/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7445458]

Why did none of the PS1 Final Fantasy games have voice acting? How is this acceptable?

[Anonymous No.7445461]

>>7445458
>Niggerman talks ebonics
Idk, it would've been great. Get gil scott heron to voice barret

[Anonymous No.7445464]

How are we supposed to know lol

[Anonymous No.7445487]

>>7445461
>Niggerman
Cait Sith?

[Anonymous No.7445493]

>>7445458
1: Voice actors are expensive.
2: FF games have a huge amount of dialog.
3: Voice audio files suck up a lot of space which even in the CD era was still a premium despite being 200 times that of the cartridge era.
4: Many voice actors are literally retarded and are incapable of speaking properly when presented with a microphone.

Very few RPGs of that era had voice acting, let alone full voice acting.

[Anonymous No.7445498]

>>7445487
>Cait Sith?
I always name him doobie

[Anonymous No.7445512]

>>7445493
>Voice actors are expensive.
Final Fantasy was the biggest budget game of the era. You're telling me that putting a few lines in huge-budget CD-based games between 1997-2000 was too hard? Get lost.

>Very few RPGs of that era had voice acting
There are some point and click games that had full voice acting in the mid SNES era. Try harder, kid. Also there are lots of voice acted PS1 and PC games in the late 90s (and 2000), including for RPGs, don't lie, kid.

[Anonymous No.7445704]

Because the game had a ridiculous amount of dialogue, not even much talking in the cut scenes, the translation was rough and it didn't need it you zoomer retard. Fuck off and stop shitting up the board.

[Anonymous No.7445718]

>>7445704
/thread

Get fucked OP.

[Anonymous No.7445823]

>>7445512
Many PS1 RPGs had a little bit of voice acting, but mostly just in anime cutscenes and battle clips. Rhapsody and Tales of Eternia are the only exceptions to that I can think of. Fully voiced RPGs weren't really a thing until the PS2 era.

[Anonymous No.7445893]

>>7445458

Why would you think it might be unacceptable for a game to lack something that would only make it slower and less interesting to play?

[Anonymous No.7445958]

These multi-disc games would have had to be extended by another disc each and then load extra before every scene that used the voices.

[Anonymous No.7446091]

>>7445458
>Zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom PS1 Final Fantasy zoom zoom zoom zoom? Zoom zoom zoom zoom?
Perhaps you missed the memo, kid, but this is the retro game board, not >>>/v/

[Anonymous No.7446102]

>>7445458
I’m a zoomer: The thread

[Anonymous No.7446248]

>voice acting in RPGs
just go watch one of your pervert animes

[Anonymous No.7446260]

Voice acting in video games is cringe to be honest. It seemed really cool at time, but as I get older it feels like I have to force myself to listen to these conversations which I could otherwise just read much quicker.

[Anonymous No.7448228]

>>7446091
>>7446102
PS1 supports voice acting. Actually play games and you'll know that, kid. Talkie PC games were around years before the PS1 as well.

[Anonymous No.7448256]

>>7445458
There was voice acting in FF7 tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71uERh9st84

[Anonymous No.7448305]

>>7445458
>how is this clearly superior type of jrpg dialogue acceptable?

[Anonymous No.7449293]

>>7445458
Most of the FMV was dedicated to action sequences or big setpieces that wouldn't need dialogue. The handful of scenes that might have benefitted would have felt out of place if the only time you heard a character actually speak was a single sentence in one FMV over the course of a 60 hour game. Plus I honestly don't think they were confident in their ability to animate dialogue. The faces certainly weren't rigged for that so mouth flaps would look like the elves in that Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer stop motion movie. And if you're spending big bucks on FMV in the first place do you want to waste it on characters talking?

[Anonymous No.7449325]

Video games don't need voice acting, it doesn't add a lot to the game.

[Anonymous No.7449359]

>>7448228
>i'm a zoomer who larps

[Anonymous No.7449378]

>>7449325
I remember the novelty of in-game speech being a reason the 32-bit era felt like such a big leap but given the kind of dialogue RPGs typically had it was definitely a good thing they rarely employed it outside of cutscenes. It typically sounded better in your head than it ever could have spoken aloud. I think those limitations are why we often came away from RPG stories feeling like they were generally good. We were filling in the blanks in our heads.

[Anonymous No.7449403]

>>7445458
Voice acting is for fags and the second video games went predominately to speech from text and didn't force video gamers to be literate they've gone to shit. Along with a lot of other stuff.

[Anonymous No.7449428]

>>7445493
>Many voice actors are literally retarded and are incapable of speaking properly when presented with a microphone.
Only in America.

[Anonymous No.7449453]

>>7445487

[Anonymous No.7449545]

>>7449325
It's my belief that open world RPGs have been hamstrung by full voice acting. If Bethesda released another Elder Scrolls game and only the important scenes were voiced, people would riot even if it was the best-written open-world RPG of all time.

[Anonymous No.7449570]

>>7445458
>How is this acceptable?
No videogame has ever been better with voices over text, EXCEPT the GTA series.
That's how.

[Anonymous No.7449617]

Imagine Spyro or Crash without the voices. It wouldn't really be the same, would it?

[Anonymous No.7450120]

>>7449545
That and muh graficks. Mass market sales rely on top-tier visuals, gameplay and story are overlooked because of the shallow opinions of normies

[Anonymous No.7450121]

>>7449617
Spyro / Crash are not story driven RPGs

[Anonymous No.7450254]

>>7446091

this

[Anonymous No.7450345]

>>7445458
Become literate.