Poll: Best Female Voice Actor?

[lacktheknack]

No Claudia Black? No Ellen McLain? Daw.

Ellen McLain all the way. Yes, I enjoyed Portal's voice acting THAT MUCH.

"You speak as if being adopted is a BAD thing. It is, by the way. And you are adopted. And that's terrible."

 

[lacktheknack]

Claudia Black

She's a live-action actress. She doesn't count, no matter how awesome her voice is.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085227/

Ah heh HEM?

At least a third of that page of filmography is video games.

 

[lacktheknack]

Claudia Black

She's a live-action actress. She doesn't count, no matter how awesome her voice is.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085227/

Ah heh HEM?

At least a third of that page of filmography is video games.

Maybe so, but let's be honest... the only thing that anybody actually knows her from is Fargate and maybe Pitch Black.

FARSCAPE and STARGATE, DAMMIT.

And as for video games, I knew she was in Mass Effect 2, Crysis, and Dragon Age: Origins (she was Morrigan! MORRIGAN!). So do lots of other people. So yes, she does count.

 

[Stryc9]

It's for PC? I didn't know that. I'm all about cool special moves and techno-babble. That's a reason I really loved GITS. It was so out there with some of the technologies that it used within the series, but they felt believable to a degree rather then completely over the top. If I can find a PC copy, I will think about buying it.

Things are pretty different now though, unless you still have 56k. There's a lot of good streaming websites like crunchyroll around to deliver.

Yeah it was on PS2, PC and Mac. According to people on the SomethingAwful thread for that Let's Play the PS2 version suffered from clunky controls and isn't worth it. If you can't or don't like using eBay I recommend hitting local second hand shops for old games like this, that's what I do from time to time and I've found some real gems for around $2. There's also a file you'll have to swap out in order to get it running properly on anything newer than Windows 2000 that'll make it so the beginning and ending cutscenes won't play but you can look them up on youtube. The fix itself isn't that hard to find either as there's still a fairly active Oni community that have made all kinds of graphical upgrades to the game while holding on to hope that Bungie will make Oni 2.

Thanks for crunchyroll suggestion, I'll look into it and see if anything grabs my interest.

 

[FireAza]

Tress McNeille, mostly because she's been in the industry for so long (you don't get this much work unless you're actually good) and she has quite a broad range of voices she can do.

If we weren't limiting ourselves to American voice actresses, I'd have to throw my vote in for Aya Hirano, she's not just a great actress, able to play a broad range of character personalities, but she's also one of the few Japanese voice actresses who can put on more than one voice.

Aya Hirano voice is annoying.

Depends on what character she's playing, some can be irritating (Haruhi) and some not (Lumiere). The fact she can play this different characters, is kinda a testament to her skills as an actress.

 

[Silkyn]

Hale for being the voice of my Shepard, even ponies can't win out I'm afraid.

 

[Shocksplicer]

The correct answer is Tress McNeille.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

I was going to put other and then say Cindy Robinson because frankly I just love one of the characters she voiced (Makoto Nanaya) but I thought about it and instead went with Jennifer Hale. I played through the entire ME trilogy twice, once as MaleShep and once as FemShep, and I can safely say that Hale's FemShep is one of the best performances I've ever heard. Add all her other work, and it's hard to deny her greatness.

Spoiler: By the way, while we're talking about voice acting, bit of trivia: These four characters are all voiced by the same guy.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Tara Strong who does she voice again? *Goes on Wikipedia* Ohhhh...

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Tie between Tara Strong and Grey DeLisle. They both voiced my childhood.

 

[abdul]

Can't decide between Jennifer Hale,Tara and Grey DeLisle,however I think Nika Futterman also deserves a special mention for this character, <3 her voice
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[C F]

Like many others, I'm torn between Tara Strong and Grey DeLisle. Their voices are only rivaled by the acters they've played [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Strong#Filmography] in cartoons and other shows that I loved.

Screw it, I'm just voting Tara Strong. If I had another vote, it'd go to Grey.
Jennifer Hale is just below those two.

 

[lacktheknack]

Most Fargate fans haven't played ME2 or Dragon Age, and although I played Crysis, I never heard her voice.

The only "Morrigan" that I'm familiar with was a chick on Myspace who also called herself the Baroness von Chaos.

So she's not a valid option because "her fans probably haven't heard her voice acting work"? That's stupid.

You DID hear her in Crysis, she was the scientist who sent the distress signal, and then kept reappearing throughout the game.

And you haven't played Dragon Age: Origins. Congratulations, most people did. Your original point is moot.

 

[Darren716]

Tara Strong, too many amazing roles for me to list here

 

[lacktheknack]

the scientist who sent the distress signal, and then kept reappearing throughout the game.

I have no clue who you're talking about. I remember the black dude in the nano-suit, and a bunch of Korean guys, and some flying blue squid bullshit that I saw again in Skyline.

This chick.

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That's Claudia Black. Doesn't sound much like her, but it is her.