Defense Grid: The Awakening

Not much speech in these but they're a couple of early games.

Sinistar (Arcade)
Impossible Mission (C64)

WOW, great contributions guys, thank you so very much! I am especially looking into character driven games btw. I would love to have Planescape:Torment in the mix for the awesome narrative effect the skull provided to the story. Best part of this wohle thing is I will have to play this games in a few months from scratch


Suffering: Ties That Bind, hallucinations.

Keep 'em coming

Team Fortress 2 (the announcer)

Some games have intro's that are spoken by people you never meet, does that count?

Team Fortress 2 (the announcer)

Some games have intro's that are spoken by people you never meet, does that count?

good question, but no. it should be during the gameplay and be existent (or accesible) through the majority of the game. Thank you for the contribution.

Another game, old time classic

Dunegon Keeper II (not sure about I)

Since movies are in there, some (if not most) anime also have this feature:

Desert Punk (the narrator)
Hayate the Combat Butler (narrator, unique in the way that characters tend to quarrel with the narrator, making for a specific type of immersion)
Dragon Ball (the narrator)

Here's a good one: Unreal Tournament

OWNAGE...
KILLING SPREE...
DOUBLE KILL!
HEADSHOT..

Here's a good one: Unreal Tournament

OWNAGE...
KILLING SPREE...
DOUBLE KILL!
HEADSHOT..

thought about that, unfortunately those have nothing to do with the story (which is also very light)

In Prey, "Mother" communicates with you telepathically throughout the game. See this YouTube video for examples.

Mirror's Edge -- Faith receives radio instructions from [font=sans-serif][size=2]Mercury throughout the game.[/font]