[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[MitsukiKimura]

Felt like they were trying to hard to be funny with the dialogue in the solo duty bird fight and it fell flat. I personally hope I don't have to listen to it for more than half of the next expansion. Wouldn't be my ideal for a summer vacation. More like that uncomfortable feeling when you wanna leave from a family gathering but one of your family members starts making everything awkward.

[Fortecael]

To be honest, I'm starting to believe that this is actually just SE testing the waters to see how low they can go with the game's quality before the playerbase revolts en masse and seeing how they still get tons of people defending them and making mental gymnastics all over the place the answer is A LOT.

[Karious]

I'm sure they'll continue trying to cut corners where they can. I know Sega did the same thing by hiring YongYea for Yakuza.

[ReynTime]

I don't know what a hispanic or brazilian accent is supposed to sound like so I'm not going to agree or disagree about the caricature part.
The performance did bother me a lot. I'm just repeating what I said in other threads but I haven't heard voice acting this bad in this game since 1.0.

No, scratch that. Honoroit's was also real bad in 3.2.

[sindriiisgaming]

I'm not surprised that people are trying to rile folks up with out of context screenshots and trying to frame a thread about bad voice acting as being transphobic. It's sad that we can't have an honest discussion on the quality of the voice work without people trying to dismiss it and claim it's all just anti lgbt.

even if it wasnt absout transphobia, insinuating shes a racist characture is honestly completly over the line, youre going to loose your own cause here

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I'm still waiting for people to be up in arms over erenville being from the new world. He has an Icelandic accent after all.





Also, for those saying wuk has an "American accent" whatever that means, one thing she absolutely does not sound like is a white woman from Kentucky. I feel like people don't actually understand how varied American accents are.

[LillyWandsworth]

Are we still going on about this?

[Atelier-Bagur]

Are we still going on about this?

Yeah because the FFXIV forum community are so starved for content that were now reduced to complaining about VAs.

[VirusOnline]

Also, for those saying wuk has an "American accent" whatever that means, one thing she absolutely does not sound like is a white woman from Kentucky. I feel like people don't actually understand how varied American accents are.

I love this video. I believe Singer is a very well known voice coach/dialect expert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1KP4ztKK0A

There's a part in this series where he goes on to talk about the latino american accents and it's very interesting. Soft l pronunciations, the 'd' and 'th' pronunciations, and all that. I have only a little exposure to spanish from school but I think these are the sounds I was coming to expect which is why I'm thrown off by Lamat.

IE a few of her lines sound off to me...

"Sorry, sorry, it's just so different here."
"But he raised me as his own."
"You weren't exaggerating."
"And I have every intention of winning."
"You'll come to Tural, yes?" This line sounds odd. It has the accent but it's lacking something that I can't quite put my finger on.

Most of these have standard american undertones to me.

Some of her lines are brilliant like when she introduces herself and where she came from. Now that sounds so good in my ears. But there are a lit of fall in quality, again her accent is not consistent.

[DisasterGayofCrisis]

I think that's an apples to oranges situation here.
With Wuk Lamat, she's slated to be the next Lyse of Dawntrail. Receiving a huge amount of screentime. We're given a glimpse of her character before the expansion, which Varshan didn't have. Varshan is also a character that we grow attached to through his actions in the story before we have a chance to notice that he's an important character. (plus, this is a weak defense, but Varshan's broken accent was a bit endearing because it actually is a fake accent) If they only revealed Wuk Lamat after the expansion's launch, then there's nothing to do. No one's going to ask them to redub an entire expansion, but there's a chance the work isn't done yet, and they might be able to find someone better to record the lines before Dawntrail's final release. We heard like three lines from her before 6.55, all neutrally said. Not enough to gauge how well the voice acting is, but now she actually emotes and goes on monologues. Wuk Lamat is center stage, and wants us all to know about it. Part of it also might be the writing. I'll be honest, only one of her jokey-jokes actually landed for me.
I don't want her to get fired exactly, I just want the best voice possible for such an integral role.

As a final note: Why are you commenting so vehemently on the situation when you admitted to not having heard the voice acting in question?

The funny thing here is about going "We grew to know Varshahn" like my friend no, people didn't care, people STILL complained non-stop about Varshahn with the exact same crap we're seeing with Wuk Lamat. People did the same thing with Zero, people do this whenever there is a new character.