I'd say the same. I don't know about the Lance Bass, but
did anyone see Mandy Moore's movie? the reviewers were
nice about her acting. At least, with the people I recognize
on this list, I'd expect it to sound better than most voice
acting in games.
Remember when that saved by the bell chick was picked to do
the voice in Armitage 3? And she did a good job.
Ah, that's no fun.Quote:
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To tell you the truth, I much rather have overexposed celebrities over random b-actors, provided that they can actually act of course.
I have a general dislike for voice acting, but when it's just between good and complete vulgarity (Grandia), it can be really entertaining. It's a rare game that I find the voice acting to actually be good, so I'd take humorous over skin crawling (this). And I hate being able to attach a face to the voice, hence a benefit of no namers.
Did the Japanese version of Kingdom Hearts had voice-acting done by professional seiyuus or did they use non-familiar actors like FFX? I'm gonna check that out myself.
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Originally posted by Johnny Undaunted
To tell you the truth, I much rather have overexposed celebrities over random b-actors, provided that they can actually act of course.
b-level voice acting is much more annoying to me then a celebrity voice over
since most of them are actors they should do a decent job just the singers they should get ride of *LOL* get other actors in there
I can deal with it. If you can turn voices off, I'll be happy. I don't really like voice acting a lot in games because it stops me from listening to outside music. Sure, it may seem strange to listen to Punk music while playing Kingdom Hearts....
I always wonder and laugh at the irony of us asking for Japanese tracks instead of crappy American dubbing, since there is a very good chance that the original Japanese voices are even worse than our native ones, we just don't know it :)
Either way, crappy or not, I would rather the American voices. After all, I like understanding what the hell I'm hearing.
Nail on head. To be honest, I don't know the guy from N*Sync's voice, and I don't even know who Mandy Moore is. It seems like all you people who bitch about pop culture wallow in it a bit too much yourselves.Quote:
Originally posted by Johnny Undaunted
To tell you the truth, I much rather have overexposed celebrities over random b-actors, provided that they can actually act of course.
Anyway, I'm a lot more concerned about the Disney characters' voices. We all know what Mickey Mouse and Ariel sound like, so Square needs to nail them or the game is going to feel wrong.
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Originally posted by burgundy
Anyway, I'm a lot more concerned about the Disney characters' voices. We all know what Mickey Mouse and Ariel sound like, so Square needs to nail them or the game is going to feel wrong.
You can rest easy now.Quote:
The Disney characters, of course, will be voiced by the original film voice actors.
From what it seems, only the main characters will be voiced by these "celebrities". Which I hope to be the only chars voiced by "them" seeing as how the FF character sin the game have never been heard aloud before and I'd hate to have any of the aformentioned people affiliated with them.
For this game, I think b-grade voice acting would actually be better than what the current line-up, mostly because you can at least get used to the b-grade voice actors. On the other hand, I know who the "celebrities" are and I hate them, thus I will never get used to them.
DVD ended the war of subs vs dubs, how about the same for videogames eh?
Couldn't be further from the truth.Quote:
Originally posted by burgundy
To be honest, I don't know the guy from N*Sync's voice, and I don't even know who Mandy Moore is. It seems like all you people who bitch about pop culture wallow in it a bit too much yourselves.
I haven't watched TV or listened to the radio for more than a few hours this year in total. I couldn't tell you what a #1 song has been, or even a single album that has been released by anyone. What do you think drove me to shut it all out? Mandy Moore and N*Sync.