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NEWS: Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy Heads to PC via Steam

Leland Lee wrote:

Psajdak wrote: As usual, I won't buy any Final Fantasy game without the option for original audio, so I'll just wait for someone to release fan patch for it, and just get myself whole pirated version from torrent. I don't mind paying full price for games that have option of choosing language, so there's no way am I going to waste my money on a butchered product, and support it, thank you very much. Weaboo much?

What's wrong with that? Anyone holds the art in higher regard will always want the original audio as opposed to a dub. I will watch a French show in French (Wakfu), a Bollywood movie in Tamil/Hindi, a Japanese game/anime in Japanese, and a Hollywood movie in English, because that was language the script was written in. When a writer pens a script, he does so in his or her own language, and it carries a lot of nuances, subtleties, and references to culture, plus different languages have different means of expression.

If people go for dubs, that's their prerogative, but there is a reason why people want the original audio.

Anyone who compares dubs of animation/games to live action dubbing really needs to work with better analogies. They tend to compare apples to oranges, but here's three reasons why you're wrong. 1. The game was recorded in English before the game was completed, so that implies both languages were part of the game's development. Two, it's a game, so more important things matter. To rephrase the lovely and funny RickyRay, it's more about controls and gameplay than voice acting. To equate video game voice acting to animation voice acting is pretty far fetched. Not comparable at all. One is obviously more important than the other. Three, video games aren't art. As the definition of art implies creativity, this rules out video games, at least the modern ones, as many are not creativity when it comes to graphics, gameplay, sound, design, etc.

@Hawkwing If you hate the English language, why are you typing in it? Also, you made a mistake on lip syncing. Lip syncing was done for the English dub of FFXIII. It's every bit as good as the Japanese version. It's not like Final Fantasy X or something. Get with the times. English lip syncing has been done in FF since X-2.

It's just that pirate version is something that have what I want, and I'll enjoy playing it, while original doesn't.

As for the price of original, it's rather cheap, and I don't play that often anyway, so it's not like I'm trying to save money by pirating it.

And about DCL with japanese language, I know latest FFXIII game has it, but that sort of thing should be by default included in game. It's almost like "What's next? Paying for >> being able to move your character around DCL<<?

Even with Drakengard 3 the japanese audio was included as a preorder bonus,

There's not that much lip-synching in Drakengard 3. Most speech don't involve mouth movements.