Do famous voice actors really improve game sales?
I don't give a shit about who the person behind the mic is, so it doesn't matter.
>>732777591michael madsen and carrie fischer are deadalso i've never played that shit and have no intention of ever doing soalso voice acting is for retarded illiterate niggerfaggots
>>732777591There's no such thing as a famous voice actor
>>732777591No.
>>732777661/threadI don't even care if they appear as 3D in the game
>>732777591GOOD voice actors do. I'm pretty sure games like Darkest Dungeon would have halved their sales if they didn't have the Ancestor narrator.
>>732777591I'm gonna be honest all of this is new information to me and I played and liked Dishonored
>>732777591Only Madsen and maybe Dourif were standouts. Everyone else was just decent and could have been replaced with regular VAs for much lower price. It's kinda funny how Arkane would spend loads on celebrities and then complain how imsims don't sell. It's no that they're wrong but also why do you go all out on such luxuries as hollywood actors?
>>732777591wouldn't be the same without madsen as daud. Maybe john hopkins but it'd come across as a different character
Brad Dourif is one of the greatest and most underrated living actors. It's insane that he's been in so much kino and his most famous role is Chucky kek
>>732778116don't know man, wormtongue might have chucky beat at least amongst millenials.
>>732777591I think bad ones can ruin a game, but that good ones don't really do anything for it.
Of course. Only delusional fagots like /v/ think otherwise. Whenever Shadowheart VA pops up in a project it's all people talk about. Imagine thinking that doesn't boost sales to some extent. Just because you don't believe it doesn't mean it's not true.
>>732778116>chucky>his most famous role>not grima wormtongue>not billy bobbitretarded zoomer nigger alert
>>732778659Normalfags aren't people.
>>732778659if a game has voice fagging then it automatically loses my salekeep your vokceniggardry in faggot pedowood movies where they belong
>>732778704maybe but they are the ones who pay for the games>>732778776i'm sure you think that matters
>>732777591Not really, but usually a famous actor is a generally good performer, one that can say the lines in a good enough way, to make you like hearing them. When you get, say, Grey Delisle, or Nolan North, who are famous VAs, you're getting a good performance. Regardless if you feel that Nolan North is playing Nolan North, the performance works. Martin Sheen was the Illusive Man in Mass Effect, great performer. He could bullshit his way out of the worst fucking line ever written on paper, because he was that good. You might not realize it, but they do a lot more heavy lifting than you think. And there are great VAs out there that do work that seasoned actors don't because VA is its own beast, figuratively. But, it also needs to be said that a good actor doesn't always mean a good VA performance. If and when you can get it though, it's worth the price.
how the fuck was rockstar able to hire so many a-list actors back in III/Vice City/San Andreas days? SA pulled Samuel L. Jackson and James Woods ffs.though they dialed it back with the HD universe, though they still hired some actors who were in the sopranos to do voice acting in GTA IV, like that russian dude from the pine barrens episode to voice Bulgarin one of the major antagonists of that game.
They bloat the fuck out of the budget and outside of an "oh cool that's x actor" it rarely does anything for the game. There are a handful of actors who are an exception like Michael Ironside as Sam Fisher or Ray Liotta in Vice City, but other than that no.
>>732777591I don't know any of those retards and I still bought and enjoyed the game, so no
This is why I want AI voice actors. I don't care who the faggot voicing characters is, and the AI one can be embedded in the game, so it's no longer>hello travellerinstead it's>hello toggafreggin
>>732779085Rockstar stopped hiring famous actors because they work people to death and famous actors just have way higher standards. Ray Liotta claimed he was underpaid for the role considering how much work there was (probably true) and there was a big feud about it. With GTAIV they said fuck it and just hired literally whos, payment disputes is why Nico's voice actor never returned etiher
>>732779085Easy work. Go in a booth, act, go home. no air travel, no makeup, no bad weather, no press touring and probably got some decent cash for little effort.
>>732779305I don't trust AI to give anything close to a good performance.
>>732777748Oh really? Why are you reading this in my voice then?
>>732777591idk, but I've specifically not played the Jedi games because the MC has the face of the VA
>>732779634face scanning is lame, and shows that the team lacks creativity.
>>732779512nta, but I cannot make Bender's voice my inner one
>>732779681Its not the team, CEOS want their investment out quick they don't have time for an art team to make and model original characters just throw the VA into the scantron and lets go my investors want returns codemonkeys
>>732779879I forgot what he sounds like
>>732777661>I don't give a shit about who the person behind the mic isthis
>>732780260NTAs but I prefer stage actors over VA troons and celebs. They do good work for cheap and actually bring some good acting to vidya. AI isn't at the point where it understands characters or adds anything off the cuff that could elevate a performance. If a studio can't get stage actors I'd rather have no voice acting at all.
>>732777591Usually renowed and famous actors mean voice acting in game will be good, so yes sometimes it does improve sales. But it usually improves quality of voice acting because you hired expirienced proffessionals.Cyberpunk's main selling point outside of trusted studio was Keanu.
>>732780529>AI isn't at the point where it understands characters or adds anything off the cuff that could elevate a performance.Just like with real actors, it's up to the audio engineer to make good use of the AI.With AI you can't simply explain the character but you can at least generate samples until you get what you want.Or use voice to voice mapping.
>>732780529basedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A086l8Ibe2Q
>>732780529all you have to do is listen to any given youtube videoslop being shat out today to know that ai generated voice is nowhere near even sou ding like a human, let alone fucking being able to actregardless, voice fagting is for nigger faggots to begin with, keep that retarded niggershit out of videogames PERIOD.
the GOAT of videogame voice acting
>>732777591Gaming industry fails to understand the STAR POWER doesn't really matter with VA so much as how good the performance is. When the two overlap it's a happy coincidence, but voice acting is what matters.
>>732782872Brian Cox, huh?
>>732783640Always found it weird when series drop the protagonist VA for no real reason.
>>732782872Brian Cox and Sean Pertwee in KZ and KZ2 were top tier. Visari and Radec were great villains and one of the few games where I always watched the intros. Hated that nigger Rico for chimping out and killing Visari in 2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNAnplKWNrchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W11s_CL_brM
>>732778116Dourif is great.>>732778681Chucky absolutely had more cultural relevance even at the time of the LotR films releasing. These days not so much, but I'd still be more people recognize Chucky over Grima.
>>732777591when they're good they can really elevate the game, dishonored is a pretty good example of it actually especially daud/havelock. when they suck though it drags the entire game down. Jonathan Banks as Commissioner Gordon was awful, Peter Dinklage sucked dick too. voice acting makes a big difference in games, it's just that most VAs suck
>>732778984>Martin Sheen was the Illusive Man in Mass Effect, great performer. He could bullshit his way out of the worst fucking line ever written on paper, because he was that good.his performance always struck me as odd somehow, but it's really because you're just listening to martin sheen being himself.
As per usual, none of you know that there's more to acting than just trying to sound Shakespearean while reciting a text 90 different ways hoping something sticks, in a soundproof room with a studio mic shoved down your throat.Pedowood actors and actresses know that, which is why their limited cameos always have such an impact. They're not glorified voices coaches.
>>732784585at a certain point actors tend to parody themselves largely unintentionally.
>>732783069>all you have to do is listen to [low effort content on a media platform]Lowest IQ tard
