MGS4 (and other offenders) Voice Acting

[kotora]

My guess is the English cast is taking cues from the Japanese and just not pulling it off accurately. Or there was a Japanese voice director, directing the English cast. As I've learned over the years, Japanese media has very little scope in subtlety. So everything generally has to be over the top. Sometimes its done on purpose for one reason or another. It just doesn't translate well to those of us who know real drama and believable voice acting

Unfortunately I haven't played any of these games. So I'm just surmising

Both of these are Japanese games. The others I mentioned are all Western games. Probably very plausible.

The Japanese voices in MGS4 aren't trying to sound anything as dramatic as the English ones (aside from the pauses after every few words). Or at least not to our ears.