Thoughts on using hollywood actors as characters in games?

Yeah borderlands in particular doesn't age well with all the memes and jokes

it was novel once but now it's just meh

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Cyberpunk feels more authentic.
Keanu plays one of the most important characters in the whole Cyberpunk universe.
So it feels fitting to set one of the most iconic faces into his shoes.

Kojima just kind of wanted to use his video game budget as an excuse to finally hire hollywood actors so he can make the movie he'd never get to in real life. Its fantasy fulfillment on his part, there's no reason to put actors into his game other than to satisfy his own ego.

It's bad. Just further destruction of gameplay as a selling point. They took cinematic graphics as far as they can now they will sell next gen games based on the looks of Hollywood actors. This is not a good thing.

This is a thing that will die out fast as Capcom learned the hard way with Omnimusha. If companies want to "remaster" these games Hollywood unions will rape them for royalties.

I understand using famous actors for mocap because their faces are well-recognised, but what the fuck is the point of using directors as mocap actors? They're not famed for acting and even fans of movies like Drive won't necessarily recognise his face.

I want to say Kojima is retarded, but given his major retarded decisions in the past, he always somehow lands on his feet. After fucking up MGSV and being fired from Konami, you'd think a game dev couldn't fuck up harder, but he ended up being given a blank cheque by sony and is even bigger now. When he made Metal Gear, "stealth games" weren't a thing, but became popular soon afterwards. Maybe soon we'll start start seeing clones of "Strand" genre games.

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>When he made Metal Gear, "stealth games" weren't a thing,
Tenchu came out first

Could Kojima not afford Keanu for his game?

It'll make normalfags buy the game solely for the actor.

This is the kind of shit you would image Nicholas Cage being all over. Speaking of which, what happened to him? Guy like fell off the face of the planet?

A deal he camoes in his new tv series

I don't know why for a second I thought that Norman would be a similar price.

Refn and Del Toro aren't doing any acting. They merely had their model scanned in and another actor is doing everything from voice to animation.

>Tenchu came out 1998
>Metal Gear came out 1987

I think Del Toro let him scan him for free so why not use it instead of hiring a model or an actor. I think Refn likely did the same and then put Kojima in a cameo for his show.
I expect to see Conan in the game too who got scanned for free and a free character asset for a skit he did for his show.

It's an awful trend and I hope it won't stick. Videogames have this great freedom to create literally anything and it's thrown away just to hype something because some celebrity is in. Soon it'll be like modern Dreamworks cartoons, all names instead of any substance. Even worse if somebody will appear in two games, like Reedus was in Silent Hills but now he's suddenly in Death Stranding. What if he'll keep appearing?
There's also a lot of retarded situations like with Yakuza games when in remaster they suddenly change a model of a character to a completely different one because actor got caught in some scandal or that whole Judgement situation.
I'd rather have original designs. Videogames don't need real people in them.

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They have good faces for the role, thats it

Metal Gear is just Pac Man with a Rambo paintjob.

>>Metal Gear came out 1987
What? Source?

you've never seen x-men?

Based

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I liked Liam Neeson in Fallout 3. His role was underutilized though.

That entire IP is underutilized (except NV)

He probably asked Keanu to be a part of it at some point but Keanu read a bit about the story and thought "what the fuck is this garbage lol fuck this"

I see based Keanu and two literal who mutts

I don't mind it provided it's not used as a major selling point. Quantum Break was really neat for using a bunch of real actors and their performances were very solid both in the game and in the show, but I don't want people hired just for their name if they're not going to give a damn and give a good performance. Liam Neeson as your dad in Fallout 3, Matthew Perry as Benny in New Vegas, again the cast of Quantum Break (Particularly the guys who did Jack Joyce and Liam Burke but also Mayor Carcetti and Detective Daniels), pretty much any major face in Yakuza is an actor and they've all done pretty great jobs, and so on.

Just give me a solid performance and show you give a damn while the company uses them as a strength rather than an advertising point and you've made me happy.

I've only seen x-men from 2000

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_(video_game)

waste of money
who cares about actors
id go see a movie...

I've jacked off to the girl on the right so many times. Her scenes from Blue is the warmest colour are all on pornhub and are basically softcore porn.

I actually misread you and thought you said MGS although what you are saying now is crazier. What did MG exactly inspire? What games? Name them and how MG were direct inspirations for them. MGS did inspire a lot but it wasn't the first stealth game on the playstation.

bad idea. The best games do not have real actors in their games. Also keanu reaves was the worst choice ever. I mean he could fit into cyberpunk. But man he is the shitty mans actor. He stars in movies for people without any brainmatter like shitmovies like matrix and the lowest of all movies ever made, john wick... holy fuck is that a shit movie, I couldn't even watch 10 minutes of that trash. Not sure why cyberpunk affiliates with trash movies. Didn't expect cyberpunk to be the trash genre. Expected it to have story like witcher.

Anyway, real actors in games, no. Vtmb the best non porn game on this planet has zero real actors in it. Man if cd project doesn't handle this carefully they got wasted...

Chicks in the pic I posted got some ugly leather jackets... oh boy

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Those poor actors need jobs, you know they only make a movie a year? Imagine only getting 1 paycheck a year. You will die. Seriously though it's to try to bring people who wouldn't buy the game or people who don't play games to play the game.

Not the recent ones and I don't remember any of the actors.

this, but worse than memes as memes are less offensive

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Funny enough videogames are one of the only two options screen actors have right now to escape being locked to the Disney pony stables. They either have to go to games, or online developers like Netflix or Amazon in order to get a variety of projects and not be married to a superhero franchise for a decade. Even directors are abandoning hollywood for online syndication.

Zoomer detected. Middle guy is from X-Men, get fucked.

here, ill tl;dr it for ya:
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It was one of the first games built around the concept of sneaking and avoiding detection. It pretty much gave birth to the stealth genre. Later stealth games such as Thief can be said to be infuenced by it.

I went to several places in Tokyo that sold porn, last month. Absolutely no way things would be this spacious, they were all cramped and shelves upon shelves of JAV, hentai, PC porn games and sex toys. The stairways up to the area were all covered in posters with ads or other stuff for porn too.

Yes, he was there

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>It was one of the first games
Thats a lie. Castle Wolfenstein came out in 1981 and had stealth in it.

dumb esl

>he wouldn’t put his best friends into his video game

You sound like a lonely loser user

>put some hot memes in a game
>it got delayed for 2 years

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>one of the first

Super rich people you met five minutes ago because you're a fan of their work and who you pay money to hang with and eat burgers with you and have nothing else in common with are your "friends"

Yea great meanwhile you are exaggerating and making baseless claims on the power it had on the industry.

I think its a good trend. Hire actual actors to give actual performances. I don't understand how having an actor takes you out of immersion? Have you never seen a good film?

Speaking of film this trailer reminded me a lot of Good Time starring Robert Pattinson, watch that if you really liked this trailer.

I usually don't mind, but the way they handled Death Stranding where we knew more about the actors involved than the game itself for the longest time was just annoying.

Its a sign that game will be for casual normies.

>middle and right
literally who?

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I dislike it. It's part of a long trend of video games imitating movies in an attempt at being more legitimate and mature.