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I dunno, I take the initial restriction to mean 'no games in Japanese', so games that are from Japan but dubbed in English are fair game. Otherwise this topic is rather painfully limited, don't you think?

Anyway, in that case I have to nominate Virtual On Marz. It's bad enough that they have eight bajillion fucking Temjin variants, but the acting is truly atrocious.

"Was the battle....the work of the underground?"

Resident Evil has the absolute worst voice acting I've ever heard.

And the Wilhelm scream is Ben Burtt's sound signature. It first gained prominence in Star Wars: A New Hope. You hear a stormtrooper emit this unique scream when he falls down the Death Star shaft after being shot by Leia. It's appeared in every movie Burtt has ever done sound work for.

I believe that Warner Brothers' sound department first filed it under "Man Being Eaten By Alligator" back in the 50's. Then it was used in a cowboy movie for a character named Wilhelm getting shot by an arrow, hence the name.

I'm speaking by 'Japanese Game', like.. Japanese people trying to speak english. (Main screen turn on! It's you.)

The Kernel wrote:Codename: Outbreak. This game sounded like the Russian developers brought in a bunch of people off the street in Moscow to play American military officers. Hillarity ensues.

Nitpick #1: I think the company who made Codename: Outbreak is Ukrainian, not Russian.

Nitpick #2: Though never having played the game, I have read in PC Player (a Danish magazine about computer games) that the soldiers in Codename: Outbreak are supposed to be an international taskforce gathered from different parts of the world.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:
just how often can you hear: walk softly and carry a big gun, the craftworld calls to us,

Those lines suck, but I can listen to "Die! Die! Die!" and "Even in death I still serve!" over and over.

LP

true

but warcraft/starcraft has much more veriety in their responses then C&C or DoW.

"Are you trying to get invited to my next BBQ?"
"you don't click the other elves the way you do me."
"quit touching me!"
"We've got explosives!!!"

Alan Bolte wrote:I don't know about worst, but the Battle of Endor in X-Wing Alliance is pretty painful.

Yeah that's just awfull, you notice a real difference if listen to Billy Dee Williams (Lando in EBS and Jedi Outcast) and that no name "actor" in X-wing Alliance (they don't sound at all alike)

computer VA's are somewhat overrated, I remember lots of fun classic games before there even was such a thing in a computer game. Then again I rembmer how pround I was when I created a "HAL voice" for a computer game....

Most of the voice acting in Sonic Heroes was nothing short of painful, especially Tails who sounded like a little girl.

Oddly enough, the Japanese voice actors occasionally broke out into English. Damned if I know why, but it was pretty obvious that Sonic's Japanese voice actor didn't speak English when he exclaimed "that was tight!" as if it were all one word.

"The Master of Unlocking"

Come on, is there any competition? Nothing comes even close to Resident Evil.

It's a pretty easy pick, but the acting for the Dynasty Warriors series is pretty bad on the dubbed setting, hence why I always keep mine on subtitles.

Trogdor wrote:Most of the voice acting in Sonic Heroes was nothing short of painful, especially Tails who sounded like a little girl.

Oddly enough, the Japanese voice actors occasionally broke out into English. Damned if I know why, but it was pretty obvious that Sonic's Japanese voice actor didn't speak English when he exclaimed "that was tight!" as if it were all one word.

Reminiscent of Sonic X...that blue hedgehog seems to love English, for some reason. ("Ah...whataniceview!")

FarCry by far....cry.

mplsjocc wrote:FarCry by far....cry.

These mutant apes got me so mad!

Yeah, that was pretty apalling. Which is a shame, because the rest of the game (minus the story) was good fun.

Dakarne wrote:A Cross between the Sonic Heroes dub and the aliens in Knights of the Old Republic

Actually, the English track for Sonic Heroes was written and recorded first, and it was then dubbed into Japanese. (It's no coincidence the Japanese version resembles Sonic X aurally, they use the same cast, and have been since Sonic Adventure, Sonic has always sprinkled his dialogue with English)

The worst I can think of in recent years (y'know, after most people started using real actors) is Starfox Assault. That was just ugly.

3rd Impact wrote:

mplsjocc wrote:FarCry by far....cry.

These mutant apes got me so mad!

Yeah, that was pretty apalling. Which is a shame, because the rest of the game (minus the story) was good fun.

I thought the voices were amusing. The main character is like a parody of action heroes.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:

Dakarne wrote:The best piece of voice acting ever.

The Wilhelm Scream!

are you refering to the frenzy in Vampire: Redemption?

You're on a Star Wars message board and you don't know what the Wilhelm Scream is?!

http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm/

yup didn't know that. figures given how many homages everyone else uses. Damn that's got to rank up there with the extra getting her legs crushed in Dr. Zhivago. "Replace the actress keep the Scream"

I don't know if this is true, but I have heard that the RE voice overs where intentionally done bad as a joke. I have never had this confirmed, but if it is true they did a damn good job because it is so fucking funny.

Dark Hellion wrote:I don't know if this is true, but I have heard that the RE voice overs where intentionally done bad as a joke. I have never had this confirmed, but if it is true they did a damn good job because it is so fucking funny.

I would not be surprised, since the Resident Evil games are supposed to done in the exact same spirit as really awful splatter/horror movies.

WC2 was pretty lame.

I do however, have to give an honorable mention for the BEST VOICE ACTING EVER.

Tachyon: The Fringe.

Hours and hours of Bruce Campbell orgasmgoodness.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:true

but warcraft/starcraft has much more veriety in their responses then C&C or DoW.

"Are you trying to get invited to my next BBQ?"
"you don't click the other elves the way you do me."
"quit touching me!"
"We've got explosives!!!"

Most of that was done for humor(and overdone in part III). Just about everyone in the 41st Milennium who's not an Ork has had their sense of humor surgically removed with a rusty chainfist.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:but warcraft/starcraft has much more veriety in their responses then C&C or DoW.

"Are you trying to get invited to my next BBQ?"
"you don't click the other elves the way you do me."
"quit touching me!"
"We've got explosives!!!"

That's just not true. Take a look at the newest C&C games, where you have the most happy-go-lucky truck bombers EVER. (Look out for the bumps!)

The Battle of Endor in Rogue Squadron 2 had a terrible Admiral Ackbar imitation for the voice. It was so bad that I had seen ANH and ESB before playing it, and afterwards I dreaded seeing ROTJ if Ackbar really had a voice like that.

Final Fight CD: the voices are clearly all done by the same guy, and one of the voices for (I think it's Guy) is the most stereotypical ("dorky white guy impression") I've ever heard. It's embarrassing!

Laughably bad, the numerous 90's 3-D games the "Don't come... don't come!" girl appears in.

Somebody might want to mention Diakatana... though that gave us "Superfly's Johnson."