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Title: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Deepblue on November 11, 2005, 12:01:49 pm
Nominate your favorites...

I have several...

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/elites/elite_21_123104.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/elites/elite16_20050303.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/grunts/grunt6_20050707.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/grunts/grunt19_20050707.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/johnson/johnson6_20050207.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/johnson/johnson3_20050207.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/johnson/johnson3_20050624.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/jones/jones1_20050910.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/jones/jones_letter.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/marines/marine11_20050910.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/marines/marine10_20051020.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/marines_female/femalemarine4_20050715.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/stacker/stacker8_20050518.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/stacker/stacker_36_011005.mp3

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/stacker/stacker_12_011005.mp3

Damn, that's good stuff.

Anyone know if any other games have a comprehensive dialogue databank?
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: pyro-manic on November 11, 2005, 01:23:49 pm
Are they all halo lines?

The Monkey Islands get it hands-down for me. :yes: Honourable mention for NOLF and NOLF2, as well as a few others.

Also have to mention Giants: Citizen Kabuto for Baz's immortal words when he gets stranded on the island at the start of the game...
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Nix on November 11, 2005, 01:34:56 pm
First thing that comes to mind are the chilling audio logs of System Shock 2 (for the first time you hear them that is, though, the first log that diego records after he starts to change...  that always makes me shiver..)  Tron 2.0, NOLF, even FEAR has some well-done voice acting.  Monolith's audio dept has been stellar, though thier sound subsystem in thier engines sucks big time.  The other game(s) though that I think had some great in-game dialogue in it would be the Max Payne series. 
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: kode on November 11, 2005, 01:37:02 pm
"We have to save the USA. USA is in good hands."
-Aero Fighters 2
( http://zanyvg.overclocked.org/aerofighters2/ )
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Mongoose on November 11, 2005, 03:27:50 pm
A line from Tomba 2 for PS1:  "My precious pot!  I love it so much!" :p
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: CP5670 on November 11, 2005, 03:49:53 pm
Monkey Island 2 and Deus Ex had some great convos. The voice acting in Deus Ex was really hit or miss though.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Night Hammer on November 11, 2005, 03:59:56 pm
I like the stuff from the Ratchet and Clank games :p
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: pyro-manic on November 11, 2005, 04:02:04 pm
I actually quite like the dialogue from Dawn of War as well. It's completely overblown, but it's very entertaining...
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Charismatic on November 11, 2005, 04:08:58 pm
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wtf?
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Nix on November 11, 2005, 04:12:21 pm
Quote from: CP5670 on November 11, 2005, 03:49:53 pm
The voice acting in Deus Ex was really hit or miss though.

Especially when you visit Hong Kong, with the asian/texan accents!
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 11, 2005, 04:13:49 pm
The first two Homeworld games had plenty of good lines.

Spoiler:
"No one's left. Everything's gone. Kharak is burning!"
"Kharak is being consumed by a firestorm. The Scaffold has been destroyed. All orbital facilities destroyed. Significant debris ring in low Kharak orbit. Receiving no communication from anywhere in the system. Not even beacons."

"From the interrogation we learned that a frontier fleet patrolling the borders of a vast interstellar empire was dispatched to destroy our planet. The captain claimed our people violated a 4000 year-old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: karajorma on November 11, 2005, 04:15:33 pm
Pretty much any comment by Patton or Ransom in Hostile Waters :)
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: pyro-manic on November 11, 2005, 04:16:04 pm
In concert with the excellent music as well - hard to top... :nod:
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Jal-18 on November 11, 2005, 04:26:41 pm
Homeworld:
--It is time to hunt the enemy as they have hunted us
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: CP5670 on November 11, 2005, 04:27:40 pm
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Especially when you visit Hong Kong, with the asian/texan accents!

I loved the guards in Tong's lab. Those sounded like they were voiced by programmers clamping their noses while talking. :D

Some others were great though. Here are a few copied out of the conversation files:

"Whoa-whoa-whoa. Easy 'bro. You don't gotta kill no one."
"Yeah? Who says?"
"Whachu want? I got this LAM. You can HAVE it, man. The Rooks, we're businessmen. We can have a business relationship."
"Just give me the LAM, punk."
"Sure 'bro. Yeah. Take it."
"Some gangbanger. Maybe you should think about going back to school."

"How are the drinks here?"
"Great if you like rat piss."
"Never tried it."

"You just don't give up, do you?"
"What's the matter?"
"Agent Denton is the guy I met in the bathroom."
"Oh...oh...I see."

:D
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: phreak on November 11, 2005, 04:40:42 pm
http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/

:nervous:
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 11, 2005, 04:41:54 pm
*beats Phreak*
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: WMCoolmon on November 11, 2005, 04:54:57 pm
Quote from: Charismatic on November 11, 2005, 04:08:58 pm
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wtf?

I get that for all of them.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Janos on November 11, 2005, 04:59:15 pm
well Doom and Doom 2 had nice minimalistic yet effective undertones
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Deepblue on November 11, 2005, 05:15:57 pm
Quote from: WMCoolmon on November 11, 2005, 04:54:57 pm
Quote from: Charismatic on November 11, 2005, 04:08:58 pm
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wtf?

I get that for all of them.

Damnit. I geuss I can't link them directly.

Copy and paste the links into your adress bar and it works.

Or you can go to http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/dialogue/

My favorite has to be:

Quote
Dear Humanity: We regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret the corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet! Hoorah! [Scripted Outskirts Dialogue]
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Unknown Target on November 11, 2005, 05:20:07 pm
Doom 3 had great PDA voice acting...and of course, Freespace 2!
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 11, 2005, 05:20:31 pm
I just right-click and hit "Save Target As". Works fine for all of them.

As for another game, Starcraft is full of quotable dialogue. Mostly Raynor and Kerrigan, but some other good lines from other characters as well.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: redsniper on November 11, 2005, 06:10:09 pm
:wtf: No one's mentioned Metal Gear Solid yet? Sure there may be some sucky voices *cough*Raiden*cough* but they're far outweighed by all the awesome lines from folks like Liquid Snake, The Boss, and Ocelot just to name a few. "You want eternal rest? I got it right here." :D
EDIT: come to think of it, Beyond Good & Evil has excellent voice acting as well. It's a shame no one's played it though...
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Sandwich on November 11, 2005, 06:15:23 pm
Quote from: karajorma on November 11, 2005, 04:15:33 pm
Pretty much any comment by Patton or Ransom in Hostile Waters :)

Hell yeah!

And I'm glad SOMEone mentioned AYB... :p

How about "Dive! Dive! Dive! Hir your burners, pilot!"?
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Flipside on November 11, 2005, 07:13:46 pm
Patton : I came, I saw, I blew your lungs out past your backbone....look grateful.

Homeworld Cataclysm : Behold! The Mighty Bentusi! There you are, killing our people because we dare to stand in your way! You're worse than the Beast, at least the Beast doesn't pretend to be righteous!
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: NGTM-1R on November 11, 2005, 07:33:42 pm
"DIVE DIVE DIVE HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!"

It had to be done. You know it did.

Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: karajorma on November 12, 2005, 02:30:27 am
Quote from: Flipside on November 11, 2005, 07:13:46 pm
Patton : I came, I saw, I blew your lungs out past your backbone....look grateful.

That one is Ransoms. Pattons best is "I drive tanks, boy!" whenever you put him in anything that isn't one :)
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Turnsky on November 12, 2005, 02:55:06 am
"it wants feet"  - Oni
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Prophet on November 12, 2005, 03:36:19 am
MDK2: "Must grease pelvis, friction is distracting."  - The four armed dog droid thing I forgot its name.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: CP5670 on November 12, 2005, 03:37:52 am
haha, I remember that. The dog was Max.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Setekh on November 12, 2005, 03:42:52 am
Oh, MDK2! I never finished the boss from that game... :nervous:
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: pyro-manic on November 12, 2005, 04:46:54 am
Quote from: Turnsky on November 12, 2005, 02:55:06 am
"it wants feet" - Oni

HMMMM!!!

I must dig that out ad play it again one day...
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: phatosealpha on November 12, 2005, 05:36:05 am
If we're talking actual voice over files, I'll second System Shock 2's "glory" audiolog.  That thing is just creepy.

After that, half of Jolee Bindo or HK-47's lines from Kotor were a hoot.

If we're counting just written dialogue, I've got to nominate pretty much the entirity of planescape:torment.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Flipside on November 12, 2005, 11:05:14 am
Quote from: karajorma on November 12, 2005, 02:30:27 am
Quote from: Flipside on November 11, 2005, 07:13:46 pm
Patton : I came, I saw, I blew your lungs out past your backbone....look grateful.

That one is Ransoms. Pattons best is "I drive tanks, boy!" whenever you put him in anything that isn't one :)

Your right, the Ransom equivalent of that was 'I'm an Aviator, Ay Vee Ay Tor!' If you put him in a ground vehicle ;)
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: karajorma on November 12, 2005, 12:17:14 pm
I quite liked Elroy, the no nonsense black dude but you get him so late that he doesn't make much of an impression.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: pyro-manic on November 12, 2005, 01:57:12 pm
I really need to find a copy of that game...
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Grey Wolf on November 12, 2005, 02:11:41 pm
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/HK-47
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Admiral LSD on November 13, 2005, 11:56:43 pm
"Max, you're in a graphic novel!"

"You're in a computer game Max!"

:p

The "Address Unknown" and "Dick Justice" TV shows are pretty cool too.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Nix on November 15, 2005, 01:36:16 am
"You left me there for a year! That was messed up!"
"Ya wanna see my batteries?" - Pal 18
"Not Brebulan, I hate Brebulan...." -Boots
My god,  Anachronox as a whole was hilarious.  Very well done too. 

Now for one that isn't so great...
The bar with the "australian" bartender in the Lucky Money club, in Deus Ex..
The line: "Rhetoric, and you believe it?"  sounded like "Rheeetik - n yuuh belEEEIT?"

Now for the oddball one...
Anything Peter Stormare says in Quake 4.  He's cool as hell in Prison Break, but in Quake 4, my god, nothing really flows well when he speaks!  I do believe he's Swedish though.  I find it halfway hilarious when he's begging for more backup though. 
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: ZylonBane on November 15, 2005, 09:15:43 am
Thief-- Any line by Garrett. Or Benny.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Gortef on November 17, 2005, 10:58:36 am
Grim Fandango has great lines too... actually any Lucas Arts adventure game has good lines.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: General Freak on November 17, 2005, 02:33:53 pm
Manny Calavera:
You can't hide from the Grim Reaper. Especially when he's got a gun
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Roanoke on November 17, 2005, 03:49:23 pm
Planescape: Torment has some good stuff.

Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: ToecrusherHammerjaw on November 17, 2005, 04:03:03 pm
All your base are belong to us!!

Hey, it counts.........doesn't it? :nervous:
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Mr. Vega on November 17, 2005, 04:15:51 pm
Quote from: ZylonBane on November 15, 2005, 09:15:43 am
Thief-- Any line by Garrett. Or Benny.

"I don't expect to run into anything more threatening other than a few venomous spiders.....however the map does contain this note: 'Stand not against us, lest you feel the stings of ignorances barbs'.....sounds like keeper talk for 'We've rigged the place!'"
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: Fineus on November 17, 2005, 04:37:44 pm
Duke Nukem. Half Life. Black and White.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: ZylonBane on November 18, 2005, 01:11:27 pm
All of Duke Nukem's best lines are stolen from other sources.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: ZmaN on November 18, 2005, 01:18:15 pm
I think Homesick had some GREAT voice acting (the first few missions, when everyone is ranting eachother to death, and alpha 3 is complaining because he wants beta 4's seth fighter. it made me lauch so hard).....

Other than that, I'd have to say Tribes has some funny lines:

Daniel:  and your a Spoiled Brat!
Julia:  If thats what it means to be a Pheonix, then COUNT ME OUT!

Also, Doyle in Far Cry:  You seem to have  an act for blowing things up, Jack...
Sam Fisher has ALOTTA lines that I like.....

I cant remember anymore....

Ill post more as I remember...

Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: ZylonBane on November 18, 2005, 02:44:37 pm
Quote from: ZmaN on November 18, 2005, 01:18:15 pm
Also, Doyle in Far Cry: You seem to have an act for blowing things up, Jack...
"A knack", genius.
Title: Re: Best in-game dialogue...
Post by: CaptJosh on November 18, 2005, 03:49:13 pm
"I'm a doctor, not a target!" --Leonard "Bones" McCoy" in Star Trek: Judgement Rites when you try to use a phaser on him sometimes.