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Post by Crickie on May 28, 2005 20:38:07 GMT -5
This will probably be a pointless thread, but I was just IMDBing the entire Wolf's Rain English voice actors' cast, and it was interesting to find that a whole bunch of them, major and minor characters alike, did voices for Star Ocean: Till the End of Time.
From the time I heard Pepita's voice, I kept knowing that I'd heard it before.
Cheza=Pepita
Toboe=Niklas
Tsume=Abel
The Giant Walrus=Adray/Berial
Darcia=minor soldier and village-person roles
Kiba=Richard
Some Shopkeeper= Captain Volga
Old Hanabito= Ryoko Leingod (Fayt's mother)
The Old Wolf=Admiral Hermes
Random Soldier= Luther
Myu=Welch Vinyard
Neze=Claire
Gehl=Flad
Eek=Fayt
Blue=Dulcinea
Sedo=Cliff
Cher=Mirage
The Gossiping Woman in ep.2=Sophia
Heh...it's all just funny to me because when I play the game, all of a sudden, I recognize the voices, and it's...fairly odd to imagine Cheza writing on the back of Eek's shirt, or Toboe going to fight the leader of the thug gang...
I guess this just further goes to prove that the English voice actor pool is that small. But I think it's nice that all these people stay familiar and the like through doing similar projects.
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Post by Shamdeo on May 28, 2005 21:08:45 GMT -5
Star Ocean 3 was pretty fun, but I prefer the original for SNES. Something about how the invention system totally sucked compared to the SNES creation system. That and Fayt being a whiny little bitch. Anyway, I can point out these people's voices from a mile away now that I hear them in different formats. I can pretty much identify Steve Blum, Beau Billingslea, Johnny Bosch, Wendee Lee, and Bob Buchholz on the spot.
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Post by devinfire on May 28, 2005 21:39:47 GMT -5
Yes, fresh talent is needed. Im not putting them down, but hearing the same voices over and over in anime/games becomes repetive. Big fan of Star Ocean. I still have Star Ocean II, but it in no way compares to Star Ocean III. I've only played Star Ocean via emulation due to the fact that it wasn't released here, and importing for me = impossible. But that's really an interesting Crickie. Im going to restart my games to hear those voices with that knowledge now.
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Post by Crickie on May 28, 2005 22:25:25 GMT -5
I never knew of a Star Ocean on SNES, but then again, I didn't really start getting into RPGs until I got my PS2 last summer. Since I still have my Super Nintendo (which I <3 very much...Uniracers, Super Mario World amd Killer Instinct), I'll have to see if I can find it, which I probably won't be able to.
Most of the main RPG guys are whiny little bitches...lol. I've come to terms with it by now. Tidus from FFX=whiny little bitch. Fayt=whiny, overthinking little bitch. I'm sure the real men are out there someplace...
I agree, Devinfire. I don't watch that many anime, play that many video games, but the fact that every voice in every game that I play is in every anime that I watch is really disturbing. One day, I was watching an episode of Chobits with my roomie (she loves her some Chobits), and some guy with Tsume's voice was in the same scene as the boy with Toboe's voice. Without looking up, I actually forgot what show I was watching and started thinking to myself "WTF are Toboe and Tsume talking about?!"
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Post by devinfire on May 28, 2005 23:43:42 GMT -5
Yes I agree, and yeah there are some tough main rpg dudes out there. Squall of FF10 - Sarcastic Loner, Cloud of FF7 - Careless braggart soilder with complicated past, Ryudo of Grandia II - Reminds me of Mugen from Samurai Champloo.
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Post by Jin on May 28, 2005 23:46:33 GMT -5
Man the do have there voices nearly in everything they must be loaded by now, anyways I had no idea about the WF and the Star Ocean connection though I did think Niklas sounded alot like Toboe when I first heard him.
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Post by Scarred Wolf on May 29, 2005 2:22:52 GMT -5
In this one episode of GITS, episode 12 i believe, 2 boys were talking to an adult, and their voice actors were Hige, Tsume, AND Toboe. It seems these ones are hot in demand.
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Post by Crickie on May 29, 2005 15:49:15 GMT -5
I'll have to go back to some of the past FF games. I've heard a lot about Squall in those games.
I think it would be totally awesome to be a VA. I can't imagine they'd get paid a terrible lot per gig, but they do so many that it probably more than makes up for itself in the end. I'd never make a good VA, though. I don't have enough of a voice.
Yeah...all three of them did Digimon at some time or another: Joshua Seth was somewhere in the first three seasons (although his role as the Rat Deva in season 3 has me stumped....that damn rat had THE most irritating voice I've ever had the displeasure of hearing), Mona Marshall as Izzy in the first two seasons (what a coincidence...I <3 Izzy and Toboe to death...might have something to do with the voice...or perhaps the auburn hair on both characters) and later Terriermon in season 3 and then Crispin Freeman as Kouichi in season 4 (the only character I had a smidge of tolerance for in that completely and totally crappy season of Digimon). If any three would be in hot demand, seems it would be them. Their voices seem to have pretty wide range of use.
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Post by devinfire on May 30, 2005 22:23:02 GMT -5
toboe's voice actor plays Kite in .hack//infection. they sound EXACTLY alike. crispin freeman plays balmung in .hack//infection as well. Leara's va, Michelle Ruff plays Mai Minase in .hack//liminality, crispin freeman plays harald in that too!
wtf!? crispin freeman plays Albel Nox!? I never knew that, but apparently he does. it's unbelievable... at how many times you see the same vas brought together in anime. but hey, it's better than having mel gibson play tsume right?
the thing is, the voices in Wolf's Rain feel so alive and vibrant, full of emotion. But in Star Ocean III, sometimes I felt as if the voice actors were just reading from a text book or something. Any body else think so?
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Post by BloodyGizensha on May 31, 2005 19:07:12 GMT -5
Wow, i learned new thingz today ^0^ I never noticed that before XP
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Post by Crickie on May 31, 2005 19:12:09 GMT -5
toboe's voice actor plays Kite in .hack//infection. they sound EXACTLY alike. crispin freeman plays balmung in .hack//infection as well. Leara's va, Michelle Ruff plays Mai Minase in .hack//liminality, crispin freeman plays harald in that too! wtf!? crispin freeman plays Albel Nox!? I never knew that, but apparently he does. it's unbelievable... at how many times you see the same vas brought together in anime. but hey, it's better than having mel gibson play tsume right? the thing is, the voices in Wolf's Rain feel so alive and vibrant, full of emotion. But in Star Ocean III, sometimes I felt as if the voice actors were just reading from a text book or something. Any body else think so? Yeah...the voices in Star Ocean sounded straight like they were being read off a sheet of paper. I'm not sure if it's because the animation was fairly stiff and choppy, not as expressive as the anime we're used to seeing connected to these voices or what, but that whole game is fairly....dry. Don't get me wrong. I like SO. I like how free-form the fighting is compared to the other Square-Enix games. But excitement wise: I don't play it to get a rush. It's just something to do, and that might have something to do with the overall tone. |
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Post by devinfire on May 31, 2005 21:35:29 GMT -5
I know! What the hell were the va's thinking? I mean, where was the life and emotion Final Fantasy 10's characters showed? I mean, im not trying to rant about FF10 but it's characters were the closest thing I have seen yet to being real. Star Ocean III was totaly missing that. Eventually I just turned off their voices because listening to them wasn't pleasant at all. The only characters I really liked was Cliff and Albel.
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Post by Crickie on May 31, 2005 22:25:26 GMT -5
lol...yeah. I just ran into Cliff today. He was awesome...just rolled up in the dungeon like yo, this is how it's going down, Norton: to hell with you, your little gun, and your plans.
I think the problem with SO is that there are so few facial expressions. In FFX, Yuna smiled, she frowned, she was angry, she laughed out loud, she was real. In Star Ocean, even when Sophia is distressed or sad, she still has that infantile, idiotic smile in the end. Like in Fayt's dream when he first got to Niklas' house.
The lack of expression can seem to make the words that much less sincere.
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Post by devinfire on May 31, 2005 23:55:21 GMT -5
i agree. what i cannot stand about Star Ocean III was the pauses between the dialogue... Fayt : You mean the Vendeeni are after me? Cliff : ... ... ... ... ... ... Uh, what'd you say again? Oh yeah, there after you. Nel : ... ... ... ... ... ... What the hell is going on? ... ... ... ... ... You mean to tell me you come from... ... the... ... sky too? I just couldn't stand that.  And your right... the fact that during scenes the characters hardly move and keep the same facial expressions really detracted from the effects... they should have just scrapped voice acting, it didn't add much in my opinion. what i dont understand is how alive the battle voices are. Star Ocean III in my opinion deserved graphics and voice acting on par with FF10. |
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And your right... the fact that during scenes the characters hardly move and keep the same facial expressions really detracted from the effects... they should have just scrapped voice acting, it didn't add much in my opinion. what i dont understand is how alive the battle voices are. Star Ocean III in my opinion deserved graphics and voice acting on par with FF10.