@@macstrong1284 likely because that was absolutely in no fucking way even remotely similar to Shaq, his voice or his personality. But was instead almost certainly a professional voice actor.
@@EliteDB21 that's not Shaq. That's the user character. The player just destined their character to look like Shaq. The user character is voiced by a voice actor.
I like how it's pretty middle of the road, but the fact that an effort was made makes it a billion times better. Just goes to show how important passion is in acting, even if it's him just pretending to care
Fun story: Ninja Theory had lost their main actress for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice so they asked one of their video editors, Melina Juergens, to wear some equipment for capture tests. Despite having 0 acting experience, she was good at the part of Senua, offered and accepted it and her performance went on to win 3 awards for best performance including at The Game Awards, beating out veterans like Laura Bailey and Claudia Black. Absolute legend.
GLaDOS is a great example of voice acting. She sounds robotic and soulless, then you destroy the purple core at the end of portal 1 and she suddenly changes entirely even though her voice isn’t *that* different
That NBA2K15 acting is astounding. Sounds like they played a 12 hour match, went to sleep, got shaken awake 2 hours in and got to do the lines right then and there still wrapped up in their blankets. That's avant-garde as fuck man.
In defense of LA Noire, the early cases merely serve to prepare you for what’s coming eventually. That’s why the acting in some of them is quite telling. When you get to homicide and vice, I swear, many witnesses’ expressions are difficult to decipher.
Once you get to tango with straight-up sociopaths, it gets quite difficult. I mean there are interrogations where the suspects specifically don't have tells because they aren't fazed by lying or are just batshit insane.
I would say the hardest of the interrogations is the sleazy business man when you're investigating the construction yard arson. The whole game has taught you to gamify facial expressions and voices through exaggerated acting so you can read for tells, and suddenly you run into this guy that is a complete stone wall, cause he's actually a businessman whose entire job is to have a poker face. It's so jarring, I failed that interrogation completely, couldn't get shit out of him
What's seriously aggravating is how everyone uses the one very first interrogation you do against someone who is established as a terrible liar in-universe as proof the acting is "bad". Like that is literally your first case, and right after the interview your partner outright says "wow that guy is a terrible liar". It is not as all representative.
I love how Shaquille O'Neal's line at 8:21 was actually delivered really well, probably because he was one of the only characters who was actually voiced by a real voice actor
@@neonlightning439 it’s blowing my mind nobody realizes this. Shaqs voice is so recognizable and it literally says “Player Character” on the screen And shaq retired way before 2015
I remember Skyrim's voice acting. Something about them delivering their lines earnestly while their world is bugging out always made me even more invested in its world.
I'm sad he didn't mention Ellen McLain's performance as GLaDOS when talking about keeping personality in your characters, even if they are robots. The performance is cold and calculated and packed full of character.
Ellen McLain is probably one of the best of all time for that reason. It can be easy (for some) to simply act human when voicing a robot character and call it giving personality to a machine. But what sets Ellen McLian’s performance apart is that when voicing GLaDOS, she doesn’t sound human but still gives the character strong and memorable personality.
Portal 2 especially had really great dialogue. If I remember I actually laughed out loud a few times alone..in my dark bedroom hunched over my keyboard
He was literally playing Portal clips during that part, so... p sure he was giving props to that whole game, because all of the characters exemplified what he was talking about. He wasn't there to extoll one actor, he was there to make a point, and the whole game made his point.
You know Dunkley is a great actor when he not only fooled us into thinking he was truly Mr Beast, but also when he fooled everyone in the CSGO lobby into thinking that he was Bowser from Sonic.
What's always fun is when you get cast in a game to voice act some made up gibberish language (think The Sims) but still have to somehow accurately convey the right emotional cords lol.
Bro why is 8:21 unironically good, I just love how you actually get into this tiny bit of narrative and then it just hits you with the equal of a corpse reading lines from a script lmao
Can’t wait to hear about the incredible voice acting in the all time classic Sopranos video game. Truly a world class performance and an inspiration to all aspiring video game actors.
one thing not talked about enough is direction for voice acting. A good director sets the stage & tells the VA the purpose of their lines so they know what to deliver, as well as being able to identify & demand retakes until they know which take is the one that should be shipped.
Right around 7:10 you talk about "one of the absolute pinnacles of acting," you zoom in on Mark Hamill's face, and then you cut to NBA. You're such a troll Dunkey, I love you.
@@jmerridew124 thats the created player for my career voiced by an actual voice actor. the others are actual nba players just reading lines of which one or two in that had lines in the game are actually illiterate
@@dusan9097 When Dion says “who had thought” with so much emotion, it really makes you think about all the doubters and tribulations you face on your NBA journey
Looking back to this video, Baldur's Gate 3 voice acting is really remarkable and it's one of the main reasons I love the game. A good acting in the game might not affect the overall gameplay, but truly makes the gaming experience up to another level.
In an episode in the last season of The Flash they let the voice actor saying "look at this shitty dialog" slip in the PTBR version and it is freaking hilarious.
I'm guessing the NBA guys aren't all that good with criticism and they would just leave if their feelings got hurt. I bet they had to do several takes just to get those illiterates to read the lines right.
@@Snowboarderr4Life first of all calling them illiterates is wack. But secondly, I think you're mostly right and it's a little surprising to me because you'd expect professional athletes to respond to coaching well
@@Snowboarderr4Life My take is money, they just read their texts because too little time to learn the dialogues and too little time to rightly play their characters!
I loved the voice acting in the Legacy of Kain series. It was hammy at times but undeniably iconic. Just having games be fun instead of being crushed under the pressure to be a cinematic masterpiece seems so difficult these days. If I wanted to watch a movie, I wouldn't be playing games. I think the pressure to deliver a jaw-dropping experience is what leads games into that uncanny Valley and subsequently the bargain bin.
I shed tears when dunkey gave appreciation to NBA2k15, the absolute cream of the crop, piece de resistance of video game voice acting. The emotions conveyed in that game made me laugh, cry and become filled with rage.
@@mikeexits As I understand, Shaq's voice was an actor while the rest were the real players. Ironically Shaq is the only one who actually has some voice (and in person) acting experience.
@@shia_labeouf that's not actually Shaq lol. That is the voice actor for your created player. The created player here just happens to be named Shaquille O'Neal
Every video game actor should at least meet the prerequisite of having seen the boss baby, boss baby 2, and all of the boss baby back in business series. I feel like with a proper example these people could properly excel in their acting
4:20 Ray Liotta was the actor who literally read from the piece of paper, go watch the interview where he said it and that still didn't stop Vice City from being one of the best GTA/open world games
0:52 You also need good directors. You can have amazing voice actors but when they need to redo lines over again until the director is happy with it then you can't blame them. Sometimes, especially with older games, you have just regular people acting for their first time voicing games without any direction at all. Just a small detail that I think is important and just like to add.
See: Kingdom Hearts 3. Such a huge cast filled with talented, experienced voice actors delivering lines in the strangest ways. Like for real, David Gallagher has been playing Riku amazingly for almost 20 years. Why does he sound so bad this late into the game? It has to be the voice direction.
@@twoshillings7292 The thing is, the actual Japanese pronounciation WOULD be something like 'Yokoska' because the u would be silent. It's just that the guy sounds like he has a mouth full of jello and Ryo's voice actor pronounced it incorrectly.
I actually thought the acting in the Spider-Man games was really outstanding. Not only are the voice actors great, but they recorded two sets of lines in case you would be talking to somebody while swinging/in combat, giving a more strained delivery on top of the regular delivery
I think the scene where otto begs for peter to save him in the end is one of the best Spider-Man moments ever. I got chills the first time I heard the "They'll take away my arms... I'll be trapped in this USELESS BODY" The dialogues, the music and the drama just mix too well in that scene
@Aden Diaz I think that’s fairly obvious, but spiderman deserves the love, especially in regards to the video’s subject matter, which is why I made note of it
When the actors can't gain context from each other on a big budget mocap set, its entirely up to the directors to give them that context. Direction is really where video games usually drop the ball. Even the world's best voice actors fall apart when they aren't given good or any direction. Peter Dinklage is probably used to great direction, so when he is given none, he has no idea what to do and becomes a monotone robot. Other people are used to being given shit context as a voice actor, and sometimes they can pull through, but it makes it even more jarring when they get the read wrong. They can guess the context of one line completely correctly and nail it super hard, but guess the next one wrong and suddenly they sound super silly. It's these situations that can make voice dubs such a mixed bag of fuck. It's true that the extremes of voice acting are the most entertaining, but a lot of times the middle ground seems to be made up of people just trying their best in a terrible situation, to varying degrees of success.
this is the key. The direction in most games sucks and the games with good direction stick out so easily - rockstar and naughty dog games for example, hell even halo 2.
I have never played Death Stranding but that clip near the end of the video shook me. The facial capture, the graphics, and the acting. actually kind of incredible
Give it a go and at least play up until you get a vehicle. The 'walk simulator' bit at the start is super slow and lots of people dont make it past that, its only a couple of hours. But its a truly incredible game, the feelings that you get when you are finishing a long haul and a low roar track comes on are beautiful. Truly unique gaming experience imo.
I love seeing athletes try to act in sports games. When they’re in a non-scripted setting, they have lively personalities, but when they get on the mic they become statues.
Well it doesn't help that half of them can't fucking read. Like seriously, listen to that one dude reading. That dude is seriously struggling with reading the script
@@starchygoblin9859 the average Joe would be a horrible voice actor. These nba dudes are reading a stupid script with no emotion. Has nothing to do with their literacy
Most people are generally like this. The most charismatic and energetic person will come off awkward and stiff on camera if they're not used to being recorded. For most people it takes some practice and experience to "act natural" when performing in front of a camera or mic
7:39 This got me to buy the game The delivery of that line genuinely rocked me to my core I don’t know the context, I don’t know who he is But for a moment that good, I gotta get the full context
@@Wihited Yeah, definitely a very memorable and emotional experience. Death Stranding is a really cool piece of art, it said a lot of things, not all of them well, but I can appreciate the desire to make a video game that’s kinda not fun, but still enjoyable, if that makes sense
sad to see that donkey kong december has finally come to a close, but we will always cherish each one of the incredible 31 donkey kong videos Dunkey gave us
Seriously, though, say what you will about Death Stranding as a game, it has some of the absolute best facial animations in the industry. I swear the bulk of the work went into making those just right.
Hey Dunkey I genuinely love you in a psychologically healthy way. Your perspective and videos you make truly brighten my existence. The moments I spend watching your videos are moments where the worries of this world dissipate. Thank you ❤️ I've been having a hard time recently... I'd appreciate a new video soon if you don't mind.
Killer7 had some crazy awesome cutscenes. They actually used the fact that the camera could go anywhere to their advantage for some amazingly stylish shots
You ever see his League of Legends voice acting? It's amazing how consistent Dunkey is at bringing quality performances, especially considering the range and uniqueness of the different characters he voices.
Death Stranding might get shit on for its gameplay, but damn the voice acting and character animations are seriously out of the world. I felt more emotions in that scene than what most movies can give me.
@@kinoko384 Everytime I try to love the gameplay it shoves another tutorial in my face and it's one I can't skip or I literally will be stuck for eternity if I don't listen to it. Also, everytime I try to like one of the songs playing, it ensures I'll Hate them forever by watermarking the freaking middle of the screen in a game about immersive story telling. It's a lot of fun tho. But as a basketball game it's pretty terrible next to 2k. You can't even dunk.
We did an interview with Ruth Jarman, the voice of Mega Man in MM8 and X in X4 and it was really insightful to how some companies handled voices in games back then. The actors for those games were given no direction or context and weren't even told they were recording for two games. Really crazy stuff, but it's really charming.
I feel like this happens a lot. The voice actors tend to take a lot of the flak for a bad performance, when a lot of times, it's just the direction (or lack therof) they recieved. The best, and you rarely hear of it in video games, is the Shrek effect, where a VA gets a good chunk of the way through their lines, something clicks about the character, and then they're allowed to just go back and rerecord everything they already did.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 If I recall correctly, Ruth said the recordings were done over one day. I really wonder why they would do that. But she was super cool. She embraces it and listening to her lines is great. She seems to really understand who the characters are now, so who knows what could have happened with another chance.
Pretty sure stuff like that still happens. Was gonna write about how I remember there being a Voice Actor union in the news a few years back because of unfair compensation for their work. Many of the people doing work straight up did not know who they were or what game they were working for and therefore could not ask for appropriate payment. Turns out yeah, there was a strike between 2016-2017 that was eventually resolved, but companies still don't have to say what specific game or character the VA is about to work with. Just what type of game it is & if it belongs to an existing franchise or not.
7:40 is legitimately great stuff. There’s a lot of death stranding acting that’s a little weird, but that cutscene at the end of the game has Hardman steal the show
One of my favorite games ever and one of my first times seeing great acting in a game was the Legacy of Kain series, specifically the first Soul Reaver game. Was ground breaking at the time.
0:32 The voice acting in this game is top notch hilarious. There's no way they didn't make it this bad on purpose. I wasn't expecting to see it in one of Dunkey's video's, but I'm so glad it's finally been recognized. The game itself is actually really fun too. You get to control a giant robot, punch other giant robots and smash shit. What's not to like? Robot Alchemic Drive, PS2. Give it a chance if you ever find the time.
They do it on purpose, it's called cheap localization to make a buck, if you want quality you have to play the game in it's original language in most cases.
@@wishiwasabear Though it sucks that you'd need an undubbed modded game a lot of times because the localization team didn't bother making language selectable.
@@superultrathanksmom3845 Yeah and it's something americans aren't used to because most games are released with eng audio except for Japanese games which is why they still get a bad rep there. But people from other countries are already used to playing games in their original language with subs unless you want to go through a lot of bad dub.
I remember listening to a voice acting session of Dust: an Elysian Tale (love that game and it’s voice acting) and the voice director really pulled it all together. Like the voice actors where pretty good, but the voice director knew the full context and really knew how each line should be delivered and he would give them whatever context they needed or direct them to use a certain inflection and the whole thing came together perfectly. Like we need more competent voice directors if these teams are even using voice directors.
Dust was basically Shovel Knight before it was cool to be Indie. One of the better games ever made, everytime I play I 100% it. Art direction, sound direction, tight controls, fun combat, and there is some replay value with the customizable stats, crafting equipment and difficulties. Truly a gift of a game
Matt Colville, who wrote Evolve and contributed on a few other big titles, talked about that process on stream a few times. He worked on some voice sessions with Liam O'Brien from Critical Role as voice director. There were times where Matt would give this long spiel to Liam about the background and context that the actor couldn't hear and Liam would turn that into a really short instruction that nailed exactly what Matt wanted. Voice director is a really hard, really important job.
When speaking about convincing performance, the first character that comes to my mind is Handsome Jack from the Borderlands Games. His voice actor does such a good job like wow-
100%. He definitely is one of the best video game villains ever made, and every single line was delivered perfectly. I didn't bother with BL3 because I knew it was going to be a huge letdown after that peak performance. The pre sequel was smart to bring him back and show his backstory.
I’m surprised he didn’t give Metal Gear Solid more credit. That first game was very important in bringing video game voice acting into the mainstream, and by today standards the English dub is still good. Remember that it was just two years after Resident Evil. Raiden and Rose in MGS2 are iffy, but overall the series has a good track record with voices.
In defense of Raiden and Rose, some of their writing was campy to start with. There’s a scene in the game where Rose is talking to Raiden and telling him that his room was “empty, just like your heart.” My sister and I use that line all the time lol. How can you say something like that seriously? It’s like that famous Destiny quote about the moon wizards. Some things just sound inherently dumb lol. Doesn’t stop it from being my favorite MGS game, though.
@@Ckoz2829 and then, Metal Gear Rising has one of the best voice acting in a video game. Not because is super realistic, but because they really manage to give them a Japanese sansation without being cringy and also, creating memes. The DNA of the soul.
@@Ckoz2829 It's dumb but I get it, and I think it's perfectly realistic that a woman would say that. With Rose already having a bitchy personality I don't take issue with it. Women just say dumb shit like that, and it makes sense, just from a different perspective than the one you're typically using. Rose wants Jack to have some passion for life in the form of interests and opinions, but he is evidently far too neutral and blank, and I think this is actually a common phenomenon.
I think people unironically need to understand how talented of a voice actor dunkey is, he can somehow create the most genuine sounding sarcastic dialog you will ever hear
A few of my faves in here, good and bad examples. Heavy Rain had its moments, L.A. Noire was revolutionary, Red Dead speaks for itself, and Tommie Earl Jenkins' performance in Death Stranding is immaculate.
2:25 in the case of Horizon (and Mass Effect) sometimes the voice acting is technically good, but the execution of the scene is what ruins it. In the example given, the voice actor is clearly putting emotion and care into his lines, but the animation doesnt express the same intent and emotion.
Sometimes I think Bioware just doesn't give the voice actor the context of the scene, so they perform it well but they're putting emphasis on the wrong thing. "I can't believe YOU took the money" ...hits different than "I can't believe you TOOK the money." Tells two different stories. Context matters.
Where is the emotion and care? Guy's about to die and he says the most half hearted "im sorry, please" ever, doesn't make much of a difference if the animation is improved
@@aaronm1246 There's still subtlety in his voice and in his inflection. The issue is that the animation doesnt portray even one ounce of what the voice actor was saying so it's hard to imagine what the scene could be. It would essentially need to be redone from the ground up and focus almost solely on the facial acting to get the moment across.
@@SeenAGreatLight That's actually how it would be pronounced in Japanese. A lot of times dubs will pronounce Japanese names as if they were reading an English word. The "U" is usually silent in Japanese words (see: vowel devoicing). The first guy saying "yo-ko-soo-ka" is actually pronouncing it wrong.
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Really glad that dunkey wasn't too blinded by his rage that he couldn't see the magnum opus of voice acting that is NBA 2K15
Deserves a goddamn Oscar
Really makes you feel like a real basketball player
He do what he do for the team
The second to last player actually gives a good performance and then it’s right back to “kid too shy to read to rest 5th grade English class”
@@macstrong1284 likely because that was absolutely in no fucking way even remotely similar to Shaq, his voice or his personality. But was instead almost certainly a professional voice actor.
It's really amazing how 2K got the voice actors to read their lines while sleeping
it's the actual players voicing themselves lmao
@@nolanvanbro3150 maybe some of them are, but not all of them. That definitely was NOT Shaq doing his voice.
@@EliteDB21 O'Neal in the clip is your player character in the game, whoever got the recording just happened to have named themselves O'Neal
@@EliteDB21 that's not Shaq. That's the user character. The player just destined their character to look like Shaq. The user character is voiced by a voice actor.
Because Shaq doing his own VA would have cost more than the budget for the entire rest of the game
8:21 I like how easily you can spot the one voice actor that was actually trying
Yeah, Shaq probably has more acting experience than any of the rest of them.
@@electricnezumi It's not Shaq, it's the player character.
The difference is an actor actually voices your player character, and the others are real NBA players who didn't want to have to do all this nerd shit
@@BigMackWitSauce Yeah, this makes sense.
@@wethands6417 thats the joke
8:22
people who played this must have been shocked to hear good voice acting
Tell me it was fake, please
Yeah this shouldnt be real, please.
@@wallace8637 It's.. sniff real.
@@wallace8637 see! This is how shocking NBA 2K15 voice acting is. Too humane for this world
I like how it's pretty middle of the road, but the fact that an effort was made makes it a billion times better. Just goes to show how important passion is in acting, even if it's him just pretending to care
I love that Dunkey managed to find a way to compliment Death Stranding while still adhering to the noble goal of never complimenting Death Stranding
@@TippyHippy nice
@@TippyHippy based
Dunno, Dunkey is one of those people who became famous not for the brightness of his mind. The word he and you are looking for is - Ambivalence.
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Fun story: Ninja Theory had lost their main actress for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice so they asked one of their video editors, Melina Juergens, to wear some equipment for capture tests. Despite having 0 acting experience, she was good at the part of Senua, offered and accepted it and her performance went on to win 3 awards for best performance including at The Game Awards, beating out veterans like Laura Bailey and Claudia Black. Absolute legend.
I love informative comments, thank you.
Hellblade is cringe and part 2 seems to be over the top cringe. Fuck Donte Theory and their shitty ass games
@@His0ka 🤨
@@His0ka someone needs a nap
They... lost her? Like in a forest?
7:59 holy shit give this man an oscar or something, the acting here is explosive and so emotional :I
spit my damn water out
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He delivers his line like he can barely read it.
@@Nickster63 because he probably cant read it, he sounds shakey
@@user-eg5dd3mk3e young buck not boy
GLaDOS is a great example of voice acting. She sounds robotic and soulless, then you destroy the purple core at the end of portal 1 and she suddenly changes entirely even though her voice isn’t *that* different
But is it basketball?
@@thedoomtestament4547 Kind of ... I mean, you had to put the ball in the hoop at the end there
@@Gna-rn7zxDamn, touché
I always find it funny the subtitles explicitly note her voice becomes less robotic, and "more sexy"
it's amazing that the developers of NBA 2K15 already had the game in funny mode. pure genius.
That's the kind of selfish I'm talkin about, get ova yaself maan
@@OfficialObituarium what this mean I didn't go to college
That NBA2K15 acting is astounding. Sounds like they played a 12 hour match, went to sleep, got shaken awake 2 hours in and got to do the lines right then and there still wrapped up in their blankets. That's avant-garde as fuck man.
That's "I'm contractually obligated to do this, get it over with and give me money."
@@JZStudiosonline Or in other words, the Space Jam workload.
@@JZStudiosonline Dion waiters is hilarious
except the one dude doing his "Shakespeare in the Park" dramatic acting
fuck...I have NBA 2K15. I might have to actually play the story LOL
In defense of LA Noire, the early cases merely serve to prepare you for what’s coming eventually. That’s why the acting in some of them is quite telling. When you get to homicide and vice, I swear, many witnesses’ expressions are difficult to decipher.
Yeah like REALLY difficult. The game was really well made
Once you get to tango with straight-up sociopaths, it gets quite difficult. I mean there are interrogations where the suspects specifically don't have tells because they aren't fazed by lying or are just batshit insane.
God i love La Noire, to me its a masterpiece and 100% deserves to become a series
I would say the hardest of the interrogations is the sleazy business man when you're investigating the construction yard arson. The whole game has taught you to gamify facial expressions and voices through exaggerated acting so you can read for tells, and suddenly you run into this guy that is a complete stone wall, cause he's actually a businessman whose entire job is to have a poker face. It's so jarring, I failed that interrogation completely, couldn't get shit out of him
What's seriously aggravating is how everyone uses the one very first interrogation you do against someone who is established as a terrible liar in-universe as proof the acting is "bad".
Like that is literally your first case, and right after the interview your partner outright says "wow that guy is a terrible liar". It is not as all representative.
I love how Shaquille O'Neal's line at 8:21 was actually delivered really well, probably because he was one of the only characters who was actually voiced by a real voice actor
Guy named his customized character Shaquille o Neal so it was just the players voice actor
@@neonlightning439 it’s blowing my mind nobody realizes this. Shaqs voice is so recognizable and it literally says “Player Character” on the screen
And shaq retired way before 2015
Not Shaq..
@@neonlightning439 he was kidding lmao
@@rumham7631 rip lmao
I remember Skyrim's voice acting. Something about them delivering their lines earnestly while their world is bugging out always made me even more invested in its world.
I wish they just had more actors because the ones they did have were generally excellent
Tbh, for the reason you stated I couldn't get into skyrim
"You're looking a little rough around the edges."
Some may call this junk. Me, I call them treasures...
"you got a nice bounce to your chest."
I'm sad he didn't mention Ellen McLain's performance as GLaDOS when talking about keeping personality in your characters, even if they are robots. The performance is cold and calculated and packed full of character.
Ellen McLain is probably one of the best of all time for that reason. It can be easy (for some) to simply act human when voicing a robot character and call it giving personality to a machine. But what sets Ellen McLian’s performance apart is that when voicing GLaDOS, she doesn’t sound human but still gives the character strong and memorable personality.
I'd say Loader Bot or Gortys in Tales are also a great robots with real characters
Portal 2 especially had really great dialogue. If I remember I actually laughed out loud a few times alone..in my dark bedroom hunched over my keyboard
He was literally playing Portal clips during that part, so... p sure he was giving props to that whole game, because all of the characters exemplified what he was talking about. He wasn't there to extoll one actor, he was there to make a point, and the whole game made his point.
Wheatly in Portal 2 was also top notch
How could Dunkey miss the greatest voice acting performance of all, The House of the Dead 2.
Cause it’d be an insult to put the god tier voice acting of The House of the Dead 2 with the likes of shit tier acting in death stranding.
Goldman!
"suffer like g did???"
Huh. Huh. Huh. Huh. Huh. This is a, present, from me to you.
Shame we don't which actors were involved in that game 😔
7:39 That final scene with Diehardman in _Death Stranding_ is Oscar quality acting in a video game. Such an incredibly emotional performance.
thank god for kojima names
@@pineconesnowstorm I actually busted out laughing when it was revealed that his real name was john mcclane
You know Dunkley is a great actor when he not only fooled us into thinking he was truly Mr Beast, but also when he fooled everyone in the CSGO lobby into thinking that he was Bowser from Sonic.
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Or when he fooled those stupid kids into thinking he's Jake Paul
You mean that wasn't actually the real larry the cable guy?
Don't forget Larry the cable guy
What's always fun is when you get cast in a game to voice act some made up gibberish language (think The Sims) but still have to somehow accurately convey the right emotional cords lol.
Charles Martinet with Mario & Luigi games.
God bless the monster hunter language voice actors.
Urgh, schalooOOOOB!!!
And for some reason those turn out the best voiceovers 😂
Magicka did a great job of that
5:02 That voice man. This is peak of video game acting right there
The actors in the nba game sound like they’re slowly melting into pudding
Bro why is 8:21 unironically good, I just love how you actually get into this tiny bit of narrative and then it just hits you with the equal of a corpse reading lines from a script lmao
Exactly lmao
well shaq trained as an actor, which is hilarious combined with how awful the rest of the line reads are.
That’s because it’s an actual voice actor vs a basketball player
Because that's a real voice actor playing your character, and the rest are real NBA players (poorly) reading lines.
@@pauldaulby260 that's not shaq lol, just a created character with shaq's name. Its the generic VO actor for the created character.
Can’t wait to hear about the incredible voice acting in the all time classic Sopranos video game. Truly a world class performance and an inspiration to all aspiring video game actors.
That game went down as the best one in history
I am cool, TRAIN
Classic
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one thing not talked about enough is direction for voice acting. A good director sets the stage & tells the VA the purpose of their lines so they know what to deliver, as well as being able to identify & demand retakes until they know which take is the one that should be shipped.
Right around 7:10 you talk about "one of the absolute pinnacles of acting," you zoom in on Mark Hamill's face, and then you cut to NBA. You're such a troll Dunkey, I love you.
Great. Now I absolutely need to play NBA 2K15.
Easily the best NBA 2K game of 2015
It hasn't gotten much better in 2k22
I feel really bad for that one guy at the end there who clearly actually tried really hard
@@jmerridew124 thats the created player for my career voiced by an actual voice actor. the others are actual nba players just reading lines of which one or two in that had lines in the game are actually illiterate
@Miles Doyle shut up
Markieff Morris is the deepest character in gaming history. His voice acting conveys so much emotion.
Markieff is deep but I'm taking Dion Waiters all day every day, just the sheer magic in his voice.
@@dusan9097 When Dion says “who had thought” with so much emotion, it really makes you think about all the doubters and tribulations you face on your NBA journey
That scene from Death Stranding has gotta be one of the most potent monologues in gaming.
Looking back to this video, Baldur's Gate 3 voice acting is really remarkable and it's one of the main reasons I love the game. A good acting in the game might not affect the overall gameplay, but truly makes the gaming experience up to another level.
The "wait a minute let me redo that take" is legendary
In an episode in the last season of The Flash they let the voice actor saying "look at this shitty dialog" slip in the PTBR version and it is freaking hilarious.
@@pedrofelck hey may you pass this link that sounds funny
Wait is that actually in the game?
@@pedrofelck also give link
@@pedrofelck is there a link for it?
how did they let 2k voice actors pop off that much in the studio?? absolutely phenomenal.
I'm guessing the NBA guys aren't all that good with criticism and they would just leave if their feelings got hurt. I bet they had to do several takes just to get those illiterates to read the lines right.
@@Snowboarderr4Life first of all calling them illiterates is wack. But secondly, I think you're mostly right and it's a little surprising to me because you'd expect professional athletes to respond to coaching well
what are you guys talking about? those guys were amazing, it was the peak of dialogue performance
@@Leviathis_Krade The way the dude trailed off mid sentence and had to find his line again really added to the intensity of the scene.
@@Snowboarderr4Life My take is money, they just read their texts because too little time to learn the dialogues and too little time to rightly play their characters!
I loved the voice acting in the Legacy of Kain series. It was hammy at times but undeniably iconic. Just having games be fun instead of being crushed under the pressure to be a cinematic masterpiece seems so difficult these days. If I wanted to watch a movie, I wouldn't be playing games. I think the pressure to deliver a jaw-dropping experience is what leads games into that uncanny Valley and subsequently the bargain bin.
fun fact: anna gunn (skyler white in breaking bad) was in legacy of kain 1 and 2
@@tescobinliner oh god no. I can never like those games again and I loved blood omen.
5:52 I automatically knew exactly what clip we were going to see lmfao. Funniest game dialogue clip I've ever seen
I shed tears when dunkey gave appreciation to NBA2k15, the absolute cream of the crop, piece de resistance of video game voice acting. The emotions conveyed in that game made me laugh, cry and become filled with rage.
I loved how in the clip at the end, it shows some of the worst acting juxtaposed with actually not-bad acting.
@@mikeexits As I understand, Shaq's voice was an actor while the rest were the real players. Ironically Shaq is the only one who actually has some voice (and in person) acting experience.
@@shia_labeouf that's not actually Shaq lol. That is the voice actor for your created player. The created player here just happens to be named Shaquille O'Neal
@@BlueJim you guys are both illiterate. He said "shaqs voice was AN actor"
@@Beefnachos Ah shit I got mixed up when he threw in that Shaq himself has acting experience
Every video game actor should at least meet the prerequisite of having seen the boss baby, boss baby 2, and all of the boss baby back in business series. I feel like with a proper example these people could properly excel in their acting
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@@drmujtabashaikh8 I found it, shook my head in disgust and down voted.
@@SomeJustice19k Great
@@shinozu You’re assuming that this Oscar winning franchise isn’t going to have 6 additional movies by the end of 2022
4:20 Ray Liotta was the actor who literally read from the piece of paper, go watch the interview where he said it and that still didn't stop Vice City from being one of the best GTA/open world games
Idk why but the fact that Dunkey named his 2k player Shaquille O'Neal has absolutely slayed me
Not his clip
Just hearing Kratos talk increases your testosterone levels by 101%
That's not the only thing that increases😳
@Silent002 I need that
Boy
Did you mean Donka?
Gonna tell my transmasc friends about this
0:52 You also need good directors. You can have amazing voice actors but when they need to redo lines over again until the director is happy with it then you can't blame them.
Sometimes, especially with older games, you have just regular people acting for their first time voicing games without any direction at all. Just a small detail that I think is important and just like to add.
A serious comment on a Dunkey video? No fucking way
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@@obamid39 I think voice acting is interesting and important :)
Also I'm an anime and don't like how he talks bad about anime games >:(
See: Kingdom Hearts 3. Such a huge cast filled with talented, experienced voice actors delivering lines in the strangest ways.
Like for real, David Gallagher has been playing Riku amazingly for almost 20 years. Why does he sound so bad this late into the game? It has to be the voice direction.
2:57 im fucking dying over here. I remember this. Absolutely hilarious.
I genuinely thought we had a Mr.Beast and videogamedunkey cross over but, the acting was so good on dunkeys part, I was in udder shock.
Udder shock ... that's what cows get when they try to jump over an electric fence.
This is voice acting so good that it has ascended to a whole other level of skill 5:03
Him mispronounced it so good
Yoko ska?! Thatswheremylittlebrotherworks😀😃
I have met scout leaders that talk like this
The fact that they both pronounce Yokosuka differently 😭
@@twoshillings7292 The thing is, the actual Japanese pronounciation WOULD be something like 'Yokoska' because the u would be silent. It's just that the guy sounds like he has a mouth full of jello and Ryo's voice actor pronounced it incorrectly.
I actually thought the acting in the Spider-Man games was really outstanding. Not only are the voice actors great, but they recorded two sets of lines in case you would be talking to somebody while swinging/in combat, giving a more strained delivery on top of the regular delivery
Pretty sure he used the clip in context of positivity, being an example of "something to latch onto".
@@CunningCondor he probably did, but dunky didn’t specifically mention the game, hence my comment
O H N O D O C T O R C O N N O R S C L A S S
I think the scene where otto begs for peter to save him in the end is one of the best Spider-Man moments ever. I got chills the first time I heard the "They'll take away my arms... I'll be trapped in this USELESS BODY" The dialogues, the music and the drama just mix too well in that scene
@Aden Diaz I think that’s fairly obvious, but spiderman deserves the love, especially in regards to the video’s subject matter, which is why I made note of it
That one Octopath Traveler fan starting to get fired up again at that excellency clip.
0:25 I THOUGHT THOSE WERE HIS FRIGGIN LEGS!
same lol
When the actors can't gain context from each other on a big budget mocap set, its entirely up to the directors to give them that context. Direction is really where video games usually drop the ball. Even the world's best voice actors fall apart when they aren't given good or any direction. Peter Dinklage is probably used to great direction, so when he is given none, he has no idea what to do and becomes a monotone robot. Other people are used to being given shit context as a voice actor, and sometimes they can pull through, but it makes it even more jarring when they get the read wrong. They can guess the context of one line completely correctly and nail it super hard, but guess the next one wrong and suddenly they sound super silly. It's these situations that can make voice dubs such a mixed bag of fuck. It's true that the extremes of voice acting are the most entertaining, but a lot of times the middle ground seems to be made up of people just trying their best in a terrible situation, to varying degrees of success.
this is the key. The direction in most games sucks and the games with good direction stick out so easily - rockstar and naughty dog games for example, hell even halo 2.
@@Sputnikcosmonot And Bioware's work.
Most of Dante's line reads in dmc 1 were great, but eeeeeveryone remembers "Fill my dark soul with LiGhTtttttt
Finally, a comment with high likes on a dunkey video that doesn't mindlessly repeat what dunkey already said in the video.
FFXIV a realm reborn vs the later expansions is a good example of this
I have never played Death Stranding but that clip near the end of the video shook me. The facial capture, the graphics, and the acting. actually kind of incredible
Give it a go and at least play up until you get a vehicle. The 'walk simulator' bit at the start is super slow and lots of people dont make it past that, its only a couple of hours. But its a truly incredible game, the feelings that you get when you are finishing a long haul and a low roar track comes on are beautiful. Truly unique gaming experience imo.
That scene alone is fire and pretty powerful, tbh the whole acting/animation for the story scenes is top notch.
It’s a Kojima game. Those set the standards for the game industry consistently every time.
@@ImpatientTurtle the first strand stype game
@@Ginsu131 lol
Props to shouting out Dynasty Warriors 3. Truly a legend among voice acting.
DW7 and 8 actually have really good voice acting. Then there’s DW9…
We can all agree that Tetris has the best voice acting in a game ever
I knew that Dunkey would cut away at 7:16 but just SEEING Mark Hamil voice act is so beautiful. You can tell how much heart he puts into it
7:10 *
No, that’s kevin durant
Dude is an absolute beast of a voice actor
isnt that Morgan Freeman?
I love seeing athletes try to act in sports games. When they’re in a non-scripted setting, they have lively personalities, but when they get on the mic they become statues.
Well it doesn't help that half of them can't fucking read. Like seriously, listen to that one dude reading. That dude is seriously struggling with reading the script
@@starchygoblin9859 the average Joe would be a horrible voice actor. These nba dudes are reading a stupid script with no emotion. Has nothing to do with their literacy
@@KingBookerT1987 8:00
@@starchygoblin9859
"You want to redo that line Monte?"
"Wuh? Nah..."
Most people are generally like this. The most charismatic and energetic person will come off awkward and stiff on camera if they're not used to being recorded.
For most people it takes some practice and experience to "act natural" when performing in front of a camera or mic
7:39
This got me to buy the game
The delivery of that line genuinely rocked me to my core
I don’t know the context, I don’t know who he is
But for a moment that good, I gotta get the full context
What, that fake and bad acting?
@@Giggi2222 Yeah, same vibes as “I did not hit her, I did not, oh hi Mark”
@@GioGioPietromica425 did you end up enjoying the game?
@@Wihited Yeah, definitely a very memorable and emotional experience.
Death Stranding is a really cool piece of art, it said a lot of things, not all of them well, but I can appreciate the desire to make a video game that’s kinda not fun, but still enjoyable, if that makes sense
yeah nba 2K15 is a masterpiece of acting
Dunkey is the Nic Cage of videogames.
sad to see that donkey kong december has finally come to a close, but we will always cherish each one of the incredible 31 donkey kong videos Dunkey gave us
but he didnt give us 31 videos to watch
@@bigwolf9486 someone doesn't know about videogamedunkey2
@@bigwolf9486 he has a second channel ya dummy
@@flak7665 nani what is it called i never heard of this
I want to thank god and Jesus and December and papajones pizza for making this a reality and hopefully a tradition bless and happy new year
Seriously, though, say what you will about Death Stranding as a game, it has some of the absolute best facial animations in the industry. I swear the bulk of the work went into making those just right.
the first strand type game haha.
but fr though, that clip dunkey showed here was really good, the voice acting was superb too
Nah. That honor goes to Mass Effect Andromeda. I mean you can FEEL souls crumbling out of embarrassment.
@@Bustyn_Anya BioWare has never had good facial animations. Look at ME1-3 and they’re all bad
If judged on the acting and animation alone, Death Stranding is probably the best 'game' ever made.
Ya missed the joke
Hey Dunkey I genuinely love you in a psychologically healthy way. Your perspective and videos you make truly brighten my existence. The moments I spend watching your videos are moments where the worries of this world dissipate. Thank you ❤️ I've been having a hard time recently... I'd appreciate a new video soon if you don't mind.
Killer7 had some crazy awesome cutscenes. They actually used the fact that the camera could go anywhere to their advantage for some amazingly stylish shots
Ya know I was convinced that was Mr Beast at the beginning. Who know Dunk was such a seasoned actor?
dunkey is good at everything
You ever see his League of Legends voice acting? It's amazing how consistent Dunkey is at bringing quality performances, especially considering the range and uniqueness of the different characters he voices.
@@twfaucet A modern day renaissance man if you will.
dunk been in entertainment for 72 years of course he the best
You must not have watched the cringe English dub then
for real though, that monologue at the end of death stranding is absolutely insane. so good
Death Stranding might get shit on for its gameplay, but damn the voice acting and character animations are seriously out of the world. I felt more emotions in that scene than what most movies can give me.
@@kinoko384 And if you happen to love the gameplay too it's a slamdunk.
@@RockLoi I agree. Felt like a nice fresh change from all the samey open world games out there.
Compared to NBA 2k15 though? Absolute garbage.
@@kinoko384 Everytime I try to love the gameplay it shoves another tutorial in my face and it's one I can't skip or I literally will be stuck for eternity if I don't listen to it. Also, everytime I try to like one of the songs playing, it ensures I'll Hate them forever by watermarking the freaking middle of the screen in a game about immersive story telling. It's a lot of fun tho. But as a basketball game it's pretty terrible next to 2k. You can't even dunk.
The voice acting in Nier Replicant shows Japanese to English done right
Liam O'Brien nailed the role as Grimoire Weiss
Calebbb!!!
I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!
Dunkey's acting is so good. 4:14 really makes you feel like Spider-Man
That LA Noir clip of the old man never fails to make me laugh out loud
I remember being floored at the time, cracking up, before going "and what the fuck, exactly, am I supposed to glean from this face?"
@@Orjahlian I never played the game and that scene alone makes me DEEPLY regret it
@@Alex-kd5xc Eh, just know this: The only part of the game that's any good is the face-tech they used. As a game, it's not worth your time.
@@Alex-kd5xc don't listen to the guy below you, the game is just fine, has its own issues but i don't regret spending my time on it
@@slick3996 Yeah it's actually a pretty good game with a good story. It does get pretty difficult later on though in the interrogation sections.
We did an interview with Ruth Jarman, the voice of Mega Man in MM8 and X in X4 and it was really insightful to how some companies handled voices in games back then. The actors for those games were given no direction or context and weren't even told they were recording for two games. Really crazy stuff, but it's really charming.
You can really tell that they didn't know what the fuck was happening.
I feel like this happens a lot.
The voice actors tend to take a lot of the flak for a bad performance, when a lot of times, it's just the direction (or lack therof) they recieved. The best, and you rarely hear of it in video games, is the Shrek effect, where a VA gets a good chunk of the way through their lines, something clicks about the character, and then they're allowed to just go back and rerecord everything they already did.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 If I recall correctly, Ruth said the recordings were done over one day. I really wonder why they would do that.
But she was super cool. She embraces it and listening to her lines is great. She seems to really understand who the characters are now, so who knows what could have happened with another chance.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 Those basket ball players were struggling to just read the lines, much less act.
Pretty sure stuff like that still happens. Was gonna write about how I remember there being a Voice Actor union in the news a few years back because of unfair compensation for their work. Many of the people doing work straight up did not know who they were or what game they were working for and therefore could not ask for appropriate payment.
Turns out yeah, there was a strike between 2016-2017 that was eventually resolved, but companies still don't have to say what specific game or character the VA is about to work with. Just what type of game it is & if it belongs to an existing franchise or not.
I love good voice actors but I also love the weirdness of Silent Hill 2
Wasn't the voice acting for Silent Hill 2 bad on purpose to add to the uncanny and disturbing atmosphere?
his jp voice actor sounds pissed when he said the pizza line so i guess that's how cloud character is and can't blame both actors
1:45 I love the way the guy is just like “that doesn’t exist????” Like he’s genuinely dumbfounded by this girls dreams
I love how he cuts her off like “Iris, you stupid bitch, how many times do I have to tell you such a place does not exist?”
And she's like
"Yes I know",you asshole let me just deliver my line
7:40 is legitimately great stuff. There’s a lot of death stranding acting that’s a little weird, but that cutscene at the end of the game has Hardman steal the show
I know right, Why the frik did he not get an award for this?
And it was also the actor first take to pull it off.
The Die-Hardman end scene is legit oscar worthy.
Hardman lol
A lot of stuff in Death Stranding is incredible.
And it's still hard to believe that cutscene is actually in realtime. the graphics !
3:01 Sounds like fucking Mr. Garrison
One of my favorite games ever and one of my first times seeing great acting in a game was the Legacy of Kain series, specifically the first Soul Reaver game. Was ground breaking at the time.
iconic edginess.
Soul Reaver was a step down from Blood Omen in voice acting.
0:32 The voice acting in this game is top notch hilarious. There's no way they didn't make it this bad on purpose. I wasn't expecting to see it in one of Dunkey's video's, but I'm so glad it's finally been recognized.
The game itself is actually really fun too. You get to control a giant robot, punch other giant robots and smash shit. What's not to like? Robot Alchemic Drive, PS2. Give it a chance if you ever find the time.
They do it on purpose, it's called cheap localization to make a buck, if you want quality you have to play the game in it's original language in most cases.
@@wishiwasabear no, I don’t think I will
@@wishiwasabear Though it sucks that you'd need an undubbed modded game a lot of times because the localization team didn't bother making language selectable.
@@superultrathanksmom3845 Yeah and it's something americans aren't used to because most games are released with eng audio except for Japanese games which is why they still get a bad rep there.
But people from other countries are already used to playing games in their original language with subs unless you want to go through a lot of bad dub.
NO.
I remember listening to a voice acting session of Dust: an Elysian Tale (love that game and it’s voice acting) and the voice director really pulled it all together. Like the voice actors where pretty good, but the voice director knew the full context and really knew how each line should be delivered and he would give them whatever context they needed or direct them to use a certain inflection and the whole thing came together perfectly. Like we need more competent voice directors if these teams are even using voice directors.
amazing amazing game !!!
That's what went wrong with Dinklebot in Destiny. The voice director didn't do his job. We know Peter can emote and give a good performance.
this is why Days Gone is so cringe to me. The voice direction is just terrible 90% percent of the time 😩
Dust was basically Shovel Knight before it was cool to be Indie. One of the better games ever made, everytime I play I 100% it. Art direction, sound direction, tight controls, fun combat, and there is some replay value with the customizable stats, crafting equipment and difficulties. Truly a gift of a game
Matt Colville, who wrote Evolve and contributed on a few other big titles, talked about that process on stream a few times. He worked on some voice sessions with Liam O'Brien from Critical Role as voice director. There were times where Matt would give this long spiel to Liam about the background and context that the actor couldn't hear and Liam would turn that into a really short instruction that nailed exactly what Matt wanted. Voice director is a really hard, really important job.
I was so confused on how I opened a Mr Beast video. You really got me there
8:13 im ded
So funny.
the fact that nakeyjakey did a video on voice acting one year ago proves that drama mondays are indeed back
i don't watch nakeyjakey, why would i wanna watch a guy who is naked
smh cant believe nakeyjakey would steal dunkeys video idea retroactively smh my head
@@MatrixEvolution17 i watch videogamedunkey, best video game ever. Made me feel like dunkey
Yeah this video was just a weaker version of Jakey's lol
Yogajake better brace himself then because Dunkey will come out swinging
I know it’s not Donkey Kong December, but can we just appreciate how good the voice actor for Donkey Kong is?
OKAY
*Seth Rogan laugh*
Which one? The actual VA, or the Smash Bros VA?
@Denam so the Smash Bros VA.
5:16
On behalf of every Czech person, I completely apologize for that dumbass.
Our demand for quality dub is too high to begin with.
When speaking about convincing performance, the first character that comes to my mind is Handsome Jack from the Borderlands Games. His voice actor does such a good job like wow-
100%. He definitely is one of the best video game villains ever made, and every single line was delivered perfectly. I didn't bother with BL3 because I knew it was going to be a huge letdown after that peak performance.
The pre sequel was smart to bring him back and show his backstory.
I’m surprised he didn’t give Metal Gear Solid more credit. That first game was very important in bringing video game voice acting into the mainstream, and by today standards the English dub is still good. Remember that it was just two years after Resident Evil. Raiden and Rose in MGS2 are iffy, but overall the series has a good track record with voices.
SNAAAAAAAKE
In defense of Raiden and Rose, some of their writing was campy to start with. There’s a scene in the game where Rose is talking to Raiden and telling him that his room was “empty, just like your heart.” My sister and I use that line all the time lol. How can you say something like that seriously? It’s like that famous Destiny quote about the moon wizards. Some things just sound inherently dumb lol. Doesn’t stop it from being my favorite MGS game, though.
Second floor basement?
@@Ckoz2829 and then, Metal Gear Rising has one of the best voice acting in a video game. Not because is super realistic, but because they really manage to give them a Japanese sansation without being cringy and also, creating memes. The DNA of the soul.
@@Ckoz2829 It's dumb but I get it, and I think it's perfectly realistic that a woman would say that. With Rose already having a bitchy personality I don't take issue with it. Women just say dumb shit like that, and it makes sense, just from a different perspective than the one you're typically using. Rose wants Jack to have some passion for life in the form of interests and opinions, but he is evidently far too neutral and blank, and I think this is actually a common phenomenon.
7:45 the first time I've seen something from a video game that honestly looks like it's actually just real life
no it’s so fake and unrealistic 🙄🙄🙄
Dunkey is unfair about that part. In that scene the actor really cried ffs. What else everyone wants him to do?
@@wmetz1869he was joking
That one NBA2k actor was actually doing a pretty good job there, and then the other guy started talking
2:46 TIMOTHY LEARY???????
Yet again, Dunkey has created another masterpiece with zero dislikes! Absolutely incredible!
What an incredible feat! Dunkey does it again!
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The world is free of dissent and all are happy and well
Truly
Wow I’ve never heard that one before
6:42
"Boy did I pick the wrong day to eat a whole lemon"
-some legend from the original video
I go back to this video every time I need to smile. Legendary.
im glad u brought attention to the dion waiters meme, lmaooo
you ain’t seen voice acting till you’ve seen a Pokémon game. Perfectly voice acted every time!
And when Piers sings? Amazing!
@@darby6588 his performance brought me to tears
Cricketune had the best delivery of all time, not even Daniel Day'n'Night Lewis & Clark could beat that
@@caracatoacacepe DEDELEWOOOOOOOP
Great performances, really makes the games worth their full 60 dollar price tags
I think people unironically need to understand how talented of a voice actor dunkey is, he can somehow create the most genuine sounding sarcastic dialog you will ever hear
The Death's Stranding Voice Acting is so good that I forget I'm playing Death Stranding.
A few of my faves in here, good and bad examples. Heavy Rain had its moments, L.A. Noire was revolutionary, Red Dead speaks for itself, and Tommie Earl Jenkins' performance in Death Stranding is immaculate.
I'll never get tired of that "made in Dreams" watermark
It’s so subtle, yet so funny.
Where?
@@HarishBabuM found it
2:15
Seven Hunnid on TH-cam is wildly entertaining cuh ☝️
@@KhashayarJan my brain just blocks it now lmao
HOLD UP! Everyone else in the world didn’t have the English guys voice in Gex?!?!
Yeah, when I hear the American version I cry inside, if it ain't Leslie Phillips' version, it ain't Gex to me
You haven't played every version of Gex? What are you doing here?
@@lividsphincter4098 they probably havent even watched Star Trek in Tamarian, the way it was obviously meant to be viewed.
The UK version of Gex: Deep Cover Gecko had Danny John Jules as the VA (The Cat from Red Dwarf) and it was actually sick
In Australia we had Danny John Jules and he was actually good. The written lines were still phoned in as hell tho. Still love that game but.
Last of us critics live so rent free in dunkey's mind that he blocked my main account from commenting! Lol
Can't believe this is only 4 months old, instant classic dunkey
2:25 in the case of Horizon (and Mass Effect) sometimes the voice acting is technically good, but the execution of the scene is what ruins it. In the example given, the voice actor is clearly putting emotion and care into his lines, but the animation doesnt express the same intent and emotion.
idk about horizon, but at least in mass effect they improved most major problems with the animation/models. Still not amazing, but it became bearable
Agreed. Or Thok laying on his side for days with limited animation really kills any performance in the voice acting.
Sometimes I think Bioware just doesn't give the voice actor the context of the scene, so they perform it well but they're putting emphasis on the wrong thing.
"I can't believe YOU took the money"
...hits different than
"I can't believe you TOOK the money."
Tells two different stories. Context matters.
Where is the emotion and care? Guy's about to die and he says the most half hearted "im sorry, please" ever, doesn't make much of a difference if the animation is improved
@@aaronm1246 There's still subtlety in his voice and in his inflection. The issue is that the animation doesnt portray even one ounce of what the voice actor was saying so it's hard to imagine what the scene could be. It would essentially need to be redone from the ground up and focus almost solely on the facial acting to get the moment across.
7:31
They didn't even get him to say the correct line.
Lmao
Can't wait for Dunkey's Best of 2021
The reveal at 0:10 was so powerful I had to immediately like the video, for lack of a better way to express my flabbergastment, ofc
There's something about the line at 3:01 that ends up being hilarious because of the boulders that follow afterwards.
Chris Redfield would be proud
@@Gustel he sounds like half the cast of south park hahaha
He sounds like pewdiepie
“Yokosuka? That’s where my little brother works” had me fully 💀💀💀💀
And to make it even better, he just kinda slurred it into "Yuckowzka??" XD
Gotta love the terrible Shenmue voice acting, but man is it part of the charm
@@SeenAGreatLight That's actually how it would be pronounced in Japanese. A lot of times dubs will pronounce Japanese names as if they were reading an English word. The "U" is usually silent in Japanese words (see: vowel devoicing). The first guy saying "yo-ko-soo-ka" is actually pronouncing it wrong.
@@AudieMurphy01 That's very interesting, thanks! I always love learning more about languages and how they work.
No matter how many times I watch this video, I still fall for Dunkey's acting at the start of the video
Real talk. That scene with Die-Hardman was fucking outstanding.