Voice acting

>Voice acting.

What do you think about vidya voice actors, Sup Forums?

I think they should get more money.

>ruin their voice for us
>sell the games
>make for an epic experience


btw. Always suprising how VA actually look like in certain cases.

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Like I give a fuck. I just want a consistent voice for a character.

THIS

nothing pisses me off more than a VA change in a sequel or something

don't touch me kevin spacey

VAs have become prima donnas.
They're fucking voices in video games and cartoons and now, hacks like Jennifer Hale actually think that people buy games because she's in it.

Get fucking real.

>UNNNGH I'm too FAMOUS to voice the character that made me famous
Fuck those niggers, I'm fucking glad their whole shitfit ended with them having to settle with the original terms while they tried to save face "W-we did it guys we w-won! haha"

Voices doesn't make a game. They ehance the overall experience if done right but really the artists and programmers are the real heroes here.

What the fuck

Ellen Degeneres voices Ellie???

>Kevin Spacey is the cannibal pedo from TLoU

>epic experience

>nigger is white
well atleast they dont try to hide it

>Jennifer Hale actually think that people buy games because she's in it.
you're kidding, right? that's the most pathetic shit I've ever heard. who the fuck would actually believe gamers give a shit about the VAs enough, to buy a game because of it.

dialogue could be a string of beepbeepbeeeps for all I care. what matters most is the gameplay, not some cunts voice. I hope this cunt is not serious.

Who cares, voice acting needs to be good, that can come from anyone regardless of how famous they are.

Western VAs are amateurs.
Japanese VAs are professionals.
Learn and understand the difference.

Yeah, and troy baker is a black nerd

>Western VAs
Into the trash it goes

There are a few really good ones but because the rest are utter tools they get massively overused.

This cunt is totally serious. That was one of the points of that strike she was the poster child for.

I can't stand her. Outside of Bastila, her voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me. She was in too many things in too short a time period, and she never sounds any different. Plus her godawful dike truck driver voice she used for FemShep was the pretty much the death knell for her.

Yeah, all those dorks saying "FEMSHEP IS AMAZING!" gave her a massive ego problem and fueled this retarded strike.

I think VAs get over paid just like all other actors.

I'm honestly amazed how bad the quality control for acting is.

They literally need to get good, voice actors are the most overpaid bunch of twats in any industry. 300k per episode of simpsons, the just need to get good.

>nigger VA for a white character
What the fuck.

It was better when directors treated their actors like prostitutes.

Hell their acting was better too.

>Kevin Spacey was drawn as the pedophile
K E K

>hollywood hasn't edited this photo to remove him from it

You're retarded for more than one reason

Difference is actual actors have to leave their houses and put in full working days on set, professional voice actors often record from their own houses and just email their work in. You don't get to demand the same treatment as actors when you wake up at 2pm, put in 2 hours of recording in front of your computer while still in your underwear and call it a day.

>dialogue could be a string of beepbeepbeeeps for all I care. what matters most is the gameplay, not some cunts voice. I hope this cunt is not serious.
The fact that some of the best selling games these days forgo decent gameplay for story proves that this is false.
See: Most Sony titles.

>made all the black people white

oooo thats problematic

>do .3% of the work
>get .3% of the budget
don't see the problem here.

The only time I appreciate a game having voice-acting is when it's crappy C-tier acting.

>more money
if they want more money they need to work more hours like the Japanese VA industry

Wanting more money for less hours is childish.
>ruin their voices
Mel Blanc, a VA who is miles better and threw his voice CONSTANTLY for entire weeks still had his voice the day he died. These new shitty VA's are little flowers who can't do anything right and yet want to get paid for their drama.

>Spacey in the back
So how many of the rest of them are rapists?
I'm guessing Meryl Streep and Russel Brand

>Most Sony titles.
Uncharted, TLOU......???
Gundam Versus?
Super Robot Wars???

they would if they could

if i hear a VA that i have heard in a different game i instantly get pissed off.. is it really that hard to get amateur decent talent??

The voice actor's strike is over, right? I hope it isn't too late to get Robin Atkin Downes to voice Travis again

Apparently Spcey is only a "rapist" because their father was one and raped/whipped them.

Depend of the game but yeah they are a great part of what makes a great game.
Witcher 3 mass effect (not andromeda) uncharted etc etc etc etc....

repeating a cycle of abuse doesn't make it right
somebody has to make a conscious decision to break the cycle

Grasshopper or Marvelous weren't targeted by the strike to begin with, Downes just used the hashtag to get more attention to the strike. The trailer voice might be a placeholder though.

Who the heck did the voice in the new trailer then ??

Being the victim of abuse tends to fuck you up in the head. There's actually a strong correlation between being a pedophile and being a victim of sexual abuse as a child.

Considering how hard it seems to be get decent professional talent: probably.

Joel's VA looks way different than I'd pictured. I mean they all do, but seriously he doesn't sound black at all.

BRAVO ND

That's a common misconception. Modern research it's more genetic than anything.

Those aren't their voice actors, some idiot (probably a GAFfer) edited a group photo a bunch of celebs took during the Oscars and put Naughty Dog characters on it.

I know the strike "ended" but what happened exactly? They didn't actually get their way, did they?

>Nips are professionnals at being shit: stupid yelling, unsufferable toddler voices for every woman, shit even as remarked by my Japanese-speaking coworkers
Nice try weeb, I still don't understand why you have to dickride everything japan shits out

>What do you think about vidya voice actors, Sup Forums?
They could go fuck themselves for all i care, they are literally god damn useless.

>people itt actually think professional actors voiced these vidya characters
You all realize they don't have that sort of budget, right?

i don't care, they should hire it out to university students or some shit. FUCK the current western voice actors, i always just fucking mute them. it's unbearable. i can't remember the last good VA that i listened to

>Modern research it's more genetic than anything.
So we could just sipe them off the earth ? Nice.

kojima did

and it really makes you think if it was konami or him.

That would also explain the correlation, but source?

I'm not saying pedophilia is only caused by sexual abuse, just that there is evidence to support that it may be an important factor in it. It's a developmental disorder and they tend to have many different possible causes rather than it always being just this one thing that caused it.

>Voice actors expressed some concern with the agreement, believing SAG-AFTRA conceded too much to the video game companies. Specifically, the failure to come up with residual payment model was an issue, as the union cited "fanatical refusal" from the publishers. Actors as well as some video game producers believe that without a residual-type payment system, the current approach keeps participation in the video game industry extremely different from other traditional forms of media.[37] They also cited concerns that no specifics were made on the vocal stress aspects of the union's complaint. Some actors found the stuck studios readily using non-union voice actors at higher rates than their union terms during the strike, and feared that SAG-AFTRA was not doing enough to support voice actors in the video game industry, which are only a small portion of the union's membership.[37]


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They got some small things but what they really wanted was royalties and they didn't get it. They are very pissed about that.

As an amateur VA i feel like as long as i get enough to live comfortably doing what i love, i will be more than satisfied

>ruin their voice for us

Well maybe it was because i was only using a voice that wasnt too far from my normal speaking voice but, a 4 hour session isnt bad at all, didnt feel like anything, if you are required to be especially emotional then it can be energy drainig but unless your doing loke a fuggin popeye or hulk voice it's fine

In the 90s MLB went on strike and I thought it was the dumbest shit ever
I feel the same about a voice actor strike

Unless all voice directors are dicks they constantly have to put up with I'd be with them but I highly doubt that's the case

These are people who essentially play professionally they should be a bit more humble
Anyone can do their fun little "job"
Read paper and talk in a funny/scary/whatever voice
Lots of people been doing that kind of "work" since they were 5 years old anyway with their toys or playing with friends outside and not getting paid for it

DOGS OF THE A.M.S

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Last time i checked, Troy Baker isnt a black guy

Seriously, it sounds like a job I could do as an amateur and these guys are more talented at it than 99% of people.

I don't want voice acting in most of my games to be honest.

They're almost ALWAYS UNNECESSARY and take more from the game than they give. For instance, Fallout 4 would have gotten more out of it without a voice actor. Would allow more varied text and editing post game and most of all, would allow more roleplay or dialogue options.

Voice Actors are a meme.

>unions

Unlike you, I can tell the difference between good and bad voice acting. But hey, if it's not AMERICAN it's shit, right? Fucking commies

Using Fallout 4 as an example is hardly a good argument dude, that game is genuinely a piece of shit in practically every category.

lol what a bunch of entitled babies. get over yourselves.

name 3 games with top tier voice acting. i'm not the same guy, and I don't disagree with your statement, but I want to test to see if you have shit taste or not.

That's sjw tier of getting offended right there.
Phil La Marr who played the voice of "Vamp" in Metal Gear Solid 2 was also black.

I don't know how much a voice actor in a starring role of a high profile game, E.G. Ray Chase in FFXV, get paid, but I know that most of the people complaining or protesting aren't actors. They should be happy they're getting paid at all with their shit attitudes. No talent fucks have nothing on people like Sean Schemmel.

Special exception to Nolan North. He may not be much of a voice actor, but he's humble and knows what he is.

>name 100 games
>t-that doesn't count you eat shit
Nah no thanks fuck you, its too early for this

>Unlike you, I can tell the difference between good and bad voice acting

I have a hard time believing this when odds are you dont speak a lick of nip, how the fuck would you know? I can scream like a retard too, and i can even do it without a college-complex, real loud

Doesnt make it good

hey, I simply asked for 3. I'll even help you get started with with a freebie.

not the same user, but I wanna see if I can think up some. Persona 3/4, Skullgirls, annnd Fallout NV? Just some off the top of my head.

I feel like people are shitting on voice acting too much in this thread. Would you really want some triple A game to not have voice acting and just be silence? Not even just triple A, but indies and whatever other games too.

I'm not trying to defend VA stuff because their terms were pretty ridiculous and stupid, but VA isn't some super easy thing anyone can do. If you went and recorded the same line of dialog said by someone in a game and played it back to yourself (or even to others) they could easily tell who was a complete amateur first timer and the actual good dialog read from a VA.

I don't like when VAs just phone it in with their real voice and barely put in any acting itself either; but I wouldn't want to play a game like say Mass Effect for example without any dialog being spoken at all. I like when a game has a VA in it and when you get to the credits and see their name as that character and you say "oh shit that was them?" because they were actually acting and putting on a voice/character instead of "just Troy Baker".

The problem is these people think they are stars. They think voice acting in Call of Duty or some shit is equivalent to being the main actor in a Hollywood blockbuster and so they deserve millions and absolute adoration from us plebs. We don't care about them. They are nobodies and professions generally pay according to either the rarity of your skill or your marketability. Their skill is not rare and they have zero marketability and so they are paid accordingly. If they don't like it then they can get one of those pleb jobs like the rest of us.

Nier, Nier Automata (sans 2B)

Drakengard 3

Every soulsborne game ever, what is that, like 5 games?

you two pass but I disagree with p4. it had more bad than good VAs, but i've played through far worse.

But don't you think a ton of people could pull it off? It's not exactly an incredible talent, you don't even need the body language of a real actor to do it.

>souls games get actual stage actors to voice their characters
Geeze what a novel concept, its almost like they put effort or sumthin

>programmers, modellers, etc. do the majority of the hard work involved in making vidya
>most people can't name even one apart from indie devs

>voice actors say some lines in le wacky voice
>get fame and a shitload of money
>still entitled enough to go on strike and demand even more money

Yeah, I'm sure that's why the people who do voices behind animated films don't completely sell a character's existence and wouldn't be a different character altogether if changed.

I don't get why Sup Forums likes to shit on VAs. There's obviously some that aren't great, but that doesn't mean the vast majority aren't deserving of better treatment and pay that actually amounts to being called pay.

>Every soulsborne game ever

The voice acting in the souls games range from decent to pretty bad. It's not that special.

Calm down, autist. I don't disagree but I'd definitely play a game if one of my favorite voice actors was prominent in it.

Body language in voice acting does matter. You need to flair your body accordingly to what you're doing to truly get the right cadence. Not all of the time, but it is needed. You ever see people "talk with their hands"? It's the same thing. Try and emote really angrily a line without actually being angry, it doesn't come out right. But if you are using angry movements like beating your hand on your table or throwing your arms around like you might when you're angry, it will come out better.

And yes, I like amateur voice work as well, or atleast lesser known VA. Because they typically try harder than just using their real voice to be the character which can be distracting. And yes, it can be easy to make voices, anyone can do it, anyone can make a granny hag voice or a jive negro voice or whatever the fuck. But really staying in that character for long periods of time and not breaking character and all that is harder to do.

You are acting like VA isn't acting; and sometimes it isn't when the person just phones it in or doesn't even try. But bad VA is bad, and good VA is good and can be great. Think of Resident Evil 1 VA, you think that's good? Now think of something like TLOU VA or HALO's VA or whatever, you think that isn't atleast good or great and wholeheartedly better than some bad VA like RE1?

>Be developer
>Work on one game for 5 years
>Get five years worth of salary

>Be voice actor
>Wor on one game for a day
>Get a day worth of salary

>"DEVELOPERS GET PAID MORE THAN ME REEEE"

I don't see why there is any discussion beyond this.

Besides some Sony games, when has voice acting actually been really good?
Most of the time they're just okay.

What if I speak it though?
Any 3 games?
Project X Zone 2
Persona 5
Nioh

It depends on the writing and direction. Can everybody pull off multiple voices or the emotional range needed for certain roles? Of course not. The great thing for those people is that most games you're talking about, AKA most games in general, don't require any of that. When the fuck has Assassin's Creed, The Legend of Zelda, or even recent bigger titles that are story-driven like Evil Within 2 (Resident Evil 4-III) ever been well written?
The failure of video games to write stories that aren't necessarily 13 hours of cutscenes, but 2-4 solid hours of well written content, has given rise to hacks like Troy Baker, Troy Baker, and Troy Baker. They're all the same, and they have zero talent other than what you're talking about, which is reading lines when the red light blinks 3 times.
It's hard to blame dumb celebrities for the fact that people eat their dumb shit up, this is an issue as old as time. Speaking of Thor: Ragnarok...

Look for a higher class of game, and ignore the rest. If they want to bicker amongst themselves with their overlords then let them. They and their bosses have undoubtedly never aided in producing a great game, and more than likely never will, so fuck it. Great Directors will find Great Actors, who gives a shit about this retarded short list of Laura Baileys?

you would purchase a game just because it has one of your favorite VAs? not based on how the game looks, or if you would even enjoy it, you would buy it and play through because of a voice?

Talentless hacks thread?

>implying I care about your primadonna labor union that you only conceived so you can totally stifle any possible up-and-comers or rivals to your horrible business model

I'm sure an autist could do the body language shit if they weren't self conscious about being watched
I've seen people do really great impressions of voices that they didn't create themselves, it's not crucial to pay so much money for the same voice actor over and over like it would be with a real actor.

In the case of VAs, I'd have to /really/ like them. But yeah, I like helping support my favorite people. Though I probably wouldn't bother if it wasn't a genre I typically enjoy.

Would you rather have a game with great voice acting but bad writing or bad voice acting with great writing?

Yes, well, it is good voice acting, nonetheless

great writing, every single time.

>I like helping support my favorite people
I get the sentiment, but this is pretty ironic considering VAs don't get royalties. I'd sooner give composers royalties, if nothing else from OST sales anyway.
Honestly the fucked up thing about video games is that it seems like so much stuff is getting better (Graphics, Scores, Acting, Writing, etc...) but the actual game design isn't.
Like what the fuck?