N4G Contest - Day 14: Who Hurt You

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Congratulations to IamTylerDurden1, our thirteenth day winner!

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On the fourteenth day, the question we have for you is "Who is the worst video game voice actor you've ever experienced?"

It's Mickey Rourke.

That's it.

Yes, even worse than 50 Cent.

[Chris092]

For me its 50 cent.

[monkey602]

That's actually a tough one. Resident Evil the original had some diabolical voice acting. Weaker and Barry Burton both had some choice moments. While that game may be the first that comes to mind it also kind of works in a campy way so I won't be top harsh on it.

I will give the Crew 2 an honourable mention though. That's probably one of the worst I've experienced in recent years by far

[Leeroyw]

Completely agree. First resident evil....
Don't..... Open that... Door.

[Tross]

It's actually more cringe IMHO in REmake, where good acting is attempted, but at times is still pretty bad and lacks the charm of much of the iconic lines from the original, and at others the lines are just super cheesy no matter how hard someone tries at it. For example, I don't think it's possible for the line "it's a monster!" to be taken seriously. Nope. Some of the edits to the original lines don't make much sense either. "A little later and you would fit nicely into a sandwich" is no substitute for a Jill Sandwich! At least REmake is solid on the gameplay and story fronts, and other aspects of the sound.

[TheGoodestBoi]

Two Worlds.. Was a disappointment in every way possible

[THC CELL]

I really liked part 2 never played first one

[-Ghost]

Drew Coombs - Devil May Cry

https://youtu.be/OhoauIZaCD...

[robtion]

Not sure who did the voice acting but Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom (massively overlooked game) had terrible voice acting for the talking animals in the game.

[stefd75]

Pretty much any one in House of the Dead 2.....DONT COME DONT COME

[Hardiman]

A recent one was Alexios from AC Odyssey. Back in the day most of the voices from RE. Loved the game and in a way the bad acting gave it some charm but it was pretty laughable!

[Christopher]

Kassandra >>>> Alexios as protagonist. Surprisingly, roles reversed is the worse option for both.

[GameBoyColor]

All the voice actors in arc rise fantasia. All of them.

[slang201V]

Goldman from House of the dead 2
I don't know who voiced this character,but it's the worst VA I have ever experienced..
It's hilarious
( https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[strayanalog]

Ryan Drees, I think.

[Tzuno]

Charles Martinet, i mean really? it makes mario sound like a perv.

[viperman240]

I remember playing Mega Man 8 when I was younger, however I never realized how bad the voice acting was at such a young age.

I'd say Dr. Light played by Jack Evans takes the cake for the worst voice actor.

-EDIT-
Here is a sample of the atrocious acting.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[oasdada]

i know ill get a lot of flak for this.. but the voice actor of the TR reboot (Camilla Luddington) just annoys me big time! theyway she says every line just urghhh grind my gears!

[IamTylerDurden1]

Bound by Flame, everyone..

[Geobros]

Xenoblade chronicles 2 had many bad english voices, except gramps and dromarch.

[Necron]

The original Resident Evil.

[DarkOcelet]

Every voice actor in Yooka Layle

[ISHU]

I'd say Robert Belgrade(Alucard) from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. While being an amazing game in itself the voice acting in the game is just so corny and weird that i'd literally laugh sometimes. That'd would be one for me.

[Pozzle]

This might be a controversial opinion, but I can't stand Tidus' voice from Final Fantasy X. It's a big reason I have never been able to replay the game all the way through. I can even look past Yuna's breathy stilted delivery, but Tidus' overly high-pitched whine of a voice grates on me like nails on a chalkboard. He's supposed to be 17, not 13. Why did they have to make him sound like a whiny little kid :/

[Fist4achin]

Agreed on Tidus, although I did finish FFX and it is one of my favorite FFs. His voice was painful...

[ecchiless]

International version ftw xD

[pabadamus1]

The entire VO cast for the original Resident Evil.

[DarXyde]

Well I don't know the name, but the WORST for me would be whoever played Uru in Chaos Wars. Seriously, this is bad:

https://youtu.be/bangt7d9vG...

But if I must have a name to the face, I would give that to Bruce Campbell's work in Evil Dead: Hail to the King.

[william_cade]

The voice actors for Odyssey. Both are over the top.

[annoyedgamer]

The voice actor for Alan's wife in Alan Wake.

[DemonChicken]

Xenoblade chronicles 2 ........ everyone =/

[bluefox755]

There's plenty of bad voice acting from the ps1/ps2 era, but I'm going with Oblivion and Skyrim, pretty much everyone in the game. It all sounded droning, like everyone was just reading direct from a script, and not given any kind of delivery context. Fallout 4 seemed to address this problem considerably, but they still have a long way to go.

[The 10th Rider]

Hmm, nothing really comes to mind for *worst* voice acting. I'm gonna have to go with Xenoblade Chronicles 2. It's okay, but I really can't stand Rex's voice. I doubt it's the worst out there, but it definitely doesn't sit well with me.

[ThePsychoGamer]

Pretty much all of the voice actors from Chaos Wars.

[Smokey55511799]

Resident eveil 1 for me would have to have some of the worst in gaming history. Such a good game though, but that audio/voice acting is abismal.

[Razzer]

Not sure about worst, but that dude who was the voice of Alexios in Assassin's Creed Odyssey was pretty bad.

[Jakens]

Mickey Rourke is a voice actor.

Driv3r (2004)
True Crime: New York (2005)

[DuckOnQuack35]

Most of the voice actors in all of the assassin's Creed games. Aahhh they're so cringy.

[capjacksparrow]

Master Chief. Just doesn't do it for me, man.

[voidviper]

Resident evil 1 all of them

[Yi-Long]

Well, this is both an easy as well as difficult question.

Easy, because there's so much terrible voice-acting in video games, often because, in the West, it seems to be undervalued by so many developers/publishers, meaning they'll often just go for some cheap C-quality 'voice-actors'... especially when it comes to Japanese voices that they feel the need to dub in English, but don't want to actually invest in doing a good job of it.

Difficult, because I don't really have any stand-out examples that were worse than others. As a rule, I ignore dubs whenever the original voices aren't included (I skip dub-only release), so because I ignore dubs in general, I won't include them here, cause I can't really judge those fairly.

I'll stick with big releases of Western games, where the original voice actor/actress bothered me.

Most triple-A games from big studios usually have very good voice-actors for their main characters though.

I think I'll go with a recent character that bothered me: Mary Jane Watson, in Spider-Man PS4). I'm used to the character from the original comic books, which was generally upbeat (a cover, sure), sexy, and confident.

In recent years, Mary Jane has often been modelled after Kirsten Dunst's terrible character in the original Spider-Man trilogy, meaning she's whiny, skinny, and just not a very interesting/fun girl to hang out with.

I feel the MJ in the videogame had those same negative aspects of that character: She was a bit 'mousy', plain, nagging, etc etc. And I just couldn't stand listening to her. Her voice was just boring and ... ugh...

Silver Sable was absolutely terrible in that game as well, btw. Another character I actually like in the comics.

So, MJ Watson in Spider-Man. Hated her.

[Segata]

I have heard so much bad VA in older games from the early to mid-90s. Hard to choose just one. The one I hated the most was Tim Mosley as Col Mullen in Grandia. He sounded half asleep, robotic and bored all at once.

[Jorjk]

Resident Evil

[Atom666]

Deep Fear on Saturn. It's an import, but even so, the english voices are epically bad.

Don't know any of the actors, but hopefully they're out of the voiceover business.

[bigmalky]

Unexpectedly, Nolan North, with a really overdone, stereotypical, bad cockney accent for the Penguin in the Arkham games.

I hate badly done accents, just hire the right guy for the right job.

[Skankinruby]

Bite your filthy tongue

[bigmalky]

He stole the accent from the Dick Van Dyke school of bad accents.

[johndoe11211]

don't know his name but whoever the hell voiced Gary in Day one: Gary's incident. He sounded like he recorded that entire script while on the toilet.

[Platformgamer]

dario argento on the italian localization of dead space.
sooooo bad and cringe ahah

[Emilio_Estevez]

I was completely shocked how bad Dinklage was for Destiny. So bad they replaced him for the DLC!

[Minus2trill]

Destiny 1 peter dinklage it was so bad the reaction started from the first gameplay reveal and was patched out after release. I didnt hate the job he did but even bungie agreed with everyone.

[Garethvk]

Mine is a bit selfish but it was the Russian Voice Talent who did my lines in Postal 3. I had recorded lines for the game at the radio station and sent them to the publisher. They in turn sent them to the programming team overseas. We later learned that the game they created was not what they were supposed to do and they replaced much of the voice talent with local people. So I was very upset when my part in the game came up and it clearly was not me or my lines.

[solideagle]

no comments

[FullmetalRoyale]

Jasoooooooon! Jasooooon!
Shauuuuun!

Gotta go with the moment most people reference when talking about Heavy Rain. When your son gets a red balloon and you lose him in the mall, after your other son dies, and you go running through the mall “pressing X to Jason”(or Shaun.)

[Arty84]

Pretty much any JRPG english voice actor

[Plyzz]

Robin Atkin Downes (just to mention one og them from that horrible game I guess..) from Bound by Flame.

[ldurham]

The voice of Alucard in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The rest of the game is terrific, however.

[Relientk77]

Chaos Wars, so bad. It' so bad sometimes that it's hilarious

[Kribwalker]

Nolan North. Dinglebot was way better in destiny, Nolan North ruined the ghost for me

[Elwenil]

Whomever does the VO work for Rico Rodriguez in the Just Cause games. I can't shake the feeling that it's the same guy who did the Taco Bell dog commercials.

[Blobfish69]

Fiddy cent

[rlow1]

Shaq, in the video game Shaq fu...He is not a voice actor. Plus the game was terrible.

[SaveFerris]

The cast from Mass Effect Andromeda. Or Mickey Rourke from Rogue Warrior.

[Artemidorus]

Got to be Resident Evil on the PlayStation, whilst scary at the time the delayed response or monotone feel taken some of the expereince away.

Sorry Jill but I'm just not convinced.

[ThiagoMysterio]

Matthew Perry, Fallout: New Vegas

Perry's voice acting performance in Fallout: New Vegas is mostly looked on as a sour note in what I consider to be a great Fallout game.

[darksied]

Resident Evil 1

[gangsta_red]

The english actress who provided the voice of Lymle in Star Ocean: The Last Hope for Xbox 360.

For 360 there was no Japanese voice option, and her voice literally made me stop playing the game.

[ziggurcat]

Everyone in Gears of War - there's only so much "let's do this ***" and "dat's what I'm talkin' 'bout" that one can tolerate.

and even when the scenes were supposed to be emotional, it was devoid of any actual emotion.

[Skuletor]

Gordon Freeman's voice actor

[phoenixwing]

50 cent voice acting was pretty bad in his game now that you mention it. I don't think i i can think of a worse one.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

Anyone who was involved with Resident Evil Survivor. Just, the worst. Ever.

[Tross]

Hmm...the cast of the first Resident Evil game comes to mind from games I've played, although that's more charming than grating. I've seen AVGN episodes featuring worse voice acting in games I've never personally played, does that count?

[Nucler100]

Honestly nobody for me. During the times there were bad voice acting you kinda couldn’t even tell because of the time peiord. Like the PS2 era. But I will say the worst -line- I’ve heard would probably be that “Fill your dark soul with light!” From Drew Coombs lol. I remember even reaching that part and being like “yikes” lol. It’s bad, but In a funny way.

[Fullmetalevolust]

LOL can't say anyone hurt me but I wasn't too fond of the voice acting choices by Riku and Tidus in FFX. On the other hand, I loved Waka! :)

[-Foxtrot]

Dr. Wahwee

[JRPGsAreTheBest]

Xenoblade 2 voice acting was pretty bad, specially didn't like Rex's voice

[coolbeans]

Congrats to IamTylerDurden1.

I'll stick with a collection of VA's here. The roster of Ride to Hell: Retribution is hilariously bad.

[jaymacx]

the voice acting from Virtua fighter

[anonymousfan]

Steve Cumyn lmao poor guy was meant to be the real antagonist in Far Cry 3 but next to Michael Mando playing Vaas, Steve was pretty shitty.

[MasterofMagnetism]

50 Cent

[TheOnlyMastrx]

Surprisingly I liked Dinklage as the Ghost in Destiny, and Nolan North didn't ruin it entirely but he hurt me by replacing Dinklage.

[Glphy77]

I would have to say the cast of Ni no Kuni 2. I thought I could get through it with the accents but I just couldn’t. It was cute with the first game and Mr. Drippy but the second I just wanted them to stop talking all together.

[SNACK_SHARK_TROLL]

The house of the dead 2, pretty much the whole cast.

[Cikatriz_ESP]

She’s far from terrible but the actress who played Triss in W3 bugged me. Obviously I was less than excited to hear her voice in the Cyberpunk gameplay video as well, as it seems there’s bound to be a lot more of her in my future.

[TheGamez100]

Baten kaitos 1, pretty much all the voices. Worst ive ever heard.

[thepatientgamer]

Mickey rourke. For sure

[ninsigma]

Am not a fan of Camilla Luddington performance in the TR reboots. Just so whiney.

[blaziliuz12]

Jeffrey Rath. The guy who voiced Link in Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon.

Not only was that game a steaming pile of garbage, Link’s voice actor made Link sound like an annoying and downright overly hyperactive guy which didn’t fit the game at all.

Oh man, wish I would’ve never experienced that game and that voice acting in the first place.

[Dirtnapstor]

I don’t have a “worst” choice per se...I’m no chauvinist, but I cannot stand hearing female Stormtroopers shouting out commands. And at that, an overwhelming number doing so in BF2. Not canon. Eye roll every time.

[death83x]

I'm easy irritated, so I would say too many to count.

[ichizon]

Herman Sanchez as Jarek in Mortal Kombat 4...

[BlackDoomAx]

50 cent.