Worst Voice Acting.....Ever!

[GuerrillaClock]

Two Worlds from what I understand has terrible voice acting.

Was waiting for someone to do this. Two Worlds was billed as being an Oblivion killer by... well, just the developers and nobody else. Due to budget constraints, and perhaps a misconception of their own talents, they decided to voice the game themselves... bad move. Every single character interaction in the game as a result is downright hilarious.

I think I remember borrowing that from a friend... was that the game with the bizarre soundless cutscenes or have I got it confused with something else? I remember the voice acting and scripting being woeful though, with characters saying "'tis" at least once a sentence.

 

[ceeqanguel]

Any game featuring a french speaker: They never have actually asked for a REAL french-speaking with a REAL french-sounding accent. All we get are stereotypes of nationalities.

Anime is notorious for that too: the best example is the cartoon Zero no tsukaima: the world is supposed to speak french, you can see everything "written" has more grammar faults than a 5 year old, and the main character: Louise, pronounces her own name "loui-SEUH!!!".

You'd think anyone making games or cartoons must have a bit of budget to hire any linguist to double-check these things.

 

[Mariena]

Wow. Chaos Wars. That's bad.

Myself am not really fond of Oblivion. Not only do I think the voices are pretty lame (female elves, female posh humans and the redneck voiced red guards sound TERRIBLE!), but the lack of voice actors combined makes it atrocious. The male voices were decent, I guess.

Stereotypical Germanified-English or Russianified-English voices.. I hate them both. Just hire actors that actually SPEAK the language.

Also "I said come in! Don't stand there!" and "Get out of here, Stalker!" are pretty good examples of bad voice acting.

 

[Resistance205]

Far Cry 2. They never pause between words, and they sound like they just want to get every single conversation over and done with so they can go back to killing me.

 

[Yokai]

Soldier Elite, with some American playing the enemy guards, trying and failing to pull a Russian accent whilst reading off his clearly scripted lines.
And in Half-Life 2, every civilian or rebel soldier you see is played by one of two people--one male voice actor and one female. The voice acting itself was exceptionally good, but the fact that a 25 year old European sounded exactly the same as 50 year old black guy kind of gets to me.

 

[DuncanRR]

As far as video games are concerned, X-Men Legends wasn't exactly easy on the ears. Neither was the first Devil May Cry's English dub. As for cartoons, the first Vampire Hunter D movie had terrible voice acting on both sides of the globe.

 

[Say Anything]

It's pretty apparent from this thread that about 25% of the people here don't know what bad voice acting is.

Resident Evil and Star Ocean 2 are tied for me, Resident Evil's being horrible and SO2's being annoying (though, not for me anymore, I've heard them all so much that I look forward to hearing them, haha).

EDIT: Though, I've never played Two Worlds...hmm...

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Dawn of War: Winter Assault. The voice acting in the single-player actually drove me to quit playing. Plenty of skermish and multiplayer, so I don't regret the purchase, but the single-player campaign lies incomplete and will stay so forever. (Not that the level design didn't hurt it there too.)

-- Steve

 

[curlycrouton]

House of the Dead 2 has some impressive awfulness, but then the script is almost as bad as the disinterested voice acting.

Suffer like G did!

But that's what made me love that series in the first place. Dammit, I love that weird high-pitched voice of the weird bat-thing.

 

[SystemWarrior]

Oblivion was awful. The voice acting department blew all their budget on Captain Picard and then the story department killed him off ten minutes into the game. And there was Boromir too, as I recall.

Special kudos also goes to Prince of Persia: Warrior Within for making the prince change from arrogant English aristocrat to a scummy American with throat cancer. And then there was Farah in The Two Thrones, who was equally bad.

 

[Greyhawk]

Blaster Master: Blasting Again for the PSone. I never knew the human ear could turn itself inside out until I heard this game.

 

[rossatdi]

House of the Dead 2 has some impressive awfulness, but then the script is almost as bad as the disinterested voice acting.

Suffer like G did!

But that's what made me love that series in the first place. Dammit, I love that weird high-pitched voice of the weird bat-thing.

I'd never argue otherwise!

"Dogs of the AMS!"

 

[Vlane]

The voice acting in the american version of Zero Wing is....interesting.

 

[dalek sec]

House of the Dead 2, god the voice acting in that game almost makes my ears bleed.

 

[Yegargeburble]

RE 1 is definately the worst for me. Anything involving laughter in FFX is painful to watch too. I have to mention max payne. The main character is fine but I absolutely cannot stand the whiney sound enemies make when they die. A really nasal "AAUUUUUUGGGGHHH "

On the subject of Max Payne, I think I heard a few enemies shout "My spleen!" before dying. This may be because I had been playing it at around 3 am and was on the verge of falling asleep while playing.

 

[Pressure]

All you need to know is this. There was a game for the PS2 called Naval OPS Commander. Ship to Ship combats games being so hard to find I went with it despite the warnings. This game contains the absolute worst voice acting ever heard. No, stop, don't think you have heard worst because if you have not played this game you have not. The female character has the stupidity to say and I quote "Lol". So bad was it that I want and to this day still wish to find the cast and strangle them.

Game was ok otherwise though it got old after a while.

 

[Rush_Thores]

I love Dead Rising, but Frank sounded like a goof.

But he's covered wars, you know?

 

[curlycrouton]

House of the Dead 2 has some impressive awfulness, but then the script is almost as bad as the disinterested voice acting.

Suffer like G did!

But that's what made me love that series in the first place. Dammit, I love that weird high-pitched voice of the weird bat-thing.

I'd never argue otherwise!

"Dogs of the AMS!"

My favourite part was the "evil" laugh that Goldman says when you're all trapped in that colloseum. Cracks me up.