Graha Voice Actor Change?

[TaleraRistain]

Early in the patch he sounded really weird but toward the end he started just sounding like G'raha with a cold. I saw Twitter mention he may have been doing this at the same time as Wicked and may have had vocal strain.

[BeoCat]

Could also be that he's bit stuck in a different cadence/dialect after acting session, and weren't given appropriate feedback for a sound director when recording the lines.

Possible yeah, voice directing in general has been pretty bad in DT

[mildlymoonstruck]

I truly hope that they haven't permanently recast G'raha's ENG voice actor, but having heard his lines throughout the patch, it's clear to me that whoever was voicing G'raha in 7.4 is not Jonathan Bailey, though whoever they had step in admittedly sounds like they are doing their best impression of him. That said, it's pretty egregious that they would recast a major character, whether temporarily or permanently, and not publicly address it at all. I understand that the ENG side of the player base is not their priority compared to JP, but it's not like G'raha is a minor character from several expansions ago. G'raha has been a major character for over 6 years now, and it's not as if they don't know that he is arguably one of the most popular on both sides of the aisle, or that Jonathan Bailey is an absolute star among the ENG voice performances. Whatever the circumstances - budget, contracts, wonky scheduling, etc. - that led to his recast, and whether or not they are permanent, not affording even the slightest degree of transparency about it to their players is pretty dishonest. Especially since they made a conscious choice to swap out a voice line spoken by G'raha in the JP trailer for a line spoken by a completely separate character in the ENG trailer.

[concernedcitizen]

Would love even just any clarification from official sources. It just feels insulting as a player to hear this jarring difference from the localization that goes on and on about what high standards they have.

This is pretty much unacceptable from any angle of it, if it is indeed Jonathan Bailey it is so flawed it needs a rerecording and if it is not him then why haven't we been informed of this change? They don't even have any plausible deniability about this quality difference since they purposefully excluded his line from the english trailer.

We should not have to be arguing about who it is, if a change happens to the performance of a major character who appears in like almost all merch and collab SE does for the game these days I think it should be announced in advance in official capacity. If this happened with one of the JP voices would they not announce a change either? Doubt it.

Please respect the players. I don't care if the answer they have is that JB was sick, that they are still negotiating contracts or they replaced him. I just want any kind of answer so we don't have to go full sound analysis on a beloved character because we can never be sure! Its disrespectful to the players and honestly to the voice actors too. Very disappointed in the localization team for this huge miss.

[Vespar]

If he was sick/voice strained, I hope they'll consider a re-record. It really does sound jarring.

[0blivion]

Sounds the same to me on JP voices. Hope this helps.

Agreed. How dare people are multilingual lol. Like more than half the players I know play with JP voices, and while I get anglocetrism is fun for the players from said places, specifying the language on these threads would help a lot.

e/: And the OP is sweet so they are fine etc etc

[0blivion]

You right! I honestly forget that folks play in other languages. Though in my defence most folk responding on this thread, play in English and it is the English forums... but w/e. I was referencing the English VA. Not the JP/GER/FR, etc.
That said, if we lose Bailey as G'raha's VA, I will likely never use the English voices again. I'm genuinely frustrated everytime they change voice actors. Its super jarring.

Though honestly, I wish they'd give us a direct Japanese translation for this purpose as well. So we can play in native dialogue and have the spoken words and text actually match. I know enough Japanese to know that its not always the correct translation.

Didn't see this. OP, you're valid, lol. But yeah the TL can be kind of ass, unfortunately, but if ya boi did get recast, the JP all-star cast will lovingly welcome you \o/ That said, the French is pretty good in case you happen to not speak that, in which case the subs will be less jarring!

[Armethalieh]

Square staying silent about this matter is disrespectful to their players, as there is clearly something different about G'raha's voice this patch. If JB has been recast then we deserve to be updated. Cutting G'raha's line beign excluded from the english trailer is not a good look and feels like it was purposely obfuscated from us.

I personally love JB acting as G'raha and would rather than SE do their best to keep him. Changing a beloved main character after six years is not at all respectful to their players.

[Vespar]

Didn't see this. OP, you're valid, lol. But yeah the TL can be kind of ass, unfortunately, but if ya boi did get recast, the JP all-star cast will lovingly welcome you \o/ That said, the French is pretty good in case you happen to not speak that, in which case the subs will be less jarring!

Ahh your sweet for your kindness.
I've always loved the JP voices <mostly>. I just liked certain English VAs for certain characters... plus the lack of proper direct translation always kept me from playing in JP. But Ive been considering a playthru in JP for a while now.

[RedLolly]

Honestly I'm only disappointed people are saying the VA we had is trash because it sounds like a different actor. Not actually any critique on sound quality or skill, literally just "It's different so it sucks."

But then this is likely exactly why SE hasn't made any announcement about a change. Some of y'all would dogpile the guy before he could even break into the role.