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Forsaken Lover
02-28-2013, 12:04 AM
Legacy of Kain
Xenosaga

There, the two best are out of the way. You may name your choices now.
Karifean
02-28-2013, 12:54 AM
Final Fantasy X, obviously. :D
CimminyCricket
02-28-2013, 01:12 AM
Best? Mass Effect is pretty high up there. I didn't really have a lot of wtf moments in that game. xD
maybee
02-28-2013, 06:02 AM
Tidus

Tidus and Yuna laugh...out loud? - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5FTJxfV3pc)
Laddy
02-28-2013, 06:34 AM
BioWare always has pretty great voice acting, but I'll say Planescape Torment or Persona 3. Both games had downright flawless voice acting, imo.
SophieVIII
02-28-2013, 07:27 AM
I think the voice acting in the Uncharted games are the best. I love Nate and Sully! :D
Night Fury
02-28-2013, 08:33 AM
Mass Effect fo' sho!

I love when Tali says 'Flotilla'..... :jess:

Also it has Seth Green :heart:
I Took the Red Pill
02-28-2013, 08:38 AM
Zero Wing
Bubba
02-28-2013, 08:42 AM
I think the voice acting in the Uncharted games are the best. I love Nate and Sully! :D

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Pike
02-28-2013, 10:51 AM
Morrowind

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Shauna
02-28-2013, 11:51 AM
Resident Evil.
Loony BoB
02-28-2013, 01:44 PM
I'll third Uncharted.

The voice acting in The Longest Journey / Dreamfall was perfect.
Mirage
02-28-2013, 01:46 PM
The mass effect series had pretty good voice acting. I think FF12 did a good job too.
NeoCracker
02-28-2013, 01:57 PM
Crispin Freeman as Albedo was fucking glorious. :love:

Yeah, Xenosaga is some of the best I've ever heard in a game.
Old Manus
02-28-2013, 02:28 PM
House of the Dead 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkpyPdeX8J4

No, seriously, think about it. The voice acting and script are so phenomenally bad that the only explanation is that it is a perfect satire of low-budget zombie movies. There is no other reason why anybody could say PROTECT THE LOYFE COYCLE that badly. It's genius.
Laddy
02-28-2013, 02:44 PM
I'm saying this from experience. Some people really are that bad.
Goldenboko
02-28-2013, 02:48 PM
Mass Effect fo' sho!

I love when Tali says 'Flotilla'..... :jess:

Also it has Seth Green :heart:

Seth Green in Mass Effect is the best (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-JsdfVBVGWc#t=119s).
Quindiana Jones
02-28-2013, 02:58 PM
Red Dead Redemption. I don't think there is a single duff voice in that game. Even the fucking armadillos have great VAs. ;)
Cloudane
02-28-2013, 03:37 PM
Fallout 3. Simply because Liam Neeson has the best voice in the world.
Quindiana Jones
02-28-2013, 04:23 PM
Liam Neeson's five minutes of being Liam Neeson is, tragically - blasphemously - not enough to compensate for Moira Brown being... well, alive.
Bolivar
02-28-2013, 06:05 PM
Final Fantasy XII is the best I've played, with Metal Gear Solid 3 being somewhere around there as well.

MGS1 is pretty notable for having so much voice acting at the time, in a title that was still game-heavy. It was also pretty great for being so pulpy.
Forsaken Lover
02-28-2013, 08:17 PM
Hey now, MGS2 had wonderful voice-acting too. John Cygan, Quinton Flynn, Phil LaMarr - they were all perfect. Fatman, Olga and Emma were pretty awesome as well.

Cygan should have been the voice of Old Big Boss, not Richard Doyle.

Also I refuse to acknowledge any voice of Ocelot other than Patrick Zimmerman. So MGS3 can't compare.
Madame Adequate
02-28-2013, 10:17 PM
Liam Neeson's five minutes of being Liam Neeson is, tragically - blasphemously - not enough to compensate for Moira Brown being... well, alive.

I hope you're not talking shit about the one good thing in that entire disaster of a game :colbert:
NinjaCoachZ
02-28-2013, 10:20 PM
The whole Metal Gear series has fantastic voice acting. Kris Zimmerman is a great director. For JRPGs, Persona 4 is definitely somewhere at the top, and I quite liked the English dub for Tales of the Abyss. And of course, Kingdom Hearts is consistently strong, and I thought the English dub of FFX really wasn't bad at all.

And when it comes to comedy, I don't know if anything can beat Kid Icarus: Uprising.
Bolivar
02-28-2013, 10:32 PM
Yeah, gotta give it up for Kris Zimmerman, she knows how to pick 'em and how to direct. O. Smith has also done a great job as well, I got to hear some insights into how he directs at one of his PAX Panels.

I still like Richard Doyle as BB, because he was an older, tired BB ready to "put the gun down" and put the conflict to bed, whereas Cygan epitomized the fanatical idealism of a BB for his time. I would love to hear him portray BB during the rise of Solid Snake.