My biggest complaint about the voice acting in FFX was that God awful scene where Tidus and Yuna force laughs. If you wanted to really develop a love between those two characters, there would have been any number of better ideas at that same point in time in the story. That and the fact that I was largely underwhelmed by the voice acting in the game. Tidus was so either hyper or whiny and Yuna always sounded so meh, like she was scripted and going through the motions. Granted, it's a videogame and her lines ARE scripted, but they didn't have to feel or sound like it.

Looking at even GTA3, which came out around the same time, I thought they did a decent job of dancing around the vocals for an unnamed character. I understand that the games are completely different in terms of story, and the amount of time you spend with your party vs going out and doing missions for random people, but there was always a way that GTA3's unnamed character was introduced without it seeming awkward.

Stick of Truth and even Skyrim dance around this relatively well too. Obviously Skyrim has the Dragonborn title, and in Stick of Truth, you have the option of naming your character whatever, but they're always referred to as "new kid" by random kids, "Douchebag" by more quest related characters, or various "oh you're new" or "oh you're so and so's friend"