We Dub to Make it Our Own..

[cyborgmermaid]

I knew I should've done my Lafalell voice instead of going for the rough and gruff trailer voice. Aqualin's rocked everything though. That is forever headcanon for Louissioux now.

[Jayrih]

Kind of disappointed that not one female entry made it into the top five. :/ Did we not have that many women enter, or did the devs just not want a girl VA?

[Macha]

Kind of disappointed that not one female entry made it into the top five. :/ Did we not have that many women enter, or did the devs just not want a girl VA?

Though I, too, would have liked to see a female entry at the top... they have a smaller pool to pick from.

Perhaps the voices were too soft...? They seem to have stuck with a particular voice type: US sports announcer / Action Movie Trailer. Sadly, that's very hard to pull off with a female voice.


For example, here is my entry: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20121173/Ma...e-Hyperion.mp3

Aside from the odd tinny noise that I didn't notice until I listened with headphones after I made my submission...

Compared to the winning entries, I lacked the enunciation, the power, and the emotion that the winners have. My voice is too soft, high-pitched, and thusly lacks that "epic movie trailer" touch; If I even attempted to go for that kind of quality, it would have been comical, but disastrous. Perhaps most of the other female entries had this issue too. We'll never know unless they post them.


I would have loved to win that moogle and soundtrack set, but I knew from the get-go that it was nigh impossible.

I don't think they were discriminating because girls, they just wanted to pick the voice that fits.

The winning entries are good, so let's just congratulate them -- you can't change the minds of the people who did the judging.

[Icefall]

My entry - http://soundcloud.com/icefall/ffxiv-dub-contest

I'm with the camp that is a touch disappointed in the lack of even one female as a runner up. The event did mention that we were allowed to take deviations as long as they weren't too drastic, yet most of the winners had little variety from one another. Maybe there should have been a runner up list of best representation reading it as each race and type to better express the world as a whole.

[Sajomir]

I would have liked to see an actual female finalist. :\
Still, I enjoyed listening to the winners! Lots wider vocal range than I expected.

My entry~
http://soundcloud.com/sajomir/ff14

[Zoloe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-M4G...layer_embedded
This one was my favorite, really sets the tone!

[Dainsleif]

http://soundcloud.com/solon-pender/final-fantakesy-xiv

I supposed I've kept my entry to myself for long enough. I kinda agree with the general consensus that the lack of female winners was disappointing and that many of the winners sound very similar to the original, but with more action trailer voices. That said, Aqualin's entry was my favorite and I have no qualms with the choice of grand prize winner.