I am really sick and tired of hearing people bitch about American voice acting. Seriousley, you need to stop, look at what you're doing, and get your heads out of your asses.
How many of you whiners actually know Japanese? Out of you few, how many have actually been around native speakers enough to know the subtle inflections of the language, let alone how things are properly pronounced? Everyone LOVES to get up on their high horse about "the original spoken language" but a damn few of you have any REAL qualifications to know whether or not the Japanese sounds good or bad. And by qualifications, I DON'T mean you go around squealing, "it's pronounced AHnime, not Anime."
Honestly, most of you have no idea whether the Japanese voice actors are doing a good job, all you hear is a language you don't understand, and have absolutely no clue as to whether or not it's being performed well.
It fits, I enjoyed it, you people go enjoy being pseudo-elitist posers. I'll enjoy a language where I can actually appreciate subtleties of tone and emphasis, because I fricken speak it! Sorry, sorry, I must be ignorant because I don't fawn over what's essentially a cool noise box to me, because I have NO clue how the words are meant to be pronounced or emphasized!
As a subnote... the only time I liked Japanese voice acting better than the American counterpart was Gurren Lagann, and THAT was only because I felt the voices themselves, something no voice actor can change, fit better. Americans did a fine job otherwise.
This may sound petty, but I hate the overused anime voices in this trailer. If you are watching South Park, you expect to hear Matt and Trey's voices recycled over and over, and you might even enjoy it. But imagine now, if you turned on the Simpsons, Family Guy, and every other show you care about to hear Matt and Trey still voicing every character. That's what it's like with anime these days, and it frustrates me when it spills over into games. I can just see Capcom sitting there, trying to figure out how they can get their in-game voices and back story movie turned to English as quickly as possible, and before the idea ever popped into their heads to go talent scouting or use celebrities, they immediately snapped their fingers and said "you, get Funimation on the line, and you, get VIZ!" Uck.
@TheHeartless: Can you name any of those voice actors? Unless we're talking about Bosh, McGlynn, Blum, Demagio, and a handfull of the other super de-duper mega voice acting stars, there's a pretty good range out there.
Secondly, hire "celebrities"? What? Unless you have a broad-ass defintion for that word, you're saying you'd rather Capcom waste obscene amounts of money on people with arguabbly similiar levels of talent? Plus, doesn't that kinda ruin your whole argument? Celebrities are even MORE in the public eye than most voice actors, and I'd rather hear the typical anime crews than someone whose everywhere in my television. Unless they're badasses.
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How many of you whiners actually know Japanese? Out of you few, how many have actually been around native speakers enough to know the subtle inflections of the language, let alone how things are properly pronounced? Everyone LOVES to get up on their high horse about "the original spoken language" but a damn few of you have any REAL qualifications to know whether or not the Japanese sounds good or bad. And by qualifications, I DON'T mean you go around squealing, "it's pronounced AHnime, not Anime."
Honestly, most of you have no idea whether the Japanese voice actors are doing a good job, all you hear is a language you don't understand, and have absolutely no clue as to whether or not it's being performed well.
It fits, I enjoyed it, you people go enjoy being pseudo-elitist posers. I'll enjoy a language where I can actually appreciate subtleties of tone and emphasis, because I fricken speak it! Sorry, sorry, I must be ignorant because I don't fawn over what's essentially a cool noise box to me, because I have NO clue how the words are meant to be pronounced or emphasized!
As a subnote... the only time I liked Japanese voice acting better than the American counterpart was Gurren Lagann, and THAT was only because I felt the voices themselves, something no voice actor can change, fit better. Americans did a fine job otherwise.
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Secondly, hire "celebrities"? What? Unless you have a broad-ass defintion for that word, you're saying you'd rather Capcom waste obscene amounts of money on people with arguabbly similiar levels of talent? Plus, doesn't that kinda ruin your whole argument? Celebrities are even MORE in the public eye than most voice actors, and I'd rather hear the typical anime crews than someone whose everywhere in my television. Unless they're badasses.
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Ryu specializes in the hadouken while Ken specializes in the shoryuken.
However, by Street Fighter 3, Capcom seemed to stop caring and gave both of
them powerful super arts in both. Supposedly, Ryu wasn't supposed to have
gotten the Shinkuu Tatsu-maki-senpuu-kyaku in the Zero games, but Ken was
(as a representation of his "fast, crazy kicks" that he had in SF2:CE
onwards). Capcom "corrected" this by removing the super HK from Ryu in SF3
and giving Ken the Shippu Jinrai Kyaku. Now it seems like Capcom doesn't
really care, and they both have their respective kick supers. (from Ultima)
Well, it wasn't really removed from Ryu, since the EX HK is the
shinkuu-tatsumaki.
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