RE4 vs. RE5: Voice-Acting

[BadWolfX]

I much prefer the voice acting in Five. Four didn't actually have bad voice acting, it's just the script that puts me off it.

[A-J]

RE5 by a land side.

YOUR RIGHT HAND COMES OFF ? REALLY LEON ? REALLY ?

[Weskers Flag]

"transforms about his "extreme makeover" was worse than anything in 4."

That's my 10 and 7 year old brothers' favorite line.
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Of course RE5 has better voice-acting. The newer things usually do. Not to say that RE4 had BAD voice-acting, it's just that RE5 had better.

[Vector]

Both games had pretty good voice acting, I think. The problem that people have with both games is with the dialogue, and sometimes the line delivery. I sometimes wonder what the recording sessions with Paul Mercier were like...and if when reading the script, he said "'You're small-time'? Really?" Or if he didn't really care because he was getting a paycheck in the end.

As for RE5, DC Douglas was absolutely fantastic as Wesker. His evil, calm, almost sarcastic tone that lasted until the end was outstanding. Try turning off the music during the first two boss fights with him, and listen to his voice as it echoes throughout the Monarch Room and Hangar. It's truly impressive.

Chris in RE5 was fantastic as well. It's a lot easier to take a main character and protagonist more seriously when his/her voice acting is so well done. Once again, he had some questionable lines, but that's not the voice actor's fault. I thought he did great. For what it's worth, I thought Nina Fehrens did a great job as Excella as well.

[hellrizer]

There's no contest. Resident Evil 5 was simply the best acted RE game to date. Resident Evil 4 was classic, schlocky horror dialogue and acting. I would have preferred if RE5 had been cheesy, but it simply wasn't.

thats what I was about to say!

[Beanovsky Durst]

That's not down to the voice acting, they were the lines he was given. If those are your issues then that's down to a bad script, not the voice acting.

I much prefer the voice acting in Five. Four didn't actually have bad voice acting, it's just the script that puts me off it.

QFT.

I think that both RE4 & RE5 had great voice actors, but 4 failed with the script. I remember the Leon - Salazar dialogue about a "script" and how Leon was an "extra" on it. Lame. Still the voices fitted perfectly the characters; Krauser was amazing though; Saddler was also amazing.

On RE5 the voice acting was nearly perfect. Sublime interpretation of Wesker by DC Douglas, Chris was amazing too. However I can understand it's a bit better than other RE games because of the big budget on it.

Another point that I don't think has been touched is the music. It was epic, fantastic pace. The best theme for me is the one of the airplane fight; fits perfectly the QTE. Amazing.

[TyrackT71]

both have very good vioce acting, but RE5 has better lines

[Stars1356]

Re 5 hands down. Re 4 had a shitty script and is up there with the original Re. I think all the VA did a good job with Wesker and Chris really shining. The extreme make over line was corny but I felt Irving said it jokingly as he was laughing like the crazy fool he was. It more or less fit his character where Leon's stupid one liners were just out of place.

[Jill's Boob]

RE5, without a doubt. While there are a few questionable snippets of dialogue (mostly coming from Sheva - her continual use of the word "yes," or the atrocious "there will be other opp-or-toon-i-teeeees") throughout the game, they are few and far between, whereas RE4 has the worst dialogue I've come across in a long time.

Anything Leon or Salazar says is pure comedic garbage. And Ashley is plain awful any time she opens her mouth. This doesn't just involve the script (which has characters bouncing bad dialogue back and forth like a volleyball game...bantering, if you will...) but the VA for Leon, Salazar, and Ashley as well. Leon's VA conveys unsympathetic smugness, Ashley's VA conveys pathetic ineptitude, and Salazar's VA conveys...well, something. Either way, all 3 characters are strictly one-dimensional; there's no depth to any of their performances. The VA for Luis is nothing to write home about either.

Krauser and Ada were fine, but otherwise the rest were easily scrubbed from my memory.

As I said, RE5 is tops. The only real debatable VAing is whether the generic comments from the Ganados or the Manjini are better.

[Sina]

Dave the jeep driver was awful, but other than him RE5 was top notch. Funny to note that it was Chris's motion capture actor who voiced him.

And it's hard to judge RE4's acting given I think they did a decent job with that horrendous dialogue. Ashley was just painful, though.

[Becky's Butt]

Re 5 hands down. Re 4 had a shitty script and is up there with the original Re.

Apologies but I hate gross exaggerations.. Nothing is worse than the original RE script. In fact RE4 had the best script save for RE5 and maybe the first Outbreak game.
If you want a bad script play Code Veronica. THere's a game on par with RE1.

But seriously the only RE game that comes close to RE1 in terms of overall badness was Survivor probably.

Goes:
Good
RE5
RE4
REmake
Zero
3: Nemesis
Code Veronica
2
Survivor
1
Bad

[Jill's Boob]

^So, anything that you don't agree with is a "gross exaggeration," while your tastes are much closer to fact?

Interesting.

[Becky's Butt]

No, my opinion is much closer to fact because it's logical.
There is simply no way RE4 comes close to the first Resident Evil in terms of a bad script.

[Jill's Boob]

Yet, are we speaking of a bad script, bad voice acting, bad execution of the script, or bad execution of the vice acting?

Because this thread seems like it wants to be about the VA, and yet you've altered your stance accordingly to emphasize that you like RE4 better.

You say that it is a gross exaggeration to compare RE4 to RE1, yet RE1 is essentially the exact same game as REmake, which you rank just below RE4. The script just happens to be executed better for REmake in 2002, than it was in 1996.

Yet you then suggest that it is not a gross exaggeration to say that RECVX is comparable to RE1 in "badness."

If we are merely looking at the "script" - the cheese factor of dialogue, and pisspoor narrative justifiably ranks RE4 near the bottom, especially considering that it came out in 2005, 9 years after RE1, when video games had just entered a new era of storytelling.

RE4 is widely regarded to have a very, very poor story (which comes from the "script") - even amongst RE4 fans. And it is a reason many resort to claiming the game is a parody, to try to salvage a modicum of credibility.

Face it, RE4 has a BAD script, from the story to the dialogue to the worst video game villain ever in Salazar. It's still an amazingly well done game, with fun gameplay and great graphics.

But to rank it above REmake, RE3, and RE2 is ridiculous. I'd even rank it below RECVX, which is executed poorly and has some questionable content.

[Alexia_Ashford]

No, my opinion is much closer to fact because it's logical.
There is simply no way RE4 comes close to the first Resident Evil in terms of a bad script.

I disagree. RE4 and RE1's script are actually quite similar. Badly executed, intentionally cheesy horror lines. It's difficult to take your points seriously when you label anyone else's opinion as "illogical" or a "gross exaggeration".