Video Game Voice Actor Strike Continues, as Union Pickets Batman Publisher This Week

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Captain_Yuri said:

Well... I do play Nintendo games which have hardly any voice acting so maybe it is a lot harder for me to understand where you are really coming from. Cause like, I am not saying VA's aren't important, I just don't find them as essential to the game as game developers. When ever I bought a game, I never thought about the VAs even once. I have thought about the gameplay, the story, the art style and etc but not really about the quality of the VA. There is no way I can see that VAs are as equal as game devs as far as making a game goes. So lets just agree to disagree.

And I havn't really seen that many, you have Cod with its mappacks and skins, you have BF with its mappacks and skins, you have GTA with its modes and etc. Like sure there are some such as Witcher 3 but even in that, there are more skins and cosmetics and other dlc than VA. The devs had to make the world, make the characters, make them all work and etc where as the only thing VA did is VA. And I get the whole argument of if they lose their voice, they can't work in the industry anymore but it is not the duty of the company to take care of that. It is the job of the VA to ensure they don't lose their voices. They made their choice to pursue this carrier path and they should know how to keep their voices in check. I do acknowledge that it matters but I will not say that it matters as much as the gameplay and etc does.

I actually have like no idea or either of them are. Glad I searched Tara Strong though, just damn.

Anyway, lets just agree to disagree

@Bolded part, well of course it will, because it shows that you aren't on the same level of understand that I am =P.

I've followed a lot of VA's for years from movies to tv shows and even to games. Did you know Reinhardt'sVA also plays Dredd in the Judge Dredd animated Superfiend short? (made by the same guy who made the 2012 Dredd film), or that Reaper's VA is the same one who played Blu From Foster's home for imginary friends? (seriously hard for me to unhear lol).

You say that you claim to not be saying that they aren't as important, but go on to say that they aren't "essential" and yet we see plenty of games around us today that have more VA going for them than the old NES days where there was just bleeps and music in the background. ME:A will have prominant VA's, the enxt ES and Fallout game will have VA's, practically most AAA games will have VA's, heck even some indie games have them and there are even some dedicated Skyrim modders out there who have some voice work for their own mods. Those that tend not to contain VA's are the very low budget games and games like Pokemon which have never bothered with VA's. There is still a large majority of games out there today that require voice work in one way or another, from announcing to storytelling to playing a character or even singing in the background.

The voice is a powerful tool, just as much as the eyes and the hands, the chords are not lesser than the hands, otherwise we'd be talking more with our fists and our pencils than going out and using our voices to get things done.

@Bolded 2, well that's you and not me. I've got a bunch of mates that come up to me and let me know that they thought someone in a game sounded like someone they knew, thenw e look up said eprson and find out it was someone we've known beforehand and reminisce about their past works and even their upcoming ones too. You and I look at VA very differently though, but the thing is, you really have to understand just how important the voice can be for something, it isn't a thing you just disregard on a whim as nothing (otherwise we could do this for plays and acting in general since silent films at one time were at the top of the charts a century and a half ago).

 

I'm sorry but I cannot agree to disagree. You're still taking it in as though VA's are on their tod and not as important, you aren't moving from that stance and I can see that. I know you don't see eye to eye but I wish you would consider the importance of VA in general. Maybe in a few years you'll see or perhaps never at all (which would be a shame in terms of understanding).