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[kumanoki]

Which game has the best voice acting? Which games from past systems were well voiced?

 

[Sho Nuff]

Rumble Roses

 

[Lathentar]

Metal Gear Solid... NOT Twin Snakes.

 

[DMczaf]

Madden NFL series. Awesome voice acting!

 

[6.8]

Grim Fandango hands down.

 

[keeblerdrow]

Katamari Damacy

 

[SKluck]

HL2. No one comes close.

 

[jiggle]

Kingdom Hearts

 

[Salmon]

Eternal Darkness and GTA: San Andreas maybe.
And of course Animal Crossing

 

[firex]

fallout had macgyver so it's great!

It really does have some awesome voice acting, though. Both of those games do.

 

[Gribbix]

Legacy of Kain Series

 

[jett]

Take your pick from the many PC Adventure games that exist. I personally choose Space Quest VI.

 

[ManaByte]

EverQuest II has Christopher Lee. Christopher Lee >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you.

 

[Culex]

Grandia II

 

[AniHawk]

Knights of the Old Republic
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Eternal Darkness

 

[kumanoki]

At the time, I thought the voice acting in Popful Mail was spectacular.

 

[Virgin Wii]

Eternal Darkness has been the most consistant from my experience.

 

[vireland]

For best, I'd have to go with:

Grim Fandango and Full Throttle. Though GF is more amazing than FT, they were both really, really good, and make me look forward to Psychonauts.

The person who said Rumble Roses for best acting *had* to be joking. That VA is not terrible enough to be cheesy cool, it's just plain bad.

 

[Prine]

Knights of the Old Republic
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Eternal Darkness

yep

MGS2 and Halo 2 come close (Arbitor fucking rocks)

 

[epmode]

Grim Fandango hands down.

this is the most believable news in the thread.

 

[vireland]

At the time, I thought the voice acting in Popful Mail was spectacular.

Ah, yes. Who could forget Clabberdeen Clotchsnyffer Leetzelwiffle Poopiewouffen von
Venuncio Kraken Lichter Rachetface the 14th, Feudal Lord of Odorburg.

Also known as...Venuncio. There were some great characters to work with in that game. I really want to do another Falcom game...

 

[Amir0x]

Grim Fandango
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Kingdom Hearts
Knights of the Old Republic
Eternal Darkness

 

[cvxfreak]

Metal Gear Solid

 

[Truelize]

Halo 2
Kotor

 

[bitwise]

bard's tale

 

[Parallax Scroll]

Resident Evil (PSX)

 

[Salt&Slug]

KOTOR comes to mind first for me, especially because a lot of the dialogue was long, rambling, and would have been incredibly awkward in the hands of the wrong actor/director.

GTAVC and GTASA, of course.

Disgaea was way better than I thought it'd be.

 

[Gazunta]

Space Taxi

 

[SantaC]

Eternal Darkness

 

[Baconäger]

MGS (and TTS).

Liquid has like the coolest voice ever and Hayter is God.

 

[Tsubaki]

Grandia has the best cast ever.


(And of course I'm talking about the Saturn version: Hidaka Noriko, Hisakawa Aya, Touma Yumi, Inoue Kikuko, Yamaguchi Kappei and meh... Nishihara Kumiko)

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

MGS3!

Three words...
IVAN RAIDENOVICH RAIKOV!

 

[Sho Nuff]

TTS was garbage

 

[johnjohnson]

Knights of the Old Republic
GTA:SA
MGS2, MGS3
the PAL version of Shenmue 2 (with the japanese voices)

And of course Galleon has some stupendous voice actors.

 

[Suikoguy]

Metal Gear Solid SERIES
Kingdom Hearts was pretty darn good too

 

[kumanoki]

And of course Galleon has some stupendous voice actors.

Ghaleon was a stupendous voice actor.

P.s.- I wonder what happened to all the Working Delays voice actors? I'll bet they're hungry.

 

[En-ou]

sometimes david hayter sounds like someone's choking him as snake. most pc games have good voice acting.

 

[lexi]

Wing Commander 4. NO COMPETITION.

 

[bobbyconover]

Mr Driller: Drill Spirits

"GIRL POWER!"

 

[Jonnyram]

Fighting Vipers

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Recently finished Vampire: Bloodlines. Not only is most of the voice acting very, very good, but some of it is quite arousing.

 

[Ecrofirt]

OoT

 

[ThirstyFly]

Day of the Tentacle!

 

[SpokkX]

Star Wars Knights of the old republic and Halo 2 (surprisingly good)


Metal Gear SERIES??! have you even played part 3 or the Twin Snakes? horrible. horrible acting

Metal Gear Solid SERIES
Kingdom Hearts was pretty darn good too

 

[PC Gaijin]

Ys Book I & II. It's one of the few Turbografx CDs with good English voice acting. Voice acting in general is pretty good nowadays.

 

[MarkRyan]

How 'bout the entire Metal Gear Solid series and the entire Legacy of Kain series? Nothing else I've heard comes close in quality of acting and writing.

And are people nominating GTA joking?

 

[Solid]

Eternal Darkness

w00t! You surprised me there! Good choice

And MGS2/3 too.

 

[Blame!]

THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK: ESCAPE FROM BUTCHER BAY.

my, how quickly we forget.

 

[Templar Wizard]

Riddick is quite good, Kotor has to get a mention because every line is voiced (which isnt true for every game) and its of quite high quality, although the Alien languages are repeated, which is a bad thing.

Grim Fandango is superb, Manny is a genuinely funny character and his voicework fits his script wonderfully.

 

[Templar Wizard]

additions:

Vampire:bloodlines has some great acting, although it is let down by what seems to be complete n00bs doing some voice work, developers perhaps? that bounty hunter VO seemed to have been recorded in some guys bedroom with a tape-recorder by a guy who was after a beer or two.

but how could i forget the BEST VOICED CHARACTER EVER:

Walton Simons in Deus Ex. Tom Hall, I salute you!