With voice actors individually becoming expensive to cast, should jpn game devs just drop them as a whole?

With voice actors individually becoming expensive to cast, should jpn game devs just drop them as a whole?

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absolutely, the wasted money could go into making more lolis instead

just go back to using in-house devs as voice actors.

just hire lesser known talent, no one buys a game for a VA and recognising a VA can ruin immersion

>WAAAAAAH I DONT LIKE PAYING MONEY FOR SERVICES
why are game developers always commie trannies?

>voice actors unionize
>start hiring theatre/shakespearean actors for roles

What's even happening in this image

no someone please tell me before this thread dies

voice actors need a culling anyway, I've heard the same 5 or 6 people for the past 10 years

this is just because of nepotism though and won't go away

I think it has something to do with Ashley Burch voicing Rise

Sounds badass.

Oh, she killed herself because Bailey isn't voicing her anymore?

Doesn't Fromsoftware do this?

Probably

JP industry is different from western
If anything English guys will just go for cheaper and cheaper amateurs as normal

fpbp

I think its implying Atlus will stop using the character to avoid having to pay Burch's absurd cost (though I'd assume in reality Atlus would just stop dubbing in English if recasting wasn't an option)

Something similar happened with vermintide.
They only had one mainstream VA (Kerrilian) and the rest were an assortment of stage/tv actors from the UK and even a DJ. It’s arguably one of the best voices games in the industry despite being managed by the most incompetent devs in the industry, so it worked well for them

Yes. Half the time the time it just doesn't matter, and the money could have been used to make a sequel or more content.
I can only name a handful of games where the VAs mattered.

If you mean "should they stop dubbing games?" then yes.

They do and the results are excellent.

What you mean English dubs? Yes. English dubs that are actually worth while are few and far between.

Bailey wasn't available to voice Rise in P4DAN so they had to bring in Burch to replace her.

what if dark souls had cute animes who spoke in animal crossing gibberish sounds

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Didn't Bailey just quit doing non-mainstream stuff?

Most of the best VAs I've heard in games are from people that aren't career actors. Most professional VAs are too hammy and force their acting.

FromSoft Games and FFXIV do this

this is why XIV's (new) dub is mostly really good and I'm saying this as someone who played it in Japanese

Why didn't using Youtubers stick?

>should jpn game devs just drop them as a whole?
All game devs should.

Literally one of the biggest games this year put in an obscure YouTuber for a main character.