killthesagabeforeitkillsu wrote: I want popular western videogame voice actors as far away as possible from Shenmue. But I do wish they kept Ryo's and Shenhua's original japanese voice acting.
So far Ryo's eng and japanese voice are confirmed but nothing on Shenhua yet.
Mr357 wrote:Rikitatsu wrote: As a non-native English speaker, I also agree with Yokosuka.
Yes, there are weird lines and hilarious accents, but in general, the way characters talk in Shenmue 1 & 2 felt more realistic, than say, Uncharted or TLoU. It probably has to do with the script though.
In Uncharted/TLoU, everyone is trying to outsnark the other, and almost every line is written to sound 'cool"...
In Shenmue, NPCs talk the way I expect real people to talk... No snark, no pretension, people are moderately polite.
That is my take as a non-native English speaker, and I'm sure Native Speakers will disagree with me.
I'm a native speaker and I totally agree with you. Sure, you can argue that many of the voice actors for Shenmue I weren't "good" (whatever that means), but they have this comfortable familiarity about them that I've rarely seen in other games. For anyone who doesn't understand what I mean, watch a sitcom and pay attention to how the actors talk. You'll find that it is very different from how people actually carry on conversations.
I feel very much the same