Thankfully these days, we mostly find ourselves applauding games for how realistic and cinematic their voice acting tends to be, but just a few short years ago, this really was not the case at all. We weren’t always blessed with the likes of David Hayter delivering steely, wholly believable performances that made us totally buy into their characters; no, once upon a time, we had to deal with the horribly stifled performances that populate this list (though a few of them are, embarrassingly, from recent games). The only plus, then, is that in some instances it can enhance the game’s iconic status, as with Resident Evil (pictured above), and somewhat accentuate its B-movie-inspired tone, even if completely by accident.
Whether we’re able to glean some humour from it or not, here are 10 awesome games with terrible voice acting.
Talk about a must have for the holidays.
Reading the Reddit threads from people who have actually bought this, and report the accuracy as absolutely horrible (particularly as the calibration is done in 16:9 while the games play at 4:3 which then stretches to fit the screen), you’d thing it’s a completely different device compared to those people who got given one for free to review like this one.
It’s a shame as I loved the idea, particularly if someone could fine a way to hack it so Time Crisis 2 and the House of the Dead games could also be added, but seems maybe a gen 2 attempt next year would be worth waiting for when they can hopefully get the accuracy and calibration fixed.
That is a shame, I was looking forward to this but wanted to see what people were saying about the finished product, I'll probably wait for the next iteration
There should've been a NAMCO light gun collection by now, even a SEGA one. Played most of the SEGA games, not so much NAMCO.
GAIME review - The G'AIM'E console is shipping now! MP1st spent some time with it & have our review ready. Is lightgun gaming back for modern displays?
G'AIM'E Time Crisis Lightgun pre-orders are open and available, to bring the chaos back into your living room!
That looks fun, big jump in price though between basic and premium models though, wonder how long it will take for this to get hacked so other games like HOTD and hopefully the Star Wars or Terminator 2 Arcade Games can get loaded in.
I've still got the original games and gun stashed away Ive been hoping for some way this franchise comes back I figured VR might be it but this is cool to
Heavy Rain's voice acting wasn't terrible... It wasn't the best, but it wasn't terrible. :\
Heavy rain wasn't bad and where is ff 10 it was unbearable watching and listening though I suppose that wasn't the acting.
Where is Conner from AC3 (ok the game wasn't awesome but still terrible terrible voice acting for a good game)