The New/Added Combat Sounds...Thoughts?

[Rai_Takara]

Good news!

The Q&A with Soken happened earlier today and they acknowledged the new combat voices and how some of us do not like them. They are going to continue monitoring this feedback and if we still feel this way, then they will revert the changes. So if you want to let SE know that you'd like your old voices back, keep the feedback coming.

I for one hope SE will at least give us an option, as I understand some people like the new voices. However, as someone that's used to my character for about 5 years now, having new voices just makes my character not feel the same. Please fix our battle voices SE <3

[Kooper16]

Good news!

The Q&A with Soken happened earlier today and they acknowledged the new combat voices and how some of us do not like them. They are going to continue monitoring this feedback and if we still feel this way, then they will revert the changes. So if you want to let SE know that you'd like your old voices back, keep the feedback coming.

I for one hope SE will at least give us an option, as I understand some people like the new voices. However, as someone that's used to my character for about 5 years now, having new voices just makes my character not feel the same. Please fix our battle voices SE <3

I'm happy to hear that because I'm already thinking about bothering support with giving me a free fantasia to fix my characters voice. My character always switches between her "normal" voice and a voicecrack-version midfight and it's absolutely awfull. Everytime I hear it a part of me dies inside.

[Bonbori]

Good news!

The Q&A with Soken happened earlier today and they acknowledged the new combat voices and how some of us do not like them. They are going to continue monitoring this feedback and if we still feel this way, then they will revert the changes. So if you want to let SE know that you'd like your old voices back, keep the feedback coming.

I for one hope SE will at least give us an option, as I understand some people like the new voices. However, as someone that's used to my character for about 5 years now, having new voices just makes my character not feel the same. Please fix our battle voices SE <3

Also good news that should not be ignored: it was confirmed that the voices do come from the same actors and were created back in AAR; the only reason they hadn't been used until recently were technical limitations.

So all the arguments that they don't fit or sound like from a different person are unsubstantiated.

[3c-33]

So all the arguments that they don't fit or sound like from a different person are unsubstantiated.

That has nothing to do with whether or not it sounds fitting or like it's from the same person. One person can easily make themselves sound very different from one line to another. If you take the same person making lower grunting noises as if they're picking something up vs full on yelling in combat, and use both of those for combat scenarios, it's not going to sound good, and I can't think of another game that actually does such a thing. Your argument implies that because it's the same actor, there's nothing they could possibly do to make their voice sound as inconsistent as humanly possible from line to line, and I don't know where to begin with that.

[Rai_Takara]

Also good news that should not be ignored: it was confirmed that the voices do come from the same actors and were created back in AAR; the only reason they hadn't been used until recently were technical limitations.

So all the arguments that they don't fit or sound like from a different person are unsubstantiated.

As another poster mentioned, the same person can sound very different. After all you can have one VA do multiple characters. When people assumed it was a different VA, they're referring to the character just not sounding like one person at all. Some of us prefer our characters to sound how they were, especially after years of playing with them.