I'd say the first two Onimusha games are near the top; all four, except maybe 3 by a little bit, featured awful voice cast from joes probably rounded up by Capcom on the streets, still, Final Fantasy X is definetely on the vanguard.

The original Resident Evil. And also the original Silent Hill:

"Radio......? What's going on with that radio...?"

I think all the RE games for the PSOne had horrid VA. SH1 was pretty bad too, but at least the story was good :). I also think RE:CV had bad VA as well.

Anything with Wesker has bad voice acting tbh.

I almost became a "Jill Sandwich" once...

but my name isn't Jill so I guess that wouldn't work...unless...Jill was with me...

..yea.

It definitely had bad voice acting but that's one of the things that gives it that great replay value and/or made it a classic.

Haze..

"We knock these asses down like skittles!"

Also Blue Stinger for Dreamcast

God I thought that game was awesome until I played it again. The mouths did not match the words Lol

For me the worst was Soul caliber 2. The before and after comments by the fighters made no sense at all.

"Hmmm. Radio. Whats going on with THAT radio?" Apparently Harry was a very talented writer with a bit of a mental disorder xD

<blink>FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HAD THE WORST FUCKING VOICE ACTING IN THE WORLD! I WANTED TO STRANGLE YUNA!!!</blink>

<blink>FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HAD THE WORST FUCKING VOICE ACTING IN THE WORLD! I WANTED TO STRANGLE YUNA!!!</blink>


I agree with X-2.....but FFX was awesome imho

<blink>FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HAD THE WORST FUCKING VOICE ACTING IN THE WORLD! I WANTED TO STRANGLE YUNA!!!</blink>

I didn't find it that bad! Sure, it wasn't the best voice acting ever, but it didn't stop me from enjoying the game!

You're kidding right? I'm gonna have to strangle you both.

IMO Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana had terrible VO, glad nisa included the japanese VO.

Xenogears and Star Ocean 2 are pretty damn terrible. Especially S02.

<blink>FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HAD THE WORST FUCKING VOICE ACTING IN THE WORLD! I WANTED TO STRANGLE YUNA!!!</blink>

lol <3

The amusing little comments at the end of the fights in Toshinden were fairly poor. I am not sure where they got the voice over actors to do them but it seemed to be some sort of comedy accent talent agency.

despite star ocean 2 being one of my favorite games ever, it has notoriously awful voice acting, in terms of quality.

In terms of luls? Its the best, and I can't imagine the game without "Crawd, noooo", "Parabora beam", and "Come here, Barney (ie. bunny)!".

Dynasty Warriors was priceless during the cut scenes. Not sure weather its the voice actors fault of the script writers.

*random cut-scene*

"We are winning!"
"Yes we are"
"We must keep this up"
"Yes we must"

Not direct quotes but you get the idea.

<blink>FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HAD THE WORST FUCKING VOICE ACTING IN THE WORLD! I WANTED TO STRANGLE YUNA!!!</blink>

FFX had good voice acting.

Star Ocean 3 had some very questionable acting. Particularly amongst the female voices.

I haven't played SO2, but SO2 would have to be pretty bad to 'beat' that.

SO2 had worse sound quality, a lot of goofy phrases and mistransliterations, as well as a lot of just obnoxious/annoying voices in general. The acting itself, though, compared to SO3, was better imo. SO3 sounded like bad soap opera actors, or something.

Not sure if that makes sense, not sure if I'm actually properly explaining what i mean ;-;

In the beginning of the game, that one girl in Nel's organization (forgot their name) had an AWFUL voice actress.


edit: maybe like

SO2 is the voice actors doing a good job with a poor script/translation and some got stuck with "annoying" characters.

SO3 is bad voice acting with a script that was written a bit better, or at least less cheesy than SO2 (as far as battle voices, which is all SO2 had, really).

I think I know who you mean from Nel's crew. Was it Farleen? The one with purple hair and the (very) high voice? If so, I agree. Peppita's voice actor was also pretty bad. In fact, nearly every female character in the game, aside from maybe Nel and Mirage, sounded like they had come straight from a Japanese bubble bath commercial.

You guys are making me wanna play SO3 again... >.>

Resident Evil is right up there on the list.

RE titles and yes,

X and X-2. Not so much all of the characters, but the ones that drove me nuts had the most dialogue. Yuna, Tidus and Rikku in X-2.

If i had a dollar for everytime Yuna made an emotional *gasp. Waka was kind of annoying, he had kind of a Mexican, Hawaiian, New Zeland vibe goin on brahhhhhhh!

I dug Lu's voice doe...

The House of the Dead II tops my list. It sounds like Microsoft Sam for god's sake.

"They're meeting G over.... there."

It's like they did the entire game in one take.

Xenogears also gets mention if only for Bart.

Definitely the Resident Evil series. The first Silent Hill wasn't great but effective.

Castlevania SOTN

Castlevania SOTN

Sorry, but I disagree.

"Die MONSTER! You don't belong in this world"

Is an instant classic.

"but enough talk, have at you!"

An instant classic line acted poorly (we're talking about voice work, not writing.)

An instant classic line acted poorly (we're talking about voice work, not writing.)

It wasn't acted poorly to me. The jesters and movements by the 2D characters while they spoke was pretty cool. As far as the voices themselves, I heard much worse.

LOL at the "jesters and movements" part of your comment.

LOL at the "jesters and movements" part of your comment.


LOL, at the fact you didn't notice them.

I didn't? How can you possibly assume that (and state it as if it's a fact, no less?) I loled because I explicitely specified that the thread is about VOICE work (or voice ACTING), and you mention gestures and animation...

Castlevania SOTN

Win.

I didn't? How can you possibly assume that (and state it as if it's a fact, no less?) I loled because I explicitely specified that the thread is about VOICE work (or voice ACTING), and you mention gestures and animation...


I mentioned it, because they went with the acting and voice work. The voice work wasn't meant to be masterpiece theater. The actors did what they were suppose to do and did it well.

THE ALL SEEING EYE IS BLIND

or has tunnel vision

THE ALL SEEING EYE IS BLIND

or has tunnel vision


No I just love wearing sunglasses. meh.

X and X-2 had pretty good voice acting in my opinion. I never really noticed it completely, subtle enough. XII was terrible. Gut wrenching in every way.

Of course RE is up there, another is LotR The Third Age. Awful.

Can't stop thinking about Onimusha 2:

"Oh my Lord Nobunaga"
"All Demons will be destroyed!"
"Jubeeeeei... Jubeeeeei..."

Man what a disaster.

Sonic Adventure's was bad. The scripts changed from each story and some mouth opened ALL BY THEMSELVES.

Hmm well I wouldn't agree that FFX had baaaad voice acting...just kind of annoying.

Especially in FFX-2...god were Yuna and Rikku's voices annoying. Mostly Yuna tho.

Also IMO the VA in Castlevania SOTN wasn't all that bad, guys. I mean it did have it's moments, but it sure beats the pants off other titles mentioned here.

Lol Xenogears. I love that game, but they should of never attempted to have voices in it. It was awful. Bart...just bad.

I just remembered Mega Man Legends, couldn't understand a single word that stupid monkey said at the end of the game.

Yeah. The older Resident Evil games are a gimme. Code Veronica is an exception, though.

Sonic Adventure
King of Fighters - Maximum Impact (the English voices)

English version of Brawl. :<

"I fight for my friends"
"We're gonna have fun with this thing"
"Hands off my prey!"
etc...

voice work (WORK, not act) is a curse that plagues over 80% of translated games to english speaking countries.

the game ive played and i consider to have the worst work(and by that i meant actually BAD, THAT YOU ABSOLUTELY HATE) is:

mystic heroes


yes, just one game. and beforesomeone comes and says "you havent played enough then", keep reading.

i have played COUNTLESS games, and i havent been bothered with voice work (and acting) until i played mystic heroes.
not only does the voices not match the characters, but what they say and the way they say it made me play the game in MUTE until i established the games sucked BIG BALLS and traded it for something else.

the only good thing was the videos, highly detailed and awesome.

to RE's voice: i lold
to the first SH: i lold
to sonic games VA: i turn to the japanese voices

^
thats horrible translation, not voice acting/work.

"Sheryl. Where's Sheryl?"

All the vigor of a man who's lost his car keys.

I like the cheesy one-liners RE games have.

despite loving ffx sooo much, yeah, that voice acting was pretty bad.

"HA!...HA!..HA!..HA!"

"i've....done it...i have...become....a summoner"

and yeah, the original resident evil had horrendous voice acting

King's Quest 5 was an awesome game with really bad voice talents. Sierra got smart for KQ6 though.

Mega Man 8. Great game...HORRIBLE voice acting/translation.

http://blue-bomber.jvmwriter.org/images/b/b6/MM8Script.txt

Ys The Ark Of Napishtim for Ps2.

The only game I have played where the voice acting was SO bad, that it caused me to stop playing after 15 minutes and I never played it again. THE only one! Keep in mind I have played just about every game that was mentioned up there and Istill played them all the way through. That's got to say something right there.

FFX had good voice acting.

No, no, no. You;'re mistaken. FFX was a good GAME with mediocre voice acting. It had a few good moments, like Auron, but mostly bad. Tidus, Rikku,, Yuna? Horrid. But X2 is even WORSE. it went from mediocre to just awful.

To each their own. I like the voice acting.

No, no, no. You;'re mistaken. FFX was a good GAME with mediocre voice acting. It had a few good moments, like Auron, but mostly bad. Tidus, Rikku,, Yuna? Horrid. But X2 is even WORSE. it went from mediocre to just awful.

dont forget the al-behd!!

x-2's voice acting was actually an improvement over x's. at least in x-2, they didn't speak all haltingly or really sped up. to be fair though, ffx's voice actors are top notch. the sound egineers or w/e you call them just took their voice clips and sped them up or slowed them down depending on the situation/factors that existed.

despite star ocean 2 being one of my favorite games ever, it has notoriously awful voice acting, in terms of quality.

In terms of luls? Its the best, and I can't imagine the game without "Crawd, noooo", "Parabora beam", and "Come here, Barney (ie. bunny)!".

Crawd has advanced forward... Ha-ha!

VP Silmeria was awful too, I played through the entire adventure with the voices off, but then again that never felt good enough and had to put them back on... ... only to turn them off once again.

to be fair though, ffx's voice actors are top notch.

I especially like Matt Mckenzie as Auron. Tidus was also good IMO.

God I never realized there were so many crazy people on earth.

MegaMan 8's was pretty bad. Good game, but horrible VO. I couldn't stand it. MM8 is my choice for worst VO.

Castlevania 64's was subpar, hit or miss, with what little it had. There were also a few typos within the text of the game during dialog sequences. 2nd in the lineup.

I haven't played too many games with horrible voice acting.

Obviously Resident Evil.

Hmm...but I think that the voice acting was actually pretty good back in the day. I guess now when you go back and play the game, it is actually awkward sounding.

My vote goes to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
I'd say the most notorious phrase would be: "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!"

Hmm...but I think that the voice acting was actually pretty good back in the day. I guess now when you go back and play the game, it is actually awkward sounding.

My vote goes to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
I'd say the most notorious phrase would be: "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!"

:notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :notgood: :rolleyes:

Bloody Roar 4....I'm pretty tolerant of bad voice acting, but this one got on my nerves.

James Arnold Taylor: Ratchet > Tidus

My vote goes to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
I'd say the most notorious phrase would be: "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!"

DIE MONSTER, YOU DONT BELONG IN THIS WORLD.

end yourself quickly, PLEASE.


also, having obtained obscure the aftermath for wii, i can easily say it has some of the cheesiest voice work ever.
i dare even say that it rivals the original RE's cheesyness

I think I know who you mean from Nel's crew. Was it Farleen? The one with purple hair and the (very) high voice? If so, I agree. Peppita's voice actor was also pretty bad. In fact, nearly every female character in the game, aside from maybe Nel and Mirage, sounded like they had come straight from a Japanese bubble bath commercial.

Farleen's was terrible. Peppita's voice actress was the same one that did Sasami in Tenchi Muyo. Ugh. I liked Nel and Mirage and the blonde girl... What was her name, the one with Cliff at the beginning...

I'm curious. To those who played SO3 and remember it.

Was the music overbearing compared to the voices? That was one thing that always pissed me off as I had to raise the volume to hear the voices during cutscenes then lower it to resume play.

I'm curious. To those who played SO3 and remember it.

Was the music overbearing compared to the voices? That was one thing that always pissed me off as I had to raise the volume to hear the voices during cutscenes then lower it to resume play.

I think sometimes it was. I didn't care really. You have subtitles, so you can always read along with the voices to make out what they're saying, sooo...

I hate subtitles, and it drives me mad when I can't take them out in a given game.

I think sometimes it was. I didn't care really. You have subtitles, so you can always read along with the voices to make out what they're saying, sooo...

If the game is in English with VA I shouldn't need to read subtitles.

If the game is in English with VA I shouldn't need to read subtitles.

Well I guess not, but I always have them on in case someone else says something to me, like friends wanting beer, and I miss the game's conversation, see. Sometimes I can't listen to both the game and friends talking at once. Drives me nuts.

Resident Evil, obviously. Don't open...that door!

SotN was kind of spotty. I thought Alucard was awful, but pretty much everybody else was alright.

SO2 was cringe-worthy at times.

Cyan, are you the master of unlocking?

If so, I got something that might interest ya~

I happen to be a fifth-degree black-belt in unlocking, bro. ;)

Well I guess not, but I always have them on in case someone else says something to me, like friends wanting beer, and I miss the game's conversation, see. Sometimes I can't listen to both the game and friends talking at once. Drives me nuts.

If you've got friends around you shouldn't be playing a story-driven single-player RPG.

You're a shitty host.

Pokemon.

If you've got friends around you shouldn't be playing a story-driven single-player RPG.

You're a shitty host.

Yeah, well, sometimes we take turns playing the same game.

Tom Clancy's: Rainbow Six. (PSX)

It had the most disgusting voice actors I have ever had the unfortunateness to hear.

The Sega CD version of Prince Of Persia. It's so hilariously bad that I can recite it from memory. :)

Well at least this one is only 6 months old~

Does he/she not read?

The Sega CD version of Prince Of Persia. It's so hilariously bad that I can recite it from memory. :)

Christ can you stop reviving threads?

Anyway Dynasty Warrios had some horrendous voice acting, mainly because it was just dubbed but it was still pretty bad.

Onimusha 2, everyone is void of emotion.

Onimusha 2, everyone is void of emotion.

Yeah I had the first Onimusha and the voice acting in that was also pretty bad.

Well, since this got revived.......

Anyone played Oblivion? The voice acting on that can only be described as 'fucked up'. Like when you talk to a beggar, and their voice suddenly changes from being a sort of broken English cockney accent to a sturdy American one? Or when multiple people in the same room have the same voice actor, and their collective sound sounds like this one individual guy speaking in tongues?

Don't get me wrong, it's a good game, but it has some awfully bad voice acting issues.

Here's one I found straight from the depths of audio hell:

It's called Last Alert for the Tubrografx 16. The voice acting is SO goddamn bad that it makes all the other games mentioned here sound like they were acted by academy award winners.

A friend of mine told me about this game and its voice acting and I didn't belive him at first, but once I heard it for myself, ...yeah, I'm a believer now.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrj8DCIZvsY&feature=related Here's a link if you want to hear it for yourself. But be warned, it's BAD!!!!

Note: the link only covers the cut scenes. There are voices in game as well and they are even worse.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tPedSLrdSIk&feature=related Here's a link to a LP of the game if you want to see and hear the in game stuff

I was just thinking of Last Alert...



"He intends to enter the...martial arts tournament you host every year to uhh...kill you, Mr. Li."

"Well, that's interesting."

Awesome. Mr. Li could care less, I guess. Personally, this (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JTG29HHcpNA&feature=related) is my favourite exchange from the game.

The VA in the first Resident Evil was quite bad imo...

"I hope this isn't Chris's blood."

Now, as much of a fan of the DW series... I have to admit, DW3 had some terrible VA... Zhen Ji's quote after killing an officer in a snobbish english accent...

"I defeated an Officer."

Same with Samurai Warriors... Oda Nobunaga's voice, along with Sanada Yukimura and Takeda Shingen were awesome. Others like Imagoto Yoshimoto and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were terrible...

Also, any game with VA which had Cam Clarke providing voices.... I really hate his voice. Jade Empire and KotOR he's worked in, only as background characters (Thank the maker), so I still enjoy those games. I just block out characters with his voice.

Unfortunately can't do that with Grandia II, as he's the voice of the main character :sad:

That being said, John Cleese was awesome and the perfect choice for the character 'Sir Roderick Ponce von Fontlebottom the Magnificent Bastard' in Jade Empire.

Good VA in GTA VC and SA, and Christopher Walken voiced the FBI Agent in True Crime New York City very well.

http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/valis3/clip1.mp3

http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/shenmue/clip1.mp3

http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/valis3/clip4.mp3

http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/overgfighters/clip23.mp3