DakonBlackblade said:
Differently from movies and shows the voice actors arent what sells the game, the game is, and that means if you gona pay royalties you need to pay it for the devs, and that just wouldnt work cause dev teams are enormous, theyre not a couple of actors theyre like 200 ppl. Your case is a very rare one where you bought a game because of a voice actor, basicaly no one does it and most ppl have no idea who is voicing wich character going into a game. I know Nolan North and Troi Bakers name cause theyre everywhere giving interviews, aside from them I know no other and I learn who voiced wich character after I play the game. I dont remember who voiced Sora, who voiced Shepard or any of the ME party members, who voiced Hawk the Inquisitor, geralt of Rivia or Ciri. I know they did a good job but I have no idea who they are and I would never have bought those games if the gameplay, systems, story and whatnot werent top notch even if it had the best voice actor in the planet in it. I would maybe be slightly moved by theyre movement if they were some sort of underpaid factory workers, they arent they get payed extremelly well, so they should just stop being greedy realy and be happy they have such great jobs were they get to work in videogames and make big bucks. |
What about when the game uses both the voice and likeness of the actors? Like, say, Troy Baker and Kevin Spacey in Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, or Nathan Filion in Halo 5? As time goes by, this kind of thing will happen more and more, and we see actors doing just as much work as in movies, many of them doing their own performance/motion capture.
