Is it because most big console games of the time were made by Japanese studios who only had access to like z-tier Canadian anime dub actors or the first three gaijins that walked past their offices?

Fallout 2 had fucking :warf-wtf: in it, not to mention numerous other examples of sci fi and horror convention regulars you'd see pop up in PC games of the era

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    It wasn't just a thing in the 90s, it kept happening in Japanese titles for a while afterwards, like in Deadly Premonition. The game is heavily inspired by Twin Peaks, and EVERYONE in it maddeningly keeps pronouncing the first name of the story's Laura Palmer equivalent, Anna Graham, as "Ah-nah". It's not the only bit of weirdly stilted acting in that game but the same odd pronounciation is so consistent it must have been some bizarre insistence on part of the devs.