I am the kind of gamer who enjoys silent protagonists. I grew up on games like Zelda. Ocarina of Time at eight years old and branching out from there to be a serious gamer. But enough about my history.
I love games with no voice acting, and I love games with voice acting. It's not even about if the voice acting is done well because thats subjective, most of the games I play with voices, if I can't turn them off or pay attention to subtitles then I get a little annoyed, but if the games good I let it slide.
Dark Cloud, a ps2 classic game, it has no major voice acting, mostly voice clips like Zelda does during combat, in cutscenes or talking to npcs no voice clips at all, and its a fun game.
Now its sequel, Dark Cloud 2, everyone is voiced, even sometimes talking to insignificant npcs, they'll have a voice too. I still like the game and just recently replayed it, hence me making this topic.
My problem with it is who you choose to voice act. The main character Max is voiced by Scott Menville, whom if you don't know also voiced Robin on Teen Titans. Every time I play the game.. thats all I see, Robin, not Max, not the character himself. It's just, obnoxious and I can't take the story as serious as I should with a voice like that, since hes narrating the whole thing at times. He doesn't change the voice up either, its exactly Robin's voice. Not that hes bad, its just distracting. ((I'd also post video proof of this, but this game is very old, over 12 years old, and theres no quality footage I can find.))
Also the main bad guy, but is really the true bad guy's puppet is named Sirus, hes voiced by Kath Soucie, whose a long time cartoon voice actor from my childhood. But her voice is exactly like that of Phil from rugrats and it drives me crazy. She voices other characters and I wouldn't even know they were her if I didn't do this research. But god, I just can't not see Phil from rugrats whenever he talks, it just ruins all the tension and everything hes done in the game prior.
I could go on and on, but I think I made a good point, who you choose as your actor and how commonly used they are in other mediums can have an effect. Do you feel the same way and have your personal experiences you want to share, or did I just seem whiny?
I love games with no voice acting, and I love games with voice acting. It's not even about if the voice acting is done well because thats subjective, most of the games I play with voices, if I can't turn them off or pay attention to subtitles then I get a little annoyed, but if the games good I let it slide.
Dark Cloud, a ps2 classic game, it has no major voice acting, mostly voice clips like Zelda does during combat, in cutscenes or talking to npcs no voice clips at all, and its a fun game.
Now its sequel, Dark Cloud 2, everyone is voiced, even sometimes talking to insignificant npcs, they'll have a voice too. I still like the game and just recently replayed it, hence me making this topic.
My problem with it is who you choose to voice act. The main character Max is voiced by Scott Menville, whom if you don't know also voiced Robin on Teen Titans. Every time I play the game.. thats all I see, Robin, not Max, not the character himself. It's just, obnoxious and I can't take the story as serious as I should with a voice like that, since hes narrating the whole thing at times. He doesn't change the voice up either, its exactly Robin's voice. Not that hes bad, its just distracting. ((I'd also post video proof of this, but this game is very old, over 12 years old, and theres no quality footage I can find.))
Also the main bad guy, but is really the true bad guy's puppet is named Sirus, hes voiced by Kath Soucie, whose a long time cartoon voice actor from my childhood. But her voice is exactly like that of Phil from rugrats and it drives me crazy. She voices other characters and I wouldn't even know they were her if I didn't do this research. But god, I just can't not see Phil from rugrats whenever he talks, it just ruins all the tension and everything hes done in the game prior.
I could go on and on, but I think I made a good point, who you choose as your actor and how commonly used they are in other mediums can have an effect. Do you feel the same way and have your personal experiences you want to share, or did I just seem whiny?
