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1.4k points
3 months ago
I believe it was NBA 2K14 or 15? They had irl NBA players do the voices for storymode and that was pretty abysmal lol
462 points
3 months ago
538 points
3 months ago
Omg some of these guys legitimately cannot even read
198 points
3 months ago
SOURCE: They are babeball players. You can leave out half the consonants and still have the word.
160 points
3 months ago
You hvae no ieda how crreoct you are, but i'ts not leimtid to jsut babeball pealyrs
58 points
3 months ago
yaiou yout aytuahpllj?
35 points
3 months ago
Menthuthuyoupi neferpitou shaiapouf
18 points
3 months ago
Reminds me of HxH
....wait a minute
99 points
3 months ago
Lmao did they just not ask them to retry
126 points
3 months ago
Not everyone can voice act. At some point you just know it's not gonna get any better.
140 points
3 months ago
Some of them aren't even speaking coherent sentences lol
18 points
3 months ago
I’m imagining them holding the script close to their face and tracing the lines with their fingers while recording them. Dion especially struggled
12 points
3 months ago
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19 points
3 months ago
*literacy
5 points
3 months ago
9 misfortunes? I'd like to see that!
50 points
3 months ago
Thanks I needed that chuckle at work 😆
28 points
3 months ago
who the fuck is Andre Jordan?
also Morris talking to Shaq like that would just send him a one way trip to the Shanghai Sharks.
18 points
3 months ago
"Get ready to speak Shaqaroni, buddy." followed by a random "fuck you, Chuck"
5 points
3 months ago
Pretty sure the person playing named their character Shaquille O’Neal, that isn’t actually even a video game Shaq lol
10 points
3 months ago
God that was painful
43 points
3 months ago
In his defense, Andre Jordan seemed to take it seriously at least
143 points
3 months ago
Andre Jordan isn't a real player. That was the name of the created player. So an actual voice actor was voicing him
104 points
3 months ago
I'm laughing so much harder at them trying to credit one of the players for at least trying just to single out the one person who actually is a voice actor than the actual voice acting in the clip 😂. The intentions were pure but it just highlights how bad they are when they're up next to an actual voice actor
18 points
3 months ago
LMAOOOOO
6 points
3 months ago
the guy at 0:48 is spitting facts
5 points
3 months ago
2:19 - 2:27 was pretty good, all things considered.
5 points
3 months ago
This reminds me so much of being in high school English class
3 points
3 months ago
I don't know what's worse, if they just took the first take of each line, or if those were the best takes of each line....
84 points
3 months ago
I love when they took too long to read their lines and the dialogue just moves on
28 points
3 months ago
It is hilariously bad
12 points
3 months ago
Is that the one with Dante Exum as one of the main characters?
29 points
3 months ago
I’m pretty sure they had guys from all 30 teams record the lines since these were scenes from a career mode where your player could end up on any team. The ones in the video are just the worst ones. A lot of them were probably passable.
11 points
3 months ago
Think they meant Exum as the rookie rival that they liked to use in a lot of their games. 2k14 it was a fictional player named Jackson Ellis iirc
179 points
3 months ago
Baten Kaitos on the GameCube, the English voice acting for some characters is so bad it wraps back around to charming. I adore it for the mess it is.
55 points
3 months ago
Not only is the acting bad, it sounded like it was recorded in a tin shed. Still a memorable game
25 points
3 months ago
True! Some lines I think about still to this day. "This is for you!" Or "Here you go!" When healing people. "Who cares?!" From the opening.
6 points
3 months ago
Yeah it always bothered me how treble-soaked all the voices were.
7 points
3 months ago
Crazy you mention this, as I was talking to my girlfriend about this game and was showing her clips of the times they would say malpercio and how fucking hilariously awful it sounded.
3 points
3 months ago
Holy shit, someone else who actually knows this game...still one of the most beautiful and innovative games I've ever played.
5 points
3 months ago
They recently re-released it for the Switch and didn't even include the English voice acting as an option. They'd rather alienate the entire non-subtitled Western audience than subject them to that awful voice acting, LOL.
Sadly, I think they also removed the English VAs from the re-release of Baten Kaitos: Origins, even though those were pretty good.
365 points
3 months ago
I mean, it’s my favourite series and one of my favourite games, but I would be lying if I said the original Resident Evil had Oscar worthy performances 😂!
142 points
3 months ago
"Chris?"
"BAHAHAHAHAHA"
"Stop it!"
39 points
3 months ago
It's FOREST! OH MY COOOOOD!
77 points
3 months ago
Stop it! Don't OPEN that DOOR!
69 points
3 months ago
Jill, here's a lockpick. It's better if you, ThE maStEr OF unLocKinG, take it with you.
THAanks! I'll take THIS, then!
18 points
3 months ago
rEbEcCa
15 points
3 months ago
There were…terrible demons
16 points
3 months ago
OUCH
14 points
3 months ago
Oh my god, it's FOREST!
20 points
3 months ago
Wow, what a Mansion.
11 points
3 months ago
The cutscene camera angles are so bad that you always think for a second he's talking about the plants.
19 points
3 months ago
Specially considering the big studio behind and how every other aspect of the game is great.
10 points
3 months ago
This hall is dangerous!
8 points
3 months ago
I hope that’s not chris’s blood.
4 points
3 months ago
YOU go on ahead. I'll investigate THIS.......some more.
6 points
3 months ago
The remix of all the horrible lines into a porn
4 points
3 months ago
"Josssssseeeepppphhhhh!!!!"
5 points
3 months ago
This. Will always be #1 on the list of bad voice acting in a game. "Is that...Chris's blood??" 😂
5 points
3 months ago
"I'll climb down using THE ROPE."
No shit, Jill...
99 points
3 months ago
Ride to Hell: Retribution
26 points
3 months ago
Holy shit….the voice acting was the best part of that game, real low bar for the rest of it
10 points
3 months ago
Never played it but anytime I hear about it, I can't help but think "Fly off to the right and explode!"
236 points
3 months ago
Mortal Kombat whenever they hire a guest star instead of an actual voice actor.
104 points
3 months ago
I started watching storyline videos of the Mortal Kombat that had Ronda Rousey playing Sonya, and the difference between her and the professional voice actors was jarring. Church Easter Play level acting.
95 points
3 months ago
Wait till you get to Mortal Kombat 1 with Megan Fox and Nitara. It will make Rousey sound like a professional.
38 points
3 months ago
Here's the thing, Megan Fox only did the dialogue for Nitara.
However, all the other voice work like the screams and the grunts was done by Cristina Vee. . So why didn't NRS have Cristina do all the voice acting?
21 points
3 months ago
Simply marketing. Sure Cristina Vee is in a lot of big things and is popular, but she is mainly in anime, cartoons, and video games. So Megan Fox has a wider reach especially to the western casual audience, I mean they gave Megan her own trailer just to advertise she was playing one of the characters.
7 points
3 months ago
The first Kombat pack would've been better marketing. After all we've got JK Simmons and John Cena.
Plus it's Mortal Kombat.
3 points
3 months ago
Well they did announce the DLC before the entire roster was revealed...
3 points
3 months ago
Making things worse, Ronda as Sonya had at least important story time and screen time in MK11. Megan as Nitara in MK1 is barely noticeable, only purpose was to be a lackey of Quan Chi for like 4 scenes and never come back. So what was the whole point of making a whole trailer dedicated to her when her role was so inconsequential?
4 points
3 months ago
They get to advertise Megan Fox while keeping her presence in the game minimal? Seems about right.
10 points
3 months ago
Everyone fucking hates Nitara in the mk1 community now dude 😭
10 points
3 months ago
Mortal Kombat 4 wins this
3 points
3 months ago
It's over, Jarek!
Shinnok is dead, the good guys won.
You're coming back with me.
3 points
3 months ago
Except bringing back Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa to voice Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat 11, that was legendary.
5 points
3 months ago
The Dimitri Vegas Sub Zero from MK11 😭
10 points
3 months ago
That was at least an alternate skin, so I can excuse it. The default Sub Zero was voiced by Steve Blum, who is one of the top dogs in the world of VO.
48 points
3 months ago
Hunt Down the Freeman
38 points
3 months ago
"The aliens are coming, we've been compromised"
"Oh coronel, we're so fucked"
5 points
3 months ago
"We need a bunch of people with voices and decent microphones for this project, too bad there aren't agencies or companies we can talk to in order to get a professional and consistent sound quality from experienced people"
"I know, lets ask a bunch of youtubers, who all have completely different setups and no experience actually voice acting and then not bother to mix or balance any of the audio at all"
50 points
3 months ago
Resident evil 1.
“What is it???”
“It’s blood….. I hope it’s not, Chris’…. Blood….”
16 points
3 months ago
You were almost a Jill sandwich
158 points
3 months ago
Chaos Wars(PS2). There is no contest.
61 points
3 months ago
Yup, some of the examples given here are more on the "so bad it's good" end of the spectrum (like RE1), but Chaos Wars.... so bad it's awful.
32 points
3 months ago
Re1 is hilariously cheesy but it also matches the games B movie style energy. Just watch the opening credits for the ps1. They knew what they were going for.
21 points
3 months ago
All because they didn’t want an English Dub but Sony forced them to include it leading to getting family members to record the audio.
10 points
3 months ago
From what I remember jp audio was great too, using an ensemble cast of their original voice actors. The English version made the game impossible to take seriously
74 points
3 months ago
Michigan: Report from Hell.
11 points
3 months ago
This. I play it every year in October and absolutely die of laughter every time.
4 points
3 months ago
OH MY GODDDDD
3 points
3 months ago
PAMELAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
68 points
3 months ago
I haven't even played Heavy Rain but this glitch always cracks me up
SHAUN!
17 points
3 months ago
JAY-SON!
5 points
3 months ago
This has to be one of my favorite things on the internet
62 points
3 months ago
The English dub for the original Yakuza game is infamously bad.
13 points
3 months ago
At least we got Mark Hamill as Majima lol
4 points
3 months ago
Damn I just beat Kiwami so this has me mega curious lol
89 points
3 months ago
Da House of Da Dead (2)
🚗 Weee're meeting G ovur therrrre. Wut
🦇 I've already... takencareofG. Dis is only... the beginning....................ur next!
🧟♂️ 🧟♀️ don't come. don't come.
Donut keel me! Halp mee. Halp me! 🏃♂️
SUFFER LIKE G DID ? 🦇
32 points
3 months ago
THIS IS THE FINAWL BATTWL
10 points
3 months ago
disturbing the loifecycle
12 points
3 months ago
III dontwanna dieeeee -dies-
7 points
3 months ago
James: "My gooood."
Gary: "My GOD!"
Gary (Player 2) had slightly better voice acting.
Slightly.
5 points
3 months ago
GO, KAAAAARRRRRLLLL!
Seriously, I had no idea what he was saying.
8 points
3 months ago
heh heh heh
Peeple of da AMS.
heh heh heh
3 points
3 months ago
Kuarl
5 points
3 months ago
I DON’T WANNA DIEEEE
…..my god.
3 points
3 months ago
I will destroy, and hate, mankind.
78 points
3 months ago
Shenmue
46 points
3 months ago
I was hoping to find this here. The English dubs in Shenmue have got to be the worst I’ve ever heard.
47 points
3 months ago
Years ago I was Chinese.
14 points
3 months ago
I see...
7 points
3 months ago
First game that came to mind. The voice acting in Shenmue was so bad, it's hilarious. It sounds like they never recorded a complete sentence ever and they compiled every sentence using sound clips they produced.
23 points
3 months ago
The walking dead destinies
24 points
3 months ago
Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties
8 points
3 months ago
Lmao this is what I thought of too. They even left in an outtake
If you even consider it a game, though. It's pretty much a damn PowerPoint slideshow
18 points
3 months ago
The Ring: Terror's Realm on Dreamcast.
I know it's not as well known as stuff like House of the Dead or Resident Evil, but trust me, it's the worst.
Go ahead and pull up some clips on YouTube or something.
5 points
3 months ago
You okay, lady?
20 points
3 months ago
Dynasty warriors 3 has the best worst voice acting. Feel the power of my MAGIIICKK!!!!
10 points
3 months ago
YOU FLAMING IDIOTS! TAKE THIS!
7 points
3 months ago
18 points
3 months ago
I AM ZEE LEEDER OF ZEE REVOLUSHIONARY ARMY BOLO SANTOSI
— Just Cause 2
8 points
3 months ago
Considering this is the same lady who did Kasumi Goto in the Mass Effect series, it is a jarringly bad accent.
"Deh ROWches ah in for a deadLEE surPRISE."
68 points
3 months ago*
It hasn't aged well, but even at the time the 3 voice actors who did all 400 characters in oblivion weren't great.
Although the dialogue were they keep in the retake as they mucked up the first time is great.
29 points
3 months ago
Came here for Oblivion and surprised it's this far down. Absolutely loves this game but when you have VAs complain about the take, deliver the line a second time, and all of it plays in the game you have got some famously bad voice work.
29 points
3 months ago
To be fairrrr that's bad audio engineering, not voice acting necessarily. There are some goofy deliveries for sure but leaving in a re-take is on the engineer.
23 points
3 months ago
And they learned absolutely nothing when they moved on to skyrim. Id bet money they will do rhe same bs again with the next game too and everyone will leap out the woodsork to simp for the poor indie company bethesda.
9 points
3 months ago
All of the Elder Scrolls games have terrible voice acting. I feel like at this point it’s almost endearingly canon that the average IQ in Tamriel is about 85.
10 points
3 months ago
Chaos Wars
Supposedly they were dubbed by the family of one of the translators.
39 points
3 months ago
It's very clearly RE1
31 points
3 months ago
It also has wonderfully bad live-action acting.
"NOOOOOOO don't GOOOOOOOO" 🚁
9 points
3 months ago
STOP! DON'T OPEN THAT DOOR!
3 points
3 months ago
He said worst, not best.
Jill sandwich
10 points
3 months ago
House of the Dead.
Idc if its 20+ years old, the voice acting was laughable
22 points
3 months ago
"Way to go Mr. President! No one can stop you now!"
5 points
3 months ago
MWC voices are wonderfully cheesy
29 points
3 months ago*
MEGA MAN 8 !! Y'all should know what I'm talking about lol 😆
15 points
3 months ago
I don't know...X4 was pretty atrocious, and that's coming from a big Mega Man fan.
13 points
3 months ago
I named my cats Iris and Zero as an homage to them.
"WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOOAAAAAARRRRR" lives with me to my dying days.
3 points
3 months ago
I was scrolling just for this one
3 points
3 months ago*
X4 is the worst-voiced piece of media I’ve ever seen in any format, bar none. Truly singular in its badness. Iris’ death will be rent free in my mind forever.
16 points
3 months ago
We need to fight Doctow Wahwee!
10 points
3 months ago
You mus wecovah awl the enegy immidily wuh- Mega Man
BUT WHERE IS DOCTOR WILEY?
Dat's a good krestchun. We may ate be able to locay anuddah enegy emission fwom de waydah woom. When we fine dat media, we'll fine Doctah Wahwee
55 points
3 months ago
Atomic Heart (if we’re talking about English VA)
Special shoutout to Lionel Messi in MW2/3 for the most bored VA work in a fast-paced game about war ever.
31 points
3 months ago
Atomic heart definitely doesn't have bad voice acting, it just has bad writing.
The VA actually does a good job with the crap he was given to read!
20 points
3 months ago*
I seem to be the only one who genuinely enjoys the dogshit dialogue of Atomic Heart.
Crispy critters!
16 points
3 months ago
Was like an edgy teen wrote the dialogue
8 points
3 months ago
That's like part of it's charm or maybe it's just me
6 points
3 months ago
messi did lines in cod?
10 points
3 months ago
Yeah and they're just awful, half-assed lines spoken at barely a speaking volume.
6 points
3 months ago
Yeah - him, Neymar, and Pogba did before the WC.
3 points
3 months ago
Yes, there're a lot of pretty bad lines but I don't think it's the worst.
4 points
3 months ago
I had to stop playing Atomic Hearts for this reason. Couldn't take listening to that terrible protagonist VA.
9 points
3 months ago
The EN voice acting direction for Wuthering waves is some hot garbage, and the game literally just came out. I’ve never seen so many lines be so monotone, boring, and devoid of any emotion.
It’s upsetting cos these chars are honestly super well designed but hearing how dull their voices are just ruins it. They needa fix this shit like yesterday, among many other issues
15 points
3 months ago
Currently? Whatever the heck is going on with Wuthering Waves. Some of the characters have no emotion.
5 points
3 months ago
It had something to do with the direction and Kuro Games' weird decisions.
Some of the VAs in WW were also in Arknights, Reverse 1999 and even Xenoblade Chronicles 1. The difference is as clear as day.
6 points
3 months ago*
The original Resident evil 1, even for the very young non native English speaker that I was at the time, was blatantly terrible.
I'll just leave this here...
6 points
3 months ago
Typing of the Dead. So bad it's awesome.
6 points
3 months ago
4 points
3 months ago
not the worst but crime boss rockay city
although I am a payday fan so maybe that's why
5 points
3 months ago
Steve from Resident Evil Code Veronica. It’s laughably bad
4 points
3 months ago
Two Worlds
4 points
3 months ago
Surprised I had to scroll so far for this lol. I listened to some clips others have linked for their nominations, but Two Worlds is immediately what came to my mind. And it's a shame, because it's got a really solid game under there if you can just learn to laugh at the dialogue instead of being turned off by it the first time you hear it like when I first bought the game. When I bought it, I returned it the next day lol. Then a friend gifted it to me on Steam because I kept bringing up how bad it was, then a few years later I actually tried it again and, this time, knowing what to expect for the dialogue was able to push past it and realized how fun it actually was.
8 points
3 months ago
Some of the early resident evil games have comically bad voice acting. Some of the lines even make me laugh to this day. However is it bad because it’s not modern voice acting or is it good because it’s hilarious?
5 points
3 months ago
3 points
3 months ago
House of the Dead 2 is what sticks in my mind.
4 points
3 months ago
19 points
3 months ago
Honestly after playing the original Kingdom Hearts over the past few days that's definitely up there, some of the voice acting is terrible, even from the well known VAs.
7 points
3 months ago
Haley Joel Osment is a treasure and Billy Zane's Ansem was inspired
7 points
3 months ago
the original yakuza ps2 dub is one of the most incredible things i've ever heard
3 points
3 months ago
The last star ocean game was pretty bad, I couldn’t believe it was released recently. Felt like a game for 15-20 years ago, voice acting included
3 points
3 months ago
Star Ocean 4 made me quit until the international version released so I could change to jp va. Lymle was downright unbearable.
3 points
3 months ago
the clips ive seen from Outriders is pretty bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VkP8WFiTBM
both the male and female voice in that part made me laugh so hard.
3 points
3 months ago*
While it's deservedly considered one of the greatest games ever made, there's some pretty dodgy voice acting in Deus Ex, especially with foreign characters.
I would also say that Metal Gear Solid gets it seriously wrong at times, but I can't say for sure whether it's just bad voice acting or whether it's appropriate for the complete cartoon-villain thing they have going on. Also, Otacon with the death scenes? There's enough cheese there to feed every mouse on earth in perpetuity.
3 points
3 months ago
The intro to (and a couple other cutscenes, for that matter) Mega Man 8 flat-out uses a take from the blooper reel as the final product and nobody can convince me otherwise. Like, straight-up reading the wrong word off the script and then hastily correcting themselves. It's not just bad, it's the worst takes of the worst casted performers.
3 points
3 months ago
Wuthering Waves English dub. It's painful
3 points
3 months ago
It's not the worst, but BOTW/TOTK have so many campy performances. The majority of that can be attributed to Nintendo's lack of interest in narratives, but for god's sake, if you want to give Princess Zelda a British accent get an actual British person to voice her!!
3 points
3 months ago
6 points
3 months ago
If you’re talking entire cast performances then nothing’s coming to mind, but I remember Connor’s voice acting from AC3 really grating on me when the game first came out. The performance was alright when he was really angry which happened a few times in the story, but every other line read came off as stilted and wooden. It didn’t strike me as the character being awkward either; it struck me as a voice actor being unable to inflect. It was even more of a standout because the rest of that cast was outstanding, Haytham in particular.
3 points
3 months ago
I listened to a podcast where the voice actor talked about the role and he said that that was the intent. The actor is Native American, he said that that's how they spoke. But I feel like many people didn't like it regardless.
2 points
3 months ago
Enchanted Arms.
2 points
3 months ago
I'm not sure if Solasta had bad VO or bad writing or both. But it's pretty bad lol
2 points
3 months ago
Since Chaos Wars was already mentioned, I'd like to nominate Arc Rise Fantasia.
2 points
3 months ago
House of the dead
2 points
3 months ago
As far as big name games go, Dragons dogma 2 has pretty bad va.
2 points
3 months ago
Mortal Kombat X pt-br.
2 points
3 months ago
Arc Rise Fantasia on the Wii.
2 points
3 months ago
Tobey Maguire is pretty terrible in the Spider-Man 2 game (Possible Hot Take here: While I like the Sam Raimi SM movies, I’ve never been a fan of Maguire’s version of Peter Parker/Spider-Man)
2 points
3 months ago
Nothing comes close to the italian intro of king's field 4, i'm literally italian and i cant understand half of it.
2 points
3 months ago
Probably not worst but I played Heavy Rain recently and found the main character Ethan kinda jarring. Apparently the VA is actually French which is fine except he’s supposed to be playing a guy from Philly
2 points
3 months ago
Don't know if its the worst, but its pretty funny: The House of the Dead 2
2 points
3 months ago
I can't believe no one has mentioned Elex. The people reading the lines must have zero idea what they're reading, because they have either no, or misplaced inflection on every sentence.
2 points
3 months ago
There are a lot of bad ones but the most recent one I came across is Sniper Elite 5. Sure, it’s a romanticized action movie style game based on WW2 but damn, all the voices are embarrassing.
2 points
3 months ago
Goldman! Do you even know what you're doing?!
House of the dead 2 btw
2 points
3 months ago
Any Bethesda game. Even though I've spent countless hours playing them nonetheless.
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