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 Post subject: Re: Top 50 shitty games voice acting ever.
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That much poor voice acting and not even a mention of Castlevania: SOTN.

I'm stunned.


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 Post subject: Re: Top 50 shitty games voice acting ever.
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It does make "Master of unlocking" sound like it was written by Harold Pinter.

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39 is priceless. Which begs me to ask why it isn't in nrº1?


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 Post subject: Re: Top 50 shitty games voice acting ever.
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The Martian Gothic ones are the worst to these ears.

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These are excellent.

It makes me laugh, though: companies spend so much on getting the graphics right, making the light hit the character in the right way, then whack in some cheap sound recordings that don't even remotely sound like they're coming from the character.


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It's way too PS2 era console-centric. For a start, it doesn't mention Deus Ex, (or maybe it does and I forgot -- I didn't watch the video just now). SHAME ON IT.

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What was wrong with Deus Ex's voicework? Apart from Denton's stupid Bale-vox, I mean?

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Number 9 is a candidate for the Bad Gamebox Art thread - transexual Maddonna impersonator from the future standing in front of a squashed bulldog's face.

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Is Two Worlds in there? I can't watch the video here.

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 Post subject: Re: Top 50 shitty games voice acting ever.
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I can't see the video from here, but I'm hoping Deep Fear on the Saturn has made it in there. One of the characters (I'm sure he was meant to be an engineer or something fairly 'manly') quite massively outcamps Graham Norton in terms of his voice.


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Mr Dave wrote:
That much poor voice acting and not even a mention of Castlevania: SOTN.

I'm stunned.


Because the voice acting in C:SotN is a thing of beauty.

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Zardoz wrote:
Mr Dave wrote:
That much poor voice acting and not even a mention of Castlevania: SOTN.

I'm stunned.


Because the voice acting in C:SotN is a thing of beauty.

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NervousPete wrote:
What was wrong with Deus Ex's voicework? Apart from Denton's stupid Bale-vox, I mean?


Did you not get as far as the Hong Kong levels, then? One of Max Chen's bodyguards sounds like Mister T. And everyone else is all "Yoooou ahhh vely wercuum to aaah home meetah deehton. Eahry beerd get wurm, unress eahry wurm good at kalate."

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Ive got Vampire Night, and whilst an excellent shooter, I can attest it has the worst voice acting ever.

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sinister agent wrote:
NervousPete wrote:
What was wrong with Deus Ex's voicework? Apart from Denton's stupid Bale-vox, I mean?


Did you not get as far as the Hong Kong levels, then? One of Max Chen's bodyguards sounds like Mister T. And everyone else is all "Yoooou ahhh vely wercuum to aaah home meetah deehton. Eahry beerd get wurm, unress eahry wurm good at kalate."


All the voices were done by the programmers, artists etc. This alone qualifies it as being terrible. The performacnes kind of speak for themselves.

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Having said that, I don't think the deus ex voices were uniformly bad. Some were perfectly fine, I thought. Walton Simons's'ses was gentle and nicely sinister, for one thing. And Paul Denton's was really rather good, I thought.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qKzIsisU

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Good lord, okay you've convinced me.

I think I was still impressed that I was playing a game with - *gasp* - lots of voice-work back then. Ahh, the innocence of youth.

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 Post subject: Re: Top 50 shitty games voice acting ever.
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However, Deus ex is nowhere near as bad as anything in that video. or castlevania[


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 Post subject: Re: Top 50 shitty games voice acting ever.
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Arma 2 certainly deserves a mention:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FlVL5jy4Rc


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markg wrote:
Arma 2 certainly deserves a mention:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FlVL5jy4Rc


I'm come to love the crappy ROBOT. VOICE. MAN. FIFTY. METERS. TO OUR. LEFT.

The voice acting is very, very bad though. I havn't bothered to get past "level 3" or whatever the equivilent is in ArmaII, so I've yet to be hit by the worst, I fear.
edit: My ArmaII doesn't overrun the words like his does. Maybe he upped a setting or something?

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