Finished my first BG3 run, man the acting is great, especially at the when characters get their big emotional moments. I'm thinking "that's acting!", also recognised Omni Man immediately.

Now I'm on to Alan Wake 2 and omg I can't take the dialogue and voice acting. It feels jarring. The prior game I played was Silent Hill 2 and I remembered it was OK, the MC was very chill in a horror game but its kinda explained by the story

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 52 points 5 days ago (5 children)

BG3 is great and all but there are other games with at least equal voice acting quality. For all its qualities I never felt like "wow, I've never seen voice acting like this in a game!" when I played BG3. It's really good and really consistent but nothing earth shattering.

I know I bring up Disco Elysium a lot, but that is one game where I got repeatedly shocked at the quality and diversity of the voice acting. With the exception of one single character I think it's acted to absolute perfection.

I also didn't really feel the same about Alan Wake 2 like, at all. I thought it had superb acting (both voice and full video segments) and probably hold the quality of its acting above BG3 personally. Alan Wake 1 less so.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I second Disco Elysium's voice acting and also all of Supergiant Games catalogue, especially Bastion, Transistor, and Hades. Portal 2 is the most hilarious video game of all time, and a major part of that is its voice acting.

The Stanley Parable, Borderlands 1/2, Prey, System Shock 1/2, the Bioshock series, SOMA, the new Doom games, Path of Exile, all elevated by their voice acting.

[–] snailboy@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

I'd also put Still Wakes the Deep on that list.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 10 points 5 days ago

mass effect and the first few dragon age games had great acting, Kingdom come has great acting, most of the Sony exclusives have great acting, it's out there. It's just rare.

[–] False@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Which character did you not like?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 5 days ago

I don't think Ruby works well but I suspect it's a problem with direction rather than the voice actor themselves.

[–] Venicon@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Agreed. BG3 is outstanding but I loved AW2, thought the acting and Mocap etc was brilliant

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Disco Elysium was my first thought as well. Such great voice acting! It is easily my favorite game, and now I'm looking forward to Hopetown