So, you didn't want to snap her neck, with the whole "I am gone", "I care not", and "I've done had enough of this" comments. And my personal worst was "Puffguts used to read me stories". Nails on a chalkboard that girl's voice and comments. I always wonder why I stick with that girl throughout the whole game.

Thief/Mage. Bad ass combination.

I forgot to mention a game I find has appalling voice acting: Dust: An Elysian Tail. Definitely not as bad as some of the older games, especially not as bad as the one I previously mentioned, the awfully voiced Deep Fear, but pretty bad, nonetheless. And, please, stop making excuses for the terrible voice acting just because you love that game, by saying it's indie, so let's give it a break. Being indie just doesn't excuse bad voice acting anymore, not after the likes of Bastion and the wonderfully voiced Wadjet Eye adventure games.

Dust is a serious voice acting offender, and Fidget is probably the most annoying character ever. Who cares if she's "cute"?! She's like Navi on steroids...

...someone just mentioned he liked that :)

Well, i think i picked that one up in some discount - should give it a shot and find about myself.

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series are often praised for the russian voice acting, adding some more "immersive content". (I can't really speak about it, since even though I bought them too last week, I don't have tried them yet).

I remember people debating on french voice acting concerning the Mass Effect series, and concerning muted player characters like the Grey Warden in Dragon Age Origins (and Synbios in Shining Force III) .

Like tv series, changing voice actors between games of the same series can happen, and it's pretty annoying: french voice cast for Kane (Joseph D. Kucan) changed between C&C Tiberian Dawn and C&C Tiberian Sun (and Red Alert too) for instance. Don't get me wrong, they were both good voice acting, but the change was a bit strange. EA games (C&C series, C&C:RA series, Dune 2000, Emperor Battle for Dune, Battle for Middle Earth, Dungeon keeper and so on) usually had great voice acting.

But since some recent crowdfunding campaigns, adding voice acting was questionnable because it is really expensive, so I don't mind playing games without voice acting just like in the old days, if the other content is great.

I remember that I was surprised the first time when I heard french voice in Fallout Tactics, back then, since even in french version of Fallout 1 & 2, original voice acting was kept for the few characters who had it. :D

As soon as I saw the title I thought, "Two Worlds". Sometimes it sounds as if they just used one person to record all the dialogue and then just manipulated it into "different" voices. It all just sounds so stiff and unnatural. You get the feeling they just shoved the script in front of someone with no experience and said "Read this". Pauses in the wrong places, emphasis on wrong words. Not to mention the unintentionally (?) hilarious script - "I'm looking for the taint".

Some of the best Voice acting i have ever heard goes to Vampire Bloodlines really great acting all around and some big names too

I clicked on this thread and immediately went Ctrl+F "Two Worlds". I'm glad you other GOGlodytes didn't disappoint (although there were no hits on the first page!). A clear winner for worst voice acting. Still, I like the game very much :)

The German dub of Curse of Monkey Island was really good work.

"Weißt du etwas darüber, wie man Flüche aufhebt?"
"Oh, richtig! Ich weiß viel über das Aufheben. Deshalb bin ich ein körperloser sprechender Schädel, der mitten in einem Sumpf auf einem Pfahl aufgespießt ist."
"Du scheinst, verbittert zu sein."
"Tut mir leid. Es war ein harter Tag."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FizIXtFGxA

:-D

The italian version of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion was one of the worst dub ever made! Back in 2006 every journalist was talking about how poor and hilarious it was. I still remember this: when you finish the main quest you get the Imperial Dragon Armor (in English), in Italian you get "Ciccioli imperiali" (--> Translation: Imperial wart/ protuberance).
XD
As for good voice acting, Mass Effect series (both English and Italian dub) is amazing.

Well that's a can of worms. The foreign Simpsons voices are generally good, and the french ones are no excpetions - but the jokes (especially the plays on words) get sometimes lost.

The french South Park is a bit awful. They often try to "add funny" through comical cartoony voices, while the english version plays it deadpan (the crude drawings do enough for the distanciation, so, actors shouldn't feel forced to hammer "i am saying this for fun actually" into their style). Take one dumb exemple : the shock, distress and incomprehension of Kyle's father when his warcraft character gets killed is some dumb-sounding "puurkhwaaah", on a comedic "hello this is me making a 'why' sound in a self-aware wimpy voice that means that "it is not actually serious and that the character is dumb but i am just making his voice and i am entirely aware that he is wrong here but you know i just read my line as a joke because we are making a humorous show with comical characters who are not me" tone.

Well, it doesn't work well. I mean, "Airplane" worked because of its characters sounding so much into it, and south park is the same. A subtletly that its french dubbers don't really grasp.

ANYWAY, RANT. I don't like dubbing in general, and yes, the game (and cartoon) lovalisations are generally even cheaper and more neglected than movies, which themselves are terrible. And god the tv series. They have like three actors doing all the voices, and all the different faces of different actors in different series share the same voice and tone of "the girl (and the woman and the child)", "the tough guy", "the sensible hero", and "the grunt". Close your eyes, and it sounds like some lame one-man-show stand-up routine. Argh. Fuck that.

Off topic.

Well, the Resident Evil series are always good for a laugh, but I have soft spot for the original Silent Hill. Harry Mason is incredibly calm considering the crap he's witnessing. "I'm looking for my daughter...Cheryl."

The Walking Dead series has some pretty good voice acting, though.

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I rather enjoy bad voice acting, though it could be because I grew up watching lots Chinese martial arts movies, Spanish westerns, Italian ancient Rome and Greek Heroes and World War movies, and Japanese Godzilla, and Alien movies that were dubbed in and out of lip-sync.

In gaming, I’ve yet to encounter any that has ruined the experience, I’m happy to say.

Probably the worst example I can remember was in Empire Earth 1, especially with the French accent being spoken. Unforgettably bad, yet still entertaining...