Voice acting so bad

[Lemuria]

X/X-2 had a terrible English cast, lol.

Matt McKenzie (Auron) was the only good one.

I liked John Dimaggio's voice acting too. He did a great job with high-energy Wakka, and a complete 180 turn-around for the more stoic Kimahri.

Overall, I quite like the voice acting in FFXIV. There are a few which seem rather wooden, but on the whole it works rather well. I feel that a lot of what people dislike is more to do with people's own perceptions of what a character should sound like, and not necessarily what SE were aiming for. Either way I certainly don't think the voice actors are at fault for the divisive opinions. A lot of it is down to script and tone.

[Welsper59]

I liked John Dimaggio's voice acting too. He did a great job with high-energy Wakka, and a complete 180 turn-around for the more stoic Kimahri.

Overall, I quite like the voice acting in FFXIV. There are a few which seem rather wooden, but on the whole it works rather well. I feel that a lot of what people dislike is more to do with people's own perceptions of what a character should sound like, and not necessarily what SE were aiming for. Either way I certainly don't think the voice actors are at fault for the divisive opinions. A lot of it is down to script and tone.

DiMaggio's a beast when it comes to his voice work. His work with Wakka was probably the only praisable voice in X for me lol. Khimari was good. Maybe Lulu too? The unfortunate thing is, for some reason, Square related games tend to have expected misses with voice work, but those misses tend to be unnecessary. It's getting better at least. As far as games go, I grew up with voice work akin to Xenogears and its dubbed unintended comedy. That was bad... like "How did this pass? It's not even synced!", kind of bad lol.

So where we are now, compared to then, I'd say we defied the odds and brought out a mostly good dub lol. It's usually just a lack of proper direction for the bad ones. If anyone's seen Lost in Translation, with the scene where Bill Murray is shooting the commercial, that type of direction and miscommunication is how you get bad results without a long experienced performer lol.

Just for the sake of wanting to relive it: Xenogears