[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[RamKat]

I'm in full agreement that the English VA for Wuk Lamut needs to be replaced. They clearly need a lot more experience before being able to handle VA'ing someone like Wuk. The lack of emotion expressed in their lines ruins a lot of the scenes. It's a shame and embarrassment that this was allowed to happen

Far too late for that, they already voiced the entire expac. Best outcome is as little of Wuk as possible moving forward, and with any mercy no voiced lines.

[Malthir]

I'm in full agreement that the English VA for Wuk Lamut needs to be replaced. They clearly need a lot more experience before being able to handle VA'ing someone like Wuk. The lack of emotion expressed in their lines ruins a lot of the scenes. It's a shame and embarrassment that this was allowed to happen

It might not be the VA's fault they could have been told to do it this way. Just to play devils advocate. I hate Wuk it's made me unable to play the game any further, but of the sin's that are Wuk I would say the VA is right at the bottom.

[Regis_Paran]

It might not be the VA's fault they could have been told to do it this way.

Or maybe the voice director did the best they could with VA they got. You know, just playing devil's advoctae for the other side...

[HemlockEvergreen]

English VA was pretty bad throughout this whole expansion. Not only the aforementioned Wuk Lamat issue, which is the most glaring, but also there were sound mixing issues, or some lines sounding that they were recorded with a bad microphone. Even estabilished characters like Thancred and Urianger had a noticeable drop in performance in DT.

Now, for Wuk Lamat, let's not sugarcoat it. The performance is awful. I don't know if it's from the VA being incompetent, or from a failure on the voice directing level, but the result is unnaceptable given how big this game is. Lamat's lines at the intermission on the third trial in particular sound terrible, and that's supposed to be the climax of the story. There's no emotion at all, to the point where the character model and the sound look grossly mismatched. Someone needs to get some serious feedback because they're not doing their job correctly, or this VA needs to be replaced if she does not have the range necessary to play the character.

And don't come and try to tell me that her accent is supposed to sound Brazilian. I am Brazilian. I've never seen anyone sounding like this around here, and I listen to Brazilians speaking English at work daily.

[DaveFishnomer]

Got to agree on this one, not the worst VA I heard in gaming ever, but for a large company such as SE to take such a horrible one and put her as the Main character for the xPac, this is just embarrassing

[Tengi]

Or maybe the voice director did the best they could with VA they got. You know, just playing devil's advoctae for the other side...

Right, surely a voice director with experience would know when someone they are directing is just not up to snuff, but since they still have to do their job, they tried their best with a fresh voice actor with little experience (in a triple A game...) Everyone needs to start somewhere and hone their skills, but damn in a massive MMO with millions of players?

[Immut]

Right, surely a voice director with experience would know when someone they are directing is just not up to snuff, but since they still have to do their job, they tried their best with a fresh voice actor with little experience (in a triple A game...) Everyone needs to start somewhere and hone their skills, but damn in a massive MMO with millions of players?

The voice director clearly just doesn't care at all, and the team obviously didn't actually see the scenes they voiced. This isn't an actor problem, this is a management problem. Even if the animation isn't finished, even if they can't get ahold of the story boards, showing the actors a five second stick figure drawing of some of these scenes would have been enough to improve their performance.

Wuk is not the only character that has issues. Bakool Ja Ja falls extremely flat in many of his early scenes, a lot of the extras struggle to maintain the accent (one of the first ones becomes Scottish for a few lines). The localization team simply didn't review their work and shipped it all on the first take.

[AddictedToWitches]

Or maybe the voice director did the best they could with VA they got. You know, just playing devil's advoctae for the other side...

I'd be inclined to agree if I didn't look at Sena's VA history and it's all lackluster performances.
Everyone has to start from somewhere, and everything she has been in until now has been small, low profile stuff (except arguably unicorn overlord).
If you want to blame the voice director, it's for hiring her in the first place.
It feels like we're regressing back to ARR voices, which were all smaller American VAs, who were paid to do very few takes. Except ARR had the excuse of being on a literal shoestring budget.

[Anatha]

Game is full of vas putting on fake accents.

Really odd there was no mention of it til now. Absolutely footnoted til now where there's dozens if not hundreds of repeat topics about the one va that's trans.

There's no universe where her performance is the one that needs to be singled out.

[Tengi]

Game is full of vas putting on fake accents.

Really odd there was no mention of it til now. Absolutely footnoted til now where there's dozens if not hundreds of repeat topics about the one va that's trans.

There's no universe where her performance is the one that needs to be singled out.

It needs to be singled out because rather than the myriad of randos you hear every once in a while, she is with you through the whole story. It's sort of like how you don't tend to notice the over acting extras in a movie, but if the main actor has a bad scene it stands out like crazy.