On Voice Acting

by Maarten Goldstein, Jul 13, 2004 7:15am PDT

Spot On: The secret life of voice actors is a GameSpot article, taking a look at the voice acting in games which is becoming increasingly important. According to the piece, a good voice actor can earn between $850 and $1,000 for a four-hour recording session, with some celebrities being able to command tens of thousands.

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By: Speedy8 x Show Full Post

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What's sad is they pay this much money and the voice acting in 99% of games sucks. Also, celebrity voice acting isn't the solution. There is plenty of good voice work out there that doesn't command the money that celebs do, yet games seem to find the worst of the bunch. I just don't understand it. How hard can it possibly be to be a good voice actor? Really hard apparently.

I love it when games include the original Japanese voices, from originally Japanese games of course. Then I have the option to change to some good acting, since Japan usually has good voice talent in their games.

Jul 13, 2004 2:32pm PDT

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What's sad is they pay this much money and the voice acting in 99% of games sucks. Also, celebrity voice ... : Speedy8
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- blowing too much money for no reason and complaining that expenses are too high. : mc-fine
- It's all in the planning. A train-wreck of an audio plan isn't gonna get saved by any celeb. : Liquid

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For the last decade almost, it's been all about improving the graphics. Currently the big push is for better storylines and AI, but I think that along side that there's going to be a big push to improve voice acting in games in the next year or so.

When you think about it, it's not even hard to make voice acting good. It's just that since it's so often done last-minute, no one ever gets to think about it. I believe this is changing though, hopefully the planning out for voice will go alongside the planning for plot and story in the future.

Jul 13, 2004 5:34pm PDT

For the last decade almost, it's been all about improving the graphics. Currently the big push is for be... : Liquid

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stuff like this makes me pissed. The distribution of wealth is so fucking lopsided its retarded. Im sure the programers and artists on the game make a slim fraction of that and they bust their fucking asses. Same thing everywhere...the underlings BARELY get enough to make it by paycheck to paycheck while the bosses are making an inordinate amount of money for doing seemingly NOTHING on a day to day basis. Its PISSING ME OFF!L":Adjasj d;lfkahjsdf

Jul 13, 2004 8:07am PDT

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- Per hour? Sure, but you have to remember most voice actors are only going to be brought in for one or tw... : Carnivac
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  You have to remember that the voice actors, while they may make that much in an afternoon's work session,... : Serpico74
  - we can all BLAME operation flashpoint for this, they had the MOST PISSED FUCKED lame voice acting, the en... : ColligoMortis

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I was just thinking about how I instantly recognized John DiMaggio's voice (Bender from Futurama) in the last two games I bought. He voiced several guards in Riddick, and does some of the baddies (and *boss spoiler* Rhino) in the Spider-man 2 game as well.

Jul 13, 2004 9:31am PDT

I was just thinking about how I instantly recognized John DiMaggio's voice (Bender from Futurama) in the : ShadeOGreen

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