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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7898762" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Are you a native or extremely fluent Japanese speaker? Because if not, I'd need to hear that from someone who is to believe it. Thinking a Japanese VA is super-cool when you have very little idea about what is being said does not make it "incredible".</p><p></p><p>I suspect that unless you are, what you're actually saying is, "To my completely untrained ears, and unable to understand more than about one word in in twenty or even fifty, I think the Japanese VA sounds really cool!". Which is cool. I agree. I usually switch to Japanese VA if it's available in Japanese games. But I guarantee you there's some game that you or me thinks has "good VA" in Japanese which actual Japanese people are rolling their eyes about and saying is completely awful.</p><p></p><p>You even see a similar thing but perhaps even stranger thing within Europe. Europeans have a much, much, muuuuuuuch higher tolerance for absolutely godawful English VA than primary English speakers, even though many of them are fluent in English. I've had Dutch, Polish and German people say how much they enjoyed the English VA of games which had <em>objectively awful</em> VA, for example. And I know other Europeans (esp. in France/Spain for whatever reason) players who switch to English VA yet retain subtitles in their language in games where they can, and are annoyed with games where they can't, even with games which are in their language, because the VA in their language is sufficiently poor.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, okay, some people will just deny deny deny, I guess, all in order to claim other people are "picky".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7898762, member: 18"] Are you a native or extremely fluent Japanese speaker? Because if not, I'd need to hear that from someone who is to believe it. Thinking a Japanese VA is super-cool when you have very little idea about what is being said does not make it "incredible". I suspect that unless you are, what you're actually saying is, "To my completely untrained ears, and unable to understand more than about one word in in twenty or even fifty, I think the Japanese VA sounds really cool!". Which is cool. I agree. I usually switch to Japanese VA if it's available in Japanese games. But I guarantee you there's some game that you or me thinks has "good VA" in Japanese which actual Japanese people are rolling their eyes about and saying is completely awful. You even see a similar thing but perhaps even stranger thing within Europe. Europeans have a much, much, muuuuuuuch higher tolerance for absolutely godawful English VA than primary English speakers, even though many of them are fluent in English. I've had Dutch, Polish and German people say how much they enjoyed the English VA of games which had [I]objectively awful[/I] VA, for example. And I know other Europeans (esp. in France/Spain for whatever reason) players who switch to English VA yet retain subtitles in their language in games where they can, and are annoyed with games where they can't, even with games which are in their language, because the VA in their language is sufficiently poor. Yeah, okay, some people will just deny deny deny, I guess, all in order to claim other people are "picky". [/QUOTE]
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