What is your favorite video game voice acting performance?

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My roommate is a voice actress, which is insanely cool because it’s a world I know nothing about. Now I’m surrounded by it all the time, and she gives me all kinds of cool insight into the auditioning, recording, and editing processes. I have a whole new appreciation, because it’s an art form of its own, and it takes a ton of practice and dedication that I didn’t know about besides already having a nice voice to begin with. Plus, it’s fun to have someone around the house who can do a bunch of silly voices. I think so much more about voice acting now than I used to, and I’ve been noticing more conversations online about it, too.

For example, any time I see casting announcements for some new movie, it seems like it’s always some A-list actor who is most likely there for the paycheck. In all fairness, a great actor is a great actor, and it’s not like they couldn’t do a great job when they really care to put their heart and soul into it. The thing that bothers me about it, though, is that a top-of-their-game voice actor knows how to transform a character into something truly extraordinary when they’re behind the mic, and you can tell the difference when an actor has command over a voice role versus when they don’t.

Let’s consider one of the all-time-greats, Nolan North. He’s arguably one of the most famous voice actors in games, and he’s best known for his role as Nathan Drake in Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series. He’s been in the industry since 1997 after starting on TV, and moved to voice acting in 2003. He has dozens of credits in games alone, and has also worked in animation, film, and audiobooks. Why does North keep getting all this work? Because he’s insanely freaking talented, not just in his acting abilities, but in how