I find it interesting that many Japanese games in the PS1 and PS2 eras, especially action or horror titles, only had an English dub that was produced under the Japanese devs' direct supervision. While saving money was probably a factor, it was also to make games set in America and often emulating American movies feel more authentic.

The big exception here is Metal Gear Solid- Hideo Kojima seems to have never given too much of a shit about the English localisation, as shown by the ease by which he threw David fucking Hayter under the bus the moment he could replace him with TV Actor Man