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Incline Non-English bad voice acting?

deuxhero

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Everyone knows all the main offenders of bad English voice acting ("My name is Ko and I'm beating down evil"). As a large portion of Codex posters aren't native English speakers, I figured I'd ask if anyone had some "gems" of non-English voice acting.
 
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for as good as cinema italian dubbers are, the best in the world, videogames' are horribly flat and under atrocious adaptations.
one of the worst offenders was nocturne, whose characters even had heavy local accents because reasons.
 

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First line isn't obviously bad, but then as soon as he reads "Dumbledore" (completely wrong to my knowledge) and from that point on it's clear nobody in that dub knew what they were doing.

Don Peste
Enough American media uses "Bad Spanish Soap Opera" as a show within a show enough I'm familiar(ish) with bad Spanish acting (or how American TV writers/executives think it sounds), but at the very least the tone/pace of speaking is completely inappropriate for the scenes

Pablo1989
Can you point out a time in the video where the characters are speaking?
 
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Pablo1989

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Same voice actor speaks in...
Narrator in black/white intro
Hitler,s voice at end
Officer guy in winter level
and :P Woman secretary
 

deuxhero

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OK, found some parts of it. Thanks

The game actually looked like it could have been decent, then I saw the combat animations.
 

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French voice acting really fucking sucks a good 90% of the time, with a few exceptions such as Thief 1 & 2 (amazing voice acting, especially Garrett) and Warcraft 2.
I think the cake goes to MGS 1 as far as awful French voice acting goes. Absolutely terrible.

 

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Grimwulf

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Rus localizations are fucking failures, all of them. In DA: Origins you could often hear failed recordings, that were forgotten (?) to be deleted from actual game.



Also, bugs. Bugs everywhere. Elven trannies? YES, PLEAS



Witcher 2 was bugged as hell. Lines were just missing, so you got people standing and STARING at you in silence.



But we russians have lot of experience from movies. Rus pirated movies of 90s had fucking epic voice-overs.



:russia:
 

Jarpie

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ITT: We learn that dubbing is fucking shit custom. In Finland we know that the original voiceover or soundtrack is always superior than the dubbing.

:martini:
 

pippin

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Rus localizations are fucking failures, all of them. In DA: Origins you could often hear failed recordings, that were forgotten (?) to be deleted from actual game.



However, Rus VA managed to make Alistair finally sound like a real man.
 

baturinsky

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Rus localizations are fucking failures, all of them. In DA: Origins you could often hear failed recordings, that were forgotten (?) to be deleted from actual game.
Some are quite good. Mafia and Max Payne 2, for example.
 

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