[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[OgruMogru]

I thought it was a little rough but mostly fine.

This game doesn't exactly have the best VAs in the business so I don't really mind much. But I am reminded of when people in this forum got upset with how "fake" a Scottish accent sounded from a VA from Scotland. Or when people thought Vanille's Aussie VA was putting on a fake Australian accent.

At least this isn't GW2, who hires a bunch of known VAs who can't pronounce the word "quay" right.

Ohno do they say "Kway"?

[MikkoAkure]

Ohno do they say "Kway"?

Yep. Classic mistake of someone reading a word they've seen written but never said out loud. And no one corrected them before it made it to the game and she had to say it over and over for this one quest.

[KaruAhari]

The JP voice is great by the way. Ayaka Shimoyamada. Doesn't seem to have had any major roles yet, but I'm glad they found her. She plays off so well with Erenville's JP voice (which sounds so much better in that dry tone.)

[NiceNox]

I feel like the accent is not the problem, but the consistency of the performance is. Like, there are some lines that are delivered greatly, while there are some that range from "meh" to "huh?". In my opinion, the VAs has to work on the consistency in delivery and so on, making it nature like talking or walking normally. If you reference Wuk's voice line with G'raha, you can see the difference in consistency.

VA stands for Voice Acting, and acting is a set of skills. With enough practice, everyone can be skillful regardless of sexes, genders, and ages, that's why we have so many old but experienced people voicing young characters. I can only hope that the VA looks at the performance and strive for excellence.

[Turtledeluxe]

The voice is literally perfect. The acting is expected. It can take some sessions for actors to find their footing. It wasn't flawless but it wasn't bad either.

[Elkanah]

I hope they don\\'t change it. I actually really love her voice.

Same though

[Magma442]

Before the thread gets deleted, spammed or mass reported I'll say this in brief.

Ill give everyone a fair shot in voice impressions and the voice direction might be stronger in the expansion than in the patch. BUT for first impressions I wanted to like the character but I feel the current direction of the voice hindered rather than helped.

I get ff14 English VA isn't always 100% but at least for long occurring characters or characters who will have many voiced scenes it should at least feel like they are acting the character.

The current Wuk direction felt flat, with a bad accent, didn't really feel like they were as expressive as the character was posed to be in animation, and overall felt like they were reading lines from the script rather than talking/acting as the character.

Still as stated before everyone gets a fair chance to flex their talents, but first impressions it felt amateurish compared to the other trained VA's

[kayll]

Before the thread gets deleted, spammed or mass reported I'll say this in brief.

Ill give everyone a fair shot in voice impressions and the voice direction might be stronger in the expansion than in the patch. BUT for first impressions I wanted to like the character but I feel the current direction of the voice hindered rather than helped.

I get ff14 English VA isn't always 100% but at least for long occurring characters or characters who will have many voiced scenes it should at least feel like they are acting the character.

The current Wuk direction felt flat, with a bad accent, didn't really feel like they were as expressive as the character was posed to be in animation, and overall felt like they were reading lines from the script rather than talking/acting as the character.

Still as stated before everyone gets a fair chance to flex their talents, but first impressions it felt amateurish compared to the other trained VA's

Krile in the exact same scenes sounds like they are reading off a script in multiple lines, like a robot, like every word is the start of a new sentence.
G'raha sounds tired the entire time, like he didn't even want to be there.

Both returning voice actors in the same scenes with a new character we just met, yet only one of them is being hyper-scrutinized?
Not saying the new voice actor is perfect, but I wasn't very impressed by the voice acting as a whole this patch, so I find it kind of weird the new voice actor is the only one being judged harshly here.

[Magma442]

Krile in the exact same scenes sounds like they are reading off a script in multiple lines, like a robot, like every word is the start of a new sentence.
G'raha sounds tired the entire time, like he didn't even want to be there.

Both returning voice actors in the same scenes with a new character we just met, yet only one of them is being hyper-scrutinized?
Not saying the new voice actor is perfect, but I wasn't very impressed by the voice acting as a whole this patch, so I find it kind of weird the new voice actor is the only one being judged harshly here.

I personally didn't get robot from Krile or G'raha, but you can also not like the voice work of this patch, I didn't like early HW alph, but i feel the VA got used to the character. The issue still lies that this is the FIRST IMPRESSION of the character and acting goes flat. with G'raha and Krile we know that the actors have done great scenes in the past so a "robot voice" now doesn't mean it will be later, but this is our first time hearing a new character and current scenes feel stiff. there's a worry that the next big expansion will have flat acting for scenes with certain emotions and we have nothing to compare to, (other than the few seconds in the trailer.)

[Dionysius]

Sounds like a budget VA for Sqex to cut some budget.