Favourite voice performances in gaming

SeantheMan

Lee - from the Walking Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqGXX7EiFdw

Got it right in the feels in Season 2 Ep 5 near the end


The actress for Clem was also brilliant, as most of the cast over both seasons have been.
Especially Michael Madsen in Season 2

krudler

Sarky wrote: »

Tony Jay deserves more love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0VvMUD5vBY

He was a big loss to voice acting, crazy talented guy, played a fantastic villain in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Also has one of, if not the best villain song in Disney history, not often you hear about the bad guy in a kids film singing about wanting to ride the heroine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGL9B_TPTI

death1234567

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Surprised Mark Hamill hasn't been mentioned as well. He's amazing as the Joker. Really captures the menace of the character.

It's easily the best voiceover in a game ever. Should have got an Oscar for it (if that was possible).

Timmyctc

JK Simmons was enjoyable in Portal 2.

Have a particular love for Nolan North.
His performance as David in TLoU was really really good.

Penn

Forgot about JK Simmons. Fantastic performance.

One I haven't seen mentioned; Rob Wiethoff, who did the voice and motion capture for John Marston in Red Dead Redemption. Unbelievably great performance.

Hococop

Patrick Stewart in the the elder scrolls oblivion was excellent

And for for fun the entire cast of resident evil 1 on PlayStation ha

Shiminay

Lets give a shout out to Steve Blum too, he's done a vast amount of games work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Blum#Video_games

Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill are the definitive Batman and Joker for me across all media. I spied a clip before with Hamill talking about the different laughs he put together for the Joker depending on his mood etc and it was all him, no director asked him to do it, he just knew that he was playing The Joker, you can't be messing around

The Voice Acting gig seems to be a pretty closed shop as you always see the same names turning up in things working alongside one another. I particularly loved how the Saints Row guys got Nolan North in to do voice work as himself because theirs was the only game that year that he hadn't been involved in.

Mr E

I liked Andy Serkis and Lindsey Shaw in Enslaved (although a lot of that is down to the mo-cap performance rather than voices alone).

Generic Dreadhead

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

Steve Merchant in Portal 2: maybe the first videogame character to make me laugh.

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Really liked Michael Mando who did Vaas in Far Cry 3.He really stole the show in that game.

krudler wrote: »

Can't believe I forgot Steven Ogg as Trevor in GTAV, the scene where he has to bring the mob bosses wife back was fcuking hilarious. He's a really nice guy in real life too I met him recently.

Patser wrote: »

Michael Beattie as Mordin Solus in Mass Effect 2 , if only for the Salarian version of Pirates of Penzance.

Fescue wrote: »

Karl Hanover who plays the voice of Atlas in BioShock.

degrassinoel wrote: »

Kane

has to be Joe Kucan as Kane

SeantheMan wrote: »

Lee - from the Walking Dead

All of these are just great

GK1001

any love out there for Mr Torgue from Borderlands 2...one of my favourite DLC of all time was Mr Torgues Campaign of Carnage and one of the main reasons for that was Mr Torgue himself aka Chris Rager (obv had to google that!)

Funny as fvck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KM7hLzhAdD8

Stephen Merchant was awesome in Portal 2 too

Fescue

Who will ever forget Andrew Connolly, who played Paddy Bishop in Fair City, playing Captain Donnelly in L.A. Noire?

That took me by surprise.

Ol' Donie

Hococop wrote: »

Patrick Stewart in the the elder scrolls oblivion was excellent

And for for fun the entire cast of resident evil 1 on PlayStation ha

He was in Castlevania too. Heh, deadly.

Penn

GK1001 wrote: »

any love out there for Mr Torgue from Borderlands 2...one of my favourite DLC of all time was Mr Torgues Campaign of Carnage and one of the main reasons for that was Mr Torgue himself aka Chris Rager (obv had to google that!)

Funny as fvck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KM7hLzhAdD8

Gotta give props to David Eddings who does Claptrap's voice too. Never played Borderlands 1. But when Claptrap says "Well done, minion! Your ability to walk short distances without dying will be Handsome Jack's downfall!", I knew I was going to like Borderlands 2

GK1001

Penn wrote: »

Gotta give props to David Eddings who does Claptrap's voice too. Never played Borderlands 1. But when Claptrap says "Well done, minion! Your ability to walk short distances without dying will be Handsome Jack's downfall!", I knew I was going to like Borderlands 2

Ah yeah..that game is full of brilliantly funny dialogue from the cast...but Torgue stands out for me as the best...that Claptrap line is a brilliant early sign of how good it's gonna be though, totally agree:D

I could do a separate thread on this now that I think of it...that's the last half hour of work fvcked so!

GK1001

the dude who does Bastion is pretty frickin good too (...googles...and...Logan Cunningham)
definitely a huge part of what made that game so enjoyable and indeed original I dare say

ZeitgeistGlee

Always liked Michael Wincott's voice, his performance as Death in Darksiders 2 was superb.

Pretty much all the Mass Effect trilogy VAs would be up there, could probably more quickly say which major characters I didn't like than I did (Kaiden Whinge-bag Onasi for one). Might start an argument over this but Mark Meer will always be the better Sheppard over Hale IMO.

Oh and on that note: Sovereign >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Harbinger.

Would also agree with Tony Jay, his voice defined evil for me when I was a child.

Skylinehead

Should have been mentioned already....James McCaffrey as Max Payne.

Timmyctc

Jesus, how could I forget.

Billy Murray as Captain Price and Kevin McKidd as Soap.

For all the stick they get, IW wrote a great single player story.

Major Spoilers within COD: Mw 1, 2 and 3

krudler

Timmyctc wrote: »

Jesus, how could I forget.

Billy Murray as Captain Price and Kevin McKidd as Soap.

For all the stick they get, IW wrote a great single player story.

Major Spoilers within COD: Mw 1, 2 and 3

This is my favourite cutscene from MW2, love the cut from the radio chatter to the guy screaming down his mic about the invasion going on. Keith David is good as Captain Foley too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGq70VCIH-A

Pac1Man

Zillah

How did I forget Admiral Bosch (Ronny Cox) from Freespace 2?

Angron

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

Steve Merchant in Portal 2: maybe the first videogame character to make me laugh.

It was great, I loved J.K. Simmons as Cave Johnson too.

Randall Floyd

The voice acting in Final Fantasy XII was pretty decent, makes it one of the less cringey ones to replay now.

ripperman

Pac1Man wrote: »

Is that an official promotional shot!? I've never seen it before!

Moneymaker

Some others that came into my mind;

Roger Craig Smith - Ezio(Assassin Creed)
Courtnee Draper - Elizabeth(Bioshock Infinite)
Armin Shimmerman - Andrew Ryan(Bioshock)
Lori Alan - The Boss(MGS3)
Rob Wiethoff - John Marston(Red Dead Redemption)

krudler

Moneymaker wrote: »

Some others that came into my mind;

Roger Craig Smith - Ezio(Assassin Creed)
Courtnee Draper - Elizabeth(Bioshock Infinite)
Armin Shimmerman - Andrew Ryan(Bioshock)
Lori Alan - The Boss(MGS3)
Rob Wiethoff - John Marston(Red Dead Redemption)

All great choices, Andrew Ryan's monologue in the opening scene of Bioshock is brilliant.

maximoose

Most of my favourites already said - Mark Hammill, Dave Fennoy, Nolan North, Glados

I do also have a soft spot for Jen Taylor as Cortana

and Michael Ironside as Sam Fisher!

Shiminay

Moneymaker wrote: »

Courtnee Draper - Elizabeth(Bioshock Infinite)

I was on a panel about sexism in nerd culture with Courtnee at Eirtakon last year, she's a lovely lady.

krudler

Shiminay wrote: »

I was on a panel about sexism in nerd culture with Courtnee at Eirtakon last year, she's a lovely lady.

Sounds like an interesting topic, was it recorded?

The voice acting thing is something I'm trying to get into at the moment, mostly classes and open mic nights, met a few casting directors etc. Lots more opportunity over here with places like Ubisoft Montreal and the New York companies on the same coast.

Pac1Man

ripperman wrote: »

Is that an official promotional shot!? I've never seen it before!

No it's a fan mash-up using Liotta's head. Still cool though.