In Japanese games, an option for original Japanese audio -- Y/N?

A soundboard, maybe?

Also... I say leave 'em in, especially in fighting games.

I like my RP Gs in English, if the voice acting is good enough, but fighting games (Blaz Blue and Guilty Gear, especially) just sound more badass in Japanese.

Mainly because, sometimes, they have Norio Wakamoto.

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None of the Guilty Gear games have English voices as far as I remember. Does any of the Blaz Blue games?

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Guilty Gear 2: Overture had English VAs. So does Blaz Blue.

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...Right, Guilty Gear 2 is the only mainline game I've yet to play. Interesting to hear that it, and Blaz Blue has English voices.

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Good voices at that. I was surprised that a niche company like Arc Systems could pull off a quality dub like that.

Sorry, I can't hear you from my FLYING METAL BOX!

...The first two I can understand, but the last two boggle my mind. No "risk" of... the audio being more fitting, or better? Because that's what Woolseyism and Superlative Dubbing mean.

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Exactly. Some things just don't work directly translated from Japanese to English. And being Japanese doesn't necessarily mean that your voice will always fit the character better than a dub in another language.

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I like Japanese voices because I can see what was done in the original Japanese. Since I can actually understand spoken Japanese(better than written Japanese at that), I realise I'm a bit of an exception to the norm.

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Ok, that makes sense then.

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As for my stance, I say add the JP audio if you can, without the rest of the game suffering, but I prefer hearing English audio. It's my native tongue, and it feels more natural for me to hear it. I tend to always prefer dubs because the "feel" right to me.

Especially with series like Baccano, where the setting makes English more fitting than Japanese.

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In fighting games that takes characters from all around the world, I actually kinda want to see them speak their native language during the fights. What they're saying isn't really all that important anyways, so I think it'll add a neat dimension as well as only needing a single dub for all regions.

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Bison stays on his Japanese voice for me. It's not that his English Voice is bad, but when the alternative is Norio Wakamoto, yeah, you know where I'm going with this.

edited 27th Jun '11 3:15:33 PM by MrPastry

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I think that they may have started to do so in Tekken Tag Tournament 2; I also remember reading once that the developers over at Capcom would eventually like to see this happen in Street Fighter.

edited 27th Jun '11 3:16:59 PM by X2X

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Yeah, I remember hearing both English(and not Japanese Engrish) and Japanese for different characters at the same time in one of the Tekken which is what brought me the idea. I thought "Hey, that's cool".

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Punch Out Wii did that. Pretty cool when you care enough to actually have your Indian character speak Hindi.

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And having him basically tell you to go suck on your mother's tit.

It's more frustrating waiting for the asskicking than the asskicking itself.

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What, THATs scottish?!

Woulda been better if they used an accent that blonde chick had in Captain Planet, whatshername......the one that doesn't make you want to punch in the stomach.

Never knew what race she was supposed to be...I just labelled her as "european".

If you want to do an accent right, you must do it as stereotypically as possible or else it's pointless!

Rie's voice is better I guess, since she has Engrish on her side to give her an edge. Scottish girl coulda made her voice thicker or more stereotypical sounding to sound more outlandish.

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Is Bulleta in Marvel Vs Capcom 3, she's the only character I like from the game anyways...what accent does she have?

edited 27th Jun '11 5:05:48 PM by Signed

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It's a general Scottish accent. It's accurate. The girl you're thinking of is Linka, a Russian, by the way.

That's sure to rub people the wrong way.

No, B.B. Hood isn't in the game. It's just Morrigan, Felicia, and Hsien-Ko (or Lei Lei, as you'd probably refer to her) representing Darkstalkers. B.B. Hood's ethnicity is left ambiguous, although given her name (Baby Bonnie Hood), I'd say she's from the U.K.

edited 27th Jun '11 5:11:58 PM by X2X

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No, she is not.

It's more frustrating waiting for the asskicking than the asskicking itself.

Baby is a UK name?

Sucks that she's not in the game...she's the most memorable and loli of the characters in the series...

edited 27th Jun '11 5:28:44 PM by Signed

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Bonnie is an anglicised name. Her bio says that she's merely from "Northern Europe".

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Actually Signed you're wrong, Anita is the most loli character of the series. I agree B.B's quite memorable and a fantastic character however personally I would've preferred Talbain, Donovan, or Lord Raptor. Despite these guys' popularity, Capcom tends to give them the short end of the stick in terms of rep in crossovers.

I thought Felicia was a bad choice honestly, despite me being a fan of her.

edited 27th Jun '11 6:02:04 PM by Vertigo_High

But she's a Cat Girl! I wanted her to go "~nyaa!" more though...

edited 27th Jun '11 6:03:16 PM by Signed

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I thought it was odd that people kept mentioning Yakuza in this topic as an example of games that should stay Japanese, when it had one of the best dubs last gen. I mean, the actual lip synching was god awful, particularly towards the end where it approached Sonic Adventure 2 level, but the cast was pretty much brilliant all around. Mark Hamill as the crazy and Joker-esque Majima was brilliant, and Daryl Kurrylo as main character Kazuma was great. I personally really dislike his Japanese VA, he never shows any emotion besides differing levels of rage, whereas the dub VA tended to be more of a snarky badass smooth operator type character. I've actually talked to more than a few Japanese Yakuza fans who've said they've greatly preferred the English voices.

So yeah, just because the native country voices are the original ones doesn't mean they can't be greatly improved on, so dual audio is definitely the way to go. I'd still greatly prefer English VA only to Japanese VA only though, tbh

edited 2nd Jul '11 4:10:09 AM by TravisBickle

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