The voice acting in FFX

[remnant_phoenix]

The voice acting for Final Fantasy X was fine. I played it when it first came out, and I've replayed it many times since, including recently with the FFX and X-2 HD releases.

And Vanille from FFXIII is just the best. How can you hate Vanille, or her voice? There's something wrong with you bro.

I've played every main series (non-MMO) Final Fantasy game and I maintain that Vanille is the WORST character in the entire series.

 

[Estarc]

I've played every main series (non-MMO) Final Fantasy game and I maintain that Vanille is the WORST character in the entire series.

Aww, now I feel sad for you. Vanille's a sweetie pie. How can you not love her? Ah well.

I don't think there's a character I'd say is the worst in all of Final Fantasy. Some I really loved, some I was ambivalent towards and others grated on me. But in those instances I just put it down to personal preference, not the character being objectively bad.

 

[Therumancer]

Just little rant, so indulge me.

A couple months ago, I asked if I should play FFIX or FFX first and after hearing from fellow escapists, decided to play IX first. Well, I recently finished FFIX and I've now moved on to FFX. So far, I'm only an hour or so into it(The group is just starting on their journey and haven't even boarded the boat yet), so I may be premature, but one thing that's kinda grating on me is Tidus's voice acting.

As in, it's really annoying. Wakka doesn't bother me(the fact that I keep hearing Bender/Jake the Dog helps there), Yuna isn't great but hasn't spoken much either(same with Rikku, but she's had a handful of lines before Tidus was washed off her boat). However, Tidus talks in a way that makes me wish that Wakka would reach over and smack him around a bit. I'm not really sure why, but it grates on me. Sadly, the only good thing I can think of is that he's not as bad as Vanille in FFXIII, who constantly had me saying "Goddamn, Vanille. Learn to talk like a normal person or shut up! Ask Fang to teach you how to speak"(The fact her VA sounds like a normal person IRL makes this more annoying, because that means she had to intentionally sound that annoying).

Does it get better? Please tell me it gets better. Right now I'm kinda missing IX where the characters didn't have VA.

Tidus seemed to be considered annoying almost since his inception and I believe even the Japanese said so at the time the game came out. I'm sure different people have different reactions of course, but your complaints are not unusual, people really slammed him when the game was new and relevant.

It was suspected that part of the problem was they wanted to have a character that wasn't all "Emo" like Cloud and Squall beforehand, without going as cutesy as Zidane, and they simply went too far with it as Japan has a tendency to do. As a result his voice, the lines, etc... they all just kind of grate. As far as enduring character love goes the two that wound up being popular were Rikku and Auron. Wakka was kind of mocked for the way he not only acted but the fact that he was doing his whole "Mr. Volleyball" thing as a legitimate combat technique and he kind of seemed out of place a lot of the time, mostly being a tie in to one majorly promoted mini-game (Blitzball) which could be turned into a whole sideline. Lulu was literally (if I remember correctly from what the artist said) done as a fan-joke about characters with too many straps and buckles, given that her dress is made out of them.

 

[Therumancer]

I've played every main series (non-MMO) Final Fantasy game and I maintain that Vanille is the WORST character in the entire series.

Aww, now I feel sad for you. Vanille's a sweetie pie. How can you not love her? Ah well.

I don't think there's a character I'd say is the worst in all of Final Fantasy. Some I really loved, some I was ambivalent towards and others grated on me. But in those instances I just put it down to personal preference, not the character being objectively bad.

So you think Quina from Final Fantasy IX wasn't annoying and out of place then?

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Although, he did seem to be kind of an immature, full-of-himself jerk jock for the beginning of the game.

He was, and that's part of his character arc. He realises how badly he was spoilt and grows up.

 

[Estarc]

So you think Quina from Final Fantasy IX wasn't annoying and out of place then?

He was weird as hell, but in a hilarious way. I didn't think he was overly annoying. And as for out of place? FFIX was pretty wacky as a whole.

 

[Dalisclock]

Sadly, the only good thing I can think of is that he's not as bad as Vanille in FFXIII, who constantly had me saying "Goddamn, Vanille. Learn to talk like a normal person or shut up! Ask Fang to teach you how to speak"(The fact her VA sounds like a normal person IRL makes this more annoying, because that means she had to intentionally sound that annoying).

I'm not saying you have to like Vanille, but Fang? I can tell you as an Australian, the first time I heard Vanille I knew her voice actor was Australian, and the first time I heard Fang I knew hers was not. The attempted accent is a step up from what typically passes as "Australian" to an American audience, but it's still quite grating to hear her compared to Vanille.

I didn't realize Fang's accent was faked, but at least it doesn't grate on my ears like vanille's does. Vanille, her voice and mannerisms, just comes across as obnoxious. I don't know if because she's acting like a child when she clearly is not or just the weird way she pitches her voice for the game.

To be fair, Sazh was the only character from XIII I actually liked, while the rest I was either indifferent to(Lighting,Fang) or annoyed with(Snow,Hope). Vanille is just the one I can't stand to listen to half the time.

 

[Drathnoxis]

I can't find a video of it, but my favorite line from that game is Tidus narrating "Praise be to Yevon... That's what I would have said, if I was a follower of Yevon."

It pretty much encompasses everything that is wrong with the dialogue in the game. The delivery is flat and the emphasis is completely on the wrong words, but beyond that the line is just so zooking stupid. I can't even properly describe why the line is so dumb, it's just so pointless and inane.

This thread talks about bad voice acting and yet forgets gems like this?

The difference here is that House of the Dead 2 was so bad it was actually hilarious, whereas FFX is just bad enough that it's grating and annoying. It doesn't help that FFX tries to take itself so seriously as well, while half the characters sound like whiny morons.