Voice Acting Going Forward

[SpiritMuse]

I can only assume that you're playing the game dubbed? The Japanese voices are very good and always sound spot on in my opinion.

I've never had a problem with the English voices. They sound exactly like they should to me.

[Enla]

I've never had a problem with the English voices. They sound exactly like they should to me.

I will admit to hating the bulk of the 2.0 voices, but ever since the switch to a new studio in 3.0 I haven't had much of an issue. About the only thing of note was Hien's voice actor gaining an accent, dropping it, then ping ponging through the initial bulk of the Steppe before he found his rhythm.

English voice actors are a lot more expensive than Japanese. And they're typically always sub par. I honestly didn't mind 4.5's voice acting to be honest. But that's just me.

It varies by studio to studio in my experience. The quality isn't at the consistent level Japan has, though even there if you know enough of the language you can begin to spot a lot of phoned in performances, but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be. The pay gap however is and always will be a travesty and I wish I knew enough of Japanese law to understand why the Japanese Actors Union can't negotiate living wages for most seiyuus. Even the US average industry standard, calculated at $35,360 in 2017,(another calculation that shows the top end and low end salaries) is better by leaps and bounds.