After I found out that Tales of Hearts R isn't getting dubbed into english, it inspired me to make this thread. To put it simply, for you what so called little problems with a game bother you to the point it keeps you from wanting to pay full price for it? I don't mean you won't get it on a Steam sale someday or rent it or something, just something about the game itself that keeps you from buying right at full price, other than the price itself.
For me, as you can probably guess from the first sentence it's not dubbing a game that relies heavily on voice acting into english. I don't know about everybody else, but I find that even a very bad english dub improves a game significantly, by allowing me to get much more invested into a story and characters. By contrast, NO voice acting when there's supposed to be or much worse leaving in the foreign voice acting makes a game significantly less than it would otherwise be. For that reason I never buy any game that lacks voice acting or has foreign voice acting in anything less than the bargain bin, if at all, since I always rent everything first before I buy it anyway.
Take Tales of Hearts R for instance. This is a particular strong blow for me because I consider the Tales series to be one of the best game series ever made, with every game outdoing the previous one. The stories are brilliant, the characters well developed, the combat fun and engaging, and the english voice actors easily the best I've ever seen anywhere, no contest. To hear that Namco is half-assing this one really hurts, because from what I've otherwise heard about it without this one detail it would probably be just as good as the rest of the series. However, no english voice acting is REALLY going to drag it down, more so because Japanese voice acting is HORRIBLE across the board, and still would be even if I understood it. I've never heard Japanese voice acting in my life that even comes close to the worst of english voice acting.
I'll probably get Hearts eventually, but I'll get it in the bargain bin used just so Namco doesn't get any of my money for it and turn the voices off.
For me, as you can probably guess from the first sentence it's not dubbing a game that relies heavily on voice acting into english. I don't know about everybody else, but I find that even a very bad english dub improves a game significantly, by allowing me to get much more invested into a story and characters. By contrast, NO voice acting when there's supposed to be or much worse leaving in the foreign voice acting makes a game significantly less than it would otherwise be. For that reason I never buy any game that lacks voice acting or has foreign voice acting in anything less than the bargain bin, if at all, since I always rent everything first before I buy it anyway.
Take Tales of Hearts R for instance. This is a particular strong blow for me because I consider the Tales series to be one of the best game series ever made, with every game outdoing the previous one. The stories are brilliant, the characters well developed, the combat fun and engaging, and the english voice actors easily the best I've ever seen anywhere, no contest. To hear that Namco is half-assing this one really hurts, because from what I've otherwise heard about it without this one detail it would probably be just as good as the rest of the series. However, no english voice acting is REALLY going to drag it down, more so because Japanese voice acting is HORRIBLE across the board, and still would be even if I understood it. I've never heard Japanese voice acting in my life that even comes close to the worst of english voice acting.
I'll probably get Hearts eventually, but I'll get it in the bargain bin used just so Namco doesn't get any of my money for it and turn the voices off.
