History Main / VoiceGrunting

** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' largely follows the same format as ''Oblivion'', though adds [[LanguageOfMagic Dragon]] [[MakeMeWannaShout Shouts]] to spoken dialogue for the player character. There are only two versions, however, regardless of race - a male voice and a female voice.

* The first two ''VideoGame/StarFox'' games utilized this for the Arwing pilots, though there were a few actual voice clips here and there (most notably at the beginning of the game). Every game from ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' onward has been fully voice-acted.

Compare SpeakingSimlish, when Voice Grunting is turned into a ''language''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'', every character (barring The Batter) has a little voice clip that occurs every time they start to speak. The Judge purrs, the Elsen make a labored inhale, Zacharie laughs [[spoiler:and later meows when he's disguised as the Judge]], Dedan has a screechy growl, Japhet chirps, Enoch makes a loud booming noise, [[spoiler:The Queen softly whispers (actually a reversed soundbyte of someone speaking), Hugo has a child's coughing and Sucre giggles]].

* ''Earthbound'':
** ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' uses bleeps with different pitches to indicate the voice of the current speaker.
** Also, in its predecessor, ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', when you name the characters, the confirmation noise is a clip of creator Creator/ShigesatoItoi saying "Okay desu ka?" ("Is it okay?")

** There's one line in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' where we hear Peach yell "Oh no!", over a text box reading the same. Mario himself has, as usual, a few lines like this, particularly with "Oh yes" and "M'hm".

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* In ''VideoGame/DontStarve'', every character is voiced by a musical instrument. For example, Willow is voiced by a flute, [[MightyGlacier Wolfgang]] is voiced by a trombone, and WX-78 sounds like a synthesizer.

* Every cutscene in the ''VideoGame/{{WarioWare}}'' series with the exception of ''Gold'', which uses full voice acting.

* Most ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' games since ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'' have characters who make a noise when talked to.

* In every 3D ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' game since ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', all characters of importance (and some lesser ones) will do this, be it a laugh, grunt or a single word (Why Ahello there, Navi). The only pre-''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' exceptions are [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Midna]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Fi]], who have full lines of [[SpeakingSimlish gibberish]] that are picked at random each time the line is said.

* Featured in handheld ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance'', ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow'' and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin''.

** ''VideoGame/NiNoKuniCrossWorlds'' has this of the "voice clips" type, though a bit more fleshed out than most examples. While the game has voice acting, you tend to hear rather less out loud than what's displayed on-screen. For example, the text box that appears may read "Hmm... We do issue badges to those who complete enough errands, but I'm apprehensive about giving work to outsiders...", but all that will be voiced out loud is "I'm apprehensive about giving work to outsiders." Extremely important story scenes tend to have full voice-acting, while some of the most minor quests will often have more typical grunting, with only a said word said, or just a vocalization of surprise, etc.

** They start playing around with it more in ''Spirit of Justice''. During the first trial, a character ''[[CourtroomAntics sings]]'' his testimony, and his voice beeps change pitch to play the melodic line. Once his personality takes a 180 and he becomes a HeavyMetal rocker, his voice beeps become bass blips.

* Sister series ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' has a large variety of quips and short phrases in battle that keep the girls a chatty bunch in dungeons. A few characters even have jokes and banter with each other if you leave them be. ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaUActionUnleashed'' takes this UpToEleven, from Lily Ranks, to confirming/canceling characters to select, even to the loading screens, each character has something to say.