Any era, doesnt matter. I just want to know of games where the actors knocked it out of the park.
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All of the actors for Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 were fantastic, but certain things stick with you forever.
I was fully expecting this line instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM
I love how he’s trying to not laugh at the ridiculous line, so good!
The first new Wolfenstein was amazing. They got actual German actors to play the nazis and it made a huge difference.
The narrator in Indika. Or really anybody in Indika. Especially considering the English actors aren’t even the original actors.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, for the original PlayStation. All these years later it’s still an amazing standout.
The whole series was fantastic, really. Absolute masterpieces of writing and voice acting.
It really was one of the first games to go all out with good voice acting.
Go and play other “big budget” games of the PS1 era like the Resident Evil series or even Metal Gear Solid to see the difference.
Soul Reaver really stood head and shoulders above everything at the time.
Bastion, Hades. Basically all supergiantgames.
Dionysus in hades. Dude amps me up so well I pick him over boons I like better.
Nearly everyone in Hades and Hades 2 have awesome voice actors. I’m particularly fond of Zagreus & Skelly from 1 and Melinoë, Hephaestus & Odysseus from 2. Great game and the VAs kick ass.
Same! I believe Zagreus and Skelly are both voiced by Darren Korb, who is the main composer of the ost, and also sings as Orpheus. Multi talented man!
Half Life : Alyx. Everyone is great but I especially enjoyed Rhys Darby as the guy in your headset. Tony Todd as the Vortigaunts was also really good.
I can’t speak for Alyx as I never got a chance to play more than 10 minutes and I know the voice actress changed for Alyx. But Episode 2, wow. It’s a treat to play the game with commentary. The end of Ep2 has Merle Dandridge (Alyx) getting emotional discussing the final scene.
Vaas from Far Cry 3.
This scene is always such a treat: https://youtu.be/rKMMCPeiQoc
Also Alan Tudyk in Portal 2.
You mean Stephen Merchant in Portal 2
You are correct. Never was good at remembering voice actors…
Ooh I forgot to mention Vaas in my reply. Michael Mando is amazing
Cave Johnson… Love J.K Simmons work overall but Cave was perfect.
I still tell people I will burn their house down with lemons.
All the Portal characters, really. Cave, GLaDOS, Wheatly, Chell…
Agreed, didn’t mean to leave anyone out. Brilliant writing with excellent voice acting in both games.
Even the turrets!
Especially the turrets. I love them so much. The first time I took one down and got hit with the “I don’t hate you” 💔 😭
Are you still there?
My favoriteturret quote:
“Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving the gift of knowledge to man. He was cast into the bowels of the Earth and pecked by birds.”
The female player character in Outriders was surprisingly very good. With the right face and hair, it was like Bobby Draper from The Expanse.
Too bad the rest of the game was kind of meh.
Not an actor, but the early voice synthesis was amazing the first times hearing it:
I’m picking nits, but Impossible Mission didn’t use voice synthesis (where a computer creates the voice sounds from scratch.) It was using really low-fi by modern standards (but amazing for the time) recordings of actual speech provided by an unknown actor.
From this interview with the programmer:
The speech in the game was real, digitized speech. The performances were provided by Electronic Speech Systems, who also provided the software for reproducing the speech on the Commodore 64. I told them what I wanted the game to say, and when they asked me what kind of voice I had in mind, I said I was imagining a fiftyish English guy, like a James Bond villain. I was told that they happened to have such a person on their staff, so, instead of hiring an actor, they let him take a whack at it, and I thought he was just fine. I never met the guy who provided the voice, but, to my knowledge, the recordings were not altered or processed, apart from being digitized. It is certainly possible, though, that Electronic Speech Systems could have tweaked them without my knowledge. There are no other digitized sounds in the game.
Heh, I specifically came here to post Impossible Mission!
It doesn’t get better than JC Denton in Deus Ex.
Fight me.
I would but a bombs a bad choice for close range combat.
Just a shame about some of the other voice acting from that game…
‘Rhetoric, and you believe it!’
‘JC Denton, in da fresh’
‘I spill my drink!’
‘JC - a bomb!’
Gabriel Angelos from the original Dawn of War
Man that entire game had banger after banger in the units voice lines. Still in my head over 20 years later.
Same here. The Dark Eldar builder slaves, the chaos lord, the space marine voice lines coming through their vox grills. So peak
Leonard Nimoy - Civilization 4
I was very impressed by Cherami Leigh in Cyberpunk 2077. She sent shivers down my spine.
Of course there is Roger Craig Smith from AC II, but I also enjoyed Noah Watts (III) and Steven Piovesan (Rogue).
Dominic Armato (Guybrush Threepwood) is an all time favourite of mine.
Of course there is Roger Craig Smith from AC II
Roger Craig Smith will always be my favorite Sonic the Hedgehog voice actor. The others are pretty good, but he has a quality that I personally feel captures the character.
And for those who don’t know, who are these people in game?
Always the main protagonist. Lady V in Cyberpunk 2077, Ezio in AC II, Ratonhnhaké:ton in AC III and Shay in AC Rogue.
