That doesn’t make sense. Yakuza never had a dub to compare so fans aren’t missing anything. Shenmue 1 & 2 had a dub and it is an essential part of the experience for many fans no matter how much you look down your nose at it. I’ve spent nearly 20 years listening to Corey as Ryo during my many playthroughs throughout the years. He is Ryo Hazuki for me. Not for you obviously but that’s the beauty of diversity and differing opinions. We all have our cake and eat it thankfully for Shenmue 3. Please don’t try and force its removal; it shows lack of respect for the countless fans who love it like I do.
Yakuza 1 on ps2 was a dub, the only entry in the series to have one, Sega cut it from future release due to budget and it was the only way we would get future release at the time.
oh no, sorry I interrupted your circlejerk with my opinion.
Lol, nice strawman, god forbid anyone point out that you're here to start a fight not a conversation as is clear by your attitude.
It's not elitist to point out that the English dub is bad, it's just the truth. It's not elitist to say the dub fundamentally changes the characters and makes them worse, it's just a fact. Stop taking everything so personally and actually read what I said instead of just translating it all in your head to be nothing more than "people who like the dub are stupid" because that isn't what anyone said.
But this is directly wrong. Thanks to the English dub there are no proper subtitles for the Japanese voice overs so there are many instances of the subtitles being changed to fit the dub. So, no, the people who are fans of the pure Japanese experience of Shenmue don't get to have their cake, only dub fans get their cake, and it cost the game considerably for them to do so both in it's budget and it's reviews.
Yeah that's called an opinion my dude, and sorry you seem to think nobody but the "Japanese purists" are allowed to have one lmao.
It's really not an opinion. No one would call Shenmue I, II, or III's dub good. You pretending like you think it's good would have more weight if you didn't call it "awkward" in your first post. Shenmue I, II, and now III's dubs have all been universally panned, fact. Meanwhile the original Japanese voice overs are universally praised. Gee it's almost like a cinematic game about revenge wasn't supposed to have a terrible dub that makes every line awkward and it was only a side effect of the era in which it was made.
My god you are the bottom of the barrel of Shenmue fans. You are stating opinions as objective facts and treating anyone with a contrary opinion like their morons. I hope you are not such a pain in the ass in real life.
Listen to you throwing around insults. I sure didn't throw around any insults in my comments like telling people they have "their heads up their asses" or that they're "the bottom of the barrel of shenmue fans". Like you're the one being a jerk here. I'm just stating legitimate facts about Shenmue and you can't handle them so you're freaking out. Like I said in the post you should have replied to (and actually read): Stop taking everything so personally and actually read what I said instead of just translating it all in your head to be nothing more than "people who like the dub are stupid" because that isn't what anyone said.
The dub is bad. Deal with it. The ORIGINAL voice overs are better and convey what the creator was trying to convey. Deal with it.
By the way, it's "like they're morons". Just so you know.
But aren't the english subtitles a transcript of the english dub ?
This is 100% a problem. The translation has really bad mistakes at certain points. They translated はい (hai - yes) as “hello” at one point. I don’t even understand how that happened. There’s so many instances where the responses Ryo has make no sense in English but the Japanese ones are fine. There is another one that stood out when Ryo wants to stop chopping wood. I don’t remember the exact phrasing in English, but it was so disjointed compared to what the shopkeeper said. In Japanese, Ryo says やめておきます (yamete okimasu - I’ll quit/I’m gonna quit/etc) and it was translated completely differently.
........... I hope they didn't use the English sub to make the other languages translations.
