letsdance said:
Kasz216 said:
letsdance said:
jarrod said:
letsdance said:
jarrod said:
letsdance said:
jarrod said:
leo-j said:
that's really sad..
the game is 5 hours, and the budget was higher than MGS4s potentially.
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Eh, more than twice as many people worked on MGS4, and it was in development twice as long... pretty sure it's budget likely dwarfed Heavenly Sword's.
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I doubt it. I think Kojima went the more traditional way in developing the MGS4. Ninjatheory was very ambitious in their developing with facial mocap and voicing famous people.
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Uh, you know MGS4 used far, far more extensive mocap (including facial capture) than HS, right? Just check the credits, MGS4's mocap credits alone rival the entire R&D teams for many other games. MGS4 also had a huge voice cast, extensive CG and the entire network infrastructure R&D for MGO in there. If you credit check, MGS4 credits almost 400 people!
And that's just production, we're not even talking about promotional budgets...
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They didn't have andy serkis. All those voice actors probablly got a couple of grand with the Snake maybe getting 100k. Niko in GTA4 only got 100k. I bet andy got a few million.
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Andy who?
Sorry, just pour through the credits yourself (MGS4, Heavenly Sword). There's pretty much no way HS was a higher cost production than MGS4...
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Andy alone probably got paid as much as all of MSG4s entire cast.
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I think you overestimate the cost of high level voice acting. I mean, Mike Myers got 10 million for Shrek 2. That's a movie, I'd be surprised if anyone in a videogame makes more then 500K VA.
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A movie that was shorter than HS along with the fact that no game has had a VA who is as well known as "MY PRECIOUS" ontop of the fact that it just wasnt in the sound studio he also had to act it out. Unlike Mike. I bet Andy put more time in HS than mike in Shrek. I bet if a game studio was like "Hey mike we got a job for you. We want you to spend a year or two of your life in a sound studio and motion capture and we'll give you 500k" he'd say "fuck off I'm gonna make another shrek for 20 times that"
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Jobs aren't paid based on how hard the work is. Jobs are paid by how valuable the work is.
Mike Myers work in Shrek 2 was way more valuable then Andy's in HS.
Shrek 2 had a budget of 150 million. It made just short of a billion... just in theatres. Not counting DVDs, Merchandising etc..
Heavenly sword made what... 90 million... of which... they didn't even see 30% of that money?
You think they spend 30 million on 2 voice actors? What kinda sales do you think they expected?
