Worst Voice Acting

Worst Voice Acting

  • SWC Iceman "That was for Vega 9."

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • SWC Paladin "They Caught me with me kilt down."

    Votes: 6 31.6%

  • WC2 Shadow "Affirmative Cap'n"

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • SWC Maniac (As portrayed by Jack Nicholson ;))

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • WC2SO2 Maniac "I think I hear my mom calling."

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • WC2 Angel "mon Capitan"

    Votes: 6 31.6%
  • Total voters
    19
Mekt-Hakkikt said:
Not for me, I thought the WC3 Kilrathi were a bit awkward. They repeatedly told you you were a pathetic descendant of monkeys but looked like apes to me themselves. I even like the WC4 Melek better than the WC3 one (*ducks*).
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Wasn't that a bug in the KS version? (the repeating pathetic descendant...over and over)

I think the WC2 Kilrahti are perhaps the best looking, although I do think the WC3 ones are fairly good considering the limitations of the day. In a new WC I'd love to see the incorporation of both the 2 and 3 looks. I think a mix of them would produce something great.

WC4 Melek looks like he's been doing crystal meth with his eyes bugging out like they do. He'd be sure to scare small children.
 
Vinman said:
Wing Commander 3? Really? I thought that the Kilrathi in Wing Commander 3 were pretty universally hailed as the best iteration of the Kilrathi.

Those taunts sure beat flying against the drakhai, they never shut up about how great they are.

YOU CANNOT DEFEAT THE DRAKHAI!! * five seconds later * YOU CANNOT DEFEAT THE DRAKHAI!!
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And the funniest thing to me when the Drakhai kept telling me that I couldn't defeat them, they're rollin' and tumblin' anywhere between two and ten seconds later after being in my gunsights before the inevitable explosion marked their respective ends.
 
I practically fell out of my chair the first time I tried Standoff, shot-up a pirate, and heard "THIS CRATE'S ABOUT TO EXPLODE!!"

Something I didn't like about Privateer's voice acting, though, was how the generic male and female characters from each faction would have identical lines (sometime delivered with identical cadence).
 
Catnip said:
I practically fell out of my chair the first time I tried Standoff, shot-up a pirate, and heard "THIS CRATE'S ABOUT TO EXPLODE!!"

Something I didn't like about Privateer's voice acting, though, was how the generic male and female characters from each faction would have identical lines (sometime delivered with identical cadence).
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Standoff's use of Origin voiceovers and their own unique ones I think adds a great balance to the gameplay. You hear old favorites mixed in with some originals that have become new classics as well as some voiceovers from some of the non-PC games that really add to the environment.
 
Dundradal said:
Standoff's use of Origin voiceovers and their own unique ones I think adds a great balance to the gameplay. You hear old favorites mixed in with some originals that have become new classics as well as some voiceovers from some of the non-PC games that really add to the environment.
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Seconded. I had chills going down my spine listening to the Drakhri in the mission against the Hagaka.
 
Dundradal said:
Wasn't that a bug in the KS version? (the repeating pathetic descendant...over and over)
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Hmm, I think it's the other way round: regular WC3 has the bug and KS fixes it.

But I wasn't making fun of the bug but wanted to show that, while the Kilrathi ridicule us as being "hairless apes", they themselves look like apes (with hair).



Dundradal said:
WC4 Melek looks like he's been doing crystal meth with his eyes bugging out like they do. He'd be sure to scare small children.
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Yet he looks more feline to me than the WC3 ones.
 
I think they simply wanted to go with puppets for the cats in WC4, so they ditched the costumes.

"You fly like the ape that you are!" was kind of weird. I guess the opponent's implying that you're stupid like an ape, but it sounds like he thinks apes fly. Maybe the Kilrathi picked up transmissions of "The Wizard of Oz" along with the old Bugs Bunny cartoons.

Another of my old favorites was from when you escort the Broadswords early in WC2. Whoever destroys the Fralthra gives a triumphant "NAILED that capital ship!!" It'd be cool in Standoff, but due to controller issues I haven't played through the whole mod yet, so for all I know it is.
 
Yeah is there any reason they didn't use the old costume/puppet? Was it destroyed between games or something?
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Chris Roberts didn't like how *any* of the live action Kilrathi turned out; that's why he redid them for Wing Commander IV and again for the movie.

There were some other technical reasons, too. Melek in Wing Commander IV had to interact with humans on the game's existing Intrepid sets... compared to Wing Commander III, where they had specially lighted/designed CGI backdrops and were specifically kept away from scenes with human actors wherever possible.

(And, of course, the game was supposed to make Melek seem a lot friendlier than he was in Wing Commander III...)

I think they simply wanted to go with puppets for the cats in WC4, so they ditched the costumes.
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The Wing Commander III and IV Kilrathi used essentially the same technology - with more animatronics in Melek's head in WCIV to try and make him more expressive.
 
I always felt the voice add-ons were wrong for WC1 and WC2. The lip animations never synced up to the speech, so added to the level of animation (which was good for a game, but not great from a cartoon stand point) real voices destroyed my immersion in the game.
 
Mekt-Hakkikt said:
But I wasn't making fun of the bug but wanted to show that, while the Kilrathi ridicule us as being "hairless apes", they themselves look like apes (with hair).
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This would be a great idea for a background story for a future game manual. It would be neat to see how both sides tried to insult the other following the beginning of hostilities, only to later learn from prisoners, research, etc that what they were saying was completely rediculous. It could be from the point of view of a Confederation cultural anthropologist or something like that. :D
 
Flashpoint said:
I always felt the voice add-ons were wrong for WC1 and WC2. The lip animations never synced up to the speech, so added to the level of animation (which was good for a game, but not great from a cartoon stand point) real voices destroyed my immersion in the game.
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WC1 PC didn't have any speech packages.

And what you don't like them mouthing "dipstick" over and over again in the SMs :p
 
I liked the in-flight voices in WC2 and Privateer, but not most of the face-to-face conversations. That's part of why I like the disk version of Privateer (the other being that Grayson doesn't sound like he's been snorting too much Ultimate).
 
I totally love it when Paladin says "argh, they got me with me kilt down"

Hillarious!
 
Between WC3, 4, and Prophecy, I think WC3 was the best. I think Flash and Maniac did a great job; which isn't surprising considering they're both talented movie actors. Some of the Prophecy voiceovers sounded fake and very annoying; especially the guys that you could tell were using gruff scratchy voices that weren't their normal speaking voice.
 
Mjr. Whoopass said:
Between WC3, 4, and Prophecy, I think WC3 was the best. I think Flash and Maniac did a great job; which isn't surprising considering they're both talented movie actors. Some of the Prophecy voiceovers sounded fake and very annoying; especially the guys that you could tell were using gruff scratchy voices that weren't their normal speaking voice.
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Flash? A talented movie actor? Where/when/how???

(Not being a jackass, I just haven't recognized him in anything.)
 
He played the white guy who wasn't Jessica Biel in Stealth, one of mankind's greatest cinematic achievements.
 
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