The special zombies in left 4 dead 1 & 2
I know it's super obscure, but there are some YouTube videos compiling each special zombie and it's like god tier sound. I bet they had fun doing it, too.
To this day, I still hype myself up to do weird sounds by listening to those because they're so good.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The voice actors really hit it out of the park with this one. But this scene in particular:
The narrator in Indika. Or really anybody in Indika. Especially considering the English actors aren't even the original actors.
Jennifer Hale as FemShep in the Mass Effect series 1-3.
Disco elysium, any supergiant game (hades/bastion) logan cunningham my beloved, legacy of kain, parts of mass effect, bad company 2
Cpt. Janeway as Flemeth in the Dragon Age series (especially Origins).
I don't know if it is the best, but I liked the voice acting in Slay the Princess.
Final Fantasy 3/6. Kefka's laugh will forever be the best evil laugh.
CURSE YOU BAYLE! I HEREBY VOW YOU WILL RUE THIS DAY! BEHOLD, A TRUE DRAKE WARRIOR, AND I, IGON! YOUR FEARS MADE FLESH! SOLID OF SCALE YOU MIGHT BE, FOUL DRAGON, BUT I WILL RIDDLE WITH HOLES YOUR ROTTEN HIDE! WITH A HAIL OF HARPOONS, WITH EVERY LAST DROP OF MY BEING!
Halo master fucking chief! Hell yeah brother
Crusader: No Remorse
Wicked good acting in general (it had full motion video sequences in live action) and just a criminally underrated game from the DOS era.
The entire Command & Conquer series when Westwood was still handling them, especially Red Alert 2.
The voice acting in Hellblade always gives me chills.
In terms of pure voice acting I think it's Date Everything. The game have a 100 different professional voice actors that want to seduce you.
The original Resident Evil
GTA San Andreas has a few good ones my Favorite Being AXL Rose as the DJ from KDST.
But many suprising actors in there : Samuel Jackson, James Woods, Peter Fonda and Ice T:
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Grand-Theft-Auto-San-Andreas/
Deep Rock galactic has some of my favourite voices and lines in it.
Terry Bogard
For me, one 2001 game is lodged forever in my mind, Hostile Waters
It's a great game, although sadly won't run on modern systems. And not strictly voice acting, more narration, but I've just re-watched the intro and Tom Baker's narration still gives me shivers.
Almost a quarter of a century since I first played it, the phrase "These are hostile waters" in Tom's voice still pops into my head from time to time.
Not an actor, but the early voice synthesis was amazing the first times hearing it:
The female player character in Outriders was surprisingly very good. With the right face and hair, it was like Bobby Draper from The Expanse.
Too bad the rest of the game was kind of meh.
Not necessarily the biggest roles but I've always appreciated:
The narrator in the original Medieval: Total War (intro for example). Set the mood.
Prophet of Truth in Halo 2.
Dunmer male voice actor for Morrowind.
The first and last especially set the atmosphere so well.
Resident Evil on the PlayStation
Gabriel Angelos from the original Dawn of War
Intro narration to Fallout 4.
War. War never changes.
I don't play as many games as some of you, but Christopher Judge as Kratos is my favorite.
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