TVC: Ultimate All-Stars to Retain Japanese Voices
While we would all (well, many, at any rate– we know who we are) love the opportunity to hear Lucas Gilbertson take up the microphone and perform the part of Zero once again in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, it seems that is unlikely to happen.
Despite Frank West’s performance to the contrary in the Japanese version of the title, JGonzo of Capcom*Unity, via Jaxel, has told us that most of the cast of the upcoming anime vs. video game showdown will be retaining their original Japanese dialect for the North American release.
Of course, while one can easily argue that this will help to maintain the original Japanese flavor of the game, it seems likely that it may have been more than Capcom could handle to arrange for every single English voice actor from their various studios to reprise their roles, to say nothing of assigning new actors for the characters who do not yet have roles. And without English role reprisals, a lot of people would likely be upset– just look at the reaction to Frank West’s new voice.
Tags: Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, Zero
Filed under: Mega Man News
Rats; my hopes of Sailor Jupiter MegaMan have been DASHed…haha ehhhh
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Aaaw… too bad. I like Mr. Gilbertsons work.
Oh well. I’m not one to compalin about VAing anyway. Sides. They sound pretty dern simalar, IMO.
I’m just happy to have Zero in! ^w^
I was tempted to say “Capcom’s being lazy again.” However, I certainly can’t due to the fact to their effort to put new characters in this game that fans really want has amazed me. But wait, I have a question. I thought this WAS the American version, so why didn’t we get voice actors for the new characters first? Was that just because they couldn’t get actors, or is that the Japanese already had people lined up for the new additions? Sorry, for the question. I read the article, it just made me wonder.
Now, I can see how Capcom would have a hard time with finding Voice Actors, but couldn’t they just get the voices of the characters that they do have actors for, and leave everyone else in Japanese? For example, get Lucas to do Zero, but leave all the characters on the Tatsunoko side in Japanese voices. I was really looking forward to hearing Lucas again, and seeing what voice they would put with Roll and Mega Man Trigger. Oh well, I guess. I’m just thankful that they’re showing so much Mega Man love! =D
MegamanXTi: Our version is being released in Japan as well; this will be their second. A fairly common practice, one should note.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”
Much like the Kingdom Hearts Final Mix games, but those are made for Japan and only Japan. I’m not disappointed with this info. I’m glad Frank West is speaking english though.
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That made me laugh. My sister is a die-hard Sailor Moon addict, so imagine my surprise to hear that voice coming out of Megaman!
Excellent!!! keeping the original voices in games, anime and movies is the best choice!!
I’m of two minds on this one. On the one hand this is the “english” release which implies “english” voice acting however video game voice acting and especially Capcom’s english voice acting is a bit of a crap shoot. Granted that Lucas Gilbertson did do an excellent job with Zero before, however I keep getting chilling flashback reminders of how bad english voice overs can be if not properly executed. No Capcom game was ever a better example of this than Mega Man 8; starring a Mega Man who sounded less like a guy than Roll did and let’s not forget Dr. “Elmer Fudd” Light. So while an English voice cast could have been nice, I guess this is a much safer and easier approach.
No surprise there–just getting this game over here mostly intact must’ve been enough of a nightmare.
I was kinda hoping they’d do a Street Fighter 4 style thing where they let you choose English of Japanese for each individual character, but I guess this isn’t too bad. At least Frank West is in English.
“Our version is being released in Japan as well; this will be their second. A fairly common practice, one should note.”
Oh. So we’re not getting a revamped first game; we’re skipping the first game and getting the second game first. Shame.
Ryan> Not as such, exactly. Think of it more as getting Street Fighter II Turbo instead of Street Fighter II: The World Warriors.
I believe the voices and such for Super Mario 64 came in the U.S. version, and it was released back in Japan after as a U.S. edition or something. Likewise, I believe Final Fantasy VII’s U.S. release featured extra content (weren’t two Weapons added?), and was subsequently re-released in Japan with the added content.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”
Another good example of a game better missed is the first version of Pokemon Stadium that didn’t get released in America:
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Stadium_(Japanese)
The original release only had 42 of the original 151 Pokemon available to play as. Fortunately, US skipped over that and got the 2nd, complete version that was later released.
But now the numbering system is off by one, right?
@ZEROmaverick:
Not really. If you played Third Strike, you’d know that Alex’s Japanese VA sucks complete and total ass. His english VA (Or ‘original VA since he was in both Jap and Eng versions) was MUCH, MUCH Better and didn’t sound like some sort of bear.
God I’m still hoping he gets his old VA somehow.
@Shake
Amen to that. Every time I hear Alex’s molested voice I turn the sound off. Its just that bad. He litterally sounds constipated when he does hyper bomb. Oh the well. Im still just glad that this game is even coming to the states, cause for a while there, the chances seemed slim.
Lucas Gilberson or bust. It’ll never be the same again. I won’t bother with this then…
I’m not sure why people are even surprised at this. Capcom’s been making these fighters for decades now, and in that time (with an excetpion or two, like Alex) they’ve redubbed one–count ‘em–one game. Street Fighter IV.
And as to this being the English version of the game…well…it’s still being handled by the japanese production crew. Frank West speaks English because he’s a very “American” character, while Zero is a very Japanese character, so I’m neither surprised nor disapointed here.