She got replaced by Jennifer Hale? Like Metal Gear Solid, Mass Effect, Overwatch Jennifer Hale. She's incredibly prolific, has 35 years of experience, and has contracts with Disney. There's no way they offered Hale the same $4000. She's worth way more than that.
What the fuck? I used to like Platinum Games, but what the hell is the thought here? Is Nintendo meddling in it? Did they just want to get rid of Hellena Taylor and hire a much more expensive actress? ...WHY? Half the reason people like Bayonetta is her voice!
only possibility I can think is they low-balled Taylor to get Hale on. Maybe Hale has some kind of contract with Nintendo?
I get the impression that Japanese game studios don't really give a shit about English voice actors unless they're :soypoint-1: Norman Reedus or Kiefer Sutherland :soypoint-2:
David Hayter had to re-audition for Snake for every single MGS game and Kojima wanted to replace him at least as early as MGS3 where he was trying to get Kurt Russell for the role IIRC
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(Before you say it was because Big Boss or Venom Snake are different characters from Solid Snake, Snake's Japanese voice actor stayed the same throughout the series)
Most Japanese companies don't give a fuck about what happens outside their country. They've only recently started to pay attention, and it's mostly because they've realized they have a secondary market to play with. That, or enough of the boomer executives have died off.
unless they’re Norman Reedus or Kiefer Sutherland
Hideo Kojima is just an inverse weeb for American movies/TV. I would not be surprised if the only reason ha keeps directing games is because he can pay famous people to hang out with him now. I'll keep eating the slop though :sicko-pig:
I get the impression that Japanese game studios don't really give a shit about English voice actors unless they're :soypoint-1: Norman Reedus or Kiefer Sutherland :soypoint-2:
To be fair, I'm some dumb American who can only name a single Japanese VA. Takaya Kuroda, and that's only because I'm the world's biggest Yakuza fanboy
I think it was basically just a constructive dismissal, so to speak. Could be a cultural thing? Still kind of shitty, and still kind of weird, but it seems like it isn't actually about money; they just wanted Hale to be the voice actor instead.
She got replaced by Jennifer Hale? Like Metal Gear Solid, Mass Effect, Overwatch Jennifer Hale. She's incredibly prolific, has 35 years of experience, and has contracts with Disney. There's no way they offered Hale the same $4000. She's worth way more than that.
What the fuck? I used to like Platinum Games, but what the hell is the thought here? Is Nintendo meddling in it? Did they just want to get rid of Hellena Taylor and hire a much more expensive actress? ...WHY? Half the reason people like Bayonetta is her voice!
only possibility I can think is they low-balled Taylor to get Hale on. Maybe Hale has some kind of contract with Nintendo?
I do think this is a likely explanation.
I get the impression that Japanese game studios don't really give a shit about English voice actors unless they're :soypoint-1: Norman Reedus or Kiefer Sutherland :soypoint-2:
David Hayter had to re-audition for Snake for every single MGS game and Kojima wanted to replace him at least as early as MGS3 where he was trying to get Kurt Russell for the role IIRC
spoiler
(Before you say it was because Big Boss or Venom Snake are different characters from Solid Snake, Snake's Japanese voice actor stayed the same throughout the series)
Most Japanese companies don't give a fuck about what happens outside their country. They've only recently started to pay attention, and it's mostly because they've realized they have a secondary market to play with. That, or enough of the boomer executives have died off.
Hideo Kojima is just an inverse weeb for American movies/TV. I would not be surprised if the only reason ha keeps directing games is because he can pay famous people to hang out with him now. I'll keep eating the slop though :sicko-pig:
To be fair, I'm some dumb American who can only name a single Japanese VA. Takaya Kuroda, and that's only because I'm the world's biggest Yakuza fanboy
I think it was basically just a constructive dismissal, so to speak. Could be a cultural thing? Still kind of shitty, and still kind of weird, but it seems like it isn't actually about money; they just wanted Hale to be the voice actor instead.
I agree. Hale is one of the top voice actors so I doubt she would work for extremely cheap.