English voices in Metro: Last Light are a joke

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#1 Salt_The_Fries
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I just watched some video with English voices and it felt like someone is doing a comedy piece. It was that bad. Seriously, the difference in immersion is hundredfold. What's worse, literally everyone who did a YouTube video played it with English voices. Some people get excited how Charles Dance (who is a very fine actor, don't get me wrong) will be doing voice-over work for The Witcher 3 but it doesn't affect me in the slightest, I'm glad I'm Polish and I'll enjoy the superior Polish version :)

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#2 jg4xchamp
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You really like metro? I agree, it's f*cking horrendous. The russian accents are the worst. They sound so hollywood, and the mother f*ckers making this are from Ukraine. Like Russia is right there next to you guys ;P. The Russian dub is neat though. One of the few times I didn't mind playing with dub.
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#3 bobbetybob
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You and Sniper should date.
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#4 Salt_The_Fries
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You and Sniper should date.bobbetybob
Nah, thanks, I'm happily married for 28 days now.
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Congratulations
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#6 JangoWuzHere
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I don't really care if they are bad, I don't want to be reading subtitles when a bunch of action is going on. I did a playthrough of Metro 2033 with russian voices and english subtitles, it was kinda cool, but it was also really frustrating.

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#7 DefconRave
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Wouldn't feel like Metro without the so bad its good voice acting :P
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#8 sukraj
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really love metro last light.

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#9 svenus97
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Eh, it's part of the charm. And it's not like they are that bad, not like Resident Evil 1 bad.

And no offence to any Polish actors but no one is better than Charles Dance. Let's hope his awesomness translates well into voice work.

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#10 drinkerofjuice
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Never played Last Light, but when I played the original Metro I set it to the Russian dub for the extra notch of authenticity. I put it on English for a good five minutes before realizing how awful it sounded.
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#11 Twin-Blade
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Subtitles kill immersion for me, so I use English voices. I think they're fine.

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Whatever freedomfreak says about this game, I agree with him
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#13 drinkerofjuice
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Subtitles kill immersion for me, so I use English voices. I think they're fine.

Twin-Blade

Subtitles kill the immersion, but Ruskies speaking English do not? Okay then...

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#14 jhcho2
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I don't know what you guys were expecting. American accents spoken by Russians?

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#15 ShadowDeathX
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I don't know. Never played any of the games in English. :) I played both games in Russian.
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#16 Salt_The_Fries
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[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]I don't know. Never played any of the games in English. :) I played both games in Russian.

Yeah, me too, that's the way to go, and that's also the only way my parents would understand as they both speak fluent Russian but don't speak English.
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[QUOTE="bobbetybob"]You and Sniper should date.Salt_The_Fries
Nah, thanks, I'm happily married for 28 days now.

Congrats man! :) Now delete that so my girl doesnt see it :|
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#18 OneInchMan99
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I just watched some video with English voices and it felt like someone is doing a comedy piece. It was that bad. Seriously, the difference in immersion is hundredfold. What's worse, literally everyone who did a YouTube video played it with English voices. Some people get excited how Charles Dance (who is a very fine actor, don't get me wrong) will be doing voice-over work for The Witcher 3 but it doesn't affect me in the slightest, I'm glad I'm Polish and I'll enjoy the superior Polish version :)

Salt_The_Fries

I don't like subtitles all over my screen,takes my eyes away from the action,also I don't speak russian so english voices for me were fine.

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#19 ShadowDeathX
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[QUOTE="Salt_The_Fries"][QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]I don't know. Never played any of the games in English. :) I played both games in Russian.

Yeah, me too, that's the way to go, and that's also the only way my parents would understand as they both speak fluent Russian but don't speak English.

I don't speak Russian though. I'm a fast reader though and I can put the Russian vocal emotional expression to words pretty easily.
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#20 wis3boi
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Is it really all that surprising? Do you expect japanese games to have amazing english? 

 

Someone set us up the bomb, main screen turn on.

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#21 cfisher2833
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You just don't like to admit that that's how you reds sound when you speak American. :P

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#22 silversix_
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Play gw2 and metro ll voice acting will sound amazing to you
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#23 faizan_faizan
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You just don't like to admit that that's how you reds sound when you speak American. :P

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American is a language now?
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#24 Timbury
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You just don't like to admit that that's how you reds sound when you speak American. :P

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Think you will find that's English champ
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#25 navyguy21
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[QUOTE="faizan_faizan"] American is a language now?

[QUOTE="Timbury"] Think you will find that's English champ

Im pretty sure American is a language of its own lol. Not really English :P (Yes im American :P )
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#26 DragonfireXZ95
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I don't really care if they are bad, I don't want to be reading subtitles when a bunch of action is going on. I did a playthrough of Metro 2033 with russian voices and english subtitles, it was kinda cool, but it was also really frustrating.

JangoWuzHere

Yeah, it's easy to do that for a movie, but for a game it can be a bit difficult if you don't know what your mission is already.