Do you prefer Final Fantasy with or without voice acting?

That's easy. With, provided it's done well.

FFXII had some of the best voice acting ever heard in games...how can that possibly be a detriment?

Voice acting makes games come to life... but they take away the depth of story as more can be told through text. Also, you insure that everyone will have the same experince with a game with text sintead of VA.gamingqueen

Lemme pose this question to you then.

How would Metal Gear turn out with text instead of voices?

Like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear started sans voice overs. Would you ever go back?

Now that gaming has evolved, I think a game absolutely has to have voice acting. Whilst games such as Blue Dragon prove that xurrent gen games can still survive without voices, with new formats such as blu-ray it seems petty not to include it. As long as it is good that is... Final Fantasy XII had spectacular voice acting. I just wish they had bumped up quality.jonathanlawford

They packed FFXII in so tight it was the compression that made things tinny on it. Blu Ray should NOT have that problem with XIII.

[QUOTE="gamingqueen"]Voice acting makes games come to life... but they take away the depth of story as more can be told through text. Also, you insure that everyone will have the same experince with a game with text sintead of VA.SemiMaster

Lemme pose this question to you then.

How would Metal Gear turn out with text instead of voices?

Like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear started sans voice overs. Would you ever go back?

Ok you got me there :P :oops: but in final fantasy characters became more shallow with VA!

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[QUOTE="gamingqueen"]Voice acting makes games come to life... but they take away the depth of story as more can be told through text. Also, you insure that everyone will have the same experince with a game with text sintead of VA.gamingqueen

Lemme pose this question to you then.

How would Metal Gear turn out with text instead of voices?

Like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear started sans voice overs. Would you ever go back?

Ok you got me there :P :oops: but in final fantasy characters became more shallow with VA!

hmmm, I don't think I agree with you there voice acting in Final Fantasy gives the characters a personality, the way they talk, and each has his own accent , I don't think its easy to imagine all that without voice acting, like you said voice acting brings a game to life, as well as characters

Now that gaming has evolved, I think a game absolutely has to have voice acting. Whilst games such as Blue Dragon prove that xurrent gen games can still survive without voices, with new formats such as blu-ray it seems petty not to include it. As long as it is good that is... Final Fantasy XII had spectacular voice acting. I just wish they had bumped up quality.jonathanlawford

Just a brief note but...

Blue Dragon had tons of Voice Acting. I'm not sure how that proves that current gen games can survuve without voices though...

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[QUOTE="gamingqueen"]Voice acting makes games come to life... but they take away the depth of story as more can be told through text. Also, you insure that everyone will have the same experince with a game with text sintead of VA.gamingqueen

Lemme pose this question to you then.

How would Metal Gear turn out with text instead of voices?

Like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear started sans voice overs. Would you ever go back?

Ok you got me there :P :oops: but in final fantasy characters became more shallow with VA!

I disagree personally. Maybe they have less interpretation when they have a voice of their own, but I don't think shallow is the proper word to describe their dimensions and personality.

[QUOTE="gamingqueen"][QUOTE="SemiMaster"]

[QUOTE="gamingqueen"]Voice acting makes games come to life... but they take away the depth of story as more can be told through text. Also, you insure that everyone will have the same experince with a game with text sintead of VA.dark_massenger

Lemme pose this question to you then.

How would Metal Gear turn out with text instead of voices?

Like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear started sans voice overs. Would you ever go back?

Ok you got me there :P :oops: but in final fantasy characters became more shallow with VA!

hmmm, I don't think I agree with you there voice acting in Final Fantasy gives the characters a personality, the way they talk, and each has his own accent , I don't think its easy to imagine all that without voice acting, like you said voice acting brings a game to life, as well as characters

You think so? Look at vaan

[QUOTE="dark_massenger"][QUOTE="gamingqueen"][QUOTE="SemiMaster"]

[QUOTE="gamingqueen"]Voice acting makes games come to life... but they take away the depth of story as more can be told through text. Also, you insure that everyone will have the same experince with a game with text sintead of VA.gamingqueen

Lemme pose this question to you then.

How would Metal Gear turn out with text instead of voices?

Like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear started sans voice overs. Would you ever go back?

Ok you got me there :P :oops: but in final fantasy characters became more shallow with VA!

hmmm, I don't think I agree with you there voice acting in Final Fantasy gives the characters a personality, the way they talk, and each has his own accent , I don't think its easy to imagine all that without voice acting, like you said voice acting brings a game to life, as well as characters

You think so? Look at vaan

hmmm well I don't really feel like vaan is a main character lol, I don't like him to be honest, they should have brought a better character

[QUOTE="dark_massenger"][QUOTE="gamingqueen"][QUOTE="SemiMaster"]

[QUOTE="gamingqueen"]Voice acting makes games come to life... but they take away the depth of story as more can be told through text. Also, you insure that everyone will have the same experince with a game with text sintead of VA.gamingqueen

Lemme pose this question to you then.

How would Metal Gear turn out with text instead of voices?

Like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear started sans voice overs. Would you ever go back?

Ok you got me there :P :oops: but in final fantasy characters became more shallow with VA!

hmmm, I don't think I agree with you there voice acting in Final Fantasy gives the characters a personality, the way they talk, and each has his own accent , I don't think its easy to imagine all that without voice acting, like you said voice acting brings a game to life, as well as characters

You think so? Look at vaan

thing is its not voice acting in general that causes that, but not matching the right voice actor to the part. thats the one thing that is much much more difficult as opposed to using text. text is able to be perceived in various ways, but a mismatched or bad voice actor can spoil a role.

[QUOTE="gamingqueen"][QUOTE="dark_massenger"][QUOTE="gamingqueen"][QUOTE="SemiMaster"]

[QUOTE="gamingqueen"]Voice acting makes games come to life... but they take away the depth of story as more can be told through text. Also, you insure that everyone will have the same experince with a game with text sintead of VA.OneWingedAngeI

Lemme pose this question to you then.

How would Metal Gear turn out with text instead of voices?

Like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear started sans voice overs. Would you ever go back?

Ok you got me there :P :oops: but in final fantasy characters became more shallow with VA!

hmmm, I don't think I agree with you there voice acting in Final Fantasy gives the characters a personality, the way they talk, and each has his own accent , I don't think its easy to imagine all that without voice acting, like you said voice acting brings a game to life, as well as characters

You think so? Look at vaan

thing is its not voice acting in general that causes that, but not matching the right voice actor to the part. thats the one thing that is much much more difficult as opposed to using text. text is able to be perceived in various ways, but a mismatched or bad voice actor can spoil a role.

I totally agree with that :P

Its got to be good voice acting. No voice acting is better then bad voice acting. If the voice acting is crap I'll play the game on mute, like FF X or Blue Dragon,nrt25

I agree with you but in the point that FFX has a bad voice acting, I don't think I can agree, it was the first FF with voice acting and they were great, excpet for Kimari I didn't like his voice acting much lol, but for the others its much better than some other RPGs I played

I definately prefer voice acting in my games these days. I didn't really mind the voice acting in FFX and Blue Dragon. It's been awhile since I've played FFX so I can't really think of anything that annoyed me particularly with that one. The only one I found annoying in BD was Marumaro, very annoying.

I agree with you but in the point that FFX has a bad voice acting, I don't think I can agree, it was the first FF with voice acting and they were great, excpet for Kimari I didn't like his voice acting much lol, but for the others its much better than some other RPGs I playeddark_massenger

[QUOTE="dark_massenger"]I agree with you but in the point that FFX has a bad voice acting, I don't think I can agree, it was the first FF with voice acting and they were great, excpet for Kimari I didn't like his voice acting much lol, but for the others its much better than some other RPGs I playedfoxhound_fox

I have played Metal Gear Solid and I know it has one of the best voice acting, I'm just saying that FFX has a good voice acting, maybe with some characters its not, but overall it has a GOOD and not BAD voice acting, there is a difference between good and bad voice acting

I have played Metal Gear Solid and I know it has one of the best voice acting, I'm just saying that FFX has a good voice acting, maybe with some characters its not, but overall it has a GOOD and not BAD voice acting, there is a difference between good and bad voice actingdark_massenger

Since FFX was acceptable and FFXII always swinging between great (main characters) and horrible (almost all side characters)...I whould be happy with japanese Voice acting.The Quality,technically and artistic,was a lot better.

But overall,I love Voice acting and if the quality of the games hadn´t fallen with it,I´d say yes more!

There are also positive cases like Enchanted Arms (exept one person) which was really getting better and better over the game,maybe the only really good spoke japanese RPG,Phantasy Star Universe,Grandia III or Shining Force EXA been really nice as far as I remember.

[QUOTE="dark_massenger"]I have played Metal Gear Solid and I know it has one of the best voice acting, I'm just saying that FFX has a good voice acting, maybe with some characters its not, but overall it has a GOOD and not BAD voice acting, there is a difference between good and bad voice actingfoxhound_fox

Well, you have a point there, but the topic was about whether you prefer VA in a Final Fantasy game or not, I didn't ask about a specific Final Fantasy game, I just wanted to know what people think about having voice acting in the game(FF) or not :P

Well, you have a point there, but the topic was about whether you prefer VA in a Final Fantasy game or not, I didn't ask about a specific Final Fantasy game, I just wanted to know what people think about having voice acting in the game(FF) or not :P dark_massenger

[QUOTE="dark_massenger"]Well, you have a point there, but the topic was about whether you prefer VA in a Final Fantasy game or not, I didn't ask about a specific Final Fantasy game, I just wanted to know what people think about having voice acting in the game(FF) or not :P foxhound_fox

This is the most absurd comment i have ever read. What are you trying to imply here? that some games have poor localization? Don't you realize how hard the job is? To take the character and transform yourself into them simply through spoken word is quite a challenge. Besides all that, it's not just a poisonous snake, its a MONSTER!

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"][QUOTE="dark_massenger"]Well, you have a point there, but the topic was about whether you prefer VA in a Final Fantasy game or not, I didn't ask about a specific Final Fantasy game, I just wanted to know what people think about having voice acting in the game(FF) or not :P OneWingedAngeI

This is the most absurd comment i have ever read. What are you trying to imply here? that some games have poor localization? Don't you realize how hard the job is? To take the character and transform yourself into them simply through spoken word is quite a challenge. Besides all that, it's not just a poisonous snake, its a MONSTER!

Anyway, even if a game lacks voice acting there are ways of making text appear to be 'alive'. The Zelda games do this well enough with a text engine that pauses at appropriate places in character's speach.

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[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"][QUOTE="dark_massenger"]Well, you have a point there, but the topic was about whether you prefer VA in a Final Fantasy game or not, I didn't ask about a specific Final Fantasy game, I just wanted to know what people think about having voice acting in the game(FF) or not :P Ectomy

This is the most absurd comment i have ever read. What are you trying to imply here? that some games have poor localization? Don't you realize how hard the job is? To take the character and transform yourself into them simply through spoken word is quite a challenge. Besides all that, it's not just a poisonous snake, its a MONSTER!

Anyway, even if a game lacks voice acting there are ways of making text appear to be 'alive'. The Zelda games do this well enough with a text engine that pauses at appropriate places in character's speach.

heh, you missed thejoke

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[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"][QUOTE="dark_massenger"]Well, you have a point there, but the topic was about whether you prefer VA in a Final Fantasy game or not, I didn't ask about a specific Final Fantasy game, I just wanted to know what people think about having voice acting in the game(FF) or not :P Ectomy

This is the most absurd comment i have ever read. What are you trying to imply here? that some games have poor localization? Don't you realize how hard the job is? To take the character and transform yourself into them simply through spoken word is quite a challenge. Besides all that, it's not just a poisonous snake, its a MONSTER!

Anyway, even if a game lacks voice acting there are ways of making text appear to be 'alive'. The Zelda games do this well enough with a text engine that pauses at appropriate places in character's speach.

Well then what do you think Zelda would be with voice acting? but leave Link the same

If the acting is good!

For example, Dragon Quest VIII and FFXII had excellent voice acting which made the game more fun, whereas, Baten Kados and Shining Force Neo had horrible voice acting which I cringed everytime I played.

[QUOTE="Ectomy"][QUOTE="OneWingedAngeI"]

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"][QUOTE="dark_massenger"]Well, you have a point there, but the topic was about whether you prefer VA in a Final Fantasy game or not, I didn't ask about a specific Final Fantasy game, I just wanted to know what people think about having voice acting in the game(FF) or not :P dark_massenger

This is the most absurd comment i have ever read. What are you trying to imply here? that some games have poor localization? Don't you realize how hard the job is? To take the character and transform yourself into them simply through spoken word is quite a challenge. Besides all that, it's not just a poisonous snake, its a MONSTER!

Anyway, even if a game lacks voice acting there are ways of making text appear to be 'alive'. The Zelda games do this well enough with a text engine that pauses at appropriate places in character's speach.

Well then what do you think Zelda would be with voice acting? but leave Link the same

Zelda got no voice acting because it´s 1st expensive and 2nd the GC-Disc isn´t big egnough so it whould have required 3 Discs which is hard in a game you can move freely.It whould be possible,but since the sound is pretty low quality already I think you get what kind of problems the game already had.

[QUOTE="dark_massenger"][QUOTE="Ectomy"][QUOTE="OneWingedAngeI"]

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"][QUOTE="dark_massenger"]Well, you have a point there, but the topic was about whether you prefer VA in a Final Fantasy game or not, I didn't ask about a specific Final Fantasy game, I just wanted to know what people think about having voice acting in the game(FF) or not :P Ash2X

This is the most absurd comment i have ever read. What are you trying to imply here? that some games have poor localization? Don't you realize how hard the job is? To take the character and transform yourself into them simply through spoken word is quite a challenge. Besides all that, it's not just a poisonous snake, its a MONSTER!

Anyway, even if a game lacks voice acting there are ways of making text appear to be 'alive'. The Zelda games do this well enough with a text engine that pauses at appropriate places in character's speach.

Well then what do you think Zelda would be with voice acting? but leave Link the same

Zelda got no voice acting because it´s 1st expensive and 2nd the GC-Disc isn´t big egnough so it whould have required 3 Discs which is hard in a game you can move freely.It whould be possible,but since the sound is pretty low quality already I think you get what kind of problems the game already had.

The Wii is more than capable in holding sound, for the GC version I agree, and despite the technological requirements, I only asked if the game would be better with voice acting or not, in my opinion I see the game would be much better with voice acting except for some character

The Wii is more than capable in holding sound, for the GC version I agree, and despite the technological requirements, I only asked if the game would be better with voice acting or not, in my opinion I see the game would be much better with voice acting except for some character

dark_massenger

I think it whould,but after all there are more important issues from what I´ve seen.Actually I expected a voice over and wondered when I played it.Voice acting in Games has become pretty usual these days...the last RPG I´ve seen without is SMT Nocturne ,I think.

Im gonna go in the minority and say WITHOUT. Atleast for final fantasy games. I didn't like any of the voices in the newer ones to be honest, and found that when I played older ones I could use my imagination better..and I was somehow drawn closer into the story by reading the dialogue.DarKre

Good Point.But I still don´t know if it was simply because the "voiced" FFs had been MUCH worse and been MUCH flatter storywise...you didn´t had to imagine anything anyway...there wasn´t anythig deep or between the lines anyway.And,much worse,nothing suprising.I think FF8s Storyline was a bit "stupid" too at the point with the witch from the past,or the future...whatever.But it seemed well thought.Of course it´s a matter of personal taste,still I think it didn´t have too much to do with the Voice-overs.