Sometimes game companies make a big deal about the Hollywood voice talent they manage to have for their voice casts like BioWare has done for Dragon Age: Origins and the upcoming Mass Effect 2. But at the moment the most well known actors union, the Screen Actors Guild, are no longer discussing a new contract with game publishers. Variety reports this week that after rejecting a new contract proposal last October, talks have stalled and it doesn't look like any new talks are scheduled.SAG's main issue with the new contract is with the "atmospheric" acting division. Game publishers want to have some actors do 20 voices with a limit of 300 total word for a daily pay rate. SAG doesn't care for that. However, the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists did approve the new contract with game publishers. That means AFTRA members may be getting more voice work in the future.
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Why is this a big deal? Who cares if celebrities are in my game? How about instead of throwing buckets of the games budget to some prissy celeb that has no experience in video game voicing, royally screws it up, and gets a handshake and 3 million dollars, you hire no-name actors that get the job on, and instead focus on making a good game instead of seeing how many celebs you can fit in it.Posted at 1:16PM on Dec 20th 2009 by Sam