anyone know of games with good speech

[ManicMatt]

I think it breathes more life into the characters.

I certainly wouldn't have gave Manny (Grim Fandango, thats his name right?) that accent if I was just reading his speech!

Also, there's no chance of you miscontruing the emotion in what was said. As many have said,
it's hard to detect sarcasm in pure text.

[Candle]

I turned the speech off in the Blackwell Legacy demo. I couldn't stand it. But it had speech, nonetheless.

I played it and see why you turn it off.

[joelphilippage]

I never knew when Simon the sorcerer was being sarcastic or not until i found the one with voice acting. I thought he liked the owl.

[Candle]

Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
Best I have heard so far in a game.
http://www.sherlockholmes-thegame.com/

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

The Awakened has good voice acting but absolutely nothing else of value.  You were warned.

[mkennedy]

Well to imply emotions you could have something like:

Guybrush: (Sarcastic) Well, that certainly accomplished alot!

Larry: (Flirtatios)  Hey, baby, what's your sign?
Faith: (Annoyed) Exit! Try using it!

If you want to have a character with a truly unique voice than including one or two audio samples of that character are ok. On a rare occasion there may be a game with high quility voice acting where the player is impressed and thinks the voice fits the character dead  on. Just make sure there is an option to include captions, If a player is deaf then a game that only has digital speech without any text can be very frustrating.