>Pokemon games should have voice acting!
>>59709919>https://youtu.be/fvRmjkUHnKw?si=ew_W4mD_P4vMH8sf People genuinely want this in mainline?
This https://youtu.be/8LK3WzTpjTQ?si=AuwpPZhMT-unWXfK is how voice acting would sound like in pokemon
>>59709919Idk the English voice acting in Ocarina of Time remake genuinely fucking sucks
>>59709925>>59709932>>59709935The quality is a different issue entirely.
>>59709919Stop defending Gamefreak. Even indie games made by literal nobodies have voice acting.
>"Pokemon games shouldn't have voice acting because GameFreak would fuck it up."This is an argument that always used, when by that logic, Pokemon shouldn't have games entirely anymore.
>>59709919Explain why Pokemon games should still look and play like fucking Gameboy games in 2026.
>>59709919>Pokemon games should be 3D!>Pokemon games should be open world!it's already been fucked, who cares at this point
>>59710007This but Smash.It's only a matter of time.
>>59710001Ask the retards making those awful vibehacks and recomps of red.They actually think their garbage is preferable over game freak's own garbage, since it's not anything ground up anyways
>>59709998They fucked up in PLA and already fucked up without voices several times, GF is a screwy mess
>>59710001People still buy it for some reason
Voice acting is cringe, especially English dubs filled by the worst sounding anime VA wannabes that all sound the same
>>59709919I want japanese voice acting. But I'd rather light my switch on fire than listen to western "voice acting."
>>59710520Or the holy trinity of shitty English dubbing;>Forced anime-ish voices by people who literally cannot produce the right vocal tones to do so>British English, similar to Xenoblade and LoZ:TotK, that make the stereotypes seem less racist>Shitty localization where NPCs will spout low quality memes and say words that should never be spoken, such as sus or six sevenEnglish is just fucked. We can produce actors, but not voice actors.
Why are we pretending that the games must have english dub when they are japanese games?
A decent alternative would be to replace that awkward silence in PLA with SOMETHING. Or heck, make Piers sing solely for that one scene like the Virbank Gym does.
>>59710548>Why are we pretending that this game released in English must have English?
>>59709925fucking awful>>59709932>turns an awesome scene into cringeI remain unconvinced
>>59710520>>59710539>>59710542>>59710548Kek. English being the lingua franca of the world mindbroke you.
>>59710649I don't mind English when it's a series that was originally written in English. But English translations and dubs suck. Media is best when consumed in its original language.
>>59709919Yes. Fuckfaces act like voice acting is additional content and not just meaningless stimulation>You what pokemon needs? More cutscenes and unnecessary noises during normal gameplay.Literally fucking why other than providing more stimulation to dopamine fried zoomies who want to listen to a podcast, watch a youtube video, scroll tiktok, and try to play pokemon at the same time. It’s nobody else’s fault your shit is fucking friend but that doesn’t mean the games need to add more sounds and fucking shit to keep your attention and draw your attention back to the game.
>>59709919>good thing bad actually!
>>59710803>good thing
>>59709919>be gamefreak>refuse to make games about pokemon or add pokemon related content>let’s do voice acting! that has nothing to do with pokemon and is a good waste of time>but Masuda, sir, the fans want us to make games about pokemon so they won’t care>”just astroturf the idea that they want it, then we’ll announce that we’re doing it and say we’re addressing fan wants”>hai! burirrianto
>>59709919https://www.reddit.com/r/hatethissmug/comments/1xpzof9/gamefreak_just_doing_the_bare_minimum_to_pokemon/Even Reddit hates Pokemon
Pokemon should have a commentator like stadium
>>59709919they should have some kinda meep meep voices like games such as animal crossing and okami do
>>59709935when did flaunting being an ESL become the norm
>>59710001If this was actually true the games would be better than they are at the moment
>>59709919You gotta understand, these games are translated into 10 languages, and Pokemon still hasn't provided official subs for the anime.You will be locked into one voice track, and 99% of the time it will be the godawful English VA track, full of activists who genuinely believe they are the actual characters, instead of the kino Japanese VA track.
>>59711110Cope
If we get voice acting in any Pokémon game, I'm turning the voice volume to 0 in the settings the moment I get control.
>>59711151ESL
>>59710803Now have a thing like Pokemon Sun and Moon with long af cutscenes and give them annoying voices and catchphrases
I don't think they do but that Piers scene at least needed vocals.
>>59710542>or six sevenHoly unc
>>59710874Most the hate is for gamefreak and tpc
>>59709919>Troy Baker as the Male MC>Laura Bailey as the Female MC>Yuri Lowenthal as the Rival>Matt Mercer as the Villain>Fred Tatasciore as the Professor>Tara Strong as the Champion
>>59711168Same lol
>>59710803you actually want gamefreak quality voice acting? knowing them you'd unlock the ability to disable it in some random house 8 hours in or some shit
>>59709919Picrel>>59709925>>59709932Good. You hate them because you chose male examples and you are straight; hating other men is easy. That's because you have nothing bad to say about Masters' female voice acting. You don't want to admit you would enjoy it and goon to it. How awful.
>>59709919After playing Roco Kingdom's beta, yeah I do
>>59709919agreedvoice acting often makes a game worse
https://youtu.be/wRsMtSvB5cg
>>59712473i played it too and i dint like, Japanese voices are fucking annoying
>>59709919Voice acting works best when it is there to compliment and elevate good writing, without such it is just empty. Focus on getting actually good writing for pokemon games first then see about putting in voice acting.
>>59712473I love Clarissa's bratty voice, it does things to me, also love this guy's voice and the Owl teacher's too. It makes Roco Kingdom's story very enjoyable so far.
>>59712463>You hate them because you chose male examples and you are straight; hating other menThe females are just as shit https://youtu.be/8d1TR5miLMo?si=MN8Bg2vHmdlMuA3H Stop with the incel victim complex lol
I can see them doing some shit like putting voice acting and not giving the option to turn it off, or having only one language available so of course the Japanese fans would get the superior product
>>59712907this, pokemon is sanitized for good wriing and stories
Have people heard the state of voice acting in the Pokemon anime the past 25 years or so? Why would they want that in the games?
>>59711247BaitAnd if it's not, you don't have to be a boomer to hate some meaningless shit meme for brainrotted retards
>>59711113This anon gets it.
>>59711950I haven't paid attention to anything made in the past fifteen years, I don't get it. Pls spoonfeed.
>>59710649"kek"posting in 2026 just shows us you're a gorilla with a keyboard
>>59712463only self-loathing and insecure men hide behind Gigachad Yes.jpg images or anime girl avatars
>>59713103you can just tell they directed her acting to deliberetely appeal to pedophiles
>>59714331Kek, you actually think "2026" is an intelligent argument. The current year has nothing to do with attacking my argument, moron. Of course, I wouldn't expect someone mindbroken over English being the lingua franca of the world to have coherent and logical arguments.
>>59709925>>59712463The reason to hate it isn't voice acting, it's the American Anime Voice Acting Industry. They hire like 10 people to do every character imaginable (old people, children, etc), and use the same stock, cringy voices for anything. Compare fire emblem to any completely non-anime game/animated film and the difference in quality is immediately obvious, even when the latter hires comedians with little acting experience.It gets really depressing when you start comparing their voice work in anime VA's "specialties" to actual actors half-assing the same thing and being miles better (Cool Evil Animu Overlord voices vs Djimon Hounsou in How to Train Your Dragon, Generic Animu Protagonist Voice by Career Anime Voice Actor #512235 vs Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Treasure Planet, etc, etc)
>>59715289Whats especially frustrating is that some of those Career Anime Voice Actors actually have good range of different voices that you can actually hear outside of their usual work in anime or anime games but they still alway do the same 2 voices and roles whenever they are in an anime.
>>59710001>/vp/>complains about the lack of production values in modern Pokemon>also complains about the idea of Pokemon games having some semblance of production values
>>59714329These voice actors are in everything
>>59712473Based RocoChad
