[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[Tsumdere]

A quick aside: how many people on this forum use Japanese voices? I honestly thought it was the default choice (given the usual number of defenders of the original voice actors, who are reputed to be better than the dubbers hired for other languages).

The Venn Diagram of people who play FFXIV and people who watch anime is almost a complete circle, so it's no wonder that people would go out of their way to swap to Japanese.

I think the English voices are stellar (after ARR) including Wuk.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The Venn Diagram of people who play FFXIV and people who watch anime is almost a complete circle, so it's no wonder that people would go out of their way to swap to Japanese.

I think the English voices are stellar (after ARR) including Wuk.

The other thing with voice acting is its a lot harder to tell if it's bad if you aren't a native speaker.

[Karious]

I never called you transphobic, but you sure told on yourself with that post. Breaking out the alt-right favorites like "the alphabet group ideals", "im just posting upsetting truths", trying to play the victim, etc. That bit about anti-trans religious groups not insisting we follow their beliefs is is particularly absurd given all the anti-trans legislation pushed the past few years by religious politicians.

I suggest you open with the alt-right drivel right away in your future posts. Let's people know right away to just ignore you.

"Noooo you can't live in a different country with different values!!!"
You sound ridiculous calling someone out like that who lives in a different country where they have different values and societal norms.

[Minali]

I really love her voice, really bringing over the big (and slightly clumsy) sister character. ^^

Edit:

A quick aside: how many people on this forum use Japanese voices? I honestly thought it was the default choice (given the usual number of defenders of the original voice actors, who are reputed to be better than the dubbers hired for other languages).

I am using the English one. I don't speak Japanese and know from movies etc. that hearing a different language than reading it (in subtitles etc) is extra confusing for me. At first I tried the German one because I am German, but let's just say I am not very fond of German voice acting in many games and FFXIV is no exception. (To me it sounds so over the top "clean" and free of any kind of dialect or accent, making it sound rather unnatural to me, and kind of hard to distinguish.) And some UI translations were really confusing.
That said, my English is okay, but it took me a while to understand what the Rogue quests were about. I was on the fence if I should switch back to German after all for a while.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

"Noooo you can't live in a different country with different values!!!"
You sound ridiculous calling someone out like that who lives in a different country where they have different values and societal norms.

Well then it's a good thing we aren't trying to push (mistaken) Christian beliefs on a game made by people from a place where it's not a major religion.



Oh wait.

[Burmecia]

A quick aside: how many people on this forum use Japanese voices? I honestly thought it was the default choice (given the usual number of defenders of the original voice actors, who are reputed to be better than the dubbers hired for other languages).

I think my audio is in ENG, but I hear it so rarely because actually I play with my game muted and listen to something else while I'm gaming. Radio, news, YT trash, just some good music.
Had to go sample Wuk Lamat from YT, and considered her voice to be 2/5-ish. Overall just kinda flat performance. "Could be better, would have tried to find someone else if I was casting person."
But I wont be listening to her or anyone anyway (unless any random cutscene seems interesting, I tend to turn on audio for those ;3), so whatever.
Don't really care of the voice actor's feelings, or her fan base's feelings - except that I hope they are fine. Let's live and let live.

[Karious]

Well then it's a good thing we aren't trying to push (mistaken) Christian beliefs on a game made by people from a place where it's not a major religion.

Oh wait.

Uhh???? Who's pushing Christian beliefs on the game? You can have Christian beliefs, like Undeadfire said, but they don't push them on other people??? People are allowed to have different opinions and different opinions are not inherently transphobic. I hate that everyone online these days regardless of which side; has the mindset that 'if you don't agree with me 100% you're the devil and i hate you and you don't deserve an opinion and everything you say can be dismissed because you're evil.'. Stop it. Get some help.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Uhh???? Who's pushing Christian beliefs on the game? You can have Christian beliefs, like Undeadfire said, but they don't push them on other people??? People are allowed to have different opinions and different opinions are not inherently transphobic. I hate that everyone online these days regardless of which side; has the mindset that 'if you don't agree with me 100% you're the devil and i hate you and you don't deserve an opinion and everything you say can be dismissed because you're evil.'. Stop it. Get some help.

That's not what I said at all, but ok. The very first thread made by the person who complained about being banned (who then seems to have gotten banned for doing the same thing) opened the thread by misgendering Sena and lashing out when called on it. I have been called a liar for stating that fact. There's a post on these forums that states:

Straight White Christians (especially men) are the biggest minority, most persecuted and least represented in just about everything today. That's a fact.

[kamenkuro]

I thought it was Erenville for a minute when I first heard the voice in the first couple trailers.

[MarniDawg]

I don't think it's the worst voice acting ever but I do agree there are times when her accent feels forced. I hope things improve for the expansion. When she's on it feels great and I can get a good feel for what the character is supposed to be, just falls a bit flat here and there.