kuni_izumi

Mar 20 2009, 01:12 PM

I think the way that the industry is set up has a lot to blame for how badly the VA comes out a lot. Have you read the interviews posted here and on the main site? Voice Actors are stuck in a recording booth with a huge book with all their lines and asked to deliver them a number of ways. If they're lucky the director fills them in a little on the situation, but unlike say...voice acting for a show there is no table reading, and there is no face-to-face recording interaction with other actors. Judging from what I've read they don't even get to see a screen with what the characters are doing to try and match up sound to video.

So considering the rediculous way it's set up, I think the English voice actors are as good as can be expected. Though sometimes you look back at the cuts the directors made and wonder what they were thinking (Okuni's English voice in Sw1?).

Soo....we can't really say they're focusing on dubbing rather than acting, and there isn't any rehersal--but the job IS HARD.

You try standing in a plexiglass box for five hours shouting out lines with no idea of what your characters goals/dreams/interactions are like. It makes it pretty amazing when a scene actually...you know, WORKS.

Smily man

Mar 28 2009, 10:37 PM

I know the voice acting terrible,but some voices are good

LittleDragonZ

Apr 4 2009, 11:25 AM

^ Well I know and have read that many people in 4 favored Cao Cao's voice.

To be honest I was very happy with what Warriors Orochi 2 gave us in terms of the new characters. There wasn't a single new character voice that I didn't like. I was expecting Himiko to have an annoying voice, but surprisingly I found it pretty good, and none of her quotes got on my nerves either.

What I'm a bit more concerned about is the time they spend and where it's recorded. I can remember in the Empires games voices sounded like they were recorded in a shed or something.

Zhao Yuns disciple

Apr 3 2009, 11:28 PM

i think DW4 had the best lineup of English voice actors. KOEI should just make sure they stay with all of them for their respective Warriors characters. i think DW5 and Samurai Warriors had particularly bad voice acting as a whole, even though most of the DW4 cast was used. are they really lacking in space on the BluRay discs that they cant just include the Japanese audio into the American/Euro versions of the game? its not like the Japanese audio isnt just sitting there already with nothing to do. and would the added code be that much of a hassel? perhaps im being too demanding on this end....but theres still no excuse for an increasingly bland gameplay experience NOT related to the voice acting.