Most annoying in-game voices...?

Wertz

Just like the thread title says, post up your most annoying character voices from any game you can think of....I'm being rather topical here and it's kind of my inspiration for the thread, but I got Colin McCrae Dirt over the w/e and the bloody co-driver has the most annoying American twang and mannerisms to his voice that I've ever encountered, so much so that I've had to mute the sound when the menu screens are up (especially the car settings and the tutorial)...

So what's yours? Doesn't have to be recent, doesn't have to be everything a character says, maybe just certain phrases that annoy you...name 'em and shame 'em.

krudler

the DJ in burnout 3 and revenge,arrrrrggh!

Rhyme

It may be an amazing game and an unforgettable experience but my God... Issun's 'voice' from Okami annoys the Hell out of me.

That and most of the voices in FFX bug me.

super_furry

The voice acting in Siren on the PS2 literally made the game unplayable for me.

humanji

Any of the annoying sidekicks in any Japanese RPG's. You know the ones, the ditsy, high-pitched idiot who causes you no end of hassle, yet you're never allowed to kill them!!!

jonnybadd

Aye would have to agree, Marumaro from Blue Dragon does my bloody nut in.

killyoutodeath

that stupid merchant from resi 4! (hello stranger)

tman

killyoutodeath wrote:

that stupid merchant from resi 4! (hello stranger)

Ah come on, he was fantastic!:p

Ashley on the other hand never ceased to get on my tits... "LEEEOOOOONNNN!!!"

awhir

the trainner guy in bf2.

Jack Sheehan

Three words, Peppy.Slippy.Falco.

'FOX, YOU GOT A BOGEY ON YOUR TAIL!'

Jack Sheehan

killyoutodeath wrote:

that stupid merchant from resi 4! (hello stranger)

Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpuOXlBxcPg

Creature

Alfred Ashford in Resident Evil code Veronica. That shrill laugh :mad:.

KamiKazi

awhir wrote:

the trainner guy in bf2.

so true haha

Jumpy

Creature wrote:

Alfred Ashford in Resident Evil code Veronica. That shrill laugh :mad:.

Yep (s)he pissed me off big time.

muppetkiller

The little grunts in Halo..why they decided to put cute little bad guys with high pitched voices in a shoot'em up I'll never know..oh and they strangely speak English too ?

Speedway

if anyone has ever played Domination on the PC. not too bad turn based strategy game I picked up for $9 a year or two ago in the usa, voice acting is sooooo bad though as is the script.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/domination/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;review

Gizzle

The vast majority of Americans on Xbox Live in Halo 1/2/3.

Disclaimer: In my personal experience.

evad_lhorg

tman wrote:

Ah come on, he was fantastic!:p

Ashley on the other hand never ceased to get on my tits... "LEEEOOOOONNNN!!!"

Id like to get on her tits!!

hotnipples

muppetkiller wrote:

The little grunts in Halo..why they decided to put cute little bad guys with high pitched voices in a shoot'em up I'll never know..oh and they strangely speak English too ?

THANK YOU! I was wondering why nobody ever complained about this. What the HELL kind of character design is that. Ridiculous! They're just cannon fodder aswell, even on Heroic, so their existence is pretty pointless

johnny_adidas

commentary in any of the pro evo games

Doctor DooM

Every single one of the Dynasty Warrior series. I hear its become a thing people buy the game for now and they put terrible voice acting in on purpose. Can't pick a character in particular because they are ALL dreadful. Lei Fang!

TelePaul

Jack Sheehan wrote:

Three words, Peppy.Slippy.Falco.

'FOX, YOU GOT A BOGEY ON YOUR TAIL!'

Hahahahahaha!

Zillah

killyoutodeath wrote:

that stupid merchant from resi 4! (hello stranger)

Hehehe! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXx0qwe0wc

killyoutodeath

i hate the merchant because when you buythings fast it was like so what are you-so what are you-and so on which was funny and irritating at the same time

as for ashley i hate her... lol

Burning Eclipse

jonnybadd wrote:

Aye would have to agree, Marumaro from Blue Dragon does my bloody nut in.

Are you playing with English language or Japanese w/subtitles?? I don't find him to be that bad?!

My vote goes to Tidus in FFX.... just bleurgh...

jonnybadd

Japanese with the subtitles, he falls into the really shrill annoying sidekick category excelently

RobertFoster

Brian Basco from Runaway: A Road Adventure. Sounds like Kermit the Frog, which isn't a good thing for a protagonist, unless it's actually Kermit the Frog.

elekid

The announcer from the Pokemon Stadium games was awful, thankfully there was an option to silence him.

"It's a revolving door of Pokemon"

Cunny-Funt

Wertz wrote:

but I got Colin McCrae Dirt over the w/e and the bloody co-driver has the most annoying American twang and mannerisms to his voice that I've ever encountered, so much so that I've had to mute the sound when the menu screens are up (especially the car settings and the tutorial)...

Agree soooooooo much "Get ready for Dirt", I only played the demo

"going so soon? Ah well , I'll see you in the full version of the game" Fkin you!!!!!!!

Balfa

Everyone in Baten Kaitos

_CreeD_

Spellforce...all of it. Great game, diabolical voice acting.

0ubliette

the prize for worst voice acting of all time, and i mean ALL TIME, it will never ever be beaten, it is IMPOSSIBLE to be worse at voice acting than....


HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2.

Goldman is just comedic...gold. Hes got like a 10 second pause between every word!! He sounds like the gman from HL2 if the gman had had a bad stroke


Welcome.................friends.

Rhyme

0ubliette wrote:

the prize for worst voice acting of all time, and i mean ALL TIME, it will never ever be beaten, it is IMPOSSIBLE to be worse at voice acting than....

HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2.

Goldman is just comedic...gold. Hes got like a 10 second pause between every word!! He sounds like the gman from HL2 if the gman had had a bad stroke

Welcome.................friends.

The script for that was a beautiful thing to behold, Goldman is my hero.

0ubliette

Rhyme wrote:

The script for that was a beautiful thing to behold, Goldman is my hero.

i think you mean...


GOLD MAN!



Face reddingly piss piece of acting from devil may cry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obPYsLZwhxE

LIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!

HOTD2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPpayQFqoAE

A HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!! oh my god id forgotten how amazing this is!!

Creature

0ubliette wrote:

the prize for worst voice acting of all time, and i mean ALL TIME, it will never ever be beaten, it is IMPOSSIBLE to be worse at voice acting than....


HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2.

Goldman is just comedic...gold. Hes got like a 10 second pause between every word!! He sounds like the gman from HL2 if the gman had had a bad stroke


Welcome.................friends.

Lol "I....am Gold...MAN"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX5Sz4ilY6w

0ubliette

Creature wrote:

Lol "I....am Gold...MAN"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX5Sz4ilY6w

"The emperrr!"

"To protect the rife cycle!"

"This is the final bartle!"

God damn tats some good stuff!

CiDeRmAn

Surprised no one mentioned the car crash that is Resi 1, and the announcer from Ridge Racer and Ridge Racer Revolution, almost missed hime the Rage Racer, almost!

Hats off though to Bioshock for having the first proper Irish accent in a game, well aside from Micheál in GAA football! Although why did they have to go to Castleknock to find the guy who plays Atlas?

_CreeD_

CiDeRmAn wrote:

Hats off though to Bioshock for having the first proper Irish accent in a game, well aside from Micheál in GAA football! Although why did they have to go to Castleknock to find the guy who plays Atlas?

Aye but his american accent was not that great.

super_furry

CiDeRmAn wrote:

Hats off though to Bioshock for having the first proper Irish accent in a game, well aside from Micheál in GAA football! Although why did they have to go to Castleknock to find the guy who plays Atlas?

Don't tell me you forgot Jaunty from Shadowman so soon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzUPcFZzmOE About 2:30 in.

0ubliette

super_furry wrote:

Don't tell me you forgot Jaunty from Shadowman so soon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzUPcFZzmOE About 2:30 in.

wow i remember playing shadowman back in the day and thinking it was really well acted, but god...its actually pretty poor. I mean, not HOTD2 poor but just, bad.

CiDeRmAn

The first Resident Evil, what with Barry staring at BLOOD! And the MASTER OF UNLOCKING!
Also remember the valiant attempts at voices on the Speccy, using a speaker that was only capable of beeps to make almost audible speech, I-Ball anyone?
The way that Jack Skellington had to say the name of each move as he did them in Nightmare Before Christmas kinda spoiled it a tad for me.

Bobalicious93

maybe not really dialogue but some of the vocals on cover songs in Guitar Hero 2 on the 360 are just absolutely awful.

grimm2005

I think your all forgetting the entire cast of Shenmue 1 and 2.

great games, but my god, the voice acting was atrocious

steviec

CiDeRmAn wrote:

Hats off though to Bioshock for having the first proper Irish accent in a game, well aside from Micheál in GAA football! Although why did they have to go to Castleknock to find the guy who plays Atlas?

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey has a lot of decent Irish accents in it for no apparent reason.

But on the topic, who could forget the Irish pub in Broken Sword! Although apart from the woeful accents that game (and its sequels) is probably one of the better examples of voice acting in games, particularly the two leads.

Most god awful acting I can think of had to be Star Ocean though. I literally had to stop playing what was otherwise a good game just because I couldn't stand to hear the voices anymore.

Oman

the guy on all the marvel games stan lee i think. i mean his voice is ok but well its just so annoying while playing a game

Dennis the Stone

George Stobbart in Broken Sword

tman

Oman wrote:

the guy on all the marvel games stan lee i think. i mean his voice is ok but well its just so annoying while playing a game

"Nuff said":p

RobertFoster

steviec wrote:

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey has a lot of decent Irish accents in it for no apparent reason.

I was wondering why there were so many Irish accents in Dreamfall. I thought it might have something to do with Irish myths relating to Arcadia, but the credits mention Voicebank.ie, so it might have just been a cost/tender thing.

Kemos wrote:

George Stobbart in Broken Sword

Ooh - you could get lynched by some fans for not liking Rolf Saxon What don't you like about him? I thought he was pretty good.

Fnz

Burnout Takedown's Crash FM DJ 'Stryker' was irritating as hell... even more so than the Americanized soundtrack.

Cheers for that EA... sooo glad you took over as publisher of the Burnout franchise. :rolleyes:

RobertFoster wrote:

Kemos wrote:

George Stobbart in Broken Sword

Ooh - you could get lynched by some fans for not liking Rolf Saxon What don't you like about him? I thought he was pretty good.

Careful now, Kemos... lets not say things we can't take back. :mad:

If nostalgia serves me correctly, Stobbart's voice was grand.

Kiith

grimm2005 wrote:

I think your all forgetting the entire cast of Shenmue 1 and 2.

great games, but my god, the voice acting was atrocious

Thats because you probably played the american version. The japenese voices werent anywhere near as bad. Still not great, but not that bad. Any of the sidekicks in RPGs (Mission in KotoR, Demon girl in NWN2 etc...).

As for good voice acting, i still say Max Payne is up there. Especially the 2nd one. Mmm, Mona