Speaking of voice acting...

Schroeder · 11-17-09, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Shearwater

Speaking of bad voiceovers: You have no idea how awful most English games sound in German

The first of the C&C series (which are censored on top of it, like a lot of games over here), Caesar III and the 688(I) tutorial videos are really bad.
But my personal (non-)favorite is Dune 2. I switch to English whenever I can. The German almost makes you

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QFT.
My favourite is still Jedi Knights II Jedi Outcast.

Horrible!!!
That was when I started to switch my games to English.

Though it has become better in recent years.

onelifecrisis · 11-17-09, 04:26 PM

Haha, they were pretty funny, although it's a slight shame that all 50 came from the same half a dozen games. I'm sure there are loads more. Some of the moments in Far Cry would be near the top of my list, and from what I've seen on YouTube it seems that Arma2 has set a new all-time-low.

nikimcbee · 11-17-09, 04:32 PM

My favorite was the Germans in Panzer Elite. Their accent was so thick you could barely understand them.

Shearwater · 11-17-09, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee

My favorite was the Germans in Panzer Elite. Their accent was so thick you could barely understand them.

I think this extends to pretty much every WW2 movie I've ever seen.
I once had a translation course where we had to translate film dialogs (from German into English). Our teacher said that she always found it kinda strange when she watched the German dubs of these movies and the Americans all spoke German

She never complained about the horribly stagey German accents though

(And no, almost no one around here says "Schnell schnell!)

Raptor1 · 11-17-09, 04:47 PM

The worse't voice acting I can remember having heard recently in a game was definitely Crysis.

Schroeder · 11-17-09, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Raptor1

The worse't voice acting I can remember having heard recently in a game was definitely Crysis.

Well the German version of it is at least decent. But that might be because it is a German game.

onelifecrisis · 11-17-09, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Raptor1

The worse't voice acting I can remember having heard recently in a game was definitely Crysis.

Are you kidding? Certainly it won't win any Oscars but I think it's a Far Cry (ahaha) from being among the "worst".

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onelifecrisis Maverick Modder Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: England Posts: 3,895 Downloads: 65 Uploads: 3	Haha, they were pretty funny, although it's a slight shame that all 50 came from the same half a dozen games. I'm sure there are loads more. Some of the moments in Far Cry would be near the top of my list, and from what I've seen on YouTube it seems that Arma2 has set a new all-time-low.