@Bruin1986 said:
@KHAndAnime said:
This is why casting famous celebrities in the role VO for videogames is generally a bad idea.
1) Huge chunk of the game's budget goes towards VO work, which is sad when you notice the rest of the game suffer for the VO work (like TES:O)
2) Most Hollywood actors don't take videogame VO seriously (which is why they often perform much worse than non-famous actors). There are some who are excellent at it, like Michael Ironside and Mark Hamil, but these people are generally the exception and not the rule.
3) No one buys a game because it has a certain voice actor.
The cost of hiring Peter Dinklage as a voice actor was undoubtedly minuscule, hell microscopic, compared to the cost of the whole game.
It's the most expensive game in history.
That's like deciding to add a leather-wrapped steering wheel to your Bugatti Veyron instead of the standard variant.
You can't prove it, you don't know the game's budget. For all you know, it could've been a decent fraction of the budget, which could be used to fix the inevitable launch bugs. Bungie already stated the game's budget is absolutely not in the ballpark of 500mil (with marketing included), so it's probably less than 100mil for the game itself.
Some celebrity voice actors have demanded as much as 750k for a one hour session, and even before 2010, a voice actor made as much as $500k from work done for one videogame.
All that info is from years ago. Dinklage is A-list right now, he could've asked for 1 million and received it for all you know. Games are much bigger in budget than 5 years ago, keep in mind, 1 million for Peter Dinklage isn't all that far fetched.
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