I don't think any of what's been shown has been subpar. The beginning of that trailer's a bit iffy but I think it's more because they haven't equalized the sound or finished the lip sync. And FF12 had some of the best voice acting...probably ever. 13 looks like it carry right along with that. Sazh (black dude) definitely has the best-delivered line of the trailer.
I'd honestly just rather see the correct lip sync with them speaking english.
And doing an undub of the game will be next to impossible. I have absolutely no idea how a hacked PS3 even works or what entails them putting subtitles and putting the english translation in. It definitely wouldn't match up though. The game's also being re-written to flow better in english than the normally overly-wordy japanese.
Overly wordy? Considering the fact that the Japanese language is capable of a grammatically correct sentence without having any actual sentence subject, I'd like to think of Japanese as being relatively compact, in some sense. I will admit that there are generally more syllables in a given sentence in japanese, rather than english, but calling Japanese overly-wordy is a bit of a stretch. Actually, it's a bit difficult to compare english and japanese, because they are so different. You also have to consider whether a particle should be considered a word or not.... But I'm getting a bit off topic from what I wanted to say...
I hate English voice acting, except when REAL ACTORS do it. Hence why one of the only anime dubs I've endured and didn't hate was princess mononoke.
I REALLY wish they would allow for Japanese audio and English text in more games......
Honestly, I'm as much in the dark as you are about how a hacked PS3 works, but I do know a bit about how un-dubs work. most of the time, instead of modifying the animation at all, they simply use what's there and try to fit English to the mouthing of the Japanese video. In an un-dub, the rip the Japanese audio, and replace the English audio with the original, while leaving the rest of the game untouched.
As a side note, my FFXII CD is an un-dub, lol.
But I will say that the voice acting has definitely improved over previous stuff.
as for 13, the lip syncing in the video looked pretty solid.
I hope you didn't think I was talking about the syncing specifically in my post. I just hate most English voice acting because 99% of it sounds incredibly fake and forced to me. (though not being a native speaker of Japanese, it maybe the Japanese sounds just as fake and forced to them as the English sounds to me. the difference being that to me, the Japanese sounds more natural than the English does, so I prefer mine in Japanese.)
killer7 for example, story is just "what the fuck i don't even know whats going on" and the gameplay is mediocre. but the game is just so goddamn crazy you can't help but want to go on further and see just what's around the next corner. i mean mask de smith getting shot in the head...AND HEADBUTTING THE FUCKING BULLET, that's just like, yeah, buy killer7.
I haven't played Killer 7, and have only seen a bit of gameplay, but man, I think calling the gameplay mediocre is a bit of an understatement. From what I've seen, it's downright horrible. My GF's roommate bought it recently, and I've seen him playing for a couple minutes, and the gameplay looks absolutely horrible.
