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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.
Alan wake is damn good
Not an actor, but the early voice synthesis was amazing the first times hearing it:
I'm picking nits, but Impossible Mission didn't use voice synthesis (where a computer creates the voice sounds from scratch.) It was using really low-fi by modern standards (but amazing for the time) recordings of actual speech provided by an unknown actor.
From this interview with the programmer:
The speech in the game was real, digitized speech. The performances were provided by Electronic Speech Systems, who also provided the software for reproducing the speech on the Commodore 64. I told them what I wanted the game to say, and when they asked me what kind of voice I had in mind, I said I was imagining a fiftyish English guy, like a James Bond villain. I was told that they happened to have such a person on their staff, so, instead of hiring an actor, they let him take a whack at it, and I thought he was just fine. I never met the guy who provided the voice, but, to my knowledge, the recordings were not altered or processed, apart from being digitized. It is certainly possible, though, that Electronic Speech Systems could have tweaked them without my knowledge. There are no other digitized sounds in the game.
Gabriel Angelos from the original Dawn of War
Man that entire game had banger after banger in the units voice lines. Still in my head over 20 years later.
Same here. The Dark Eldar builder slaves, the chaos lord, the space marine voice lines coming through their vox grills. So peak
Pretty much every voice actor in Star Wars: The Old Republic is really great
All of the actors for Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 were fantastic, but certain things stick with you forever.
David Lodge as Grigori in dragon's dogma.
I don't even usually care about voice actors, but he did such a good job that I looked for him specifically in the credits and remember him to this day.
Every actor in 'Still Wakes the Deep'. I don't usually like that type of game - you don't really have a great deal of agency, you can't fight only run, there are sudden deaths in some sections - but the overall atmosphere, the design, and that perfect voice casting drew me in. I think it's still on Game Pass if you want to see and hear it for yourselves.
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
Every Character in it has stellar voice over, I can't think of anyone who's just average.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Has a great cast too. The voice behind Bastilar is also female Shepard. Her name is Jennifer Hale.
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.
Kreia from KOTOR 2 really gave an astonishingly good performance, as did Bao-dur in the game game.
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
I can't think of any game at the moment that was particularly notable across the board, but I can think of a few specific performances.
Kazuhiro Nakaya as Nishiki and later Ichiban in the Yakuza/Like a dragon series. He is fantastic at getting the character's personality across just in general scenes, and the emotional moments genuinely stick with me.
Rene Zagger as Emet Selch in FFXIV. That game has some fantastic performances but Emet Selch's is honestly one of my favorites. Every one of his lines is delivered perfectly. The arrogance theatrics that later tive way to genuine anger and sadness at what he's gone through. Along with more specifics I won't get into. 100%, A+ Performance.
Though, actually... Now that I think about it... The Persona 3 Reload dub is probably one of the best English dubs for a Japanese game in a looooong time. And generally they're pretty good these days. But that one nails it.
