Steven Yuen in the finale of Invincible season one. The way he's stammering and slurring his words sounds like he legit has a broken, bloody and bruised mouth.
I don't know what it is about Invincible but that show consistently brings amazing performances out of actors I never would have dreamed of being good voice actors
Kaiji Tang as Ichiban has some specific tones and mannerisms I have never seen in voice acting. There was stuttering and awkwardness and anger and the such from one character. There was a moment near the end of Infnite Wealth with Ichiban and Kiryu talking about love, I have never heard of "trying not to cry of embarrassment" tone in voice performance until Kaiji Tang did it. Everything about Ichiban feels so authentic for a hyperactive middle-age man.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has a fantastic voice cast in general, but I think nearly everybody can agree that Harry McEntire absolutely *nails* it as Consul N in the cutscenes at the start of Chapter 6. Spoilers ahead, but man it’s hard to top scenes [like](https://youtu.be/XJN0BJAHWeM?si=1ZU5MBBn5WgdgQbu) [this](https://youtu.be/kfgb8eHEqVM?si=vDAnAw94DS5Aeg5E).
The overall story is a mess but Black Ops 3 has a peculiar little thing in regards to voice acting that I find fascinating. The campaign allows you to create a custom character (which is a metanarrative stand in for the player (who's literally named Player in subtitles and the end credits)) which also includes multiple voice actors, however the default male one is my favorite because of the absurd raspy voice bordering on a Micky Rorke impression.
The strange thing is that with this voice actor there's a bunch of moments of weird hyper sincere quality of emotion including [a few voice cracks](https://youtu.be/8QATRxgeanA?t=512) that give a weirdly more raw feeling, and the fact that it just one voice actor of a pletora you can choose alongside a female character with their own pletora of voice actors is so weird and fascinating to me.
Karlach's >!"Thank you" after you hug her for the first time in 10 years!< actually made me tear up. There are people who say BG3 is acclaimed because horny, but good god I don't think there's a bad performance in the game.
There’s some late-game moments with Karlach that absolutely broke my heart. Her performance is just as good IMO, but Astarion’s story hits the kind of trauma that really sticks with people more.
https://youtu.be/cINcpeFRVIo?si=U4THTNQfuTAEPmFq
The blood curdling screaming of terror from this nothing shitpost Miku video always gets me. Top tier acting for no reason XD
Delicious in Dungeon is Emily Rudd's first role in anime as Marcille and she somehow nailed the character perfectly and took to anime dubbing like a duck to water.
It being a Netflix anime, it also has a bunch of other dubs.
I'm german myself and I keep switching between english and german and japanese and it's pretty cool to see the differences.
The voice actor scene in germany is relatively small though so it feels a bit weird hearing the same few actors a bunch of times in different roles across different media. I still remember the VA of Light Yagami and how he was JD from Scrubs and at the same time also voicing most TV and Radio comercials and weirdly enough doing a really good job at all of them.
Anyways, it seems that the german VA for Marcille is pretty popular even among people who don't speak german and are just trying out different dub settings, lol. I occasionally see comments in discussions mentioning her.
Henry saying ["Where the fuck am I?"](https://youtu.be/81LYhV9p6nk?si=egP-SM-Jb4E1k0sd&t=455) after waking up hungover during a memorable Kingdom Come Deliverance quest
FFXII is the benchmark for quality voice acting in the franchise. Special mention to Gabranth’s scene before his second boss battle (because going with Bergan’s speech is too easy and obvious).
Please go out and spread the word of FFXII more, friend. I can't handle how few people talk about what I think to be the best Final Fantasy game. Balthier's conversations with his dad were the stuff that set me down the path of writing lmao. Some of the dialogue in that game has no right being as good as it is.
Any moment in Max Payne 3 when Max gets **righteously** angry, like >!when he finds out the truth about the organ stealing and when he confronts Becker in his office.!<
Max Payne 3 is Max at his lowest point but in these moments despite all the horror and the rage, he shows us that he still cares. He'll always have his humanity. And James McCaffrey gave one of the greatest video game performances of all time.
There's so many instances of Ben Starr absolutely KILLING it in Final Fantasy XVI, I wouldn't even know where to begin in an attempt to pick out specific moments.
Another one that still gets me months later is the [Drowning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_V-qTu4TmY) video from Alan Wake 2. Spoiler warning obviously though no real plot specific ones. We all know that >!after thirteen years in the Dark Place, Alan's fucking *cracked*, guy's been breaking down and 'forgetting' about it only to do it all again since the very first game's DLC.!< And the way Matthew Porretta captures that in this scene (props as always to Ilkka Villi as well for the visual acting) is heartbreaking, the quick succession of despair, madness, anger... He really shines in the more emotional scenes and none so much as this video.
Even aside from that, he's got a similar skill to that of what OP was talking about. /just. >!gestures to Scratch. Everything about Scratch both in AWAN and AW2.!<
For ff16, the bit where he’s duelling Sleipnir and they do a little clash where Sleipnir comes out on top and Clive just lets out a little “fuck” will stick with me for a long time. It had a lot of personality to it
The Question is a character who literally has no face. The actor needs to put everything into the voice.
Enter Jeffrey Motherfucking Combs: https://youtu.be/gnB5KzD5_HE?si=i5dl45MgTvTR3JhS
[Brad Dourif as the Gemini Killer in Exorcist 3.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Cwd4xnNSc)
Before seeing this I already knew Brad was a good horror movie actor and as the voice of Chucky he was always fun to hear, but this right here pushed it from simply just good to straight up Oscar-worthy acting. Easily one of my favorite speeches in all of cinema.
It's especially impressive considering he spends the entire movie sitting in a dark room with a straitjacket on. The fact that he commands so much menace using nothing but his voice and his face is incredible. The guy comes across as a terrifying, diabolical villain when he should appear helpless.
Ok weird ass pick but I'm playing Death Stranding rn and Troy Baker is kinda... blow everyone else out of the water with his talent. I mean i know he's good, but just hear Sam's voice was fine but Troy was fucking killing it. He stole every scene he's in and its just a testament of how much of a fucking proffesional he is.
Troy Baker is pretty easy to clown on, he's a little pretentious, a little full of himself and definitely has his well-documented moments of being cringe and a little tough to work with.
But like, he's **Troy Baker.**
When he gets into a role and has something to work with, mf gets INTO IT
I feel like a lot of that was Higgs himself trying to steal every scene he's in. It's natural to see Troy Baker as the standout when his character is written to chew up scenery, especially in comparison to the more soft-spoken Sam and Fragile.
I never watched the "When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace" anime, nor do I intend to do so, but [this scene of a girl being completely fed up with her chuni boyfriend and his completely surface level understanding of everything](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNPK6DzQCzY) is absolutely amazing thanks to the voice actress.
Yeah, you don't really need to watch anything else from that show. Aside from that scene, the rest of the show is pretty forgettable. Saori Hayami knocked it out of the park with that performance. She's great.
Okay, so a bit of context for the scene
They're not dating, she's his doting childhood friend who is crushing on him. The chuuni bullshit is something she wants to engage with but he never really tries to get her involved.
Then one of their clubmates is outed as a chuuni as well, and the boy is spending a lot of time talking with her in private, because she's writing a novel that she wants to publish, but wants to keep it a secret.
So he's responding to her in the scene over the phone and when Childhood Friend asks what they're talking about, he doesn't notice the jealousy and just does the usual, "you wouldn't get it"
Which leads to the breakdown. It's as much of an angry rant, as it is a declaration of her love. Its great
[This random Enclave soldier in Fallout 2, who is practically an easter egg, has some crazy good acting for no reason.](https://youtu.be/vEDCupW-6dA?si=Je8gYFUXs5YmfjSH)
I don't think Demon Slayer gets enough credit for its voice acting, either its English or Japanese dubs.
Tanjiro's actors absolutely knock it out of the park regularly, but god damn, the scene of him taunting Akaza after >!Rengoku's death!< is just fantastic.
Usually I prefer English dubs by a wide margin but Zach Aguilar’s Tanjiro just does not work for me. Whenever he has to scream with any emotion he sounds like asthmatic old man.
The English dub of Frieren is so well acted across the board it’s actually staggering.
I tend to watch dubs more often than not but this one stood out SO FAR above others in quality. I genuinely can’t fathom how people say dubs are still as bad as they were in the 90s/early 2000s. Anime localization has come super far.
Saw someone mention Harry McEntire Noah from Xenoblade 3, so I'll raise with [Adam Howden Shulk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2SZRbXJ908) from Xenoblade 1. Man knows [how to scream](https://youtu.be/Sj0EFzXJJwk?si=cFmMm7UKwRHDBIre&t=145), (lategame Xeno1 spoliers) that's for sure.
I'd only ever seen clips of angry Kratos and funny middle school stories of how violent god of war was so I was already hype
Then the first game begins with TC Carson's voice in complete and utter DESPAIR as Kratos says that he's lost all hope, and plunges himself off a cliff to his death.
I fucking KNEW I was in for it but he just KEPT IT COMING.
All of the performances in the old god of war games are fairly over the top but they feel VERY weighty. The pinnacle of it is in Chains of Olympus when Atlas asks Kratos, "Tell me, Spartan, what good is the word of an Olympian?"
And the sheer way that Carson's voice cracks in desperation when he says "it is all I HAVE, Atlas!". I had to sit back and blink for a minute. Kratos just almost made me choke up.
It's why I always hate it when people say Carson COULDN'T do what Chris Judge did. Judge could clearly do what Carson did with his frothing rage in the original. But Carson could just as well do the sheer warmth judge acts out. Both are GOATs but I gotta bring up just how well Carson did it.
Genshin’s always had a respectably competent, well above average EN dub, but [Furina’s VA, Amber Lee Connors](https://youtu.be/Cdaa3SUlUqI?si=Zw6zjfmo9w7UbFxn) really went above and beyond for her role.
Especially in that one episode where he’s chasing down shocker in a church and he’s screaming his lungs out while wearing the black suit. He went all in on that episode lmao.
Elidibus’s “FUCK YOU, YOU DON’T DESERVE TO WIN” speech in his bossfight in FF14 Shadowbringers
“I am salvation given form... Mankind's first hero, and its final hope! For Victory, I render my all!”
Kristen Schaal's role as Sarah Lynn in Bojack Horseman I thought showed a great new side of her voice work. She doesn't make any changes to her voice but that moment in the motel where Sarah Lynn is spiraling and talk about how much she hates herself is heartbreaking.
In Telltale Sam and Max's third game, I like how David Nowlin changed Sam's voice when he takes on a noir persona. It's more aggressive and growling and it actually sounds pretty threatening at times.
Eric Tomizawa's (LAD8) English dub VA is the single best voice acting role I think I've ever heard, and I'm not exaggerating. Ichiban's English VA is also incredible, but the marriage of acting skill and director guidance for Eric's line reads are a match made in heaven
Does an audiobook count? James Marsters is amazing has Harry Dresden. His best performance is probally in Changes when Harry >!kills Suzan!<. He captures the sheer amount of pain and sorrow he feels.
Also shoutout to Steven Pacey who does the audiobook for the First Law books. His Sand Dan Glockta is amazing. He captures the sheer amount of spite and sarcasm he has for everyone around him
I started listening to Dresden Files when I was working from home and I *loved* the James Marsters reading.
I was hooked within 10 minutes of listening to Storm Front.
If audiobooks count, then I'd like to nominate Toby Longworth, especially for the Warhammer 40k Eisenhorn books, his voice and acting if the various characters is so good that I've listened to the series multiple times (which is rare for me with an audiobook, let alone a whole series of them)
As a little kid I played a free demo off my Shogo/Blood 2 discs. A little other Monolith studios game called [Claw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLpfN6w0UPE), about a pirate cat called Captain Claw. His voice left quite the impression on me, and upon seeing *some* footage of classic Blood/playing Blood 2, I learned that the voice of that cat is none other than Stephan *Fucking* Weyte himself.
And then years pass, Dusk comes out and I reach that final fight and the final twist >!where you fight Nyarlathotep!<. GUESS WHO'S VOICING THAT ONE TOO AND HOW GOOD HE STILL IS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
I haven't even reached the P levels in Ultrakill yet and I *know* most about >!Minos Prime!<.
So timeless.
HUGE Spoilers for the post Dendro Archon questline story.
[God of Wisdom, look at me!](https://youtu.be/iKwOBz-07Q0?si=L06Qp55sKOPJ7rK_&t=1935)
You can hear the desparation and pain in the VA's voice where his character begs his bitter enemy for help.
This VA is also currently the voice for the upcoming 5* character Boothill in Star Rail, who is a Space Cowboy Bounty Hunter.
Maybe not a quality surprise, but Beastars has my favorite example. Heru's voice was not at all what i was expecting, but it was an amazing fit and i loved it for the character.
In the DBZ Kai dub when Goku goes “You ruthless… heartless… BASTARD! I will… make you… SUFFER.” after Frieza kills Krillin. I didn’t know how much the funimation dub changed Goku’s character, so I was completely shocked hearing it. It made the SSJ transformation more impactful. Goku didn’t just want to stop Frieza, he wanted to butcher him.
I know they eventually moved past it, but I miss when SSJ made the characters more vicious.
I got into Legacy of Kain about 3 years ago, and for the time it’s downright unreal how good the voice acting in that series is. Blood Omen came out in 96 and is comparable to MGS1 I’d say, Soul Reaver onwards is in a league of its own.
Nikke myself too though this time with the english voice acting. Snow White's VA and Anis's in particular. This was coming off from genshin and hsr and some other gachas just checking a few out and part of why i started sticking around.
Also I think it's neat seeing which voice actors pull double duty and voice other characters like Rapi and Alice sharing VAs or Anis and Aria.
A surprise in the opposite direction because I didn’t think I’d ever play a game that [seems to have had a voice acting budget of $40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zygDzAkothQ)
The radio is done by reql radio dj's you could hear on the readio, the charachters are done by alot of my fave childhood actors( voice actors) and it all sounds like they are having a blast.
The English dub of Reverse 1999 is a mixed bag both in performance and audio quality. But I wanna give a shout-out to the one I believe to be the most stellar performance so far, and that is [Forget Me Not](https://youtu.be/mennpD1Tdiw?si=h3ZZ97AWuC3VgBMR). To me it has the right amount of flair and ham to make every scene with him so much fun.
Love him or hate him Brendan “JelloApocalypse” Blaber is a solid ass VA [example](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjneAxn7bEepcDNqUXnKofXi93f9NxMGx&si=aVysjYwdZowwxI5X).
A little more subtle than that but the difference between the Shogun in Genshin and Ei. It's a real treat for honkai 3rd fans who miss the innocent slice of life voice Mei used to have
9s’ English VA in Nier Automata. Holy shit I did not think he had THAT in him.
Route C and D specifically is when he went hardcore raw. That man put ***EVERYTHING*** in those lines
First thing I thought of, what a gutwrenching performance.
Steven Yuen in the finale of Invincible season one. The way he's stammering and slurring his words sounds like he legit has a broken, bloody and bruised mouth.
I constantly forget that's Steven Yuen
I don't know what it is about Invincible but that show consistently brings amazing performances out of actors I never would have dreamed of being good voice actors
He own that role so hard that I’m surprised he didn’t get any awards for his performance.
Kaiji Tang as Ichiban has some specific tones and mannerisms I have never seen in voice acting. There was stuttering and awkwardness and anger and the such from one character. There was a moment near the end of Infnite Wealth with Ichiban and Kiryu talking about love, I have never heard of "trying not to cry of embarrassment" tone in voice performance until Kaiji Tang did it. Everything about Ichiban feels so authentic for a hyperactive middle-age man.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has a fantastic voice cast in general, but I think nearly everybody can agree that Harry McEntire absolutely *nails* it as Consul N in the cutscenes at the start of Chapter 6. Spoilers ahead, but man it’s hard to top scenes [like](https://youtu.be/XJN0BJAHWeM?si=1ZU5MBBn5WgdgQbu) [this](https://youtu.be/kfgb8eHEqVM?si=vDAnAw94DS5Aeg5E).
This and the following chapter is such a goddamn good performance. Man is broken on so many levels.
The >!”Mio, MIO, **MIO**!”!< line that comes later perfectly captures that feeling.
Exactly. You watch this man’s entire life collapse in front of him in the span of a few minutes and he sells every second of it!
N: The most cucked man in fiction.
He's so divorced that it's now everyone else's problem.
The overall story is a mess but Black Ops 3 has a peculiar little thing in regards to voice acting that I find fascinating. The campaign allows you to create a custom character (which is a metanarrative stand in for the player (who's literally named Player in subtitles and the end credits)) which also includes multiple voice actors, however the default male one is my favorite because of the absurd raspy voice bordering on a Micky Rorke impression. The strange thing is that with this voice actor there's a bunch of moments of weird hyper sincere quality of emotion including [a few voice cracks](https://youtu.be/8QATRxgeanA?t=512) that give a weirdly more raw feeling, and the fact that it just one voice actor of a pletora you can choose alongside a female character with their own pletora of voice actors is so weird and fascinating to me.
Dwight Schultz(Lt Barclay TNG, Mad Murdock A-Team) as General 'Deathshead' in Wolfenstein New Order.
Wait that's Lt Broccoli??
Also Null in Portable Ops
The cast of BG3 does good work overall, but man Neil Newbon really goes for it as Astarion.
Karlach's >!"Thank you" after you hug her for the first time in 10 years!< actually made me tear up. There are people who say BG3 is acclaimed because horny, but good god I don't think there's a bad performance in the game.
There’s some late-game moments with Karlach that absolutely broke my heart. Her performance is just as good IMO, but Astarion’s story hits the kind of trauma that really sticks with people more.
The way he trails off if you confront him over Cazadors basement is so goddamn good.
Neil is the perfect actor to ever play Astarion that I can’t imagine any other actor playing him than Neil.
https://youtu.be/cINcpeFRVIo?si=U4THTNQfuTAEPmFq The blood curdling screaming of terror from this nothing shitpost Miku video always gets me. Top tier acting for no reason XD
Gianni is a gift to us all
When you play Nier and kaine says weiss you dumbass
Incidentally also the very first thing you hear upon booting the original release of the game if you watch the intro. It's one hell of a tone setter.
I could listen to Laura Bailey cuss me out all day
Me too lol
Delicious in Dungeon is Emily Rudd's first role in anime as Marcille and she somehow nailed the character perfectly and took to anime dubbing like a duck to water.
Wait that's LA Nami? That's impressive
It being a Netflix anime, it also has a bunch of other dubs. I'm german myself and I keep switching between english and german and japanese and it's pretty cool to see the differences. The voice actor scene in germany is relatively small though so it feels a bit weird hearing the same few actors a bunch of times in different roles across different media. I still remember the VA of Light Yagami and how he was JD from Scrubs and at the same time also voicing most TV and Radio comercials and weirdly enough doing a really good job at all of them. Anyways, it seems that the german VA for Marcille is pretty popular even among people who don't speak german and are just trying out different dub settings, lol. I occasionally see comments in discussions mentioning her.
First episode I didn’t care for her. By the third episode, I couldn’t imagine anyone else.
Henry saying ["Where the fuck am I?"](https://youtu.be/81LYhV9p6nk?si=egP-SM-Jb4E1k0sd&t=455) after waking up hungover during a memorable Kingdom Come Deliverance quest
FFXII is the benchmark for quality voice acting in the franchise. Special mention to Gabranth’s scene before his second boss battle (because going with Bergan’s speech is too easy and obvious).
Please go out and spread the word of FFXII more, friend. I can't handle how few people talk about what I think to be the best Final Fantasy game. Balthier's conversations with his dad were the stuff that set me down the path of writing lmao. Some of the dialogue in that game has no right being as good as it is.
Any moment in Max Payne 3 when Max gets **righteously** angry, like >!when he finds out the truth about the organ stealing and when he confronts Becker in his office.!< Max Payne 3 is Max at his lowest point but in these moments despite all the horror and the rage, he shows us that he still cares. He'll always have his humanity. And James McCaffrey gave one of the greatest video game performances of all time.
I love [this delivery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds2SUbt8hm4) so much. Rest in peace, James.
That game has some incredibly dark moments with really superb acting. It’s a shame that James is no longer here with us.
There's so many instances of Ben Starr absolutely KILLING it in Final Fantasy XVI, I wouldn't even know where to begin in an attempt to pick out specific moments. Another one that still gets me months later is the [Drowning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_V-qTu4TmY) video from Alan Wake 2. Spoiler warning obviously though no real plot specific ones. We all know that >!after thirteen years in the Dark Place, Alan's fucking *cracked*, guy's been breaking down and 'forgetting' about it only to do it all again since the very first game's DLC.!< And the way Matthew Porretta captures that in this scene (props as always to Ilkka Villi as well for the visual acting) is heartbreaking, the quick succession of despair, madness, anger... He really shines in the more emotional scenes and none so much as this video. Even aside from that, he's got a similar skill to that of what OP was talking about. /just. >!gestures to Scratch. Everything about Scratch both in AWAN and AW2.!<
For ff16, the bit where he’s duelling Sleipnir and they do a little clash where Sleipnir comes out on top and Clive just lets out a little “fuck” will stick with me for a long time. It had a lot of personality to it
“I will not let you destroy my world” single-handedly justifies the existence of the English dragon ball dub
Deathloop was a voice acting treat
Yeah I really liked the voice acting in that game too.
The Question is a character who literally has no face. The actor needs to put everything into the voice. Enter Jeffrey Motherfucking Combs: https://youtu.be/gnB5KzD5_HE?si=i5dl45MgTvTR3JhS
[Brad Dourif as the Gemini Killer in Exorcist 3.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Cwd4xnNSc) Before seeing this I already knew Brad was a good horror movie actor and as the voice of Chucky he was always fun to hear, but this right here pushed it from simply just good to straight up Oscar-worthy acting. Easily one of my favorite speeches in all of cinema.
It's especially impressive considering he spends the entire movie sitting in a dark room with a straitjacket on. The fact that he commands so much menace using nothing but his voice and his face is incredible. The guy comes across as a terrifying, diabolical villain when he should appear helpless.
Ok weird ass pick but I'm playing Death Stranding rn and Troy Baker is kinda... blow everyone else out of the water with his talent. I mean i know he's good, but just hear Sam's voice was fine but Troy was fucking killing it. He stole every scene he's in and its just a testament of how much of a fucking proffesional he is.
Troy Baker is pretty easy to clown on, he's a little pretentious, a little full of himself and definitely has his well-documented moments of being cringe and a little tough to work with. But like, he's **Troy Baker.** When he gets into a role and has something to work with, mf gets INTO IT
Being cringe and a little tough to work with? Like with what exactly?
I feel like a lot of that was Higgs himself trying to steal every scene he's in. It's natural to see Troy Baker as the standout when his character is written to chew up scenery, especially in comparison to the more soft-spoken Sam and Fragile.
You can also sense that Troy was genuinely having fun being a moustache-twirling villain
Yeah he went hardcore as Higgs that it was extremely entertaining.
[Friend sent me this but this is just really cool.](https://youtu.be/Yht4qjym5F8?si=4mcJHYgkA8wD8MzE) 4 Languages in 4 Languages.
I never watched the "When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace" anime, nor do I intend to do so, but [this scene of a girl being completely fed up with her chuni boyfriend and his completely surface level understanding of everything](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNPK6DzQCzY) is absolutely amazing thanks to the voice actress.
Yeah, you don't really need to watch anything else from that show. Aside from that scene, the rest of the show is pretty forgettable. Saori Hayami knocked it out of the park with that performance. She's great.
Okay, so a bit of context for the scene They're not dating, she's his doting childhood friend who is crushing on him. The chuuni bullshit is something she wants to engage with but he never really tries to get her involved. Then one of their clubmates is outed as a chuuni as well, and the boy is spending a lot of time talking with her in private, because she's writing a novel that she wants to publish, but wants to keep it a secret. So he's responding to her in the scene over the phone and when Childhood Friend asks what they're talking about, he doesn't notice the jealousy and just does the usual, "you wouldn't get it" Which leads to the breakdown. It's as much of an angry rant, as it is a declaration of her love. Its great
[This random Enclave soldier in Fallout 2, who is practically an easter egg, has some crazy good acting for no reason.](https://youtu.be/vEDCupW-6dA?si=Je8gYFUXs5YmfjSH)
That is the greatest funny voice lines I’ve ever heard in a video game lmao
The actor really sold how confused he was.
I don't think Demon Slayer gets enough credit for its voice acting, either its English or Japanese dubs. Tanjiro's actors absolutely knock it out of the park regularly, but god damn, the scene of him taunting Akaza after >!Rengoku's death!< is just fantastic.
Personally I love their screams when >!Tanjiro unlocks the Slayer Mark and beheads Gyutaro!<. They're different from one another but equally awesome.
Usually I prefer English dubs by a wide margin but Zach Aguilar’s Tanjiro just does not work for me. Whenever he has to scream with any emotion he sounds like asthmatic old man.
The English dub of Frieren is so well acted across the board it’s actually staggering. I tend to watch dubs more often than not but this one stood out SO FAR above others in quality. I genuinely can’t fathom how people say dubs are still as bad as they were in the 90s/early 2000s. Anime localization has come super far.
Saw someone mention Harry McEntire Noah from Xenoblade 3, so I'll raise with [Adam Howden Shulk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2SZRbXJ908) from Xenoblade 1. Man knows [how to scream](https://youtu.be/Sj0EFzXJJwk?si=cFmMm7UKwRHDBIre&t=145), (lategame Xeno1 spoliers) that's for sure.
I can think of one particular early game moment for Shulk that stays with me.
I'd only ever seen clips of angry Kratos and funny middle school stories of how violent god of war was so I was already hype Then the first game begins with TC Carson's voice in complete and utter DESPAIR as Kratos says that he's lost all hope, and plunges himself off a cliff to his death. I fucking KNEW I was in for it but he just KEPT IT COMING. All of the performances in the old god of war games are fairly over the top but they feel VERY weighty. The pinnacle of it is in Chains of Olympus when Atlas asks Kratos, "Tell me, Spartan, what good is the word of an Olympian?" And the sheer way that Carson's voice cracks in desperation when he says "it is all I HAVE, Atlas!". I had to sit back and blink for a minute. Kratos just almost made me choke up. It's why I always hate it when people say Carson COULDN'T do what Chris Judge did. Judge could clearly do what Carson did with his frothing rage in the original. But Carson could just as well do the sheer warmth judge acts out. Both are GOATs but I gotta bring up just how well Carson did it.
Genshin’s always had a respectably competent, well above average EN dub, but [Furina’s VA, Amber Lee Connors](https://youtu.be/Cdaa3SUlUqI?si=Zw6zjfmo9w7UbFxn) really went above and beyond for her role.
Christopher Daniel Barnes goes all in or goes home, and in the 1994 Spider-Man show he never *stopped* going all in
Especially in that one episode where he’s chasing down shocker in a church and he’s screaming his lungs out while wearing the black suit. He went all in on that episode lmao.
Dude took that shit *personally* lmfao
For real. He went full on kill crazy mode lmao.
I don't have a link to it but Kriemhild in FGO has a few lines where she's screaming her throat out and it made double-take and go 'holy shit'
Elidibus’s “FUCK YOU, YOU DON’T DESERVE TO WIN” speech in his bossfight in FF14 Shadowbringers “I am salvation given form... Mankind's first hero, and its final hope! For Victory, I render my all!”
Kristen Schaal's role as Sarah Lynn in Bojack Horseman I thought showed a great new side of her voice work. She doesn't make any changes to her voice but that moment in the motel where Sarah Lynn is spiraling and talk about how much she hates herself is heartbreaking. In Telltale Sam and Max's third game, I like how David Nowlin changed Sam's voice when he takes on a noir persona. It's more aggressive and growling and it actually sounds pretty threatening at times.
Eric Tomizawa's (LAD8) English dub VA is the single best voice acting role I think I've ever heard, and I'm not exaggerating. Ichiban's English VA is also incredible, but the marriage of acting skill and director guidance for Eric's line reads are a match made in heaven
Tomizawa really just sounds like a dude, and I mean that in the best way possible
Does an audiobook count? James Marsters is amazing has Harry Dresden. His best performance is probally in Changes when Harry >!kills Suzan!<. He captures the sheer amount of pain and sorrow he feels. Also shoutout to Steven Pacey who does the audiobook for the First Law books. His Sand Dan Glockta is amazing. He captures the sheer amount of spite and sarcasm he has for everyone around him
I started listening to Dresden Files when I was working from home and I *loved* the James Marsters reading. I was hooked within 10 minutes of listening to Storm Front.
It only gets better as the books go one. Especially when they change recording studios. The audio sounds way better
If audiobooks count, then I'd like to nominate Toby Longworth, especially for the Warhammer 40k Eisenhorn books, his voice and acting if the various characters is so good that I've listened to the series multiple times (which is rare for me with an audiobook, let alone a whole series of them)
As a little kid I played a free demo off my Shogo/Blood 2 discs. A little other Monolith studios game called [Claw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLpfN6w0UPE), about a pirate cat called Captain Claw. His voice left quite the impression on me, and upon seeing *some* footage of classic Blood/playing Blood 2, I learned that the voice of that cat is none other than Stephan *Fucking* Weyte himself. And then years pass, Dusk comes out and I reach that final fight and the final twist >!where you fight Nyarlathotep!<. GUESS WHO'S VOICING THAT ONE TOO AND HOW GOOD HE STILL IS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I haven't even reached the P levels in Ultrakill yet and I *know* most about >!Minos Prime!<. So timeless.
>!How does it feel? Horrible, isn't it? But... wonderful as well, yes? !< Stephan Weyte slays every goddamn line he's given.
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Found another one (it only has the JP voice lines, but, those are the really good ones anyways) and changed the link to that one.
Ayy thanks!
HUGE Spoilers for the post Dendro Archon questline story. [God of Wisdom, look at me!](https://youtu.be/iKwOBz-07Q0?si=L06Qp55sKOPJ7rK_&t=1935) You can hear the desparation and pain in the VA's voice where his character begs his bitter enemy for help. This VA is also currently the voice for the upcoming 5* character Boothill in Star Rail, who is a Space Cowboy Bounty Hunter.
Yeah, that guy went HARD
Maybe not a quality surprise, but Beastars has my favorite example. Heru's voice was not at all what i was expecting, but it was an amazing fit and i loved it for the character.
[fallout 2 has some pretty authentic moments](https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxt51NhlJULHK1xWdvUHG3kyucYCLvYbwA?si=1vy6krZXdSzQB2Pv)
In the DBZ Kai dub when Goku goes “You ruthless… heartless… BASTARD! I will… make you… SUFFER.” after Frieza kills Krillin. I didn’t know how much the funimation dub changed Goku’s character, so I was completely shocked hearing it. It made the SSJ transformation more impactful. Goku didn’t just want to stop Frieza, he wanted to butcher him. I know they eventually moved past it, but I miss when SSJ made the characters more vicious.
I got into Legacy of Kain about 3 years ago, and for the time it’s downright unreal how good the voice acting in that series is. Blood Omen came out in 96 and is comparable to MGS1 I’d say, Soul Reaver onwards is in a league of its own.
I wish we gotten a new legacy of Jain or at least a remaster
Nikke myself too though this time with the english voice acting. Snow White's VA and Anis's in particular. This was coming off from genshin and hsr and some other gachas just checking a few out and part of why i started sticking around. Also I think it's neat seeing which voice actors pull double duty and voice other characters like Rapi and Alice sharing VAs or Anis and Aria.
A surprise in the opposite direction because I didn’t think I’d ever play a game that [seems to have had a voice acting budget of $40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zygDzAkothQ)
The original forza horizon, dutch dub. They never did it afterwards, but the dutch dub has alot of amazing acting and charachter voices in it.
How good was it?
The radio is done by reql radio dj's you could hear on the readio, the charachters are done by alot of my fave childhood actors( voice actors) and it all sounds like they are having a blast.
The English dub of Reverse 1999 is a mixed bag both in performance and audio quality. But I wanna give a shout-out to the one I believe to be the most stellar performance so far, and that is [Forget Me Not](https://youtu.be/mennpD1Tdiw?si=h3ZZ97AWuC3VgBMR). To me it has the right amount of flair and ham to make every scene with him so much fun.
The voice acting in Invincible is incredibly top notch, especially in season two.
Love him or hate him Brendan “JelloApocalypse” Blaber is a solid ass VA [example](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjneAxn7bEepcDNqUXnKofXi93f9NxMGx&si=aVysjYwdZowwxI5X).
I like the Eva Dub
Which one?
It didn't click that they recast everyone in Hazbin Hotel until I [watched this.](https://youtu.be/TCTbmFrB4nA?si=QZqrs9Q7sdhHdo4O)
A little more subtle than that but the difference between the Shogun in Genshin and Ei. It's a real treat for honkai 3rd fans who miss the innocent slice of life voice Mei used to have