How do you want the voices handled in SF4?

[videoman]

Originally Posted by Mini Interview with Sven
During all the GDC coverage someone (Gamespot, or whoever) reported that they were bothered by the fact that all the chars in the demo build of SF4 spoke Japanese, but that we (all) shouldn't worry because someone there assured them that the game would be in English when released in the US.

Now I'm wondering do you guys plan on dubbing the voices with English actors or were they just getting their facts wrong and misunderstanding about that the arcade machines that SF4 was running on were the Japanese ones from AOU (and in turn would be in Japanese) and whoever from Capcom was just simply saying that this is the Japanese version of the game and that there will be an English version just as there always is?

The English recording session happened about a week ago in LA. So yes, there will be English voices for the West.

Is it a full English cast? Like will Ryu will be in English or was the session just for English speaking characters like Guile? Native accents for characters?

I haven't heard the voices yet so I'm not sure.

And this is more of a statement/request then a question but hopefully you guys will be able to include the option to switch back and fourth between the English and Japanese voices for the purists or just in case the English voices aren't good. No offense, but then again you guys aren't in charge of it.*

Unsure. I believe for PS3 in Europe that won't be an option on the Sony side (SCEE mandates no Japanese in any titles released there). Sometimes that means it gets stripped from all versions for the sake of not having variables between them. Honestly, it's not a "feature" I've paid attention to.
*Note that Capcom USA (CEI) doesn't handle dub work themselves, it's always handled by a studio based out of LA. Can't remember the name of it though.

Voices can make or break a game (Look at KOF Maximum Impact) even Street Fighter 4 even with good English voice acting some people still want the Japanese voices!

[Gutter Trash]

my preffs are:
CPS1 voiced: Guile, Sagat, E.Honda, Blanka, Dhalsim.
Alpha 2 voiced: Zangief
Third Strike voiced: Ken, Ryu, Chun-Li, Akuma
fix Balrog, make him not sound like a retard.

admit it, the only good Guile voice is the original CPS1 voice.

Japanese characters in Japanese Only.
Ken is the exception, do special moves in Japanese but make funny English win quotes.
Anglophone characters (besides Ken), in English with their propper accents.
Blanka does not speak, he growls and grunts.
Chun-Li as in 3rd Strike, fireballs in Japanese, Spinning Bird Kicks in English and win quotes in Chinese.
Dhalsim in English.
Sagat in English, Try again Kid.

[RevFirst]

Characters speaking their native Langauge while Ken continues to speak Japanese (Third Strike).

Personally, Third Strike had the best voice acting and I hope SFIV will stay on par.

[Diek Stiekem]

Everybody in their native language, just like Tekken 5 imho

[Chrno]

That's weird to have an English version. That doesn't even seem right...Japanese with subtitles is good, that or they could follow the Tekken formula where everyone just magically understands each others different languages.

[Hatred Edge]

Guile could only work if they had the guy from SF2 animated movie. Thats the most epic sonic boom I've ever heard.

[ringopan]

3rd strike = best voice acting.... "you have no dignity..."

timeless.

[AlphaDragoon02]

Native languages would be cool (Ken's moves should still be in Japanese though), but if not I'm fine with most characters speaking Japanese like SF3.

[tl613]

So does that mean we will hear "Fireball!" and stuff like that from SF the Movie?

[CaliLifeStyle]

Bring back "Ball of Fire"!!!

[Gutter Trash]

US version of SF1 FTW: awwwiiiite
Fiwabaarrr
DwagunnPaanch
HooahhhCane Kiiii

just like this ytmnd of getting beaten by the CPU
http://engrishfighter.ytmnd.com/

[Bastion]

wait, so sony mandates that there isnt any japanese? is that true with all games? I dont own a playstation, so was the japanese removed from ps version of 3rd strike

[The_Shakunetsu]

Native language is the way to go

[Superking]

wait, so sony mandates that there isnt any japanese? is that true with all games? I dont own a playstation, so was the japanese removed from ps version of 3rd strike

Yeah most definitely, Ryu and Ken just shout out fireball or rising dragon punch whenever they do stuff.

Characters speaking their native Langauge while Ken continues to speak Japanese (Third Strike).

Personally, Third Strike had the best voice acting and I hope SFIV will stay on par.

But Ken's native language is Japanese considering, you know he is 3/4s Japanese who has lived there for sometime.

[-D-]

Native language for sure! How could anyone just think of replacing Gief's "Ho-ro-sho" with empty "Good"?!

[wolf_1]

CPS1 GUILE.

CPS1 ANNOUNCER.







or die.

[goodm0urning]

I remember Battle Arena Toshinden 3 having both native voice actors and an option for all American actors. The American voices were very awkward.

[bokchoy]

I'm happy as long as Capcom sticks to the tradition of royally fucking up Guile's voice acting. This is one of few things that have been constant with the SF franchise since day 1. The only perfectly spoken word of english to ever come out of Guile's mouth was yelling "Goofball! Goofball!" upon getting knocked out in ST.

[Judgement]

yea 3s definatly had the best voice acting so far.

after hearing guiles voice i was dissapointed its another japanese voice actor attempt.

A3 is the best attempt for guile so far voice wise i reckon.

cps1 and 2 sf2 where done by synth werent they?

from what i hear voice wise sf4 is pretty subpar but the game looks great so ill have to over look that area.

im used to cps2 announcer/guile now after playing st so much and i can say at least over time its not boring.

surely it cant be hard to get a english speaking VA to do a imitation of cps1 guile. i know theres alot of sf fans that can do a pretty good imitation of it :)

[Gutter Trash]

3rd Strike's voices improved so much grom NG and 2nd Impact's. Alex got a propper NYC accent in 3rd Strike and Dudley got more British and audible.

[Nokato]

Uhm...someone complained about voices? I swear--honestly each character speaking its native language should be fine. But I don't understand how someone could be offended that ALL the characters don't speak English? I swear, Americans sometimes feel they are so damn special that shit needs to be spoonfed to them....There's no reason why characters speaking their own native language should be a problem with subtitles in Engish.

[albertoavena]

I agree 100 percent. How can someone be offended by something so stupid. It's just languages. Americans seem way to full of themselves sometimes...

[HolyOrderChipp]

They really should speak their native languages, like Tekken.

[Tetsuosan]

ST's guile voice ftw lmao that was the worse voice out of all of the versions of guile. So damn gay.

[Are_you_okay?!]

I'm happy as long as Capcom sticks to the tradition of royally fucking up Guile's voice acting. This is one of few things that have been constant with the SF franchise since day 1. The only perfectly spoken word of english to ever come out of Guile's mouth was yelling "Goofball! Goofball!" upon getting knocked out in ST.

This man speaks truth, and from the Loctest videos so far it looks like our main man Guile will continue the rice barrel tradition!

[JAMMAR]

Guile could only work if they had the guy from SF2 animated movie. Thats the most epic sonic boom I've ever heard.

He really did do an alright Guile... although it's been a while since I watched the movie.

My vote is for Native BTW.

[-Beat-]

my preffs are:
CPS1 voiced: Guile, Sagat, E.Honda, Blanka, Dhalsim.
Alpha 2 voiced: Zangief
Third Strike voiced: Ken, Ryu, Chun-Li, Akuma
fix Balrog, make him not sound like a retard.

admit it, the only good Guile voice is the original CPS1 voice.

Japanese characters in Japanese Only.
Ken is the exception, do special moves in Japanese but make funny English win quotes.
Anglophone characters (besides Ken), in English with their propper accents.
Blanka does not speak, he growls and grunts.
Chun-Li as in 3rd Strike, fireballs in Japanese, Spinning Bird Kicks in English and win quotes in Chinese.
Dhalsim in English.
Sagat in English, Try again Kid.
I agree with you, but Sagat should have his Alpha 3 voice.

[DavDz]

Keep the engrish voices. So we can hear more Rice Barrel

[AlphaDragoon02]

I'm pretty sure Chun's win quotes are in Japanese, as well. She says "yatta" which = good, nice or however else you want to congratulate yourself in Japanese.

[Gutter Trash]

What strength! But remember there are many fighters like you all over the world.

[Kataklysmic]

3rd strike = best voice acting.... "you have no dignity..."

timeless.

Oh really? NG's voices, like the music, are far superior, most noticably Dudley's ("Gutter Trash"), Gill's (- evil laugh - ), and ESPECIALLY Necro's (everything).

Look for the voice collection mp3 and listen, and you'll come back a new person.

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And I choose native languages WITH native accents.

[KWASIA]

i would just like them to speak clearly for a change... dammit have the time we can't really understand even the english speaking characters... and subtitles for those not speaking english would be nice..

[Shin Akuma]

SF4's voices seem over-exaggerated.

Like when Ryu does his Focus Attack... he sounds horrible.

IMO, SF4 has the worst voice acting out of all the SF games.

:sad:

[Hatred Edge]

Oddly I find the best Ken has ever sounded was in SVC.... You can't tell me Shoryu-Reppa doesn't sound awesome.

[Nokato]

i would just like them to speak clearly for a change... dammit have the time we can't really understand even the english speaking characters... and subtitles for those not speaking english would be nice..


I have to agree with you on this. Everyone's voice are either exaggerated or very subtle and boring. Ryu and Ken sound horrible--and its not in sync very well IMO. Like, when you KO someone--there's a huge delay that happens before they fall-its not as bad as in CVS2 on PS2 where its like almost a full 10 sec later and they;re on the ground and screaming but its still weird. C-Viper's battlecry is hilarious. Hopefully they will revise them. I know that in CVS2 they originally planned that the announcer would say the name of your character once you picked them but they scrapped it--you can hear it on the OST and its happily, fobbily, terrible.

Nonetheless, I hope that SF4 voices get redone.

[lamewadd]

Definitely their native tongue.

AND I WANT SUBTITLES, DAMMIT.

And when I say native tongue, I want Sean yelling in Portugese.

[Dark Symphony]

Oh really? NG's voices, like the music, are far superior, most noticably Dudley's ("Gutter Trash"), Gill's (- evil laugh - ), and ESPECIALLY Necro's (everything).

Look for the voice collection mp3 and listen, and you'll come back a new person.

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And I choose native languages WITH native accents.


I agree about Necro wholeheartedly. Man, was I mad when he got the "woah crazy freak it's been done 2308472907 times before!" voice in 3rd strike.

[Dark Symphony]

Uhm...someone complained about voices? I swear--honestly each character speaking its native language should be fine. But I don't understand how someone could be offended that ALL the characters don't speak English? I swear, Americans sometimes feel they are so damn special that shit needs to be spoonfed to them....There's no reason why characters speaking their own native language should be a problem with subtitles in Engish.

You know what's worse than an american with a false sense of entitlement? Someone who is too quick to assume that some american has a false sense of entitlement. Seriously, where did this rant come from?

Isn't it Europe where ony won't even allow JP voices on things now? Why no hate on them?

[lamewadd]

You know what's worse than an american with a false sense of entitlement? Someone who is too quick to assume that some american has a false sense of entitlement. Seriously, where did this rant come from?

Isn't it Europe where ony won't even allow JP voices on things now? Why no hate on them?

Oh shit. It's on, now.

[Ansatsuken-TKD]

That's weird to have an English version. That doesn't even seem right...Japanese with subtitles is good, that or they could follow the Tekken formula where everyone just magically understands each others different languages.

I think Tekken 4 had the gist of it... Having Hwoarang and Jin speak English (even if Jin spoke English with a distinct Japanese accent) with each other definitely seemed more plausible than them speaking in two languages at once in Tekken 5... :arazz:

For once it'd be really nice to hear Ryu speak English (with a heavy Japanese accent) in an SF game with Ken possibly having a Californian accent. Just once please!

[lamewadd]

For once it'd be really nice to hear Ryu speak English (with a heavy Japanese accent) in an SF game with Ken possibly having a Californian accent. Just once please!

COMMO! GET SERIOZ!!!!!!

[Nokato]

I know this isn't about music but--I found this on yt, of course it wont get into the game but its pretty nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ictDPg3J2f0&feature=related


Listening to the voices from SF4 as much I may not like them as much as 3s voices--I think this track would go well with the characters for some reason.

It sounds like something that Hideki Okugawa would've done by himself.

[felineki]

How hilarious would it be if the English dub ends up sounding he the Street Fighter Movie arcade game? "ShooooowROOkin!" "HuhDOOOOOkin!" "TastumakiKETCHUPpoo!"

cps1 and 2 sf2 where done by synth werent they?
No.

[kempobot]

i think the way the had it before - easterners spoke japanese (and few snippets of their own language) and westerners spoke english (and a few snippets of their own language) has worked well in the past. the only confusing character to me in the street fighter universe was elena. girl spoke english, japanese and swahili - she must be multilingual.

as for the english dubbing. i don't care how how they do it so long as guile sounds manly again (i want my cps1 guile back!), boxer doesn't sound like cookie monster anymore, and they don't Cheech out el fuerte's voice (assuming that he will speak english) like every single mexican cartoon character. it'd be interesting to see ken actually mix up in some english sentences though.


ST's guile voice ftw lmao that was the worse voice out of all of the versions of guile. So damn gay.

hahaha yeah. 'RUPAUL! RUAPAul! rupal!' but honestly, i'd prefer that rather than engrish-mangled cvs guile - 'rice barrel!', 'goo' jerb!' and 'eashii operation!'

[Crism]

3rd strike voices sounded bomb Loling thunder! Lol lol lol lol lol lol UPPERCUT!

[Murt!]

Uhm...someone complained about voices? I swear--honestly each character speaking its native language should be fine. But I don't understand how someone could be offended that ALL the characters don't speak English? I swear, Americans sometimes feel they are so damn special that shit needs to be spoonfed to them....There's no reason why characters speaking their own native language should be a problem with subtitles in Engish.

Who in the hell said that they wanted all English voices?

[Gaijinblaze]

Haha, last night on TV I saw Lawrence Bayne (voice actor of Urien, Gill, Necro) on some sci-fi show. I kept waiting for him to randomly say something in Urien's voice but he never did.

While I'm here, my preference is for all native languages which is borderline impossible, or the tried and true of Japanese for Oriental characters and appropriately accented English for everyone else. Being able to choose between Japanese or English isn't good because under each setting, every character will speak the same language and it sure gets annoying quickly. That just won't work in a fighting game.

[EndLeSS8]

Haha, last night on TV I saw Lawrence Bayne (voice actor of Urien, Gill, Necro) on some sci-fi show. I kept waiting for him to randomly say something in Urien's voice but he never did.

I always thought for Urien's voice, it was a regular guy, and they just added a metallic cackle to his tone.

[Biolink]

"How do you want the voices handled in SF4?"

"Rice Barrel"

[Yurinka]

Everybody in their native languages! It makes it more realistic. Just add an option to activate subtitles to know in your language know what they say (Please add Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and German languages in the euro version).

As I remember SF1 and Street Fighter -AKA Van Damme rules- The Movie were the only games were Ryu said something in english instead of hadoken. And both cases were awful.

[RaishinX]

If tomomichi nishimura's not in it they can suck dick

[Dark Symphony]

Ok... so you can namedrop japanese people that 99.9% of people in non-japanese areas don't give crap about...


I'd love all native voices, but don't forget that some people have been weaned on English speaking characters. And what with the whole 'trying to draw back in the SF fall offs of the mid nineties', it might be inconsistent for them to suddenly have Sagat yelling things in his native language, cool as it would be.

ALSO, people, while Tekken did do it and it was great, it might not be as practical of an endeavor for Capcom. Some places have contracts/deals with certain companies/studios to do voice acting and probably won't want to go out and find random independants so they can be accurate in having voices that the majority of people will never be able to understand.

I know people are like "get cultured!" Or "you can learn something!" But that's what school is for. The average gamer just wants people to say words. They don't care if Chun Li is speaking english, japanese and chinese.

You have to be careful where you put your work. Don't waste a week creating a chcken to run in a BG when it is so small that no one is going to notice the work put into it, let alone the chicken itself...

[RaishinX]

Ok... so you can namedrop japanese people that 99.9% of people in non-japanese areas don't give crap about...

lmao @ someone caring about voice acting and not an actual voice actor. :rofl:

[masher]

Capcom should hire me

i can do a pretty mean dan! :nunchuck:

[Higher-Jin]

Sonic Kapeur

[Rhio2k]

I agree about Necro wholeheartedly. Man, was I mad when he got the "woah crazy freak it's been done 2308472907 times before!" voice in 3rd strike.


I love the way Necro and Effie sing and speak in harmony in NG and 2I...and cringe when I hear how badly Capcom fucked it up in 3rd Strike.

[Rhio2k]

Who in the hell said that they wanted all English voices?

*coughcoughcaucasianscoughcough*

[JayGee]

Oh really? NG's voices, like the music, are far superior, most noticably Dudley's ("Gutter Trash"), Gill's (- evil laugh - ), and ESPECIALLY Necro's (everything).

Look for the voice collection mp3 and listen, and you'll come back a new person.

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And I choose native languages WITH native accents.
You're on crack. Francis Diakewsky totally NAILED Dudley for 3S. Every line delivered is absolutely perfect. There's no mistaking the fact that this guy is an English gentleman with the ability to beat your sorry ass. NG/2I Dudley was too guttural for my tastes, which made taking to 3S Dudley that much easier. If they do put Dudley in SFIV, it's Diakewsky or bust.

[terracotta]

hahahaha! bolischoy tavieda!

[Kataklysmic]

You're on crack. Francis Diakewsky totally NAILED Dudley for 3S. Every line delivered is absolutely perfect. There's no mistaking the fact that this guy is an English gentleman with the ability to beat your sorry ass. NG/2I Dudley was too guttural for my tastes, which made taking to 3S Dudley that much easier. If they do put Dudley in SFIV, it's Diakewsky or bust.

The Diakewsky voice would fit if Dudley was 5'6 and weighed at 160 pounds. His lines for his intro and his "no dignity" win pose ARE nicely executed, but other than that, he makes Dudley sound like a pansy. He's a boxer for chrissakes.

Bruce Robertson might not sound as gentleman-like, but he gave Dudley unmatched pride and charisma. You could actually feel how serious he is, even when he's KO'ed.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZMXy-gZeIGA

Robertson's Gill is not to be fucked with either. The guy is just too good. (1:51)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KIMJxLMbyOM

[terracotta]

mike tyson?

[Rhio2k]

mike tyson?

"Ahma eatcha kids!"?

[goodm0urning]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZMXy-gZeIGA

...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KIMJxLMbyOMMan, this really takes me back... I must have been one of the only people who actually played a lot of NG when it came out way back when.

I still believe that, gameplay adjustments aside, the presentation of NG and its audiovisual style are the best of the III series.

[Dark Symphony]

lmao @ someone caring about voice acting and not an actual voice actor. :rofl:


The Voice Acting project is far more important than each individual voice actor. SF has never been consistent with it's VA's, so I really don't care who does what as long as it sounds good. For the inevitable sequel/update, i'd want the same voices used, but at this point, I just want something good.

[Zombie Shoes]

I still believe that, gameplay adjustments aside, the presentation of NG and its audiovisual style are the best of the III series.

I have to agree. I'd pick the backgrounds from NG over 3S any day.

[Sagatryu]

it's likey that Tomomichi Nishimura will voice akuma once again, like he did in the following games

1 SFA

2 SFA2

3 SFA3

4 Super Puzzle Fighter II X

5 MSH vs. SF

6 SF3: New Gen

7 SF3: Second Impact

8 SF3: Third strike

9 Capcom vs SNK: Millennium Fight 2000

10 Capcom vs SNK 2

11 X-Men vs. Street Fighter

12 Marvel vs capcom 2


13 Namco X Capcom

14 SVC: Chaos

15 Street Fighter EX

16 SFA2: Gold

17 SFA3: upper

18 Street Fighter Alpha 3: Max

edit: Tomomichi Nishimura is even the japanese voice for Akuma in the 1st Alpha movie.

[Jonathan Ingram]

I always thought for Urien's voice, it was a regular guy, and they just added a metallic cackle to his tone.

Not so much a metallic cackle as good-old fashioned reverb.

[terracotta]

tsk.. silly fanboys.

[ColdBrand]

I'd like Ryu to say Hadouken. Also, it would be totally cool if he also said that other thing. What was it again?

[JayGee]

The Diakewsky voice would fit if Dudley was 5'6 and weighed at 160 pounds. His lines for his intro and his "no dignity" win pose ARE nicely executed, but other than that, he makes Dudley sound like a pansy. He's a boxer for chrissakes.

Bruce Robertson might not sound as gentleman-like, but he gave Dudley unmatched pride and charisma. You could actually feel how serious he is, even when he's KO'ed.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZMXy-gZeIGA

Robertson's Gill is not to be fucked with either. The guy is just too good. (1:51)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KIMJxLMbyOM
No, just no. Dudley doesn't sound like a pansy anywhere with Diakewsky. The whole premise is that he fights with class and dignity. His moves reflect that, and so does his voice. Robertson sounded too guttural, I'm telling you. His "Down for the count" was good, but that was about it. Most of the grunts and whatnot for Dudley's normals and specials just pale in comparison to what Francis did with him in 3S. His voice actually flows with each hit. It's easy to notice when you pull off some of Dudley's chains. There's a lot more life and overall "character" to Dudley in 3S. Even if Robertson got more lines if he returned in 3S, it would've been more of the same. I'm glad they switched up for the last third game. Dudley benefited from that greatly.

[Kataklysmic]

Maybe I just have a hard time believing that any English heavyweight boxer would sound like 3S Dudley. His spoken lines during specials aren't exaggerated enough, and when he's actually exerting himself, he's still too laid back. I guess I just want to hear more "oomph" from a SF character. That's what made Robertson so cool to listen to. To me, his Dudley was both dignified AND tough.

[EVERDRED]

what if for the first time ive seen anyways el fuerte said spanish names to his moves instead of english....

im thinking that would be the next step after "hadoken", "ein, zie, trie(sp?)" "hyper-bomb"......

[EVERDRED]

The Diakewsky voice would fit if Dudley was 5'6 and weighed at 160 pounds. His lines for his intro and his "no dignity" win pose ARE nicely executed, but other than that, he makes Dudley sound like a pansy. He's a boxer for chrissakes.

Bruce Robertson might not sound as gentleman-like, but he gave Dudley unmatched pride and charisma. You could actually feel how serious he is, even when he's KO'ed.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZMXy-gZeIGA

Robertson's Gill is not to be fucked with either. The guy is just too good. (1:51)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KIMJxLMbyOM

part of dudley's character design was infact that he was smaller than the weighjt class he was supposed to fight in. he's an indian man, he's not a 6 foot 5 black american boxer from vegas... get it right =/

[ColdBrand]

Just pitching in my vote for the more stylistic and dignified Dudley. If you have a character who's objective is to retrieve a vintage automobile from the game's antagonist, then yeah, I'd say a classy chap is in order.

[Saotome Kaneda]

this has gone on long enough


bring up your concerns on the capcom BBS