User blog comment:Shadowclaimer/Exaggerated Characters (Opinions)/@comment-785068-20101102162516/@comment-1933596-20101102171022

See I usually set my voices to Japanese as soon as I get the capabilities to, my brothers don't like it particularly (They think the Japanese language is annoying) but I've found they tend to capture the emotions of the moments quite a lot better than their American voice actors.

I'm not against character exaggerations, but to me it just gets.. way too much, I guess because I like my games to carry a more serious tone (as opposed to a humorous and comical one), I mean I loved Xu Zhu in 3/4 (can't remember which one they changed his voice in) where he was a jolly bastard with a giant mace, but then they changed his voice actor over and he sounds like some sort of small woman trying to pretend to talk like a fat man it just killed the character for me. Otherwise it really just hits him and Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao is just beyond over-prideful at this point, whereas I used to take him as a more serious character and enjoyed him in those regards.

As for the wanting of something new each game, I'm also odd in that regard probably, I would've been fine with them just recycling DW 4/5's graphics and adding more characters/levels for eternity and probably would've kept buying it.

I just wasn't sure if I was the only one who found Xu Zhu/Yuan Shao's older iterations much better, or if people actually enjoyed their new versions better.