The Best and Worst of Video Game Voice Acting
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best - most bioware games as of late , i honestly don't get why jrpg (american voices) are hated so damn much. i honestly dont mind some of them at all. so ill add in *random jrpg here*
worst - fallout 3, oblivion
worst - fallout 3, oblivion
bad: Sonic Adventure, Silent Hill 1.
Best: Bioshock, Half-Life, Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2, Starcraft II and inFAMOUS.
Best: Bioshock, Half-Life, Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2, Starcraft II and inFAMOUS.
It's funny for 1 post. It's depressing after.Aura Guardian said:
Best, and by Best, I mean Worst: Chaos Wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtC1SzWSXg
Yes, everyone and their mother has seen this clip but it stands. TOO MUCH 'PERFUME DUH ZIGITARIS', KAREN?!?!?! WHAT'S YOUR TAKE ON THIS, YAOI? I MEAN YURI? I MEAN... URU?
Best: Bayonetta's English voice actress. I thought she did an excellent job. I found it hard to imagine the game was originally in Japanese.
Worst: The Valsharess from Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark. She was terrible - I could have done a better job at the part.
Worst: The Valsharess from Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark. She was terrible - I could have done a better job at the part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd9E4qFKD30&feature=player_embedded
This is both the best and worst. Simply brilliant
But seriously, the best is Portal. Others that are good are Mark Hamill as the Joker in Batman Arkham Asylum, Uncharted and any Bioware game (simply because it's consistantly good with all the amount of dialog).
This is both the best and worst. Simply brilliant
But seriously, the best is Portal. Others that are good are Mark Hamill as the Joker in Batman Arkham Asylum, Uncharted and any Bioware game (simply because it's consistantly good with all the amount of dialog).
EDIT: XD Is that a Devil May Cry reference, I see?Mr. Omega said:
OT: Almost any voice acting from any survival horror game ever, pretty much; although that does tend to cross over into awesome territory. Goodness, I love that Jill Sandwich line. I love it so much.
Half-Life 2, Bioshock, Uncharted 2, Red Dead Redemption, all those games have very good voice acting. (RDR is maybe a cut above the rest, now that I think about it.)
One game that hasn't been mentioned in the "worst" category is Metal Gear Solid 4. Most of the characters are fine, and some are quite good. But some, like EVA, speak in a monotone. For thirty minutes. Sometimes other characters don't sound right, but this is generally because they're navigating a particularly unusual line of dialogue.
Straight-up "worst" voice acting? Probably Just Cause 2 and Need For Speed: Most Wanted but in both cases they're so bad as to be hilarious.
One game that hasn't been mentioned in the "worst" category is Metal Gear Solid 4. Most of the characters are fine, and some are quite good. But some, like EVA, speak in a monotone. For thirty minutes. Sometimes other characters don't sound right, but this is generally because they're navigating a particularly unusual line of dialogue.
Straight-up "worst" voice acting? Probably Just Cause 2 and Need For Speed: Most Wanted but in both cases they're so bad as to be hilarious.
Best: Final Fantasy X, strangely enough considering it was the first of the franchise to try it.
Worst: Mega Man X7, particularly the robot masters. Not only poorly delivered, but extremely repetitive even by action game standards, worst of both worlds.
In retrospect though, I'm sure there are quite a few worse than X7 I haven't tried, since my main system at the advent of VA was the N64, which preferred small clips (see: Zelda, Banjo-Kazooie) to large monologues. Never got to hear 'Jill Sandwich' until later.
Worst: Mega Man X7, particularly the robot masters. Not only poorly delivered, but extremely repetitive even by action game standards, worst of both worlds.
In retrospect though, I'm sure there are quite a few worse than X7 I haven't tried, since my main system at the advent of VA was the N64, which preferred small clips (see: Zelda, Banjo-Kazooie) to large monologues. Never got to hear 'Jill Sandwich' until later.
There is no better dialogue than Banjo and Kazooie.miscelaneous said:
"Mwu Mwu Mwu Mwu Mwu!?"
"Grub Grub Grub Grub!"
Masterpiece.
The best voice acting in games I played are usually when only a few conversations are voiced such as Fallout 2, Arcanum and Planescape: Torment.
The worst voice acting had to be Zero Wing which I never played just seen videos of.
The worst voice acting had to be Zero Wing which I never played just seen videos of.
Best: Almost any Bioware game in existence. Note: Voice acting, facial expressions could use some work.
Worst: Other M, Most of the Resident Evil series, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Gears of War (As much as Cole Train is just plain awesome to listen to for me, he is a red light of cliche all the way)
Worst: Other M, Most of the Resident Evil series, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Gears of War (As much as Cole Train is just plain awesome to listen to for me, he is a red light of cliche all the way)
That still sends tingles down my spine.Arcanist said:
Best
robably Mass Effect. Worst:Ehhh I want to say Red Dead Redemtion just for Jacks voice but I can't. So no answer
Yes or no, does the FFX include the hideous laughing scene?WhiteFangofWar said:
For me, probably one of the worst was Hydeyoshi Toyotomi from Samurai Warriors 2 Empires.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx4ORY7YkNg
Best: Anything from Keith David... Or Jim Cummings.
Best for me would be Red dead redemption, GTA 4: lost and the damned, Mass effect is fairly good. I actually didn't think that Fallout 3 had bad voice crew at all. And I'm kinda interested to see how Star wars the old republic's voice crew does in that game.
Worst: RE was funny to listen to the first time around was annoying the rest of the time. Stubbs the zombie had some bad voices in it as well.
Worst: RE was funny to listen to the first time around was annoying the rest of the time. Stubbs the zombie had some bad voices in it as well.
Best: Portal, Left 4 Dead
Worst: Persona 3 <--- RAAAAAAAAAGE at horrible voice actors god I can't even play with the sound on
Worst: Persona 3 <--- RAAAAAAAAAGE at horrible voice actors god I can't even play with the sound on
Best: Portal. Or Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex.
Worst HAS TO BE...The Saboteur...It's so awful.
Worst HAS TO BE...The Saboteur...It's so awful.