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90% of the time the acting will be better in Japanese. That's not because there aren't good actors in English, but because the pool of people that audition for jrpg (because lbr the only games weebs like me care about having Japanese voice acting is jrpgs) voice acting in English is very small. So you end up with two choices: hear that same voice you've heard 5000 times or hear someone really mediocre or downright shitty. It's better now that it was ~back in the day~, but it's still really noticeable.

Also, with games like this the great majority of the players will be playing almost solely for the characters and story. Having subpar voice acting really lessens the experience, so it absolutely is a big enough deal to just opt out of a game entirely.

Also, voice acting in general is a bigger deal in Japan than almost anywhere. They have over 100 schools solely for voice acting and being a seiyuu is a big "thing". It's not so much a thing here, so we end up with people with that acting talent just doing straight up acting rather than voice acting work.

it also sounds better because we don't know any better too

How do you know they're any good? For all you know they're the Pam Doove of Japan.

I speak Japanese. I learned it basically to play videogames, but back before I learned it bad dubs were a big pet peeve of mine so I feel for people who want dual audio now.

I don't. If they want Japanese audio so bad, they can learn Japanese and import the games. Dual audio isn't going to be a regular thing until the Japanese see that there is a market outside of Japan that would be stupid to ignore. We didn't even start getting decent dubs until companies in the US saw there was an actual market for anime and JRPGs. So these whiners are only stabbing themselves in the foot by not supporting what we are getting because that just tells these companies that a market doesn't exist for that sort of game and we get less localizations.

Seriously, things have come a long way since the 90s when we got anime with cut scenes, changed dialog, dubs with monotone voices and subs costing more to buy (assuming you even could) than dubs. At least with games, you nearly always have the option to turn the voices off and read the text instead. You couldn't do that with a bad dub in the 90s when it was on a VHS tape. On the gaming side we've come a long way since we don't get shitty translations, different versions of the game, the game itself being renamed or its number in the series being changed to hide the fact that we didn't get some of the games and so on. We also get a lot more of the games than we used to. All of this happened because we showed these companies that a market exists for this stuff.

Bamco is now giving everything English-subtitled "Asian releases" now for the Hong Kong/Taiwan/Singapore area so congrats fellow weebs, Japan is learning

Super Robot Wars in English ayyyyyyyy

The market is completely different now than in the 90s though. This is a generation raised on Crunchyroll. People have gotten used to the idea of subtitles, and worse/better, they've gotten a taste for seiyuu culture. And Persona 5, in particular, with one of those most stacked voice actor casts in any video game ever? People being buttmad is totally expected.

ok weeb

tbh japanese voice acting in jrpgs is mostly shit too. you don't get any outright awful performances like in some western games but 95% of the time the VAs are just playing incredibly to type and not bringing any sort of life or originality to the performance.

The thing is, the vast majority of the time the voice acting can be turned off if it bothers someone so much. Unless they understand Japanese they are going to be reading the text anyhow.

Import it if you actually know Japanese. And if you don't, what the fuck were you hoping to listen to?

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