History Main / AnnouncerChatter

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty 8'' has a talking hat host who [[SpeakingSimlish makes lots of nonsensical noises]] in lieu of actually matching the text. He talks so much though, that the hat even comments on how much is being said.

-->'''Huey:''' ''([[DissonantSerenity still using calm commentator voice]])'' It helps me [[SuperOCD feel in control]] during a frankly insane situation.

** Two Point Campus, a sequal to Two Point Hosptial, brings back the same DJs and receptionist. Some of their jokes are call backs to Hosptial, like the receptionst telling the Doctor to return to the hosptial or appolgizing for the litter someone else dropped, only to realize it was actully her's.

-->'''Dave:''' Its a balmy eight degrees outside while inside we're at the top of the 99th inning during the longest winter ever, and this announcer's one more snow flurry away from harming himself aaand others!

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* ''Fanfic/TropePantheons'': [[Pantheon/{{Gaming}} Howard “Buckshot” Holmes]] [[Pantheon/{{Narrative}} and Kreese Kreely]] frequently engaged in this back when they commentated at [[BloodSport DeathWatch]]. In the Pantheon they put it to good use in overseeing many of the more brutal combatants do their work and/or talking smack about anyone that catches their attention. Very few people have been spared from their ridicule as even Overdeities were picked on as well, usually for not using their powers to fund a new game of [=DeathWatch=] or accusing them of [[SpotlightStealingSquad hogging the spotlight]].

* Creator/PatLawlor's games tend to have this, be it a single commentator (Rudy from ''Pinball/FunHouse''), a pair of them (Red and Ted from ''Pinball/RedAndTedsRoadShow'', Bud and Buzz from ''Pinball/NoGoodGofers''), or a whole cast of them.

* Played around with Shao Kahn in ''Franchise/MortalKombat''; given that he's the announcer in the [[VideoGame/MortalKombat2 second]] and [[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 third]] games, he says "I win" instead of "(character) wins" when victorious. "It is official; ''you suck''."

** [[Creator/JamiesonPrice The announcer]] in ''Super Street Fighter IV'' pretty much ''breathes'' [[HotBlooded fiery passion]]. Among other things, he even drops a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' with '''''ULTRA COMBO FINIIIIIIIIISH!'''''

* ''VideoGame/WaveRace 64'' had one announcer that would always make a commentary if you blew past the competition, fell behind, or got knocked off your jet ski. Its sequel, ''Wave Race: Bluestorm'', demoted the announcer to just one phrase: "Ladies and gentlemen! Start your engines!" The constant chatter was moved to your character's coach and like in the previous game, would always comment when you fell off, passed a buoy the right or wrong way, and told you when you had turbo power.
** In ''Blue Storm'', there's an EasterEgg that went undiscovered for ''nine years''. What is it? Basically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDOcyEGhoQ "Your Coach Is An Asshole" Mode.]] Absolutely ''hilarious''.
* Some of the replaceable lines can get interesting in the more recent ProfessionalWrestling games that try to reproduce the announcers' dialogue, including 'witty' banter. A few can get it horribly wrong, as some reviews for ''VideoGame/SmackdownVsRaw 2007'' indicated--typically, in a niche game like this, it helps to actually, you know, get the maneuvers named correctly.

* Teammates in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Carbon'' often fulfil this role.
* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Pro Street'' had a few people venting their anger on forums after having to listen to the race commentator chatter on and on about Ryan Cooper (the player character), with undiminished enthusiasm from the first to the last race.

** Stacks takes the "insane" part UpToEleven during [[HordeMode Blitz]] (which he participates in so he can take his personal problems out on you), who goes from playing the StraightMan to screaming into the mic as you destroy his robots.

* The ''VideoGame/{{DJMAX}}'' series is generally good about keeping the announcer restricted to menus. But then came ''DJMAX Trilogy''. If you have Live Mode enabled, songs will have a cool reverb effect when you achieve x3 Fever or more...but you'll also have the announcer shout your combo at set milestones ([[{{Engrish}} "100 Combo extend!"]], etc.), and make comments every time you activate a Fever gauge:

* ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall'', especially from ''Super Monkey Ball 2'' and onwards, as the most insane announcers you'll ever hear. The guy is constantly yelling in the [[LargeHam hammiest]] way possibly. And sometimes speaks {{Engrish}}. It's amazing.

* The ''VideoGame/RealBoutFatalFury'' games have a very enthusiastic, very friendly announcer who you just can't help but adore.
--> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lxbaRhGIRI "HEY, HOW'S IT GOIN' DUDE?]] AND LET'S BEGIN! CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER!"\\

* The ''Real Bout VideoGame/FatalFury'' games have a very enthusiastic, very friendly announcer who you just can't help but adore.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lxbaRhGIRI "HEY, HOW'S IT GOIN' DUDE?]] AND LET'S BEGIN! CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER!"
** "WOW, HE LOOKS TOUGH, AND REALLY ANGRY!"
** "AW COME ON, DON'T GIVE UP! YOU MIGHT WIN THIS TIME!"

* ''[[VideoGame/CapcomVsSNKMillenniumFight2000 Capcom vs. SNK]]''[='s=] announcer talks almost constantly every chance he gets: during the high score screen, the groove select screen, the character select screen, the victory screen, and even adds in his own two cents during certain events of a match (like if a character gets in an attack right at the start of the round, or successfully pulls off a really powerful attack). Naturally, his commentary can't be turned off, and he's also much louder than the average fighting-game announcer. KEEP ROCKIN', BABY!!
** ''VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium'': "This battle is about to explode!"
** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 3'' has an announcer who sounds extraordinarily happy most of the time, and likes to talk ''a lot''. Most fighter fans know his phrases off by heart. '''Triumph''' or '''Die!''' [[LargeHam GO FOR IT, MAN!]]
** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' seems to be following in this trend, with an announcer that delivers commentary with every third hit or so. '''THIS IS GONNA BE ONE HELL OF A SHOW!'''
** The [[Creator/JamiesonPrice announcer]] in ''Super Street Fighter IV'' pretty much ''breathes'' [[HotBlooded fiery passion]]. Among other things, he even drops a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' with '''''ULTRA COMBO FINIIIIIIIIISH!'''''
** ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'': [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2 "I almost had a heart attack there!"]]
** The announcer from ''[=MvC2=]'' is actually pretty chill, only really giving his two cents at the victory screen (which is done so rather softly). The [[VideoGame/XMenVsStreetFighter previous]] [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter three]] [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomClashOfTheSuperheroes announcers]] were much more pumped for the ensuing battle, with the ''[=MSHvSF=]'' one actually ''[[CallingYourAttacks belting out the names of your Hyper Combos with much aplomb if you won a match with them]]''.

-->AAAAAAAAAAALRIGH! DAS KOOL!
** ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' not only has one announcer whose lines pay homage to ''Alpha 3'' and ''[=CvS2=]'', but the latest builds also have [[Creator/KateHiggins a second announcer]] (who sounds like Issun from ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'') who runs commentary throughout the match, commenting on how the fighters fare and their strategies akin to the aforementioned ''Capcom vs. SNK 2'' announcer. (Issun doesn't have any audible speech, merely providing the text for Amaterasu's victory quotes.)

** This is the pop-culture part of the announcer from ''Killer Instinct'', but not actually the primary purpose: in the first game, the announcer would also announce the ''actual combos,'' made even more badass by their idiosyncratic names and getting more and more epic at higher levels. Nothing got the blood pumping like pulling off a seven-hitter with the announcer proclaiming "Master Combo!" before someone nails an unfettered twelve-hit '''Killer Combo!'''

* Played around with Shao Kahn in ''Franchise/MortalKombat''; given that he's the announcer in the second and third games, he says "I win" instead of "(character) wins" when victorious. "It is official; ''you suck."

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros.'' has an announcer that not only announces character names and who the winner is, but also loudly announces the title of the game (except for ''Brawl''), mode of play chosen, a countdown when five seconds are left in a match, congratulating the player for beating single player, and the classic "Continue?" and "Game Over!"
** '''FAILUUURE!'''

** ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' not only has one announcer whose lines pay homage to ''Alpha 3'' and ''[=CvS2=]'', but the latest builds also have [[Creator/KateHiggins a second announcer]] (who sounds like Issun from ''{{VideoGame/Okami}}'') who runs commentary throughout the match, commenting on how the fighters fare and their strategies akin to the aforementioned ''Capcom vs. SNK 2'' announcer. (Issun doesn't have any audible speech, merely providing the text for Amaterasu's victory quotes.)

* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'',

* ''{{VideoGame/Tribes}}'' has one of these. "Team Inferno... SCORES!" "15 seconds... five, four, three, match begins, now."

* The announcer in [[Videogame/FuzionFrenzy Fuzion Frenzy 2]] is notorious for chattering non-stop. One can press the A button at least ten times before any minigame starts or after any minigame ends and the announcer still wouldn't be finished commenting. Even within a game, he has the compelling need to eradicate silence with incessant commentary on every player's current status. This was one of the many factors that caused fans of the original to consider this a case of SequelItis.

* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank''

* ''VideoGame/SonicColors''

* The ''{{VideoGame/Monster Truck Madness}}'' series has 'Army' Armstrong, who comments on everything from trucks jockeying for position to spectacular crashes to trucks [[AluminumChristmasTrees driving on water]].

* ''DestructionDerby'' offers a commentator with maybe 30 things to say, mostly focusing on the car carnage. Two of the memorable lines are "It's like rush hour in LA!" and (in the [[HotPotato hot]]-[[GrenadeHotPotato potato]] Bomb Mode) "Get rid of that bomb!"

* ''Wave Race 64'' had one announcer that would always make a commentary if you blew past the competition, fell behind, or got knocked off your jet ski. Its sequel, ''Wave Race: Bluestorm'', demoted the announcer to just one phrase: "Ladies and gentlemen! Start your engines!" The constant chatter was moved to your character's coach and like in the previous game, would always comment when you fell off, passed a buoy the right or wrong way, and told you when you had turbo power.

* NBA 2K series feature a very advanced one where the announcers can discuss the players on the floor( they have lines even for obscure role players) and the coaches, how the season progresses for the team, how the last season turned out for them, what is the strengths of the team etc.
* ''UFC Undisputed'' has proper commentary from Mike Goldberg and Joel Roegan as they go into detail about the fighters, their strengths and weaknesses, how they are performing, and get rather caught up in each contest, from excitement at each submission to concern over a bad cut or possible stoppage.
* The ''Fight Night'' series has them, as it's about professional boxing. However, they highly over-exaggerate how powerful attacks are and aren't aware that health regenerates too quickly for anything but haymakers or constant pressure to do anything but be a minor inconvenience.

** Additionally, the ''Battle Revolution'' announcer is quite a lot chattier than his ''Stadium'' counterpart, and ''there is no way to turn him off''.

* ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' has two announcers, [[Creator/JohnDiMaggio and one of them]] is [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]]! And the other is [[Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway Whose Line]] star, Greg Proops! Naturally, their characters serve as comic relief throughout the game as [[AnythingThatMoves card-carrying pervert]] Howard "Buckshot" Holmes and Kreese Kreeley, a former competitor and fellow TestosteronePoisoning victim. The two comment on everything that goes on in the in-game sport of Deathwatch, and drop subtle hints for what you're supposed to do in the level and situation that you're in. Being [[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 the type of game that it is]], the commentary usually CrossesTheLineTwice. Example:

* In the ''Franchise/HarryPotter''/''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' crossover "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5348767/1/The-Wisdom-Seeker The Wisdom Seeker]]", after the Cullens start at Hogwarts Emmett becomes the new Quidditch commentator, making a wide range of unconventional observations.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' Has [[LargeHam Baron Deathmark]] doing the announcements for Huttball. Such announcements include reminders of the rules before the match starts, who's winning versus who's loosing, taunting the loosing team, and reminding the players that while cannibalism hasn't been done before, that doesn't mean the Player Characters can't or shouldn't.

** For kills in rapid succession, there's the progression of "Double Kill", "Multi Kill", "Ultra Kill", "Mega Kill" (post-UT'99), "M-M-M-Monster Kill", "Ludicrous Kill", [[HolyShitQuotient "Holy shit!"]]

Every sports game played in the world always has one man or woman who plays the role of the announcer, whose job is to tell the spectators the scores, which team is entering the field, who the winner is, etc. Some announcers may add their own wit and charm. Video games also have some form of announcers that give short phrases or announce things during the game. While it can [[LargeHamAnnouncer enhance the gameplay]], if the announcer talks ''too'' much, it can become [[MostAnnoyingSound irritating]]. [[note]]The chance of there being an in-game option to turn off or at least lower the volume of Announcer Chatter almost always goes down in inverse proportion to how obnoxiously loud and intrusive the commentary is.[[/note]] Generally, announcers in video games announce character names and who the winner is.

* ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' has two announcers, [[Creator/JohnDiMaggio and one of them]] is [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]]! And the other is [[Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway Whose Line]] star, Greg Proops! Naturally, their characters serve as [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments comic relief]] throughout the game as [[AnythingThatMoves card-carrying pervert]] Howard "Buckshot" Holmes and Kreese Kreeley, a former competitor and fellow TestosteronePoisoning victim. The two comment on everything that goes on in the in-game sport of Deathwatch, and drop subtle hints for what you're supposed to do in the level and situation that you're in. Being [[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 the type of game that it is]], the commentary usually CrossesTheLineTwice. Example: