I actually find PS1-2 era EVAs, despite occasionally getting total disasters, to be way better on average than they are now.
Dragon Quest VIII has a seriously good English dub, but when I went to playing XI recently, hearing a couple lines was enough to immediately switch to JP
MGS1's dub is really incredible when you think about it. This was a PS1 game still in the era where people didn't take games seriously as an artform leading to laughably bad vocal performances, so hearing something like this is mind blowing