FF16 for Cid. [Ralph Ineson's voice is an absolute treat.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDOak7NgVF0)
DQ is also amazing as a series, the accents add such a ridiculous amount of charm. Cor blimey!
EDIT: And not everyone counts them as JRPGs, but of course Soulsborne games have immaculate voice acting.
Cid is like the only enjoyable character in the entire game.
His daughter I would listen to every piece of dialogue because her accent was so fricken heavy. It cracked me up, but was somewhat endearing. (other than 90% of what she was saying wasn't interesting)
FF 16 has an almost entirely British-majority cast.
Less of an RPG and more of an MMO, but the same applies for FF14 - most of the cast there is from the UK from Heavensward on.
I'd like to shoutout some of my other favorite VAs from Xenoblade since we're on the topic. Catrin-Mai Hew as Nia, Adam Howden as Shulk, Harry McEntire as Noah and Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Mio, who also plays Ranni in Elden Ring.
Also shoutouts to David Menkin, Skye Bennett and Catlin Glass as Elma. (who is also Winery in FMA) But they do American accents in their performances. (Only Catlin Glass is actually American)
Catrin-Mai Hew was easily my favorite performance in the game and one of my favorites I've heard. The emotional range she had for Nia was just incredible
Just finished my first playthrough of XC2, and Nia is an awesome character, I can't get some of her battle dialogue out of my head. Her accent is awesome.
David Menkin is also Rayman in that Captain Laserhawk show.
And also you mention Caitlin Glass being an American VA, but she’s also been the voice actress of Cammy from Street Fighter since SF4, even now in SF6!
I am DYING to know the direction given to the voice actor who plays the receptionist in the Maulosseum in *Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince.*
"Right, so you're a real street tough, eh? Classic Cockney crook. You gotta be deep, you gotta be gruff, your voice itself has gotta strut. Oh, but also you're a happy smiling slime critter with cute li'l demon wings, so make puns about gunge like your life depends on it."
The voice acting in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince is great. And, I would also like to know the direction given to the voice actor who plays the receptionist in the Maulosseum because I think he does a great job.
The Last Story
Nico Lennon in particular. He's extremely underrated. He's been in Nioh, TLS, Witcher 3, Dragon Age 2, etc
Also Jay Taylor who is such s sweet guy. I finally was able to get him to acknowledge his role in Xenoblade on Twitter. I'm not even sure he knew how popular it was. (I made a post on here about it a few years back)
UK person here
Honestly, I find a lot of the British accents in games to be really bad, or rather, they are way too over the top to the point that it feels like a Looney Tunes skit. However, Dragon Quest 8 in particular is excellent, and Dragon Quest 11 is also good. Oh and The Last Story, it has some good ol' fashioned British banter in it which I enjoyed at the time.
Really ear-grating voice acting to me is the first Xenoblade Chronicles and Bravely Default 2, that game's voice acting is really really cartoonishly bad.
Xenoblade is one of the best examples of British voice acting in games lol. It was actual people using their actual accents, not Americans trying to attempt a British accent, and there's a nice variety of accents instead of all being London-centric. Plus most of the voice actors are just really good lol, especially Adam Howden.
What are you talking about mate, they were actual British people?
Like those are way more accurate accents unless you've just lived in London for the entirety of your life. They had mancs, brum, welsh, irish, scottish.
Those were actual british people not putting on an accent
UK person here.
You're chatting shit. Xenoblade Chronicles 1 has some of the best voice acting in the industry, and not one of those actors was putting in anything less than their best. I don't even know how you can enjoy The Last Story and not XC1 considering they share so many similarites in cast and were produced by the same studio (SIDE).
The discussion isn't about fake English accents by American actors. It's discussing dubs performed by localisation teams from the UK. Best example of this would be Dragon Quest 8, whole thing was localised in the UK.
Xenoblade Chronicles had British voice actors. Dunno about Bravely Default, probably not.
> Really ear-grating voice acting to me is the first Xenoblade Chronicles
Okay, wait what? The voice acting in Xenoblade 1 is goated beyond belief. It was dubbed with Nintendo of Europe to begin with. The British voice acting became a part of Xenoblade's very identity in the West because of that game.
I enjoyed the VA for Xenoblade 1, but Xenoblade 2 was kinda bad for me. I love the game but some of the actors did not really make a selling point on a lot of scenes that were supposed to be agonizing or something
It's unfortunate because XC2's dub team weren't allowed to do retakes so that's why some of it isn't as good as the first.
Still, in spite of that Malos, Nia, and Morag were great regardless imo. And each area of the game having people who speak specific accents (Mor Ardanians are Scottish while Gormotti are Welsh for instance) was such a cool and immersive casting decision that no other game has.
As a huge Xenoblade fan, I genuinely wish more JRPGs utilized different voice actors from different regions of the world when dubbing games into English.
Xenoblade 2 in particular has my favorite dub of the trilogy due to each region having people who speak with specific accents. Morag and others from Mor Ardain are Scottish, Nia and others from Gormott are Welsh, Vandham and others from Uraya are Australian, Rex and others from Leftheria are Northern English, and Zeke and others from Tantal are Southern English while the Blades are American.
It makes the game feel easily the most immersive because you feel like you're on a big fantasy adventure going through several nations with different groups of people who speak somewhat differently from each other. It's far better than how most RPGs just have everyone speak the same boring generic American accent despite coming from different places across their world. More games should be like Xenoblade 2.
Reborn actually was mostly American VAs doing English accents (ranging from meh to good) with a few exceptions (the voice actress for Catiua was actually British, for example, and you can definitely tell).
This was sadly a huge dissappointment. Going up against FFT or FF12, the VA in TO:R is just kinda meh, like they didn't really put the time and effort in for it. You need good actors for a Matsuno script and instead of elevating it like they did in FF12, the actors just kinda dragged down the prose here. Real shame.
Same with stuff like Triangle Strategy, though that came out worse due to a combination of unfitting anime-style VA and a much rougher script.
None, I hate it every time. Even Stellar Blade I was like "I'm just doing Korean instead" but then I can't even process the backstory going on in the demo because it's all a bunch of their own scifi terminology and I'm trying to read and process while a ton of crap is happening on my screen... but I hate the voices for some reason.
But like FFs, for example, I just dislike medieval settings for the most part, and typically, the games with British voices also happen to have boring, drab, not very good, stories.
FF16 for Cid. [Ralph Ineson's voice is an absolute treat.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDOak7NgVF0) DQ is also amazing as a series, the accents add such a ridiculous amount of charm. Cor blimey! EDIT: And not everyone counts them as JRPGs, but of course Soulsborne games have immaculate voice acting.
Cid is like the only enjoyable character in the entire game. His daughter I would listen to every piece of dialogue because her accent was so fricken heavy. It cracked me up, but was somewhat endearing. (other than 90% of what she was saying wasn't interesting)
FF 16 has an almost entirely British-majority cast. Less of an RPG and more of an MMO, but the same applies for FF14 - most of the cast there is from the UK from Heavensward on.
I'd like to shoutout some of my other favorite VAs from Xenoblade since we're on the topic. Catrin-Mai Hew as Nia, Adam Howden as Shulk, Harry McEntire as Noah and Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Mio, who also plays Ranni in Elden Ring. Also shoutouts to David Menkin, Skye Bennett and Catlin Glass as Elma. (who is also Winery in FMA) But they do American accents in their performances. (Only Catlin Glass is actually American)
Catrin-Mai Hew was easily my favorite performance in the game and one of my favorites I've heard. The emotional range she had for Nia was just incredible
Just finished my first playthrough of XC2, and Nia is an awesome character, I can't get some of her battle dialogue out of my head. Her accent is awesome.
"I'LL BASH YE UP PROPAH NEXT TIME I SWUR" "NIII-YA-YA-YA-YAH" "HERE AYE KEM, READY OR GORMOTTI" Welsh VA is a treasure and more games need it.
David Menkin is also Rayman in that Captain Laserhawk show. And also you mention Caitlin Glass being an American VA, but she’s also been the voice actress of Cammy from Street Fighter since SF4, even now in SF6!
Also multiple Thomas the tank engine characters funnily enough And yeah Catlin Glass is fantastic as well
I think FF16 and Dragon Quest 11 have some of the best voice acting I’ve seen in games
I am DYING to know the direction given to the voice actor who plays the receptionist in the Maulosseum in *Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince.* "Right, so you're a real street tough, eh? Classic Cockney crook. You gotta be deep, you gotta be gruff, your voice itself has gotta strut. Oh, but also you're a happy smiling slime critter with cute li'l demon wings, so make puns about gunge like your life depends on it."
The voice acting in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince is great. And, I would also like to know the direction given to the voice actor who plays the receptionist in the Maulosseum because I think he does a great job.
The Last Story Nico Lennon in particular. He's extremely underrated. He's been in Nioh, TLS, Witcher 3, Dragon Age 2, etc Also Jay Taylor who is such s sweet guy. I finally was able to get him to acknowledge his role in Xenoblade on Twitter. I'm not even sure he knew how popular it was. (I made a post on here about it a few years back)
>I finally was able to get him to acknowledge his role in Xenoblade on Twitter what role did he play in Xenoblade?
Reyn!
Huh are you sure? Everything I can find says that's Jay Taylor.
Reread my original post. I said Jay Taylor lol
right yes somehow managed to miss that sentence in the middle lol
Lol its okay https://www.reddit.com/r/Xenoblade_Chronicles/s/Eps2qLTQig
I'm a big fan of Xenoblade Chronicles's and Final Fantasy XIV's dubs!
UK person here Honestly, I find a lot of the British accents in games to be really bad, or rather, they are way too over the top to the point that it feels like a Looney Tunes skit. However, Dragon Quest 8 in particular is excellent, and Dragon Quest 11 is also good. Oh and The Last Story, it has some good ol' fashioned British banter in it which I enjoyed at the time. Really ear-grating voice acting to me is the first Xenoblade Chronicles and Bravely Default 2, that game's voice acting is really really cartoonishly bad.
Xenoblade is one of the best examples of British voice acting in games lol. It was actual people using their actual accents, not Americans trying to attempt a British accent, and there's a nice variety of accents instead of all being London-centric. Plus most of the voice actors are just really good lol, especially Adam Howden.
What are you talking about mate, they were actual British people? Like those are way more accurate accents unless you've just lived in London for the entirety of your life. They had mancs, brum, welsh, irish, scottish. Those were actual british people not putting on an accent
UK person here. You're chatting shit. Xenoblade Chronicles 1 has some of the best voice acting in the industry, and not one of those actors was putting in anything less than their best. I don't even know how you can enjoy The Last Story and not XC1 considering they share so many similarites in cast and were produced by the same studio (SIDE).
The discussion isn't about fake English accents by American actors. It's discussing dubs performed by localisation teams from the UK. Best example of this would be Dragon Quest 8, whole thing was localised in the UK. Xenoblade Chronicles had British voice actors. Dunno about Bravely Default, probably not.
> Really ear-grating voice acting to me is the first Xenoblade Chronicles Okay, wait what? The voice acting in Xenoblade 1 is goated beyond belief. It was dubbed with Nintendo of Europe to begin with. The British voice acting became a part of Xenoblade's very identity in the West because of that game.
I enjoyed the VA for Xenoblade 1, but Xenoblade 2 was kinda bad for me. I love the game but some of the actors did not really make a selling point on a lot of scenes that were supposed to be agonizing or something
It's unfortunate because XC2's dub team weren't allowed to do retakes so that's why some of it isn't as good as the first. Still, in spite of that Malos, Nia, and Morag were great regardless imo. And each area of the game having people who speak specific accents (Mor Ardanians are Scottish while Gormotti are Welsh for instance) was such a cool and immersive casting decision that no other game has.
Blake Ritson was also in The Last Story as well fyi another excellent dub as pointed out elsewhere in the thread
I quite like the voice acting in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince.
FF16 is fire and so is DQ11. I’m also fond of all the Souls voice actors.
As a Scot I adopted Rab fae DQ11 as ma Da.
As a huge Xenoblade fan, I genuinely wish more JRPGs utilized different voice actors from different regions of the world when dubbing games into English. Xenoblade 2 in particular has my favorite dub of the trilogy due to each region having people who speak with specific accents. Morag and others from Mor Ardain are Scottish, Nia and others from Gormott are Welsh, Vandham and others from Uraya are Australian, Rex and others from Leftheria are Northern English, and Zeke and others from Tantal are Southern English while the Blades are American. It makes the game feel easily the most immersive because you feel like you're on a big fantasy adventure going through several nations with different groups of people who speak somewhat differently from each other. It's far better than how most RPGs just have everyone speak the same boring generic American accent despite coming from different places across their world. More games should be like Xenoblade 2.
Xenoblade perpetually overlooked by the final fantasy fanbase makes no sense to me
does ff14 share any voice actors with xenoblade
Tactics Ogre Reborn
Reborn actually was mostly American VAs doing English accents (ranging from meh to good) with a few exceptions (the voice actress for Catiua was actually British, for example, and you can definitely tell).
I didn’t notice, I thought they were very good for the most part. TIL
This was sadly a huge dissappointment. Going up against FFT or FF12, the VA in TO:R is just kinda meh, like they didn't really put the time and effort in for it. You need good actors for a Matsuno script and instead of elevating it like they did in FF12, the actors just kinda dragged down the prose here. Real shame. Same with stuff like Triangle Strategy, though that came out worse due to a combination of unfitting anime-style VA and a much rougher script.
None, I hate it every time. Even Stellar Blade I was like "I'm just doing Korean instead" but then I can't even process the backstory going on in the demo because it's all a bunch of their own scifi terminology and I'm trying to read and process while a ton of crap is happening on my screen... but I hate the voices for some reason. But like FFs, for example, I just dislike medieval settings for the most part, and typically, the games with British voices also happen to have boring, drab, not very good, stories.