Kingdom Hearts II

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:38 pm

Of course I know. I just found it wooden and boring.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:21 pm

Game voice acting is shit in general

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:24 am

I love KH's voice acting.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:13 am

I think Kingdom Hearts is on the good end of the scale, yes

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:03 pm

I just gotta say...

Even though it was known, Christopher Lee does a completely badass job at voicing his character. <3 I love that man.

Sephiroth is great. David Boreanez, if he is back for Leon...sounds like shit. I think Mr Boreanez had a couple vocal cords ripped out or something. o_O

Tifa sounds fine. Cid = hillbilly to the max = hilarious.

Aerith...Aerith is BAD. Mena Suvari has NO emotion in her voice. It's...just really awful. >_>

Hm...forgetting anyone...

I'm going to assume people know who the Organization members are.

The ones we've heard so far...

-Axel (voiced by Raiden of MGS2 X3) is awesome. Yay, Axel.

-Saix = evil sounding. Yeehaw
-Xigbar = total surfer-dude. It's hilarious. I love him now.

Hm...that's all.

Anyway...yep. More KH2-ness before the release. IN TEN DAYS. *hysterics*

Garbo · Post by **Garbo** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:09 pm

wanna know the identity of who Fumanchu is voicing? :>

I can imagine some of the characters sounding pretty good, but as far as I'm concerned, the organization members + Diz have just been voiced to perfection in the japanese version. As good as Chris Lee is, he just won't come close to sounding as cool as his character in Japanese.

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:16 pm

Mena Suvari has NO emotion in her voice. It's...just really awful. >_>

Makes such a change from Mandy Moore...

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:44 pm

Actually, I liked Mandy Moore, and I was hoping she'd be back for KH2. But, nope. Robot.

And, Garbs, he may not sound as good as his Japanese counterpart...but it's CHRISTOPHER LEE.

Therefore, DiZ = badass to the max.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:35 pm

Anybody got it then?

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:19 pm

Not yet. Going to call Zellers (lawl) today to see if they have it.

If not, I have to wait til the 30th for EB.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:40 pm

too bad i'm picking this up tomorrow and it's going to idle for about 3.5 weeks

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:33 pm

I don't think I'll start playing until I've finished Suikoden V

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:05 pm

This means PAL release is not that far off anymore!

*dances and falls over*

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:43 pm

yuka wrote:This means PAL release is not that far off anymore!

*dances and falls over*

Just need to give them a bit of time to add the boarders

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:04 pm

Bastards, utter bastards.

Can't wait to hear all the wooden acting from everyone!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:22 pm

People rate voice acting too highly as a factor in videogames nowdays.

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:26 pm

Well, if you have to listen to it so much, it could at least be half decent.

I wish we in the days when a graphic was a graphic, and not a polygon with shading, lighting and mapping...

My course is confusing the hell out of me, and taxonomoy is my most hated word of the week.

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:41 am

Holy @ English intro. o_O

Song was good, like the lyrics and stuff...and then came the upbeat part with "My heart's a battle ground".

You know how the line before is "hitoshirezu"?

The line in English is "So many ups and downs" ...reversed for some reason, and it kinda sounds like she just...vomited on the mic or something. o_o Or, maybe not vomited, but they held up a turkey and it went "GOBBLE GARBLE!"

o_o

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:52 am

I doubt the theme song can beat Small Two Of Pieces no matter what anyway.

OMG POST IMPRESSIONS PLZ!

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:57 am

I DON'T HAVE THE GAME. I FOUND THE INTRO ONLINES.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OzB5Fmo-Zc

SEE?!

Passion was better than Small of Two Pieces (Oh noes. >_>) in my opinion, but the turkey singing in Sanctuary brings it doooown. :<

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:00 am

MY CAPITALISED COMMENT WAS A GENERALISED COMMENT TO ALL AMERICANS WHO BOUGHT THE GAME AND NOT SOLELY DIRECTED AT YOU SEPHIRA, APOLOGIES FOR ANY MISCONCEPTIONS

Not that there'll be much of a difference between the Jap and US release really.

When's the PAL release again? After SGRPG?

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:23 am

OIC.

And, nope, there shouldn't be many changes. Nomura said "I want it exactly the same". >_> Or, as same as it can be, with the English and Japanese voices.

And, I've heard June/July, as well as October/November for the PAL release.

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:32 am

Curses. Well, I have enough to keep me happy until then.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:37 am

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/698/698697p3.html

6.5 :O

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:40 am

7.6, noob. >_>

And...VERY weird. o_O Rating it lower than Chain of Memories.

It's been getting mixed reviews.

1UP: 9.2
Gamespot: 8.7
IGN: 7.6

IGN for the lose.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:10 am

yuka wrote:I doubt the theme song can beat Small Two Of Pieces no matter what anyway.

OMG POST IMPRESSIONS PLZ!

Simple And Clean

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:29 am

Passion/Sanctuary.

Other than the turkey part, Sanctuary is awesome.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:35 am

Is it funny like Simple & Clean though?

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:51 pm

Damien wrote:People rate voice acting too highly as a factor in videogames nowdays.

Maybe, but I think it's quite substantial. Poor voice acting can completely ruin a scene that would work well with no voices. Yes, you can mute, but it's a pain and it means missing out on music, so that no matter what it diminishes the experience if the voice acting is not good. I think instead game makers rate having voice acting too important these days. My opinion is, unless you can make absolutely sure that you're going to do it right, don't have voice acting.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:06 pm

IGN is hilarious. They're giving out shit scores these days trying to overcompensate for inflation.

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:58 pm

Damien wrote:Is it funny like Simple & Clean though?

...It's a turkey. >_> Of course it is.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:22 pm

I would just like to say that the guide is 350 pages.
So Sanctuary is worse than Passion? That's too bad, because Passion sucks.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:22 pm

Doom wrote:IGN is hilarious. They're giving out shit scores these days trying to overcompensate for inflation.

I know.

HAY GAYS THIS IS THE SEQUEL TO THE GAME WE OVERATED BY 1.5 POINTS! LET'S UNDERRATED IT BY 1.5 POINTS NOW, WITHOUT CHANGING THE SHITTINESS OF OUR REVIEW'S TEXT.

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:26 am

*cries nerd tears of happiness* I love KH2.

EDIT: Now that I'm back from work, I'll give a real first impression.

Of course, it's very biased, as I want to marry this game, so... >_>

Anyway. Starts off, great opening with the turkey line.

Some stuff with Roxas dreaming.

Most of the beginning of the game is very straight forward. It's a tutorial, little games, things like this. You collect munny (I collected 100 of my 800 to put into the kids' pot.

), deliver letters, things like that. You start fighting a little ways in, and are introduced to reaction commands, which are awesome. <3

Anyway, you know most of this.

Voice impressions: Everyone is very good, other than the clip of Aerith that played. I was mad. >_>

And David Boreanez hasn't returned, sadly. I haven't heard the new Leon talk, but from the trailer I saw with him, it wasn't very good.

The guy who I believe has taken over Billy Zane's roll does a fairly good job impersonating him. Obviously, Billy Zane has a pretty distinct voice, and while you can tell it's not Zane, it's still fairly accurate.

Last note: Axel is fucking awesome.

Back to play!

Pendragon · Post by **Pendragon** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:24 am

Sephira wrote:*cries nerd tears of happiness* I love KH2.

Is it as easy as the reviews have indicated?

Sephira wrote:And David Boreanez hasn't returned, sadly. I haven't heard the new Leon talk, but from the trailer I saw with him, it wasn't very good.

Seriously? I could've sworn I saw his name on a list of returning voice actors for the game...

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:25 am

Seriously? Fuck that. Him and his stupid Bones.
I did only get to the first save, but color me impressed.

Spruchy · Post by **Spruchy** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:36 am

Got up to pirates of cari today, love it.

At this rate ill have it beaten by the end of the weekend...T.T

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:43 am

Hey, can I miss anything on normal that I can only get on Proud mode?
If so I'll start over... but otherwise I don't care.

Spruchy · Post by **Spruchy** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:21 am

No but if you want to see the super duper ending you need to complete all of jimmy crickets journal entries on normal. If you beat it on proud mode you get the movie automatically.

Also based on all the reviews for this game I heard normal and easy we're too easy so I chose proud. Hasnt been any hard moments yet(minus one in herc's world).

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:49 am

That's an "I don't care" then.

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:49 am

I wouldn't say it's THAT easy. The reviews are like "Holy shit, you can leave your controller on the table and leave the room and come back and everything is dead, it's that easy!"

I'm on Normal mode at the moment, and I've had a couple near death situations.

I just finished Beast's Castle and I'm on to Herc. Tomorrow. So weaaaary. >_>

And, yeah, Pen, it seems he hasn't returned. o_O Or, so a list of voice actors I found says. In any case, the first line apparently was a dud. The guy playing Leon is still good.

Aerith....Oh Aerith.

Oh yeah. I love love love reaction commands.

Some of them are so freaking cool.

Garbo · Post by **Garbo** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:36 pm

David boreanaz was a disappointment as Leon anyway. He tried way too hard to sound deep all the time, and ended up like Paine in FFX-2.

Damn I take back what I said about the voice-acting. Diz, plus mystery cloaked men (whose names I shall not spoil

) sound incredibly badass.

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:39 pm

i heard that this game is piss easy? is that true?

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:59 pm

CK and Vash are doing Proud and they're saying it's tough.

I want to but... I don't care.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:04 pm

Good to see that people are enjoying this

I'll have a tinkle with it a bit lataAr

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:05 pm

Actually check that, I heard it can get tough but you basically spam Reaction commands and it's fine.

KingOfHell · Post by **KingOfHell** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:58 pm

IGN gave dragon quest 8, a game where u literally do just mash the X button for your 4 party members to attack for 50% of the battles, a 9.0. The storyline in dragon quest was pretty lame overall too, kingdom hearts II i'm only at the first save spot but the story has already intrigued me. I think gamespot's review is probably the most accurate.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/rpg/kingdom ... eview.html

Reaction commands are an awesome addition to the combat system too

RPG's aren't about edge of your seat intense action either, its more about the storyline and experience. If you want an action-packed, throw your controller across the room difficult game play some devil may cry 3 (or DMC1) and see if you can become King-of-Hell

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:39 pm

I think IGN's still trying to make up for the 9.9 they gave Jade Empire.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:40 pm

Doom wrote:I think IGN's still trying to make up for the 9.9 they gave Jade Empire.

Idiots. How can you make up for giving a bad game a high score by giving lower scores to better games? The only way to make up for it at all is to change the score and then not screw up again.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:41 pm

spam because last post on page = lose