Voice acting so bad

[AskaRay]

To each their own is all I say. I didn't like it - I also don't like Cowboy Bebop in general, though!

Yikes, mate.....

[LadyVal]

I decided to do the graceful thing and take this as a compliment, thanks! I am very happy with my refined taste

But of course! Your glittering reputation from your past posts only illustrates that you deserve all of the compliments one can think of.

[Nestama]

To each their own is all I say. I didn't like it - I also don't like Cowboy Bebop in general, though!

Then try Monster (if you enjoy the drama genre). That anime is also pretty darn good in English (the animation itself is also very well done).

[AskaRay]

Then try Monster (if you enjoy the drama genre). That anime is also pretty darn good in English (the animation itself is also very well done).

YES YES YES
+1000 agree. It's very good. The dub is also very good, haha, but the plot, man...

[Mael-bess]

So, after turning the voice to Japanese i still find it rather dull and forgettable. I don't think the problem lies with the voice acting itself, but rather the lack of emotions and "sound effects". In older titles you'd feel more connected to the characters than you do in this title for some reasons i'd say:

-Fewer, more memorable line. Old games didn't had this huge amount of lines, you had around 2 short lines per "square", unlike FFXIV which almost every line is a wall of text that you'd barely remember 5 minutes after reading it, too much is said for little meaning.
-Character emotions are non-existent, they mostly just spew their lines, this isn't solely to the voice acting as well, it's the animation itself. There's some moments here and there but they're rare, most of the time they just stand there doing nothing with blank face talking to you. it's forgettable.
-"Sound effects", in previous FF titles, which had no voice acting, the emotion was compensated with having some sounds effects on par with their animations, like a "wiggle-wiggle" or some other silly things. I remember this a lot in FF7 for example.

This is some nice mmorpg and although the story is interesting, the way it's told and presented is quite mediocre and not on par with other FF's, but i don't think it would make sense to be, the costs with that quality on top with having mmo quality would be atrocious.

[Moqi]

Not really, no. But this is generally the common assumption people have, that somehow they know the quality of another language's performance even though they aren't familiar with intonations and accents/dialects... but what might sound good to an english speaker might be over-the-top crazy theatrical to someone who speaks japanese.

qft. Most people who loooove the japanese voice acting could be listening to gibberish for all they know and still say it's awesome.

[Preypacer]

Actually, that scene kinda brought to mind an entirely different scenario, though partly because I'd watched some FC mates run around in that particular part of it...

Mainly, the drugged drink we were served in Falcon's Nest. I pretty much looked at those mugs Alphi brought in and said, "Whoa whoa! Last time I had a warm drink in a cutscene, I ended up unconscious on the floor. No way am I drinking that." xD

Because it's all basically spoiler still.. lol...

That could have been, too, yeah. Though, at least for me, that wouldn't have occurred to me with Alphinaud, because he's a known friend and ally. And because it was in that same room, etc... Now, had some other person, a stranger, brought the drinks in for both you and Alphinaud... yeah, my brain would have gone there again.

[Yasuhiro]

about your entire server from them.

Only Balmung.

This is actually my first FF game as well. I skip most cut scenes, but the ones I skip most are usually non-voiced cut scenes, so I too would prefer bad voice acting over no voice acting.

Why would a game that's littered with fanservice of previous FF games be anyone's first FF? And why would you skip cutscenes just because they're not voiced? Since this is your first FF game for someone reason let me just say that in the mainline titles the story carries the game. I don't know what it's like in World of Warcraft or whatever game you migrated from but this has always been the meat of mainline Final Fantasy games. It's amazing how you can spot a WoW refugee on the official forums when they complain about cutscenes in a franchise like Final Fantasy. I'd rather this game have no voice acting because the voice acting in this game from the English speakers sound worse than Final Fantasy X's voices, thank god for multiple audio tracks am I right?

[ohmRICE]

When it comes to ARR both the JP and EN voice acting is atrocious which I'm going to attribute to a small budget and short recording time frame. The only ones who put out a convincing in EN performance were Urianger, Ilberd, and later on Alphinaud.

Sadly they had to change Urianger and Ilberd in 3.0 and I'm not fond of the changes, but they shifted from a US group to a UK group so at least we don't have the fake British accents anymore? But man, the 3.0 voice actors are across the board better with the exception of a few. I can't even stand to try the JP audio again because it sounds just as bland and generic as it did in ARR. ( ´_ゝ`)

I kinda wish we could use the KR voices because they sound pretty solid, but I know that's impossible.