You’ve probably never heard of Deep Fear. A late release for Sega’s ill-fated Saturn console, the game was the company’s own answer to Capcom's hit series Resident Evil, relocating that series’ blend of tank controls, prerendered backgrounds, and horrid voice acting to a submarine menaced by terrifying alien creatures. It only hit shelves in Japan and Europe, never making it to the US.
Deep Fear, however, had something Resident Evil did not: homosexuality. Well, a homosexual, in the form of supporting character Dubois Amalric, the vessel’s effete designer. Supposedly French, Dubois actually sounds more like a Monty Python-in-drag/Mrs. Featherbottom type - when his actor can be bothered to maintain a “gay” voice at all, anyway...
Well, for 1998, it was certainly... something.
Below, Dubois' introduction (at the 45-second mark).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pek-1QosmPc&t=0m45s
Immortal dialogue (8:45 in): “It’s hahling at the top of its lungs!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3yHUMC6dCk&t=8m45s
Dubois aside, the game is full of some of the most hilariously awful voice acting I've ever heard (in a medium where terrible voice acting is abundant.) For more gems, check out Audio Atrocities' page for the game.
