[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[Elodie_Einsbern]

Are you for real? A few dislikes on a forum, compared to a few million players ain't exactly 42%. Unless you speak for every single player, which you aren't. Would very much like to see your insider information, considering your highly qualified calculations

Was I the one using the "ratio" to judge like or dislike to begin with? Use your head

Also, for the love of god please understand that not everything is super serious. This is a video game, and any jabs at a persons voice work is just that. At the end of the day its whatever

[Stapler-san]

I understand that this is a game, but this thread have quickly derailed to borderline bullying the VA. I'm surprised that the mods of this forum haven't locked the thread yet.

it is not bullying to say that someone being paid to do a job is not very good at said job

[DrForester]

I would like too see another "major" character with a 42% dislike ratio on VA work.

I bet it would be pretty easy to find a character with a 42% dislike ratio if someone were to just pull a number out of their ass like you did.

[Stapler-san]

I bet it would be pretty easy to find a character with a 42% dislike ratio if someone were to just pull a number out of their ass like you did.

im too lazy to do the math but im pretty sure its based on the number of likes the op and that comment have
hence the ratio thing

[Viking_Pete]

it is not bullying to say that someone being paid to do a job is not very good at said job

I wasn't talking about criticism of her job, but about the personal attacks on her, by a bunch of people, that have nothing to do with her doing a good or bad job

[little_diem]

I will just say this to you...

We've had a few native South American Spanish speakers specifically come in here to say that Wuk's accent is garbage and it's borderline offensive or racist. How about you go fight with them and see who is the disrespectful person here. I will gladly dig through this thread to find them for you even.

I am of Asian descent and I don't have an accent. The only time I do, is when I force myself to speak like that. Where does the notion that every minority should have an accent even come from? Isn't that inherently racist?

That's my point, the spanish spoken in puerto rico is a different dialect than south american spanish and therefore sounds different, and portuguese is a different language all together. Doesn't make it garbage. And, i have no idea what you're going on about. When did i say anything about every minority having accent. i'm responding to the post talking about her "fake" portuguese accent; wuk lamat doesn't have a portugese accent, she has a puerto rican one. (by the way, i'm puerto rican)

[little_diem]

Yes and people born and raised in Idaho are not Puerto Ricans and even if their parents where, they would, like i said have some level of culture shock if they visited New York, let alone Puerto Rico, in fact a person of Puerto Rican Heritage who grew up in Hawaii is going to have different views and values to a someone of Puerto Rican heritage who grew up in Alaska, and neither of them are Puerto Ricans. This is not a hard concept, you dont get to adopt the actual lived culture of a place because your parents, grand parents or whatever are from there, you are where you grew up for the most part and it takes a lot of time living in a new place to change to become integrated in a culture you did not grow up in, and even then i bet the locals would still generally refer to you as an out of towner.

lol, what?

[little_diem]

Yeah, I think a lot of people have this misconception that accent is a generic/race thing

I said nothing of the sort. If you go back and read my post, I was responding to people commenting about the accent the VA gave wuk lamat. They stated it's a "fake Portuguese" accent, and I noted that would be because it isn't a Portuguese accent; Wuk Lamat has a Puerto Rican accent, and that's probably the result of the VA being Puerto Rican. Someone responded that she's not Puerto Rican because she's from Kentucky, and I was pointing out that you can be both Puerto Rican and from Kentucky. I'm Puerto Rican, and I live in the States. See! It's possible!

[FlowerMilk]

I tried, I genuinely tried to like Wuk Lamat's English VA, but I just can't take it anymore and I finally switched to the Japanese VAs. I love everything about Dawntrail so far, the story, zones, and all of the characters and VAs are fine minus a few odd minor NPC voices here and there but FFXIV has always been like that. I don't even mind Wuk Lamat's character, either. I am a lesbian and my girlfriend is a trans woman, I was excited for a trans woman VA in FFXIV honestly. But the delivery is just so bad sometimes, it just doesn't feel like natural or genuine conversation a lot of the time, and the VA putting on an accent really doesn't help.

I looked up the VA and she doesn't normally have an accent and her VA experience isn't really a lot, especially to be hired for such a major expansion role IMO. But she's a fan of the game, so of course she's going to say yes to Squeenix hiring her and telling her to do an accent. I think that's more on Squeenix than anything though, they should have hired someone with more experience for such a large role IMO, and if they wanted the VA to do an accent, they should have hired a dialect coach, but I know they didn't because no one can pinpoint what accent the VA is trying to do. It really stands out whenever the VA drops her accent all the time, especially to pronounce things with an American/English accent, this is a really common problem for actors doing accents and it's why you hire a dialect coach to make sure the actors know how to pronounce things in a specific dialect and such.

I really enjoy all of the English VAs, too, and I actually liked the American accents we got in the Western area, no problem with that. I really wish I could just change Wuk Lamat to be Japanese VA instead, she is the only voice that bothers me so far, especially because she's in literally every cut scene. Whenever she's like "WoL, come with me" it fills me with dread, here's hoping switching to the Japanese VA helps.

Edit: First cut scene after switching to the Japanese VAs and it's night and day. I wasn't a huge fan of Wuk Lamat before but now I actually like her character way more with the Japanese VA. The only sad part is I miss all the English VAs now . The Japanese VAs for the Scions are good, too, but I really like the English VAs more IMO.

[DiscoDuck]

I dunno if it was just me but in the first Solo Duty with her her Eng. voice sounded echo-y in some lines while going thru the solo duty. Its not a bad voice but it needs work. Gonna see how she sounds in German before I go back to Japanese voices.

I'm half expecting her to randomly say dattebayo! Jp Wuk sounds like a female Naruto lol