Nah, you actually went into detail and described how bad it was, and you even linked to a video. I just said it was so bad it was funny.
That was easy... Too easy. Last time I got off that easy was when Bush was planning to go after Al-Qeada, and he asked me where I thought they were. I sarcastically told him Iraq, because I thought all those CIA guys were pretty clear about it, but...
He's since forgotten about the meeting though.
Oh, and still determined not to stray too far off topic.
Oh man, another reason why I don't want to play Two Worlds.
Well, I'd still play it. Everything I said about the voice acting is totally true, but it's basically like multiplayer Oblivion.
The combat in Two Worlds is arguably better than Oblivion's combat. Two Worlds has no manual blocking, it's an automatic skill you put points into. That's a really sad loss, but almost *everything* else about the combat is better. It doesn't far outclass Oblivion, for that game was fantastic. Two Worlds just happens to be noticeably better.
For instance, there's a much larger array of skills. Mounted combat, there's an ability to tear down enemy shields if you have an axe equipped. Stunning is a skill, not level related. You can kick dirt in their eyes to blind and daze them for a bit.
Also, abilities like stun, Dirty Trick (the dirt ability) and a few others all work that if you perform one, the rest are far more likely to work. At max level there's like an 80% chance that your stun will proc when you use it, but if he's alreadu stunned or confused or something, there's like a 500% chance it will work. No joke.
The spells are also better. Paralysis in Oblivion was unmatched in coolness because of the physics engine, but the spells in Two Worlds are overall cooler.
Also, as far as voice acting, because I don't want to seem like a thread hijacker, this has yet to be posted. (Edited because I'm an idiot and missed this)
I have to say that the game looks pretty bad, too. It looks like an early true 3D game made with the quake 1 engine, in terms of art direction and visual design. The character models are hideous, and the "make your own character" screen made me want to cry.
I hope that the system and gameplay are really all that awesome, because the game fails really hard at anything art-related.
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edited August 2007
Confidential Mission on the Dreamcast had some bad acting. The only one I really remember is the bad guy in the first level who proclaims "YOU WILL NOT EXCAPE!"
Deus Ex's Voice Acting is brilliant in alot of parts, and dreadful in a hand full of spots. I particulary hated the forced children's voices. That makes me wonder actually, in Deus Ex you could bribe a hungry kid with food to extract information, cap him in his head, take the potato chips back and then dump his corpse in the sea. Makes you wonder why so many developers are leaving them out and Deus Ex blantanty leaves them in there.
Ahem... Resident Evil up to 3 yeah we all know it's cheesy shit.
Anyone remember Alex Kid and the Lost Stars "FIND THE MIRACLE BALL"... Argh!
Another 2 games that happen to be great, but suffer from bad voice acting. Operation Flashpoint and ArmA.
Confidential Mission on the Dreamcast had some bad acting. The only one I really remember is the bad guy in the first level who proclaims "YOU WILL NOT EXCAPE!"
This reminds me that nobody has mentioned the old Avengers arcade game.
"You will be the ones escaping!"
"Don't disturb us!"
"I... can't... looooose!"
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edited August 2007
Holy Shit... I can't believe I forgot Battle Arena Toshinden!
The problem with, "I SPILL MY DRINK!" is that that's meant to be that way, as the character has a whole bunch of other problems with the English language. I wouldn't put it nearly in the same category as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0pm3uCoxac
Oh, man. I just remembered the attrocity that is UFO: Aftermath's voiceacting. For those who haven't heard it, imagine a ragtag band of one normal dude surrounded by Deliverence cast rejects and foreign exchange students with the most drawn-out stereotypical accents ever conceived, all riding a flaming short bus speeding out of control down a hill towards an orphenage.
Confidential Mission on the Dreamcast had some bad acting. The only one I really remember is the bad guy in the first level who proclaims "YOU WILL NOT EXCAPE!"
This reminds me that nobody has mentioned the old Avengers arcade game.
"You will be the ones escaping!"
"Don't disturb us!"
"I... can't... looooose!"
Heh, I think I remember my friends and I quoting "YOU STUPID MEN!" from that Avengers game too.
Another fun one you'd have to hear yourself to fully get (the Dwarf especially):
"You would. Leave us now? We triumphed together. There is. Still much work. To be done."
"Ho! He is right! What of the fellowship? Is battle all there is for you?"
And this reminds me of the wierdest thing about Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom. Each character has a line they spout when they get knocked down: the fighter's got the infamous "By the Abyss!", the Cleric's got "Alfic's Shadow!" (or the closest approximation) and the Dwarf's got "Orc Spawn!". So what's the Elf got?
"Buy my boat!"
It's not even done in the VA's normal voice, it's some wierd hurried gnomish midgit voice. I am as perplexed as any of you are.
The problem with, "I SPILL MY DRINK!" is that that's meant to be that way, as the character has a whole bunch of other problems with the English language. I wouldn't put it nearly in the same category as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0pm3uCoxac
And this reminds me of the wierdest thing about Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom. Each character has a line they spout when they get knocked down: the fighter's got the infamous "By the Abyss!", the Cleric's got "Alfic's Shadow!" (or the closest approximation) and the Dwarf's got "Orc Spawn!". So what's the Elf got?
"Buy my boat!"
It's not even done in the VA's normal voice, it's some wierd hurried gnomish midgit voice. I am as perplexed as any of you are.
Maybe it's "By my oath", or "By my bow"? Or maybe she really wants to move up to a full-size yacht, I don't know.
And this reminds me of the wierdest thing about Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom. Each character has a line they spout when they get knocked down: the fighter's got the infamous "By the Abyss!", the Cleric's got "Alfic's Shadow!" (or the closest approximation) and the Dwarf's got "Orc Spawn!". So what's the Elf got?
"Buy my boat!"
It's not even done in the VA's normal voice, it's some wierd hurried gnomish midgit voice. I am as perplexed as any of you are.
Maybe it's "By my oath", or "By my bow"? Or maybe she really wants to move up to a full-size yacht, I don't know.
And this reminds me of the wierdest thing about Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom. Each character has a line they spout when they get knocked down: the fighter's got the infamous "By the Abyss!", the Cleric's got "Alfic's Shadow!" (or the closest approximation) and the Dwarf's got "Orc Spawn!". So what's the Elf got?
"Buy my boat!"
It's not even done in the VA's normal voice, it's some wierd hurried gnomish midgit voice. I am as perplexed as any of you are.
Maybe it's "By my oath", or "By my bow"? Or maybe she really wants to move up to a full-size yacht, I don't know.
Oath could be it (even though it sounds like a B at the start) but that's only half the wierdness - the other half is just the way she says it (which really accounts for the mangling). Take a listen for yourself.
Just for reference, it goes Cleric-Dwarf-Fighter-Elf (Spell)-Elf (Wierd-ass cry)
Oh dear... just listening to them trying to affect an Irish accent is enough to give anyone hysterics. Not to mention their weird, rapid eye movements.
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
We don't run this place, but we have an understanding with those that do.
I thought the voice acting was perfectly serviceable.
EDIT: Whoops, meaningful post coming.
EDIT: It's bad in that upper level of bad where it really isn't bad, kind of like a cake of voiceacting. FL's voiceacting is like the frosting, a damn good treat compared to the pallette horrors waiting as you go through layer after layer of the actual cake itself.
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edited August 2007
Ys: The Ark of Napishtim had some pretty bad voice acting. It's been a while, so the only thing i remember was the guards in the intro going on about how they're after "the red-haired Adol" (Adol is your character's name) and it just sounded so stupid.
From Software has a fellow by the name of Kevin Blackton who did the opening for King's Field: The Ancient City and I think also did King's Field 2, and he has got to be the most cheesy, overdramatic bastard I've ever heard handle a narration. He's not exactly what one would call good, but he tries so god damn hard to be all spooky and gothic and shit that it's hard not to love him and his badly-delivered lines.
Ys: The Ark of Napishtim had some pretty bad voice acting. It's been a while, so the only thing i remember was the guards in the intro going on about how they're after "the red-haired Adol" (Adol is your character's name) and it just sounded so stupid.
I am still so goddamn pissed that they included the original Japanese voice audio and require you to use a cheat code at the start of a new game to use it.
Okay. What about the WH 40k Dark Crusade loading screen guy.
Heh. I think he does a fine enough job. It's just that he's a bit...over-enthusiastic.
The voices in the game itself through are sooooo great. The Space Marine voices in particular are so iconic that every time I play my SM army on the tabletop, I imagine their voices from DoW. In fact, for some reason, every RTS game I've played has some pretty great voice acting when it comes to the units. Maybe it's just because they say short lines. The Starcraft campaign had pretty good VA though.
The Marines in Half-Life had their voices filtered so damn much because they just had some guy at Valve record the lines. The filtering is what made them so memorable, though.
The Space Marine voices in particular are so iconic that every time I play my SM army on the tabletop, I imagine their voices from DoW.
The Marines in Half-Life had their voices filtered so damn much because they just had some guy at Valve record the lines. The filtering is what made them so memorable, though.
The Space Marine voices in particular are so iconic that every time I play my SM army on the tabletop, I imagine their voices from DoW.
You hear Silverbolt leading your troops?
At first I didn't know what to say to yout post. BUT, due to the power of the Internets, I have realized that it is not Scott McNeil (who voiced Silverbolt in Beast Wars) that voiced the Space Marines, but Brian Dobson. Scott McNeil did do a Space Marine Sergeant Mattias who I don't remember but whatever. Another victory for information gathering!
I know some of you guys already linked to it, but just to remind everybody again, this website has a lot of good examples of bad voice acting in games:
The Marines in Half-Life had their voices filtered so damn much because they just had some guy at Valve record the lines. The filtering is what made them so memorable, though.
The Space Marine voices in particular are so iconic that every time I play my SM army on the tabletop, I imagine their voices from DoW.
You hear Silverbolt leading your troops?
At first I didn't know what to say to yout post. BUT, due to the power of the Internets, I have realized that it is not Scott McNeil (who voiced Silverbolt in Beast Wars) that voiced the Space Marines, but Brian Dobson. Scott McNeil did do a Space Marine Sergeant Mattias who I don't remember but whatever. Another victory for information gathering!
Yeah, I knew it was the Sergeant. That's why I said leading your troops. :P
He also did that one Chaos dude, but I'm sure you knew that.
Kingdom Hearts 2 - Captain Barbossa goes from a Southern English (Devon Farmer/Typical Pirate) accent in the film to Irish in the game. (Jack Sparrow develops a slight Brogue as well, if memory serves.) *sighs* Any British accent that isn't Cockney or Royalty seems to turn to Irish in this crazy international multi-media world...including Scottish. Suppose it makes them "easier to understand"...:roll:
I'd love to see what they'd do with a Welsh character lol.
(I know, I know, it's not so much bad voice-acting, just...I don't know. It annoys me. It takes me out of my game-playing haze and reminds me I'm playing a game.)
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edited August 2007
That's just called 'we couldn't afford Johnny Depp or Geoffrey Rush'.
That's just called 'we couldn't afford Johnny Depp or Geoffrey Rush'.
Hell, all they had to do was hire me! I can do a brilliant non-Irish pirate accent! *pulls leg behind back, rests knee on stool* AAAAAAAaaaaar! Captain Iron-teeth Rumspiggot be me name! Hoist the poop-deck! Bristle the mizzen! Aaaaaaar!
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Crap...
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Should I assume your tongue smiley is hiding your deep and fervent hatred for my ignorant and insensitive ripoff of your post? I think it does.
Nah, you actually went into detail and described how bad it was, and you even linked to a video. I just said it was so bad it was funny.
That was easy... Too easy. Last time I got off that easy was when Bush was planning to go after Al-Qeada, and he asked me where I thought they were. I sarcastically told him Iraq, because I thought all those CIA guys were pretty clear about it, but...
He's since forgotten about the meeting though.
Oh, and still determined not to stray too far off topic.
Resident Evil
I have to say that the game looks pretty bad, too. It looks like an early true 3D game made with the quake 1 engine, in terms of art direction and visual design. The character models are hideous, and the "make your own character" screen made me want to cry.
I hope that the system and gameplay are really all that awesome, because the game fails really hard at anything art-related.
Deus Ex's Voice Acting is brilliant in alot of parts, and dreadful in a hand full of spots. I particulary hated the forced children's voices. That makes me wonder actually, in Deus Ex you could bribe a hungry kid with food to extract information, cap him in his head, take the potato chips back and then dump his corpse in the sea. Makes you wonder why so many developers are leaving them out and Deus Ex blantanty leaves them in there.
Ahem... Resident Evil up to 3 yeah we all know it's cheesy shit.
Anyone remember Alex Kid and the Lost Stars "FIND THE MIRACLE BALL"... Argh!
Another 2 games that happen to be great, but suffer from bad voice acting. Operation Flashpoint and ArmA.
"Enahmy.... machinegunner.... at... toooh oh clawk"
"OH... NO! ... Se...ven... is down
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This reminds me that nobody has mentioned the old Avengers arcade game.
"You will be the ones escaping!"
"Don't disturb us!"
"I... can't... looooose!"
"I never give up!"
"I'm just an olllld maaaan"
Bahaha. Cracks me up everytime.
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Kill.
And Tails's voice.
"A Grey!"
Best.Description.Ever.
Heh, I think I remember my friends and I quoting "YOU STUPID MEN!" from that Avengers game too.
"You would. Leave us now? We triumphed together. There is. Still much work. To be done."
"Ho! He is right! What of the fellowship? Is battle all there is for you?"
And this reminds me of the wierdest thing about Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom. Each character has a line they spout when they get knocked down: the fighter's got the infamous "By the Abyss!", the Cleric's got "Alfic's Shadow!" (or the closest approximation) and the Dwarf's got "Orc Spawn!". So what's the Elf got?
"Buy my boat!"
It's not even done in the VA's normal voice, it's some wierd hurried gnomish midgit voice. I am as perplexed as any of you are.
WTF, sounds american?
Maybe it's "By my oath", or "By my bow"? Or maybe she really wants to move up to a full-size yacht, I don't know.
Perhaps he wants a Viking style funeral?
Just for reference, it goes Cleric-Dwarf-Fighter-Elf (Spell)-Elf (Wierd-ass cry)
Oh dear... just listening to them trying to affect an Irish accent is enough to give anyone hysterics. Not to mention their weird, rapid eye movements.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
I thought the voice acting was perfectly serviceable.
EDIT: Whoops, meaningful post coming.
EDIT: It's bad in that upper level of bad where it really isn't bad, kind of like a cake of voiceacting. FL's voiceacting is like the frosting, a damn good treat compared to the pallette horrors waiting as you go through layer after layer of the actual cake itself.
And people still managed to complain about the lack of voice-acting.
What is this from?
It sounds so silly.
It's possible the correct quote is "Thelordoftheforest... has... returned...", but it's kinda hard to understand.
More badly-delivered VA goodness
I am still so goddamn pissed that they included the original Japanese voice audio and require you to use a cheat code at the start of a new game to use it.
Heh. I think he does a fine enough job. It's just that he's a bit...over-enthusiastic.
The voices in the game itself through are sooooo great. The Space Marine voices in particular are so iconic that every time I play my SM army on the tabletop, I imagine their voices from DoW. In fact, for some reason, every RTS game I've played has some pretty great voice acting when it comes to the units. Maybe it's just because they say short lines. The Starcraft campaign had pretty good VA though.
You hear Silverbolt leading your troops?
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At first I didn't know what to say to yout post. BUT, due to the power of the Internets, I have realized that it is not Scott McNeil (who voiced Silverbolt in Beast Wars) that voiced the Space Marines, but Brian Dobson. Scott McNeil did do a Space Marine Sergeant Mattias who I don't remember but whatever. Another victory for information gathering!
Audio Atrocities
Also, I wanted to ask Houk, is any of your voice work in this trailer for Soul Nomad?
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23805.html
Oh, and this game has some pretty good ones:
http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/lastalert/index.html
Yeah, I knew it was the Sergeant. That's why I said leading your troops. :P
He also did that one Chaos dude, but I'm sure you knew that.
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I'd love to see what they'd do with a Welsh character lol.
(I know, I know, it's not so much bad voice-acting, just...I don't know. It annoys me. It takes me out of my game-playing haze and reminds me I'm playing a game.)
Hell, all they had to do was hire me! I can do a brilliant non-Irish pirate accent! *pulls leg behind back, rests knee on stool* AAAAAAAaaaaar! Captain Iron-teeth Rumspiggot be me name! Hoist the poop-deck! Bristle the mizzen! Aaaaaaar!