Does it disappoint you to recognize a voice actor?

[Witticus]

All this discussion and nobody has mentioned Elder Scrolls Oblivion.

[HeyRiles]

I forgot to mention one of the doctors in Scrubs, who is a VA for his own character model in LA Noire

The performances themselves aren't half-bad, but I can't stop myself from saying "Oh, that's the same guy who voiced Malik in AC1," or "What's Cesare Borgia doing in Syria? I thought I killed him already."

Gets upset when hearing the same VA across different games

That guy gets a lot of flack for being the same in "every game," but yeah, check out his body of work. [...] He's a talented voice actor.

Praises a guy that sounds the same in a lot of things he performs in

I am violently failing to comprehend this

[SheSaidSheSaid]

All this discussion and nobody has mentioned Elder Scrolls Oblivion.

That one's always gonna elude my grasp I think =( I keep thinking "I'll get it when I have enough $" but then something always comes up.

[rkbdgurl]

I'm not a gamer, so I don't know too much about them, but I have to say that I get bored with some of the generic "Disney" princess voices. I think it's like a discount contract thing they do to sign them for multiple films. Especially the singers.

On the other hand, I don't mind when they use celebs voices, as their animated characters usually look like them, and it's fun to guess who they actually are.

[BohemianMatt]

All this discussion and nobody has mentioned Elder Scrolls Oblivion.

Never played Oblivion, but Skyrim falls prey to this more than any other game I've ever played. Not only do they reuse voice actors all the time, but certain VAs seem to be assigned to certain races, so it actually gets a bit predictable.

In the AC series, I've only noticed it once or twice, but you have to give them credit, if you watch the credits in any of the games, you'll see that they have entirely different VA casts for English, Spanish, Italian, French, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian, and a few others.

[bclewis]

Caller ID should help with that.

I guess it might if I had it ... :/
My fanciest feature is "redial".

[LiveHomeVideo]

I swear, the guy who does the voice for Top Cat in the English dub for the recent Mexican movie sounds exactly like Brock's Dub. But it isn't so it's just one of those head-scratching moments I have.

[darkwinterbeast8]

In The Venture Bros, aside from the main cast and most females, every voice is the two creators of the show. It's really noticeable with Doc Hammer. Every voice sounds like a variation of 21.

It doesn't bother me. I actually think it's funny. In the commentary on one of the episodes they mention how it's hard for them to get voice actors so they end up just doing it themselves.

When thinking of Venture Bros., the episode where they got Kevin Conroy to voice Captain Sunshine sticks out. The fact that he sounded like Batman when doing this role made that episode even better.

[Witticus]

Never played Oblivion, but Skyrim falls prey to this more than any other game I've ever played. Not only do they reuse voice actors all the time, but certain VAs seem to be assigned to certain races, so it actually gets a bit predictable.

Skyrim fixes the problem with more diversity and better voice actors, but Oblivion was littered with maybe 5 people doing hundreds of characters.

[BohemianMatt]

Skyrim fixes the problem with more diversity and better voice actors, but Oblivion was littered with maybe 5 people doing hundreds of characters.

As far as I'm concerned, Bethesda should grab the audio teams of Rockstar or Ubisoft for VAs for their next RPG. They do a ridiculous job of making unique character and NPC dialogue.