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Unlucky7 posted:I will be real I did not mind the VA and am kinda surprised how much hate there is for it ITT Same. My friend tapes her audition reels for her other acting gigs and says she is super sweet.
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May 3, 2023 00:46
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please don't post spoilers in this thread, use the other thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4031055
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May 3, 2023 00:52
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Khanstant posted:I remember when I thought the Elden Ring Map was going to be small, then I went up the left side of the map as far as I could get and was like oh wow I guess it's a big long skinny map, and then I kept going and oh poo poo it's big, and then they added an underground and some poo poo above and it's like whoa what was I thinking this place is big and full of wonder and horror The Elden Ring world map slowly zooming out as you discovered new areas was a brilliant touch. You keep thinking you've reached the boundaries of the world and then, nope, more map
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May 3, 2023 01:17
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honestly i cant believe people dont like zelda's VA. she's the main reason i have to keep the game in english, i thought she did well 
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May 3, 2023 01:21
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Blaziken386 posted:honestly i cant believe people dont like zelda's VA. she's the main reason i have to keep the game in english, i thought she did well Me to 
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May 3, 2023 01:26
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Blaziken386 posted:honestly i cant believe people dont like zelda's VA. she's the main reason i have to keep the game in english, i thought she did well
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May 3, 2023 01:47
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The BotW English dub is really bad across the board imo, I can't think of a single performance I liked. I guess they guy doing his best Falco impression was okayish? It's wild to me that NoA got back middle school play caliber performances for the dub and went yeah this is fine. Like why even include VA for the first time in franchise history if you didn't give a poo poo about it actually being well executed? I play using the JP audio and honestly even that sounds kinda phoned in, at least as far as I can judge such a thing as somebody with an extremely tenuous grasp on basic baby Japanese at best. As per usual with this sort of thing I don't really blame the VA's, they probably just got little to no actual direction beyond getting rushed through the lines so NoA wouldn't have to pay another day's worth of union rates.
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May 3, 2023 02:19
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Please don't post Leaked Rom spoilers in this thread.
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May 3, 2023 02:25
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Revali and Daruk are the only good VA's. Along with Kass AoC made everyone a bit better though, especially khoga who is just a youtuber for some reason.
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May 3, 2023 02:49
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Spanish Manlove posted:please don't post spoilers in this thread, use the other thread Tears of the Kingdom was an inside job.  You can't fuse steel beams. 
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May 3, 2023 02:54
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I like Sidon’s voice actor a lot. I think they’re all perfectly fine.
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May 3, 2023 03:02
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Revali and Daruk are the only good VA's. Along with Kass Correct.
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May 3, 2023 03:09
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Blaziken386 posted:honestly i cant believe people dont like zelda's VA. she's the main reason i have to keep the game in english, i thought she did well I'm someone who almost universally prefers the JP voices (and does in this as well), but I also don't get the problem with English Zelda, even as someone who is usually critical about this stuff. She seems fine to me? Maybe I'm just bad at detecting poor English accents?
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May 3, 2023 03:23
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People also seem to really hate Navi's VA in OoT.
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May 3, 2023 03:34
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I mean if I'm going to criticize anything about Zelda in BotW it's that she's not given much to do but cry and whine and mysteriously speak to your brain. Not a ton of room for a performance that's anything other than wispy and frail unless you're getting legitimate direction. Can't really blame the actress for that.
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May 3, 2023 03:42
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The only English VAs I really had a problem with were the King who had to deliver a huge monologue while maintaining his funky accent. Well, and Mipha, but I can't really put into words why. Zelda I thought did a pretty good job for the most part, even if they wanted her to speak in a not-quite British accent. I wonder if the funky accents were deliberate. It's one thing to have a bad impression of any random British accent, but these sounded more like someone wanted a specific accent that was inspired by RP and it just didn't land.
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May 3, 2023 03:50
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Electromax posted:People also seem to really hate Navi's VA in OoT. It's a classic.
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May 3, 2023 03:57
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Just Andi Now posted:The only English VAs I really had a problem with were the King who had to deliver a huge monologue while maintaining his funky accent. Well, and Mipha, but I can't really put into words why. Zelda I thought did a pretty good job for the most part, even if they wanted her to speak in a not-quite British accent. I hate Mipha’s voice and it’s probably why I just don’t like her character in general. My Link canonically friendzoned her to the extreme.
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May 3, 2023 04:05
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I thought the English VAs were fine, personally  not great, but not bad enough to distract from the gameAlso it seemed to me that they got a lot better in AoC, and I'm really hoping that carries over into TotK - we've already heard Purah's VA from AoC in the cinematic TotK trailer, so I think at least a little bit of AoC's direction will continue in TotK
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May 3, 2023 04:08
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She's an alien elf so she should not talk like she's from an island in Europe. She should sound somewhere between the rustling of leaves in a forest and an insect chewing a pudding skin while someone scrapes tin sheets together.
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May 3, 2023 04:16
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The only one I really didn’t care for was the Gerudo champion who sounded and looked just like my fourth grade teacher who absolutely turned me into her special project and gave me ptsd and I’m still not over it Like what the hell did I ever do to you Ms Tineanne?!? Did you reall have to knock on our door and complain to my Mom about my sandwiches who the hell does that ugh just get on the camel and go away
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May 3, 2023 04:22
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the VAs are fine imo not amazing but feels like people are really overeager to get performatively angry about voice acting
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May 3, 2023 04:22
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Augus posted:the VAs are fine imo This last week and a half is hell. Hell!!
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May 3, 2023 04:23
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On the one hand the English voice acting is pretty bland but on the other hand Sidon exists so who’s to say if it’s good or bad
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May 3, 2023 04:26
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I'm one of the 6 people who had BotW for WiiU. Will I be missing anything by not having it for Switch?
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May 3, 2023 04:35
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Chieves posted:I'm one of the 6 people who had BotW for WiiU. Will I be missing anything by not having it for Switch? they are identical
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May 3, 2023 04:36
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MokBa posted:they are identical I meant more in that, ToTK wouldn't do a "hey we read your save data!" style bonus.
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May 3, 2023 04:38
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Augus posted:the VAs are fine imo I was thinking earlier that it compares to incels who get very vocal about the flaws they find in perfectly normal looking women.
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May 3, 2023 04:39
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Chieves posted:I'm one of the 6 people who had BotW for WiiU. Will I be missing anything by not having it for Switch? TotK gets some stuff from the BotW save but people are still figuring out what besides horses.
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May 3, 2023 04:39
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I hope I get to keep my motorcycle
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May 3, 2023 04:40
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lunar detritus posted:TotK gets some stuff from the BotW save but people are still figuring out what besides horses. Does that include the dummy thicc dark horse?
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May 3, 2023 04:42
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Winifred Madgers posted:I was thinking earlier that it compares to incels who get very vocal about the flaws they find in perfectly normal looking women. Why do people get so weird about stuff like this? It's perfectly fine to not like the voice acting in a game, dropping an incel equivalency feels kind of offputting.
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May 3, 2023 04:49
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The male VAs (except for Revali and maybe the Goron) are just as bad, the one cutscene where the King talks is super bad because he has to get angry but sounds like Just Some Dude
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May 3, 2023 05:04
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Khanstant posted:She's an alien elf so she should not talk like she's from an island in Europe. She should sound somewhere between the rustling of leaves in a forest and an insect chewing a pudding skin while someone scrapes tin sheets together. They should have just done the "weird sounds nintendo talk" for all the characters, like in Banjo Kazooie or something. Zelda just being like "wonk wonk wa wonk" and Ganondorf like "grah grah, grah ha!"
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May 3, 2023 05:07
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Shinjobi posted:I mean if I'm going to criticize anything about Zelda in BotW it's that she's not given much to do but cry and whine and mysteriously speak to your brain. Not a ton of room for a performance that's anything other than wispy and frail unless you're getting legitimate direction. She sounds significantly less wispy and frail in JP is the thing, and that makes a huge difference to the tone of a lot of the memory scenes. She's generally more upbeat / outgoing in her delivery, and her down moments sound more melancholic or even bitter. Even with the same writing it gives the impression of a different personality I still don't blame the actress, and in fact I blame the direction even more because the tone of a scene shouldn't swing wildly between actresses like that I don't think anyone is being performatively angry (lol?) and that incel metaphor is a big yikes. The worst thing I can say about the English VO is that it's really flat, but that's still better than being bad. I didn't hate it during my first run through, though I could tell it wasn't really adding anything to the game. It was a pleasant surprise to learn that the JP version had more energy, and that the weakest performances in EN were much better. There's still plenty of clunkers (any old person, also any very young person, Yunobo) but I do wish I had switched to it from the start and one of the biggest side benefits is that the power recharge vocal reminders no longer scare the poo poo out of me. it never failed that I'd be in this super quiet moment, scoping out a sick vista and enjoying nature, and then Daruk would yell about how his protection is now ready to roll. It's like when inactive Chrome tab starts autoplaying a video while you're browsing SA
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May 3, 2023 05:07
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I think that the incel comment being really dumb and the badness of the EN dub being overstated can both be true.
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May 3, 2023 05:21
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DERRICKS PROTECTION IS READY TO ROLL
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May 3, 2023 05:43
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The guardian callout jumpscare is a part of the experience!
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May 3, 2023 05:45
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Spanish Manlove posted:please don't post spoilers in this thread, use the other thread yes please!
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May 3, 2023 06:06
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Khanstant posted:She's an alien elf so she should not talk like she's from an island in Europe. She should sound somewhere between the rustling of leaves in a forest and an insect chewing a pudding skin while someone scrapes tin sheets together. That is my other issue with her direction as well, tbqh. The 'all fantasy is english' trope needs to die a horrible death. If you're gonna give them British accents... Maybe try some different ones? I'd love to play a game with Glaswegian or Scouse accents.
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