Worst Videogame Voice Acting
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Which videogames do you think have the worst voice acting. After playing Watch Dogs: Legion where the character faces don't often match their voices I'd say that's a recent example of a game with bad voice work-but have you got any contenders that may be far worse than Legion?
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I love me some cheesy voice acting. I always go back to that one video that compiles a whole bunch, but I don't think that it encapsulates those games as a whole as well.
Overall, I think Shenmue is one where the voice acting is all bad, but it makes me love it more in a way. I loved talking to every character, like the kid who's always like "Hey mister! Let's play BASEBALL!" and it just all makes me smile and feel warm and cozy like Christmas. Same with something like Mega Man 8 or Grandia on PS1, or Deadly Premonition. I guess it's because they were a result of a specific era of technology and talent that we can't really realistically go back to, and there's a lot of heart in the way they're produced.
Games where I dislike the voice acting is where it just feels flat I guess. Like it's there but doesn't do anything for me, it isn't great and isn't terrible, it just fills a void to be present. I guess in my experience a lot of open world games have this problem, but I don't want to discriminate.
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Two posts and still no mention of Resident Evil 1?
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There were some clips in the video I posted, but funny story, I used to prank call GameStop with the Jill Sandwich song back in the day with my buddy. We would pull it up and call them, and then be like "Hey, we need to know if something is in stock", and when they asked what we were looking for we'd be like "Do you have any... (presses play)JILL SANDWICH" and play the video full blast over the phone.
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Spider-Man 3 on PC was really bad and awkward. Also PotC: At World's End on PC as well.
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There's a urban legend to this one too, apparently all the "actors" are related to the head of the company that picked it up
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@scotty not worse than the movie though, right? (rim shot)
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@dmcmaster I honestly thought that this was an amateur YouTube dub of a game with no voice acting and looked it up. My goodness, I don't know how this made it through to the final cut.
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NBA 2K15 cast pros as themselves in a story mode for the game:
I wasn't aware lines could be read this badly.
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I really like it, so... ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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@ringedwithtile
Damn and I thought some of the Pro Skaters in some of the later Tony Hawk games were phoning it in.
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This
Youtube Video
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This may just be my latin american bias, and the fact I saw the trailer yesterday, but all of the dubs made in Spain are hard to believe that they are serious, like it just doesn't sound like real people, seeing the Españolete version of the CP2077 trailer had me and my roommate laughing and depressed.
I have no idea if it comes through to non Spanish speakers, but it just feels so bad, and I do believe it is generally technically poor VA as well.
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@yoshi How is that bad voice acting? It fits the tone of the game perfectly.
DC Universe Online has insanely bad voice acting. They got pros like Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill do reprise their roles as Batman and Joker, plus a few other Justice League animated series vets, but every NPC that isn't a major character is basically brain-dead and reads their lines with so little enthusiasm that you can't help but laugh.
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@yoshi Don't hate on the Bugsnax what did they ever do to you?
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Makes me think of the video Ben sometimes played at the end of his streams
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@el-shmiablo said in Worst Videogame Voice Acting:
How is that bad voice acting?
They have an American trying to do a steroetypical Australian accent and even for a steroetyped accent it's still terrible..
