What do you think was the worst use of celebrity talent in a video game?

Any game that uses an actor based on face or voice recognition, instead of talent and voice acting experience is shit if you ask me.

Nathan Fillion is actually a good VA tho

Does anyone even talk about this game anymore? Like in general on the internet. Like why does David Cage get to keep making games.

Since Ellen Page said she's lesbian my life is different now

But wasted in Destiny until late dlc.
What a load of shit.

What story?

It was so shit people forgot it even existed

I remember there was a Pirates of the Caribbean game on the PS2 that had Johnny Depp's voice. He sounded like he had spent the previous night drinking heavily and was focusing most of his effort on not being sick in the recording booth.

Destiny was a pretty bleh game till that dlc came out tho so its all good

Ellen's acting is actually helped the game a great deal. they really got the most out of her.

ray liotta in vice city, may as well have just been some random nobody

I would very much like to know that story aswell.

Snoop Dogg showing up in True Crime: Streets of LA. You had to beat the game making the right choices along the way to unlock him, but he was by far the best part of the game. Should've been a playable main character from the start.

I doubt any of you even know this game.
Let alone the voice actors and/or story behind it.

It's probably a wikipedia search away. Do you want a cookie or something.

Goodfellas fans caught on pretty early. People were extremely hyped to hear him. Shame the game wasn't that entertaining.

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Oblivion stands out for me.
Getting Patrick Stewart for a guy who dies 10 minutes into the game.

Then it turns out you still need to voice another 700 NPCs so you hire 5 crack addicts to do it.

Is Willem Dafoe upset because he's a manlet?

Was it even 10 minutes?
At least Sean Bean was a little more involved, still underused though.

It's about 6 minutes of dialogue, actually.

No.

Willem Dafoe has a huge dick. Like huge. So huge that Lars Von Whatever his name is basically made him wear a fake prostetic penis on the set of Antichrist because he said "Dude, your dick is so big people aren't going to be able to take this scene seriously because it's so fucking big"

So just like his acting, then?

Remember when they brought in the guy from 24 to voice a semi-mute self-insert for MGSV? I'm not even a Hayterfag, but Kiefer was so ridiculously underused in that game that I wonder why they even cast him in the first place.

Dick doesn't matter if you're a manlet.

But he's rich and famous, and that's all that will ever make a manlet considered respectable?

come on what's the fucking story?

Why are you so desperate to convince random anonymous people on the internet that you're taller than a movie star?

Probably because he costed too much to do 50 minute codec conversations. Which I missed.

New Ghost sucks ass and is the opposite kind of annoying.

At least Dinklebot was bland like the rest of the game.

Because if their height actually got them bitches they wouldn't be here right now.

>haha fucking guy is a manlet
>yes, but he has loads of money, is really famous and has a humongous dick
>m-maybe, but he's still short HAHAHAHHAHa ;_;

Not sure it qualifies but Jessica Chobot was so awful in ME3 that I wanted to snap the disc, smash the TV then chew on a shotgun barrel every time she spoke.

She's not a celebrity but she was in it because of who she was so it sorta counts.

Conversely Freddie Prinze Jr did a great job and had way too few lines. Thanks for the bait and switch on Beef McSteroid, Bioware.

>Freddie Prinze JR
He was alright on Cisquisition too, I'm surprised considering how shit a normal actor he is.

What about Abs Chunkmeat was so likable anyway? On paper all his stupid nickname shit and being the new guy that needed everything explained should have been unbearable but he wound up fun. As much as I hate to admit it BioWare knocked it out of the park with the jarhead.

Probably Kiefer Sutherland in MGSV. I know it's probably due to all the cuts they had to make, but in total his entire actual used lines probably amount to like one to three pages of text. Seriously, the man barely talks. He talked so little that I still can't say whether he made a good Snake simply because he barely said a thing.

That or maybe Chobot in ME3. Seriously, that was cringy fucking shit. Here's basically an IGN reporter brought into a video game to VA and model for a reporter that also has her own romance subplot. Not only did the character model look like she was melting, but her entire role was fucking disgusting. It was a massive conflict of interests considering IGN reviewed ME3 with a 10/10. What hurt to most though was that she got an entire character modeled after her and a room for her character to be in, but Tali, a character that has been in the series from the first game, gets a poorly photoshopped face reveal that also represent how her entire species looks. The amount of effort that went into bringing an IGN reporter into the game compared to modeling a race that has been faceless since day one is disgusting.

Omikron: the nomad soul

I disliked him at first, for being retarded but with the whole tattoo thing i started to like him

Not that guy, but from what I've heard when meeting Ellen Page for the first time David Cage brought a collection of photos of her as a kid that he wanted to base the character off of. So essentially imagine a guy coming in to talk to you about a part and he whips out a photo album of a bunch of photos when you were a kid that were his "research".

No idea if it's true, but if it is it's creepy to say the least. Makes sense since he wanted the character to grow up throughout the story, but bringing it in and doing the research before they even got her involved is awkward.

I don't care what anyone says, Keifer was an abysmal Snake. I'd take Peace Walker and Twin Snakes Hayter any day of the week over that drunken slob.

Cause he only cost like 300k in comparison to Hayters 900k (or even +1m?)

Why are you trying to be such a cunt?
>Hurr buh I's can be googl dat shiz

Like I said; you wouldn't know about it at all regardless of the cast it has, hence the topic at hand.
Seriously think about your attitude and then neck yourself kid.

>those expressions
They knew they fucked up by working with that ding dong.

>Ice Cube was in Black Ops
>didn't even perform Black Korea
I know it's 'Nam but still.

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Only scene I liked in this game is the scene where Dafoe receives a phone call and realizes that his family is dead.

Vin Diesel and his game. It's pretty much the only one out there that hasn't been shit.

And that's only because he's a PCfag and when they were developing the game, he was there with the development team telling them what he wanted to see in his game. I remember back when G4 was relevant, in the show Judgement Day, they had an episode specifically for Butcher Bay's development and Vin was in the studio with the dev team speaking with the hosts of the show.

[citation needed]
Not calling you bull or anything, but that sounds like something Hayter would say to inflate his own sense of worth, given how butthurt he was during the whole ordeal.

Why doesn't he make games anymore?

I liked dinklebot much more then nolan north

probably because we all pirated butcher bay on fat xbox and pc and nobody paid for it

Out of curiosity, what celeb cameos and voice actors DID go right? (Ignoring things like Tony Hawks and other Sports games where they're just part of the expected package)

I'm inclined to say Steve Merchant did great as Wheatley in Portal 2

Guilty as charged. Still I tried to redeem myself buying it on both steam and gog, but I guess it's too late.

lol you made me look on steam, i also own both there and did not even remember, well i probably paid 5 euros total for both so i guess its something but not much

Oblivion

>Let's hire mother fucking Patrick Stewart
>Have him voice fuck all dialogue

Good job Bethesda

Wayne "Mr Las Vegas" Newton as Mr New Vegas

I wish there was a mod for Fallout 4 where someone just imported Radio New Vegas into the game.

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I fucking hate the hard-on some developers have for Hollywood. The only thing vidya has got from trying to emulate movies is setting back how narration and storytelling should work in an interactive medium for decades.

Beyond Two Souls is a pretty good example,
You hired William Dafoedidn't have him go completely bugfuck crazy. How do you not have Dafoein your whatever, and not have him go Dafoe style crazy at least once?

This.

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I like his Kanan work personally.

>Ice Cube gets the most brutal death in the game
>Barely had any focus on his character despite being the Announcer for the Black Ops side.

>Oblivion

I liked Sean Bean though.

Sean Bean is great, but having Patrick Stewart in your game and having him voice fuck all dialogue is a crime.

I feel like Dinklage is just a completely self obsessed cunt judging from what I've heard.

How can you wear a prosthetic to make your dick look smaller? That doesnt make sense

Concidering von Trier is a pornograph I guess he have his ways.

For those of us who've played the new expansion pack, there's a mission where the Ghost and player have a nice little moment where the reminisce about how they met and all the things they did up to that point. While Destiny may be poorly written, I though that moment was pretty touching in a way, then I recoiled in horror as I imagined what it might have been like had the original voice actor delivered those lines.

Bethesda wastes every famous person they get.

>Patrick Stewart
>narrates the opening and has about ten lines of dialogue before he dies

>Sean Bean
>spoken to intermittently throughout the game but not nearly enough before he dies

>Liam Neeson
>about five lines of dialogue in the beginning of the game, disappears for about half the game, has about five more lines of dialogue when you find him before he dies

>Max von Sydow
>croaks out about ten lines of dialogue

>Christopher Plummer
>see above

>Joan Allen
>barely noticeable and doesn't say much anyway

I guess they just cost a lot so they don't get a starring role or something but god damn, they feel so wasted.

At least Danny Trejo stuck around as a companion in New Vegas.

>celebrity
>talent

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH please. Celebrities bring nothing to the table besides their brandname.

Patrick Stewart as Death in Lords of Shadow 2. You can hear him devouring the scenery to a point where you can't help but like it.

His actual genitals would be covered, and a false phallus would be visible. Imagine compression shorts with a dildo attached.

So to fix the issue of being able to see his junk through his shorts, they made it so that they see junk through his shorts, but plastic?

>At least Danny Trejo stuck around as a companion in New Vegas
Fuck I'm retarded. I knew his voice sounded really familiar but how did I not know that was him until just now?

>Ice cube was in the game

Never noticed that lol.

Yep, he's Raul. I don't blame you, I didn't notice immediately either.

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I thought Charles Dance did a fine job as Emhyr. The man's got an astounding voice. It's probably more a case of where Emhyr as a character just wasn't in the game enough.

Boom
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This. He has what, like four or five lines in the game? I couldn't even tell him, Ocelot and Miller apart on the audio tapes. Horrible audio direction.

So let us know user.

>Emhyr as a character just wasn't in the game enough.
Geralt and Yen working with him is already an unimaginable stretch if you've read the books. I'm glad he was barely in it.

Liam Neeson in Fallout 3. Fallout 3 has a whole bunch already going against it of course but it's amazing that retard apologists of it are even willing to defend Neeson's "performance." The way he delivers lines even suggests that he realized how shit the script was and just phoned it in.

Wheelman was a straight up vanity project and it was a pretty bad game that did terribly.

Kiefer Sutherland as Snake.

Based diesel

Liam Neeson and Malcolm McDowell in fallout 3 were so bad and distracting. I hated it every time I heard their voices.

The entire cast of Red Alert 3
youtube.com/watch?v=3yMy7JuGpJM

Wheelman was alright. The developers of Sleeping Dogs clearly played it as they ripped it the fuck off.

Wasn't it also supposed to be a prequel to a movie that was never made?

He was awful in DA, and his lines with Tikaram only highlight it.

Pretty much any Bethesda game.