It's not his voice. It's what he says and how he says it.

Seems I'll be the first to give my appreciation to Laura Bailey. Shame that she wasn't brought up sooner. Yes she's in just about everything under the sun these days but it's with good reason. She's one of the most versatile voice actors of current times right now. She did play a handful of characters in NV but my affections for her mostly extend towards Dead Money with the split role of Vera\Christine. Now you can call me biased if you want because I'd basically lump everyone that worked on DM up there in my favorites, but even something so simple as comparing the two radio messages that open and close the add-on, the different feelings that come with each just really show off how excellently she can shift moods and make it feel so heartfelt.

Now that being said, while Veronica Belmont didn't have a ton of lines as Christine's original voice, I did stack her up against Laura and while it wasn't bad per se, I didn't feel the same amount of conviction that Laura's acting gave off on the topic of the Brotherhood in the few lines she also did have on the subject.

I technically loved all of the voice work in the add-on but the last thing I'll say on DM regarding its voice work: The ending slides? Yup, can't even see the last lines written out without tearing up a bit.

Other characters I enjoyed were:

House: The actor really was picked perfectly. House has such a way of being both stern and attempting to appease even if it is in a sarcastic manner. There's something pretty special about feeling a voice booming out of speakers while you merely stare at an image on the big screen. Rather commanding if I do say so myself.

Boone: It's funny to me. He's not a character with a lot of dialogue but once you start unlocking his personal quest, during and especially afterwards, I find myself very fond of his acting. You can tell how truly thankful he is that you help to put his demons to rest all by the tone of his voice instead of a five hour speech.

Cass: She's more or less the flip side of Boone, having a lot of dialogue but her actor pulls it all off so well. Taking Cass around will get you such a nice variety of emotions from sarcastic, downtrodden, creeped out to goofy, serious and thoughtful. Like others have said she feels like a real person and the wonderful voice acting really helped that out.


Probably the VA that surprised me the most was Caesar. I was expecting something a bit... different than what we got. It's not bad per se but as soon as he opened his mouth I thought "Well that's certainly not what I was expecting..." I'm kind of thinking that was the intent though, and if so then well played.

I was pretty happy with Ulysses. In fact, I'll even go as far as saying he made up for the lame-ass that is Joshua Graham. Sorry but barring a few good lines from him the most is poorly delivered drivel. Sounded like a over-the-top villain from some day time action oriented cartoon.

Edit: Honorable mention to Vulpes. Probably one of the best voiced characters in the game. Caesar... was a massive disappointment. I realize the excessive cursing is probably realistic or whatever, but a guy like should Caesar speak a bit more eloquently. Actually, the actor that voiced him could've taken a few pointers from Vulpes, who's delivery added to the atmosphere immensely.

Understandable, but could you name the role she was cast for? Just curious.

Aside from the VA's already mentioned which are great by the way, I think one of my all-time favorite FONV characters is Dog/God voiced by Dave B. Mitchell. It's hard to believe that both "voices" were coming from the same actor, and he did such a good job of it that it felt like Dog and God were two separate and distinct characters even though they were "housed" in the same body and voiced by the same actor. Outstanding work.

I also think Doc Mitchell, voiced by Michael Hogan deserves an honorable mention. Although he had a relatively small role in the grand scheme of FONV, Doc was basically the first character you interacted with after the opening scenes and sort of set the stage for the rest of the game. And of course it didn't hurt that he was actor as Col. "Frakkin" Tigh from Battlestar Galactica!

That would be the same thing.

She was cast as one of our generic female voices. Some of those stayed in the game, most were either never recorded, or assigned to a different actress.

Frak me, totally forgot about Michael Hogan. Soon as I heard his voice it took me all of three seconds to determine where I knew it from. I was at that point pretty sure the game would be epic, if only because Saul Tigh had a minor presence.

As soon as I realized Doc Mitchell was Michael Hogan, I half-expected him to start svcking on a whiskey bottle and go off on a tirade about Cylons.

I was just watching DS9 and when reading this thread about Rene Auberjonois just occured to me he was playing House like chracter for 7 years, no wonder he was perfect for House and now im wondering why I dident notice this earlier when watching it and playing NV at the same time

We've got lots of DS9 actors in New Vegas. This is not a coincidence.

(It's my favorite television show of all-time)

What about Mcgyver?
Or spongebob?

TOS was good, TNG was better and DS9 was the best! The rest (VOY and ENT) had their moments but were marginal overall. I do think BSG was the best Sci-Fi series to come out since DS9 though!

Bingo. He's by far the worst one in the game.

I think most people associate Rene Auberjonois with his character on DS9, but to me he's Clayton Endicott from ABC's "Benson."

God, I'm old. :/

It did have a couple of the best writers from DS9 to be fair

And DS9 was the best of the treks,

TOS was fun, so cheesey and over the top was great
TNG was great once the Borg came in to it and Q was always great speaking of which Jason if you are reading this please if your the producer of another fallout game get Q in to do a voice please, just think of the awesomeness!!!
Voyager did have its good moments and some chracters stood out well but it runined the borg badly
Enterprise was a good concept but very poorly done and shows they were running of ideas

and im liking the new movie series though I am waiting for an good star trek RTS

Favorite - House, Ulysses, Arcade Gannon, Joshua Graham, Doc Mitch, Dr. Mobius, Securitron, Veronica, Marcus, No-Bark, Boone, Raul, Tabitha, Benny, Narrator guy, Elijah, Ferrell Ghoul.

The first two seasons of it, anyway. From the moment the Cylon collaborators on New Caprica suddenly went from wearing nazi/East German uniforms to US desert BDUs I knew the network bigs had put thier foot down and demanded Moore PC the show up. And it went straight downhill to the last season, which was so awful it still makes me angry to think about it.




More what he said. The sheer amount of sanctimony and the assumptions he was making to build a strawman he could blame everything on ticked me off mightily. I found it hard to spare him in the end because I was fed up with his Brahmin poo.

I can appreciate you not liking Ulysses as a character, but isn't this topic meant to be about the performances of the voice-actors?

im very thankful forthis thread bc i didnt knw any of those people were in this game and now everythign is clicking in place. i boughtmy game off steam and didnt knowif they had a section/readme of the actors and who they voiced?

Not gonna lie, the Collector's Edition apparently came with a "Making Of Fallout New Vegas" CD, and though I doubt it's up there LEGALLY, I happened upon bits of it on Youtube. Think my favorite part is that Caesar's voice actor (John Doman) is just as balding as him. Also seems like a take-no-[censored] kind of guy himself.

It actually looks pretty interesting. Wish I'd bought the Collector's edition for it. First time for everything: usually I see Collector's editions as a sort of rip-off and I don't understand why you'd wanna support a product even MORE before you even know if it's good or not, but now I wish I'd gotten the Collector's Edition.

I agree completely Longknife.

Swanick and Antony are 'gems'? MUST. RESIST. PUNCH URGES.

I do agree though about Victor, some people called him creepy, but I found him to be spot on for this friendly cowboy. Also, I love watching Renee preform on the various shows I've seen him on, admittedly I've never watched DS9 though. Is he the quiet but kind person he seems like in the interviews you see him in? Also, since I'm a House fan boy, what were recording sessions with him like?

Rene is a total professional. And he's a very nice guy. Very personable.

He's just a brilliant actor with an incredible voice. We were lucky to get him.

Boone, Lanius, and Joshua Graham.

WORST: Sunny [censored] Smiles

Rene Auberjonois is the best in FNV hands down. Runner up is Micheal Dorn.