"So this is Goldman's HQ..." *building fucking explodes*

I paused partway through the "What am I fighting for" segement to look up the "Fill your dark soul with light" clip for a laugh, so you can imagine my immense amusement when I resumed this video only to have that exact clip play.

"Bizzarre orders from higher ups" seems to be just Sega's motto most of the time

Honestly I'm just glad Sonic wasn't picked on unfairly. There's actually some great voice acting in some of their games.

“Sonic sounds like a skateboarder who just flipped his hat backwards to keep it real” …so, like Sonic, then

I feel like when you have athlete actors playing themselves instead of professional VAs, you shouldn't give them a script, rather just tell them what information they have to get across and let them improvise it as if they were saying it normally.

Fun fact: Typing of The Dead's gameplay was inspired by how HOTD 2's voice actors were given their lines

The one with Mortal Kombat seems intentional lol. Like the skin is already like “we got this actor in the costume” so I think it makes it that much funnier that his deliveries aren’t great. He’s not some cold hard killer like the rest of those people so I’d expect him to sound a little timid

Can we give an honorable mention to that one Oblivion NPC literally saying "wait let me do that one again" before repeating herself?

Sonic voice acting is something I could talk about for hours on end......yeah I have a problem. It just feels like every time a cast gets it's footing with how they want a character to sound and act, out they go for the cycle to repeat (except for Mike Pollock. Even SEGA knows enough to understand it doesn't get much better than him). The Colours cast has to have had the longest time to really settle in mostly due to the writing sounding like it was made by 2 people who knew literally nothing about Sonic when they started OH WAIT!

I would like to give a mention in the comments to the cutscenes in two Fire Emblem games, Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn. It's sad that no one outside the FE fandom laughs at the hilariously awful voice acting in these. "Form up! Surround them all! Don't let a single one escape!"

“ Years ago I was Chinese”

Found out the other day that the reason everything changed in the dubbing of Shadow the Hedgehog is that it was the first game that 4Kids did the dubbing for. Yes. That 4Kids. The ones responsible for the Shadow Realm in Yu-Gi-Oh. They dubbed most of the Sonic games for a solid period, their last being Sonic and the Black Knight.

I unironically love bad voice over. As an aspiring VA, having a reference on what NOT to do is great. But more than that, I live for the cheese. These games wouldn’t be nearly as iconic without the stupidity of “you’re gonna crash! AHH!” or “WHAT AM I FIGHTING FORRRRR?”

Chaos Wars is the Slow Start Regigigas of dubbed games, it's one negative vastly overshadows the positives

This man needs to be known more than the “punch out man”, don’t get me wrong, they’re excellent videos, but his other videos are excellent!

I’m convinced that Goldman is actually the G-Man trying to voice act. Even the name makes sense

why is the "what am i fighting for?" clip in a video exclusively about bad voice acting when it is such a legendary clip?

I love the production values on this channel, and what I've really been fond of is the little cassette pop-up of "this is the music now". It's ridiculously common to think "WAIT I KNOW THAT MUSIC BUT FROM WHERE", and having the answer right there in a little unobtrusive short-lasting popup? It is the glory.

Coming from Xenoblade 2, it is a goldmine of good and bad voice acting. On one hand, Morag, Zeke, Vandham, Malos, Akhos and Amalthus are all absolute masters at the craft. On the other, Nia and Rex, especially at the beginning of the game, can be so bad sometimes it’s hilarious. Jin’s line readings are also incredibly fast-

Why do the sports guys all sound like they just woke up from a decade long coma?

To be fair, having the mouth movements be off in DBFZ feels kinda fitting considering it's such a nostlagia fest. I genuinely wonder whether that was a decision they made or just... ArcSys being Arcsys. Probably the latter.

Having "Work Harder" play in the background for the Shenmue section is the only correct option.

The knuckles thing gets me everytime the long awkward pause between tail's hilariously bad acting and the pathetic pumches of knuckles is great

Thanks for the Popeye info! That was actually fun!

Okay he didn’t shittalk Jason Griffith. Congrats, you get to keep your kneecaps!

I personally don't find the Dante "dark soul with light" line to be bad. Sure, it's a bit corny but the voice crack adds to Dante's emotional state.

3:04 The only kid characters that _were_ voiced by kids at the time that I think were done _well_ - as far as I recall - were Leonard Helperman from Teacher's Pet and Chowder from, well, Chowder. The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack had one that _also_ wasn't voiced by an adult woman, the titular Flapjack...and that was because he was voiced by an adult _man_ - none other than the show's own creator, Thurop Van Orman.

Sega is always somehow in the cycle of "if it's good, make it bad" but at least most of their failures are of a hilarious one snd not boring.

sorry i keep thinking about the "i don't know if you know this, but english isn't the main language of japan / *What?*" back and forth, it's so god damn funny. you have really good comedic timing, man

Man I really love the no more heroes transitions you have.

I will say a thing with lipflaps, is that with games that use Unity/Unreal, they have the ability to sync lip flaps to the actual vocal frequency instead of needing to do it manually. They've had this tech since Half Life 2(Yes, even 20 year old Source has this feature.), although it wasn't automatic like AI scripts can do now (Instead you put some markers in the sound file to tell the engine what mouth shape to make at what time.). The issue is that a lot of gaming companies would rather use Havoc, Cryware (Ew) or their own proprietary engine instead of an open engine like those two, so they have to figure out those scripts themselves. Fun Fact, Nintendo has moved over to Unity/Unreal for faster game production in most mainline nintendo games. I believe Odyssy was made in Unreal. (That'd also explain why Nintendo games are so easy to mod on a console.)

“All the voice acting feels like a ransom note.” -Running Shine (Sonic Adventure review)

Sonic the Hedgehog is a prime example of what not to do in voice acting. Not the bad voice actors but the idiots who messed the actors up with bad scripts and idiotic decisions.

Roger Craig Smith's voice acting in sonic is great, but I feel that his voice fits Boom sonic better than the normal Sonic, which makes it even more infuriating that they cut any development for Boom sonic when they decided to ruin Rise of Lyric by making it a Wii-U exclusive. It WAS planned for more powerful consoles, but they had to downgrade the engine, and restart from scratch, when they got told this

I will admit, wasn't expecting to hear Trombe! in one of these videos

I'm so glad you ended up showing the Lucas Gilbertson fandub of the "What am I fighting for" scene, cause he's my favorite voice of Zero from X8 and Command Mission

Wow a video about bad voice acting in video games and not one single mention of Jill Sandwich(tm)??? Unsubscribed, unliked, uncommented and unclicked on that bell, good sir! Also, hearing the Zero line acted seriously feels so wrong for some reason.

"You fucked up my face." -Hunt Down the Freeman

17:03 When the man in the van says that he has candy in the back:

19:04 Dr. Light sounds like Elmer Fudd lmao

Have to say, I'm surprised Metroid Other M wasn't listed. the english voice work in that game is bad. you flat out had a non-native speaker of english directing Samus's VA to sound as monotone and borderline robotic as possible. from what i understand that is a cultural thing in japan where you sound at peace but that does not translate over at all in english.

Chaos wars goes beyond typical bad voice acting and makes me wonder if they hired human beings.

years ago, he was chinese. not anymore though

Holy crap. The text to speech Terminalmontage used for There's Something About Typing of the Dead looks like an improvement compared to the original.

"Momma? I'm your momma?" ~Princess Peach Toadstool/Peach-Hime

This was how I learned his name is pronounced "Steve Bloom" I always thought it was pronounced Blum like Blumhouse/Jason Blum

I did want to mention you CAN get good voice acting performances out of professional athletes. The simpsons did it in one of the best episodes of the show

I'll get to catch the video as it goes up one of these times. Great job as usual! I had no idea what the third game was until you said it. I had no idea it was a Sega game!

I just found this channel and I love the transition to the outro. It reminds me of Chowder.. I love that show-

Thanks for not bringing up Xenoblade 2. The English delivery can be a bit stilted (due to the circumstances surrounding the dub) but overall I think it's solid. When games like Arc Rise Fantasia, Baten Kaitos, and Chaos Wars exist, I boggle that some people say that Xenoblade 2 has the worst English VA in a JRPG.

Petition to rename Knuckles to Puncho the Magnificent

Shenmue feels like a foreign action film,so bad voice over fits it like a ring

Shenmue: "A long time ago, I was Chinese."

Man that's an amazing reference to put Work Harder over the shenmue segment, just wanted to let you know someone out there got it!

I love every version of zero's what am I fight for line

Those basketball men sounded like they were literally cold-reading their lines off a page.

"You know what's coming next. But, you know what? Let's save that for last." Oh, Chaos Wars. Cool, can't wait for-- "So first, let's talk about Chaos Wars"

I'm surprised Bloody Roar 4 isn't here, but then again I'm not because no one even knows what Bloody Roar _is._ I blame Konami.

I just wanted to point out that Steve Blum also voiced starscream in Transformers prime frankly he should just voice every version of old screamer from now on as he did the best job at showing starscream as both a conniving schemer and cowardly loon

I apperciate that you played 'Work Harder' for the Shenmue section.

Lots of people like to hate on English voice acting, especially in anime, often saying it's not as good as Japanese. Sure some performances aren't great (such as ones in this video) but I feel these people are very quick to call out bad ENG VAs while ignoring bad JP (or really any bad foreign) VAs. Part of that can be due to being easier to pick up on off performances with languages you're more familiar with, other times it's due to placing foreign VAs on a pedestal to the point that one becomes convinced that performances in your native language are automatically bad. Obviously the reverse can happen too but that's less common I find. If you happen to prefer one language over another when it comes to voice acting fine, but if you're gonna criticize & call out bad ENG performances then it's only fair you do the same for foreign ones as well. Same with recognizing & praising both good ENG & foreign performances.

ten years in the audio booth.

Cant believe you missed the "Remember. There is no such thing as a second chance." From house of the dead 2 that was an Iconic Line I quote to this day

This is a really underrated channel

Ohhhh, so you were the guy who did Duel Links voiced videos! I subscribed to you from your first Punch Out infractions video XD

16:15 thank you ProtonJon for ingraining this into my brain

Hey, say what you will, I will stand on the hill saying that Ben Scwartz's performance as Sonic was magnificent. I love Roger's work, especially his performance in the Colors Ultimate shorts, but Scwartz stole the show in the movie.

6:25 I see what you did here with the music

Could you imagine if the 24th video covered punch out again? Every 8th video we get punch out

Man, the original dub for Yakuza was weird. Really did taint the series reputation, pretty much until zero. BUT, it did have Mark Hamill play Majima, so all is forgiven.

Use of Hard Work in the Shenmue segment? Good shit, Mr. McFumbles.

8:35 the high-pitched "you son of a bitch" 😂😂😂😂

Getting through this video without bringing up Resident Evil is probably the most impressive thing I've seen you do on this channel

If I ever need a voice actor, I'll keep you at the top of the list

15:43 vilgax was voiced by Yuri lowenthal in the reboot I think, he was only voiced by blum in the classic series.

now THIS is more what im into

"Years ago, I was Chinese" He still looks like one right now...

Shenmu did blessed us with that worker's moan while helping hauling hard cargo that became part of that amazing Lisa The Painful song.

Haven't seen the video yet but I really hope that once scene from dmc one is in here

0:16 fun fact about John Di Maggio, he is the voice actor of Marcus Fenix.

Ryo's contribution to Project X Zone 2 is a better continuation of the Shenmue plot than Shenmue 3.

Fantastic episode

11:53 the only acceptable follow up to a line delivery like that is an incredibly detailed strutting animation.

Sonic gamers: Knuckles is Jamaican. Sonic Comic readers: Knuckles is Australian. I heard Shenmue was voiced by American expats who had no experience in voice acting.

I paused in the middle of the Shenmue segment and bought Shenmue 1 and 2 on steam. This video fully convinced me

Docta wawy

Yu Suzuki basically pulled a Ken Penders when he maintained all of the rights to make sequels to every franchise he made.

6:10 what wise words

Goldman brings me so much joy

Low key, the Tester videos are my favorite.

10:12 Is that...Trombe I hear!?

I have one voice acting credit on IMDB because of a make a wish trip and I was not and have never been a good actor nor voice actor so I really don't go out of my way to advertise it o_o' I can really empathize with some voice actors in this, like the young family members that got roped into the project

Missed the OG Resident Evil which was notorious for bad voice acting and bad writing, 'Jill Sandwich' anyone?

I now know that jack has technically talked about danganronpa. I can only hope for more.

Honorable mention here: Gotcha Force, which was like a beta Custom Robo had the same mentality of the Sonic Adventure game that a child character should be voiced by a child. Sadly every character from that game is a kid and every voice sounded like it was read with the enthusiasm of 2nd graders reading off a textbook out loud in class.

I didn’t know that Japan found a tall gollum

Where's the infamous RE1 line of "you, the master of unlocking..."?

Since this is video 24, let's wait in anticipation for bumbles to suffer for possibly one last time with a show called The Gamers

My mom use to walk by me playing Sonic and she’d always say tails sounded like Charlie Brown.