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There's definitely a time gap that isn't immediately obvious since they're all PS2 games, and that console lived forever. Before that was Orphen the year prior, which even as a total Stan for that crap game I'm not going to pretend the VA direction was any good (but the actors were!). The next prominent RPG was a year later with Kingdom Hearts, which also had bad VA. After that, for specific VA intensive RPGs...its a 4 YEAR JUMP to Abyss and FFXII, with Persona 3 a year after that even. There's 5 years where FFX had no actual competition on the PS2 regarding voice acting.

You could argue across the consoles that Symphonia came out on GameCube just 2 years after X and had a great dub, but Nintendo themselves also famously dumped oodles of its own money SPECIFICALLY for it. I doubt Sony ponied up their own cash for FFX.