Is It Weird That I Prefer The English Voices?

Batcommander

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I don't know if it's the VA or the VA director who's to blame for Leifang's terrible voice clips. Somebody at the studio fucked up to think that "yaa~aah!" cry would not be annoying.
 

Forlorn Penguin

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I don't know if it's the VA or the VA director who's to blame for Leifang's terrible voice clips. Somebody at the studio fucked up to think that "yaa~aah!" cry would not be annoying.

Seriously. I'd put the blame on the both actress and the director though. The actress should have delivered a better performance and the director should have corrected her when she didn't.
 

Haipa Sonikku

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And somehow I don't think Christopher Nolan is crying any tears at night because people do watch TDKR in French; not only does it help the bank account, but it actually gives his product an audience that would be categorically barred were it up to presumptuous types who imagine art to be so stale.

Dubs sucks if you don't enjoy it. Some of us don't mind things being dubbed. Not everyone know Japanese, or want to read English text when you can hear the character come to life with voice.

As clearly seen here, it works both ways and is why dual language option should be a universal industry standard in interactive entertainment. I definitely understand the subtitle issue (which has been debated since the separate subtitled versions of VHS anime releases of an extra $10 more arrived back in the day) as it creates a "lag" in instant comprehension and is unnatural. It's just that my style is keepin it authentic and everything with it.
 

DR2K

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Leifang's English voice is the stuff of nightmares. "Hahaha... YAY!!!!"

Her Japanese voice is so elegant in comparison.
 

Awesmic

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Looks like I opened up a can of worms mentioning Leifang's dubbed voice, haha.
 

CFW

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I like how some of the characters' voices may seem annoying in English. I think it adds to it.

The only English voice I'm on the fence about is Hitomi's. She sounds great when she's just talking, but both her intro quotes could have been done better.

Leifang's voice just sounds a bit too young for me, but not as bad as y'all say.

But lets talk about Bayman's Japanese system voice and how he sounds goofy.
 

Jaguar360

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Troy Baker is horribly miscast as Hayabusa. He's better as characters that are insanely over the top (Snow) or anti hero/villain protagonists (Jake Muller, The Boss, and Yuri Lowell). Hayabusa is more of a strong silent type, and Troy Baker can't pull that off without sounding campy.

On topic, I like all English voices but Eliot's, Gen Fu's, Leifang's and Hitomi's. My favorite is probably Kasumi's.
He is currently Espio in Sonic (the ninja chameleon detective). He's not very over the top and has a personality similar to Hayabusa. Troy Baker is good as both IMO.
 

Justice

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I haven't heard the Japanese voices yet, but I love all of the English voices except Hitomi's (after 5 mins, I had to mute my tv to get through her SM chapter, oop!) and Helena's (when you're speaking english and I need a translator becuase your accent is too thick....).
 

Dravidian

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I haven't gotten the game yet- I plan to once this semester is over- , but is there no option to set individual character voices? That would be wonderful.
 

FatalxInnocence

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To be honest, I really dislike the English voices. Some of them are ok. To be honest, all the male voices are fine to me. 90% of the females however, it just sounds wrong. Helena is one of them =S that fake French accent aggravates me... I honestly prefer DOA2's voice acting to DOA5's =\

"How dare you swindler!" I still laugh at the poor dialogue in 2... but to me, the voices were better than DOA5's.

On a side note, Tina's VA in DOA5 is actually good! I kinda forgot about her, she's probably the only female voice that doesn't bug me- and to me is spot on.
 
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