If I'm watching a Japanese film, I'd rather have the Japanese voices.
If I watching a German film, I'd rather have the German voices.
If I'm watching a French film, I expect to see some TEETIES!
Seriously though, you can see where I'm going with this. Watching something in its native language just makes it feel more natural. A bunch of VAs recording over what's being said just can't capture the same emotion of the situation.
Don't take away the impression that I'm completely against dubs though. If the dub is good I'll happily watch it. If I know that a certain VA that I know to be good is doing the voice, then I'll watch the dub before the sub. It's just that the ones that are bad are really REALLY bad.
Also, this:
Crono1973 said:
I don't understand it! Unless you speak Japanese how would you know if the Japanese audio track is superior and how could it be if you can't understand it, may as well turn it off completely. So why don't people ask for a option to turn the voice acting off completely instead of a "foreign language I don't understand" option? I guess it's cool at the moment, fads often don't make sense though.
Is probably one of the stupidest things I've ever read. In fact I'd lump it up there with the whole "I hate the subtitles cause I don't wanna have to read while watching something" argument.