If I remember correctly, the reason the VAs are so ad in a lot of sports games is because they try to get the actual athletes to VA for the game. Obviously they aren't professionals, though...it really sounds like some of them are struggling to even read the script lol
Yes i think you hit the nail on the head. They're using all their concentration struggling to read the script fast enough, so they can't even remotely concentrate on trying to make their voice performance sound good.
When they do, it's bad, but sport games have moved away from contracting the actual players. It's probably fairly expensive and nobody is going to care about them voicing themselves especially if it's so awful.
Also, it's worth noting that especially in the US, voice acting work is mostly reliant upon the VAs being really passionate about their work to make up for the industry being harsh. It pays very little, treats everyone as an afterthought, and works insanely fast, but especially in games or dubs. VAs usually only get a script at most couple days before recording, and they make ~$75/2hrs. They don't get any residuals from the sales at all, so that means that animated films that can make literally millions at the box office, the VAs performing the characters usually make a total of $150 - $300. If there's a lot of work to be recording like in a game, you _might_ end up making $1k or more. Especially if you've got professional athletes like this who are already getting more just from their likeness being used, and they make more doing just about anything else… I'm not surprised nobody pushed to try and get another take for these. At the end of the day, that's why the industry doesn't really care if there's a performance like this or if someone's performance literally carried the whole crazy plot - they all get paid about the same.
For some of the NBA games they only managed to get some of the athletes in the recording studio for an hour or 2 while in some other cases the athletes refused to go but due to being in some sort of contact they still sat and read the voice lines, from what I recall one guy sat at an airport and read his lines once.
A lot of the actual players voiced themselves in that basketball game? They all sound high as hell, so I guess it makes sense. They all saw the budget and models for the game, said "aw fuck I can't do this sober," and they all got fuckin' zooted.
Yeah but like, a lot of professional athletes got pro through sports related scholarships, and so only put in the bare minimum to qualify in terms of academics and spent the majority of their time training. In the end you get a lot of subpar reading comprehension and literacy but over average athletics.
Not only was SOTN's voice acting good, it was good _during the PS1_ era, when expectations weren't particularly high in general. Really weird, especially considering how legit bad the rest are.
A special shoutout to Robert Belgrade as Alucard, downright iconic performance. All of his lines during gameplay are burned into my skull at this point, lol
@@RichardHennigan Was the translation bad though? It's not like there were any grammar issues or odd phrases. If the lines were changed significantly after translation, nothing about them stands out that would make me suspect that. I don't think I suffer much from nostalgia goggles, but I thought maybe this was an exception. After going back and rewatching the scenes... I just don't see the bad. If that was a recently-released game, I doubt I'd be scrambling for a Japanese voice option. The only issue I can think of is that players found how dramatic and formal they were talking to be cringey. But it all seems fitting in the setting. Look at Dracula and tell me he _wouldn't_ talk like that, sitting on his throne with a glass of wine, waiting for Richter to fight through his minions.
@@thegreatgonzales6813 Iono, I'm just not hearin it. If anything, I felt that some of Alucard's acting was a bit flat compared to everyone else's. Not bad, definitely nowhere near the other examples in the video (the gap in quality is _huge_), but he just didn't seem as into it as the rest.
I really hope they made them one-take these scenes and this wasn't the "best" of multiple takes, at least then i could just feel bad for them being put on the spot like that
For Resident Evil, it for sure AT THE TIME was an extremely scary game. It was very ground breaking as far as atmosphere in video games went. It added a level of immersion that just wasnt in games so it really caused you to fear what was around every corner and have no idea what would happen. You have to remember that jump scares wasnt really popularized until later. The silent hill series took what resident evil made and perfected the fear aspects.
its one of those things no one talks about in sports but is very much a problem in that some of them hit the big time but can only ____ at grade school level. which is one of the reasons the sports have implemented money spending lessons.
@@pieV3000 the players are often doing sport's scholarships and as part of said scholarship they have to learn a language, so the coaches force them into learning a "easy" language usually it's Swahili, from a news story a few years ago they interviewed 2 or 3 years of scholarship students and asked if they ever felt the need to use Swahili and only one said he met a guy in an airport one time and they had a quick conversation in Swahili. From my understanding they pick the language to say that for the duration of the scholarship the students learn something but it's also picked so for most of the day the students would be free instead of stuck in school studying, so more time to practice basketball.
why was house of the dead 2 only an honorable mention and castlevania number 5? "This is the final battle" is literally THE bad voice acting meme, while Alucard's performace is literally known as one of the best peformances during that era.
The performances in Symphony of the Night are fine... except for Richter. The problem is the script, clearly not written by a native speaker and having a lot of lines truncated. Like Richter especially suffers, probably because they realized his actor was bad so they wanted to have as few lines for him as possible.
Okay, I knew Dynasty Warriors 3 had some infamously hilarious voice lines, but I lost it at *"FEEL THE POWER OF MY, MAAAGIIIIIIIIIIC!"* Holy shit that was amazing, I have to finish that game someday :p
I mean, the only real competition the original RE had for the scare factor was the "Alone In The Dark" games, so yeah, it was terrifying at the time. That said, RE was only made into a horror game because of AITD, so maybe AITD was scary back then too, I really can't say.
I completely forgot about how 2K tried to have players voice themselves but clearly had no idea how to direct them and the players clearly didn’t want to be there.
honestly after hearing all that I still place House of the dead 1 and 2 at the worst probably 2 because I have nostalgia of playing that game tons and remembering all the terribly delivered lines from all of the characters and the sounds they gave to the bosses and enemies, also quite a lot of what was shown here you either had to look for gems of bad voice acting or, Watch mojo just put a load of blame on the scriptwriting/translation issues which wasn't the point
Castlevania SOTN should not be in that video. This is why I hate WatchMojo. How dare they slander Dracula's best dialogue. Now I need Aethel to play RE7 and RE8.
I honestly don't think Symphony of the Night is bad voice acting, but just a bad script. Sure some of the voices are a bit off, but it's far from "awful".
Nah whats even crazier about Deep Fear is that there was a article in an old game magazine making a homophobic joke about the architect and how u shouldnt bend over around him! LIKE BRO WHAT???
Dion Waiters both looks and sounds in this game like he's coming out from under anesthesia after MASSIVE dental surgery XD.
Sounds like they paid them all in alcohol. In advance.
If I remember correctly, the reason the VAs are so ad in a lot of sports games is because they try to get the actual athletes to VA for the game. Obviously they aren't professionals, though...it really sounds like some of them are struggling to even read the script lol
Yes i think you hit the nail on the head. They're using all their concentration struggling to read the script fast enough, so they can't even remotely concentrate on trying to make their voice performance sound good.
When they do, it's bad, but sport games have moved away from contracting the actual players. It's probably fairly expensive and nobody is going to care about them voicing themselves especially if it's so awful.
Also, it's worth noting that especially in the US, voice acting work is mostly reliant upon the VAs being really passionate about their work to make up for the industry being harsh. It pays very little, treats everyone as an afterthought, and works insanely fast, but especially in games or dubs.
VAs usually only get a script at most couple days before recording, and they make ~$75/2hrs. They don't get any residuals from the sales at all, so that means that animated films that can make literally millions at the box office, the VAs performing the characters usually make a total of $150 - $300. If there's a lot of work to be recording like in a game, you _might_ end up making $1k or more.
Especially if you've got professional athletes like this who are already getting more just from their likeness being used, and they make more doing just about anything else… I'm not surprised nobody pushed to try and get another take for these.
At the end of the day, that's why the industry doesn't really care if there's a performance like this or if someone's performance literally carried the whole crazy plot - they all get paid about the same.
For some of the NBA games they only managed to get some of the athletes in the recording studio for an hour or 2 while in some other cases the athletes refused to go but due to being in some sort of contact they still sat and read the voice lines, from what I recall one guy sat at an airport and read his lines once.
But when it’s a wwe game it’s usually good like, wtf?
19:49 what a bold clip to end the video on. Also Nyan’s reaction was some of the most genuine horror I’ve ever heard from her lmao
Never thought a company would be willing to top Resident Evil's (1996) voice acting but here we are.
Oh man... The 90s had some bad voice acting...
Hey, the OG RE may have had some...scuffed VA work, but it ain't got NOTHIN' on RE Survivor.
"when the waiter says have a good meal and you say you too"
*KILL ME PLEASE*
A lot of the actual players voiced themselves in that basketball game? They all sound high as hell, so I guess it makes sense. They all saw the budget and models for the game, said "aw fuck I can't do this sober," and they all got fuckin' zooted.
Yeah but like, a lot of professional athletes got pro through sports related scholarships, and so only put in the bare minimum to qualify in terms of academics and spent the majority of their time training. In the end you get a lot of subpar reading comprehension and literacy but over average athletics.
some of this voice acting reminds me of that one kid in every English class that reads like a poorly made text to speech.
Not only was SOTN's voice acting good, it was good _during the PS1_ era, when expectations weren't particularly high in general. Really weird, especially considering how legit bad the rest are.
A special shoutout to Robert Belgrade as Alucard, downright iconic performance. All of his lines during gameplay are burned into my skull at this point, lol
For the time, the VA was definitely high quality. I think most people just have an issue with the bad translations.
@@RichardHennigan Was the translation bad though? It's not like there were any grammar issues or odd phrases. If the lines were changed significantly after translation, nothing about them stands out that would make me suspect that.
I don't think I suffer much from nostalgia goggles, but I thought maybe this was an exception. After going back and rewatching the scenes... I just don't see the bad. If that was a recently-released game, I doubt I'd be scrambling for a Japanese voice option.
The only issue I can think of is that players found how dramatic and formal they were talking to be cringey. But it all seems fitting in the setting. Look at Dracula and tell me he _wouldn't_ talk like that, sitting on his throne with a glass of wine, waiting for Richter to fight through his minions.
I think it was mainly Richter’s performance that was really bad. Like dude sounds like he just walked off the porn set.
@@thegreatgonzales6813 Iono, I'm just not hearin it. If anything, I felt that some of Alucard's acting was a bit flat compared to everyone else's. Not bad, definitely nowhere near the other examples in the video (the gap in quality is _huge_), but he just didn't seem as into it as the rest.
I really hope they made them one-take these scenes and this wasn't the "best" of multiple takes, at least then i could just feel bad for them being put on the spot like that
No Zero in MMX7?
"No! This isn't happening! There's no reason for me to go on! Wha-WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOORRR!?!?"
19:50
Nyanners sounds *legitimately* shocked by the "A dike?" line.
This is the definition of a power couple
For Resident Evil, it for sure AT THE TIME was an extremely scary game. It was very ground breaking as far as atmosphere in video games went. It added a level of immersion that just wasnt in games so it really caused you to fear what was around every corner and have no idea what would happen. You have to remember that jump scares wasnt really popularized until later. The silent hill series took what resident evil made and perfected the fear aspects.
Nowadays the most scariest thing about the early resident evil games is the controls and the camera.
everyone except the main guy in NBA2K either sounds like their eating something or getting mediocre head underneath the recording booth
Way to many of the players that voiced in the 2k game are having trouble reading.
its one of those things no one talks about in sports but is very much a problem in that some of them hit the big time but can only ____ at grade school level. which is one of the reasons the sports have implemented money spending lessons.
@@pieV3000 the players are often doing sport's scholarships and as part of said scholarship they have to learn a language, so the coaches force them into learning a "easy" language usually it's Swahili, from a news story a few years ago they interviewed 2 or 3 years of scholarship students and asked if they ever felt the need to use Swahili and only one said he met a guy in an airport one time and they had a quick conversation in Swahili. From my understanding they pick the language to say that for the duration of the scholarship the students learn something but it's also picked so for most of the day the students would be free instead of stuck in school studying, so more time to practice basketball.
8:45 "I don't see anything wrong with this" AND THEN THIS GUY DARES TO SHOW UP
This is the most I've laughed in years, thanks so much for the clip!
Extremely happy that Aethel is a man of culture with love for Dynasty Warriors.
8:01 Dude, that guy’s nose doesn’t move!
Glad dynasty warriors was featured. Wish they watched the Jim Sterling video that just compiles all the best lines.
Haven't seen the whole video, but I hope they react to the yakuza 1 dub, a classic
I can't believe they didn't include Michigan: Report from Hell.
why was house of the dead 2 only an honorable mention and castlevania number 5? "This is the final battle" is literally THE bad voice acting meme, while Alucard's performace is literally known as one of the best peformances during that era.
Im surprised they left out Michigan report from Hell. Thats some how takes place in Chicago.
I mean it could be Lake Michigan
That "kill me please" sounds like Napoleon Dynamite said it lmao
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The performances in Symphony of the Night are fine... except for Richter. The problem is the script, clearly not written by a native speaker and having a lot of lines truncated. Like Richter especially suffers, probably because they realized his actor was bad so they wanted to have as few lines for him as possible.
Im surprised they had last alert but not Michigan report from hell
The basketball players read their lines like the kids from the “Porkchop Sandwiches” Fenslerfilm dub.
The Town with No Game AND Resident Seavil!? Takes me back to old Retsupurae days.
Why does one of them sound like Jimmy from South Park 🤣🤣
Last Alert, Town With No Name, AND Deep Fear? Somebody is a Restsupurae fan...
4:53 Aethel almost calls Eric Gorden "Drew Gooden", fan confirmed?
"Fools. You dare challenge me with trickery!?"
"I don't belIEIEVE in maaaagIIC........OOOONWAAAAAAARD!"
it sounds like they used the initial script reading for the game 💀
Bro why Dion Waiters sound fuckin DEAF I’m DYING. Man is slurring like he doesn’t know how words sound.
Okay, I knew Dynasty Warriors 3 had some infamously hilarious voice lines, but I lost it at *"FEEL THE POWER OF MY, MAAAGIIIIIIIIIIC!"* Holy shit that was amazing, I have to finish that game someday :p
Be sure to read a walkthrough as dialog unlocks based on your actions on the field.
I feel like the VAs gained an extra chromosome when reading the script lmao
8:46 I'm in tears 😂 what did he even say??
Caramba! I'm really hurt! Oh, I'm gonna fall off for now, so bye!
@@KanaIzumiya 😂😂😂
I heard “I got a bullet wound so bye!”
Conner's video where he fixes some of these clip's voiceacting showed me how bad they really were
"what do you here" is not a mistranslation, it's just archaic english
Anyone who enjoys YTPs but isn't watching DaThings is missing out.
I mean, the only real competition the original RE had for the scare factor was the "Alone In The Dark" games, so yeah, it was terrifying at the time. That said, RE was only made into a horror game because of AITD, so maybe AITD was scary back then too, I really can't say.
I completely forgot about how 2K tried to have players voice themselves but clearly had no idea how to direct them and the players clearly didn’t want to be there.
How the hell did the watch mojo dude not recognise a John Wayne impression...Arnie? What?
O M G that wasn't the announcer?!
Bruh what 2k is this, I'm crying.
about making sure i get my touches yo...😶
honestly after hearing all that I still place House of the dead 1 and 2 at the worst probably 2 because I have nostalgia of playing that game tons and remembering all the terribly delivered lines from all of the characters and the sounds they gave to the bosses and enemies, also quite a lot of what was shown here you either had to look for gems of bad voice acting or, Watch mojo just put a load of blame on the scriptwriting/translation issues which wasn't the point
Goldman! ... do you know what you are doing?
Do you think they did tons of takes and those were the best lines they could do or they only did it once and called it a day?
This is the best take of 100
I missed this stream 😭
There is always the VOD.
@@Aflay1 watching it at this moment
I did too, fuckin' hurricane Fiona took away my internet, and there's no data in my house
@@loloshua same bro signal is being a bitch since Fiona pass
Castlevania SOTN should not be in that video. This is why I hate WatchMojo. How dare they slander Dracula's best dialogue.
Now I need Aethel to play RE7 and RE8.
Love how they complain about low hanging fruit while watching a WatchMojo Video
I honestly don't think Symphony of the Night is bad voice acting, but just a bad script. Sure some of the voices are a bit off, but it's far from "awful".
Town with no name is a comedy. It doesn't count.
couldn't hold in my laughter in classs
The fact that WatchMojo thought "the town with no name." was an earnest attempt at a game and not a giant shitpost is both mind blowing and hilarious.
Barry from resident evil sounds like adam west
I feel like YTP's went a long way in shaping the internets humor
Haven't watched yet but I hope they bring up Chaos Wars
Edit: It was brought up, and the dub is worse than I remember
Nah whats even crazier about Deep Fear is that there was a article in an old game magazine making a homophobic joke about the architect and how u shouldnt bend over around him! LIKE BRO WHAT???
SotN is GOATed, not only for gameplay but voice acting. They are on some mad cope.
sad part is its not bad voice acting its bad reading these multi millionaires cant even read
I feel like Mojo mistook Resident Evil for Silent Hill when they called it one of the scariest games of all time. Lol
If you want amazing voice acting EDF 4.1 and 5 are for you
TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM AN ALIEN ATTACK
@@FaySmash From vicious giant insects who have once again come back
Watch mojo being bad at top 10s yet again
Imagine buying this game 😅
Monotone ahh voice acting
When it comes to terrible voice acting, nothing can top Chaos Wars:
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