Favorite voice acting in a game.
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Can't pick a single voice actor, so I'll just go with this:
Pretty much the entire cast of Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines with only two exceptions was absolutely brilliant and probably the best I've ever heard in a game! The dialogue was perfectly written and the Source engine powered facial animations were fantastic for their time and still hold up better than many new games today, but it was the voice acting which absolutely sold the characters to me. John DiMaggio was in it for example (As Smilling Jack no less, perhaps the most badass vampire since Dracula himself!) as well a whole assortment of other talents.
A few examples:
Pretty much the entire cast of Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines with only two exceptions was absolutely brilliant and probably the best I've ever heard in a game! The dialogue was perfectly written and the Source engine powered facial animations were fantastic for their time and still hold up better than many new games today, but it was the voice acting which absolutely sold the characters to me. John DiMaggio was in it for example (As Smilling Jack no less, perhaps the most badass vampire since Dracula himself!) as well a whole assortment of other talents.
A few examples:
Crap quality video and the sync is off, but I just love this next line:
The guy who reads the Codex in the Mass Effect games. He's now my default mental voice for reading anything informative.
Michael Ironside, the voice of Sam Fisher, is pretty awesome.
Brian Cox, voicing Scolar Visari, made an incredible job as well. Actually, that's probably the most impressive one I can think of.
Brian Cox, voicing Scolar Visari, made an incredible job as well. Actually, that's probably the most impressive one I can think of.
The usual suspects of standouts for me are:
Fred Tatasciore - Baird (Gears 1,2 & 3) / Saren (Mass Effect)
John DiMaggio - Marcus Fenix (Gears 1,2 & 3) - not to mention all his other roles
Michael Ironside - Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell)
Jennifer Hale - Bastilla Shan (KotOR) / FemmeShep (Mass Effect) - anything else she does
Stephen Russell - Garrett (Thief 1,2 & 3)
I'm really liking whoever voices John Marston at the moment. His voice is perfect for the character.
Fred Tatasciore - Baird (Gears 1,2 & 3) / Saren (Mass Effect)
John DiMaggio - Marcus Fenix (Gears 1,2 & 3) - not to mention all his other roles
Michael Ironside - Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell)
Jennifer Hale - Bastilla Shan (KotOR) / FemmeShep (Mass Effect) - anything else she does
Stephen Russell - Garrett (Thief 1,2 & 3)
I'm really liking whoever voices John Marston at the moment. His voice is perfect for the character.
Yay, Irenicus is totally awsome.Amnestic said:
Just for the record, Hale also voiced Fall-From-Grace & Dionarra in Torment; and unlike say, Mr Flynn, who had a similar voice for Orphen/MGS2 Raiden/ME2 Bartender and MGS4 Raiden/Kolyat, I didn't even realise until someone pointed it out to me.
On the other hand...Emma and Cleo were both kind of similar. Combined with the Orphen/Raiden transparancy...that gave a pretty odd feel to the game.
Aahn, yes. And let's not forget Patric Zimmerman as Revolver Ocelot, Cam Clarke as Liquid Snake, Fred Tatasciore as Psycho Mantis/The Beasts, and Rob Paulsen as Gray Fox.Queen Michael said:
The Metal Gear Solid series just has the best VAs, hands down. Although Persona comes in a close second, and Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors in third (Steve Blum as Keiji Maeda. rowr <3)
I had no idea that happened. I might just have to go out and get the game now.Casual Shinji said:
I'm going to chime in with the Liam Neilson votes. I can't get the picture of the sexy, sexy nazi out of my head.
