Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, for the original PlayStation. All these years later it’s still an amazing standout.
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Disco Elysium has the best voice acting that's ever enhanced my experience. Others might be objectively better but never have I been so immersed in a story
The only two I can think of that haven't been mentioned yet, but I feel must:
Disco Elysium
Skywind
The latter is unreleased, but pretty much all the voice acting is done and the work I've heard is impeccable.
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Whoever did the scientist's "ACK!" sound from Half Life 1.
I was very impressed by Cherami Leigh in Cyberpunk 2077. She sent shivers down my spine.
Of course there is Roger Craig Smith from AC II, but I also enjoyed Noah Watts (III) and Steven Piovesan (Rogue).
Dominic Armato (Guybrush Threepwood) is an all time favourite of mine.
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Kreia from KOTOR 2 really gave an astonishingly good performance, as did Bao-dur in the game game.
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.
Crusader: no remorse wasn't underrated, lol. It got the praise it deserved. What a fucking great game. The aesthetics at the time were just fucking A.
I played The Last Campfire recently. It's a small puzzle game and the only voice is the narrator, Rachel August. Maybe it's just her accent but I think her voice has a haunting otherworldly beauty that just makes the game.
I don't remember the actors names but here are characters and the games whose voice acting left an impression on me:
- Alistair and Morrigan from Dragon Age Origins
- Both leads from Firewatch
- Lee from Telltale's Walking Dead Season 1
- Most of the main characters from Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2
- The voices from Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice
- Astarion from Baldurs Gate 3 was head and shoulders above the rest, although the narrator was also very good
- Troy Baker knocked it out of the park as Indians Jones in the great circle
- All of the Uncharted games have fantastic voice acting. Nolan North was born to play Nathan Drake
- Similarly, the voice acting in The Last of Us is fantastic
- In the mass effect OT, special callout to Jennifer Hlae and Mark Meer (the latter especially grew into the role in the second and third game) and also to the actors who voices Garrus and Tali.
Stay a while and listen...
"Trust me."
Isaac Clarke in the first Dead Space
Vampire the masquerade: Bloodlines has amazing voice acting, it's god-tier. Check out the character Fat-Larry😉
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I've always loved the narrator of Darkest Dungeon, I just wish i didn't such at the game so bad.
I still quote some of the lines and wish I could have that dark intensity he delivered them with.
Iirc he passed away recently, too.
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I really appreciate Commander Shepard (whoever the male is) when you select renegade options only. The voice lets out stoic, brazen, unfiltered bullshit that somehow fits in with everything going on. It's like the serious version of Zapp Brannigan. I wouldn't be surprised if Seth Green (Joker) influenced it and how to deliver it.
Also, John Marsden in RDR1. If you're not American and know little about their Wild West era, that voice delivery is such a big layer of immersion, whereas other voice acting can really disconnect you from the experience. It being the voice of you helps with feeling like a part of the world. Like compare that to the cowboy from Octopath 🤢
I also really enjoyed a lot of the voices from KCD2. Rosa and Hans are excellent.
Half Life : Alyx. Everyone is great but I especially enjoyed Rhys Darby as the guy in your headset. Tony Todd as the Vortigaunts was also really good.
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Homeworld - Few lines. All brilliant. " Detecting no communication from anywhere in the system, not even beacons." - "We are being overwhelmed!"
Ixion - So many lines that would make no sense if they weren't being delivered with conviction and sincerity.
The semi-emotionless, or at least restrained emotional delivery of the lines always hit me really hard. They never screamed, never cried, but the matter of fact way they said Kharak was burning, and how you needed to hunt down the perpetrators… it was chilling. The emotion was somehow bleached out of the voices, yet so, so, so powerfully deep and present nonetheless… I don’t know how they managed it, but it was incredible.
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It's gotta be the Obra Dinn for me, the vocals are such a huge part of the story and dine really well.
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While Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is a bit of a mixed bag overall, Melissanthi Mahut as Kassandra will always be one of my favorites. Also Courtenay Taylor as female player character in Fallout 4, and Ashley Burch as Pavarti in Outer Worlds.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The voice actors really hit it out of the park with this one. But this scene in particular:
The writing matters just as much, but the entire intro sequence not falling flat is some truly skilled work nailing the awkward reunion of two ex lovers.
Such a good scene. This is my vote too.