Quote Originally Posted by Alaray View Post
Even, simply, saying that one felt a line delivered too deadpan, or emotionally inconsistent, and then providing the example and why, is something anyone here can do, but choose not to for the most part.
Firstly, thank you for a nicely thought out response, even if I had to cut out a lot of it to fit in a response. This is the kind of thing I was hoping to see here so I really appreciate it.

There are actually a few people talking about this but they're completely buried in mountains of hatred right now. A number of people have noticed how strange a few characters sounded in the new patch, even performances from VAs that are highly regarded here such as G'raha and Krile. Personally I think this is valid criticism, especially those who are bringing up other factors such as direction and issues with VAs working remotely. I would like to see these points brought up more often because I think that's a far more balanced discussion as opposed to pinning the entirety of the blame on a single VA.

I understand this subject is maybe ultimately subjective in the end as you personally seemed to hear nothing wrong, but I still see value in people talking about these things as long as they are civil about it, which unfortunately is not really happening in the majority of these threads, which is why I'm so disappointed.

Quote Originally Posted by Alaray View Post
To be honest, if I was the performer, I'd throw the majority of the forum opinions in the bin as it's just a lot of useless yelling that's ultimately not productive, nor worth, anyone's time to sift through.
I agree completely. It's not her fault and I feel awful that she's getting so much hate. But I do hope that the team that was directing her is at least taking note, because I feel like they are to blame for a lot of this if they are able to make even long-time characters sound (to me) tired and lifeless. That, at least for me, is why I came to the forums - because I assume there is some chance that criticism may be relayed to the development team. Though I realize how unlikely that is. The last time I was here was to complain about Astrologian changes and clearly nothing happened. So I assume nothing will happen here, either. But I personally just couldn't shake the fact that something was off throughout this entire patch and I was thankful to see a few genuine people saying something similar, even if they are in the minority.

Anyways, at this point I just feel bad for adding onto the subject. I had my own reasons for not liking the English vocals for this patch, but I do not want to be correlated to those who are just spewing hatred. Any adult conversation that could have been had surrounding this subject is just gone thanks to people like that, so I'll probably be heading off the forum soon for another years long hiatus lol.