Last week i played two games with voice acting , japanese games with voice acting , and i'm not japanese .
Can't say it did wonders for immersion , no.
Can't say it did wonders for immersion , no.
More adult games should embrace voice acting.
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oh men... japanese voiced games are the worse to me LOL.
male voice is always strong and serious... or sudent and cartoon'ish (like when they make some "Yarg !" (surprise sound or small pain sound).
woman japanese voice in game is atrocious to me... they speak super fast, with high spike of decibel... its like playing violon when you dont know how to play it. And the sex scene is very annoying to me with jap voice, female moaning and all is sooo fake and exaggerrated, and orgasm sound is loud that broke my ears everytime.
i never play japanese voiced games with sound, even AAA games. i prefer read english subtitles for them , even if sometime the translation is way off XD
just my opinion tho... i know many peoples love japanese voices and all.
Aye, and subtitles sometimes even make it worse! All you hear are repeated high-pitched squeals, the subtitles read "no! no! no!" and then "nooooo!" for the orgasm yet somehow she's supposed to be enjoying herself in this consensual sex while sounding less pleased than an anime tween getting run through by spear-sized claws?
Western porn can be just as fake but at least you can see the "bitch" is "taking it" (like a pro!) and shouting "fuuuuck!" is thematically appropriate.
- Apr 26, 2019
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Double-edge sword here (hell, it may be more pointy than that). I'd love to have the option for players to have it with my own project, but others are correct in some of the sentiments. Costly, time-consuming, adds significant size to the game. Still, there are some adventure games that have done it right, and I do think it can help immerse the players even more. Another challenge for a creator, is if you develop this game over time, bit by bit, your script has to be tight and unchanging from the beginning to keep costs down. I'd love for that to be the case, but dialogue changes are almost inevitable, for a host of reasons. I've seen some projects where the subs didn't match the voice acting at all, and can only assume this happened during the process of building the game, and not on purpose. Best case is to actually finish the project, and then add voice acting if you have enough support for it. That's my hope, anyway. It's a big wish, but ultimately, I'd always leave it for players to choose subtitles or voice.
haha jap always make me laugh when the girl is fucked and she say "ai ! ai ! ai !" (wich mean "yes ! yes !" in english, but its sound like she get hurt "aie! / aye !"), this always make me laugh because she sound like getting hurt to me, but end with that ahegao thing that maek her look dumb and retarded more than pleasured XD
There's this problem with western VA. They sound fake and cartoonish. Haven't played any western eroge with English VA in a while, but generally, I choose to watch anime with subs instead of dubs and play jap games with eng subs+jap VA if possible because of that same problem. You can't compare the jap VA with Western VA. The gap is too big. Take for example konosuba, even if I don't understand jap that much, they manage to create so much emotion behind their words and everything feels natural and immersive, while eng dubs are... decent, but doesn't have the same effect. It always feels like someone just doing their job reading some lines with strange intonation and pitch.
So, with that said, I would play the game with eng VA, but I always prefer jap va over eng va. And I think it's better for small indie game devs to focus on making their game better instead of adding va.
So, with that said, I would play the game with eng VA, but I always prefer jap va over eng va. And I think it's better for small indie game devs to focus on making their game better instead of adding va.
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I totally agree with it. And wish one day we will male a game with voices but the thing is that voiceovers will be the most expenive part of developing in that case. And such a games have quite short period of ricing good money. After 3 months it falls down very feelable. But i have a dream... i have a dream...