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Should Animal Crossing receive the voice acting treatment?
- Thread starter sanstesy
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That's a big no! How they sound is very satisfying and adds to the charm of the franchise. Removing it after around 20 years would be very odd.
No way. The gibberish is so charming and they'd have to record a hell of a lot of lines considering how many characters there are.
in Japanese, Animal Crossing's speech system is actually pretty close to Tomodachi Life's
it just doesn't work as well in other languages
Look Zelda you have an argument. Because it's not like there's been an established charming language. But Animal Crossing has a whole history of the cute gibberish every animal has. KK Sliders singing has been memed into covers for popular songs. There's even an anime where everybody speaks Japanese and the second KK starts singing it turns back into Animal Crossing language.
And waste budget on something that doesn't really add anything significant?
Pokemon has cutscenes where people mimic mouth movements on a cadence where they are acting like they are speaking. It's awkward.
Would lose alot of it's charm in my mind.
So I def. don't need voice acting.
So I def. don't need voice acting.
It's awkward in Pokemon not in AC though. Can't really compare the presentation approach of both games.
Absolutely not.
The current voice sounds are part of the series identity.
I actually think fewer games need voice acting. Especially jrpgs as there is so much dialogue and 99,9% you read it waay ahead of the voice acting. It just gets tedious having to wait for the voice to catch up.
In addition, voice acting can be bad. When you read, the acting in your head is never bad.
The current voice sounds are part of the series identity.
I actually think fewer games need voice acting. Especially jrpgs as there is so much dialogue and 99,9% you read it waay ahead of the voice acting. It just gets tedious having to wait for the voice to catch up.
In addition, voice acting can be bad. When you read, the acting in your head is never bad.
I'd much rather they improve other aspects of the game than include VA only because you find it awkward, lmao. I don't think VA is necessary at all, plus there's always the possibility you get an extremely annoying VA.
I wasn't talking about AC.
Well I think it is. "Making the game better" is such a big overall thing. Doing voice acting doesn't mean Pokémon can't also be better in other aspects.
If you remove the Animalese, it loses some of the charm of the game. It would however be nice if they improved the text-to-speech aspect of it for the English version. Apparently, it sounds pretty good in Japanese (which is pretty common given their base sounds) and is actually pretty understandable. It'd be nice if we could get something closer to that in English. Still has the charm, but isn't just straight recordings...which would be hella expensive and exhaustive given the sheer amount of dialogue for these games.
It does? I never noticed, but New Horizons will be my first AC, so maybe that's why I never knew.
Tomodachi Life's speech was pretty impressive for the 3DS. With how it could do names and catchphrases easily. Heck, it even pronounced my nickname Mii right, even if that required an edit.
I kind of want another Tomodachi Life, but with how little Miis are used on the Switch, it kind of feels like that game was a product of its time.
