Why did they change all the voice actors?

[Nikkori]

I'd wager that he's potentially going through puberty

if alphinaud was going through puberty, his voice would DEEPEN, not go up in pitch. The original voice actor was sam riegel, a pretty well known voice actor if you watch anime. the new one, i don't know who it is, but it is fairly grating to listen to, between the flat tone to almost no emotion when speaking, and badly timed delivery. Honestly, i want to see an explaination from squeenix about why they replaced nearly all the voice actors. A good lot of the new voice actors just are not good fits, like Merlwyb sounding like a more refined lady instead of a rough and rowdy retired pirate, Raubhan's new voice being to soft for a warrior known as the "raging bull'... to the downright cringeworthy... sch as Yugiri's voice when you hear her speak the first time, or alpinaud's awkward pronounciations of words....

[Nikkori]

-- con't-- in all honesty, i think peopel just had their expectations of what they wanted the characters to sound like, or thought they should, and just didn't like the ARR voices chosen... yes, some were horrible already ( papalymo's high and screechy voice.... *shudder*), but there were alot of voices that were well matched, and i can't understand why the replacements occured, and not even so much as an explaination why to the fanbase....and yes, i realize that life happens, and you can't always get the original VAs back, but come on.... how about at least an explaination SE?

[Hexceed]

if alphinaud was going through puberty, his voice would DEEPEN, not go up in pitch.

Please calmly understand that we are not talking about a stereotypical Human puberty as we know it. As far as we know this may in fact be the normal stage of evolution for a Elezen child's puberty for his voice to go up a pitch.

[Vanroe]

Please calmly understand that we are not talking about a stereotypical Human puberty as we know it. As far as we know this may in fact be the normal stage of evolution for a Elezen child's puberty for his voice to go up a pitch.

Come on, lets not go through the mental gymnastic excersises of trying to pretend that this was an intended change to reflect a never once, and probably never will be, reference to a period of growth.

Im sure it's going to boil down to that this was a contract or payment or budget decision, sadly.

[Hexceed]

Come on, lets not go through the mental gymnastic excersises of trying to pretend that this was an intended change to reflect a never once, and probably never will be, reference to a period of growth.

Im sure it's going to boil down to that this was a contract or payment or budget decision, sadly.

I was just joking around? lol xD

[Rannie]

I'd wager that he's potentially going through puberty

Should we all start pooling our gil together to get him a hooker? jk

[Shinji_Ryukishi]

I'm really annoyed that they replaced Alphinaud's VA. His original VA was by far my favorite, I always looked forward to cutscenes with him. He was one of the few VAs that actually sounded like a real VA. Sam is a great actor and his voice fit Alphinaud's personality perfectly. This new guy just sounds like another generic not-so-great video game voice actor. Uugh.

[SpiritMuse]

So I've heard some more of the voice acting now and I have to say I'm still not impressed.

I personally actually don't mind Alphinaud's new voice that much - as good as Sam Riegel is, he always sounded too old to me, more like a thirtysomething with a light voice than an actual young person. It made Alphinaud sound sort of cartooney to my ears. Still, no real reason to change. He was good as he was.

Merlwyb is very disappointing. I kind of like the new accent, it sounds a bit rough, but the voice is just completely missing that awesome badass pirate admiral gravitas she used to have. She sounds somehow more... ditzy? Less mature and in control certainly.

Raubahn is not that much better. Again, I don't really mind the accent, but the voice is just not nearly deep and imposing enough for Raubahn. I mean, it's freaking Raubahn!

Yugiri is just mostly weird. She sounds likes she's affecting some kind of Japanese-like accent, but I'm not sure that it works.

And then Urianger.... That is just an abomination. If there was one actor who did not need to be replaced it was him. Gideon Emery has such a unique and distinctive voice and style, and this new guy sounds absolutely nothing like him. At all. It may as well be an entirely different character. And the best part? Emery is actually a Brit! He works mostly in the US, but that's more or less his natural accent we were hearing there. No reason, no reason at all to replace him.

Honestly, I'm not even sure I want to see the rest of the Scions again at this point. It could only ever be disappointing.

[Caldara]

The English voice acting in ARR and now in Heavensward is really bad. Version 1 voice actors were pretty good. Go to version 2 and every one's voices change, go to Heavensward and it happens again. Come on SE. There are a lot of good English voice actors. And do not tell me to listen in Japanese. I speak 1 language and if I can't understand what they are saying it defeats the purpose of voice acting. I don't understand, you can design a great game like this, but can't pick good voice actors?

[Nague]

i didnt mind, but midgardsormr sounded weird.