Wuk Lamat VOICE ACTING APPRECIATION

[Wildheaven182]

You DO know there are a number of characters that were voiced by people opposite from the character's sex? You do know that again- many people have androgynous voices.

Yeah. And they actually do it well unlike wuk lamat.
What a weirdo this guy is lol. No one else thinks the voice acting is good, you're just trying to virtue signal to your political tribe of weirdos.

You cant watch the wuk vs big speen fight cutscene and tell anyone the voice acting is good when she's just saying the words the exact same way she speaks in casual conversation with no urgency or volume or exertion.

[Rekh]

Current Wuk Lamat VA needs to improve on the portrayal of certain emotions compared to VAs in other languages.

She does happiness and sadness well but rage and intense moments felt lacking IMO

Is it only Wuk Lamat's voice actress or is it all of them?
I can pull up japanese Hien and english Hien and the emotional output is miles of difference.
Likewise with Alisaie; the english voice actress of her sounds like she's about to go to sleep compared to her japanese voice actress.

This is a director'c choice, not an issue with the voice actors/actresses from what I've seen.

[Lorika]

Is it only Wuk Lamat's voice actress or is it all of them?
I can pull up japanese Hien and english Hien and the emotional output is miles of difference.
Likewise with Alisaie; the english voice actress of her sounds like she's about to go to sleep compared to her japanese voice actress.

This is a director'c choice, not an issue with the voice actors/actresses from what I've seen.

It's not only a problem of choice, it's probably also a budget problem.... I think a big part of the dubbing budget was for the JP voice (it's very well know that seiyuu wage are high)

[Sililos]

The voice acting for her is great and probably one of the better aspects of the expansion.
Its her writing that i think puts people off.

[Noox-115]

I never understand the hate on the VA its not that bad

[Nestama]

Eh, that's pretty much just a one-way street because woman can easily sound like prepubescent boys but men who've gone through puberty will have a lot more trouble to sound like girls.

I can't really think of many, if any, instances of men voicing female characters where it isn't a comedy or some kind of purposefully weird disconnect or a beast/monster.

Bob's Burgers is right in your face aggressively waving at you.

Anyway, the real issue people should have with the voice acting is the director themselves. VA's don't get any visual contexts, nor do they get any audio contexts from other languages (and sometimes they don't even know what the character they're voicing even looks like). If the director doesn't do a good job actually directing, or telling the VA's to do another take or so on, then you're gonna have some moments sounding weird. Wuk Lamat sounds fine in some scenes, great in emotional (sad) scenes and... yeah, there are even scenes where I audibly said "yeah that needed another take, or at least required some sound editing" (I'm talking about when she's yelling down at us from high above in her castle).

[Oizen]

Damn the german voice for wuk goes pretty hard tho

[Rekh]

Sililos is correct; bringing up accents as a point of anything really does nothing for the voice actress's performance analysis when none of the asian characters sound asian at all in ffxiv.

[Rekh]

Bob's Burgers is right in your face aggressively waving at you.

Anyway, the real issue people should have with the voice acting is the director themselves. VA's don't get any visual contexts, nor do they get any audio contexts from other languages (and sometimes they don't even know what the character they're voicing even looks like). If the director doesn't do a good job actually directing, or telling the VA's to do another take or so on, then you're gonna have some moments sounding weird. Wuk Lamat sounds fine in some scenes, great in emotional (sad) scenes and... yeah, there are even scenes where I audibly said "yeah that needed another take, or at least required some sound editing" (I'm talking about when she's yelling down at us from high above in her castle).

Correct. Like that english scene with Alisaie sounding half asleep and then going "I amh nohhht alphinoooAuuUdD"
xiv's english dub has always been like this. It has been directed to sound "muted" compared to the other languages.

[royox]

I never understand the hate on the VA its not that bad

You cannot say that after the dreaded "Spene, listen to me" scene in english.

For most of the expansion she was bearable, but destroyed the climax moment with her horrible acting in the most important moment.

Sphene, Listen to me Comparison English vs Jap