My vote goes for this http://youtube.com/watch?v=BU8-e-C4Uy0 . What do you think
The script is what’s bad about that one (and the horrible, horrible music), not the acting per se. Who on Earth could make anything out of that script?
WoW has some stunningly bad voice acting, much worse than that, with comparably bad scripts.
The voice acting in the NDS game Luminous Arc is terrible almost all around. It’s a medieval high-fantasy setting (with a tiny bit of steampunk), and most of the female characters (including battle-hardened witches, angels, etc.) sound like play-acting valley girls. I know it’s part of the Japanese anime aesthetic, but it’s incredibly jarring.
… ‘Hey, do you know a place where sailors hang out?’
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… Just…what?
Anyway, to the OP…ain’t nothing wrong with the voice acting in that scene. Tidus and Yuna both have some really bad moments, but that’s not one of them.
The worst in the game is near the end, after…hrm, do I need a spoiler tag for a 7 year old game? Eh, I’ll be safe:
After they’ve gotten inside Sin and Tidus is confronting Jecht. He breaks down in tears, and…it’s…not really effective.
Yuna’s worst line is one of her entrances when called into an ongoing battle. ‘Yuna here!’ The line itself is fine, but the way she says it isn’t. The emphasis she puts on it is…really weird. It would have better fit when she’s using her Berzerker dressphere in X-2 - it sounds like caveman talk.
If you actually get the hang of translating Al Bhed by ear, you’ll notice some of the dialogue is really off - no two actors have quite the same pronunciation - no two have the same accent when speaking English, either; compare Rikku, Cid*, and Rin (Brother doesn’t count, since he hardly speaks English) - and some of them have really odd cadence - but that’s probably a result of the odd letter combos that Al Bhed ends up with.
(I love the game, and most of the voice work - Rikku’s voice delights me - but there are flaws.)
- I hate Cid’s accent. Or should I say ‘I hate Shid’s acshent’?
The worst I’ve seen would be in one of the Grandia games…I couldn’t tell you which, because the voices just drove me completely nuts so I dropped the game really early.
Worst recently…any scene with the Leblanc Syndicate in the first chapter of FFX-2. After that, Leblanc herself, and Ormi, in any case, get the hang of it. (Logos and the male Goons still drive me right to the end, but even they get better.)
Tenchu for PS1 has some really bad examples – made more painful by the fact that you have to sit through so many cutscenes! I couldn’t find video, but here are some audio samples from this site:
Wait for the horrifyingly bad laugh at the end
and my favourite, the Wayne’s World
So obviously no one has played House of the Dead? Worst voice acting ever. All monotone no matter whats happening.
Err, seriously? What is so bad about it?
Revenant Threshold, I only watched someone play Shenmue for 5 minutes, but I still get the story behind this.
I humbly submit Resident Evil for consideration:
“I don’t know what happened!”
“You, the master of unlocking…”
“Now it’s Wesker’s time to disappear!”
Yoy.
“What is this? …Blood?”
Honestly, I think FFX-2 has the worst voice acting ever. I finally got it for $10 because my friend said “While the voice acting is horrible, the battle system is pretty neat so if you can get past the voice acting…” Voice-overs have never bothered me before. But I got barely 20 minutes into the game and just stopped playing because the voice acting was Og-awful. I want my $10 back.
The voice acting is a good part of why I stopped playing FFX before the end. Well, that and the insane Chocobo races to get Tidus’ ultimate weapon.
Oh this is so hard to single any one out since perhaps 1 in 10 games with actual acting features acting that I’d rate at least “not eargougingly bad”. Game acting makes Sturgeon’s Law look hopelessly optimistic. It leaves me with a field of thousands to select from. I’m going to have to go with Hell mainly because it features Dennis Hopper phoning it in. The game is appropriately titled: it is bad enough to eat away your soul and the voice acting is just one aspect of that.
House of the Dead 2 - (clip here) - is worse than any of the ones in this thread, bar none. Goldman is absolutely the worst-voice-acted character in the history of games. Not just the voice but the script, too.
“Man committed a sin. Disturbing the life cycle of nature. The original sin that man is responsible to. To protect the loooiife cycle.”
Most of the voice actors in GTA: San Andreas, especially the voice of C.J.
Frank Vincent, however, made it all worth it.
I was going to nominate 7th Guest (which I know dates me as a gamer) but…
…this is just hilarious.
I thought SA had pretty good voice-acting.
I mean, sure, CJ’s constant stream of jabber to passers-by/victims/hookers/whoever is grating, but the cutscene acting was decent, IMHO.
*His dialogue during the dating submissions was stupid as hell, admittedly, but that’s the fault of the writers, not the actor.
I came in here to mention House of the Dead 2, but I see I’ve been beaten to it. I’m not that familiar with the voiceover acting in too many video games, but if there’s one out there worse than HOTD2, I’ll be very surprised.
Is it the acting or the voice over from “Tad” and “Stauf” that you didn’t like? That game had live action in it, so I’m not sure what you mean.
I actually found Stauf and Tad to be pretty good voices, but my memory may be warped by time and the greatness of the game.
Here’s an clip of the intro, which I remember scaring me to death as a 14 year old boy.
Edit: The clip works, but the sound is slightly off.
Try this clip, but go to 2:15 into it. Scared me to death as a kid!
Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force. Note done by Jeri Ryan. So bad 1 of the patches to the game replace her with Jeri Ryan voice.