(03-30-2015, 03:55 PM)kitakaze Wrote: That being said, I honestly believe it should be as simple as "I listen to X because I like it."Yup.
When it comes to voice acting I honestly feel this is what it comes down to a lot of the time. The fact that people still cite "bad acting" as a reason to switch from the EN voices tells me that a lot of people don't have a single clue what "bad acting" actually entails, and are just reacting on their gut intuition and trying to explain it after the fact. But to be fair, this goes for a lot of criticism in general - people, especially in the United States, are just not educated enough to articulate their criticism in a useful and constructive fashion. Half the time they're complaining about things using language that is completely off the mark from what they are actually trying to get fixed, or they are attempting to cure symptoms and not the causes, being too short-sighted to understand what really needs to be done (which is one of the most difficult things about games development - people will frequently complain about things without actually being able to articulate how it could get better and why).
Of course, saying "I just don't like it", while accurate, can also make you look dumb or at least inarticulate, so I can understand why folks are reluctant to use it. Criticizing things inaccurately just to avoid that, however, strikes me as even worse in many regards. At least in the former case you're being honest.
Anyway, to answer the thread premise, yes, I prefer the English voices, largely because it just feels the most right to me. I will admit the whole thing with Haurchefaunt gives me pause, but that sort of thing just happens in localization sometimes, and most of the time the localization is simply better for changes made, not worse. I would be curious to hear the story of why Haurchefaunt ended up that way and then getting back to the JP version the next patch. I'm sure deadlines were a part of the reason for that. I have not yet heard a single instance of "bad acting" (and I mean things like someone obviously reading lines from a sheet, or failing to deliver properly, and so on), and am still puzzled every time someone trots out that same line.
