Voice Acting Discussion

Aya Lee

Aya Lee

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Regarding Aerith, I think Mandy Moore would be best if she had the direction that she did in Tangled as Rapunzel. When I watch Tangled, and then watch her performance in Kingdom Hearts, it's like two different people... In Kingdom Hearts, Aerith sounds bored to me. Aerith is so expressive, you can tell by her gestures, even in the original FF7 graphics. Mandy WAS expressive in Tangled, but of course she'd need to alter her voice slightly. I just think it's really the direction as everyone has mentioned.
 
Channy

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I think Mandy Moore has a tell-tale voice that, as a VA, you can't change very much. I don't hate on her, and I agree with your above statements but Andrea Bowen <3
 
Pixel

Pixel

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I think what Mandy Moore does best is make awkward dialog work, because she's a natural voice actor. She also had the natural softness to her voice, which Mena Suvari had to force. If Mandy Moore had been in AC, she would have made it work, even with the shitty direction.

I think Rachel Leigh Cook did a decent job for the most part. But there are a few lines, like when Cloud is pulling up at Healin, she says something like "Cloud, be careful". You can tell that the director has said "sound empathetic", and she gives this awful line read, which they don't question. Dissidia is so much worse though, because every line feels so disconnected.
 
Splintered

Splintered

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Pixel said:
I think Rachel Leigh Cook did a decent job for the most part. But there are a few likes, like when Cloud is pulling up at Healin, she says something like "Cloud, be careful". You can tell that the director has said "sound empathetic", and she gives this awful line read, which they don't question. Dissidia is so much worse though, because every line feels so disconnected.
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I still marvel about how genuinely awful Dissidia is, I thought you had to actively work on having such low standards, until the Type-0 game came out and just figured they don't give a shit about psp titles.

It's a shame too because the va's want to do better, they just have a crap voice director. I remember Kuja's VA said something to the effect, then listened to fan's advice and got better for 012.

I have a sinking suspicion they won't change Rachel, and she's pretty okay, not great. But maybe with some better guidance she'll make it (plsplsjackfletcher)
 
Tetsujin

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I actually tweeted Steve Burton asking if he could tell me who the voice director is for FFVIIR but I haven't gotten a response =P
 
Aya Lee

Aya Lee

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Tetsujin said:
I actually tweeted Steve Burton asking if he could tell me who the voice director is for FFVIIR but I haven't gotten a response =P
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GENIUS, Tetsujin. I feel like tweeting him and saying, "Steve, please make sure Cloud sounds like a cocky, confident asshole. Thanks."

End. (Something like that, lmao).
 
Channy

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Totally. We need confident cocky asshole Cloud back in FFVIIR. I mean, at least for the first disk before he starts to get a little effed up. It's like in every other title he's lost what he used to be as a character, and no offense to Steve Burton but I think he has a hand in that too.
 
e.suna

e.suna

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I've never played the Dissidia titles (although my husband has, so I can still play them if ever the mood strikes). But I saw a trailer for I think the second one, and the voice acting made me feel stabby. The voice direction seemed to have been done by a dead grandma, and there was zero understanding of the characters behind the performances. I remember being especially pissed about how not-Laguna Laguna sounded.

But like Splintered said upthread, that's a PSP title. I'm sure they'll take the English dub direction a lot more seriously for the remake.

Do you think Steve even knows who is directing them yet? They are probably still a ways out from localizing the first installment, and I wonder if whoever directed the voice recording for the trailer is even the same person.
 
Unlucky

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Am I the only one who actually likes Steve Burton as Cloud? Could've done a better job in some dialogue I suppose but his voice per se is perfect.
 
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Unlucky said:
Am I the only one who actually likes Steve Burton as Cloud? Could've done a better job in some dialogue I suppose but his voice per se is perfect.
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No, you're not the only one who likes Steve Burton as Cloud. I like Steve Burton as Cloud too, and I'm pretty sure he likes being the voice of Cloud as well.

I pretty much like all of the english voice actors of the FFVII characters(especially in the Compilation). I'm probably the only one who actually likes Aerith's english voice actress from Advent Children, though.
 
Aya Lee

Aya Lee

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Unlucky said:
Am I the only one who actually likes Steve Burton as Cloud? Could've done a better job in some dialogue I suppose but his voice per se is perfect.
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I adore Steve Burton as Cloud. I especially like his performance as younger Cloud in Crisis Core in particular. For example, in that one scene when Zack says "I'm sensing some issues here...", I thought he captured Cloud's self-consciousness perfectly. I know he can sound cocky, he did in General Hospital lmao
 
Tennyo

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I also like Steve Burton as Cloud. Yes, he's had some awkward line delivery in the past, but it's mostly the way his voice sounds that I like. I think it fits Cloud very well. But I do agree in that he probably needs a better director to guide him.
 
ForceStealer

ForceStealer

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He sounded cocky in Dirge of Cerberus too.
Vincent: "How about you [will you guys be all right]?"
Cloud: "What do you think?"

:P Love that line.

I think Steve Burton has improved with each performance as Cloud - with the exception of Dissidia which, as discussed, is a directing problem - and has gotten progressively more natural from AC to Dirge to Crisis Core to the new scenes in ACC.
 
Aya Lee

Aya Lee

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If you want proof Steve Burton can have emotion in his voice, watch the scene at 3:28:



LOL "little betch"
 
Lex

Lex

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I really liked him as Young Cloud in CC. I don't have a problem with Steve Burton as Cloud or Vincent's VA or even Cait Sith if I'm totally honest. I found most of the English voices in DoC and CC fine. It's Advent Children I have extreme problems with :P
 
Strangelove

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All this talk of terrible English Dissidia reminds me that I never played it so didn't really experience that except maybe bits and pieces that I don't remember now :awesome:

I actually didn't care for Vincent's English VA but that might be because I don't much care for Steven Blum(?).

Even though I probably won't bother to play it in English anyway :monster:

On the subject of the version I will play, I am curious as to who will take the role of Hojo since his original actor passed away a few years ago.
 
R

Random Nobody

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Noah fents, but I guess my biggest qualm about Burton and RLC (besides the weird direction that leads to flatness) is that their accents can be...very distracting.

That, and RLC has never at any point sounded like she was using a natural speaking speaking voice except that scene in AC/C where Cloudo got his wig fried.
 
Unlucky

Unlucky

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I just imagine Steve's accent to be the Nibelheim accent. :D Agree about Rachael though. Her natural voice sounds ok I don't know why she had to sound shrilly.
 
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Strangelove said:
On the subject of the version I will play, I am curious as to who will take the role of Hojo since his original actor passed away a few years ago.
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Hold on a second. You mean Paul Eiding is dead!? I didn't hear anything about that or that he's been dead for a few years.

How did he die?
 
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micknutson9

Pro Adventurer
He's not dead, he's still doing voice work as he was in Ben10 Omniverse. Most people assume that certain people die due to not being heard for awhile. He recently voiced Scarecrow from Codename: S.T.E.A.M., Charlie from We Bare Bears, Captain/Bartender from JL: Throne of Atlantis, Tom Henderson from Funsplosion, Arlen Glass in Fallout 4 and the Mayor in The Submarine Kid. All released in 2015 of this year.
 
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Pixel

Pixel

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Strangelove said:
All this talk of terrible English Dissidia reminds me that I never played it so didn't really experience that except maybe bits and pieces that I don't remember now :awesome:

I actually didn't care for Vincent's English VA but that might be because I don't much care for Steven Blum(?).

Even though I probably won't bother to play it in English anyway :monster:

On the subject of the version I will play, I am curious as to who will take the role of Hojo since his original actor passed away a few years ago.
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Get Mark Hamil in to play Hojo and Godo. He does the perfect voice for Godo in Kingdom Hearts... Dream drop distance (?). That's the voice type I cast for in Case of Yuffie.
 
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