Best voice acting in a game.

YouTube - Final Fantasy XII: Cutscenes (pt. 22)


Cutscenes like these just reek of awesomeness.


EDIT: YouTube - Final Fantasy XII: Cutscenes (pt. 42)

YouTube - Final Fantasy XII: Movie 4

YouTube - Final Fantasy XII: Cutscenes (pt. 30)

I think Balthier is a perfect example of fantastic voice acting n.n

Jon Irenicus in Baldur's Gate 2. The perfect voice for such an evil bastard.

All of Fallout, but especially Marcus in Fallout 2.

Legacy of Kain. Dear sweet god, Legacy of Kain. No finer voice acting (or writing, for that matter) in any game. Particularly Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, and Defiance. I'm sure there are honourable mentions, but they're far too distant to bother with.

Final Fantasy XII had some great voice acting. I adore the voice of Fran :cool:

Also, the Metal Gear Solid series, Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and some others I can't think of right now have good voice acting imo.

Starfox 64/Lylatwars/whatever.

I thought the voice acting was very good in that game, even if it was a little weird at times because of the characters trying to make words like "Dang!", "Crud!" and "Doggone it!" sound as harsh as your standard repertoire of four-letter words.

I LOVED the voice acting in Dragon Quest VIII!
Especially Yangus.:)

Im agreeing with the person that said Legacy of Kain, it would of slipped my mind but now that I think about it the entire series has terrific voice acting, especially when you compare the PS1 games to other games of its time.

Resident Evil 2. :jess:

GTA IV, man. Roman, Little Jacob, Brucie, etc. etc.

Visas Marr's confession in Knights of the Old Republic 2 ♥

Good English-speaking voice actors come in two categories: Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried. All others suck.

I play Lost Odyssey with the Japanese voices turned on, but I'd switch to the Italian (which I don't speak a word of other than merda) before the English.

Cid in FF XII. See Steiner's youtube post ( pt 42)

All Silent Hill series except Origins
remember this from sh3?
YouTube - Silent Hill 3 Cutscenes 34, Car ride to Silent Hill

I truly love the song in the background

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Originally Posted by Monkey4Soul

Cid in FF XII. See Steiner's youtube post ( pt 42)

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Hell yeah. Cid is so grandiose, so overblown, he's perfect for that role - and the brilliant dialogue that goes with it.
In fact, FFXII is uniformly great like that. So many flawless performances. It's only Ashe and Vaan who lag behind, but that's because they're merely good performances, compared to the godly acting that makes up the rest of the game.

Shards of nethecite, coccoon of the Sun-Cryst: Spill forth your mist on this Ivalice! Let sea and sky be awash int, that Bahamut may come and drink his fill!

I cannot believe no one has mentioned the Metal Gear Solid series yet! :eek: MGS1 set the standard for PS1 voice-acting.

Actually someone did mention MGS earlier.

Me I can't believe no one has mentioned Xenosaga. At least Xeno 1 and III.

YouTube - Xenosaga-Acceptable Losses

YouTube - Andrew Cherenkov (Xenosaga) Part 4

YouTube - Xenosaga III - 093 - Chapter 7 - Tragedy At The Church

And there's several more...

Seriously. Shion's, Margulis', KOS-MOS', Ziggy's, Jr.'s, Albedo's....all their voices were perfection.

My bad, thats what I get for speed reading...

The VA in Metal Gear Solid 1 for PS1 rules!

Metal Gear Solid was the best voice acted game I had ever played until I played Final Fantasy 12. The voice acting with the amazing, frickin, smurfin awesome dialogue makes an amazing experience. Everyone does unbelievable, no one is is bad. It's an an amazing game.

Respect to Alucard for mentioning Legacy of Kain. I recently restarted a game of Defiance, not sure if i'll go through it, but definately top notch performances in there.

In FFXII, even the the supporting roles were outsanding, particularly the Judge Magisters.

Of course MGS1. So many classic lines made memorable, and David Hayter perfectly expresses the coldness and cynicism of Solid Snake during that game. I sort of lament the way he's changed it up to make-it-more-gravelly-everytime-the-sentence-expires, but the later games have remained top notch performances, and I expect MGS4 to be no less.

And I would extend Psy's comments to the entire GTAIII trilogy - Joe Pantoliano, Frank Vincent etc. in III, Ray Liotta in VC and of course Sammy L. in San Andreas. Even fresh blood in IV was very good, but I feel a slightly better script would have put it over the top.

I'd have to say Mega Man Legends 1 and 2, Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, and 3, and a couple of the FFXII voices.

Mega Man Legends in particular really blew me away 'cause Megaman 8 before it had such shoddy voice acting, and Megaman X4's acting was better but not by much. Then Legends came out and it had damn good voices for its time.

Metal Gear Solid really needs no explanation. The voice acting in all three of the games is really good, no matter the character.

FFXII I gave mention to 'cause Balthier and Fran have awesome voices. I have to be honest and say that I didn't really care for most of the other voices, though, Basch notwithstanding.

I played GTA IV yesterday and found the voice acting to be pretty good.

Still, it's no Cid, tho.

New nomination: The Japanese VA for Sed in Lost Odyssey. I almost soiled my pants laughing when he called Seth "Momma."