To preface - I've be eagerly awaiting the NA release of Arc Rise Fantasia since its reveal about two years ago or so. For those who don't know, the localization for NA was first picked up by XSEED (I believe Rising Star Games is handling the PAL release), but it has since changed hands and is now going to be published by Ignition Entertainment. But when the first videos of the English dub were shown, the feedback has been, to put it mildly, negative - mostly directed to the voice acting, among other things.
Now maybe, it's because I missed out on the generations when voice acting in consoles became the norm (my last home console system before the Wii was a SNES) or maybe I just didn't play enough games with voice acting in them, but from what I've heard so far - the voices in Arc Rise Fantasia aren't "grating my ears" as some other posters on various sites have said.
Despite feeling little dejected by the negative response, I still plan on purchasing the game regardless of the voice acting. And somehow I feel the all the ranting is blown out of proportion - but maybe that's just me.
But how do the rest of you feel? Would a game's voice acting turn you off from the game entirely? I don't mean like sending Ignition a message (as if one less purchase would tell them their localization efforts are lackluster) but simply based off the game's voice acting - you wouldn't play the game.
Just looking for your thoughts - sorry if too long
