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Here it is, the Worst Acting in the History of Videogames
- Thread starter chubigans
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Hmm. I feel bad more than anything. Not everyone can be a decent voice actor, and some people have an extremely hard time reading aloud, regardless of their overall reading ability. I suppose they agreed to do it though...
I think these people weren't even paid (much) to dub that game. While the other one is a TripleAAA.
There we are, 3 pages in I was about to post it myself. Nothing will top Arc Rise Fantasia.
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
I'm so pleased that we don't have to hear Tales of Eternia/Destiny 2 voice acting again, no matter 'amusing' they sounded like...
This is in the wrong thread. This is actually really good shit. This is Carl Weathers level comedy from Arrested Development.
Woah I was not prepared for this level of bad. Could not be worse if they did it on purpose. Crazy.
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oh for sure, I just posted cause they were talking about Shaq in Career mode.
After reading most of this thread I still think Chaos Wars is the king of bad VA. Brom is hilarious too though.
ah Chaos Wars, IIRC the studio head hired family members to voice characters because the entire localization was done incredibly cheaply
It's bad direction more than anything, FIFA has a mode like this and none of the players sound anywhere near this bad.
This is amazing. I need to see all of Shaq's scenes from this game. I can find a few but they have a streamer talking over them and sitting in front of them.
This was voiced by family members, right?
Can you turn them off?
Still want to play the game because Shadow Hearts...
It had to do with Sony' stupid rulling that no game can be release with just a Japanese dub in the Ps2 era.
I thought Nappy Time, took the cake, but when I first heard this I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe. Who signed off on this!?
Don't worry, they're real NBA players, not some unkown VA trying to make a living out of this.
Yeah, I know. Whether or not they're trying to make a living out of voice acting is not what makes me feel bad
Oh come on. FFX is fine- with professional VAs- and is not even in the same galaxy as shit like 'family members of the CEO' Chaos Wars or professional athletes that did a single take for sports games.
There's always someone bringing up games like FFX, Metal Gear Solid 2, or hell, even Horizon: Zero Dawn in these threads. I'm convinced it's just to dunk on popular games, but maybe they are vocal experts that consider that kind of work legitimately terrible?
If that's the case, this must be a very difficult medium to deal with on a regular basis.
Wow take this back
This game is excellent and the acting just makes it better
When she started speaking my dog started looking around and then digging in the couch looking for her squeaky toy. Now she's staring hard at my laptop.
Mostly the FFX comments are from the dweebs who still cite the laughing scene as bad VA. Bad dubs mostly exist because of the voice director either not giving a shit or just being legit terrible at their job (and there are a lot of the latter). See: a lot of 90s anime, particularly from ADV.
Exactly.
FFX's voice direction was done by Jack Fletcher, who has a long, successful career in the business (even VA directing for Hayao Miyazaki dubs). FFX's was ambitious because it was done on a scale that hadn't been attempted yet in the console JRPG realm. The amount of voice work is staggering- and although his main cast varies in overall effectiveness, I consider none of it to be anything worse than simply average (with some, like DiMaggio's Wakka, McKenzie's Auron, and Julia Fletcher's Yunalesca, being exceptionally fantastic).
TBH, I always forget DiMaggio is Wakka (and Kimahri) because most of the time he disappears into a character. You have rather obvious stuff that you can tell its him between Bender, Jake the Dog and the like, but he's got more range than a lot of people would expect. But, again, it goes down to the directing being good.
Maybe, I dunno, read the thread first? 6 pages in and it's been mentioned and somewhat discussed, even.
Gringo?
I had to watch it again and it's still amazing.
"Hey you, random dude on the street. Do you you want to voice a video game character?"
"Whats a video game?"
"You're hired"
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