why are game dubs so bad?

i never understood why when a game is dub its always screwed. ive seen game with perfectly good voice actors and actresses be terrible when we clearly know what their capeble of. it would make sense if its a cultural difference that makes the dubs feel akward but when anime dubs seem to get dubs better than the original then that excuse is out the window.

the only game si can realy say have good games are FFX,XII,XIII, and FF tactics remake. and thats not becous ei am a FF fan but realy bercouse i couldnt think of anything else that was a good dub

what do you think. do video games have bad dubs and if so why do you think they have em

One word. "Budget."

but when anime dubs seem to get dubs better than the originaljsh020

I see people saying this all the time, but it's not really true. Despite improving somewhat over the years, the majority of anime dubs are still sub-par, and nowhere near the quality of the original work. Actually, you see a lot of the SAME (bad) actors on Japanese->English GAME dubs AND Japanese->English ANIME dubs. It's unfortunate, but the Japanese seiyuu industry is an overall MUCH more talented bunch than the rag-tag group of C-list (even that seems like I'm giving them too much credit) voice actors you generally see lending their voices to Japanese anime/game localizations.

Anyway, this is a problem with dubbing in general, regardless of the source or target language. The folks doing the localization, more often than not, just don't have the budget or time to seek out highly-talented actors for each role.

There are exceptions, of course..but it's primarily just the mainstream stuff that receives proper dubs.

Everything else gets people from the same tiny pool of "voice actors" who seem to do NOTHING but terrible Japanese-English dubs for anime/games. Most of these "actors" pale in comparison to the talent you see on even medium-budget US/European, natively-English games. Not all, but most.

I've heard in some interviews with voice actors that they aren't even given the context of the lines, and just told to read them. So it's no wonder a lot of lines are delivered awkwardly. According to the behind the scenes stuff I saw of Death Note, at least, they were given the entire context. I'm not sure if all anime does it this way, and I'm not sure if all game dubbers are given their lines out of context, but it could explain at least some of what you're seeing.

its fairly common to have lesser non-unionized actors voice characters in video games. lower expectations are taken advantage of and publishers save money.

anyway, there is still a good deal of non-ff japanese games with good voice acting. some of my favorites are the mgs series, dqviii, and no more heroes.

The voice acting in Persona 4 is every bit as good as the stuff you hear in Rockstar and Bioware games. Although this is the exception, for sure.

I'm thinking it's the budget as well.

I've heard in some interviews with voice actors that they aren't even given the context of the lines, and just told to read them. So it's no wonder a lot of lines are delivered awkwardly. According to the behind the scenes stuff I saw of Death Note, at least, they were given the entire context. I'm not sure if all anime does it this way, and I'm not sure if all game dubbers are given their lines out of context, but it could explain at least some of what you're seeing.

Tropictrain

Didn't know this. That would explain some of it, yeah.

Because they hire the cheapest actors possible