Please give English Speakers more respect. Dawntrail terrible English voice acting

[Ayer2015]

The voice acting was standard for the game, and fine. I have a bigger issue that the full MSQ was not voiced.

[Mapleine]

Personally, I disliked Wuk both as a character and her English VA before I knew anything at all about the actor. Another idea that would be nice though: The ability to change languages in a per character basis. So I could put Wuk on JP and leave everyone else English.

BRB, hard locking Uraigner to English

[SDaemon]

She can't do any voice that isn't neutral
When wuk yells, she's flat
when wuk is sarcastic, she's flat
when wuk is sad, she's flat

I hope we don't see much of her in the future because she may be the worst voice actor i've heard since ARR

This. Legitimately feels as if the VA has the worst voice intonation possible for fear of not being able to do the accent otherwise and it just makes the entire performance grating.

[IvoryHawk]

Another example...erenville has an Icelandic accent...so why does his mom have an American accent? Like what??
Where did he get that accent? Is he faking?
The voice director couldn't even be bothered to get an Icelandic women to voice his mother.

I couldn't agree more, i didn't like that they did this, no matter how long she was inside gold amaurot or whatever other excuse they wanna make for it, it didn't feel right at all.

[Shialan]

So, there always were bad performances of voice acting in this game. Why do we now get multiple threads about this issue?

Also, do people here know how voice acting even works? Voice actors don't sit at home, get to see the nice cutscenes we do and then speak into the mic. They go to a studio, someone there gives them the script and tells them how to read it. 99% of the time they don't even get any context of the spoken lines or any visual aid.

Yes, that does not excuse bad voice acting. But most of the time it's also the fault of the director. But people only ever blame the voice actor.

And in this case, it's always while mentioning that Wuk Lamat's voice actor is trans.

[IvoryHawk]

i feel like the voice acting from wuk lamat is due to the forced accent, rather than her being inherently bad. During one particular emotional scene, she was really good. But it does seem she does seem flat is a good amount of cutscenes, almost as if being held back by the direction that the story wants to force accents for consistency sake.

"But the voice actor is Porta Rican!" Is all i'm seeing, instead of getting an actual Porta Rican VA that doesn't have to put on a voice, they went this route, so many things could have been done though honestly, and Wuk is only a small part of the boring story.

[lolnotacat]

"But the voice actor is Porta Rican!" Is all i'm seeing, instead of getting an actual Porta Rican VA that doesn't have to put on a voice, they went this route, so many things could have been done though honestly, and Wuk is only a small part of the boring story.

The VA is a half Puerto Rican that grew up on the East Coast, but that doesn't mean anything as far as I'm concerned. I'm half Mexican and lived in the American Southwest from CA to TX and every state in between. The only time I can do a "Mexican" accent is when I'm actually speaking Spanish. If I try in English, it just comes off as forced and bordering on offensive. That's how Wuk's "accent" sounds to me. They just say the VA is Puerto Rican like it's some sort of pass and that linguistics are passed down genetically.

[Karious]

So, there always were bad performances of voice acting in this game. Why do we now get multiple threads about this issue?

Also, do people here know how voice acting even works? Voice actors don't sit at home, get to see the nice cutscenes we do and then speak into the mic. They go to a studio, someone there gives them the script and tells them how to read it. 99% of the time they don't even get any context of the spoken lines or any visual aid.

Yes, that does not excuse bad voice acting. But most of the time it's also the fault of the director. But people only ever blame the voice actor.

And in this case, it's always while mentioning that Wuk Lamat's voice actor is trans.

I suppose the difference is probably that Wuk Lmao has 7000 spoken words of dialogue, twice as many as the next character in dawntrail... Kinda a problem if they can't voice act. People are going to complain.

[IvoryHawk]

The VA is a half Puerto Rican that grew up on the East Coast, but that doesn't mean anything as far as I'm concerned. I'm half Mexican and lived in the American Southwest from CA to TX and every state in between. The only time I can do a "Mexican" accent is when I'm actually speaking Spanish. If I try in English, it just comes off as forced and bordering on offensive. That's how Wuk's "accent" sounds to me. They just say the VA is Puerto Rican like it's some sort of pass and that linguistics are passed down genetically.

Exactly what i was getting at yeah, there was even a video recently of all the new cast on the Alphinaud channel with all the VA cast, everyone but Sena actually sounds like their character, so why go with someone that has to make the accent

[Rolder50]

So, there always were bad performances of voice acting in this game. Why do we now get multiple threads about this issue?

Also, do people here know how voice acting even works? Voice actors don't sit at home, get to see the nice cutscenes we do and then speak into the mic. They go to a studio, someone there gives them the script and tells them how to read it. 99% of the time they don't even get any context of the spoken lines or any visual aid.

Yes, that does not excuse bad voice acting. But most of the time it's also the fault of the director. But people only ever blame the voice actor.

And in this case, it's always while mentioning that Wuk Lamat's voice actor is trans.

If it was a random side character with poor VA, no one would care. This is the main character of the expansion with more voiced dialogue then any other character, which should be held to a higher standard. And the actor's gender does not matter in the slightest here.