Japanese Voice-overs

**Jarus** · June 03, 2010, 08:23 AM

Wouldn't it be brilliant to have proper Japanese voice-overs (and subtitles) as an option, instead of just faux-Japanese accented English?

**|Sith| Max** · June 03, 2010, 08:49 AM

there should be a possibility to choose between original Japanese audio or English audio. Absolutely.

**Juggernaut** · June 03, 2010, 08:53 AM

That's what I liked about the original STW. They actually had Japanese voice actors doing the voices, and you had the option to choose between Japanese voices or Japanese accent English. I really hope STW2 will retain that.

**garudamon11** · June 03, 2010, 08:55 AM

even age of empires 3 managed to get a correct voice actor for every faction and unit , CA couldnt get a proper arabic speaker the one in NTW and ETW sucks he makes too many grammatical mistakes , and the native americans speak english while in aoe3 all native american factions speak their own language

**Geleco** · June 03, 2010, 08:56 AM

I don't think they'll go back to this, honestly. The English-with-a-Japanese-accent would probably be a bit easier to implement, and I'd imagine the casuals would prefer this instead of Japanese.

**garudamon11** · June 03, 2010, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by Magnum482

I don't think they'll go back to this, honestly. The English-with-a-Japanese-accent would probably be a bit easier to implement, and I'd imagine the casuals would prefer this instead of Japanese.

if they make english with japanese accent i might not buy the game ..

**Geleco** · June 03, 2010, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by garudamon11

if they make english with japanese accent i might not buy the game ..

But think about it. Would you rather have crappy Japanese or proper English? The Russian, Spanish, even Italian voices in Empire/Napoleon were horrible.

**Slowpoke** · June 03, 2010, 09:01 AM

I loved the Japanese voice-overs. They really helped with the immersion.

**garudamon11** · June 03, 2010, 09:01 AM

i prefer horrible japanese over english in japanese accent i mean thats so retarded

**Odinarius** · June 03, 2010, 09:02 AM

I recently played Metro 2033 with Russian voice-overs and english subtitles. It was very awesome!

**King Gambrinus** · July 13, 2011, 10:07 AM

Well, you got your wish...

**daniu** · July 13, 2011, 10:31 AM

...even though it's been a year.

**King Gambrinus** · July 13, 2011, 11:06 AM

Better late than never!

**Sammi79** · July 13, 2011, 11:22 AM

The speach at the start of battles is great but I still get my general in an out of breath voice screaming 'The men are running from the battlefield! SHAMEFUL DISPLAY!" sounding like he's actually fighting while he screams it. Its sort of comical I don't mind it too much but it would be better continuity if it were in Japanese. And where did 'the enemy general is fleeing like a whipped dog!" go? that was the best english/japanese accent ever.

edit: being new I hadn't realised that this thread was over a year old. Looks like i got drawn into a necro....