She could be blackballed regardless. Working with her has got to viewed as a risk

A game bayos size looks to be about 1 weeks worth of work btw. So at 4k were talking 200k a year if you stayed booked. Yeah im firmly not siding with her on this

Hellena Taylor isn't doing her any favors. She was paid 2k to 3k for voicing 3 characters in Breath of the Wild. Which was a above average pay rate due to voicing 3 characters at once

Does anyone know how much she got paid for Bayo 1 & 2?

Depending on the amount of lines/work, especially if pitched as a short cameo, 4k might have been spot on...... but no, this doesn't seem that way.




In any profession, this low of an offer, IMO, seems like an easy way to say "fuck off".


They extended an offer they already knew was silly, but did it to say "we offered, they rejected" - legal base covered.

Got some real numbers


Median for VO comes out to 20.56/hr. If this was a 5 day project like speculated based on how many lines are in the previous games thats $822 assuming 8 hour days. If its a 2 week project, which would be extremely lengthy based on previous games length, obviously we're st $1622. So her offer way way way above market standard.



Whats occurring here is people hear "actor" and think "they make bajillions!" VO work isnt a high paying field, its a middle class job.

They offered her between 50/hr to 100/hr depending on if this was a 1 or 2 week project

For a job you can do in your pajamas thats doing pretty ok id say

What if she had to wear business casual work attire?

Double the pay.

Also need to factor in that voice actors probably have to take breaks in between bigger jobs to give their vocal chords a rest due to some of the screaming and grunting required. They're not maki g that hourly rate all 52 weeks of the year.

Technically, you could do most jobs in your pajamas.

Its just frowned upon.

Honestly, even if she was right, who is really going to boycott a video game because someone unknown VA didn't get the offer she thought she deserved? I doubt 99% of the fans even knew who she was before this. Just seems insane.

Also need to consider that Hale is union, Taylor is not - so it most definitely is NOT a $$$ thing.




2x Also - working in my pajamas every god damn day until I have to leave the house.

G4 Network is dead again. Comcast has decided to pull the plug. Not bringing in the cash or the viewers.

https://www.ign.com/articles/g4-is-b...er-it-launched

Yeah...... I just learned it was a thing about a few weeks ago. I don't have cable, and don't watch a ton of TV anyway, but still..... no clue it was around again.

fuck that Esquire bullshit they pulled though. That shit was wank

Frosk's rant may have killed it

Theyre both union. SAG.



Preorders have spiked up since the story broke btw. Bayo 3 briefly passed madden on amazon

Now I'm curious how much Pratt is making for the Mario movie...

Film pays better (and objectively should.) Excluding interactive narratives like The Last of Us or thing The Quarry the VOs arent the game. Take this case i realized it was Hale in the trailer when i frist heard her but i didnt realize it hadnt always been Hale. You arent buying games for the VOs as good as they are.

Where wages need to rise in gaming is on the dev side. When this actress calls for boycotts shes calling to ruin the work of a few hundred people. People who dont get paid per hour near what she rejcted.

Obviously there's only so much they can pay when youre talking about an industry that has a credit scroll as long as modern games do but they have overtaken cinema and thats worth note.

But unless theyre willing to charge a fair market price for these games, which would be much closer to $120 or more, the higher pay will never come.

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There's been fuckery in the video game world for voice acting since it's been a thing. Just look at Konami's brilliant handling over the legal mess involving the Silent Hill HD Collection voice redo fiasco.

Silent Hill 2 remake.

I guess they forgot there was a part 1.

More interested in Silent Hill f.

Ryukishi is a horror genius.

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It's not that they forgot, it's that they don't care.

There's this really weird consensus in the development community, and even in a small section of the fanbase, that Silent Hill 2 and all its themes and ideas are the only thing that's important and all that the series is and should be about. Post-Silent Hill 4, virtually every team that has had a hand in making a new entry has taken large chunks, if not all, of the elements of the second game and tried to apply it to their creation. Devin Shatsky, one of the people behind Downpour, just flat out said that he wasn't interested in the stories presented in the first and third games and thought it was all confusing. That's all well and good if you're not a fan of what the series is about, but the bottom line is that is what the series is about.

The excuse people use is that Silent Hill 2 is somehow separate from the rest of the series. This is in no way true but even if it was, if you were going to continue making games that you claim are "true to the series" and "going back to the roots", why would you make them basically carbon copies of the one game you claim has nothing to do with the other games?

The answer is that they're lazy and/or stupid. The latter might be a bit harsh but it's fairly clear if you listen to what a lot of these developers say, they have absolutely NO IDEA what the series is about. The story of the second game, by comparison, is the easiest to copy. Why bother coming up new lore about the cult? Why bother with the history of the town? All we apparently have to do is get some schmuck with "inner demons", drop him in the middle of the town, and just reveal at the end that there was some tragedy that he forgot all about! BOOM! Done! Silent Hill, baby! Where's our check?

And don't even get me started on that shit that was Book of Memories.

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Without Hiroyuki Owaku or Keiichiro Toyama, or just someone who knows the series like those two, this is just another waste.

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As an addendum to my previous post addressing this:

This also screws over any potential new fans because they're not introduced to how it all began. The original game is on a console 4 generations old and copies of it cost a pretty penny nowadays so it's not easy getting started with the series at its roots. The second game is the one that gets the heaviest push and since it's so separated from the original and the follow-ups, a disconnect is created if that's the one people play first.

I mean, its a spin off so its not like its replacing a new main entry made by those guys.

A good horror game is a good horror game, and I have high hopes for this

Silent Hill relies heavily on psychological horror and you're talking about the guy who made Higurashi: When They Cry.

Pretty good fit, if you ask me.

Review embargo lifted on Gotham Knights. It is getting hammered.

Remember the furor over the locked 30fps on consoles? Shit, it can't even hold 30 stable on the Series X. Drops constantly.

Yeah, not surprising. From the very beginning, the game just looked cheap. Like a mobile game upscaled for consoles.

Apparently the only redeeming qualities in the game are that the design of the sandbox is nice and the cosmetics are cool lol

The different costumes do look cool, but the sandbox? From every account I've heard and video I've seen, it looks like a step down from the Arkham games in terms of detail and atmosphere.

Maybe that compliment is just people being nice then.

I grab it when its half prices. Or on ebay for $20.

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But it's psychological horror tackling certain themes with a lore and rules already set. If no one is going to make a game expanding on what the first four games did, I'm not interested. He can make his own separate horror thing like Kojima ended up doing. I'm just tired of the series being treated like the redheaded stepchild of the gaming world where anything goes when some new developer wants to take a crack at it but all other franchises are sacrosanct. It's not an anthology series and ignoring what's been established has led to diminishing returns, so much so that it left so many fans desperate for a savior that they were willing to gobble up Kojima's pile of nothing that was P.T.

The only game that might actually have a shot is that Townfall one, since a few Team Silent members are on board. Everything else? No thanks. I can't believe they're going to allow Christoph Gans another shot at shitting the bed with another fucking movie.

Well, look on the brightside. If it ends up being really good, it could generate renewed interest in the series as a whole, and you could end up getting the game you want.

Bayo deets are out there. Been confirmed that the offer was 4k per session for 5 sessions totalling roughly 20 hours all together. Unconfirmed but the scuttlebutt is she refused and wanted 6 figures plus residuals.



They offered her over 1k/hr though

The original voice actor stated when questioned about this "id just want to move on"