The Worst Voice Acting in Videogames! - Game Sack

Episode 226 - We track down some of the worst examples of hilariously bad, ridiculous, and outright awful examples of voice acting in gaming. And this is only the beginning!
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[@GameSack]

What's some of the worst voice acting you've heard in a video game? Bonus points for "so bad it's good".

[@theredking2495]

Awesome vid guys!

[@Chrispypullen]

Game Sack Shenmue

[@themcadamsminute8494]

Mission Impossible 64. The random lines in the game have never escape me. Sometimes I’ll find myself saying “got it!” when I find something lost in that bizarre Ethan Hunt voice actor tone. The “Rock Steady” is the best.

[@luismartins3785]

Resident Evil 1 and Final Fight Sega CD...." Hi Hi Hiiiiiii "

[@bemani247]

Rune Factory on PS2 (had to mute that game), Prince of Persia on Mega/Sega CD and pretty much every npc in Shenmue

[@JSCG12]

Dying of laughter at the Street Fighter Alpha III announcer guy, especially when he's literally standing there watching his friend get eaten and doing absolutely nothing. My first thought was the MGS game over screen too which made me laugh even harder. A+ editing on that one Joe.

[@for8bitgamers]

They went to the Game Sack school of acting.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

for8bitgamers ~ wooden....gotta see there shenmue skit they did a few years or so ago.

[@pentagen]

I was expecting that line as soon as I saw the title of this episode. I'm a little disappointed that Joe and Dave never said it.

[@andrewamp1]

You say like it is a bad thing.

[@awetistic5295]

The Symphony of the Night voice acting is pure gold. Nothing will ever beat that glorious mixture of overacting, overall cheesiness and poor translation. Just like with the old Resident Evil games, I wouldn't have it any other way.

[@augustwest5356]

"Don't come, don't come!" Ah, if I had a nickle for everytime I heard that...

[@matthewlane518]

Lol omg funny!!!😁😁😁

[@EatWave]

Why would anyone want to hear this terrible voice acting? To suffer like G did?

[@baalfgames5318]

Judgement: Seems like my advice had no effect. Player: Save it for the afterlife, villainous scum! I am going to make sure that you suffer... Just like G did! Judgement: Suffer like G did? Player: That's right! Suffer like BEEPing G did!!!

[@lvl5Vaporeon]

These guys came right out of the Gamesack School of Acting!

[@johns6265]

House of the Dead 2 gets bonus points for the bizarre English script. It's practically post modern poetry. Suffer like G did?

[@SEGARetroBR]

Funny note: Richter's voice actor is the same guy who did Chris on the original Resident Evil. I guess not many people ever noticed that. One of the worst (yet hilarious) voice actors I know.

[@officialFredDurstfanclub]

Holy shit, now that you say that, it’s so obvious.

[@shymickey6]

I can’t go to sleep without hearing Joe and Dave’s smooth, buttery voices. Does anyone else go to sleep listening to their videos, too?

[@alex.starostin]

I fall asleep to these guys talking too

[@russellsnyder6246]

No, I haven't watched all of them. So I end up watching instead of sleeping.

[@brandname6]

Yea same here

[@zkdr6278]

Yep

[@rafazardly]

what happened to the older guy? now its just one!

[@Arunetto]

"Graduates of the GAME SACK School of Acting! - GAME SACK"

[@bluebull399]

Who's sack is it , and why does he have loads of games in his sack? Who put them there, was it some kind of accident?

[@samuelthehobo4441]

I don’t even think they graduated from the GameSack school of Acting. They were probably some dropouts.

[@wildjiggaboo1]

Great episode. The dialogue between Richter and Dracula has been permanently embedded in my brain for how cheesy it is. I look forward to the next worst voice acting episode!

[@RGT85]

OH MY GOOOOOOD!

[@startedtech]

RGT 85 rip Joe's hair

[@InifintyLefty]

RGT 85 GOD DAMN IT!!!

[@alfredocanas6802]

never say never, aging fuck us all.

[@Awsomostmaximum]

16:12 - Hahahahahahahahahahahaha...

[@cloudstrife1983]

They're eating her. And then they're going to eat me! Oh my gooooooooddddd!

[@videogameobsession]

"Get ready fighters! : GODDAMNIT!!" Haha

[@Wikigoogtube]

The Konami X-Men arcade game has some great one liners: “Juggernaut will flatten you!”, “X-Men, welcome to die!”

[@ConsoleWars]

I can assure you the voice acting in Dynasty Warriors is still bad. DW9 is probably the worst and it came out this year. Mega Man X7 and Prince of Persia for Sega CD are also very bad. And any of the Zelda games for CD-i.

[@thefroyukenfiles3641]

Console Wars Oh hi, Console Wars! Fancy seeing you on Game Sack. How'd the Sparkster stream go?

[@wesleybcrowen]

Sega CD PoP almost killed me. I still laugh at it.

[@HistoricaHungarica]

What about Hotel Mario? Or any other game for the CD-i?

[@TheWibachinski]

Valis is a Japanese game right? They probably said “varis” because the script wasn’t changed from the Japanese pronunciation which wouldn’t have used L

[@ranuichase4167]

Will Bachinski I was surprised that they didn't think of that!

[@tightlypackedcoil]

That's exactly what happened.

[@Sirynx77]

That's lazy translation for you.

[@3dmarth]

I recall that Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed has the same thing, with the announcer mentioning "Girius" (instead of Gilius) and occasionally mispronouncing "Danica". Some other games like Tales of Symphonia and Freedom Planet seem to have used some old spellings in the actors' scripts as well, though it didn't result in R/L issues in those cases.

[@Chaos89P]

Sirynx77 I've seen lazier. Zero Wing is a prime example. "WE GET SIGNAL," and all.

[@HeruruMeruru]

Also Megaman X4 WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOOORRRR

[@tmnttiny]

whatdoyouthinkyouredoing -colonel we have nnnnnnnnnnnnnnochoice -general

[@Killbomb]

Yeah, X4 has to be included if they do a part 2...lol.

[@skins4thewin]

Still the best Megaman game of all time tho imo. Playing as Zero is the most fun you can possibly have playing a Megaman game.

[@Ravenfellblade]

Still doesn't come close to "Doctor Whywee".

[@reopuraimu4962]

"As the President of the United States, I ask you: SAVE ALL MANKIND." "..........................I'll try." Gee, no pressure.

[@Zeldaschampion]

Joe is going to look like Ron Howard when he hits his 50's.

[@moviemetalhead]

So in 7 years

[@tomgunn9011]

Will he have a hot daughter too?

[@V0YAG3R]

Moar like Ron Hubbard 👌🏻

[@donpalmera]

I think some of them are bad because the one guy in the office that "can speak english" did the translation and it sounds hammy when acted literally.

[@RigbyIsTheMan]

I hope this video contains Jill Sandwiches and piles of secrets

[@stoicvampirepig6063]

You steal mens souls! It's not bad voice acting in Symphony though...just bad dialogue.

[@12ealDealOfficial]

"You FLAMING IDIOTS!"

[@cloudstrife1983]

What about a pile of Jill Sandwiches?

[@sizzxrk]

Cloud Strife Or piles of secretly miserable Jill sandwiches

[@Zeldaschampion]

Dr. Light sounded like an older Elmer Fudd.

[@angelriverasantana7755]

Zeldas Champion meanwhile, in the Mega Man 11 trailer...

[@mistx7115]

agreed

[@ExtremeWreck]

Mist X Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting Mega men.

[@mistx7115]

OK you got me

[@3dmarth]

Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting Dr. Wahwee. Fixed. ^

[@seven4ce920]

Light Gun games always seem to have pure voice acting gold.

[@startedtech]

25:32 OH NO! Not Doctor WAHWEE!

[@zombiejlt1]

Still laughing at his voice to this day lol.

[@therhythmdragon]

Don't worry! W-Megaman will stop him!

[@willmistretta]

I genuinely miss terrible voice acting the same way I do chiptunes. Gaming lost a good chunk of its identity as a medium as it became better and better at aping film and television.

[@vidlink]

I miss chiptunes but I don't miss bad voice acting.

[@darkman4811]

Will Mistretta I agree. Bad voice acting in video games is kind of a lost art nowadays. I miss the cheesiness that they used to provide.

[@_fadingcolors]

Some indie games still have terrible voice acting.

[@surrealbrain4227]

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!! I can't help but agree.

[@PiousMoltar]

Wow so the "don't come" line in HotD2 is a reference to Time Crisis, surely? The voice acting of the whole game must be a parody

[@mintydog06]

"save all mankind!", "............. I'll try" haha the best!

[@HappyConsoleGamer]

My other favourite Guy Kazama line, "I don't like roast pork!"

[@NaturalProgressGames]

Ah... the famous line that gives the game it's context. Without this line, all would be lost.

[@dmjsra04]

It kills me every time that House of the Dead girl says "don't come! Don't come!" Hahaha. Yes, I'm juvenile

[@nmbr4lizard524]

dmjsra04 😂😂 I mean who would choose those words tho.

[@samhackett5715]

Resident Evil 4 has an even better instance of "Don't come!!!"

[@nmbr4lizard524]

@@samhackett5715 I gotta see that

[@samhackett5715]

Code Veronica X on the PS2 has some of the best awful dub work I've ever heard. "Fatherrrrr!" "...Steeeeeve..." Man, you gotta check it out, it'll change your life

[@Lufisyth]

I unironically enjoy SoTN's voice acting. It's a product of its time.

[@thesoulforge3607]

Why only 210k subs in 2019? Bestest show on the internets

[@WarOnCOD]

Perfect way to end a Saturday night.

[@stargame7029]

DAMN YOU GAMESACK! Don't you dare talk bad about Castlevania voice acting!! There's nothing more cool than "Have at you!" 😂👍

[@TarksGauntlet]

Ah, another great game sack video with audio levels mixed perfectly to room temperature!

[@DanielOliveiraMenelkir]

I'm from brazil and I usually play games in english because uh... the voice acting in portuguese, most of them, are terrible. The only one game that have good voice acting that came to my mind is Grim Fandango.

[@WCBs]

I haven't laughed like this in a while

[@gammaphonic]

“Feel the power of my… mAaaAgGiiiiiiiCcC!” That is possibly the best line reading I’ve ever heard. Perfection.

[@spicypicklez6410]

"How dare you interrupt my family vacation RAAAAAAAA-"

[@spicypicklez6410]

Tidal Yacht Charles was Mario back in 64 though... This wasn't the first game with Charles.

[@3dmarth]

"Junior, I've got something... difficult to tell you about Princess Peach." Or Peach's own line at the beginning: "Ohhhhhh, look at that!"

[@csukosd]

I was itching for some more Sack!

[@RetroCheater81]

Chris Sukosd i was just itching my sack

[@zfrometa8316]

OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@frankschneider6156]

Yes my son ? What my I do for you ?

[@soldierwill99]

The Jill sandwich line is classic..lol

[@kaidon2]

Every 2 weeks you guys restore my faith in KZbin. Thank you!!

[@deadmetalbr]

I wanna hear you guys redub some of these games!

[@gc8972b]

i have this thing with game sack that i usually dont watch an episode until a newer one is released, so that if you guys one day decide to call it quits i can at least have a last episode to watch. this channel is awesome and inspiring, great work. have a nice week

[@GamePark032]

When Barry says "Jill sandwich" he splits Jill's name into two syllables with such emphasis that it almost sounds like "Jiggle Sandwich." 26:21

[@BuzzaB77]

my fave bit in HOTD2 is "G's blood stains???" like they recognise a person's blood.

[@AloisWeimar]

“I don’t wanna be in that club!”

[@YadonTheCat]

It's actually perfectly normal for SWAT teams to handcuff hostages, odd as it may sound. I guess it's so they don't interfere

[@amyhoard1222]

Could be, or just to get everyone out safely so they can sort out who everyone, is when the area is secure. Happens often in police raids.

[@cristianmaldonado949]

I remember joking about the Dr. Wawwy bit at school when MM8 was freshly released, also with SotN and RE. Thanks for the nostalgia trip guys!

[@bheasy1]

The Jill master of unlocking was the first thing that came to mind! Thanks for noticing it =)

[@Code7Unltd]

but HOOOWW do I get back to Tokyo? Seriously though, Chaos Wars only has an English dub due to Sony's mandates, and the English producer hired his family (I believe the word for this is "nepotism") to be cheap.

[@baalfgames5318]

The worst part about the voice acting in that game is that it sounds like they didn't even try.

[@RetroGamePlayers]

Oh man these were ALL hilarious but the dialog at 10:00 takes the cake

[@raymoorhouse9139]

That skit is so good. Just perfect. Miss dave these days. Still love you too. Keep it up! (Please) thanks

[@Aboveup]

Something about the old Resident Evil voice acting just fits that unnatural, weird ambiance the game has going in general. The VA work is incredibly off about everything in a game that's trying to make you uncomfortable and it just adds to it. REmake, while a better game in general is just missing that.

[@TonyLikeGames2]

No Zombie Revenge or Deep Fear? Ultra Unsubbed HD 2.8 Final Mix: Game of the Year Edition!!!!

[@josephwilhems5687]

This guy knows where it's at!

[@FFJump0]

This guy knows where it's at!

[@FFJump0]

This guy knows of the guy who knows where it's at!

[@josephwilhems5687]

See? This guy knows too!

[@pcachu]

It'll never be as good as the classic Super Unsubbed 2 Turbo Championship Edition.

[@Awsomostmaximum]

My favorite from RE1: Enrico: "Is that Jill?" Jill: "Is that voive... Enrico's?" ... ... ... ... ... ... Enrico: "Yeah..."

[@nohomers100]

Ha ha. Mine too. I love too how he says yeah. Like he isn’t sure. It’s like yeah?

[@n00bc0de7]

Dave totally missed out on a good opportunity to take that snatcher while joe was distracted

[@sunnohh]

One of my favorite episodes yet

[@cartersplanet2734]

Good to see you two again and still looking great! I love cringy voice acting in games like horror, as it lightens the mood. 10 out of 10 snaps!

[@davebladegun3009]

I had no idea that Ghost Squad is such a phenomenal game - and it looks like it can be had rather eBaysily. I’m gonna have to dust off my Wii now.

[@frankschneider6156]

Ghost Squad is indeed one of the 30 or so games on the Wii, that an adult person can play and that is actually quite good. It's not as good as House of the Dead - Overkill (that game can't be beaten) or Mad World, but it's still a good lightgun shooter. There is also a double pack of 2 arcade ports: Gunblade NY & LA MachineGuns. Also lightgun shooters. Afaik is this the only port of these games to any home console. They are also ok and the disc can be had for less than 3 bucks new.

[@DeathToJihad]

Frank Schneider, Less than $3 where? It's over $25 on eBay.

[@frankschneider6156]

Oh, ok. I bought my copy for 3 bucks new on Amazon around 3 years ago.

[@Izthefaithful]

“Sorry ladies first doesn’t apply on the battlefield” O man I shuddered hard at that one ughhhhhhh...........😫 😂

[@StormsparkPegasus]

A lot of games back then, the voice acting sounded like they used the janitorial staff as voice actors, and recorded their lines in the bathroom.

[@RainBird88x]

I always thought there was something off about the voice acting in Perfect Dark (N64).

[@DeathToJihad]

Judah Earl, It's slightly overacted, but in a way that gives it character, I think.

[@malik87breaker]

They used voice acting from the developers :)

[@3dmarth]

I thought the acting was kind of flat, if anything- at least when it came to the minor enemies. Like some dude (who was not an actor) was just reading the lines. It's also kind of funny to recognize when one actor is playing a few different characters, or to notice the slip-ups when they put on a (mostly decent) American accent.

[@DeathToJihad]

3dmarth...You bitch! *dies*

[@RainBird88x]

It's odd because Rare was usually great when it came to music and sound effects.

[@sclsaucington1011]

There eating her... and then they are going to eat me!!!!

[@bashcrash9148]

Oh my Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahd

[@WestSide1207]

*They're. Why doesn't anyone know English anymore? Why is everyone so retarded these days? Did they not go to elementary school or something?

[@Nezuji]

This reminded me of friends playing DW3 at a house party back in the day, when a cutscene showed a character making a passionate speech about defending their kingdom in an overly-enunciated British accent. The moment he finished, someone at the back of the room shouted, in a pitch-perfect copy of that voice, "... because we're SO Chinese!"

[@BenjiMordino]

Reminiscent of early GameSack episodes, brilliant stuff.

[@Zeldaschampion]

The voices in that vampire night game reminded me of Deadly Premonition.

[@blackflame4506]

Dynasty Warriors 3... takes me back man love the game and that cheesy voice acting... Thanks for the hilariously great episode Game Sack.

[@x.atheista]

"For the voices they picked some random guy from inside the building" -Dave Yeah... that sounds like something they would do! Yeah... yeap!

[@foolio1990]

A good contender for part 2: Flashback on Sega CD. It's hilarious.

[@kylewynn3147]

[Looks at time] "My gosh! Where did the time go? I NEED to get some sleep." [Sees Game Sack uploaded] "But I can spare exactly 30 minutes and 18 seconds."

[@ahmedkhan1272]

Executer 66 r

[@Chaos89P]

Executer 66 I read that in a wooden manner. This video must be getting to me.

[@flexsealman7096]

I cant believe it took you 13 and a half minutes to mention House of the Dead 2!!

[@Xlfdll]

Long-waited episode I was always looking for!

[@craigb2343]

"I hope this is not Chris' blood." will always be my favorite line ever.

[@danielvillanueva3792]

Awesome as always!! Thank you for making me happy!!! Greetings from Mexico!

[@Undying3001]

This is what weebs think all English dubs sound like.

[@romanrm1]

Uh, yes. Because they actually do.

[@rebornkusabi7264]

+ Tidal Yacht And even if the anime takes place in Japan, we the audience (in North America) don't speak Japanese as default, so the intricacies, class structure and conversational norms are totally lost on us. Even just as simple as "Well that's what subtitles are for" misses the entire point of localization. There are things in Japanese that North Americans just flat out won't understand. And it is NOT in the reverse here- one of our biggest exports besides the obvious ones is entertainment, specifically film and TV.

[@jakublulek3261]

I say this: There are some actors and voice actors that have such a distinctive voice and way of speaking (or theyr voice and way of speaking just clicks with charater they are voicing) that I prefer original before any dub. I am not from English-speaking country, so I have plenty of experience with dubbing of English-speaking movies and shows. There are shows, like british Professionals, that I always watched dubbed in my mother language, so I am used to it and accept it as original (and it was my number 1 series when I was growing up). And there are shows like Superdimension Fortress Macross that I watched as a child and they had miserable voice-acting but I didn't see that at that time and now they sound just weird in "proper" form. For example, my most favourite anime, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, is just perfect in Japanese, English version isn't bad but some of main characters feels off and theyr voiceover isn't representative of theyr character in the same way as in Japanese version (there are lots of little quirks in pronunciation and way of delivery in Japanese version that are lost in English version, that is much more flat, bland and much less energic). But in my another favourite anime, Black Lagoon, I like difference in characterisation with English dub and prefer it before Japanese version. Also Cowboy Bebop is much better in English. Subtitles are distracting, and tended to be pretty much on par with the worst dubbing in terms of quality, mainly when it comes to shows and movies that aren't mainstream. I am big fan of Akira Kurosawa, and because it is costly to employ japanolog to translate correctly from Japanese to my mother language, they just take English subtitles and translate them. And man, it is bloody difference translate native English text into one of the more complex and less common languages, and here you are translating translation! But subtitles were my main way to get familiar with English, so I am not dismissing them.

[@KitsuneYojimbo]

@@romanrm1 I'm guessing you haven't watched any anime dubbed after the '90s.

[@romanrm1]

@@KitsuneYojimbo I'd say I shrugged at hearing some dubbed anime from early to mid 2000-s as well. Maybe not tried any newer than that. Don't see the point in the first place, I love how Japanese sounds, so I watch with subtitles. It's also educational, after a while you start understanding like 30-50% of it not looking at the subtitles, even without intentionally studying.

[@jakethreesixty]

You should do a GS on mistakes in games, like the one lady in Oblivion who messes up her line so she says it twice, completely uncut.

[@shanesxe]

That outro scene is worth at least another 200k subs. Holy hell. Am I noticing a new format for the show? I like it.

[@Paulnap]

Stop!... dont. open. that. door.

[@chexmixkitty]

You guys know a thing or two about bad acting don't you 😏

[@emmettturner9452]

“It won’t do to die here” is perfectly fine. Saying that something undesirable “won’t do” is a common way to refuse to accept it. Duh.

[@dominicpayne4393]

I think I am actually addicted to Gamesack videos. And where’s deadly premonition lol

[@dominicpayne4393]

York you there??

[@Boojakascha]

For non native English speaking people many of these games sound fine^^ I totally get why the Japanese were not able to notice something went wrong :-P For me the PC Engine CD games are most obviously flawed. Much of the rest is kinda "normal" to me^^

[@QuickBeam15]

Dynasty warriors 9 voice acting. Not even funny bad, just low effort why even bother bad.

[@madfinntech]

The Jill Sandwich may just be the most epic line in video game history!

[@weelzneal4768]

"Dieing wont do here" is a reference to Charge of the light brigade, a poem of war. "Ours is not to wonder why, ours is do or die"

[@davek12]

"How do I get to Tokyo? (pronounced incorrectly)" "What's Tokyo? (pronounced correctly)" 5:20

[@videogameobsession]

I'm eating a Jill sandwich while watching this.

[@NotABot55]

What are you doing in Williamette? Think you have other things to do aside from eating.

[@KitsuneYojimbo]

I think my favorite bit of bad voice acting was from the bad ending of Alone in the Dark 2008. "I'm the Light Bringer... I'm the f***ing universe!! Did you think I'd come alone...?" Another being Todd Howard's character in The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. The other one being the entirety of the voice acting in the first Two Worlds.

[@jbfarley]

Two worlds is horrifically bad across the board, especially thr voice acting

[@tomruess]

‘The Barely Coherent Exploits of Guy Kazama’ sounds like it could be the title of an award winning novel.

[@CiccioImberlicchio]

I hope you'll make a second episode of this, you forgot to include Megaman X4, X7 and Ape escape to the list

[@Eth3realwarrior]

Enuff talk! HAVE AT YOU!!!

[@SaiyanGamer95]

What? No Nintendo CD-i games? Also, fun fact about those games. The guy who voices Mario, Luigi, and Bowser is the only one who seems to have had a career after the CD-i games. One of his later roles was as the announcer for the Earthbending Tournament in Avatar: The Last Airbender and he's definitely improved.

[@undolf4097]

I’ve missed this channel. There’s no way I can catch up on all the content Can I? Better make sure KZbin doesn’t take this off my radar again

[@PixelGameSquad]

I want to marry DAVE!

[@Lone432345]

House the Dead better be on the list.

[@voteDC]

Why was he just standing there watching the monsters eating those women? He's definitely behind it all.

[@MasterJim87]

Best part about the Report from hell Brisco scream, is the fact after the dead body fall's out of the locker he looks at the body for a whole 4 seconds before he screams XD