen.

Whatever accent he has faded away from my mind long ago as I pretty much from the get-go replaced his voice with The Dude's.

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Originally Posted by Vivi_Bushido

I don't really understand the over exaggerated grudge people seem to have with the voice acting in this game. I never thought any of the voices were that awful.

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Because you have people that will swear by Japanese > English when it comes to voice acting.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Because you have people that will swear by Japanese > English when it comes to voice acting.

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Don't forget the Sub vs dub debate

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Originally Posted by Lewtskie

Whatever accent he has faded away from my mind long ago as I pretty much from the get-go replaced his voice with The Dude's.

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Jeff Bridges as Cid?

Yeah. Just gonna go with this from now on.

Honestly the only English VAs that have positively nailed it for me in FFXIV are Aymeric and post-3.0 Tataru (because Carina Reeves really knows how to sound beyond adorable yet never cloying about it)

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Because you have people that will swear by Japanese > English when it comes to voice acting.

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They're not wrong, but only because it's not as easy to spot bad acting in a language you don't understand.

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Originally Posted by JisKing98

Don't forget the Sub vs dub debate

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About this, 90% I tend to prefer whichever voices I heard first.

The last %10 is reserved for when I have biased favortism towards certain voice actors, like Crispen Freemen (Alucard from the Hellsing english dub) or when the voice just doesn't fit at all ( Japanese goku from DBZ sounds a bit akward compared to the english version, while Vegeta sounds fine in Sub or Dub.)

While I like some of the HW ENG voice actors/actress, I do fear what will happen in 4.0. If in 4.0 the ENG gets a new cast again, then I will probably change to the Japanese voices. Playing FFXIV HW and hearing the cast with new voices was very weird and took me out of the game. A voice and character should stick toghter, can you imagine someone else being the voice actor of Aymeric? I know, I will be gutted, if they replace his voice actor in 4.0.

I also did not like how sneaky SE was, in most games and cartoons/anime its known that when a character voice is being changed, they address this ahead of time.

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Originally Posted by Laerune

While I like some of the HW ENG voice actors/actress, I do fear what will happen in 4.0. If in 4.0 the ENG gets a new cast again, then I will probably change to the Japanese voices. Playing FFXIV HW and hearing the cast with new voices was very weird and took me out of the game. A voice and character should stick toghter, can you imagine someone else being the voice actor of Aymeric? I know, I will be gutted, if they replace his voice actor in 4.0.

I also did not like how sneaky SE was, in most games and cartoons/anime its known that when a character voice is being changed, they address this ahead of time.

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It definitely wasn't good for role players.
HW arrives - Who the heck are these imposters?

Admiral's 'Seven Hells!' Replaced by 'eh up chuck, 'ow thee doing?"
Some worked, some didn't.

Lets just hope they don't decide to change the whole voice cast again.

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Originally Posted by Mahri

They're not wrong, but only because it's not as easy to spot bad acting in a language you don't understand.

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I have a semi-fluent understanding of Japanese. I just can't read it well.

To me the Japanese voice acting for this game is better, but pretty much I hold the opinion that usually the better option is the original language the game/show/movie was created in.

I watch movies in their original languages with subs and never dubs not just for Japanese things but for French also (which I am also semi-fluent without subs because Canadian). Also for pretty much any other language too even ones I don't understand at all like Chinese/Spanish/Italian.

Original language > dub

It usually seems forced, less emotional at parts, and a lot of random mouth flapping with confused voices coming out...not every dub is that bad mind you but I can always see the inconsistencies in the mouth movements and the voice no matter how hard they try to match it.

for me the best voice actor is the one that does Alphinaud.

really manages to accurately convey what an irritating little sh*t that character is

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Because you have people that will swear by Japanese > English when it comes to voice acting.

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You know what's funny is that japanese people happen to see it the other way around.

Most native english speakers don't actually speak japanese, and don't know the general inflection of the language, and cannot attest to how poor or good their voice acting and line delivery actually is.

For all we know, the voice acting can be as off as it is over here

Oh boy here comes the Japanese voice acting is better than English.... When I hear Japanese voice acting hurts my ears then makes me cringe too much.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Because you have people that will swear by Japanese > English when it comes to voice acting.

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Nothing to do with that. The NA voice acting in HW really is that bad.

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Originally Posted by Laerune

While I like some of the HW ENG voice actors/actress, I do fear what will happen in 4.0. If in 4.0 the ENG gets a new cast again, then I will probably change to the Japanese voices. Playing FFXIV HW and hearing the cast with new voices was very weird and took me out of the game. A voice and character should stick toghter, can you imagine someone else being the voice actor of Aymeric? I know, I will be gutted, if they replace his voice actor in 4.0.

I also did not like how sneaky SE was, in most games and cartoons/anime its known that when a character voice is being changed, they address this ahead of time.

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The only reason for the change was SE switching to a VA company in London (Reason why is beyond me.) So unless they decide to switch to another company again, you have nothing to worry about.

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Originally Posted by NaesakiAshwell

Lets just hope they don't decide to change the whole voice cast again.

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Change them or send them the way of Game of Thrones (for good)

How about cids gets Sean bean as voice actor? (smelling shitstorm incoming :D)

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Originally Posted by KeluBehemoth

Nothing to do with that. The NA voice acting in HW really is that bad.

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Agree to disagree

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Originally Posted by Cipher_Zaabiz

How about cids gets Sean bean as voice actor? (smelling shitstorm incoming :D)

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Letting Sean Bean voice act for Cid is basically saying that Cid will die in 4.0.

How about we forego acting entirely and use pure text like in the good old days?

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Originally Posted by Remus

Oh boy here comes the Japanese voice acting is better than English.... When I hear Japanese voice acting hurts my ears then makes me cringe too much.

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This actually happened to me this weekend. Popped in Atelier Sophie, put on the Jap VA (since I've liked most the Atelier games Japanese voices), but 1 scene in and I was like Nope. No, thank you. That was the most unpleasant voice I've heard in a while.

On topic, Cid's NA voice. Mmm...

I think the reason why the VA is horrid is more or less do to with how they are writing the dialog. There has been a lot of Old English style text, now when you have that and ask your VA have to fit that style as well as fit the character, things get odd. Like why does Teledji have a deeper voice than Regula Hydrus? There is a lot of questions involving the VA in this game.

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Originally Posted by KeluBehemoth

Nothing to do with that. The NA voice acting in HW really is that bad.

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Everyone has their own opinion.. I love the HW VAs. EXCEPT Raubahn and Admiral. Omg why?

@Jet_Stream: Although I don't like Regula's voice either, I don't mind the lala voices after a period because I remember that they can have really deep toned voices lol. Like in character create. So it's.. technically possible for a lalafell to have a deeper voice than another race.

Krile and the 2.0-.55 Sultana both had deeper toned voices than Yda!(I hate her voice)