Immersed Gamer writes: "Sean Chiplock, English VA of Diluc from Genshin Impact, Revali, Teba, and Great Deku Tree from Zelda BOTW. Who also did voicing for Spade/Dail in Freedom Planet 1 came out with some details regarding his work in a Twitter thread.
When asked what he got paid for his role in Breath of the Wild his answer was quite the shocking statement: “I was paid approx $2,000-$3000 overall because it was based on the total number of hours in the studio (which was higher because of voicing 3 characters in a single game). I made MORE from voicing Spade/Dail in Freedom Planet 1 because *that* generously gave me sales royalties.”
This is naturally happening at the same time as Bayonetta’s ex-voice actress asking fans to boycott Bayonetta 3. The situation in which Hellena Taylor got offered $4000 to voice act one of the most iconic characters in video games for a duration of a whole damn videogame."
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Speaking as someone who uses xcloud, i havent really noticed much lag, if at all. I have used the service on a wide variety of devices. A VCR XBO, a One X, the logitech GCloud, steamdeck and my work PC. in all cases it just works and works really well. I was not interested at first in the idea of streaming a game, but then i really started using it as a way to gauge interest if a game is worth my time of downloading/installing and I just cant help but jump into new titles when they drop. I used to do the same with new releases on netflix so i can see why they make that similar proclimation.
With Remote Play, the lag can be almost complete nonexistent too. My TV and Receiver glitched up really bad a few weeks ago and my Xbox wouldn't output through 4K 120hz for a few weird hours of power cycling these stupid devices, so I got to test this out while my Xbox just refused to output video through hdmi.
With a Backbone on my phone, and a controller connected to the console (hardwired into the modem through an Ethernet switch; my phone is connected to a Router that the modem routes to - so there is that extra network layer), I could not notice any difference. Avowed was set to the Balanced mode, maybe Performance would've exposed a lag with the extra frames but the response on my phone screen looked near exact from stick push to game response.
Cloud Gaming, playing something like South of Midnight feels responsive enough to me, and games like Pentiment you really really can't tell, and if you could, that's a game where lag would be inconsequential to the experience
I live in a city that has an Xbox Cloud server, and my local network uses Wi-Fi 6. I've used the service for quite a while. I can't really say I don't feel the latency. Some titles are completely unplayable for me, like Forza Horizon 5. But there are also many games where I barely notice it, such as A Crab's Treasure and Halo MCC.
Honestly, it's great that they're working on making it better. But the way it works right now is already pretty usable, and casual gamers, who I assume are the target audience, probably won't even notice the latency. The issue then becomes more of a commercial or marketing one, because casual gamers are either on mobile or console, and they probably don't even know Xbox Cloud exists, how much it costs, or how it works.
It also doesn't help that some of the most popular casual games aren't available on it at launch. Sports games from EA, for example, are always a couple of months late.
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Not a good look, Nintendo.
Act fairly and decently, or get crap voice acting and continue to damage your reputation. Seems like an easy choice, to me.
How many lines did the great Deku tree in BotW have … ? Not all that many, I believe, so a few thousand bucks for a few hours of recording seems decent pay.
Now they all come out as snails after a rainy day. You don't like the pay? Don't accept the work, easy as that, and why did he spoke after more than FIVE freaking years the game released?!
But there isn't a lot of dialogue in Botw?
Not a great look for the publishers - whatever the reason for their pay.