Why are English dubs in Japanese games so bad?

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  1. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Don't care. Xenoblade is better in English.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      because japanese games, especially the anime inspired ones, are turbo cringe. its far less embarrassing in a foreign language that you can't understand. the cringe hits you like a slap in the face in your native language

      Because Japanese is a moron language and it's highly noticeable with direct translations.

      bait answers for a bait thread

  2. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because they know dub players will eat it up anyways.

  3. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because you touch yourself at night.

  4. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I liked Nia, Mòrag and Zeke's voices

  5. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Same reason Japanese dubs for non Japanese movies are terrible. It's forced.

  6. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw a dub is surprisingly decent, but the devs didn't bother reanimating the lip movements during cutscenes to match the new voice track

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      A tale as old as time

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >sonic adventure
        >decent dub
        what

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        sa1's dub is notoriously fricking dogshit, its literally the worst of the worst in a franchise full of nothing but terrible dubs

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >tfw you unironically expect Nintendo devs to work harder

  7. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    because japanese games, especially the anime inspired ones, are turbo cringe. its far less embarrassing in a foreign language that you can't understand. the cringe hits you like a slap in the face in your native language

  8. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because westoids can't do anything right.

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Japs are out of touch and don't know shit about the west, they see whatever established VA company that has a monopoly on weeb shit and just hires them, and doesn't look into it much.

    We just live in the timeline where the VA studios doing weeb shit in the west is infected with gays and degenerates who want to shit up the content.

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    dubbing is a sign of low intelligence country

  11. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Why is Xenoshit 2 so bad?

  12. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I think one of the funniest instances was Frieza talking about wanting to caress the balls. The line was that way cause he was doing that in the animation. You'll find many dubs are like that, telling what's being shown on screen, cause they're fricking moronic.

  13. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >be me
    >see this posted on Ganker before
    >realize how much better rex is in japanese
    >switch to jap dub
    >azurda has the most annoying voice ever
    >morag literally just sounds like a man
    >these are 2 of the best characters
    >immediately swap back to english

    I will take rex sounding like garbage as long as I get the superior version of best girl.

  14. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Localization studios will not pay for decent English VA, nor do they know how to direct.

    It's why the only quality English dubs are much bigger studios localizing their own games

  15. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Have you noticed that a lot of English dubs for JP games sound "childish"? Like the actors could be talking on Nickelodeon Kids or something?

    It's because they don't take Japanese media seriously. They think of it as "child's play", and that consumers of it are childish.

    Basically, they're racist as frick.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >reddit spacing
      could you give even 1 example?

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Hey, moron. Let me show you what reddit spacing is...

        a line break is not reddit spacing a

        double or
        triple line break is
        fricking moron.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >a line break is not reddit spacing a
          yes it is there is 0 reason to have a line between every fricking sentence you underage homosexual. you space between paragraphs.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Shut the frick up, tourist. Reddit spacing isn't real and you fell for a meme. Way to out yourself.

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous
          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            gb2sharty

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        ?si=FJ9-dIzZqt-hgmXb&t=1585

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Damnit. It was supposed to be 26:25.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            it did link to 26:25 i dont think that was a good example though. she just sounds like an average basic b***h, which is what she is supposed to be.

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              >Um, excuse me? Stow the 'tude!

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >Um, excuse me? Stow the ‘tude
          Liking this is one thing but how the frick does anyone think it’s worth shilling for?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I think the problem is that those gays aren't trying to deliver the best possible performance. It's that they're all trying to go with an "anime voice" since it's JRPGs and shit. Which is why they end up sounding really same-ish. Every time I try an EN dub for shits and giggles I feel like it's some VA who has been doing dubs in the 2000s, but nah, it's just some random homosexual trying to copy them.
      And don't get me started on hags trying to sound like teens. Dear fricking God.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >they're all trying to go with an "anime voice"
        I noticed in the 2010s, every male voice actor started doing the dub Kirito voice. This only got worse after the dub of AoT had the guy doing Eren, do another Kirito voice.
        Since then, they just copy each other as you say.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >hags trying to sound like teens
        It's genuinely malicious directing, characters like Asuka and Rei and Cardcaptor Sakura sounded fine dubbed, it's only in later years that they start intentionally trying to age up characters through casting.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It's the Japanophobia that all industries have been pushing since the mid to late 00s and only fell off because they got called out for how racist they were being, so they had to switch gears and mask all their complaints about the objectification of women, and when that fell off they turned to le inclusivity, and when THAT failed they switched to "muh self insert wish fulfillment", and when THAT looks like it's not working either they shift again to "media literacy".
      It’s all astroturfing tactics, since you can't say "Japanese people are weird/gross" anymore you have to go "Hey isn't it weird and gross how characters from "these" media are sexualized" while bear vegana 3 shows full blown troony sex and creepily high amounts of feet fetishism.
      Japanese creatives are always the underdogs competing against behemoth american business interests, they're never allowed to succeed due to israelite sabotage even when they are effortlessly creating objectively superior media.

  16. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because Japanese is a moron language and it's highly noticeable with direct translations.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      JP dialog
      >寒い?
      >はい

      EN dialogue
      >man it sure is cold outside today, anon-kun. reminds me of the time I went up in the mountains ten weeks ago near the alpine step down in tibet
      >What the frick did you just fricking say about me, you little b***h? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the frick out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fricking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fricker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fricking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fricking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fricking dead, kiddo.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        nice reddit response xister

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          save it, it's all yours my friend 🙂

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Fricking hate this. Played a game the other day with English subtitles and it went like this.

        JP
        >Anon-kun...

        EN
        >Wow, I had no idea that such a thing had happened.

  17. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Even the english dub of Scott Pilgrim, using the same actors from the movie is fricking terrible.
    They just do not care about what they are doing.

    Just one more thing for AI to fix. Won't have to limit amount of dialogue due to costs.

  18. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I'm fricking laughing what the hell is this shit

  19. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It still boggles my mind that people tried to pretend XC2's dub was anything but gutter trash
    The localization sucked too "puppy mode XDDDD"

  20. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They even redid the Sailor Moon dub to make a worse one. They wouldn't pay the original actors.

  21. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Japan Dub
    >can't understand what they're saying
    >don't live in Japan, so the voices used to speak don't sound weird

    English Dub
    >can perfectly understand what they say
    >the voices are made to somewhat match the Japanese ones
    >live in English speaking country, so the voices used sound weird because no one speaks like that in real life

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      English voice actors can't sound fricking pissed to save their life, and there's only like two that can do a decent very deep voice
      They can sound sad pretty well at least

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Nah, to me it's just the script, as someone mentioned in the thread
        Japanese doesn't translate well to English so everything sounds weird and cringey

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        remember they are not voice actors they are just dubbers. VA are actually actors. in japan and mexico you need to be able to act first.

        in america is just a hobby and you can see see it because original content from america is better they create the characters so it works. Hollywood actors in cartoons do a better job there for a reason.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >and mexico
          Holy frick the level of Hispanic cope is actually unreal. Most people can admit that their dubs suck but hispanics are literally incapable of doing it.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            i'm not even from mexico. they do a great job stay mad

  22. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    2017. Seven years ago.
    And this fricking game is still mindbreaking morons. (Or perhaps, the same moron.)
    >Verification not required

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Xenoblade 2 is fricking great, as is laughing at dubgays and their lack of standards and ability to keep to the few they have. These aren’t mutually exclusive at all

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Xenoblade 2 is fricking shit
        FTFY

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          mindbroken

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            It's shit.

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous
              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                who thought this was a good idea?

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                There's literally nothing wrong with it

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >There's literally nothing wrong with it

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                I ending up quitting the game in what I'm assuming was the last 20 hours of it. I got burnt out grinding notbluemage and realized I didn't care about the story enough to power through to the end.

  23. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >tranimeshit
    No thanks.

  24. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Voice acting is not a respected profession in the west to begin with, so the good actors go be live action actors. Then you take a further hit because dubs in general are dine on the cheap, and another hit because people know that about 90% of people who will be buying will use subs anyway so why go above the bare minimum?

  25. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They people who need them to play games don’t need them to be good, just not Japanese

  26. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It's the directors fault mainly.

  27. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Adult men play this

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      They're pedos

  28. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    How many times are you gonna make this thread? That game is old.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Probably for as long as people reply to it

  29. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    a big part of it is nips emote in a way that you cannot really emulate in english without sounding incredibly cringe, japanese has a bunch of ways to feminize or masculinize your speech through expressions that do not exist in english. kawaii uguu~ tbh ne does not work in anglophone languages

  30. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Iis that video real?
    LMFAO

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Yes but OP should've posted the Jap version to compare to realize how fricking bad it really is compared to it.

  31. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    English dubs in anime are even worse.

  32. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    bot thread

  33. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    How do i find myself a pyra/mythra girlfriend.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      You have a nice day and hope god is real and loves you and will give you one

  34. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They usually don't get very good time and attention

  35. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    1. jap writing is cringe and awkward as frick so it all sounds moronic in english
    2. japs are cheapskates who hire random b***hes from fiver to do voices

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      ah yes, im so glad the PROFESSIONALS stepped in and FIXED the shitty YELLOW SLANTEYE JAP TRASH.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I kinda miss the PSX era of game dubbing, it falls under "so bad it's good" for me
        https://youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=ouwIjCNZkH4&t=10m35s

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          its fine if you just want to have a good time but if you prefer to take the game seriously its impossible

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >jap writing is cringe and awkward as frick
      said the n5

  36. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They're not? 2 is just particularly bad. 1 was great. 3 was fine. Even X's dub was perfectly serviceable. And even 2 improved a bit at the later stages (though it was still bad). But I don't see how one game's bad dub should taint the entire series' dubs, let alone all of video games.

  37. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    NOT SO FAST

  38. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    there’s surprisingly little distinction between an actual dubgay’s post and a shitposter pretending to be one

  39. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Good VA costs money. And publishers don't give a shit about anime games.

  40. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    C list voice actors that nobody else wants to hire.

  41. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They’re being made for people who want to play Japanese games in spite of the fact they’re Japanese, not for. Sure you could put in more money and effort into them but why bother? Regardless of the quality they’ll still love it, defend it and even promote it as being better then the acting they’ve never heard just for the fact it keeps them at another remove from being into anything “too Japanesey”

  42. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because """Great""" Britain can't do well at anything.

  43. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    oh look, it's the same fricking clip.
    AGAIN

  44. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I don’t know why they even bother with english dubs. Its so pointless

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Because far too many potential customers would choose not to buy a game that otherwise looks exactly like something they’d love just because it lacks an English VO for any dev or publisher realising a AAA game to consider going without

  45. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Didn't read the thread, but I'm just here for the chance of big anime breasts

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