The New/Added Combat Sounds...Thoughts?

[Odstarva]

You can't rightly assess it doesn't belong to your voice actor, because all the voice actors have ever done is grunt and mumble. You've never heard them speak, how can you pretend to know it doesn't fit?

I'd love to see what you'd all sound like if you were locked in the middle of bloody combat. I'm sure it wouldn't sound pretty, or cute.

[HyoMinPark]

You can't rightly assess it doesn't belong to your voice actor, because all the voice actors have ever done is grunt and mumble. You've never heard them speak, how can you pretend to know it doesn't fit?

I'd love to see what you'd all sound like if you were locked in the middle of bloody combat. I'm sure it wouldn't sound pretty, or cute.

I mean, my Miqo’te voice has 2 new grunts that don’t sound remotely close to their original sounds. Ironically, they’re louder and more frequent than the old ones. I’d wager they’re from two different voice actors, because the tones don’t sound remotely similar to one another. I’m not pretending anything. I’m making an assessment based on what I hear repeatedly every time I play my main job.

I don’t think I’d randomly go NYAH!! NYAH!! while fighting, but that’s just me.

[Rai_Takara]

You can't rightly assess it doesn't belong to your voice actor, because all the voice actors have ever done is grunt and mumble. You've never heard them speak, how can you pretend to know it doesn't fit?

I'd love to see what you'd all sound like if you were locked in the middle of bloody combat. I'm sure it wouldn't sound pretty, or cute.

Doesn't take much deduction to see that some of the new combat voices are significantly different than the old one. The newer ones sound similar to each other, but nothing like the old ones. Not all voices have it rough though, that's why ot seems mixed.

[Esmoire]

You can't rightly assess it doesn't belong to your voice actor, because all the voice actors have ever done is grunt and mumble. You've never heard them speak, how can you pretend to know it doesn't fit?

I'd love to see what you'd all sound like if you were locked in the middle of bloody combat. I'm sure it wouldn't sound pretty, or cute.

... But voice acting is a creative decision, especially in this kind of project. The restraints of ability to hold a tone in combat is secondary to what is being conveyed artistically. What should sound best should suit the expectation of the majority of people hearing it. If they picked a certain voice because, say, the original two grunts sounded cute, they invested themselves into that form of expression. Vice versa as someone who chose a non-cute, non-pretty voice, I'd be annoyed if I got cute sounds on my character since it goes against the fantasy I'd imagined of her when I created her.