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Top 10 Worst Voice Acting in Video Games


boys acting’s not adhere yeah
voice acting is not as easy as it looks
never mind my men will gun him down
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 worst voice acting in video games
please your omnipotence have mercy for
this list we’ve selected the most
hilariously awful voice acting
performances throughout the history of
video games why why am I still alive
number 10 grand theft auto London 1969
things have been getting out of hand and
we need you to mend a few broken pipes
triple a production intricate storylines
amazing acting and cutscenes are all
things that gamers can expect Rockstar
to deliver in modern Grand Theft Auto
games a virgil be tasty no messing
around or you get a slap but it wasn’t
always that way
take for example the oft forgotten
spin-off of the first game London 1969
we’re getting out of here the older GTA
games were pretty fun overhead crime
simulation games that set the foundation
for later entries in the series but
let’s be honest it really messes with
the immersion when the crime boss is all
sound like your drunk uncle doing his
best Hugh Grant impression just a little
bit please yourself ain’t you and
rightly so rightly so number 9 the town
with no name chez boy have you seen my
pet spider Baba looking for him
everywhere this unbelievably bad
point-and-click Western adventure game
which falls in nameless cow boy as he
wanders around a poorly rendered town
features terrifying character graphics
and almost non-existent gameplay oh
you’ve had enough of playing cards with
you let’s take a break the real star of
the show however is the sound the main
character sounds like Arnold
Schwarzenegger if you were a robot
trapped in some sort of abandoned
building next you’ll be telling me yet
don’t like strangers around here not to
mention the sound mixing is often so bad
that you actually can’t hear the
dialogue over the music unless of course
that was on purpose to mask the bad
performances in which case smart move
gotta have any heart oh I’ve got a valve
announced
by number eight last alert okay
the stealth bomber is in the back of
this Factory the first of many Japanese
titles on this list suffering from
unfortunate translation issues last
alert is a military based action title
as the president of the United States I
ask you save all mankind I’ll try the
North American version had such a small
budget that all of the voices were done
by only a few people and the result
sounds a lot like when your dad would
try to do all the different voices for
every character in a storybook he’d read
you their ability should not be
underestimated what you end up with is a
bunch of horribly mismatched voices and
characters including a CIA agent that
sounds like a 15 year old boy and a
Chinese accent that’s nothing short of
racist by Zoey
dr. Garcia how is a development of your
ultimate weapon
Indra coming along number seven mega man
8 something this powerful must not fall
in the hands of evil people have been
complaining for years that Capcom has
given up on the Mega Man series
cancelling several games in the story
franchise you have been working so hard
for justice they also seem to forget
that some of the more recent entries in
the main series especially Mega Man 8
were clearly not high on Capcom’s
priority list mega man 8 is especially
frustrating because of how rushed
everything feels with the dialogue
featuring several obvious acting
mistakes and slip-ups seriously did they
not even have enough time to do a couple
of review takes you must recover all the
energy immediately Megaman also I didn’t
realize Elmer Fudd gave up on hunting
and started making robots seriously did
he just say why we refine that media
we’ll find dr. Walley number 6
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
what is your business here often
considered one of the best games ever
made Symphony of the Night also has some
of the most laughably bad dialogue and
voice acting ever seen you seem human
and yet what do you hear
luckily beyond a few interludes were
protagonists Alucard meets with
characters in Dracula’s castle the
dialogue is kept to a minimum I was
called here by humans who wish to pay me
tribute this is one of the few instances
where the gameplay is so amazingly good
that the game standing on best games of
all time lists isn’t affected by
Konami’s half-assed North American port
what is a man a miserable little pile of
secrets number 5 deep fear you know we
don’t have time for these fun and games
sorry chief this survival horror game
was never released to North America but
it got an English voice track for those
who got to play it in Europe before the
Sega Saturn really went belly-up
I didn’t think you were that old in deep
fear players controlled John Mayer not
that John Mayer as he explores various
underwater bases that have been
overtaken by a strange parasite kill
kill me please what other than the
dialogue the sounded deep fear is often
great with Sega having employed Kenji
Kawai II a famous Japanese composer best
conditions like the Yankees in 96 why
what’s up he clearly never touched the
voice acting though because it’s robotic
emotionless and sometimes offensive
especially the architect character who
speaks in a high falsetto the whole damn
time this is terrible my boss the piece
is ruined Oh what are we gonna do number
4 link the faces of evil and Zelda the
wand of gamilon you dare bring light to
my there you must die link has always
been the strong silent type except when
he’s yelling and screaming when he
swings his sword my hero
if Link’s voice truly sounds like it
does in the Philips CDI zelda games then
everyone should be grateful that he
speaks so seldomly oh boy I’m so hungry
I could eat it octorok
if they were gonna make him speak did
they have to give him literally the most
annoying voice of all time to say
nothing about that creepy animation
gee it sure is boring around here it’s
lucky for Nintendo that these Philips
Zelda games are so rare because with any
more exposure The Legend of Zelda’s
legacy might have been tarnished forever
squad Avadh we are off number three
Resident Evil oh god it’s awful
the original Resident Evil is one of the
scariest games of all time making
players feel trapped in claustrophobic
Jill here’s a lockpick it might be handy
if you the master of unlocking take it
with you so it really ruined the
immersion when tense zombie survival
situations are interspersed with
nonsensical lines crappy acting and
cringe-worthy live-action FMV sequences
this case was just too weird although
everyone is guilty here the worst
offender is bury Jill sandwich Burton
that was too close you were almost a
Jill sandwich
you’re right funnily enough the game
actually had a Japanese voice track too
but director Shinji Mikami had it
removed because he felt like it didn’t
fit the North American setting and wait
for it because it was really bad – let
me take care of this
number two dynasty warriors three I
shall expect good things though dynasty
Warriors three is the pinnacle of the
series’s funny voice acting efforts the
most surprising thing is that the
developer still hasn’t rectified the
problem more than ten years later come
on you can do better than that
more recent entries in this hack and
slash series still provide endless
chuckles with the hammy overacted
performances by various feudal lords
feel the power of my manager also the
English voice actors managed to
mispronounce almost every single
character name they really should spend
more of the money they make releasing
nearly identical dynasty Warriors games
every other year and maybe hire some
better actors forgive me I must repay my
debts before we unveil our top pick here
are a few honorable mentions are we
going to die like this James I try don’t
underestimate the enemy thank you a
problem so very far be my guest
you we’re here at last yes how long I’ve
waited for this moment
number one chaos Wars I don’t even know
you but you need to die what happens
when you mix a bunch of characters from
obscure games like gun grave and Shadow
Hearts into an extremely niche strategy
RPG crossover well you get chaos wars
that’s too bad
they’re gone now you smell good although
the gameplay isn’t horrible the voice
acting in this game means you actually
might never get to it the world I came
from how do I get back to where I came
from imagine the most annoying anime
voice you’ve ever heard then give that
voice to every character and sit through
cutscene after cutscene of poorly
scripted and acted dialogue stop it
Nikhil I can’t move
is anyone there the story goes that the
CEO of the company behind the
localization actually got different
members of his family to record a bunch
of the voiceover as evidenced by the
fact that they all share the same last
name let’s just calm down and you stop
punching you the arm Vanya fish do you
agree with our list yes yes did we
forget any awful video game voice acting
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