Japanese FF13 Voices Completed

shocky16 - 186 days 13 hours ago

But what about the much superior English voice track. =/

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Livenow - 186 days 10 hours ago

I'd import the Japanese version. I wonder why they didn't add English subtitles to the game /s

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imdaboss - 186 days 10 hours ago

yeah seriously a lot of japanese games need to have english subtitles as a standard

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hay - 186 days 9 hours ago

Give me english subs and I can happily buy it now. No need to localize it for one year.

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lordgodalming - 185 days 20 hours ago

@Shocky: What? Some English voice acting can be really great, but in my opinion (and that of many JRPG and Anime fans) the English dub is rarely superior to the original on a Japanese game. This is already the case with FFXIII, as we've samples of both tracks and the English one can't hold a candle. Again, in my opinion.

As far as I'm concerned Square needn't bother with the English dub and just include the English subtitles with the Japanese release. I and many other gamers would probably pay up to $100 to import if that were the case.

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f789790 - 185 days 12 hours ago

If there were English subtitles, I and everyone else would import it for our ps3's.

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Critical_Hit - 186 days 10 hours ago

Yes, I hope Square Enix includes the Japanese language track. It's always good to have a choice. Like I've always said, from what I heard the English voice work is good so far, but it's still not Maaya Sakamoto (Lightning's character) good.

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Reibooi - 186 days 10 hours ago

I'm pretty sure Square already said that if there was room on the Blu-ray they would have both Japanese and English tracks for the US release of the game.

360 fans however are out of luck on that one.

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zlatko - 179 days 10 hours ago

Sorry guys you are seriously outta luck if you want Japanese voices on the English version of FF13 for both PS3 and 360. I think an interview done even MORE recently had a Square rep state,"We aren't going to do it, because we want to keep the PS3 and 360 version equal." Since the 360 version can't hold the japanese tracks, and they don't want to make it DLC either, then the PS3 version won't have it so the USA market thinks they are equal.

It probably didn't start there either on the 360 gimping the PS3 version. Take a look at how amazing in game looks for FFVersus13, which when both it and FF13 were announced and showed off looked neck and neck. Now FF13 is the uglier version(game still looks awesome), but the 360 is the cap on what this game can do.

Honestly call me a fanboy or whatever, but I love the FF games dearly, so to see them suffer a gimp this generation right out the gate just ruins the fun of them being top tier in the graphics department.

I agree though to you saying if the Japanese version had english subtitles/menus, etc I'd be all over it.

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soul899er - 186 days 9 hours ago

I think it's because there is more memory on disks being used. So the 360 version will have to be heavily compressed so there will be more than one disk, I think someone should explain this to you because I'm not a techy :/

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Shuya - 186 days 9 hours ago

Final fantasy games use lots and lots of pre rendered fmv that's most likely why other than smaller data capacity size of dvd obviously (though they have been reluctant to do japanese voice option even on the blu ray version which is just plain stupid ...).

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soul899er - 186 days 9 hours ago

Thank you :D

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SpoonyRedMage - 186 days 9 hours ago

What militant is saying is that Lost Odyssey had 6 language option and is a pretty darn epic JRPG with a lot of cutscenes and it's four discs(not an unreasonable amount). So FFXIII should be able to have two language options.

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militant07 - 186 days 9 hours ago

Thank You :D

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Reibooi - 186 days 7 hours ago

Lost Odyssey had very few pre rendered cut scenes almost all of the games Cut scenes were in game on the level of 99% or so.

Microsoft published the game as well which is most likely the reason they had so many languages for the game as MS was footing the bill on all those discs. Had MS not published the game Lost Odyssey would have most likely been English only and on 1 or 2 DVD's. The amount of audio alone in Lost Odyssey is more then likely the reason it's on 4 discs and not because of the length of the game.

At the end of the day there is a big difference between a Unreal Engine RPG with no pre rendered cut scenes and a Crystal tools RPG with countless pre rendered cut scenes that all take up massive amounts of space and again Microsoft will not be publishing Final Fantasy XIII so SE is going to have to pay for anything that makes FFXIII on more discs which is not exactly something they would like to do.

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Dark-vash - 184 days 21 hours ago

Yeah... some caracters english voices in Star ocean are horrible... 'kay?

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The Great Melon - 186 days 5 hours ago

Very true, I must admit seeing the demo and hearing about the completion of the voice work feels like two milestones. It finally feels like it will come out soon.

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DNAgent - 186 days 9 hours ago

I don't know why somebody disagreed with you. I guess they haven't seen the FF13 trailers that had english voice acting because the english voice acting was terrible. It's the worst I have heard since Baiten Kaitos.

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