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Resident Evil 4 Remake's Ada Wong Actress Deactivates Instagram Comments Due To Hate

The actress behind Resident Evil 4 Remake's Ada Wong actress, Lily Gao, has deactivated replies on her Instagram posts that mention the role after receiving thousands of hateful comments from toxic gamers about her performance.

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-Mika-758d ago

''CAPCOM replaced Jolene Anderson (Ada's RE2 Remake voice) with Lily because Jolene joined a Union and CAPCOM decided to go non-union as well as going on an initiative to hire actors of the same ethnicities as the characters - applicable for all of their games from here on out.''

Capcom should not have done that. Also, people should stop harassing the actress. It is fine to express dislike for something but it is not ok to go to an actor's personal account and harass them. We all love Ada but direct your criticism toward Capcom

Sonic1881758d ago (Edited 758d ago )

Capcom hates unions. So I'm not surprised

VanHalen758d ago

No offense, but I don’t think it’s really anybody’s business. You can disagree with someone’s actions all day, but telling people what to do is another story. I don’t agree either, but she’s a big girl and old enough to handle her own. It’s none of our business or concern. Game on

thesoftware730757d ago

You are the type of person that pulls out his phone and record instead of lending a helping hand,
shameful.

While I agree that a job in acting/voice acting can come along with criticism and actors have to have thick skin,
how about you tell the losers who have enough time and concern over a fucking video game voice to get a life. Do you know how much of a tool you have to be to spend time on some shit like that?

Not one ounce of my being has ever in life felt compelled to be so ridiculous

TheLigX757d ago

That what you get for being a scab. No sympathy from me.

Rynxie758d ago

Everything has to be toxic now in this sensitive generation. People criticized her horrible VA, get over it. Be a big girl and ignore those that didn't like you.

Seriously, soft times, creat soft men, soft men, create hard times, and hard times, creat strong men.

Adrian_v01757d ago

Let me guess, you're a strong man?

Huey_My_D_Long757d ago

Such a fucking bs phrase. I mean when vast majority of wealthy families have had their wealth amassed over generations, you think their kids had a hard time compared to the poor kids? Look at the history of people who have it hardest, yeah few may rise up above their station, but it's not because they had it harder than other poors.
When historically wealthy elites lives were soft as hell compared to the peasants they ruled over, and they had lives like that forever.
Just a bs phrase to justify being Dicks to each other.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2...

thesoftware730757d ago

I agree, about soft men, and it's way too much of it going around, sorry to inform you, but you come off as one of them.

Do you know what an Alpha male is? From your comment, I will say no.

In this situation, the soft men you speak of would be the people harassing, and being toxic, strong men don't sit around and harass a woman over her voice in a video game, behind a monitor, quite the opposite in fact.

An Alpha male/strong man leads as an example, protects the less fortunate, is very humble, quick with his decisions and actions, and never has to be loud and boisterous to project confidence.

Again, not harassing a woman online, over her work.....I find it funny that you completely ignored the beta males in this case and went straight to dissing the actress. BTW, she did ignore them, by shutting down their access to her.

Sarcasm757d ago

Real small man vibes from this comment, lmfao

sadraiden757d ago

Tell us that you're a libertarian incel without telling us you're a libertarian incel.

Seriously, where'd you get your talking points from? A 2012 conservative facebook dad group?

TheLigX757d ago

The one place where toxicity is deserved is with scab labor. This is about so much more than just a voice actor. Corporations are doing everything in their power to deny worker's basic human dignity.

Rynxie757d ago (Edited 757d ago )

Stronger than a lot for you, that's for sure. I remember gaming on the PS3 during launch and meeting a lot of people talking crap to me. Well, whatever they dished at me, I dished back at them 100x worse. A lot of these people I ended up become gaming friends with, and would challenge them in resistance, cod, kz and other fps games. That's life buddy, you're suppose to be able to take what is thrown at you, and throw it back if necessary, not cry to your safe spot, cancel people, call everything toxic and cry.

No wonder there was a recent survey done and managers don't like you soft generation as employees, you cry and give up for any little thing.

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roadkillers757d ago

Why not? 100% my employer would let go of me if I tried to start a union. Millions of other companies would do the same. Employers have a vision for their job, you don’t get to just make your own decisions. They are the ones paying you. She chose wrong honestly, if this role was that important….

It had nothing to do with this actress. The hateful comments are frustrating. If the acting was bad, why did Capcom say it was good enough?

Christopher757d ago

***Why not? 100% my employer would let go of me if I tried to start a union.***

100% my employer would do this illegal thing isn't the argument you think it is.

roadkillers757d ago (Edited 757d ago )

^ It is difficult to have some people want a union and some not. For a company that has segments that are unions, everything has to be specialized for them. Nothing is standardized, you lose a bit of scale of economy with unions. This post should not be political or about unions…

Why should companies who hire actresses be forced to hire an actress because they are now part of a union? IMO, Actors are no different than independent workers like DoorDash or freelance workers. If the actress did a bad job acting, that’s on Capcom for not making it better.

Christopher757d ago

@roadkillers

***everything has to be specialized for them. Nothing is standardized, you lose a bit of scale of economy with unions. This post should not be political or about unions…***

Lots of lies in that. Unions actually scale with the economy, but corporations want you to believe that them not giving you a raise for 4 years or a <2% raise occasionally is scaling with the economy (hint: it isn't and minimum wage proves it).

I merely pointed out that originally that it's illegal for a company to fire someone for trying to start a union, and that's not a good argument to make (do illegal thing, we are in the right, yay?).

frostypants757d ago (Edited 757d ago )

LOL they used wokeness as an excuse to screw over union members. That's almost impressive in its level of scumbaggery.

dnawesum757d ago

Why shouldn't Capcom have replaced the actress?

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-Foxtrot758d ago

While this is really awful to harass someone or bully them people need to realise it's trolls being trolls rather than blame the RE community or gamers in general like what seems to always happen.

When this sort of stuff happens it ends up creating this bubble where even the fair, reasonable criticism with the voice acting gets lumped in with these trolls harassing the voice actor in question and then there's a 180 from people who then defend the voice acting. It then feels you can't actual criticize it in any way shape or form otherwise your one of the trolls regardless.

At the end of the day while it's awful the voice acting is being harassed it doesn't automatically throw out the actual criticism against her voice acting performance, it was bad, her work was the weakest link in an almost flawless game and they need to replace her in the future sorry to say.

Gamehard758d ago

Her performance definitely isn't the greatest, but shouldn't capcom be more to blame for the direction she was given and settling for what she gave them?

-Foxtrot758d ago (Edited 758d ago )

I see the “blame the director” part a lot but I don’t think it’s really his fault at the end because the rest of the voice actors are fine

If the voice actors were all hit and miss then fair enough but some of the performances are really good in this while others get the job done.

She’s the weakest link and I’m sorry but it comes down to her at the end of the day.

I’ll blame Capcom for getting an actor from the film which bombed and also blame them for not getting the previous actress just because she’s in the union

Now to actually target the actress, sending her direct abuse I definitely don’t agree with but saying the voice is bad in terms of what we’re doing now, a discussion, that shouldn’t be frowned upon, it’s criticism within a conversation talking about the game.

zeuanimals758d ago (Edited 758d ago )

You can hear the lower bitrate in her VO, it almost sounds as washed out as some PS1 games. Whoever recorded her already messed up right there. Just hearing the quality of the recording compared to the rest, any competent director would want to redo it. Something tells me they gave her and the rest of that recording team no time with her.

Still, I don't see the problem with her VO aside from the shitty recording. She's subdued and laid back compared to the rest, almost like she's a step ahead of everyone else and she's playing everyone like a pawn. She can also basically get the hell out of dodge whenever she wants. She's also a corporate spy, having done this shit for years, she's supposed to be pretty cold and detatched. Leave that sultry BS to the side, she's all business. And I still thought it was badass and kinda sexy, idk? Thanks gamers, gotta keep thinking your opinions are fact. Imagine if all 100 trillion Fortnite kiddies started mass shitting on From Soft for making games that don't appeal to them, and then From Soft listened.

zeuanimals758d ago

Ada also played a character to have Leon trust her. Can't really do that a second time.

-Foxtrot758d ago

I think through her entire act she started to care for him

I mean at the end of RE2 she held a gun on him but didn’t shoot, she just couldn’t. While o bet the old Ada would have just shot him straight away and retrieved her sample.

This game was like a blank slate because of the lack of chemistry and it says a lot when they managed to do Ashley justice to the point her and Leon had great scenes together

zeuanimals758d ago

Lmao. You don't get it at all. She played a damsel in distress in the first game, pretending to be someone she wasn't. The jig is up now and Leon clearly doesn't trust her in the same exact way anymore. Also, it's been years. It's an old flame that played him like a fiddle and intends to play him again, but she can't do it the same way she did before. Neither does she need to. They may both care about each other, but they have other obligations, obligations that may pit them against one another.

Chard758d ago

Pretty much this. Her voice acting was fine. Also it’s Resident Evil - if you’re playing it for the story/writing/acting then you’re doing it wrong

-Foxtrot758d ago

There is no way in hell after everything they've done she doesn't care just a little

She's helped him so many times, like I said she could have just shot him and took the sample at the end of RE2 but she didn't even when the "act" was up. You even say "but they have other obligations" yeah and because of that she would have just shot him and that was that but she didn't, she lowered her gun and let her guard down enough to be shot.

"She played a damsel in distress in the first game"

Lmao. And you say I don't get it.

Even when she was pretending to be someone else during RE2 she didn't act powerless at all, she managed to hold her own, there was nothing "damsel" about it.

I just don't get why you are going so far to defend a lacklustre performance

Chard757d ago

How about let's not be overanalysing a plotline that could practically pass for a 90's porn film. Just have fun shooting ganado's

zeuanimals758d ago

There's people harassing her and I'm going hard defending something that I think isn't bad? Buddy, you've come back here to comment on this just as many times as I have, if not more. Who's going hard here? And isn't this topic about a lady literally getting harassed. Idk, seems like some people are going pretty hard alright. Maybe some reasonable opinions that go against what the angry mob thinks might be nice, yeah?

jwillj2k4758d ago

Lol it’s not her fault at all. She had the voice that capcom wanted point blank period. If they didn’t like it they would’ve told her to change it up or replace her. Your blame is misplaced.

Flakegriffin757d ago

Imagine finding a way to partially justify terrible humans that do ignorant things.

kayoss757d ago

You seem to be confused to understand the differences between harassment and constructive criticism. You, everyone, and I know how toxic fans can be in any medium. Her voice acting may not be great, but she does not deserved to be harassed in any way or form.

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HITMAN Signature Edition hits Switch 2 June 5 with Mario & Luigi–inspired outfits and full trilogy

HITMAN Signature Edition lands June 5 on Switch 2 with 100+ hours of content and Mario & Luigi–inspired pre-order bonuses.

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sucks that it's one of those game cards though. 61GB download required.

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Oh God, I can already see the Luigi Hitman memes returning.

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OG Destiny artist recalls Bungie’s “disgruntled” reaction to Halo 4’s art style change

Original Destiny artist Darren Bacon recalls how Bungie reacted to the art style change of Halo 4 by 343 Industries.

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Bungie at that time became the most wonderful bunch of hypocrites in the gaming industry. Knowing this now, gosh the entitlement they felt was out of this world.

Nothing like buying yourself from Microsoft because you don't want to be the Halo Studio anymore, and the FIRST THING you do is sign your next IP over to Activision, for a DECADE, while they are in the middle of ousting the heads of Infinity Ward so they can exert even more control over COD while screwing out the devs at IW...

Should've come as no surprise then that Activision gutted the content of Destiny 1 before launch and was a horrible partner through Destiny 2, until history repeated itself and Bungie had to split from Activision only to wind up in the arms of another major conglomerate that also doesn't know how to handle these unmanageable devs.

Profchaos7d ago

Tti their credit they praised the technical abilities of 343 and I remember at the time thinking halo 4 was a huge graphical leap above reach everything else was rubbish when I actually got to play it but there was no doubt it looked good for the 360 and is probably the best looking game on the system.

But ultimately I think bungie has always had a leadership problem and going independent ultimately proved this it's only getting worse with studio heads being outed by Sony for abuse allegations seems like all bungies past success has been in spite of management not because of it.

But really I think the bungie we have today is not the same one we had in that Xbox era of Bungie

PhillyDonJawn7d ago

I liked the artstyle change. For the most part. Something looked worse but most of everything else looked better. Weapons and vehicles for sure. The wraith come to my mind instantly.
And how can they get mad when the bungie changed it with Halo Reach?

Sciurus_vulgaris6d ago

I know a lot of people dislike Halo 4’s arts style, but there’s thing about it I like and dislike. Personally, the Halo 4 design of Master Chief’s armour is my favourite depiction of the character’s armour.

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