Yes. I waited for PS3 version of Star Ocean IV because english VA was just so horrible.

yes. the italian voice for kirby's epic yarn narrator makes me want to hurt myself. it sounds like the narrator of teletubbies or any other kid's show.

i'm also not a fan of many italian dubbings. there is on recurring VA, pietro ubaldi, that has a really annoying voice. unfortunately he often dubs also movies and telefilms... he's everywhere!!!! beside him i still prefeare english VA or, when it's present, japanese VA.

Don't forget Ghost Squad.

Heavy Rain. The voice acting was terrible on various occasions, especially the angry-and-always-screaming-and-flipping-out-for-no-reason police chief, as well as the bald dude who you fight with Scott Shelby in the prostitute's room. It didn't necessarily "break" the game for me, but it definitely made it less enjoyable.

Killzone 3 is actually another one. I thought the voice acting was pretty bad, and it ruined a lot of the experience for me. I didn't even finish the game, and that rarely happens. But maybe it was a good thing. Normally I get games primarily for the campaign; but, since I was so disinterested in the campaign of KZ3, it pushed me more towards the multiplayer. Have always found fps multiplayer boring, but KZ3's multiplayer is fantastic. I still like campaigns more than I like multiplayer; so I hope GG finds quality voice actors in the future. They need to take some lessons from Naughty Dog;)

i have play a lot of rpgs with bad voice acting but none of them has broken a game for me.

It has broken the experience of Final Fantasy from X on... it has made games such as Half-Life 2 and Portal 1&2.

Generally localizing Japanese games is not taken seriously any old voice actor will do and it ruins the story, even if it was originally well written, there will be poor translations and the actors treat it as such. 

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Break? Maybe not. It's certainly negatively impacted my play experience. There are more than a few games where I wish they hadn't even bothered with voices.

Make? No More Heroes. Not that it had stellar voice performances, but the cheese just wouldn't come through properly in text, and like a meal from Pizza Butt, it wouldn't be worth having without the cheese. Bioware games are very well enhanced by voice work, even before they became obsessed with cinematic flair, but they'd still be fantastic without voice work.

I havent played Portal 2 (planning to get it), but i agree some games have had steller voice work that has made the game a lot better.

i think FF10 had okay voice work, not great but not bad either, there were some really low moments and some good moments. and i think this trend is evident in Japanese games, so the voice acting can sometimes be really poor, but i think its also down to bad writing or translation - some of the lines are things you would never hear anyone say even in a childrens cartoon.

however i think FF12 and Dragon Quest 8 had some excellent voice acting, some of the best in any game i've ever played. and that was also because the lines were believable. imo the English voice acting in FF12 and DQ8 made the game, the writing, the maturaity of the dialogue, the beleivable tone of the actors made those performances phenominal imho.

I've seen better voice acting in the PS1 era over FFX.  FFXII while having a much better translation anyone with a good ear can tell that whoever produced the voice acting didn't know what they were doing as one person would sound like he's in a room that echoes, while another sounds like he's too far from the mic, and only one seems like it was done right... and this is a conversation going on between the people, so they don't even sound like they're in the same room... and that's just like taking nails to a chalk board to me.

DQ8 does have good voice acting, I really don't know how that was done right and FFXII which came after and took longer, was done wrong on the production end, the only thing I can think of is that Dragon Quest games are usually tended to with a bit more care than the FF series now-a-days, and Level 5 makes the DQ games so that might be apart of it too.