Worst Voice Acting.....Ever!
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The voice acting in Final Fantasy X was pretty terrible, but so was the story and everything else about that game.
Homeworld 2 comes close, with everyone sounding utterly wooden and emotionless.
Homeworld 2 comes close, with everyone sounding utterly wooden and emotionless.
From what I saw, the writing in that game was infinitely worse than the voice acting. Hello, people writing uncreative medieval-esque fantasy games! "MAYHAP" is no longer common usage in the English language and should not be used! AND FOR GOODNESS SAKE DON'T USE IT EVERY SINGLE TIME THE CHARACTERS WOULD OTHERWISE SAY "MAYBE" OR "PERHAPS" OR "COULD BE" OR "HAPPEN".Ionami said:
Um, but why would a whole bunch of people supposedly living in ancient Israel SPEAK ENGLISH?!Dkozza said:
The use of supposedly appropriate accents as a substitute for speaking the actual language drives me insane, like the old movies that would randomly insert German words into a movie in order to show that everyone is actually speaking German. We were *already* pretending that they were speaking German. All this does is make Germans look like stupid people who cling to dopey bits of culture. It insults everyone involved.
Evergrace wins in about every "Worst _______ in a game" award category. This is no exception.
Although the English voice acting for Blue Dragon pissed me off, had to switch it to French. Why not Japanese? I don't fucking understand Japanese outside of "I am a book" and "What is your phone number".
Although the English voice acting for Blue Dragon pissed me off, had to switch it to French. Why not Japanese? I don't fucking understand Japanese outside of "I am a book" and "What is your phone number".
Most of the ones that I thought of have already been listed: RE 1, Legend of Dragoon, House of the Dead 2. To be quite honest, though, the first I thought of was actually Turok. Opinion might be a bit biased from ZP, seeing as I watched the review before I actually played the game, but it really is pretty half-assed, at best.
I mean, when Ron Perlman phones it in, a guy who is known for acting or lending his voice to things that aren't particularly amazing (despite his own awesomeness), you know something must be up. It's like his only motivation was: "You hate Turok. Aaaaaand action."
As a side-note, the voice acting for Stranglehold is pretty mediocre too, but that might just be because it's so over-the-top campy.
I mean, when Ron Perlman phones it in, a guy who is known for acting or lending his voice to things that aren't particularly amazing (despite his own awesomeness), you know something must be up. It's like his only motivation was: "You hate Turok. Aaaaaand action."
As a side-note, the voice acting for Stranglehold is pretty mediocre too, but that might just be because it's so over-the-top campy.
Wes Johnson (the voice actor in question) says he was trying to channel Billy Connolly when he did that character, and I personally thought Sheogorath was a blast, one of my all-time favorite video game characters. That's probably because of the sharp and eminently quotable writing ("cheese for everyone" and "clouds...or was it clowns?" leap immediately to mind.) I also thought the Imperial males (also voiced by Johnson) were the least irritating repetitive NPC voices in the game. Whoever was doing the Nord and Orc males did a bang-up job as well.miracleofsound said:
The big problem I had with the voice acting in Oblivion was with whoever was voicing the Elven races, male and female. They were fine when delivering straight dialogue, but Earana in particular caused a sensation in my ears that is roughly what I imagine running a microplane nutmeg grater directly over my eardrums would be like.
Truly, for gods-awful voice acting that makes me want to choke somebody, you can't beat LUNAR: Silver Star Story for the PlayStation. That acting was Horrible with a capital H.
If you listen to the storyline you find out that the ANIMUS translates the language and moderns it up so it's not all "Thee stole thy undergarmenteens". Everyone else manages to have a accent appropriate to the area so why not Altair?JMeganSnow said:
GlaDos from Portal. She sounds so robotic and just, inhuman... Oh wait, nevermind.
Who can forget, "Perchance, Mayhap," etc. from Two Worlds.
And who can forget the voice acting of *shudders* Final Fantasy X.
That laughing scene has scarred me for life.
Also, anyone who mention David Hayter in Metal Gear Solid, I can sum up his lines in 4 words.
"Metal Gear? Otacon! Colonel!"
Who can forget, "Perchance, Mayhap," etc. from Two Worlds.
And who can forget the voice acting of *shudders* Final Fantasy X.
That laughing scene has scarred me for life.
Also, anyone who mention David Hayter in Metal Gear Solid, I can sum up his lines in 4 words.
"Metal Gear? Otacon! Colonel!"
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Oh man, I'm chuckling right now. There were enough wooden and blocky voice actors in this game to fill up a lumber yard.
I found the Orcs and imperials fine too. The beggars voice acting was hilarious not only because it was bad but each beggar had a different voice actor for different lines.SimuLord said:
There are some funny moments in Mass Effect when you're talking to some turians. Someone obviously forgot to process some the alien voices in the pre production and the c-sec Turians start speaking in a wimpy male voice that is an octave higher than thier normal voices for about 3 lines... then it's back to pitchshifted alien coolness!