Best voice acting in retro games?

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The natural counter to @Yousef's epic post.

What kind of retro games do you think had some really great acting at a time when this wasn't common at all? For me, the obvious candidate is the vastly underappreciated Strife.

Everyone in there did a superb job, and essentially carried the story, with particular memorable performances by the girl voicing Blackbird and the dude playing Masil (the Front's leader).

I really do recommend watching a playthrough of it just to grasp how great some of those performances were.

Here's the intro, though:


What about you? Can you think of any other great performances worth sharing?
 
I always thought the King's Quest games had excellent voice acting, particularly King's Quest 6. I really liked the performance of the character Saladin. The game has a really whimsical and romantic atmosphere throughout and much of the voice acting reflects this.

Timestamped link:
 
I genuinely and unironically think Star Fox 64's voice acting is great. People call it cheesy, but I see it as enhancing the sci-fi action movie vibe the game is going for.
YES!!!
I've always felt that it feels like a 70s sci-fi show, and those "A Fox In Space" cartoons just solidified that!
 
The guy in Impossible Mission in 1984 having an accent, blew my mind (yes I know it's not a real guy, let me have this)

Oh, also: I didn't hear it until years later and I don't know the method they used to fit it on the disk, but Barbie on Commodore 64 has like a voice clip and I'm not sure which other C64 games did this:
 

FFXII, in particular Balthier (couldn't find a good clip of him). Not sure if it counts as retro, but close enough.
Yeah, Gideon Emery is great.

I remember thinking Dark Chronicle/Dark Cloud 2 had a surprisingly good cast at the time for being a japanese action RPG. Particularly the character Flotsam, he had insane energy.
IIRC Mark Hamill voiced the villain?
 
Planescape Torment had a GOAT voice acting cast too.

The cast included:
Rob Paulsen - The voice of Yakko in Animaniacs
Dan Castanella - Voice of Homer Simpson
Jennifer Hale - Veteran voice actress of about a hundred games.
Keith David - Well known character actor and voice of Goliath in Disney's Gargoyles.
Tony Jay - of Legacy of Kain fame (RIP)
and others...
 
It's not super duper old, but Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. I don't feel like video game voice acting got better as a whole until the seventh generation consoles, so it was a good surprise. It's worth it for Fat Larry and Smiling Jack alone. Too bad it was the game that killed Troika, they had a lot going for them. :<

 
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure gave the world "Amazing Pirates" and "Amphibian Paradise." I love these songs.
"Don't you know you're old enough to be his moth-theer!"

The natural counter to @Yousef's epic post.

What kind of retro games do you think had some really great acting at a time when this wasn't common at all? For me, the obvious candidate is the vastly underappreciated Strife.

Everyone in there did a superb job, and essentially carried the story, with particular memorable performances by the girl voicing Blackbird and the dude playing Masil (the Front's leader).

I really do recommend watching a playthrough of it just to grasp how great some of those performances were.

Here's the intro, though:


What about you? Can you think of any other great performances worth sharing?

It's cheating but I want to post this!

 
Oh well... Someone already mentioned VTM Bloodlines, so will proceed to discuss life with a stop sign.
Apart for that I really liked, the voice acting from Looking glass studios games back in the late 90 early 2000. Titles like System Shock series and the Thief series.
 
Planescape Torment had a GOAT voice acting cast too.

The cast included:
Rob Paulsen - The voice of Yakko in Animaniacs
Dan Castanella - Voice of Homer Simpson
Jennifer Hale - Veteran voice actress of about a hundred games.
Keith David - Well known character actor and voice of Goliath in Disney's Gargoyles.
Tony Jay - of Legacy of Kain fame (RIP)
and others...
I'd say Tony Jay was better known as Megabyte on the show Reboot, but he still did a great job on Legacy of Kain. I just wish that game wasn't such a chore to play.
 

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