“That’s Some Real Coward S***” – Hideki Kamiya Discusses The Fallout From The Bayonetta 3 Voiceover Controversy
“That’s Some Real Coward S***” – Hideki Kamiya Discusses The Fallout From The Bayonetta 3 Voiceover Controversy
by TheLaraSuChronicles
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Fauxami
This guy is unfathomably based
Moon_Dark_Wolf
I don’t blame him at all, the fact that when anyone on Twitter is proven wrong and/or the popular opinion changes, they immediately take down tweets instead of rightfully apologizing is fucking mean spirited.
He walks a very nice professional line in this interview. And I don’t blame his frustration in the slightest. Nobody wants a full story anymore, they want blood immediately
NY_Knux
I said right from the start that she was a lying sack, and I was dogpiled for it.
Then they deleted their tweets and never apologized lmfao.
blueblurspeedspin
Kamiya might block you, but he is a fair guy
Linksta35
can someone summarize what ended up happening with all of this please?
tlrd2244
Prime example of Nintendo Derangement Syndrome. Complete dumb assery hidden behind “pay people more (but voice actors only nobody else matters)” fake activism giving people a license to be assholes and say whatever idiotic crap they want. So many people suddenly became experts on voice actor pay rates and Nintendo must be the worst company to work for in the history of the world if you are a voice actor because they don’t give voice actors millions of dollars. Even on the question of residuals the unions were only ever asking that on multimillion selling games (3-5 million+). All the people crying and having their feelings hurt by being blocked by Kamiya will never stop being funny.
jbyrdab
Basically from what I’m 90% sure occured, she was offered only a couple grand, but this was just meant to be a small cameo VA, likely at the end of the game when Bayonettas from the first and second game appear to assist bayo 3 Bayonetta. (It’s a multiverse story)
She left out the small cameo part and fans thought she was paid a fairly paltry sum for a full games worth of VA work.
It might have been because they didn’t get her back but bayo 1 and bayo 2 have very few lines for what amounts to 10 minutes of a cutscene and a gameplay section during the final boss.
So getting 3k for what couldnt be more than a couple hours in the booth sounds pretty fucking great.
I’m not sure on her personal motive so I won’t speculate, and it’s been a hot minute so I legit don’t recall exact details, so take it with a pinch of salt.
However the new VA killed it, so its not a huge loss to the series.
kolt437
On r/videogames I’d comment something like “what does it matter if it’s true as long as it puts a shade on Nintendo”, but I don’t see this news on r/videogames because I bet we were participating in the badmouthing, so it would be really weird to call ourselves out like that.
Pessimistic_Gemini
I’ve not bothered with the game still since I was still one to be for Helena as an actress instead of Jennifer Hale. We’ve heard enough of her far more then needed and something really should’ve been done to make it so she DIDN’T have to be replaced at all instead. It also would’ve saved everyone the trouble and embarrassment in the process as well as it would’ve been the case where everyone would’ve been more satisfied with the end result as well.
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This guy is unfathomably based
I don’t blame him at all, the fact that when anyone on Twitter is proven wrong and/or the popular opinion changes, they immediately take down tweets instead of rightfully apologizing is fucking mean spirited.
He walks a very nice professional line in this interview. And I don’t blame his frustration in the slightest. Nobody wants a full story anymore, they want blood immediately
I said right from the start that she was a lying sack, and I was dogpiled for it.
Then they deleted their tweets and never apologized lmfao.
Kamiya might block you, but he is a fair guy
can someone summarize what ended up happening with all of this please?
Prime example of Nintendo Derangement Syndrome. Complete dumb assery hidden behind “pay people more (but voice actors only nobody else matters)” fake activism giving people a license to be assholes and say whatever idiotic crap they want. So many people suddenly became experts on voice actor pay rates and Nintendo must be the worst company to work for in the history of the world if you are a voice actor because they don’t give voice actors millions of dollars. Even on the question of residuals the unions were only ever asking that on multimillion selling games (3-5 million+). All the people crying and having their feelings hurt by being blocked by Kamiya will never stop being funny.
Basically from what I’m 90% sure occured, she was offered only a couple grand, but this was just meant to be a small cameo VA, likely at the end of the game when Bayonettas from the first and second game appear to assist bayo 3 Bayonetta. (It’s a multiverse story)
She left out the small cameo part and fans thought she was paid a fairly paltry sum for a full games worth of VA work.
It might have been because they didn’t get her back but bayo 1 and bayo 2 have very few lines for what amounts to 10 minutes of a cutscene and a gameplay section during the final boss.
So getting 3k for what couldnt be more than a couple hours in the booth sounds pretty fucking great.
I’m not sure on her personal motive so I won’t speculate, and it’s been a hot minute so I legit don’t recall exact details, so take it with a pinch of salt.
However the new VA killed it, so its not a huge loss to the series.
On r/videogames I’d comment something like “what does it matter if it’s true as long as it puts a shade on Nintendo”, but I don’t see this news on r/videogames because I bet we were participating in the badmouthing, so it would be really weird to call ourselves out like that.
I’ve not bothered with the game still since I was still one to be for Helena as an actress instead of Jennifer Hale. We’ve heard enough of her far more then needed and something really should’ve been done to make it so she DIDN’T have to be replaced at all instead. It also would’ve saved everyone the trouble and embarrassment in the process as well as it would’ve been the case where everyone would’ve been more satisfied with the end result as well.