Worst/best voice acting in the history of PC gaming?
Wormwood
Necromancer, and I marvelled at how truly bad the voice acting is on
my mage character. Made me think of the first CD-ROM game I ever
played w/ voice acting, KING'S QUEST 5, with its simply awful voice
acting, and my vote for the worst vc in PC gaming history. Remember
that idiotic owl chracter (Hoo! Hoo! No, no, no, don't go there!).
My choice for the best would be FALLOUT, from Ron Perlman's grim,
incredibly effective narration ("Even the carrion eaters refuse to
touch your radiated corpse") to Pam Seagull's chipper Nicole, it was
quite good, I thought (never got to hear David Warner's Morpheus,
since I killed him before he got to speak). Anyone else wanna share?
--worm (who really hasn't played *that* many games, but I'm OLD and
shoulda!)
Ben Sisson
<crysta...@hotmail.com> (if that IS his real name) disgorged:
Ultima 7 part 2: Serpent Isle.
Never let Garriot near a mike again.
(in a high, nasal voice that would make even Erkel shudder)
"Tis my worst fear! I must SEND the Avatar THROUGH the pillars to the
Serpent Isle!"
Ben Sisson
"I would never belong to any organization that would have me as a member." -Groucho Marx
"Three people can keep a secret... as long as two of them are dead." -G. Gordon Liddy
scorchmon
John Rhys-Davies did an excellent job as the narrator for Quest for
Glory 4.
Sinjin
Wing Command 3 and other sequels with Mark Hamill and a cast of millionaire
actors. BIFF was awesome as Maniac and Malcom Macdowel (sp) and the late Jason
Bernard are all awesome actors. Those cutscenes were better than the theatrical
movie.
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Jason McCullough
Do you remember the Doom-engine game Stife, made by Raven? Dear
*lord*, the plot and voice acting was horrible.
*Begin annoying, grating voice*
"The comet struck our planet! Our utopia was destroyed in a single
instant. Those who died were the lucky ones."
It goes on and on like that. I actually have a copy, I need to get
around to writing it all down.
Jason McCullough
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Remove "blort" from the front of my email address to contact me.
Sensei
Journey. That game rocked and the had top notch voice work. :)
Sensei
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"Sensei" <cerr...@usa.net> wrote in message
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> No doubt about it..the title for best voice acting has to go to The
Longest
> Journey. That game rocked and the had top notch voice work. :)
>
No it didn't. The person who did April Ryan's voice over was a disaster. I
didn't get to finish the game becuase I couldn't stand to listen to that
little bitch's voice.
jon
Revok
Great voice acting: -
Metal Gear Solid (probably the best IMO)
Thief 1 & 2 (the actor who plays Garret is superb)
Gabriel Knight 1 (GK2 isn't too bad either for live action)
The Star Trek Adventure games of old
Crap Voice Acting: -
The Kings Quest Games
The Ultima series (definitely Ultima 9).
Surge
1) Undying
Terrible supposed Irish accents, veering between very bad 'oirish' and very
bad Scottish sometimes in the same sentence, with added 'gor blimey' cockney
and British Devon or Cornwall for some reason. Especially the (shudder)
lighthouse keeper. F**king awful
2) That 3D King's Quest one - the main character in it.
More fake olde-Englishe nonsense. He sees a globe and a gnome, he says "Lur!
A glurb and a nurm!"
If you're going to have European people, get the relevant European voice
actors. Europeans can tell the difference between most of the major US
accents, so do us the courtesy of not making us cringe every time one of
those characters speaks.
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David Rambo
myself than play it again. Diablo2 and WOT have some (mainly) good actors.
Cabel Blacke
and hatred without overdoing it. Anachronox has some excellent voice-acting.
All of the characters seem to match up with their personas well and some,
like PAL19, are very funny (sort of a metallic Eric Cartman). After that,
here's a list of games with good voiceovers:
--Planescape: some excellent voice work here, especially the Nameless One's
female compadres
--Outcast: though the main character was a bit over-the-top at times, the
supporting cast was superb
--Die By the Sword: the voice of Elric (especially with the downloadable
cusspack) was reason alone to buy this game
--Lords of the Realm 2: I just loved your vassal's cold reaction to killing
a group of innocents: "Slaughter these villagers?"; also the battle cries
were fantastic: "We'll CRUSH 'em" "We'll enjoy this!!" "We'll be shot to
pieces!!" or my personal fave "Leeettttt's gettt digginnn!!!"
--Gabriel Knight 1 and 2: great voice-work all around, a hallmark of the
series.
Worst voice-over jobs:
--Myst: remember "The BLUUUEE PAGGESSS, BRING ME...BLUE...Pages.........." I
grew to hate that.
--Throne of Bhall: Caspenar, need I say more....
--Redguard: there was one particular woman in the initial town that was one
of the reasons I stopped playing the game. I just couldn't stand to hear her
voice anymore
--CB
FredQ
Alfred Hailey
> Glory 4.
Yes! Having played both the floppy (no voice) and CD (voice) versions, I
must say that his narration added a lot to the game. The other voices
were a bit more mixed - Katrina's voice was also good, and there were
some amusing deviations from the script on the part of some voice
actors...
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Erik Schultz
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> --Throne of Bhall: Caspenar, need I say more....
Oh, I love Cespenar!
"I'm just a slave... workin... slavin away... ooh, nice boots!"
Alfred Hailey
The Guardian's voice was definitely an exception to this - while U9
might have been a bit of a letdown, his speech (can't remember the voice
actor's name offhand) in U7 added immensely to it.
Revok
Alfred Hailey <neutroni...@home.com> wrote in message
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> > The Ultima series (definitely Ultima 9).
>
> The Guardian's voice was definitely an exception to this - while U9
> might have been a bit of a letdown, his speech (can't remember the voice
> actor's name offhand) in U7 added immensely to it.
True - but offset against Garriott.
Alfred Hailey
> > might have been a bit of a letdown, his speech (can't remember the voice
> > actor's name offhand) in U7 added immensely to it.
>
> True - but offset against Garriott.
There was no Garriott in U7-1, which is what I was thinking of. U7-2
used much less of the Guardian, and had several other voices competing
as well.
who...@wherever.com
: No doubt about it..the title for best voice acting has to go to The Longest
: Journey. That game rocked and the had top notch voice work. :)
You must be kidding. The guy who did the voice for "Crow", THE SINGLE MOST
ANNOYING SIDEKICK IN GAMING HISTORY, should be shot.
Jeff Somers
7 year old game and it still creeps me out.
Ykalon Dragon
Wasn't that Linda Hamilton? I found it excellent. Much better than
Regina Lund that made the voice for April in the Swedish version.
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Dave Long
says...
>Do you remember the Doom-engine game Stife, made by Raven? Dear
>*lord*, the plot and voice acting was horrible.
<snip>
Just so Raven doesn't get unfairly marked for this one, the game was actually
created by Velocity and Rogue Entertainment. If you check the Moby Games entry
for it, it's even got some name developers like Tim Willits and others. Strife
was Rogue's first game. The mechanics of it were decent, but the voice acting
was pretty bad.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId=960/
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o.a.p.
Dave Long
SHODAN from both System Shock games as voiced by Terri Brosius is probably the
best voice work I've ever heard in a computer game. Without her, all the
emotions the game elicits probably wouldn't be the same nor would the entire
game be nearly as effective.
--
Dave
Steve Hilberg
>Wing Command 3 and other sequels with Mark Hamill and a cast of
>millionaire actors. BIFF was awesome as Maniac and Malcom Macdowel
>(sp) and the late Jason Bernard are all awesome actors. Those
>cutscenes were better than the theatrical movie.
I agree....it was pretty hard to beat the lineup they had there. I'll
echo what some other people said and recommend both Fallouts; also, the
Freespace games were also well narrated and voiced, the second especially.
The intro narrative for FS2 was very haunting, and the rest of the game
had Robert Loggia, Ronny Cox, and Kurtwood Smith. Even the local voice
talent they got from here in Champaign (where Volition is based) was good.
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>
> Never let Garriot near a mike again.
>
> (in a high, nasal voice that would make even Erkel shudder)
> "Tis my worst fear! I must SEND the Avatar THROUGH the pillars to the
> Serpent Isle!"
Wow, you read my mind. While reading the first message, this came
to my mind as well. Computer people make bad voice actors.
My vote for best: Icewind Dale.
Kevin Skinner
Day of the Tentacle
Sam and Max
Grim Fandango
Full Throttle
The last two Monkey Island games
Hey look...all LucasArts!
Ken Robertson
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>
> --Throne of Bhall: Caspenar, need I say more....
Hey, I enjoyed Cespenar. Of course the 100th repeat got a little old.
Ken
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Wormwood
>Without a shadow of a doubt:
>
>1) Undying
>Terrible supposed Irish accents,
I think the single worst foreign accent in a PC game was the "french"
guy in "Martian Memorandum" (sp?). Was so bad it made me think I was
playing a *very* cheesy game, and I actually abandoned it after a few
scenes.
--worm
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Kevin Kramer
category is...
Last Alert for the Turbo Grafix 16 CD. It was so bad that
someone even setup a web site were you could go listen to
some of the dialog. I should search for it, it is hilarious
to listen to!
Kevin
Sinjin
it. I was always tapping my fingers waiting for the to shut the hell up so I
could actually play the game. I guess when you game has 25hrs of digitized
speech you tend to hire some good talent. :-)
"Sensei" <cerr...@usa.net> wrote:
>No doubt about it..the title for best voice acting has to go to The Longest
>Journey. That game rocked and the had top notch voice work. :)
>
>Sensei
>
>
>"Wormwood" <crysta...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Just thought I'd throw this out. Been playing Rage Of Mages 2:
>> Necromancer, and I marvelled at how truly bad the voice acting is on
>> my mage character. Made me think of the first CD-ROM game I ever
>> played w/ voice acting, KING'S QUEST 5, with its simply awful voice
>> acting, and my vote for the worst vc in PC gaming history. Remember
>> that idiotic owl chracter (Hoo! Hoo! No, no, no, don't go there!).
>> My choice for the best would be FALLOUT, from Ron Perlman's grim,
>> incredibly effective narration ("Even the carrion eaters refuse to
>> touch your radiated corpse") to Pam Seagull's chipper Nicole, it was
>> quite good, I thought (never got to hear David Warner's Morpheus,
>> since I killed him before he got to speak). Anyone else wanna share?
>>
>> --worm (who really hasn't played *that* many games, but I'm OLD and
>> shoulda!)
>>
>
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Sinjin
"David Rambo" <bspi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Resident Evil had the worst acting of all time and I would rather kill
>myself than play it again. Diablo2 and WOT have some (mainly) good actors.
>
John M Clancy
"Wormwood" <crysta...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Just thought I'd throw this out. Been playing Rage Of Mages 2:
> Necromancer, and I marvelled at how truly bad the voice acting is on
> my mage character. Made me think of the first CD-ROM game I ever
> played w/ voice acting, KING'S QUEST 5, with its simply awful voice
> acting, and my vote for the worst vc in PC gaming history. Remember
> that idiotic owl chracter (Hoo! Hoo! No, no, no, don't go there!).
> My choice for the best would be FALLOUT, from Ron Perlman's grim,
> incredibly effective narration ("Even the carrion eaters refuse to
> touch your radiated corpse") to Pam Seagull's chipper Nicole, it was
> quite good, I thought (never got to hear David Warner's Morpheus,
> since I killed him before he got to speak). Anyone else wanna share?
>
> --worm (who really hasn't played *that* many games, but I'm OLD and
> shoulda!)
Worst: Baldur's gate. Lame and too over the top.
Best: Undying had great voice acting.
Lizbeth from Undying. "You look more like a meal than a man"
A chill ran up my spine when she said that.
Sinjin
>Without a shadow of a doubt:
>
>1) Undying
>Terrible supposed Irish accents, veering between very bad 'oirish' and very
>bad Scottish sometimes in the same sentence, with added 'gor blimey' cockney
>and British Devon or Cornwall for some reason. Especially the (shudder)
>lighthouse keeper. F**king awful
>
>2) That 3D King's Quest one - the main character in it.
>More fake olde-Englishe nonsense. He sees a globe and a gnome, he says "Lur!
>A glurb and a nurm!"
>
I used to work at Sierra (about the time they started CD games). In fact I
worked on KQ5 and SQ4 for my first 2 projects. Most of the voices in those
games were Sierra EMPLOYEES recruited from tech support, art dept., etc.
Sinjin
SHAME ON YOU - you forgot Indy Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - not only the
best voice acting but still the best damn adventure game ever made.
I did love Les Nessman in Day of the Tentacle and the banter from SnM rivaled
Dragnet.
James Garvin
> Just thought I'd throw this out. Been playing Rage Of Mages 2:
> Necromancer, and I marvelled at how truly bad the voice acting is on
> my mage character. Made me think of the first CD-ROM game I ever
> played w/ voice acting, KING'S QUEST 5, with its simply awful voice
> acting, and my vote for the worst vc in PC gaming history. Remember
> that idiotic owl chracter (Hoo! Hoo! No, no, no, don't go there!).
> My choice for the best would be FALLOUT, from Ron Perlman's grim,
> incredibly effective narration ("Even the carrion eaters refuse to
> touch your radiated corpse") to Pam Seagull's chipper Nicole, it was
> quite good, I thought (never got to hear David Warner's Morpheus,
> since I killed him before he got to speak). Anyone else wanna share?
>
> --worm (who really hasn't played *that* many games, but I'm OLD and
> shoulda!)
Diablo 2: Charsi sounds like trailer trash
Cain sounds like Jimmy Stewart
Andaral (sp?) just wasn't done well
BG: Xan was just annoying
Chronomaster: a little bit of over acting done by whoever did the main
character (Brett Spinner did a good job, but still the lines he had were
sometimes VERY cheesy)
Normality ugga bad bad bad
Red Alert 2 This is what acting should not be! Voice or otherwise!
James Garvin
> I agree....it was pretty hard to beat the lineup they had there. I'll
> echo what some other people said and recommend both Fallouts; also, the
> Freespace games were also well narrated and voiced, the second especially.
> The intro narrative for FS2 was very haunting, and the rest of the game
> had Robert Loggia, Ronny Cox, and Kurtwood Smith. Even the local voice
> talent they got from here in Champaign (where Volition is based) was good.
And Bruce Campbell in Tachyon was a kick
AcezE
Dave Long <nos...@newsranger.com> wrote:
>SHODAN from both System Shock games as voiced by Terri Brosius is probably the
>best voice work I've ever heard in a computer game. Without her, all the
>emotions the game elicits probably wouldn't be the same nor would the entire
>game be nearly as effective.
>
I think that while Shodan was wonderful in both System Shock games, the
first game had a stellar cast doing the voice recordings - much better job
than the second one. I would say without the suspense generated by ALL of
the voice cast, it wouldnt have been as good as it was. System Shock has my
vote for best voice acting (overall)... then again, it has my vote for best
game ever, so I might be biased... :)
Aceze
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Best: Anachronox
Worst: Whoever does the voice for Zak in Evil Islands - sounds like a fairy.
J.S.
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> >
> > --Throne of Bhall: Caspenar, need I say more....
>
> Hey, I enjoyed Cespenar. Of course the 100th repeat got a little old.
>
True. Kinda like Minsc. I like both, but after awhile, they get annoying.
J.S.
Matt Boyington
> Wormwood wrote:
>
> > Just thought I'd throw this out. Been playing Rage Of Mages 2:
> > Necromancer, and I marvelled at how truly bad the voice acting is on
> > my mage character. Made me think of the first CD-ROM game I ever
> > played w/ voice acting, KING'S QUEST 5, with its simply awful voice
> > acting, and my vote for the worst vc in PC gaming history. Remember
> > that idiotic owl chracter (Hoo! Hoo! No, no, no, don't go there!).
> > My choice for the best would be FALLOUT, from Ron Perlman's grim,
> > incredibly effective narration ("Even the carrion eaters refuse to
> > touch your radiated corpse") to Pam Seagull's chipper Nicole, it was
> > quite good, I thought (never got to hear David Warner's Morpheus,
> > since I killed him before he got to speak). Anyone else wanna share?
> >
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen - I would play just to hear Kain speak
Fantasy General - The opening sequence voice over!
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Ryan Franklin
> nos...@msn.com (Sinjin) wrote:
>>I used to work at Sierra (about the time they started CD games). In fact I
>>worked on KQ5 and SQ4 for my first 2 projects. Most of the voices in those
>>games were Sierra EMPLOYEES recruited from tech support, art dept., etc.
>
> I believe she was some Looking Glass employee.
Terri Brosius. Her husband(?) Eric did music for Thief and Thief 2.
She actually designed the Opera House level in Thief Gold, and also the
creepiest of the Thief 2 levels ("Trail of Blood").
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>
> Wormwood wrote:
>
> > Just thought I'd throw this out. Been playing Rage Of Mages 2:
> > Necromancer, and I marvelled at how truly bad the voice acting is on
> > my mage character. Made me think of the first CD-ROM game I ever
> > played w/ voice acting, KING'S QUEST 5, with its simply awful voice
> > acting, and my vote for the worst vc in PC gaming history. Remember
> > that idiotic owl chracter (Hoo! Hoo! No, no, no, don't go there!).
> > My choice for the best would be FALLOUT, from Ron Perlman's grim,
> > incredibly effective narration ("Even the carrion eaters refuse to
> > touch your radiated corpse") to Pam Seagull's chipper Nicole, it was
> > quite good, I thought (never got to hear David Warner's Morpheus,
> > since I killed him before he got to speak). Anyone else wanna share?
> >
Hendak in SOA. That fake German-like accent was so bad that I turned
down the sound in my speakers so he would shut up. And the line he says
after you free him "Go now my friends and free zee women". Gag me.
I like the voice for the Material Defender in Descent 2&3.
Kostoff
Stephen Russell, voice of Garrett in Thief 1 and 2. And will be again for 3
(ain't Thief without Russell voicing Garrett).
Thief had excellent voice acting all around, the guards were good, and the
Hammerites great! Plus, Victoria sound good as well - I think she was voiced
by Terri Brosius, who as others here have pointed out, was the voice of
Shodan in the System Shock games.
Ron Perelman narrating Fallout.
Worst:
Gawd, there are so many, I don't know where to begin.
"Wormwood" <crysta...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Just thought I'd throw this out. Been playing Rage Of Mages 2:
> Necromancer, and I marvelled at how truly bad the voice acting is on
> my mage character. Made me think of the first CD-ROM game I ever
> played w/ voice acting, KING'S QUEST 5, with its simply awful voice
> acting, and my vote for the worst vc in PC gaming history. Remember
> that idiotic owl chracter (Hoo! Hoo! No, no, no, don't go there!).
> My choice for the best would be FALLOUT, from Ron Perlman's grim,
> incredibly effective narration ("Even the carrion eaters refuse to
> touch your radiated corpse") to Pam Seagull's chipper Nicole, it was
> quite good, I thought (never got to hear David Warner's Morpheus,
> since I killed him before he got to speak). Anyone else wanna share?
>
nobodyspecial
> and hatred without overdoing it. (snipped)
Yep... Warner was perfect for the part and really stood out. Definitely one
of my favorite voice actors in a computer game.
CH Ford
<crysta...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Just thought I'd throw this out. Been playing Rage Of Mages 2:
>Necromancer, and I marvelled at how truly bad the voice acting is on
>my mage character. Made me think of the first CD-ROM game I ever
>played w/ voice acting, KING'S QUEST 5, with its simply awful voice
>acting, and my vote for the worst vc in PC gaming history. Remember
>that idiotic owl chracter (Hoo! Hoo! No, no, no, don't go there!).
>My choice for the best would be FALLOUT, from Ron Perlman's grim,
>incredibly effective narration ("Even the carrion eaters refuse to
>touch your radiated corpse") to Pam Seagull's chipper Nicole, it was
>quite good, I thought (never got to hear David Warner's Morpheus,
>since I killed him before he got to speak). Anyone else wanna share?
>
>--worm (who really hasn't played *that* many games, but I'm OLD and
>shoulda!)
>
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(That's Birmingham & Dudley in the West Midlands, U.K. for anybody who
doesn't know)
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saint
<crysta...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Just thought I'd throw this out. Been playing Rage Of Mages 2:
>Necromancer, and I marvelled at how truly bad the voice acting is on
>my mage character. Made me think of the first CD-ROM game I ever
>played w/ voice acting, KING'S QUEST 5, with its simply awful voice
>acting, and my vote for the worst vc in PC gaming history. Remember
>that idiotic owl chracter (Hoo! Hoo! No, no, no, don't go there!).
>My choice for the best would be FALLOUT, from Ron Perlman's grim,
>incredibly effective narration ("Even the carrion eaters refuse to
>touch your radiated corpse") to Pam Seagull's chipper Nicole, it was
>quite good, I thought (never got to hear David Warner's Morpheus,
>since I killed him before he got to speak). Anyone else wanna share?
>
>--worm (who really hasn't played *that* many games, but I'm OLD and
>shoulda!)
>
Best
Garret and Victoria from Thief 1 and 2.
The narrator and dwarves from Myth 1 and 2
Damiono(sp) and Murray from Curse and Escape from Monkey Island
Glottis and Manny from Grim Fandango. Actually great voice acting
throughout.
Kerrigan from Starcraft
The narrator from Icewind Dale.
Warner as Irenicus from BG2
Fall From Grace, Dakkon, and Morte from Planescape.
Bad
Too much I can't remember. I forgot most of them but Joseph from
Summoner was whiney and irritating.
Metal Gear Solid and Dino Crisis were so bad they were funny. I would
rather have the original Japanese with subtitles.
Cabel Blacke
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"maaaaAASTERRRrrrrrr!!!!!!" So damn annoying. Oh well, everyone has their
taste for such things I guess. Strange, too, as many of the Bioware/Black
Isle titles are spot-on with the voiceovers.
--CB
Derek Hutchinson
-Fallout
-Icewind Dale
-Planescape Torment (with commendations to Mitch Pelegi (sp?), who I
never knew was Dakkon until the end credits)
-Starcraft
-Grim Fandango
-Deus Ex
-System Shock (SHODAN is the creepiest voice from any game)
-Duke 3D (yeah, most of the lines were stolen, but the delivery...)
Worst of the bad
-Return to Zork (Want some wiskey, 'caurse you to!)
-Resident Evil (though I hear it was designed that way by some)
-Mario Advance (who cut off Mario's nuts?)
-Breifcase Guy from Half-Life
-Commandos (the Green Berry)
-Black and White (except the devil guide)
Richard Hockey
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>
SNIP
>
> --Planescape: some excellent voice work here, especially the Nameless
One's
> female compadres
Sheena Easton - Annah
(Sheena Easton the 80's popstar)
Jason McCullough
wrote:
>In article <lv0imtouoamu997vq...@4ax.com>, Jason McCullough
>says...
>>Do you remember the Doom-engine game Stife, made by Raven? Dear
>>*lord*, the plot and voice acting was horrible.
>
><snip>
>
>Just so Raven doesn't get unfairly marked for this one, the game was actually
>created by Velocity and Rogue Entertainment. If you check the Moby Games entry
>for it, it's even got some name developers like Tim Willits and others. Strife
>was Rogue's first game. The mechanics of it were decent, but the voice acting
>was pretty bad.
>
>http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId=960/
Heh heh. Yeah, the game wasn't that bad, just the plot and voice. I
forgot about the kooky comic-book cutscenes, too.
Jason McCullough
blortkar...@yahoo.com
Remove "blort" from the front of my email address to contact me.
Brandt P
King's Quest 5. I don't know whose idea he was, but he helped ruin an
otherwise fun game. The worst part was if you had to reload a section you
had to listen to his sorry ass again and again.
Oh, but the owl was not the only bad actor in that game. Let us not forget
about the narrator. It wasn't so much his delivery, but that voice drove me
up the wall. I will never forget how I hated the way he said "custard pie."
I think I suffered some severe trauma from that game because of him and that
infernal owl.
Best acting might have to go to Sam and Max hit the road. Fallout
definately is up there as well.
Liebeskind
Ah, but I thought one of the other standouts in SS2 was Stephen
Russell (Garrett) as Xerxes. I still get shivers at the memory of
getting up to the Rec deck and hearing that bland, cultured voice
calmly reciting:
"The Deck 5 shopping area will be closed until further notice.
We regret any inconvenience.
The family of the Many grows with every passing moment.
Glory to the Flesh.
Glory to the Mass."
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Kroagnon
"Jeff Somers" <lius...@rcn.com> wrote in message
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> The CD-ROM version of System Shock has excellent voice acting. It's a
> 7 year old game and it still creeps me out.
With a few exceptions, like the guy that does Edward Diego (ugh)... I read
somewhere that Looking Glass employees did all the voice work on SS1.
Kroagnon
"Ryan Franklin" <ry...@cobweb.scarymonsters.net> wrote in message
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> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Marco <ma...@hapo.com> wrote:
> > nos...@msn.com (Sinjin) wrote:
> >>I used to work at Sierra (about the time they started CD games). In
fact I
> >>worked on KQ5 and SQ4 for my first 2 projects. Most of the voices in
those
> >>games were Sierra EMPLOYEES recruited from tech support, art dept., etc.
> >
> > Sometimes that still gives good results, like Shodan in System Shock.
> > I believe she was some Looking Glass employee.
>
> Terri Brosius. Her husband(?) Eric did music for Thief and Thief 2.
Yep, her husband. He also did the music for System Shock 1 and 2.
I also thought Deus Ex had very good voice acting overall, though there were
a few stinkers.
Saturn
>Good God people, how can you all leave out the classics?
>
>Day of the Tentacle
>Sam and Max
>Grim Fandango
>Full Throttle
>The last two Monkey Island games
The Dig is one of my favs.
>Hey look...all LucasArts!
That's not coincidental. The engineers, recordists, editors and most
importantly voice over directors at LEC are of exceptionally high
caliber. After cutting their teeth on games, quite a few of them have
moved on to work for Skywalker Sound- one of the leading post
production facilities in the film industry.
It's not just the talent thats responsible for a good voice
performance, the engineers have a huge impact as well. Especially
when they have to select the talent in the first place.
"You're just not thinking fourth-dimnensionally."
Emmett L Brown PhD.
Falsadoom
acting. But here's one I really think needs to be given credit...Crimson
Skies has awesome voice acting. Not only did it have quality people doing
the voice overs (no "stars" afaik but good talent), it was done in a way to
make it that heroic cheesy style with 30ish flicks and novels. It takes alot
of skill in writing and acting to pull it off as good as they did imho. It
had a style and charm that seemed seamless.
Legend Of Kyrandia wasdn't bad either. Especially with patrick Stewart.
Bad hrmm... if Intellivision's Intellivoice module games don't count ;-) I
would have to say Wizards and Warriors. Which I had more fun teasing about
than actually playing. There are many that are bad but can't think of any
other than that.
Falsa
--
"At Origin, especially in the later years, we shipped too many rushed,
unfinished, and buggy products.".
Richard Garriot, Interview with RPGVault.ign.com in 2001
Falsadoom
Falsa
--
"At Origin, especially in the later years, we shipped too many rushed,
unfinished, and buggy products.".
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Falsadoom
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> ucfk...@aol.com (Kevin Skinner) wrote:
>
> >Good God people, how can you all leave out the classics?
> >
> >Day of the Tentacle
> >Sam and Max
> >Grim Fandango
> >Full Throttle
> >The last two Monkey Island games
> >
> >Hey look...all LucasArts!
Agreed!
> SHAME ON YOU - you forgot Indy Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - not only
the
> best voice acting but still the best damn adventure game ever made.
Agreed!
> I did love Les Nessman in Day of the Tentacle and the banter from SnM
rivaled
> Dragnet.
>
> --------------------
> Sinjin
> www.SinjinSolves.com
> Your Guide to Success
Falsa
Sinjin
"Brandt P" <bpr...@twmi.rr.com> wrote:
Ben Sisson
(if that IS his real name) disgorged:
>--Lords of the Realm 2: I just loved your vassal's cold reaction to killing
>a group of innocents: "Slaughter these villagers?"; also the battle cries
>were fantastic: "We'll CRUSH 'em" "We'll enjoy this!!" "We'll be shot to
>pieces!!" or my personal fave "Leeettttt's gettt digginnn!!!"
Oh yeah, LotR2 had GREAT voices for their units. I lost the game a
long time ago and still miss it dearly just for that. :-(
Archers READY sire!
Macemen FORWARD!
Ben Sisson
"I would never belong to any organization that would have me as a member." -Groucho Marx
"Three people can keep a secret... as long as two of them are dead." -G. Gordon Liddy
Ben Sisson
Boyington) (if that IS his real name) disgorged:
>Fantasy General - The opening sequence voice over!
>
Agreed, and it also gets the nod for best music in a game, with strong
challenges from TA and Descent 2.
Surge
> >
> >Day of the Tentacle
> >Sam and Max
> >Grim Fandango
> >Full Throttle
> >The last two Monkey Island games
Shit you're right. Hoagie in Tentacle is a laugh riot.
Surge
If you've never heard a real English, Irish or Scots accent.
comstar
Marco wrote:
> nos...@msn.com (Sinjin) wrote:
>
> >I used to work at Sierra (about the time they started CD games). In fact I
> >worked on KQ5 and SQ4 for my first 2 projects. Most of the voices in those
> >games were Sierra EMPLOYEES recruited from tech support, art dept., etc.
>
> Sometimes that still gives good results, like Shodan in System Shock.
> I believe she was some Looking Glass employee.
>
Bob Page in Deus Ex was the guy who made the other Ion Storm Game to come out
latly, Arxhxonrox (whatever you spell it).
Would you work for the guy who plays Bob Page so well? :)
comstar
HongKong...ehhhhack.
Slash
scribbled:
>I agree with what most people are pointing out as some of the best voice
>acting. But here's one I really think needs to be given credit...Crimson
>Skies has awesome voice acting. Not only did it have quality people doing
>the voice overs (no "stars" afaik but good talent), it was done in a way to
>make it that heroic cheesy style with 30ish flicks and novels. It takes alot
>of skill in writing and acting to pull it off as good as they did imho. It
>had a style and charm that seemed seamless.
>
>Legend Of Kyrandia wasdn't bad either. Especially with patrick Stewart.
You mean Lands of Lore (CD version)?
>Bad hrmm... if Intellivision's Intellivoice module games don't count ;-) I
>would have to say Wizards and Warriors. Which I had more fun teasing about
>than actually playing. There are many that are bad but can't think of any
>other than that.
>
>Falsa
-Slash
--
And so I continue my gradual and delibrerate descent into insanity, holding fast
to the hope that once inside, I may find there the truth that has eluded me so
many times before. With this truth in hand, I shall awaken to be born again as
strength, determination and compassion. From this day forward, the darkness
shall evermore dread the unwavering might of true justice, and he who wields it.
I am this man.
Slash
scribbled:
>Woops! Lands of Lore had Patrick Stewart. Was a long time ago. :-)
>
>Falsa
I really should learn to read a thread before replying, one of these
days... ignore my other post. :)
Revok
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>
> And before I forget, I would say the voice acting and acting overall
> in Crusader No Remorse stinked. All the FMV parts with real actors
> were quite awful, partly because they were always monologues, even
> though you were supposed to be talking to them.
>
Which was a shame - as the music in the game absolutely rocked - especially
the title tune (although the title tune in it's sequel was a better
version).
Barney Gumble
"Brandt P" <bpr...@twmi.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Best acting might have to go to Sam and Max hit the road. Fallout
> definately is up there as well.
Seconded for Sam and Max, not only were the voices well done, they also had the
difficult task of meeting the expectations of what they "should" sound like from fans
of the strip. IMO, they captured the spirit of the characters perfectly.
Kostoff
"comstar" <com...@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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<snip>
>
> Bob Page in Deus Ex was the guy who made the other Ion Storm Game to come
out
> latly, Arxhxonrox (whatever you spell it).
>
> Would you work for the guy who plays Bob Page so well? :)
Tom Hall. But he didn't voice Bob Page, he voiced Walton Simons.
Steve Hilberg
>-Return to Zork (Want some wiskey, 'caurse you to!)
LOL....I had this stupid line in my head for ages after I played this
game. Christ was that annoying. :) I think it was actually "Want some
rye? 'Course ya do!" though. ;)
--
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the will and imagination to describe the world as such:
>Diablo 2: Charsi sounds like trailer trash
> Cain sounds like Jimmy Stewart
> Andaral (sp?) just wasn't done well
Diablo2 in German: Charsi was ok.
Cain sounds like Klaus Maria Brandauer (a famous actor from Austria,
starred Largo in James Bond: Never say Never).
He isn't bad, but after hearing the Diablo1 version (in English, there
isn't any in German), I feel disappointed. This isn't the voice of a
tale teller, only one of a rich middle-aged gentleman who is fond of
collecting old books.
My Necromancer is done quite well, except for the killing of this Lady
in The Dark Tower (overdone).
The bosses have "multiple voices", so I cannot judge the "acting", its
just too much distorted, and I can't even understand them.
Re: German voice acting. In Might and Magic 6 it was definitely
cheesy. A box explodes when opening, and I get a: "oh, not enough
gold. a pity". I _bet_ the original was way better.
By some chance I could compare MM7 English to MM7 German. They did a
far better job, it came close to the original.
MM8 lost its quality, though. It wasn't too bad, but the scene when
the key to the plane between the planes was created, was definitely
overdone.
--
"Mom, there is a spider in the bathroom!"
"Are you sure?" - "Yes!"
"How many legs has it got?"
"I can't tell - but they are all dangling from a thread!" (c): RL
Arkham
It was bad enough that HQ consisted of two chairs, a podium, and a white
fence from somebody's garden...
But this military guy had a gruff voice that was 1) phoney as hell and 2)
kept disappearing. It was a performance that was jaw-droppingly bad.
Reminded me of a play I did.....in grade six.
FromTheDes...@stukafox.com
Thief II:
"Please be warned:
An unworthy soul
Also hears
The words of Carras
The words of Carras . . ."
The guy who did Garret was good, too.
StukaFox
--
The most important question of 2001 will be 'Why aren't you fucking FURIOUS?'
Ryan Franklin
> Thief II:
>
> "Please be warned:
> An unworthy soul
> Also hears
> The words of Carras
> The words of Carras . . ."
>
>
> The guy who did Garret was good, too.
Weird but true: IT'S THE SAME GUY. (He did both Garrett _and_ Karras.)
--
karras grew on me, even if he did sound like droopy dawg
ry...@cobweb.scarymonsters.net
Brandt P
that eats rats, and then the bad Japanese stereotype of a Samurai. Yikes.
Why would anyone think it would be fun for players to listen to that crap?
And AFAIK there's no way to turn those awful voices off!
Brandt
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A. Freed
<ry...@cobweb.scarymonsters.net> wrote:
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Marco <ma...@hapo.com> wrote:
> > Sometimes that still gives good results, like Shodan in System Shock.
> > I believe she was some Looking Glass employee.
>
> Terri Brosius. Her husband(?) Eric did music for Thief and Thief 2.
Husband, yep. I seem to recall Terri being credited as Terri Barous in
System Shock 1. And she _does_ have an amazing voice--which isn't
surprising, seeing as she did vocals for the Boston band 'Tribe' (which
Eric was also a part of.) Mostly only backup vocals, unfortunately, but
she's credited as lead for one song on each of Tribe's two CDs, and I
_swear_ she's doing lead vocals, if uncredited, for Payphone on their
'Abort' album, too.
(Yes, I'm a Terri Brosius fan. www.ttlg.com may have one or two MP3s of
her, still....)
Other games with memorable voice acting:
Planescape, as mentioned.
The Longest Journey was a mix for me--some really good voices,
some...fairly obnoxious ones.
Baldur's Gate 1: truly, truly awful.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, though I haven't finished it, has been pretty
impressive so far.
I keep almost adding more games to the list (Jagged Alliance 2, BioForge,
Quest for Glory 5), but then realizing that they really didn't have great
voice acting. They had perfectly decent voice acting. Which is
unfortunately rare, so it seems great in comparison to, oh, Betrayal at
Krondor (I'm being unfair--all I remember of the voice acting from BaK is
a nasally, 'What brings visitors from Krondor?' which probably means the
rest was adequate.) But the games with great voice acting are few and far
between.
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John Harwood
of a voice actor ol' Luke has become since his whining in Star Wars.
Still can't believe he does the Joke in the animated Batman series...
Or just about anyone who did voice acting in Outlaws, especially John
de Lance (of 'Q' fame) as the Doctor... Man that was a good game...
sniff... sob...
-John
mtkafka
Best - System Shock 2, Thief games, BI/Bioware/Interplay rpgs and
recently Anachronox has some of the best voices (and funny as well!)...
also actually i picked up Daikatana recently... i actually like the
voices in it and i like the game. can you believe that?
Worst - Mechwarrior 4 (I felt sorry for the people), Phantasmagoria (i
really felt pity here)... cant remember anymore.
etc
Wormwood wrote:
> Just thought I'd throw this out. Been playing Rage Of Mages 2:
> Necromancer, and I marvelled at how truly bad the voice acting is on
> my mage character. Made me think of the first CD-ROM game I ever
> played w/ voice acting, KING'S QUEST 5, with its simply awful voice
> acting, and my vote for the worst vc in PC gaming history. Remember
> that idiotic owl chracter (Hoo! Hoo! No, no, no, don't go there!).
> My choice for the best would be FALLOUT, from Ron Perlman's grim,
> incredibly effective narration ("Even the carrion eaters refuse to
> touch your radiated corpse") to Pam Seagull's chipper Nicole, it was
> quite good, I thought (never got to hear David Warner's Morpheus,
> since I killed him before he got to speak). Anyone else wanna share?
>
> --worm (who really hasn't played *that* many games, but I'm OLD and
> shoulda!)
Grifman
did very good jobs:
- Richard Dean Anderson as the Mayor/Sheriff of Junktown
- David Warner as Morpheus
- The big guy from "Nightcourt" (can't remember his name) as Cabot the
BOS paladin
- Ron Pearlman as the narrator
Maybe a couple of others I can't remember. They had a lot of talking
heads in that game, and I don't remember any that struck me as being
bad, and some that were very good (Harold the ghoul, Locksley the
Prince of Thieves, the mutant lieutenant)
Grifman
Simon Reid
Yeah the voice acting in Full Throttle was generally very good.
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And I've never even seen your face."
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Liebeskind
John Harwood <jhar...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>How bout Mark Hamil as the bad guy in Full Throttle? Amazing how good
>of a voice actor ol' Luke has become since his whining in Star Wars.
>Still can't believe he does the Joke in the animated Batman series...
Don't forget he had more than one role in FT -- I had a hard time
believing it was him as Emmitt (the surly truck driver in whose engine
compartment you get to ride at one point). "Ain't gonna happen..."
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Simon Reid
>In article <nu5nmtgg5m1arogai...@4ax.com>,
>John Harwood <jhar...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>How bout Mark Hamil as the bad guy in Full Throttle? Amazing how good
>>of a voice actor ol' Luke has become since his whining in Star Wars.
>>Still can't believe he does the Joke in the animated Batman series...
>
>Don't forget he had more than one role in FT -- I had a hard time
>believing it was him as Emmitt (the surly truck driver in whose engine
>compartment you get to ride at one point). "Ain't gonna happen..."
>
I think he was also Todd, the junkyard owner...there's that cool bit when
you knock on his trailer door, he walks up to it, then you kick it hard and
the door goes back and knocks him out on the sofa. Happy memories.
Mike Richey
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> My vote for best: Icewind Dale.
To be sure, David Ogden Stiers was superb as the narrator; but the PC voices
were merely ordinary.
Mike Richey
Mike Richey
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> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:22:37 +0100, "Mr. Teatime"
> <mr_tea...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Sensei" <cerr...@usa.net> wrote in message
> >news:Tw7a7.54723$aW5.7...@dfw-read.news.verio.net...
> >> No doubt about it..the title for best voice acting has to go to The
> >Longest
> >> Journey. That game rocked and the had top notch voice work. :)
> >>
> >
> >No it didn't. The person who did April Ryan's voice over was a disaster.
I
> >didn't get to finish the game becuase I couldn't stand to listen to that
> >little bitch's voice.
> >
> >jon
> >
> Wasn't that Linda Hamilton? I found it excellent. Much better than
> Regina Lund that made the voice for April in the Swedish version.
No, it was someone named Sarah Hamilton, who according to the IMDB has never
done any other films, TV shows or games. But I thought she sounded a bit
like Imoen in the Baldur's Gate games.
And she was great in TLJ, as were most of the other voice actors (the
"Flipper" was excellent). The one I didn't care much for was the guy who
did Cortez.
Mike Richey
Mike Richey
"Sinjin" <nos...@msn.com> wrote in message
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> But GARY OWENS gets BEST NARRATION EVER for his Space Quest narrations.
>
Right on; the Space Quest narrator was great. But just as Owens (the
original 1960s Space Ghost) lost the Space Ghost: Coast to Coast job to
George Lowe, so would Lowe have been even better as the narrator for the
Space Quest games.
Mike Richey
Mike Richey
adventure games, the voice actors did an outstanding job.
Mike Richey
Josh Whitt
> We regret any inconvenience.
> The family of the Many grows with every passing moment.
> Glory to the Flesh.
> Glory to the Mass."
The voice work in both games is great, but I have to go with SS1, myself,
since I played the "CD Enhanced" version where all the logs were vocalized.
The guy talking about his friend getting shot in the head by an assassin
cyborg is especially freaky.
Oh, and the skate-jump area. You make it across the pit after your third or
fourth reload and SHODAN comes online.. "Nice jump, HUMAN!" and the sec-1
bots start shooting you.
Worst acting, period, voice or FMV, in a game would be Jedi Knight. "I
know... he looks down on you from above... and is proud."
- Josh
atholbrose
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>> The Ultima series (definitely Ultima 9).
> The Guardian's voice was definitely an exception to this - while U9
> might have been a bit of a letdown, his speech (can't remember the voice
> actor's name offhand) in U7 added immensely to it.
Except it was a bit disorienting in U9 to hear Worf doing the Guardian
during the opening FMV and then good ol' Bill Johnson (YAY!) the rest of
the time. I started playing and was very dissapointed -- hey, they changed
the Guardian! I thought they weren't going to do that! -- and then pleased.
Then I played some more and was dissapointed again. Sigh.
Still, Origin *did* listen to us about one thing, and got Bill Johnson
back. His goodness in the game is more than cancelled out by the Avatar's
voice actor, however.
atholbrose
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> Which is unfortunately rare, so it seems great in comparison to, oh,
> Betrayal at Krondor (I'm being unfair--all I remember of the voice
> acting from BaK is a nasally, 'What brings visitors from Krondor?'
> which probably means the rest was adequate.)
Don't worry about being unfair. BaK was CRAMMED with bad voice acting. I
never really understood what everyone saw in that game -- same goes for
"The Longest Journey".
atholbrose
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> Beneath a Steel Sky, this old adventure has great voice acting.
It should -- they're all actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company!
atholbrose
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> The Dig is one of my favs.
The Dig had the least as far as voice acting in LucasArts adventure games
go. In fact, the goofy accents on a few characters and Robert Patrick's
absolutely flat delivery is part of what turned me off of this game. Only
LucasArts adventure game I haven't finished! (Well, except Escape from
Monkey Island, which kept crashing on me -- even when I bought the recent
PS2 version hoping they'd've fixed it!)
Now Gary Coleman in MI3... heheheh.
atholbrose
> Last Alert for the Turbo Grafix 16 CD. It was so bad that
> someone even setup a web site were you could go listen to
> some of the dialog. I should search for it, it is hilarious
> to listen to!
Is this the one with the immortal "People won't like you, Steve, if you're
too sting-y!"?
atholbrose
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> Worst of the bad
> -Return to Zork (Want some wiskey, 'caurse you to!)
Butbutbut... no other game has spawned as many catchphrases at my house as
Return to Zork. All three of us went through it in a row, and even today,
it's "Can you hear me? A NEW BATTERY!" and "Want some [X]? Of course you
do!" and "I'm too drive to drunk!"
atholbrose
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> Just thought I'd throw this out. [...]
I have extremely high standards for voice acting in games -- maybe a bit
too high, I don't know. But if I'm going to hear someone talking ALL THE
TIME I sure want the voices to be done well. Nothing detracts from a game
more than poor voices, for me.
Well, looking at the shelves:
THE BEST:
Grim Fandango.
Every voice is excellent, every one. This is the bar I use for voice acting
in games. Few games come close.
Runner-up:
Curse of Monkey Island/Escape from Monkey Island
Not too coincidentally, also from LucasArts. These games even manage to
make bad, silly accents a feature of the voice acting instead of a
drawback.
Good voice acting:
Max Payne, the Fallouts, Anachronox, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon,
Discworld, EVE burst error, Full Throttle, Metal Gear Solid, Sam and Max,
Simon the Sorceror, Startopia, Planescape: Torment, the Worms games, the
You Don't Know Jack games. (A few I no longer own: Kyrandia 3, Beneath a
Steel Sky.)
Poor voice acting: Alone in the Dark: A New Nightmare, the Blair Witch
games, Inherit the Earth, Nightlong, Nocturne, Sanitarium, Symbiocom,
Thunderscape, Vampire, Alone in the Dark, X-Com Enforcer, Terra Nova, Ubik,
Zero Critical, Zork Nemesis.
Worst: Eh, I dunno... games with really bad voice acting tend to get traded
in! Maybe the worst on the shelf is Odium. I love strategy RPGs and the
voices to that one get me every time. Bleah!
Ykalon Dragon
Check your hearing, TLJ has excellent voice acting. And BAK is one of
the top 10 when it comes to crpg's.
--
Omni Tek is your friend
Ykalon Solitus male
Level 31 Engineer
who...@wherever.com
: Check your hearing, TLJ has excellent voice acting. And BAK is one of
: the top 10 when it comes to crpg's.
Voice acting in TLJ varies a lot. Some of the voices were good, like, IIRC
the small guy (what do you call it) who lived in the past, present and future
all at once and had a cool sleepy voice.. on the other hand, the guy that did
Crow and the "hacker" person on a floating seat was VERY annoying, not to
mention the atrocious dialogue.
Knight37
about:
They guy that played the voice of several bad guys, like the main baddie in
the haunted valley was very good. Seemed like the same voice of the guy that
played the bad guy in Bill & Ted's 1 & 2.
--
Knight37
Scott Evil: Wait, aren't you even going to watch them? They could get away!
Dr. Evil: No, no, no. I'm going to leave them alone and not actually witness
them dying. I'm just gonna assume it all went to plan. ...What?
-- "Austin Powers"