Your Fave Voice Actor

[Nopraptor]

BG 2 (and 1?) Irenicus is sheer awesome, also Iro from the avatar series, a shame he died

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

Jennifer Hale wins this thread. Her Shepard made that game.

 

[MasterWhatever]

Stephen Fry, Malcolm McDowell, Dave Hayter and the guy who voiced the Doom Marine.

 

[plugav]

Nice to see some recognition for Simon Templeman, though. I expected Tony Jay, but LoK's less well-known.

I'm actually playing the series backwards. I started with Defiance a couple of years ago, added to a gaming magazine, and I'm only at the first Soul Reaver now. An interesting way to experience the story, by the way.

 

[retrofish18]

Tom Green in everything he does. Whether he's playing knuckles, Yami or Entai, he is magnificent. His voice is like the softest cashmere for your ears.

 

[Wayneguard]

Steve Blum for sure.

 

[viking97]

INB4 Stephen Fry. John Cleese is awesome too. (From LBP and Fable 3 which I didn't play but find them awesome all together.

fucking ninja.

besides that ^^^ vin diesel, and of course morgan freeman WHICH SHOULD BE EVERYONE'S ANSWER.

 

[inutaisho7996]

My favorite is Jim Cummings. He has voiced so many characters from my childhood he practically raised me. My favorite female VA is Jennifer Hale; followed closely by Grey Delisle.

 

[Krantos]

Jennifer Hale.

I am still in love with my Mixed Alignment Fem-Shepard and her ability to be nice to an informant one moment and kneeing him in the groin the next... No i do not have a fetish i just love how her behavior is allowed to change to suit the situation AND SHE IS AWESOME!

No matter how you play Shepard she makes it work her voice is just that good. I cannot say the same for the dude that does VA for regular Shepard.

QFT. I have no more to add; this guy has it 100% right.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

John Di Maggio. Because when he voices Marcus Fenix, all I can hear is Dr. Drakken and Hak Foo.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

The late Tony Jay would have to be up there. Simon Templeman also.

Beat me to it!

Generous shout out to Michael Bell also, who voiced Raziel.

Hell, we could probably list the majority of VAs from all the Legacy of Kain games. It has some of the best dialogue and acting of any series.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Jennifer Hale.

I am still in love with my Mixed Alignment Fem-Shepard and her ability to be nice to an informant one moment and kneeing him in the groin the next... No i do not have a fetish i just love how her behavior is allowed to change to suit the situation AND SHE IS AWESOME!

No matter how you play Shepard she makes it work her voice is just that good. I cannot say the same for the dude that does VA for regular Shepard.

QFT. I have no more to add; this guy has it 100% right.

Poor Mark Meer. He never gets any love. Maybe I only liked him so much because he had this dry deadpan delivery for everything, which is exactly how I play my Shephard!

 

[OutforEC]

Eleanor Audley, Mark Hamill, and Kevin Conroy.

 

[Krantos]

Poor Mark Meer. He never gets any love. Maybe I only liked him so much because he had this dry deadpan delivery for everything, which is exactly how I play my Shephard!

See, I think that's the problem, and the real reason so many people prefer Hale. I actually wrote a fairly lengthy diatribe about this a while ago, but don't feel like digging it up right now. Basically, Meer took Shepard's lines and attached a single personality/delivery to all of them. So, if you happen to want your male Shepard to sound that way, you're in luck, and Meer sounds great. If not... well, he did do slightly better in ME2.

Hale gave each line it's own independent delivery, so they can be combined and feel natural. Then again she's got easily 10-20 times as many roles under her belt as Meer, so go figure.

 

[Kiefer13]

Jennifer Hale (FemShep from Mass Effect, Bastila Shan from Knights of the Old Republic, Dr. Naomi Hunter from Metal Gear Solid and Samus Aran from Metroid, amongst many others)

Other honorable mentions go to:

- David Hayter (Solid Motherfucking Snake (and Naked Snake/Big Boss in MGS3))

- Keith David (Captain Anderson from Mass Effect, the Arbiter from Halo and Sergeant Foley from Modern Warfare 2)

- Brandon Keener (Garrus Vakarian from Mass Effect, as well as the American Sniper from Company of Heroes and Sergeant Frank Craft in the Tales of Valor expansion.

- Jen Taylor (Cortana in Halo and Zoey in Left 4 Dead)

- Lance Henriksen (Admiral Hackett in Mass Effect and General Shepherd in Modern Warfare 2)
[small]He really does have a perfect voice for a gruff military commander type character.[/small]

Also ( partly because I automatically think of their Firefly characters whenever I hear them in a game):

- Nathan Fillion (Gunnery Sergeant Reynolds in Halo 3, and Gunnery Sergeant Buck in Halo ODST)

- Adam Baldwin (Random Marines in Halo 3, Dutch in Halo ODST and Kal'Reegar in Mass Effect 2)

 

[T0MCAT]

Liam O'Brien for his work with Gaara from Naruto,
Doug Erholtz cos he voices some of my favourate characters (Hazama, Squall, Ichimaru Gin),
Jonny Yong Bosch and
Daniel Southworth for making Vergil in Devil May Cry 3 all that more badass

 

[TheFinalFantasyWolf]

so many good ones....
David Hayter: Solid Snake - MGS
Steve Blum: Vincent Valentine - FFVII
Quinten Flynn: Reno, Raiden, Axel - FFVII, MGS, KH2
Johnny Yong Bosch: Nero - Devil May Cry 4
Steve Burton: Cloud Strife - FFVII
(the last one was mentioned just cause Cloud's my fav! LOL

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Its been said, but hands down, Ron Pearlman.

"War, war never changes"

 

[Lewieroo0]

All the voice actors who did the TF2 Characters are pure gold in the comedy side of FPS ^_^