@Bartz77 I wanna comment on this because I feel your first paragraph may be aimed at my comment made a little lower.
I feel like you didn't read my comment and are instead blowing what I said a little out of context. My point was that a lesser known but very talented voice actor was able to provide a superior service for a nominal fee. He was then replaced by another talented actor/voice actor (voice acting is still acting and requires much skill). The difference between the 2 was that the second one was very well known and as such came with a much higher price tag. The result of which was a waste of money because it was money that was not spent for the product's target market.
Similarities can be drawn to this article aswell. You have to do an analysis on cost of a big name talent versus return on that cost. For a game like Guitar Hero or Rockband, getting someone like Paul McCartney to provide music is fantastic. Not only are you getting a superior product, but you are getting a name that is recognized by the game genres targeted demographic. For something like Destiny you have to ask if having the name in the credits will provide enough increased revenue to justify the cost of hiring him, compared to a lesser known but still talented musician.
"Padding resumes" doesn't really apply here in any of these arguments and it goes back to @Dasim64 original comment that because the gaming industry is making more money than the movie industry, for much less money then some big name people are trying to get in on it.
It's all at a cost to both the little guy and to the consumer. Especially if it takes away from actual game development time.
@Dasim64 I really agree with you and I wanna add to the subject. I was watching an episode of X-Play (Miss Sessler) the other day and they interviewed the voice actor for Uncharted. It was pretty fascinating hearing his viewpoints and he brought up this exact thing.
In the interview he mentioned how he was set to do the voice over for a main character in a children's game and that his agent had to fight tooth and nail just to get him a fair paycheck for his work. What happened was that a big name actor (not mentioned) came in to the project to do the voice of the character instead and the company coughed up like 10x the amount of money to get the actor to do so. He then mentioned that since it was a kids game he asked his own kid if had even heard of the actor now doing the voice over and they had no idea who it was, so they spent 10x their budget on 1 big name when the guy (Sorry I really can't remember his name, those Uncharted fans out there probably wanna hit me right now :\, my apologies) could do the same job or better and get the same result.
L.A. Noire really strikes out to me as one game that put a good use to hiring some great talent to act out their characters. Everything else seems like a pointless waste of money just to get a high profile name on the credits for marketing.
@kljvoph I'm glad you've been so lucky then. I'm not really going to argue with you on this as everyone's experience playing the game varies. I only point out the Unofficial Patches as my proof for the amount of bugs that are usually left unfixed in their games and that have to be cleaned up by the community.
The point of either this comment or my previous comment is just so that anyone who reads becomes informed who may not know of Bethesda's track history. Hopefully they read the comments from people like you, who have had an extremely pleasant game experience from the start but also recognize that many also have multiple bugs aswell that go unfixed and make an informed decision.
@lucc3x Not true, I love Bethesda and have bought many of their games but if one thing's for sure don't count on too many bug fixes from them. Just look at how much work and effort the community modders had to put in for the PC Oblivion, and currently PC Skyrim with the Unofficial Patches. (I'm sure there's ones for Morrowind and Fallout 3 aswell but I had those on Xbox and Xbox 360)
@Fryboy101 @Wyckid @Rovelius @LongJohnSlivers You guys should just avoid replying to this spam account. It's just random posts so he can post his lame blog at the end. Report as SPAM, ignore then move on.
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