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[Draugoth]

He's basically whoring himself on Patreon for his higher tiers.
I almost paid 1000$ to ask him to shove a beer bottle up his ass.
I told Jake Baldino about it and he gave me a polite diplomatic neutral answer

Reminds of people that paid for $20,000 Supreme Belle Delphine Tier and got a pink car with her pics from her

 

[TLZ]

I only play in Japanese voices, but... What??

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Whoever plays Yakuza in english and not japanese, doesn't deserve to play Yakuza, sorry.

But i play it on ps2

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Cant stand this guy. Though nobody plays Yakuza games in English so nothing lost there.

 

[supernova8]

I mean he's not that bad, he definitely has a range (not wide) of voices. Plus the English VAs for Japanese games are almost always cringe anyway so not like this is a huge surprise.

 

[wvnative]

i don't hate him...but really seems like an insane choice. Why?

Why not keep the other guy?

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

Making sure I never play this game

Why?

 

[01011001]

english dub

 

[Lethal01]

I for one would never, ever play the series in english.

For those of you that do, reading is a good thing! But I won't knock how you prefer to play games.

I don't think companies should hire youtubers for SHIT. I also dislike how companies focus on that, provide them with freebies when they should be doing that for their actual fans.

Playing any japanese game in English is sickening.

 

[BaneIsPain]

cringe yea but good for him. I will never play dub except the original yakuza 1 at that time.
Always go for sub.

 

[Lasha]

I'm also surprised that the game has an English dub. Most of the entries after the PS2 were released without an English dub. Some of the better entries like Kenzan never even received an English release. I guess its good that the series is popular for a full dub. I doubt the English performances match the Japanese.

 

[01011001]

cringe yea but good for him. I will never play dub except the original yakuza 1 at that time.
Always go for sub.

 

[killatopak]

Why would you play Ryu ga Gotoku in English, lol.

Kuroda Takaya as Kiryu is the only way.

edit: oh didn’t realize this was already posted.

BaneIsPain is literally me.

 

[Abriael_GN]

Thank god for the Japanese dub.

 

[IAmRei]

for me, playing Yakuza games with En dub is weird, but that's me

 

[Gojiira]

Kinda cringe tbh, Yong is fine for commentary but its hilarious when he criticises VA’s for lacking gravitas or delivery when he himself is pretty monotone.
Still Jap VA is the only correct choice so whatevs

 

[Barakov]

How could you forget the voice of Alex Mercer and Batman's Joker sharing a scene together?

The Yakuza 1 dub was something else.

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

Holy shit for a moment i thought they were changing the Jap va...
Who gives a fuck about the english voice?

But i heard that guy before, not sure if i approve the choice anyway, i hardly imagine him showing any kind of machismo in his voice.

This ...wtf?

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

i don't hate him...but really seems like an insane choice. Why?

Why not keep the other guy?

This. Don't hate him but come on..

 

[nowhat]

Like everyone else here, I will be playing with the original JP audio.

But good for Yong. I may not be the hugest fan of his Youtube content, but he decided he wants to be a VA and thus far, that seems to be working out.

 

[Chechack]

I for one play every game in jal dub with eng subs.

Yeap i even play diablo 4 with jalan dubs.

Liliths va is the shitttt u can feel the sensual yet terriying feel.

 

[Impotaku]

Wonder if he’ll start heavily shilling for yakuza now like he did for cyberjunk

 

[Hudo]

Imagine playing with English dub? Hah!

Hey, I liked the English dub of Like A Dragon.

 

[DeVeAn]

Oh hell no! I mean I don’t really care as I’ll never play the without Japanese VO. That YouTube clown irks me though.

 

[X-Wing]

Era is going to boycott this.

 

[Soltype]

I tried out the Yakuza 7 English dub and it wasn't that good. It has a 2000s anime dub vibe, all the dudes sound like they were done by the same person.

 

[GymWolf]

This ...wtf?

What is wrong buddy?

 

[Team Andromeda]

Imagine playing with English dub? Hah!

I remember the days when SONY used to force that or how many Western people hated Jackie Chan movies with English subs.
How times change. I'm a fan of like DVD's did back in the day, give people a choice of a language

Sometimes I rather the English voice acting over the Japanese version. This was the case for me for Snatcher, PopfuilMail, Lunar, Metal Gear Solid

 

[SCB3]

I feel like the minority here but I play the Yakuza games in English so.... LAD and Judgement have good dubbing at least

 

[Holammer]

I remember the days when SONY used to force that or how many Western people hated Jackie Chan movies with English subs.
How times change. I'm a fan of like DVD's did back in the day, give people a choice of a language

Sometimes I rather the English voice acting over the Japanese version. This was the case for me for Snatcher, PopfuilMail, Lunar, Metal Gear Solid

Right, many PS3 era games often lacked the option to select language. I remember how a friend gave up on playing Ratchet and Clank: ToD because of its Swedish dub. Changing system language was a simple workaround, but having to do it every time you wanted to play was annoying.

I select Japanese 99.9% of the time, one of the few games or media where I prefer the English dub is the Tenchi Muyo OAV series. English voice actors for Ayeka and Ryoko have *way* more charm and range than the original Japanese squeaky toy voices.

 

[TidusYuna]

Now hire Prozd as the villain's voice actor and I will play it in English dub on the second playthrough.


Jokes aside, congrats to Yongyea.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Right, many PS3 era games often lacked the option to select language. I remember how a friend gave up on playing Ratchet and Clank: ToD because of its Swedish dub. Changing system language was a simple workaround, but having to do it every time you wanted to play was annoying.

I select Japanese 99.9% of the time, one of the few games or media where I prefer the English dub is the Tenchi Muyo OAV series. English voice actors for Ayeka and Ryoko have *way* more charm and range than the original Japanese squeaky toy voices.

Give people the choice. Sometimes I rather the English dub, not always but there are some games where I like the Western voice acting more, especially in the likes of MGS, Sonic Adv and Popfulmail

 

[genesisblock]

Oh my god, I can hear his voice right now as Kiryu. And it would be hilarious.

 

[deriks]

He's actually very good

Still, Yakuza games are played in japanese, and if you don't, you need therapy

 

[YeulEmeralda]

I don't even know who that is.

 

[March Climber]

I feel like the minority here but I play the Yakuza games in English so.... LAD and Judgement have good dubbing at least

I felt the opposite about Judgment. It was one of the few times I felt someone should have stepped in and told the voice coach “less cartoony please”. Even though the game has it’s ridiculous moments, the Japanese voice acting tried to sound as naturalistic as possible, and the minute you would switch over to english it felt like everyone turned up the ham level to something close to 4kids.

It means that someone came into this assuming it’s “just like every other Japanese anime or video game dub” and they approached it completely wrong since the beginning.

 

[Puscifer]

Holy shit for a moment i thought they were changing the Jap va...
Who gives a fuck about the english voice?

But i heard that guy before, not sure if i approve the choice anyway, i hardly imagine him showing any kind of machismo in his voice.

That's the beauty of a voice actor though isn't it? Troy Baker looks like a pretty boy and was a man's man playing Joel.

 

[Zheph]

Just get that moffo instead, he seems to be everywhere at the moment

Really enjoyed his Lorath and look forward to his Cid in FFXVI

 

[Stafford]

Good for him, sounds like a incredibly cool thing to be part of.

That being said, hell no to dubs. I've seen a trailer of LAD in English and if I ever had any doubt how horrible it would be, I was cured of that doubt. Jesus. Same as watching anime with dubs. Atrocious.

 

[SF Kosmo]

Other than the first game on PS2, I don't remember any of these even having English dubs.

 

[Kataploom]

Real Yakuzas play using Jap VA.

Now seriously, the guy is a voice actor himself so whatever, it's not like they're putting a rookie influencer just for sales, they're literally putting a voice acting professional in the role.

 

[drganon]

Doesn't matter to me since I always play the games with subs.

 

[ssringo]

I quite liked Yakuza 7 with English VO. Thought it was pretty good and the lip sync was on point. But was super weird hearing legacy Yakuza characters in English.

 

[Jack Package]

That is one helluva catfish of a photo

 

[FeralEcho]

There's a dub?

This was genuinely my reaction.Whoever plays this in english...

 

[Jack Videogames]

LaD japanese dub is superlative. I can't imagine playing Kiryu without hearing his KAKATTE KOI

This said, i don't know who this person is

 

[Roufianos]

What's up ladies and gentlemen it's Kiiiryuuu here with another news update.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Embarrassing. Genuinely thought this was a joke post at first.

 

[Abesolus]

yeah im done

 

[Synless]

Who ever asked for YouTubers in video games? No sane person anyways.