The voice acting in the original Resident Evil for the Playstation was downright atrocious. It was like having a drill bore into my head while listening to a retarded kitten trying to recite Shakespeare in french.

What's the worst voice acting you've ever heard in a video game?

Oblivion was pretty poor in as much as it was the same 3 actors doing hundreds of voices.

For the same reason as above Fable, it was about four voices repeated again an again

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!

Castle Shikigami 2 and Rygar: The Legendary Adventure.

I'm going to nominate the entire Resident Evil series, the PS1 & PS2 Time Crisis games, the House of the Dead trilogy and the latest Simon the Sorcerer.

Shudders

Is it OK to list Corey Burton who voiced Ziro the Hutt in that turd movie The Clone Wars? No? Then....uh...Tobey Maguire in any of the Spider-Man games.

This may be more an issue of script than anything else, but anyone in Dark Messiah. Especially the protagonist, Sareth, as he just sounds wooden and uninterested throughout the entire game.

Fable 2 with the generic villagers. Either its constantly 'generic scream 1' or 'wow you're a hero' drilling into my brain constantly...

actually i take that back. Assassin's creed.

Just to refresh some memories for you. "NO! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE! JUST A FEW COINS PLEASE! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I HAVE NOTHING! PLEASE!"

I still hate Final Fantasy XII's voice acting. Especially Fran.

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 :("

I too also think house of the dead was horrible. Does Street Fighter The Movie Video Game count?.. cause that was just as a bad if not worse.

i hated voice acting in FFX worst i've seen so far. Although oblivion had four voice actors they werent bad they just needed more people to do it.

dead_beat_slacker:
I too also think house of the dead was horrible. Does Street Fighter The Movie Video Game count?.. cause that was just as a bad if not worse.

To be honest Street Fighter the Movie had pretty weak voice acting, along with it's pretty weak acting in general.

More bad dubbing than bad voice acting...
Ok, it's also bad voice acting. Hilariously bad.

rossatdi:

dead_beat_slacker:
I too also think house of the dead was horrible. Does Street Fighter The Movie Video Game count?.. cause that was just as a bad if not worse.

To be honest Street Fighter the Movie had pretty weak voice acting, along with it's pretty weak acting in general.

Dude totally, I also thought it was funny when Ken would say "Fireball" while Ryu would say "Haduken" And everyone was very stiff. Then again the game was made by Capcom USA. Nothing beats the real thing from Japan.

Sonic the hedgehog, oh dear god!
Also, Infinite undiscovery. i'm glad i got this game at an extremely discounted price because the voice acting alone makes me want to punch my monitor.

The Resident Evil script and voice acting is genius - House of the Dead too - wouldn't be half as good with 'better' performances.

Has anyone played the new spyro game? No? It has some of the worst pieces of dialog i have ever heard and the voice acting is astonishingly bad.
Plus the rest of the game isn't great but those were the wosrt points

What was the name of that game where the publisher hired his kids/relatives to do the American dub? Oh dear someone, that was far, FAR worse than just having subtitles. (I'm happy that I didn't have to play it, but Youtube showed me some choice examples.)

I just remembered that about ALL lightgun arcade games (House of the Dead, Time Crisis, Silent Scope) have atrocious voicing as well, despite otherwise high production values. More or less the aural equivalent of "A winner is you!"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtC1SzWSXg

Chaos Wars.

Hong Kong in the first Deus Ex.

The_Deleted:
Oblivion was pretty poor in as much as it was the same 3 actors doing hundreds of voices.

That doesn't make bad voice acting, that makes a lack of voice actors... that's too different complaints.

Two Worlds from what I understand has terrible voice acting.

PhantomDave:
Is it OK to list Corey Burton who voiced Ziro the Hutt in that turd movie The Clone Wars? No? Then....uh...Tobey Maguire in any of the Spider-Man games.

Tobey Maguire in anythin to do with Spider-Man, ever. Worst casting ever!!!

Ionami:

The_Deleted:
Oblivion was pretty poor in as much as it was the same 3 actors doing hundreds of voices.

That doesn't make bad voice acting, that makes a lack of voice actors... that's too different complaints.

It does if the actings still shite.

Starnerf:
Hong Kong in the first Deus Ex.

As much as I love the game, it's true. The accents in that part of the game, ar every, very obviously faked, and very poorly at that. The rest of the game's voice-acting is awesome, though.

The_Deleted:
Oblivion was pretty poor in as much as it was the same 3 actors doing hundreds of voices.

The voice-acting isn't that bad (well, some of it is), but it's mostly because they had one actor per gender of each race (actually, I think all the different elves had the same two actors), and pretty much no unique NPC voices except for the two Septim characters. It was probably a combination of a limited budget and limited time. Before Oblivion came out, Bethesda were not very well known and were not a big development studio (they're still tiny by today's standards), and when you're paying your actors per session or per hour, sometimes you have to take a bad performance or two, because you just can't afford to re-record literally tens of thousands of lines over and over.

Ionami:
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.

HardRockSamurai:
The voice acting in the original Resident Evil for the Playstation was downright atrocious. It was like having a drill bore into my head while listening to a retarded kitten trying to recite Shakespeare in french.

What's the worst voice acting you've ever heard in a video game?

I entered the thread with the intention of voting for Resi 1. Now i've seen that's your vote I feel like I'm not bringing much but an afirmation.

Resi 1 voice acting - Oh my God.
"What is it?
...
...Blood"
"what are those things?"

Emotions. As an actor you should have them.

honourable mention
Psychic Detective for the 3DO. The whole thing was a live action path selection adventure (which I never completed) but it played like a bad David Lynch film where your character always got arrested at a party.

The_Deleted:

Ionami:

The_Deleted:
Oblivion was pretty poor in as much as it was the same 3 actors doing hundreds of voices.

That doesn't make bad voice acting, that makes a lack of voice actors... that's too different complaints.

It does if the actings still shite.

However, the acting in Oblivion is actually pretty well done. Come on man, Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean! And that guy who plays Mankor Camoran. He's famous too. Although I don't remember his name. (Ironically)

And as for the regular NPC actors, they're not winning any Oscars, but they are still decent voice actors. I mean, could YOU do any better? (I'm just waiting for you to say yes, by the way.)

xitel:
I still hate Final Fantasy XII's voice acting. Especially Fran.

I'll second that motion, silly soft spoken posh bint.

Dkozza:
Just to refresh some memories for you. "NO! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE! JUST A FEW COINS PLEASE! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I HAVE NOTHING! PLEASE!"

>_<

Thanks for reminding me....

/sarcasm

Grandia II's was absolute shite. Most of the game just had subtitles with no voices, then they'd randomly stick some in in some cut-scenes.

Also, "Its me! Mario!" from the N64 made me want to smash his big nose in.

Another one - Any Mario Party game "START!" said in a really high pitched voice. Rage

Chaos Wars

sheogorath.

it's a testament to how bad the comic acting is when the lines are funnier when you have the volume down and read the subtitles.

I mean come on, the guy who did the voice for that character should never be allowed near a recording booth again. completely ruined the shivering isles for me with his piss poor attempt at some kind of scottish/irish 'humourous' accent