Hi, everyone! My question might sound weird at first but I'd like to ask French speaking people - what games in their opinion have really good French localization (French voice acting)?

The reason I'm asking this is that we learn something much easier and faster if we entertain ourselves at the same time. English is not my native language but I play all the games and watch all the TV shows in English to keep my language skills at a decent level, so why not do something like that with French

My French level is around intermediate (well probably worse since I haven't practiced for a long time); I like point&click adventures like Deponia and Broken Sword (currently playing the second game in the series), fps rpgs like Deus EX Human Revolution or story rich fps like Bioshock games, but all the suggestions are welcome

Thanks in advance for your help!
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The old Tomb Raider games (Laurence Cadol is Lara's voice, better than any voice in english versions in my opinion)

The Assassin's Creed series (decent voice acting)

The Batman Arkham games (decent voice acting for secondary characters, awful Batman voice actor)

American McGee's Alice (excellent renowned voice actors)

The Legacy of Kain series (excellent renowned voice actors, AMAZING french version)

edit : Sam & Max Hit the Road had great voice acting too.

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Thanks for the info! I'll check them out

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Seconding Legacy of Kain, most of french voice acting is terrible but in these games it's excellent.

9 years ago
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Tortellini

uh, wait? French...

then omelette

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oui oui baguette

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That's a fair point.

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Omelette du fromage?

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C'est fait exprès pour se moquer du français, tu comprendra à force de voir cette fausse traduction ;)

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Yay, someone got my reference :D.

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Since I can't help you with your question, at least have another bump :)
And thanks for the giveaway :D

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I think you should try to go to a french forum (and practice your writing skills) since they mostly don't really bother using english at all (except for IT/business/academics).

Although, maybe it would be even better to just watch french cinema non stop for a couple of months :)
Other useful options would be any books in french, switching the language of your phone/Windows, googling and reading Wikipedia articles like a local would do.
I did that for two years in english, and didn't really think about it until I realized I was able to speak and write 'properly'.

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Thx for suggestion!

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I'd say most Ubisoft games.. They're a French company so they have good French voice-acting.

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bump

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black and white 1(maybe the 2 too ) and mdk2, probably one of the best one, and you can have it on steam

9 years ago
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French Canadian or French France?? But yes, Bogg is right about Ubisoft games, their office is in Montreal,QC !

9 years ago
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Don't know if you know but Montreal is mostly english (the city, not the island )

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Yeah but the Devs are french ;-) ! Montreal is about 50/50 !

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more 75-25 actually lol

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You should know that Ubisoft have offices all over .. not only in Montreal, even though they're one of the studios producing most of the big shot titles. The Head Office is in France

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The Witcher 3. The quality of the French localization is so fucking good, a lot of voice actor are well know actors and the subtitles are perfect (if you also want them).
Otherwise, a lot (if not all) of Ubisoft games have really good French version (I would even say superior to the EN version but my opinion is a bit biased here, I guess).

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The Witcher 2's localization is also pretty decent, to me, although not perfect.

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bioshock in french is awesome. now I want to say that each game I play in french is good and understandable. If you want to watch some funny videos about games I advice you fantabob show and joueur du grenier, they make good videos with a clear voice ^^

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Portal 2 and Borderlands 2 in French are awesome, especialy Handsome Jack voiced by Christophe Lemoine, The French Voice of Cartman!

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Depending on your proficiency level, some kids games like Freddi Fish or Pajama Sam might be a good starting point. Like with kid's TV shows, they usually take the time to enunciate the words clearly.

I can't help you very much with other games, because even though I'm french speaking, I play 99% of my games in English anyway. (I'd rather play the original version, as it was designed.) The only exception is Sang-Froid because it's made right here in Québec and doesn't sound like the dubbing done in France.

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Half Life 2 series for instance, Shadow Man probably and Clive Barkers Jericho (I mean it was tolerable),
however Harry Potter games on pc had an awful french voice acting IMHO
its a shame that the first deux ex never got any french voicedub version to my knowledge

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Broken Sword serie in french.

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Portal has a good voice acting. And I heard that bioshock does too. =)

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As someone said, an Ubi game, and i'll be more specific saying that one:

Beyond Good & Evil

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Alan Wake ! Best voice acting ever !

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well my french was acquired from gaming and cartoon and movies

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I'm french but rarely play games in french. but here have a bump

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Max payne 1 & 2 ! ( I'm french )

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Shameless bump + added another GA
Merci pour vos conseils

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Another bump

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