Greatest Voice Acting in gaming history.
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The guy who did Nathan Drake and Desmond Miles?S.R.S. said:
Nope.
He is a great voice actor and he is very humble about his job (take that, Hollick) so, no.
The whole of the Legacy of Kain series. With Defiance, the stories between the two games (Blood Omen and Soul Reaver) has merged and prolly won't receive a big send-off. Why? Because the guy playing the Elder God died. That's right, the Voice Acting in that game is so top-notch that they can't continue the game even if all they had to do was replace one guy (although, it would really be weird if a game got released and the Elder God sounded different).
My favourite voice so far has been the bad guy Fuge in the game Silver. It's been a while since I played the game so I can't remember his name but I do remember it being awesome.
I tried looking but can't seem to find it :/
A white chocolate chip cookie to anyone who finds who it is!
I tried looking but can't seem to find it :/
A white chocolate chip cookie to anyone who finds who it is!
ddq5 said:
Wait wait wait... Carth Onasi and Kaiden Alenko were actually done by the SAME GUY? If that's true, they aren't even trying anymore, seriously.
Am I the only one who thought Morrigan from Dragon Age Origins was amazingly well voice-acted? She was the highlight of the cast for me, even more than Alistair. I also don't think Leliana was as bad as people make her out to be - as long as you realize the voice-actor wasn't going for a French accent. That one line she has where she tells Morrigan they should go buying shoes together is just so exquisite it made my insides squirm in a good way.
Fem Shep is still much better than Male Shep in ME2, but Jennifer Hale does slip up in a few places and the Male Shep voice-actor has improved a bit.
Fallout 3 had some excellent voice-acting, notably on the part of Three Dog and Liam Neeson as your father. The most memorable lines of any Bethesda game still have to be:
"Wake up. Stand up. There you go. You were dreaming. What's your name?"
Otherwise, in Vampires the Masquerade Bloodlines, the voice actor who does that bum-looking vamp (was his name Jack?) was really great. The rest was meh, but the game was terrific.
I would have if I'd seen this thread before..Axolotl said:
Smilin' Jack, Strauss, VV, Gary(!), Lacroix and most importantly Beckett.....aaarggh Beckett!!!!
anyway, also the cast of the Baldur's Gate series; Minsc, Edwin, Jaheria, Kiwan, Safana, Keldorn and especially Xan...
Of course Michael Ironside as Fisher, Russell as Garrett doesn't even need mentioning...Since they're historically epic!!! (don't even know what that's supposed to mean...)
gordan freeman's voice actor is utter genius!
So is Link's.
But in all seriousness I think Starcraft had the best voice acting ever. Raynor and Zeratul have stuck with me.
So is Link's.
But in all seriousness I think Starcraft had the best voice acting ever. Raynor and Zeratul have stuck with me.
Simon Templeman as Kain in Legacy of Kain... Just pure greatness.
Jennifer Hale is another of my favorite voice actors, but Simon Templeman is the best in my opinion.
Jennifer Hale is another of my favorite voice actors, but Simon Templeman is the best in my opinion.
Hmm...
I'm going to go with Martin Sheen as the Illusive Man in ME2. No matter how much he pisses me off, he manages to calm me down with his level-headed cloud of logic.
Aside from him...
There's Ron Pearlman as the Narrator in the Fallout series. His voice sets the mood perfectly.
And then there's Simon Templeman, best known for his work on the Legacy of Kain series as, well, Kain. More recently, he's done Dragon Age: Origins, and a bit of Mass Effect 2. Personally, I think every game he's in usually gets better merely because of his involvement (Uncharted and Rise of the Argonauts being the exceptions). He has the PERFECT villain voice.
I'm going to go with Martin Sheen as the Illusive Man in ME2. No matter how much he pisses me off, he manages to calm me down with his level-headed cloud of logic.
Aside from him...
There's Ron Pearlman as the Narrator in the Fallout series. His voice sets the mood perfectly.
And then there's Simon Templeman, best known for his work on the Legacy of Kain series as, well, Kain. More recently, he's done Dragon Age: Origins, and a bit of Mass Effect 2. Personally, I think every game he's in usually gets better merely because of his involvement (Uncharted and Rise of the Argonauts being the exceptions). He has the PERFECT villain voice.
Even if 99% of Steven Blum's roles are "Gravelly-voiced angry person," he fits the part so damn well that I can't get angry at him. Even in the mediocrity of Prototype, when I heard Blum's character go "That's right, private, you're guarding a hole in the fuckin' ground, " I had to do a fist-pump.
I'm amazed that nobody's mentioned Leonard Nimoy in Civilization IV yet.
The voice actor for Dr. Steinman will always be one of my favorites though, because how he managed to convey the transformation from average-Joe doctor to poetic dreamer to power-hungry puppeteer to complete schizoid in only a handful of lines.
I'm amazed that nobody's mentioned Leonard Nimoy in Civilization IV yet.
The voice actor for Dr. Steinman will always be one of my favorites though, because how he managed to convey the transformation from average-Joe doctor to poetic dreamer to power-hungry puppeteer to complete schizoid in only a handful of lines.
Damn trolls -shakes fist-rapidoud said:
That's a shame really; I love that series :'(Syntax Error said:
I'd Say Michael Ironside, because since V: the Miniseries, i loved the character and all...
and then i'd say the guy that made the voice of Joneleth Irenicus!
and then i'd say the guy that made the voice of Joneleth Irenicus!