Cultural-Appropriate Voice Actors in Dawntrail, for once.

[Erit]

As far as voice acting goes, I only care about voices being done well. Gender, nationality, culture etc. don't matter to me.
This expansion I switched to Japanese audio. I barely understand half of it, but at least now the character's voices are all spot-on and carry weight and emotions the way I like again.

The Mamool Ja VAs, bar Gulool Ja Ja, were pretty good in EN, as was Raha, but everybody else... either something weird happened with the director or nobody could be assed that month.

[Rekh]

Did they hire japanese born actors who happen to speak english for stormblood (for the kugane/azim steppe characters)?
How about Ul'dah? Did they hire people born in near east/Afrika for the ul'dah characters?

[CamuiKushi]

Play in Japanese.

I mean, this is a troll thread but I'll take any excuse to urge people to just use the Japanese dub.

I think the EU language dubs are also quite good.

[Pepperblue]

I'm from latin america and I hate that latinx term so much

It sounds so dumb, like we are an airline or something

[klu]

Eleven. Pages. Of replies.

[Antharaes]

Eleven. Pages. Of replies.

And now 109 replies...what was your point?

[lolnotacat]

And now 109 replies...what was your point?

We're goin' for 12 pages!

[Antharaes]

We're goin' for 12 pages!

Hell yes!!!

[Vinter]

Did they hire japanese born actors who happen to speak english for stormblood (for the kugane/azim steppe characters)?
How about Ul'dah? Did they hire people born in near east/Afrika for the ul'dah characters?

I like it when Hien and Yugiri say Gōsetsu with the long ō sound.

I don't think the person has to be native, but they have to nail the accent. That's like bare minimum. I was watching the trailer for Monaco 2 and the guy was doing so well with his English accent until he pronounced 'plan' as "plawn" and it's just... No. Should have done a retake on that line. That's awful. Terrible. Same with Overwatch, Genji has an authentic Japanese accent while Hanzo clearly does not, and Torbjörn is doing Scottish, I don't know how anyone tries to pass that off as Swedish. Brigitte has a real Swedish accent though.

Basically, just get talented actors who can actually do the role. If that means using native VOs then by all means, but it's the end result that matters, nothing else.

[Rekh]

I like it when Hien and Yugiri say Gōsetsu with the long ō sound.

I don't think the person has to be native, but they have to nail the accent. That's like bare minimum. I was watching the trailer for Monaco 2 and the guy was doing so well with his English accent until he pronounced 'plan' as "plawn" and it's just... No. Should have done a retake on that line. That's awful. Terrible. Same with Overwatch, Genji has an authentic Japanese accent while Hanzo clearly does not, and Torbjörn is doing Scottish, I don't know how anyone tries to pass that off as Swedish. Brigitte has a real Swedish accent though.

Basically, just get talented actors who can actually do the role. If that means using native VOs then by all means, but it's the end result that matters, nothing else.

What hispanic country is Tural based on? Every region in south america/caribbean has a different accent and way of pronouncing words.
That's the problem you run into with south america/caribbean.

Moreover, just because Hien can pronounce the o with an u in it doesn't mean he sounded like a japanese speaking english though. Far from it; he sounded nothing like a native japanese who speaks english. You can disagree but that's when I'll start getting sources to prove my point.