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Bad Videogame Acting Chronicled
An anonymous reader writes "This site is documenting some great bad acting in video games. Sure, we all talk about what game had bad acting (Resident Evil comes up all the time), but this place has examples of why people call these games bad." This immediately brought to mind one of the bosses from the game Final Fight, when he says "Oh, my car" right after you've smashed his car, and he couldn't sound much more disinterested, nevermind that his ride was beaten in with a lead pipe.
Is in the first Thief game on the first level. If you knock out the first citizen you encounter with the blackjack. He makes this effeminate groan "Ooooooooooo". I play that level for a laugh now and then.
In which a leary Mark Hamilton barely fitting in a blue jumpsuit tries to pull every chick in the game remains one of the most memorable acting moments in PC gaming.
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Well, with a head start in the acting industry...
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...the FFX "laugh" scene. You know the one I mean. Why did my mom have to walk in on me THEN of all times. Gar... Embarrasment++.
Resident Evil is a great game, but the acting truly deserves the label that it gets. I think the worst example is right out of the chute, where Chris Redfield is missing and Barry and Jill find some blood on the floor of the mansion, and Barry asks "Is this .. Chris' blood?" in the same tone of voice that you might ask "Are you going to eat that sandwich?"
Of course, I think right before that, there's an exchange like this:
BARRY: What? What is this?
JILL: What is it?
BARRY: Blood!
Apparently, Jill and Barry have never seen blood before?
We're going down, in a spiral to the ground
JC 'Corn Fed' Denton had no range at all.
Jock: OH MY GOD, JC, IT'S A BOMB!
JC (loudly): A bomb.
Words cannot express the hilarity.
"Shake it baby!"
"You wanna dance?"
Now THAT was acting. Am I the only person who hit spacebar for a half-hour?
More than enough BS
Best voice acting in a videogame EVER: Sinistar. That used to freak my **** out.
Creepiest: "Beware. I Live." (when he's fully assembled somewhere on the map)
Second-creepiest: "I Hunger." (when he's looking around for you)
Most Adrenaline-Pumping: "AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRARARAGHHHHHHHGGAGRGARAR!" (when he finds you, approximately one and a half seconds before you die.)
I had the distinct misfortune of seeing "Super Mario Bros." on cable the other day, for lack of any other good thing on, and that got me thinking. Sure, the acting in many games today is bad... but at least it was never that bad.
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