Better With or Without Voice Acting

WITHOUT! the zelda series would be ruined if they have it.

That's the big problem in gaming. People want voice acting but only if it's good and more often than not, it's not that good. Especially when it comes to games made in Japan being translated into English, rather poorly. But really we don't need to hear Sonic and pals saying "yahoo" or "alright everytime they jump or whatever.kbaily

It's a bit difficult to say Mario only says the odd line and Link doesn't speak at all. Samus will in Other M but for the Sonic series I hate it they sound horrible. It's much better with text.chocolate1325

Link just makes those weird variations of "ha."

[QUOTE="chocolate1325"]It's a bit difficult to say Mario only says the odd line and Link doesn't speak at all. Samus will in Other M but for the Sonic series I hate it they sound horrible. It's much better with text.Shadow_Olimar23

Link just makes those weird variations of "ha."

But, you don't really have to. I do if I'm angry. :P

remember what happened to the klanoa port/remake?

No voices in 2D and LESS voices in 3D. white_kunoichi

[QUOTE="white_kunoichi"]No voices in 2D and LESS voices in 3D. sonicphc

remember what happened to the klanoa port/remake?

megamario9

But at least that allowed you to switch back to the PS1 gibberish though the Moon Queen and Ghadius's voices were win.

I think voice acting isn't really that neccesary.

VA in Sonic Adventure: dreadful, and by far, the worst of any Sonic game

VA in Sonic Adventure 2: it is still a bit cheesy, but the well written dialogues compensates its problems

VA in Sonic Heroes: actually quite good, but bad lines brings it down

VA in Shadow the Hedgehog: bad

VA in Sonic Next Gen: terrible

VA in Sonic & the Secret Rings: meh

VA in Sonic Unleashed: pretty good. especially considering it is done by 4kids

VA in Sonic & the Black Knight: fair

What always got me was the crusader-like fevor of the Drummond vs. Griffith camps. There was literally a group of insane fans convinced that the single thing that ruined the Sonic series was the switch to the 4Kids voice actors. Not bad controls or bad game concepts or terrible stories but it was all Jason Griffith's fault. It went so far as that those fans petioned to get Ryan Drummond to voice Sonic for Smash Bros. Bear in mind there's little to no voice work in SSBB but supposedly Nintendo did try to get Drummond for the voice but Sega wouldn't allow it but now most fans have just accepted that Griffith is here and he's not going away no matter how much hate mail fans send him..

I agree with nunchuck that Unleashed and Black Knight both improved in the VO section. Tails in Unleashed wasn't overdoing it like he did in Next Gen. He sounded more toned down and it also helped that both those games signaled the change in the series to a more light hearted feel in the stories which also helps. Probably what surprised me the most was Chip in Unleashed. When I first saw him I feared he would sound like Charmy or Bokun meaning making my ears bleed. But thankfully he ended up being way more tolerable