Favourite Games for Voice Acting

[Someone Depressing]

Team Fortress 2.

"Sandvich and me will kick your ass"

It's just the way the actor delivers it that makes it so funny for me.

Or maybe Penumbra/Amnesia. For an indie series, Penumbra's voice-acting ain't all that bad.

 

[Shilkanni]

Portal 2 and Dragon Age: Origins are the only ones which stand out for me. Amnesia: Dark Descent wasn't bad.

In a lot of games I turn off the sound if I think I can get away with it.

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

Portal, Dungeon Keeper (all of the unique creature sounds will remain forever in my mind), all of the Bioware and Black Isle games, Metal Gear Solid games (mostly).

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Dragon Age: Origins. Most well-written and masterfully Executed dialogue.

 

[Synonymous]

No mention of No More Heroes or Robin Atkin Downes yet? People.

I'd also go back to John Truitt's performance as Ghaleon in the Lunar series - sardonic, contemplative, brimming with resentment and anger or softly sad as needed - one of the first truly great videogame voiceover performances and still my favorite.

Also, Deadly Premonition's Jeff Kramer. It can't be easy to portray a character who's as off-kilter as Francis York Morgan - a crime-fiction straight-arrow who sees the world sideways - but he pulled it off swimmingly.

 

[matt87_50]

portal

is definitely interesting.

glados is voiced by a trained opera singer, who also voices the turrets and just about every other computer voice in the game too..

what I found interesting is that she actually tried to sound like the computer herself. and while there was digital post processing over it at the end, which is really obvious in some parts... I'm intrigued to know how much was fx, and how much was just her amazing voice!

at first I assumed the sharp tone changes in her talking were fx, but now I'm not so sure!

 

[spartandude]

Bioware games have been mentioned so im gonna say Oblivion. lol jk

nah Bioshock had amazing VA

 

[AbstractStream]

Persona 4 (I would mention Persona 3 because of Tara Platt, aka Mitsuru) had AAAAMAZING voice acting. And despite the flak for FFXIII, I loved the voice acting there too (mainly Ali Hillis and once again, Troy Baker. Not Vanille...)

 

[Bags159]

VALVe(TF, L4D, Portal) and Blizzard(WC, WoW, SC) games consistently have top-notch voice acting. They're the only companies that come to mind. When I think of bad voice acting I think of Oblivion.

 

[Susurrus]

Planescape Torment, all the voices are perfect

Whenever anyone says games aren't art I scoff at them and point to this.

Damn it, you beat me to my obligatory PS:T plug.

Annah-of-the-shadows was voiced by Sheena Easton, too, of James Bond fame.

 

[NicoDK]

Portal 2, with New vegas comming in as a close second and tf2 third.

 

[CheckD3]

Portal 2 does win best because it characterized 3 main characters fully only through dialog. That's an impressive feat in any form of visual media

I have to give some props to Tales of Symphonia for the GC. It's got some really good voice acting and the characters all have their own personalities. It's got Jennifer Hale as Sheena (fantastic!), and now when I hear Scott Menville I think of Lloyd.

 

[DSK-]

Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Splinter Cell ("They have guns!" "I'm shocked and amazed"), KOTOR and Dawn of War games have surprisingly good voice acting. There's just too many of them to note.

LOL at the captcha: "Munoz sorehag"

 

[Nate Corran]

Kingdom Hearts, hands down. They got an incredible amount of the original actors from the movie worlds you visit and the originals are even better. FREAKING CHRISTOPHER LEE

 

[Nightvalien]

Soul reaver, raziel and the old god's voice are just awesome it has to be one of the best voice acting i ever heard.

 

[thespianicism]

The Mass Effect games have consistently good voice acting. Okay, ignoring manShep.

 

[mikev7.0]

The Portal Series, Final Fantasy XIII, the Mass Effect Series, and Blazblue. <--------the HELL??

 

[Korolev]

Portal 2, Half Life 2 (and its episodes) Uncharted 2, Mass Effect and Metal Gear Solid 2, 3 and 4 all have pretty damn good voice acting.

Dragon age: Origins, Awakenings and DAII had pretty good voice acting for your companions, but bit-characters had awful voice acting and the main character for DAII had a very boring and bland voice.

The absolute worst voice acting I have ever experienced was in "Siren" for the PS2. For some daft, daft, DAFT reason, the english voice actors were all cockney brits (despite the game starring americans and japanese folks) who had all the enthusiasm of a bored person reading a particularly boring recipe from a cook-book.

 

[Nikolaz72]

The old voice of that ball in Portal 2. . . He had an awesome voice, im sorry. It cannot be replaced.

 

[EPolleys]

The Legacy of Kain series, Simon templeman and Tony Jay in one game is just amazing.