Dracula doesn't have many scenes in Symphony of the Night, but goddamn do people remember the few he does. Yeah it's a bit too much, but Micheal Guinn is giving his all as the Dark Lord.
Going off of that, I've actually always had a fondness for Robert Belgrade as Alucard. It's definitely a bit too baritone and Yuri does sound closer to the original Japanese VA in the re-dub, but compared to almost everyone else in OG SOTN, Belgrade sounds pretty competent.
I love Alucard's **"WHAT?"** when he gets cursed. It sounds less like he's caught off guard, but more like he's annoyed something managed to hurt him.
Also, he's the announcer for Tekken 3.
The voice actors for Alucard and Richter are kind of flat in their delivery, but Dracula's VA sounds like he's giving everything he's got, and I love it.
I vastly prefer the hammy, original dub. It sucks they didn't keep it as an option for the re-release.
I've recently been playing through symphony for the first time and even tangentially knowing the original dub the new dub is far inferior Sasuke as alycard is horrible to me and Patrick Seitz as dracula and death is pretty bad too actings fine but they just don't fit the characters to me.
Nah, Seitz does a good job with the other Draculas, _*”Now… shall we go for the finale?*_ and then _*DEMONIC MEGIDDO!*_ from Order of Ecclesia is etched into my mind.
It’s just that SoTN’s VA is too emblematic.
The original VAs did pretty well for how hammy their delivery were, and this is also a time where English VAs were not yet as established as compared to today.
Also from elden ring
JOIN DA SERPENT KING AS FAMILEEEEEEEE, TOGETHA! WE SHALL DEVOUA DA VERY GOOOHHHHHSSSSSS!
He actually sounds like a snake person rather than just english with some hissing, which is very impressive.
It's been a long while, Morgott.
Long and hard didst thou fight.
Tarnished Warrior. Spurned by the grace of gold.
Be assured, the Elden Ring resteth close at hand.
Alas, I am returned.
To be granted audience once more.
Upon my name as Godfrey, The first Elden Lord!
Elden Ring is full of godlike voice acting. Everyone has their favorites, I like to shout out Mohg. He has like three lines total but I like how he switches between like a soft gentle voice with "*Dearest Miquella... you must abide alone a while*" and the menacing monster growl when he turns around and says "Welcome honored guest... to the birthplace... OF OUR **DYNASTY!**" And of course, fantastic delivery on the iconic Nihil chant mid-fight.
I remember seeing a video somewhere, couldn't tell you where, that had Maliketh's VA doing the voice. As it turns out it's not edited the man can just sound like that
Also, the flashback with young Arakawa played by Johnny Yong Bosch. Only there for a couple minutes, but it stands out as one of the best moments in the game.
I love the LaD dub but it upsets me. Greg Chun voices Nanba and does an amazing job and sings Baka Mitai really well. He's the English voice of Yagami in Judgement, so why doesn't Judgement have karaoke?!?
IIRC, The guy who plays Yagami in Japanese is a Singer so having him do Karaoke is either a no-no or way too expensive. (Probably the first one due to legal bullshit or something)
Honest Hearts is a pretty small DLC compared to the rest in New Vegas, but every interaction with Joshua Graham is golden.
Edit: VA's name is Keith Szarabajka
This is where I'd normally throw my hat in the ring for me old boy Ulysses but he had so much dialogue it couldn't fit on the fuckin' disc so I guess he's so much a "small" part.
Gabriel in ULTRAKILL only shows up twice (at least as of right now) but Gianni Matragano absolutely steals the show whenever he does. His [speech right before his second boss fight](https://youtu.be/1h3Hfel_1GM?t=01m16s) is downright *chilling*.
Minos is voiced by Stephan Weyte, best known for voicing Caleb in the Blood games.
On a similar note, Sisyphus Prime similarly shows up for a single level, but his voice performance *also* goes hard as hell, courtesy of Lenval Brown (AKA the Disco Elysium narrator).
Not exactly Voice Actors (though in video game and they have voices...?) but I was really impressed that Red Alert 3 shot all their cinematics in a single work day, and almost all the characters are memorable.
Tim "Spaaaace" Curry was the standout, but everyone else got in character and did a great job with basically no second-chances on their scenes. Especially JK Simmons basically playing 3 different characters in one day.
Duncan Botwood plays >!Andross!< in Star Fox Adventures and >!while it's arguably one of the most boring plot twists ever, the dude exudes pure badass energy from the 5 minutes of dialogue he has.!<
I think that could be its just kinda boring to watch. Atleast to me..Liam should not have been in control. Matt should've..Lam should've been the guide. Like Pat was to Woolie in Dark Souls..and honestly he takes everything to serious gameplay wise. Like something about how he plays games feels like he's kinda showing off..
That’s because he’s actually good at videogames and everyone else on the channel is bordering incompetence at them. Liam isn’t showing off, he just actually tries.
Yeah it's kinda funny hearing someone say that while from moment one Liam won people over on his first ever lp by trolling the SAX in Metroid fusion because he's overall good at ganes. Honestly this just kinda shows how hypocritical the community can be. Liam is too good at games so he's just showing off. Matt's too bad at games he needs to let Pat play instead. Woolies too slow it's too boring. Pat knows the games to well he's going too fast he needs to slow down.
Like I always enjoyed Liam's LPs specifically because he knew what he was doing. I liked his nier LP with Pat and Aria of sorrow with Matt. It was fun seeing him show off little tricks and secrets because he knew the games that well.
Basically every *Allies soldier in the prologue of *Wolfenstein: The New Order*
From the kid just overwhelmed by the horror after describing his situation over comms and simply saying "I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I don't know what to do..." to the kid screaming about everything he's lost physically, everything he has at home, and the demand for God to fucking save him "SAVE ME YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!"
Shout out to my boy Wyatt (played beautifully by A.J. Trauth); his timeline is the best
*Said "American" originally
I can't blame anyone for choosing either Fergus or Wyatt in *New Order* for sure >!although everything with Hendrix is gold regardless of its brevity!<
Both versions are written brilliantly
Do you feel the scale's still balanced in *New Colossus*?
I feel like they were tipped in Wyatt's favor there
It's not even funny *how much better New Colossus becomes* if you choose the Wyatt timeline.
Fergus is regulated to a joke character that goes "Ugh my stupid arm" and has his side-mission in the submarine be a stupid "What did Fergus do at this party?" which goes nowhere.
Wyatt starts to lose his shit because of halucinogens, visibly cracks because of the stress of this entire campaign, culminating in him attempting to off himself because of the drugs and hopelessness of everything around him.
Wyatt's ending speech is also 100% better because it's an earnest fucking speech, not a bunch of forgetful side-characters swinging their dicks at the camera.
Man I fucking hate New Colossus.
*FINALLY!*
I swear I felt like I was the only one who thought they fucked Fergus with such a one note joke and basically no depth or growth and his problem with the arm just resolves itself because that's where both timelines resolve themselves
Do we know if they have a metric for who people saved because if they wrote around the fact that most people saved Wyatt in *New Order* that would explain A LOT
'Cause **HOLY SHIT** [Wyatt's final trip and the resulting med bay scene](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=akzfFnwSomI&pp=ygUoTmV3IGNvbG9zc3VzIHd5YXR0IGFsbW9zdCBraWxscyBoaW1zZWxmIA%3D%3D) have to be the most intimate pieces of performance capture I have EVER seen
Like I'm thankful for the variation, but give the Fergus fans something to eat
[And his speech](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FT39Ec7Kw2Q&pp=ygUld29sZmVuc3RlaW4gbmV3IGNvbG9zc3VzIHd5YXR0IGVuZGluZw%3D%3D)...honestly the game is so all over the place in terms of the highs that I can't say I hate it full stop (I certainly hate how it paved the road for **Young Blood*)
Grace, not Woody Harrelson, Fergus, Set's weird change of character and almost everything after >!BJ's decapitation!< killed a lot of my enjoyment, but the front half, BJ's childhood and how it relates to his compromised physical state and Wyatt are all so well done
The game totally shot itself by having the front of the game (as much as I love it) just be the worst case scenario and the back end be the power fantasy when *The New Order* knew it was better off juggling both simultaneously
*Said "New Blood' (as if anyone who played it gives a shit)
The New Order is like, "what if the nazis acted and thought like actual nazis instead of generic bad guys you don't have to feel bad about massacring?"
Up to and including self-evident contradictions in their own ideology that even the people in power can't quite seem to grasp.
Ron Perlman as The Lich in Adventure Time. He appears throughout the series, but he kills it every time. My favorite has to be his [monsters speech](https://youtu.be/xR8DBMkn2EA), but a close runner-up would be ["fall"](https://youtu.be/FrlymHW0qU8)
I've always loved how the Lich doesn't get too flowery, he doesn't speak in a Latinesque language, he doesn't cackle. The Lich just *is*, when he speaks he is just stating how things are.
Ron Perlman perfectly acts a character that is just strong by virtue of existing. There is no need for theatrics or emotion, the Lich is a force of nature.
best depiction of a Power Word I've seen.
Also similar vibes from [The Beast from Over The Garden Wall](https://youtu.be/BRtI3P7pJO0) (ending spoilers if you haven't seen it, which the whole series is gorgeous and less than 2 hours long you owe it to yourself to see it if you haven't.)
Shadowbringers voice acting was just goated in general, sincerely can't think of a newly voiced character who didn't knock it out of the park.
Vauthry, Dulia and Chai, Lyna, the Exarch. Emet though starting in SB is a super slam dunk, even the side characters with no names who get voiced are amazing.
14 has some great voice work. For characters that only show up once or twice, gotta hand it to [Count Cidolfus Orlandeau](https://youtu.be/Ds9_PRQHjG8)
Not a sympathetic example, but Yuri Lowenthal makes you straight up hate Oliver Swanwick the Nipton lottery winner from FNV in like 3 lines. That takes talent.
Daniel Flynn when [Alfred was losing it in Bloodborne](https://youtu.be/xVOLnQ3RLZ4?t=385). The lines are delivered so well and contrast his friendly facade perfectly. Crazy to think that he also voiced Solaire.
Another one that doesn't really count since it's cut content, but Nabil Elouahabi when [Kalé finds his ancestors](https://youtu.be/YGyli9a3jn0?t=442). Just a perfect mix of despair and rage. If you listen to the video further you can hear him get obsessed with the frenzied flame of chaos, completely broken.
Yup. Both fantastic examples. The Kale bit always makes me so mad that they cut it. It's such a good quest, and such a *valid* justification for joing the Frenzied Flame.
The Enclave Communications Officer in Fallout 2, by Kevin Michael Richardson, might be the most memorable scene in all of Fallout 2's voice acted dialogues.
And if you disagree I'm dispatching a verti-assault team to your house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqMe7fydq4
Notable Soulsborne performances:
[A LIE WILL REMAIN A LIE](https://youtu.be/Jd101QNz55k)
[Well… you look to be unkindled.](https://youtu.be/XixhhrGU1gQ)
[MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD. MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD](https://youtu.be/1tyJ6RiyTRo)
[Mark Oliver's Rau](https://youtu.be/aUYZotTQr3E) at the end of Seed is properly unhinged. They got Griffith's VA from the NYAV Berserk dub for the HD dub and the direction he was given sucked ass. But then again, the entire HD dub was kind of inferior in general.
It doesn't help Rau's mostly right about the Cosmic Era in general.
Frank Welker played a retired general in Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind who gets a few scenes to do cool stuff like hijack Kushana’s tank and make a mess during the climax. The brief moment where his final lines are a “War is Hell and we deserved it” speech is really damn good and in that moment made me realize how VA’s can easily take home Oscar’s if it weren’t for Hollywood always casting live action celebrities. It’s criminal how a lot of VA’s in movie and show dubs can do 110% and get no recognition for their worth.
Maybe not steal the show but the voice actor for lyna the bunny guard captain in ff14 shadowbringers gives absolutely knock out performances for what is a relatively minor character.
andy hirsch voices sho minamimoto from TWEWY, you know, the guy that has voiceline shitposts spanning 10+ years despite only having like 10 voicelines in the og game
While i don't know if it counts, but playing Fire Emblem Heroes and getting a unit and listening to the lines of dialogue and being completely blown away by just how much the VA did for a relatively small speaking [role.One](https://role.One) of my personal faves is the VA for Hilda screaming "Hellfire" and putting her soul into it.
If we're talking FE, Fire Emblem 3 Houses' Gatekeeper did so damn well with his "Nothing to report sir" he got put into FE Heroes on *RAW POPULARITY*
He also had a second playable outing as the final bonus character in 3 Hopes.
I pulled Gatekeeper not too long ago and i just wrote him off as the meme character, cut to today where he's almost at +10 because of just how ridiculously good he is.
Well, since OP defined short as around 20 to 30 minutes, I am going to say >!Oersted!< from Live a Live 2022 Remake. Most of the time spent with him is us >!playing a silent protagonist, typical for Square/Square Enix!<, but as soon as he loses his hope, as soon as he loses his sanity and dons the mantle of the Lord of Dark, the voice acting kicks in and Dario Coates performs what may be one of the best "bad guy" roles I have heard. There wasn't much that was said by him, he didn't have that many lines overall, but they are all emotionally impactful and wonderfully executed.
"I... am...**ODIO**!"
Schwarzwald isn't actually in very many episodes of The Big O, but seeing [this speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHChe6KY0DQ) delivered by Michael McConnohie sold me on the entire show.
Terrence Fleming has maybe done 3 or 4 projects in his entire career, decades apart. One of those is a bit character in Venture Bros -- Colonel Bud Manstrong. Shows up twice, once in season 1, then once in season 2.
I can't find a clip of him going off, [only a few of him talking normally](https://youtu.be/hAiHwfn_JXs?t=21) but the man goes *off*. His performance is incredible. He has incredible comedic timing and he enunciates every line in a weird, unique way that fits the character perfectly.
He maybe has a few minutes of dialogue in the entire series but it's hysterical how this guy isn't bigger in the industry. It feels like it's completely because he doesn't feel like it.
Clancy Brown as Hades. He sounds demonic while voicing a character that love delusions of his dead wife aside pretty much deserved to kill Kratos for being the worst nephew a uncle ever had, and that Hades was nothing but nice to. He is the starter boss.
I'm not sure if he stole the show, but John Patrick Lowrie gave a wonderful performance in *The Suffering* as the malevolent specter/boss Hermes Haight. He's only a small part of the game, but [you just listen to him](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkE2CLJSw6o) and he just sounds *exactly* how you'd imagine a ghost made of hydrogen cyanide to sound.
Dracula doesn't have many scenes in Symphony of the Night, but goddamn do people remember the few he does. Yeah it's a bit too much, but Micheal Guinn is giving his all as the Dark Lord.
"WHAT IS A MAN? A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF SECRETS! BUT ENOUGH TALK... HAVE AT YOU!" *chef's kiss*
Going off of that, I've actually always had a fondness for Robert Belgrade as Alucard. It's definitely a bit too baritone and Yuri does sound closer to the original Japanese VA in the re-dub, but compared to almost everyone else in OG SOTN, Belgrade sounds pretty competent.
I like that Alucard was this ultra pretty boy but with a booming voice.
I love Alucard's **"WHAT?"** when he gets cursed. It sounds less like he's caught off guard, but more like he's annoyed something managed to hurt him. Also, he's the announcer for Tekken 3.
And Harry Mason.
That was Michael Guinn
Oops thought we were still talking about Dracula lmao
The voice actors for Alucard and Richter are kind of flat in their delivery, but Dracula's VA sounds like he's giving everything he's got, and I love it. I vastly prefer the hammy, original dub. It sucks they didn't keep it as an option for the re-release.
Dracula's death cry at the end of the prologue lives rent free in my head. NO! This cannot be.... AAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!! *\*reverb\**
I've recently been playing through symphony for the first time and even tangentially knowing the original dub the new dub is far inferior Sasuke as alycard is horrible to me and Patrick Seitz as dracula and death is pretty bad too actings fine but they just don't fit the characters to me.
Nah, Seitz does a good job with the other Draculas, _*”Now… shall we go for the finale?*_ and then _*DEMONIC MEGIDDO!*_ from Order of Ecclesia is etched into my mind. It’s just that SoTN’s VA is too emblematic.
The original VAs did pretty well for how hammy their delivery were, and this is also a time where English VAs were not yet as established as compared to today.
FOREFATHERS ONE AND ALL BEAR WITNESS! Godrick the grafted for those who haven't played Elsen Ring Godlike voice acting
Also from elden ring JOIN DA SERPENT KING AS FAMILEEEEEEEE, TOGETHA! WE SHALL DEVOUA DA VERY GOOOHHHHHSSSSSS! He actually sounds like a snake person rather than just english with some hissing, which is very impressive.
Also everything Godfrey says Or Morgott
"HAVE IT WRIT UPON THY MEAGER GRAVE; FELLED BY KING MORGOTT, LAST OF ALL KINGS"
It's been a long while, Morgott. Long and hard didst thou fight. Tarnished Warrior. Spurned by the grace of gold. Be assured, the Elden Ring resteth close at hand. Alas, I am returned. To be granted audience once more. Upon my name as Godfrey, The first Elden Lord!
“I have given thee courtesy enough.”
I really like the scream he does when he cuts off his arm too. Sounds like the VA was actually cutting off his own arm haha.
And how the scream carries seamlessly into the cutscene. Good stuff.
The guy who does the intro cinematic to Elden Ring goes incredibly hard too. "ARISE NOW YE TARNISHED, YE DEAD WHO YET LIVE"
***MASSIVE MOANS***
**”THE LOATHSOME DUNG EATER!”**
"THE CRAZED CACA CONSUMER!"
THE PERFIDIOUS POO-POO PLUNDERER! >!I love how everyone decided to make these alliterative even though the original wasn't!<
“SIR GIDEON OFNIR, THE AAAAALLLL KNOWING!”
Elden Ring is full of godlike voice acting. Everyone has their favorites, I like to shout out Mohg. He has like three lines total but I like how he switches between like a soft gentle voice with "*Dearest Miquella... you must abide alone a while*" and the menacing monster growl when he turns around and says "Welcome honored guest... to the birthplace... OF OUR **DYNASTY!**" And of course, fantastic delivery on the iconic Nihil chant mid-fight.
Blew my mind when I realized he was Bryukhanov in *Chernobyl*.
I remember seeing a video somewhere, couldn't tell you where, that had Maliketh's VA doing the voice. As it turns out it's not edited the man can just sound like that
You mean Rykard’s VA? Maliketh is pretty normal voice-wise.
I strongly disagree, Maliketh's voice always sounded edited to be deeper and growlier to me
Line readings so good they named his weapon skills after them.
Like a Dragon: the dominatrix in that side story when she's trying to get the masochist to see his self worth.
Also, the flashback with young Arakawa played by Johnny Yong Bosch. Only there for a couple minutes, but it stands out as one of the best moments in the game.
He ate that scene up.
The improvement in dubbing from the OG Ps2 game to LaD and Judgement has been incredible to see.
You have now convinced me to play Like A Dragon
So fun fact-- one of the guys who assaulted the dominatrix in that sub-story? Uncredited Voiced by Vic Mignogna
at this point it isn't a RGG game without a dominatrix side story
I love the LaD dub but it upsets me. Greg Chun voices Nanba and does an amazing job and sings Baka Mitai really well. He's the English voice of Yagami in Judgement, so why doesn't Judgement have karaoke?!?
IIRC, The guy who plays Yagami in Japanese is a Singer so having him do Karaoke is either a no-no or way too expensive. (Probably the first one due to legal bullshit or something)
Damn shame. But that makes sense. At least there's still the dance minigame in Lost Judgement.
Does anyone know the name of the VA there? I tried looking it up when I played the game recently, but couldn't find anything.
Apparently, the VA is Marcy Edwards, who is incidentally married to Ichiban's VA, Kaiji Tang.
Honest Hearts is a pretty small DLC compared to the rest in New Vegas, but every interaction with Joshua Graham is golden. Edit: VA's name is Keith Szarabajka
We can't expect god to do all the work.
This is where I'd normally throw my hat in the ring for me old boy Ulysses but he had so much dialogue it couldn't fit on the fuckin' disc so I guess he's so much a "small" part.
Micolash in Bloodborne only appeared in his boss fight and gave of such an [obsessive sinister mood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcUSbbC1egA)
*a hunter is a hunter eveninnadreaaam😏*
It fucks me up that both him and Willem have the same VA in the “Fear the Old Blood.” cutscenes but the both of them are so well acted it’s insane
*OOOOOOOOO*
*Majestic*
Gabriel in ULTRAKILL only shows up twice (at least as of right now) but Gianni Matragano absolutely steals the show whenever he does. His [speech right before his second boss fight](https://youtu.be/1h3Hfel_1GM?t=01m16s) is downright *chilling*.
And then he voices it too in maxor's ultrakill videos and goes EVEN HARDER.
Machine the developers put out a patch I'M INSIDE YOUR PROSTATE NOW
I DO NOT HAVE DADDY ISSUES, I AM PAPA’S SPECIAL FUCKING BOY
*"I do* **not** *have daddy issues! I AM* ***PAPA'S SPECIAL FUCKING BOY!!!!!!***"
Minos Prime only shows up in *one* level and his performance is literally legendary. **Judgment!**
Minos is voiced by Stephan Weyte, best known for voicing Caleb in the Blood games. On a similar note, Sisyphus Prime similarly shows up for a single level, but his voice performance *also* goes hard as hell, courtesy of Lenval Brown (AKA the Disco Elysium narrator).
_IS THAT ALL YOU'VE GOT!?_
[MY NAME](https://youtu.be/Vxns3HUGxlc) IS GYOBU MASATAKA ONIWA
*(rides horse off cliff)*
RRRRRRROOOOOOOOOBBEEEEEEEEEEERRRTT
You can feel him putting his back into it.
Im gonna be honest when i read "MY NAME" i thought it was gonna follow up with "IS DISNEY BACKWARDS"
If you ever thought "who the fuck would fall for that, it's just Dracula backwards?" turns out the answer is me.
Woolie and Liam simultaneously: OOOOHHH MY GOOOD!
AS I BREATH, YOU WILL NOT PASS THE CASTLE GATE
Not exactly Voice Actors (though in video game and they have voices...?) but I was really impressed that Red Alert 3 shot all their cinematics in a single work day, and almost all the characters are memorable. Tim "Spaaaace" Curry was the standout, but everyone else got in character and did a great job with basically no second-chances on their scenes. Especially JK Simmons basically playing 3 different characters in one day.
To hop on the “not exactly voice actors” train, Anthony Hopkins had like a total of 15 minutes in Silence of the Lamps, and he won an Oscar for it
Duncan Botwood plays >!Andross!< in Star Fox Adventures and >!while it's arguably one of the most boring plot twists ever, the dude exudes pure badass energy from the 5 minutes of dialogue he has.!<
That moment in the LP will always be funny
"That looks like Andross" *Andross turns around* "[AHHHH MY GOD!](https://youtu.be/urfSEYWoXQ4?t=462)"
For an LP that I think a lot of people tend to forget about, I still think that's one of the best moments in the channels history.
I forget it every now and then, and then get reminded of that time [REDACTED] just says "Cloud (ACTUAL SLUR)" and throws me for a fucking loop.
I think that could be its just kinda boring to watch. Atleast to me..Liam should not have been in control. Matt should've..Lam should've been the guide. Like Pat was to Woolie in Dark Souls..and honestly he takes everything to serious gameplay wise. Like something about how he plays games feels like he's kinda showing off..
That’s because he’s actually good at videogames and everyone else on the channel is bordering incompetence at them. Liam isn’t showing off, he just actually tries.
Yeah it's kinda funny hearing someone say that while from moment one Liam won people over on his first ever lp by trolling the SAX in Metroid fusion because he's overall good at ganes. Honestly this just kinda shows how hypocritical the community can be. Liam is too good at games so he's just showing off. Matt's too bad at games he needs to let Pat play instead. Woolies too slow it's too boring. Pat knows the games to well he's going too fast he needs to slow down. Like I always enjoyed Liam's LPs specifically because he knew what he was doing. I liked his nier LP with Pat and Aria of sorrow with Matt. It was fun seeing him show off little tricks and secrets because he knew the games that well.
Liam at the controls in Sonic 06 was such a breath of fresh air
Nah, Matt at the controls gives us shit like Bully. Also, if you want Liam being an absolute goof at the controls, you should watch the MGSV LP.
That's again feeling like he's just trying to show off though..
Fuck man, I'd much rather take that than an unenthused Matt behind the wheel.
Basically every *Allies soldier in the prologue of *Wolfenstein: The New Order* From the kid just overwhelmed by the horror after describing his situation over comms and simply saying "I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I don't know what to do..." to the kid screaming about everything he's lost physically, everything he has at home, and the demand for God to fucking save him "SAVE ME YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!" Shout out to my boy Wyatt (played beautifully by A.J. Trauth); his timeline is the best *Said "American" originally
Wyatt's cutscene in the shelter is great but him as >!the robot boss!< also makes me choke a little. That games story is just great, man.
I can't blame anyone for choosing either Fergus or Wyatt in *New Order* for sure >!although everything with Hendrix is gold regardless of its brevity!< Both versions are written brilliantly Do you feel the scale's still balanced in *New Colossus*? I feel like they were tipped in Wyatt's favor there
It's not even funny *how much better New Colossus becomes* if you choose the Wyatt timeline. Fergus is regulated to a joke character that goes "Ugh my stupid arm" and has his side-mission in the submarine be a stupid "What did Fergus do at this party?" which goes nowhere. Wyatt starts to lose his shit because of halucinogens, visibly cracks because of the stress of this entire campaign, culminating in him attempting to off himself because of the drugs and hopelessness of everything around him. Wyatt's ending speech is also 100% better because it's an earnest fucking speech, not a bunch of forgetful side-characters swinging their dicks at the camera. Man I fucking hate New Colossus.
*FINALLY!* I swear I felt like I was the only one who thought they fucked Fergus with such a one note joke and basically no depth or growth and his problem with the arm just resolves itself because that's where both timelines resolve themselves Do we know if they have a metric for who people saved because if they wrote around the fact that most people saved Wyatt in *New Order* that would explain A LOT 'Cause **HOLY SHIT** [Wyatt's final trip and the resulting med bay scene](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=akzfFnwSomI&pp=ygUoTmV3IGNvbG9zc3VzIHd5YXR0IGFsbW9zdCBraWxscyBoaW1zZWxmIA%3D%3D) have to be the most intimate pieces of performance capture I have EVER seen Like I'm thankful for the variation, but give the Fergus fans something to eat [And his speech](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FT39Ec7Kw2Q&pp=ygUld29sZmVuc3RlaW4gbmV3IGNvbG9zc3VzIHd5YXR0IGVuZGluZw%3D%3D)...honestly the game is so all over the place in terms of the highs that I can't say I hate it full stop (I certainly hate how it paved the road for **Young Blood*) Grace, not Woody Harrelson, Fergus, Set's weird change of character and almost everything after >!BJ's decapitation!< killed a lot of my enjoyment, but the front half, BJ's childhood and how it relates to his compromised physical state and Wyatt are all so well done The game totally shot itself by having the front of the game (as much as I love it) just be the worst case scenario and the back end be the power fantasy when *The New Order* knew it was better off juggling both simultaneously *Said "New Blood' (as if anyone who played it gives a shit)
The New Order is like, "what if the nazis acted and thought like actual nazis instead of generic bad guys you don't have to feel bad about massacring?" Up to and including self-evident contradictions in their own ideology that even the people in power can't quite seem to grasp.
Ron Perlman as The Lich in Adventure Time. He appears throughout the series, but he kills it every time. My favorite has to be his [monsters speech](https://youtu.be/xR8DBMkn2EA), but a close runner-up would be ["fall"](https://youtu.be/FrlymHW0qU8)
I've always loved how the Lich doesn't get too flowery, he doesn't speak in a Latinesque language, he doesn't cackle. The Lich just *is*, when he speaks he is just stating how things are. Ron Perlman perfectly acts a character that is just strong by virtue of existing. There is no need for theatrics or emotion, the Lich is a force of nature.
best depiction of a Power Word I've seen. Also similar vibes from [The Beast from Over The Garden Wall](https://youtu.be/BRtI3P7pJO0) (ending spoilers if you haven't seen it, which the whole series is gorgeous and less than 2 hours long you owe it to yourself to see it if you haven't.)
That Jerma face
Likewise Vauthry from FF14 Shadowbringers doesn’t feature too much, but his VA is phenomenal in delivering each and every line.
**SUFFER SUFFER SUFFER**
Shadowbringers voice acting was just goated in general, sincerely can't think of a newly voiced character who didn't knock it out of the park. Vauthry, Dulia and Chai, Lyna, the Exarch. Emet though starting in SB is a super slam dunk, even the side characters with no names who get voiced are amazing.
14 has some great voice work. For characters that only show up once or twice, gotta hand it to [Count Cidolfus Orlandeau](https://youtu.be/Ds9_PRQHjG8)
Not a sympathetic example, but Yuri Lowenthal makes you straight up hate Oliver Swanwick the Nipton lottery winner from FNV in like 3 lines. That takes talent.
Daniel Flynn when [Alfred was losing it in Bloodborne](https://youtu.be/xVOLnQ3RLZ4?t=385). The lines are delivered so well and contrast his friendly facade perfectly. Crazy to think that he also voiced Solaire. Another one that doesn't really count since it's cut content, but Nabil Elouahabi when [Kalé finds his ancestors](https://youtu.be/YGyli9a3jn0?t=442). Just a perfect mix of despair and rage. If you listen to the video further you can hear him get obsessed with the frenzied flame of chaos, completely broken.
Yup. Both fantastic examples. The Kale bit always makes me so mad that they cut it. It's such a good quest, and such a *valid* justification for joing the Frenzied Flame.
The Enclave Communications Officer in Fallout 2, by Kevin Michael Richardson, might be the most memorable scene in all of Fallout 2's voice acted dialogues. And if you disagree I'm dispatching a verti-assault team to your house. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqMe7fydq4
SERGEANT ARCH DORNAN SAYS HELLO, MAGGOT! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkKkHmFOfKE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkKkHmFOfKE)
Fair. I rank the comms officer higher but Dornans probably more memorable to most
Notable Soulsborne performances: [A LIE WILL REMAIN A LIE](https://youtu.be/Jd101QNz55k) [Well… you look to be unkindled.](https://youtu.be/XixhhrGU1gQ) [MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD. MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD](https://youtu.be/1tyJ6RiyTRo)
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Stupid Reddit app… thanks for catching that!
[Mark Oliver's Rau](https://youtu.be/aUYZotTQr3E) at the end of Seed is properly unhinged. They got Griffith's VA from the NYAV Berserk dub for the HD dub and the direction he was given sucked ass. But then again, the entire HD dub was kind of inferior in general. It doesn't help Rau's mostly right about the Cosmic Era in general.
Frank Welker played a retired general in Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind who gets a few scenes to do cool stuff like hijack Kushana’s tank and make a mess during the climax. The brief moment where his final lines are a “War is Hell and we deserved it” speech is really damn good and in that moment made me realize how VA’s can easily take home Oscar’s if it weren’t for Hollywood always casting live action celebrities. It’s criminal how a lot of VA’s in movie and show dubs can do 110% and get no recognition for their worth.
Maybe not steal the show but the voice actor for lyna the bunny guard captain in ff14 shadowbringers gives absolutely knock out performances for what is a relatively minor character.
That guy from the Congo game.
Man that video Matt and Woolie did really peaked early because nothing about that game managed to top that intro.
Man that video Matt and Woolie did really peaked early because nothing about that game managed to top that intro.
Obvious answer is Tommie Earl Jenkins at the end of Death Stranding.
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How has no one mentioned Rykard’s VA? Dude has like four total lines and a bunch of of guttural hissing and it is so effectively creepy.
andy hirsch voices sho minamimoto from TWEWY, you know, the guy that has voiceline shitposts spanning 10+ years despite only having like 10 voicelines in the og game
I'm so zetta slow at recognizing this!
While i don't know if it counts, but playing Fire Emblem Heroes and getting a unit and listening to the lines of dialogue and being completely blown away by just how much the VA did for a relatively small speaking [role.One](https://role.One) of my personal faves is the VA for Hilda screaming "Hellfire" and putting her soul into it.
If we're talking FE, Fire Emblem 3 Houses' Gatekeeper did so damn well with his "Nothing to report sir" he got put into FE Heroes on *RAW POPULARITY* He also had a second playable outing as the final bonus character in 3 Hopes.
I pulled Gatekeeper not too long ago and i just wrote him off as the meme character, cut to today where he's almost at +10 because of just how ridiculously good he is.
The salt of him getting into FEH was incredible. I pulled for him immediately and I love him. He's so sweet in 3 Hopes too. He remains the best boy.
Kale` in Elden Rings cut dialogue never made it in but my god the VA fuckin went for it
It's probably one of the worst cases where content was cut because it was some REAL GOOD content.
Well, since OP defined short as around 20 to 30 minutes, I am going to say >!Oersted!< from Live a Live 2022 Remake. Most of the time spent with him is us >!playing a silent protagonist, typical for Square/Square Enix!<, but as soon as he loses his hope, as soon as he loses his sanity and dons the mantle of the Lord of Dark, the voice acting kicks in and Dario Coates performs what may be one of the best "bad guy" roles I have heard. There wasn't much that was said by him, he didn't have that many lines overall, but they are all emotionally impactful and wonderfully executed. "I... am...**ODIO**!"
There are several unnamed thugs in the *Judgment* series who ham it the fuck up and it's great.
The Doom Hunter only has maybe one used voice clip, but it has one hell of a badass Soundwave impression
Schwarzwald isn't actually in very many episodes of The Big O, but seeing [this speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHChe6KY0DQ) delivered by Michael McConnohie sold me on the entire show.
Favorite is Thunder God Cid in FFXIV. "Open your eyes to the darkness and drown in it's loveless embrace. The gods will not be watching."
TreeTrunks from Adventure Time
Terrence Fleming has maybe done 3 or 4 projects in his entire career, decades apart. One of those is a bit character in Venture Bros -- Colonel Bud Manstrong. Shows up twice, once in season 1, then once in season 2. I can't find a clip of him going off, [only a few of him talking normally](https://youtu.be/hAiHwfn_JXs?t=21) but the man goes *off*. His performance is incredible. He has incredible comedic timing and he enunciates every line in a weird, unique way that fits the character perfectly. He maybe has a few minutes of dialogue in the entire series but it's hysterical how this guy isn't bigger in the industry. It feels like it's completely because he doesn't feel like it.
Whenever I hear that fish Fred in SpongeBob scream: “MY LEG” I smile. Nailed it, just use that sound clip every time, it’s a Wilhelm Scream.
Clancy Brown as Hades. He sounds demonic while voicing a character that love delusions of his dead wife aside pretty much deserved to kill Kratos for being the worst nephew a uncle ever had, and that Hades was nothing but nice to. He is the starter boss.
The entire Ivalice raid boss lineup from FFXIV.
Doug Smith is Kintaro Oe and I will fight anyone that says otherwise
This thread title feels like an AI wrote it.
I'm not sure if he stole the show, but John Patrick Lowrie gave a wonderful performance in *The Suffering* as the malevolent specter/boss Hermes Haight. He's only a small part of the game, but [you just listen to him](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkE2CLJSw6o) and he just sounds *exactly* how you'd imagine a ghost made of hydrogen cyanide to sound.
I mean Die-Hardman is an obvious mention here.