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TalkBack / RE:Voice Actors Reach Agreement with Publishers
« on: June 10, 2005, 01:05:37 AM »QuoteOh yeah, and while we're at it, let the animators do the voices for all cartoons. They know how to talk, so they could do voice acting, right? ...Right?
Originally posted by: KDR_11k
You know what, f#ck them, let your coders do the voiceovers. Works pretty well, companies like Blizzard produced fairly good stuff without hiring actual actors. Actually compared to the performances of actual actors the coders seem to be much better at the job. The actors say they deserve the pay because they only get one or two jobs a month. Well, maybe you should get a real job, then!
I beg to differ.
Voice acting can either greatly add, or detract from a game's presentation, and using coders with no experience for the job is really a "hit a miss" decision. More often than not, a miss.
Ooh, by the way, I looked up many VAs from Blizzard's games on the IMDb. Quite a few of them seem to have a pretty good amount of VA experience.
However, I will agree that I hate situations like XIII, where companies pay barrels of money to celebrities so a few idiots can go "OMG this has David Duchovny!! BUY!!" rather than hiring someone who specializes in voice acting, and knows how to (or at least cares enough to) deliver lines with the proper emotion and tone. The exact same thing has been happening in animated films for many many years.
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