We're Not Entirely Sold on Star Ocean 5's English Dub

what's wrong with this dub?

if you have watched any anime or played any dubbed game from the late 90's and early 00's then you would see this is shakespeare compared to that

people really just moan for no reason about games now-a-days and there are quite a few american made games whose english voices are worse than this and just as "phoned in", Oblivion for example

Crispin Freeman is a veteran and almost always a highlight of anything he's cast in. You'd be in the minority if you think is work is anywhere close to "lackluster."

Seems fine to me. That stuff never bothers me too much except when the repeat the same phrases in battle over and over again. Even then its not game breaking. Some games give you that option to turn off battle voices. I base it all on good story and character developement as well as good battle system. Im looking forward to this and its reminding me of a Tales game.

@WickedKnightAl Not calling out any specific actor's work, but surely these voices sound bland and a bit lifeless. I'm hoping it's just the trailers that make them sound this way, though.

Correct if I'm wrong but I think most people who plays JRPGs tend to prefer Japanese audio over English dubbing anyways. For me, I tend to prefer Japanese voiceovers. I'll only choose English audio if the game has a lot of dialogue during battle.

Swiching to japanese is always a last ditch effort for me (unless it's a fighting game in which I always go for japanese). I looked at the above video and so far there didn't seem to be anything too unbearable.

The girl is fine - as if anybody is paying any attention to her voice anyway - and the guys voice is fairly typical, he sounds like somebody I've heard in many games before, but it's all wrong for his look. The character is a pretty boy 26 year old but the voice is for an older wiser sidekick, maybe he misread it as 36, it's too mismatched. It's as if they got Auron in FFX to voice Tidus.

Imagine this scene w/ the voice actors reversed, it just wouldn't fly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV4MNmtsLpY

Has anyone ever been sold on an English dub in JRPGs? It seems like every one of them has been told that their dub sucks.

Really? This does not sound bad at all. In fact, if I didn't even read this article it wouldn't even had crossed my mind that the voice acting is bad in this game. This game looks amazing by the way!

Hahahaha. As usual. The yanks can keep their dubs. The only dub I found superior to the Japanese was in Bayonetta. That I've played anyways. And I've played a lot of games.

I always go for the Japanese do over the English dub in some jrpgs. Probably because it annoys me whenever a female character has a very annoying voice or like young girls with a middle aged voice. This is also the reason why I prefer animes with Japanese dub over Funimation's dub (Senran Kagura and Maids Vs Butlers voice acting annoyed me the hell out of it).

I can hear 'voices' but definitely no 'acting'. Like they can't be bothered...? I'm not trying to be negative, I generally don't pay much attention to dubs anyway (always go English) but one has to admit that this is poor.

Why do companies always ruin english dubs >_< The only recent game that had a pretty decent dub was Xenoblade Chronicles X on Wii U.

I actually found them okay o_o

@AyeHaley Yeah but it was only "decent" and the lifeless character models didn't help the acting. They only make them move in the REALLY important cutscenes otherwise they just kinda stand their and twitch slightly. Didn't say they have to flap their arms around every second but meh, I dunno, was pretty disappointed in that category. Seen PS2 games with better character animation.

Uh...

You're complaining about THAT???

Ok, I don't think you guys understand just how incredibly horrible the voice acting has been in some JRPG's I've played. This is like AAA compared to many of those games lol...

Seriously, go play some other more niche JRPG's and then come back and tell me how horrible this is. This is better than Bravely Default even.

@ekreig YES! been saying that for years. Always watch my anime subbed, dubbing just sounds wrong.

It's alright. I'll probably still play with the English voice acting enabled. In all honesty, the diaper bothers me way more than anything I heard in these videos.

You guys are funny. This is the Final Fantasy X Tidus laugh scene all over again. Most of those voice actors are seasoned pros and know what they are doing. Crispin Freeman is extremely passionate about voice acting. There's a difference between poor acting and a poor script. These actors can't help if they were told to deliver it this way. So guess what? If you don't like this dub, you probably don't like cheesey Shonen anime dubs either, because this is more or less what this game is aiming to be, because let's face it, Star Ocean has always been Square Enix's Tales of franchise.

There's definitely good and bad voice acting no matter the script. Ellen Page did such a brilliant job with Beyond that anyone who wants to do voice acting should watch her performance first and see what real voice acting sounds like.

I don't think it's terrible but it isn't exactly great either. The other girl with the pink hair would annoy me the most.
I've never played any games from this series but I quite like the look of this. It does seem similar to the 'Tales Of' games and I enjoyed Vesperia and Xillia.

@ApostateMage I would pay big money for a simple HD upgrade From Tales of Vesperia. And I don't mind the Japanese language but I need subs and the menu's in english I door want to know what i am playing and I want to follow the story.

I think people need to stop with finding the smallest things to complain about to. I am glad to see these games getting releasef in the West. If I watch a crappy big budget movie with stallone or arnold and every movie with 50 cent in there that is where the real terror lies.

I think it is quite decent anyway and if we get the Japanese voice option that would be really cool. Tales of Vesperia had great Japanese voices i only needed the subs and English menu's for the PS3. Is COD that special the biggest reason is that we get good voices is because it's the mail language and I rather have english then the standard US stuff.

@JaxonH I know right? I heard people criticising things like Final Fantasy's dub that is PURE GOLD as far as jrpg dubs go. Try Atelier... Ewww.

I guess most people don't realise that these are all translations of expressions and tropes that are perfectly fine In Japanese culture and seems dumb to us...that is the real problem,before the va strikes.

I don't understand peoples hatred for English dubs, I love them much more than a Japanese sub. I can understand all the banter the characters will have, the attack names and much more. Japanese VA's are usually too squeaky and high for the women and it annoys the crap outta me. English VA > Japanese.

hell no japanese voice, im representing, so uk all the way, voice acting is fine, as other have said its the animation thats a bit iffy