Video Game Voice Acting fails

[BrawlMan]

<spoiler=Devil May Cry 1>

That's DMC 2, not 1.

Check again. This scene never happens in Devil May Cry 2. I played DMC1 enough times to know what happens.

Sorry, my bad.

No problem.

 

[Spider RedNight]

Oblivion, besides being known for it's bad random conversations, literally had a VA fucking up a sentence and trying again left in the game.

Then again, if I have one more person say "wah wah the redub of Silent Hill 2 is so shitty, the original voice actors were GOOD" then I'll reach through my computer and gouge their eyes out with my pinkies. You can prefer the original voices all you want but I draw the line at "they're much BETTER and the new ones SUCK". Like... how dare you say Troy Baker and Liam O'Brien suck. Ignorant douche canoes.

That's just my opinion though. Unless yours differs, then you're wrong

Baker and O'Brien were both exceptionally awful in that dub, what are you on about. McGlynn as Maria was the only one who didn't sound like shit, the rest were worse than the old ones. While the original was off and stilted, the new one sounds like a cheapo, poorly directed anime dub with bad audio mixing.

Also, both of them had quite a few roles where they sucked horribly. Pray you never have to hear them attempt russian accents, ever.

Spoiler

Baker is horribly overrated anyway. He has 2 voices where he doesn't sound forced as fuck, his normal one, and his Joel one, which is just his normal voice with a decent southern accent. In all the rest he just sounds like his normal voice with a forced accent/distortion. Like his Joker voice in Arkham Origins where he can maintain his Mark Hamill impression exactly 12% of the time, because every time he needs to speak fast, shout or laugh, ie. most of the time, he botches into his normal voice with a throaty "heeeueh" sound.

I swear, the VA for Leon from RE6, the guy who is literally known as budget Troy Baker, has a better vocal range than him. Hell, pretty much everyone does. (Do note, is wrote vocal, not emotional range.)

O'Briens cool though, though I'd prefer it if he didn't have to do his normal voice most of the time.

Do I qualify for the douche canoe?

Nah, 'cuz you want the title so that wouldn't make you ignorant enough. *I* like Troy Baker so fuck what you think, honestly. And you don't like Troy Baker so fuck what I think; that's how opinions go and the like. I'd rather hear Troy Baker do a terrible anything than Guy Cihi sounding normally horrible any day of the ever and he sounds good as Joel which is supposed to happen since the dude's from here - that is, Texas.

Then again, I have trouble taking anyone seriously when they say "oh man these amateurs in this game sound WAY better than the professionals they got to replace them" - with the exception of Heather in the new one, there isn't a single voice I prefer from the old game. Like... have you HEARD Earnest Baldwin's original voice? It's fuckin' atrocious. To me. Then again again, I've been known to buy bad video games for voice actors I love - see. Watchmen: The End is Nigh and that really terrible Thor video game. And people don't take me seriously after that.

Let's agree to disagree xD

 

[RedDeadFred]

I've seen so many compilation videos and most of the crimes contained within harken back to the early days of cd based gaming.
One that will always stand out for me is this scene though.
Don't misunderstand me, I LOVE the shining force games, but this here is the perfect example of someone thinking "shit! we need a voice actor for the wizard... Ted the janitor! you've got a voice!".

Nononononono! I loved Shining Force 1 and 2, but never got to play 3. Oh how that voice kills the excitement of battle. When I think of sound design in Shining Force, I think of the Darksol and Circus Tent battle themes. Pure awesome! Now it will be tainted with this! How could you do this to me?

Ehem... calming down now, I'd like to throw Two Worlds into the mix:

Spoiler: Voice Actors tripping over odd language

That's honestly kind of tame compared to the rest of the game. It was impossible to take anything seriously with characters speaking like that. Lots of it was much worse. However, despite all of its failings (and there were a ton of them), I still liked the game.

 

[NiPah]

It's so bad it's good, but I always remember Chaos Wars as having the worst voice acting I've ever heard (and I play a lot of JRPGs)
The CEO of the publishing company had his own family voice parts for the game, someone from NIS America said they kept a copy around to show new hires.

I still have my copy, standard SRPG with different game and anime characters mixed in, the game itself isn't good but the voice acting... my god.

And some more, for good measure.

Spoiler

 

[Saetha]

It's so bad it's good, but I always remember Chaos Wars as having the worst voice acting I've ever heard (and I play a lot of JRPGs)
The CEO of the publishing company had his own family voice parts for the game, someone from NIS America said they kept a copy around to show new hires.

I still have my copy, standard SRPG with different game and anime characters mixed in, the game itself isn't good but the voice acting... my god.

And some more, for good measure.

Spoiler

I don't know what you mean, that's some of the best sleep aid voice acting I've ever seen.

Music spoils it though.

 

[pookie101]

you ALL loose this thread, for there is only one answer possible.. two worlds.. forsooth dear reader the voice acting twas truly shitty

 

[soren7550]

As per usual, I kick in Sam Worthinton as Alex Mason in Call of Duty Black Ops. ************ cannot hold an American accent to save his life. For maybe half of his lines he would range from partial Australian to full Aussie. You'd think that with a multi million dollar budget would enable them to do a few more line reads, or hire any one else for the role.

GamesRadar had an excellent video that displayed this, but it appears to have been lost to a site update. But in any case, here's the article they had where that hot mess was brought up: http://www.gamesradar.com/the-top-7-awful-fake-accents/

 

[Dalisclock]

As per usual, I kick in Sam Worthinton as Alex Mason in Call of Duty Black Ops. ************ cannot hold an American accent to save his life. For maybe half of his lines he would range from partial Australian to full Aussie. You'd think that with a multi million dollar budget would enable them to do a few more line reads, or hire any one else for the role.

Or include a line early on saying Mason grew up in Australia and let him speak his lines with his normal accent. Anything would have been better then that him slipping in and out of accent all of the time.

 

[Lindale FF]

Star Trek Online

When recording vocals for Mirror Leeta, they obviously did not use a compressor, so her voice is clipping.

Audio clipping is not really something you would notice otherwise, except for someone who has a background in music. Once you know something exists, and what it is, you will start hearing it everywhere.

 

[Bilious Green_v1legacy]

I know I'm always raving about Tenchu, but it has some pretty hilarious VA going on.

Start at 0:56 for the good stuff.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

It's...something. Definitely something.

Were voice actors delivering those lines, or was it a text-to-speech program? At least in the first video, it sounded all text-to-speech.

Not that that justifies how bad it all was. I'm just curious.

I don't actually know. I think it's a person. I don't know for a fact it was a person. I can't find credits for the game anywhere, so I can't even name check the VA, if listed.

It's really funny, though. My main reason for thinking it's not text to speech is because I don't think there is a letter combination that would produce the unique "loioif" sound that Goldman uses when he says "life-cycle". Or "emeryoyr". Those are approximations, of course, as I said, I don't think they even have textual representations.

it sounds almost as if he got something up his nose as he was trying to read those lines and it made him stutter a bit.