Voice Acting

[Rau]

That true but the voice actor in ffxiv are people who does naruto,bleach and so on so i think we be hearing them again for 2.0 and new voice for the leader of each company.

I really did wish the 3 company had voice over when the leader where talking or ifrit that would have been cool.

Everyone who recommends those two shows tells me not to bother with the horrendous dubs.

[Zenaku]

Everyone who recommends those two shows tells me not to bother with the horrendous dubs.

i like both the jp and eng version of naruto bleach i only like JP version. They did say they adding voice over for JP so i'm sure they allow us to switch the voice over from NA-JP subs so no issue on that if the jp are better i switch over to that as long as there sub titles lol.

[Reinheart]

They going to add voice like adults that comes out in Snoopy....

Wha wa waaa,,, wa ,,waa,,waaa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2hULhXf04

Oh and if they adding voice acting I hope they add option so players can decide to choose which language they want the voice in and have subtitle for cutscenes (pretty sure this part is no problem).... I can't stand Japanese anime with English dubs... when I found out Naruto on Netflix was all Japanese I was like YES!!!!! for FFXI I play on JP language locale so doesn't really matter to me lol

[MysteriousRonin]

I can't stand Japanese anime with English dubs... when I found out Naruto on Netflix was all Japanese I was like YES!!!!

If it is done right then the English voice acting can be just as good as the Japanese. Just look at Naoki Urasawa's Monster, it is voice acting perfection when watched in English, but in Japanese it's nowhere near as good. FMA is another anime with amazing English voice acting on par with the Japanese proving that English can be just as good.

I'm sure there are many more examples out there but I mostly watch everything in Japanese after the 4Kids One Piece incident, so my knowledge is limited.

@OP,
We should never hear our characters talk. That is one of the reasons TOR is so awful.

[Reinheart]

If it is done right then the English voice acting can be just as good as the Japanese. Just look at Naoki Urasawa's Monster, it is voice acting perfection when watched in English, but in Japanese it's nowhere near as good. FMA is another anime with amazing English voice acting on par with the Japanese proving that English can be just as good.

Some are good indeed, didn't notice much on TV anime dub series myself since couldn't stand Dragon Ball and some other after that... so haven't checked those but like Studio Ghibli stuff or some anime movies with dubs do have good English voicing so those I can accept (still end up watching in Japanese though since I'm more used to watching anime in JP)

I'm sure there are many more examples out there but I mostly watch everything in Japanese after the 4Kids One Piece incident, so my knowledge is limited.

What's that incident about... lol need to go check it out.

[MysteriousRonin]

What's that incident about... lol need to go check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMH5fiPpooc There's more, including the voice acting.

[Zenaku]

If it is done right then the English voice acting can be just as good as the Japanese. Just look at Naoki Urasawa's Monster, it is voice acting perfection when watched in English, but in Japanese it's nowhere near as good. FMA is another anime with amazing English voice acting on par with the Japanese proving that English can be just as good.

I'm sure there are many more examples out there but I mostly watch everything in Japanese after the 4Kids One Piece incident, so my knowledge is limited.

@OP,
We should never hear our characters talk. That is one of the reasons TOR is so awful.

oh god don't remind me FMA in JP was so bad

[3Jane]

Personally I want voice acting, especially during cut scenes. As to npcs there must be a way to program round too much repetition.
Slightly o.t but relevant. In the quest 'Futurs Perfect', after the encounter with the walking machine thing. I found that part of the scene in the clearing was complete with voice acting and sound effects. After that small section it went back to the normal silence. This has happened briefly before in quests. I wonder if the voice acting was actually done, but for some reason wasn't used.

[KairiSgheart]

to each their own opinions, everything has 2 sides. there are people who love voice acting, while others who do not. played games with both kind, and those that have great voice acting really carry out the game. for them to think of doing these, would really require very good voice acting =p. i don;t mind it. as long not like vanille in ff13 >.< :X

[Andrien]

Main stories should have voices.

I also don't like my character stale and dumb. Main stories only.


In combat I wont mind a rare chant or grunt once in a while. not spamming of course.