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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2076 Joined: 19 May 2008     | |
Paperboy  Posts: 25 Joined: 20 Dec 2008     |
Omg don't even do that in jest. I can hear it ringing inside my head just reading those words. AAAAAAAAAAAAH I started stabbing them after about the 3rd one, Sync be damned |
Anonymous Source Posts: 2 Joined: 6 Jan 2009 | Puzzle Quest for the PC. The intro. It sounds like the developers hired the janitor to do the narrative - in as goofy voice as possible. It's so bloody cheesy. The first time I heard it - I was like - erm... what is this - the Muppet Show? |
Muckraker  Posts: 283 Joined: 25 Mar 2008     | |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 683 Joined: 18 Jun 2008     |
Still preferred over Sanguine! Yeah, Bethesda's voice acting....bleh. Oblivion and Fallout 3, both had rather stoic voice acting. It's what ruins the 'emotional' moments they try to include. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 2 Joined: 6 Jan 2009 | I added the sound file for the Puzzle Quest intro - it's hilarious. Really really cheezy. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 425 Joined: 17 Feb 2008  |
From what I can find (I've seen the clip in multiple places), they are the actual voices for the English dub. And it is the worst voice acting of all time. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 156 Joined: 20 Nov 2008   | I know the searc functin is an epic fail, and that its not really worth pointing out, but this has bindun before. By me |
Beat Writer Posts: 156 Joined: 20 Nov 2008 | I know the searc functin is an epic fail, and that its not really worth pointing out, but this has bindun before. By me |
Beat Writer  Posts: 158 Joined: 1 Oct 2008   | Any JRPG specifically the weird squeaky little boy/girl commanders that every game has |
Paperboy Posts: 28 Joined: 5 Jan 2009  | As i mentioned in the Deus Ex 2 thread: Alex Dentons (male) voice. It sounds so wrong and I just hate it. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 147 Joined: 21 Dec 2008   | Shadow the Hedgehog. For a game series that had mediocre voice acting at best, they actually managed to make every single character sound like they had been smoking heavily since the last game and had their vocal cords run through a woodchipper before being reinserted into their throats |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 682 Joined: 19 Aug 2008   | At the risk of inflaming fanboys, David Hayter as the voice of Solid Snake is downright wooden and painful to listen to. I'm sorry, but Hayter is a screenwriter, not a voice actor. (He wrote the first two X-men movies and most of the screenplay for Watchmen...booyah trivia!) |
BANNED  Posts: 1336 Joined: 21 May 2008 |
Actually, AC had GOOD voice acting. Beggars were really annoying on purpose as a challenge not to get caught. The only problem I saw in AC was that there were two beggar women voices and like 4-5 voices for townsfolk for each town. For a game with THOUSANDS of NPC's, I'd say it's acceptable. EDIT: But I have to say Oblivion was pretty bad. Except Sheogorath, who fit the bill perfectly for the psycho madman. User was banned for: TIME Makes Everybody Lose "The Game". (Permanent) |
BANNED  Posts: 552 Joined: 9 Dec 2008 |
That's probably the most apathetic voice acting I've ever heard. It's like they literally don't care. User was banned for: Archie Andrews Chooses a Bride!. (Permanent) |
Paperboy  Posts: 30 Joined: 24 Dec 2008 | I think MGS1 when you die and you get the Colenel screaming "Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!?" man that did it for me |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1453 Joined: 6 Apr 2008 |
Well...Onimusha 3 had Jean Reno, he did pretty good, though he is a native speaker after all. But the absolute -awful- bit is about a few minutes after his first section in the game...they give Jean Reno's character the most horrendous english dub! I didn't get it! The man can speak perfectly good english! Why dub it? I guess...maybe he only signed on for those few french lines...but it's a shame. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 976 Joined: 11 Nov 2008    |
That's what it was! Sorry, early in the mornings, all the sounds in games I play kind of blend together |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1231 Joined: 16 Dec 2008 | Spiderman Web of Shadows, the game was fun but spidermans voice acting alone made me sick |
Beat Writer Posts: 211 Joined: 7 Aug 2008 |
Owww... that caused me physical pain. That's not real, right? That HAS to be someone just dubbing over the real voice audio, right? |
BANNED  Posts: 410 Joined: 4 Oct 2008  | I always thought the voice acting on zelda games was awful, sorry couldn't resist. In honesty I felt that age of empires later attempts at voice acting were unbearably bad. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3812 Joined: 28 Feb 2008    | As bad as the old Godzilla dubs Contents: Legend of Dragoon spoilers. *Explodes with laughter from Shana's voice acting* |
Press Junketeer Posts: 362 Joined: 6 Nov 2008 | sonic and the secret rings. that game sucked by itself, and then they had the characters talk like the characters in a show aimed at children. actually any sonic game with voice acting. and any show aimed at children. its probably cuz kids just dont notice or care. for another non video game example, pretty much any dub of any shonen anime. but the worst voice acting ive ever seen ever comes from the animated version of the webcomic vg cats. the whole video sucked on various flavours of arse but the voices were just horrible. actors who obviously didnt care and random pauses in the conversation. no wonder they havent made any more in three years. and one thing i have noticed that people complain about is assassins creed, and how altair had an american accent. i think that its possibly justified by the animus. when you think about it, its not like altair as himself, more like desmond as altair. and desmond is american, so yeah. its a little wierd that some characters have regionally correct accents and some have british accents, but that always happens. |
BANNED  Posts: 34 Joined: 6 Jan 2009 | It just seems to me that people are coming up with games for the sake of contributing to this discussion. I find it hard to believe that nobody has mentioned... SHENMU 1 and 2 If you can find worse voice acting, i will give you my girlfriend for the night, peace User was banned for: God is not real.... (Permanent) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 155 Joined: 18 Sep 2008 | Armed and dangerous.... Just plain bad |
Press Junketeer Posts: 425 Joined: 17 Feb 2008 | |
Paperboy  Posts: 50 Joined: 6 Jan 2009 | Final Fantasy 10: its not so much poor voices as sounding artificial with sheeeee-ite timing. I can cleary remember 1 scene in which Yuna is speaking and there is a clear 2 seconds or so before she says "Y'know!" to end the sentence, as if the voice actor had to look back down at the script >,>. **note: I love these games - aside from these flaws |
Paperboy Posts: 50 Joined: 6 Jan 2009 | O
Oh God, Ive completed both of them; but I completely forgot about most of it |
Muckraker  Posts: 240 Joined: 29 Mar 2008 |
And with that youve made my day, bloody hilarious. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1202 Joined: 13 Dec 2008    | (too many people quoted my post about Ass. Creed beggars so i'll just post it here.) All i'm saying is that the beggars are annoying enough with their constant getting in your way and accidentally assassinating them instead of your target. A few more lines would be better seeing how they stalk you like hawks. Other townsfolk's dialog seems to be always fresh because of the free run system you're never there to hear a full conversation. /rant Altair's voice is one huge downfall on the game's brilliant success. Why would a guy living in the ancient Israel area have an American accent? Every other character is done perfectly (except for beggars). /rant To conclude, I will rant on about lepers in the game. I know that they're there to annoy you but sometimes they become too annoying. Here's some examples: Case Study 1: Two lepers decided to bully me by pushing me into each other. By this I mean that leper A pushed me into leper B, then he pushed me back into leper A. This kept on going for 10 minutes as I struggled to free myself. Once I got away a templar attacked me and killed me. Case Study 2: On the Assassination mission where you are at the docks, after numerous tries of getting to the boat without being discovered (and failing), I found the logical path to go on. However, there are lepers everywhere. I try to run past them but each time I do they push me in the water. My only option is to grab them and throw them in the ocean, which alerts the guards, thus ending a stealthy assassination. Case Study 3: When i'm about to pull off a perfect stealth assassination on my target, a leper pushes me into him, causing him to take of 4 bars of synch in a single blow. Thanks leper! And now my rant is ended. |
Beat Writer Posts: 158 Joined: 1 Oct 2008 | ohohoh got a new one! Deus Ex. Great game, bad voices. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 8 Joined: 9 Jan 2009 | 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. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1134 Joined: 27 Aug 2008    |
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". |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 77 Joined: 24 Nov 2008 |
Right when I saw the thread title I immediately thought back to RE1 because in plain fact it's so true. RE2 was barely any better, but by RE3 they almost caught on. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1134 Joined: 27 Aug 2008 |
Um, but why would a whole bunch of people supposedly living in ancient Israel SPEAK ENGLISH?! 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. :P |
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Dear god....what the fuck was that.....