# Worst voice acting scene in videogames **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 13, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324 "2008-07-13T13:11:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![turkleton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@turkleton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turkleton)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/1 "2008-07-13T13:11:37Z")
My vote goes for this [http://youtube.com/watch?v=BU8-e-C4Uy0](http://youtube.com/watch?v=BU8-e-C4Uy0) . What do you think ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/2 "2008-07-13T15:47:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/3 "2008-07-13T15:58:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/4 "2008-07-13T16:00:35Z")
[Looking for sailors in Shenmue.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=dQa3yGXzGls&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/5 "2008-07-13T16:25:25Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] [Looking for sailors in Shenmue.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=dQa3yGXzGls&feature=related) [/QUOTE] … ‘Hey, do you know a place where sailors hang out?’ … … 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.) ---
**Author:** ![metonymic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@metonymic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metonymic)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/6 "2008-07-13T16:32:07Z")
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](http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/tenchu/index.html) site: Wait for the [horrifyingly bad laugh](http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/tenchu/clip7.mp3) at the end [it’s a beautiful night](http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/tenchu/clip5.mp3) and my favourite, the [Wayne’s World](http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/tenchu/clip12.mp3) ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/7 "2008-07-13T16:46:20Z")
So obviously no one has played House of the Dead? Worst voice acting ever. All monotone no matter whats happening. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/8 "2008-07-13T18:04:59Z")
[QUOTE=Knorf] WoW has some stunningly bad voice acting, much worse than that, with comparably bad scripts. [/QUOTE] 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](http://youtube.com/watch?v=LVAJiQ6NUWA). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/9 "2008-07-14T00:40:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/10 "2008-07-14T01:26:16Z")
[QUOTE=Enfant Terrible] 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. [/QUOTE] “What _is_ this? _…Blood?_” ---
**Author:** ![Pollux\_Oil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@Pollux\_Oil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pollux_Oil)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/11 "2008-07-14T02:27:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/12 "2008-07-14T07:27:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/13 "2008-07-14T07:38:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/14 "2008-07-14T08:19:48Z")
House of the Dead 2 - [(clip here)](http://youtube.com/watch?v=WPpayQFqoAE) - 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.” ---
**Author:** ![RichS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7c8e57/32.png) [@RichS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RichS)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/15 "2008-07-14T08:24:56Z")
Most of the voice actors in GTA: San Andreas, especially the voice of C.J. Frank Vincent, however, made it all worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/16 "2008-07-14T15:37:09Z")
I was going to nominate _7th Guest_ (which I know dates me as a gamer) but… [QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] [Looking for sailors in Shenmue.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=dQa3yGXzGls&feature=related) [/QUOTE] …this is just _hilarious._ ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/17 "2008-07-14T15:47:18Z")
[QUOTE=RichS.] Most of the voice actors in GTA: San Andreas, especially the voice of C.J. Frank Vincent, however, made it all worth it. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/18 "2008-07-14T16:04:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/19 "2008-07-14T17:01:09Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] I was going to nominate _7th Guest_ (which I know dates me as a gamer) _hilarious._ [/QUOTE] 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. [The 7th Guest](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX1zI9CzwC4) 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! [Want a baloon, sonny?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHHQfdnQ8e0&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![jhinman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@jhinman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jhinman)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324/20 "2008-07-14T17:56:53Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-voice-acting-scene-in-videogames/456324.md?page=2)