Cue the people saying that it's supposed to sound forced, etc. etc. :P
I'm currently in a library, sans headphones and ruing it, but this particular scene is so burned into my memory as an awkward failure of game voice acting that it's almost like I can hear them any ways.
That whole game was a monument to low-quality VA, in fact.
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cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
edited October 2008
Magna Carta: Tears of Blood.
I can't find a clip of the character I'm thinking of, but anyone who's played it probably knows who I mean.
For good voice acting, ironically, I think of a game localized by the same company: Digital Devil Saga(both games in the series).
I'm currently in a library, sans headphones and ruing it, but this particular scene is so burned into my memory as an awkward failure of game voice acting that it's almost like I can hear them any ways.
That whole game was a monument to low-quality VA, in fact.
To this day, when me and my brother are getting pumped up to do anything, one of us will yell SHOOT LIKE CRAZY!
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ShockwaveBack In BlackOntario, CanadaRegistered Userregular
Now, I want to stress that first of all, this is the first game I've returned in 20 years. This came for free with my PS3 and I still wanted my money back.
Enchanted Arm had some of the worst voice acting in the history of ever. The voices were bad enough, but the actual acting, pacing, stressing of words was just horrible. You have to wonder where they cast these voice actors.
Cue the people saying that it's supposed to sound forced, etc. etc. :P
I'm currently in a library, sans headphones and ruing it, but this particular scene is so burned into my memory as an awkward failure of game voice acting that it's almost like I can hear them any ways.
That whole game was a monument to low-quality VA, in fact.
Really? Considering some of the examples we've seen in this topic, I don't see how this game is that bad. I figured the acting was decent. But opinions and all that.
About Haze, was it that bad? That's surpising, cause the VA in all the other Free Radical games I can think of were pretty good.
I and three of my friends got that entire intro sequence memorized, even the timing of the sounds. Sometimes we do it in front of complete strangers just to see how flabbergasted they get when four people suddenly burst into drama.
Cue the people saying that it's supposed to sound forced, etc. etc. :P
I'm currently in a library, sans headphones and ruing it, but this particular scene is so burned into my memory as an awkward failure of game voice acting that it's almost like I can hear them any ways.
That whole game was a monument to low-quality VA, in fact.
I couldn't disagree more. Aside from Tidus and Yuna, I thought the VA work was often quite good. Even those two weren't terrible the whole time.
Cue the people saying that it's supposed to sound forced, etc. etc. :P
I'm currently in a library, sans headphones and ruing it, but this particular scene is so burned into my memory as an awkward failure of game voice acting that it's almost like I can hear them any ways.
That whole game was a monument to low-quality VA, in fact.
I couldn't disagree more. Aside from Tidus and Yuna, I thought the VA work was often quite good. Even those two weren't terrible the whole time.
Wakka was really good, Lulu, too. I think the biggest problem with FFX is that they're stuck with an absolutely terrible script and an awful director.
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Cue the people saying that it's supposed to sound forced, etc. etc. :P
I'm currently in a library, sans headphones and ruing it, but this particular scene is so burned into my memory as an awkward failure of game voice acting that it's almost like I can hear them any ways.
That whole game was a monument to low-quality VA, in fact.
I couldn't disagree more. Aside from Tidus and Yuna, I thought the VA work was often quite good. Even those two weren't terrible the whole time.
To clarify, while the voice actors themselves were generally decent, they were clearly forced to read their lines completely out of context. The end product sounds forced and disjointed to me.
But yeah, opinions lol.
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The main problem with that scene was that the whole idea was "make it sound like they're just forcing it," which they arguably did too good of a job at, or too poor depending on your perspective. It's like trying to tell a high schooler to impersonate a professional actor playing a high schooler. Things just end up bad no matter what.
Man, aside from that one scene which everybody has already explained to death, I thought the VA in FFX was perfectly fine.
But as people have said before, direction is everything, and you can tell the direction team behind FFX was a little green around the gills, being the first voiced FF and all. I know I personally get a kick out of people who say they hated Tidus' and Wakka's voice, but then say they loved Jack Sparrow from Kingdom Hearts 2 or Bender from Futurama. Look at the credits, they didn't just grab idiots off the street, they actually got quite a few professionals. But like it was said, most of the work is with the director.
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Japanese voice acting is always going to be (within reason) better. Music isn't played on the radio there, and so it mostly has talk-shows and radio dramas. Because of this, the amount of professionally-trained voice actors are numerous.
Cue the people saying that it's supposed to sound forced, etc. etc. :P
I'm currently in a library, sans headphones and ruing it, but this particular scene is so burned into my memory as an awkward failure of game voice acting that it's almost like I can hear them any ways.
That whole game was a monument to low-quality VA, in fact.
I couldn't disagree more. Aside from Tidus and Yuna, I thought the VA work was often quite good. Even those two weren't terrible the whole time.
To clarify, while the voice actors themselves were generally decent, they were clearly forced to read their lines completely out of context. The end product sounds forced and disjointed to me.
But yeah, opinions lol.
Yeah, I can't blame the voice actors, because both Billy West and John DiMaggio did major voices for the game and both have proven in other shows (Futurama to be specific) to be great voice actors.
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admanbunionize your workplaceSeattle, WARegistered Userregular
Japanese voice acting is always going to be (within reason) better. Music isn't played on the radio there, and so it mostly has talk-shows and radio dramas. Because of this, the amount of professionally-trained voice actors are numerous.
There's WAY worse, but I can't find it, nor do I have the patience. Its even WORSE voice acting because the actor has a REAL LIFE PERSON he should be trying to emulate, and obviously doesn't even CARE. It's one thing to think you have some really awesome take on an original charecter's voice, and its dumb. It's another to be hired to copy a guy's voice, and just not even try.
When Tidus laughs in Japanese, he sounds like Gilbert Gottfried.
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Blue mapHello darkness, my old friend.Registered Userregular
edited October 2008
I would just like to point out that no matter how bad the voice work in Mega man 8 and X4 was it can always take pride in the fact that they are not Mega man X7, ladies and gentlemen i present to you Flame Hyenard.
(skip to 3:20 the boss)
Whats happening here is that during the fight the boss clones himself, but rather than having giving only one of the clones a voice or simply having all of them playing the clip in unison, they each have there own voice meaning you're hearing an already annoying voice clip roughly three times more often than you should
Because there is funny bad, and then there is painful bad.
I and three of my friends got that entire intro sequence memorized, even the timing of the sounds. Sometimes we do it in front of complete strangers just to see how flabbergasted they get when four people suddenly burst into drama.
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I'm currently in a library, sans headphones and ruing it, but this particular scene is so burned into my memory as an awkward failure of game voice acting that it's almost like I can hear them any ways.
That whole game was a monument to low-quality VA, in fact.
I can't find a clip of the character I'm thinking of, but anyone who's played it probably knows who I mean.
For good voice acting, ironically, I think of a game localized by the same company: Digital Devil Saga(both games in the series).
To this day, when me and my brother are getting pumped up to do anything, one of us will yell SHOOT LIKE CRAZY!
Now, I want to stress that first of all, this is the first game I've returned in 20 years. This came for free with my PS3 and I still wanted my money back.
Really? Considering some of the examples we've seen in this topic, I don't see how this game is that bad. I figured the acting was decent. But opinions and all that.
About Haze, was it that bad? That's surpising, cause the VA in all the other Free Radical games I can think of were pretty good.
why don't you think on the positive side for a bit, like
this
You and I think alike.
Red Alert is the pinnacle of video game VA.
You had Balthier and Fran.
Fran.
I and three of my friends got that entire intro sequence memorized, even the timing of the sounds. Sometimes we do it in front of complete strangers just to see how flabbergasted they get when four people suddenly burst into drama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmRwX2H2fos
I couldn't disagree more. Aside from Tidus and Yuna, I thought the VA work was often quite good. Even those two weren't terrible the whole time.
My Let's Play Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UC2go70QLfwGq-hW4nvUqmog
Wakka was really good, Lulu, too. I think the biggest problem with FFX is that they're stuck with an absolutely terrible script and an awful director.
To clarify, while the voice actors themselves were generally decent, they were clearly forced to read their lines completely out of context. The end product sounds forced and disjointed to me.
But yeah, opinions lol.
But as people have said before, direction is everything, and you can tell the direction team behind FFX was a little green around the gills, being the first voiced FF and all. I know I personally get a kick out of people who say they hated Tidus' and Wakka's voice, but then say they loved Jack Sparrow from Kingdom Hearts 2 or Bender from Futurama. Look at the credits, they didn't just grab idiots off the street, they actually got quite a few professionals. But like it was said, most of the work is with the director.
Great moments in Deus Ex: Hong Kong
Every time I fire up Deus Ex, I modify the voice volume settings to hear the "I spill my drink!" voice clip. It's hilarious every time.
For fun, watch the original Japanese version of the scene subbed in English. (The scene picks up at 5:46) You would notice a few things...
1) The Japanese voice acting a on a whole level better.
2) The scene collapses somewhat into "normalcy" at the end
は は は!
Japanese voice acting is always going to be (within reason) better. Music isn't played on the radio there, and so it mostly has talk-shows and radio dramas. Because of this, the amount of professionally-trained voice actors are numerous.
Way to many bad accents in Hong Kong.
Yeah, I can't blame the voice actors, because both Billy West and John DiMaggio did major voices for the game and both have proven in other shows (Futurama to be specific) to be great voice actors.
It's not voice acting...
You forgot:
3) (skip to 7:40) CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aa8B7hIynE
Though all the VA in that game is excellent.
Locke, from LOST: Via Domus.
Ugh
There's WAY worse, but I can't find it, nor do I have the patience. Its even WORSE voice acting because the actor has a REAL LIFE PERSON he should be trying to emulate, and obviously doesn't even CARE. It's one thing to think you have some really awesome take on an original charecter's voice, and its dumb. It's another to be hired to copy a guy's voice, and just not even try.
And as a bonus, fucking Charlie's singing:
Leperchaun
For anyone who loves the show and hasn't played this, don't. But if you must, at least know Michael Emerson does Ben's voice, so that's still sacred.
MIRROR SLICE.
Oh god, Claude when the computer controls him. TEAR INTO TEAR IN-TEAR INTO PI-TEAR
Alternatively:
POISON PILLS! POISON POISON PI-POISON PILLS!
(skip to 3:20 the boss)
Because there is funny bad, and then there is painful bad.
Burn to the ground. BURN!! Burn to th- BURN BURN!
I don't know, I have a pretty serious man crush for Michael Bell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlGJ8yymkRM
e. And I just now see the ouroboros. lol symbolism.
HAHAHahhahahaa
oh wow, I'd forgot that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KObyZVFTDwo
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=dulfJo-NmWU
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Read my book. (It has a robot in it.)
Eternal Darkness is also quality.
The thing is, good VO can be ruined by bad dialogue. Too Human has ostensibly perfect voice work, but a lot of the lines were really crass and cliche.
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