RPGs with the best casts

[Ninjerk]

Detective Monk is Aradesh in Fallout, I'm never going to forget this now.

Fallout had a surprisingly large amount of quality character actors in the cast. I can only imagine it was much cheaper to hire actors to do voice acting back then.

I don't remember voice acting being promoted as a major feature until Oblivion.

 

[eilef]

No mention of Jade Empire? Game had good cast for its time. Deaths Hand and Master Li were very good.

 

[Tacgnol]

Detective Monk is Aradesh in Fallout, I'm never going to forget this now.

Fallout had a surprisingly large amount of quality character actors in the cast. I can only imagine it was much cheaper to hire actors to do voice acting back then.

I don't remember voice acting being promoted as a major feature until Oblivion.

It was always quite a gimmicky/novelty thing in the 90s. I remember when Lands of Lore was re-released with voice overs (including Patrick Stewart).

I think Oblivion was probably the turning point where your average gamer considered it an essential feature.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Detective Monk is Aradesh in Fallout, I'm never going to forget this now.

Fallout had a surprisingly large amount of quality character actors in the cast. I can only imagine it was much cheaper to hire actors to do voice acting back then.

I don't remember voice acting being promoted as a major feature until Oblivion.

It was always quite a gimmicky/novelty thing in the 90s. I remember when Lands of Lore was re-released with voice overs (including Patrick Stewart).

I think Oblivion was probably the turning point where your average gamer considered it an essential feature.

Voice acting was already standard well before 2006. GTA3 came out 5 years prior.

 

[Tacgnol]

Detective Monk is Aradesh in Fallout, I'm never going to forget this now.

Fallout had a surprisingly large amount of quality character actors in the cast. I can only imagine it was much cheaper to hire actors to do voice acting back then.

I don't remember voice acting being promoted as a major feature until Oblivion.

It was always quite a gimmicky/novelty thing in the 90s. I remember when Lands of Lore was re-released with voice overs (including Patrick Stewart).

I think Oblivion was probably the turning point where your average gamer considered it an essential feature.

Voice acting was already standard well before 2006. GTA3 came out 5 years prior.

I don't remember it being as ubiquitous in RPGs before Oblivion. Often characters were still partially voice acted (or only certain characters were fully voiced), not entire dialogues.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Detective Monk is Aradesh in Fallout, I'm never going to forget this now.

Fallout had a surprisingly large amount of quality character actors in the cast. I can only imagine it was much cheaper to hire actors to do voice acting back then.

I don't remember voice acting being promoted as a major feature until Oblivion.

It was always quite a gimmicky/novelty thing in the 90s. I remember when Lands of Lore was re-released with voice overs (including Patrick Stewart).

I think Oblivion was probably the turning point where your average gamer considered it an essential feature.

Voice acting was already standard well before 2006. GTA3 came out 5 years prior.

I don't remember it being as ubiquitous in RPGs before Oblivion. Often characters were still partially voice acted (or only certain characters were fully voiced), not entire dialogues.

I do.
VTMB, Kotor 1 & 2, Deus Ex, Arx Fatalis, etc.,

 

[Danikas]

VTMB, Kotor 1 & 2, Deus Ex, Arx Fatalis, etc.,

Gothic 1 and 2.

 

[Krivol]

• Jagged Alliance 2. I'm sure the combat is great, but without a compelling cast, it's hard for me to get immersed.

What? I mean people from SirTek were able to create interesting, developed characters with just few lines and banters, this is fucking masterpiece of char building and you are saying it's hard to be immersed? Go play Skyrim, plenty of developed chars for you there. Or Fallout 4 (ask TemplarGr, he will tell you )

 

[OSK]

I’m curious. Why do you think I won’t be able to get into Geneforge/other Spiderweb games?

Pretty much this:

Geneforge games are not that famous on character cast. I dont remember who ever praise that part of those games here.

Spiderweb games can have pretty good writing in terms of setting, but I can't recall any compelling characters like I can with other games on your list. I feel like they'd fall under your list of RPGs you struggled to get into.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Mass effect series has the best cast, followed by Witcher series.

 

[JarlFrank]

The Divinity: Original Sin games have a nice cat.

EDIT: nevermind, misread the thread title

 

[d1r]

The Divinity: Original Sin games have a nice cat.

EDIT: nevermind, misread the thread title

Haha, same here. Damn you, OP!

 

[Tacgnol]

Spiderweb games can have pretty good writing in terms of setting, but I can't recall any compelling characters like I can with other games on your list. I feel like they'd fall under your list of RPGs you struggled to get into.

Yeah, Jeff rarely writes memorable characters. His strength has always been more around world building. Saying that, I think the Geneforge series was slightly better on this point than his other games.

Geneforge 5 in particular I thought had quite memorable characters in the faction leaders.

 

[Lilliput McHammersmith]

• Jagged Alliance 2. I'm sure the combat is great, but without a compelling cast, it's hard for me to get immersed.

What? I mean people from SirTek were able to create interesting, developed characters with just few lines and banters, this is fucking masterpiece of char building and you are saying it's hard to be immersed? Go play Skyrim, plenty of developed chars for you there. Or Fallout 4 (ask TemplarGr, he will tell you )

As I said before writing the list, I would love to be wrong. However, I don’t think characters are a big part of Jagged Alliance. Which is fine. Not every game has to be character-driven, but the point of my post was to see if there were some I was missing, or if it was worth giving these games like JA2 a second chance.

 

[oldmanpaco]

You know who was a real bastard? That cat in KQIII.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Dungeons/Search for Magdarr. Can you find him? No one ever has. Diamonds!!?!?!? Where?

SPIDERS!!!!

 

[overly excitable young man]

Underrail had a foundry so there were lots of good casts probably.
There has to be a nice cast somewhere in Arcanum with all that theme going on.
I thought the beginning of Kingdom Come had one but the sword was already casted.

 

[moleman]

Albion had nice cats.

 

[octavius]

Morrowind has the best cats. Quite endearing and with a nice voice acting (too bad they blew most of the VA budget on Patrick Stewart in Oblivion).

 

[AArmanFV]

Albion had nice cats.

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I wonder if Stones of Arnhem would have looked like this.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[santino27]

You know who was a real bastard? That cat in KQIII.

I hated that cat.

 

[Joseph Stalin]

I would add Warhammer 40.000: Mechanicus as an honourable mention. Managing to have a Machine Cult filled with interesting personalities, instead of the stereotypical lack thereof (everyone being simply "robotic") is an achievement in-and-of itself. Add to that the aesthetics, distinct looks, and the absolutely brilliant interpretation of Lingua Technica, and you receive something truly memorable.

 

[Lady_Error]

Wizardry had cats:

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

You know who was a real bastard? That cat in KQIII.

I hated that cat.

I hated mountain path more.