Hopes for Remake & Rebirth (story/content)

[Eerie]

What's really surprising is that all these women are fawning over Cloud and no one is interested in Biggs. In real life that just wouldn't happen.

Other than that, I also agree on Biggs. That reminds me of Star Wars 1, 2, 3 where I was like "how the fuck did Padme fell in love with that idiot Anakin when she's got Obi Wan RIGHT THERE FFS???" That was simply not credible at all lmao, and Biggs having no love interest is super bizarre to me.

Edit: sorry I was going back to quote Licorice and missed the warning message oops. /editing things out

 

[pxp]

Looks like i missed the party. Thanks the lords

 

[Cannon_Fodder]

Add me to the list of people who want more Biggs in their life.

 

[Ite]

Add me to the list of people who want more Biggs in their @€#%+¥.

ftfy

 

[FFShinra]

I feel like Biggs will be fun, what with having Balthier's VA and all.

 

[Theozilla]

Wonder if there will be anymore Breaking Bad actors voicing characters in the dub besides Wedge’s VA. Maybe Bryan Cranston would be willing to go back into voice acting (fun fact he did quite a number of anime dubs early in his career, like Macross Plus).

 

[Ite]

Brian Cranston as Sephiroth would actually be great. He’s dynamic and sounds like an actual human, he can be sweet, authoritative, enraged. I’ve never understood why “velvet sex” is the only quality Sephiroth’s voiced dialogue has.

 

[Clement Rage]

We don't get the game from Bigg's perspective. He might well have a string of admirers we never see.

Edit: And if he doesn't AO3 will soon fix that.

 

[Saven]

Wonder if there will be anymore Breaking Bad actors voicing characters in the dub besides Wedge’s VA. Maybe Bryan Cranston would be willing to go back into voice acting (fun fact he did quite a number of anime dubs early in his career, like Macross Plus).

Blew my mind not too long ago when I found out that he was Fei Long in the SFII Anime Movie

Speaking of Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul did the MC voice for that FFXV tie-in movie as well.

 

[FFShinra]

Cranston as Gast! Do eeeeeeeeet SE

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

How about Cranston as Bugenhagen?

Or Chocobo Sage, if that's the best we can do?

 

[FFShinra]

Actually, thinking about it more.....Cid.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

I still have all my digits crossed for Gary Sinise as Cid.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Unpopular opinion? I don't follow VAs (or actors) but/and I think a job like this can make an unknown actor's career. That's why I think it's cool when SE hire unknowns to voice major characters. Moreover, VA work is work where the actor's appearance or possible disabilities make no difference to their performance, so I wish such actors could gain more prominence in voice acting.

 

[Theozilla]

Unpopular opinion? I don't follow VAs (or actors) but/and I think a job like this can make an unknown actor's career. That's why I think it's cool when SE hire unknowns to voice major characters. Moreover, VA work is work where the actor's appearance or possible disabilities make no difference to their performance, so I wish such actors could gain more prominence in voice acting.

Eh, while it may not be as significant/important as it is with life action, I don’t think it’s accurate to say a VA background/identity makes completely no difference to the performance.

For example, I don’t think it would have gone over very well if either of Barret’s casted English voice actors had not been black guys.
Or the film “A Silent Voice” (a film that is specifically about deafness with one of its protagonists) casted a deaf voice actress for the role, I don’t think one can say that likely didn’t affect the quality/authenticity of the performance.

 

[Odysseus]

casted a dead voice actress for the role

Has the anime industry fallen so far as to resort to necromancy for their casting? For shame, for shame.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Omigod I wasn't thinking about colour or ethnicity. Why is that the first thing that springs to your mind when someone uses the word 'appearance'? I was thinking about attractiveness. There's no actual need, for example, for the actors who voice Tifa or Aerith to be as beautiful as Tifa or Aerith. What they need is the right voice. Maybe that's where SE has been going wrong?

Moreover, any of these characters could have been voiced by black actors. Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, Sephiroth... Don't tell me there aren't non-Caucasian actors out there who would have done a great job.I agree that characters of colour shouldn't be voiced by white actors, but that's because black actors already don't get enough opportunities for work. I also think that principle should change once we have complete equality of opportunity in acting, if that day ever comes.

Barret raises so many issues. Why does he have to be voiced by an American? Why not a Jamaican? Or a Londoner? Or a Kenyan? Just out of interest, who does Barret's VA in Japanese?

 

[Theozilla]

Has the anime industry fallen so far as to resort to necromancy for their casting? For shame, for shame.

d’oh, darn autocorrect

Fun fact, Cloud’s remake voice actor is actually mixed-race, Cody Christian’s mother is Native American.

As for why Barret’s voice actor is American, that’s probably due to the English dub cast/contracted studio in general being Americans. If SE had subcontracted the people who did the Xenoblade Chronicles dub, we might have had a whole gaggle of British voices.

 

[Kai Schulen]

Barret with a British accent is...

huh, wow. I kinda want to hear Barret with a Brit accent.

 

[Rydeen]

I wanna hear Barret with a Dominican accent, because someone pointed out how Dominican he looks and I can't unsee it.
Island accents would be a bit weird coming from a dude from the desert, though.

 

[Odysseus]

I wonder if they're going to remember that Biggs and or Wedge had a little sister that was in Dirge of Cerberus.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

He's voiced by a Japanese actor in the Japanese version.
Masahiro Kobayashi

 

[Clement Rage]

British accents are reserved for villains and citizens of evil empires in US media, though.

Honestly, big name actors are just a distraction. When I heard Robin Lord Taylor in Dishonored, I couldn't unhear him as penguin, and in general thought he sounded too young for the role. Voice acting and acting are different if related skills, I'd let veteran voice actors get the picks rather than drag in TV or film actors for star wattage.

I don't like to cast people unless I've actually heard the audition, because it's too easy to typecast based on roles that required the actor to do something else. If somebody has played comic relief previously, that doesn't mean they can only do comic relief and so forth.

Re Accents, you're usually allowed American and British. With everything else, audiences start drawing unfortunate conclusions, which limits roles a lot.

I'd prefer they ignore earth accents for something set not on earth. Make them not fit an 'earth' slot. Give Barret a French accent, who cares?

 

[FFShinra]

Watching the FF7 playthrough the VAs for Aerith and Barret did, I believe Bentley (who was reading all of Barret's lines in completely different accents from the Remake) actually did do a British accent for him a couple of times and it sounded REALLY good (as in, it fit with Barret, I dunno how good the accent itself was, not being British, nevermind from whatever specific accent that was supposed to be).

Hell, Briana White is herself an example of casting a relative unknown into an important role, and so that can and likely will be done going forward (I still wanna know who are voicing the Shinra executives and Turks, BTW), but it also takes the fun out of speculation.

The general trend for the Remake seems to be (again, confirmation about Shinra voices would help here) the playable characters get unknown/TV talent while the supporting characters get professionals (going off of Avalanche, though Wedge's actor kinda disrupts that theory).

 

[Littlewing]

Well, it's mostly a video game, so then I don't really know, I think for some reason because of the personal siginficance and attachtment i have to the franchise and specifically FF7 I will probably shed a few tears re-playing it, especially since more then any of the other games, it really resonated deeply on some emotional level deeper inside to something that no other piece of media or film and music ever really has except for a few other things and it felt so close to being similar somehow to my own inner self. Watching the trailer especially did this to me, I can just tell, I don't know if it's the small age when I first played it or what it was exactly, but it's one of my favourite memories. These days now I spend more time on music but I hope, I'm not really sure, I'm not sure what I hope for to be honest. I hope it's a pleasant surprise.

I guess in some ways I just hope personally with myself that I can somehow re-experience and am able to clearly enjoy the game itself and can reach that point inwardly when I was a child and again as a teenager. I'm trying to gain that inner-purity back and regain or recover some aspects of myself that I may have lost, or had become destroyed or simply neglected and forgotten about...I just want to regain some feelings and way or experience of looking at the world, if it's possible. I want to so badly, maybe this will act as some mediator, or gateway that allows this part of personal healing or facilitate this personal journey to reminiscence from my past and hopefully onward to the future.

I remember the parts that resonated with me the most, particularly the trains, I'm not sure why. I know there's some emphasis them due to the context they have within history but I always wondered if there's some other significance to them as I felt particularly moved by the scenes involving them as well.

(sorry) there's no damn edit button.

There's a few musicians that moved me, but all in different ways. Like Final Fantasy X moved me a lot as well, it's comparable to 7 and 8, but I don't know 8 moved me in a different way. I don't know what it is, only Final Fantasy was really able to do that, and then, I think I'm not good or 'pure' enough for the franchise anymore though and I wonder about that.

It's just I feel this desperate urge to reconnect or somehow gain those feelings back. There's things like, our nervous systems and all kinds of things which effect how we feel, but it's just desperate, like this is my life and somehow that really has precious value for me, to really appreciate or properly make sure I'm appreciating this world at it's best.

(sorry) I went overboard again...it's just

I just want to...

so badly....