Liam Neeson's Role Gets Homeland Recognition

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On a lighter note, the Irish edition of the newspaper Metro has a short passage about Liam Neeson's appearance in Fallout 3.<blockquote><center></center></blockquote>While I do feel like a gossip queen for posting this, there are a few things of note:
- The role getting attention in mainstream press
- The honorarium is being quoted as "several thousand hundred euros"
- The game is, unsurprisingly, already categorized as "popular" and "top".

Thanks MACtic!
 
Whoever wrote that crap didn't have fucking clue about what he was doing. He talks about the game as it was Atari's E.T. back on 83... :roll:

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Oh wait, it's metro... No wonder... Fucking piece of toilet paper with letters printed on it...
 
Morbus said:
Whoever wrote that crap didn't have fucking clue about what he was doing.
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Well, duh, HE is excused, writing for a casual freebie gazette... *hint hint*
 
Silencer said:
- The honorarium is being quoted as "several thousand hundred euros"
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That's a ridiculous price. That can't possibly be right, unless the people who allocate budget are utter retards.
 
Is anybody surprised that Mr. Neeson would get a high fee?
Remember the Oblivion farce with 3 reasonably big name actors doing 1% of the work and the same 5 people doing the other 99%?
Looks to be the same thing here.
 
They should just get Billy West to do all the voices. That would be great.
 
I think Ron Gilbert once stated in his blog, that the actor associations are putting game companys also under pressure to pay the actors big sums.
So it seems as if even 'small actors' got a big portion of money compared to programmers and so on. And so i think it's just normal...
 
It's kinda surreal seeing Fallout mentioned in an Irish edition of a magazine. It's hard enough to get the games themselves over here. I might pick it up for the novelty value.
However, what's this about "helping you through the various pitfalls of a post-apocalyptic world"? I know that Bethesda are using The Road as an influence (a great read and a horrendous post-apoc vision) but this is a little too.........gay.
 
As for Liam's fee, I think voice actors are paid by lines :?: that is how many lines or words they have :?: And why shouldn't voice actors be paid OK :?: Normal actors are paid fairly well for their apperance in a 2½ hour movie, why shouldn't a voice actor that appears in a game with as many lines as they have in a movie be paid fairly well :?:

Although, I'll admit that at several hundred thousands euros seem a bit high - even if it is Liam Neeson appearing in the game ;). However, let's say a game like Fallout 3 has budget of say 15 mill. US dollars (approx. 30 Mill. Euros?) spending maybe 300,000 € (euros) is peanuts in the overall budget of Fallout 3.

Of course, it makes the Irish newspapers proud that a born and bread Ballymena-born Irish actor is making it big in the world. Just like the Danish newspapers go crazy pointing out how excellent the Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is playing his role as Le Chiffre in the new James Bond movie. Even I am proud of that, Danes FTW! - and I don't think Mads M. is that great an actor. But I am proud of a Dane doing it great and making it in the big leagues. And so is the Irish I believe.
 
Who can forget the huge headlines when Peter Stormare did a voice in Icewind Dale II? Or the bags of money he carried away from it?

14. Garrett's Principle
Let's not mince words: you're a thief. You can walk into just about anybody's house like the door wasn't even locked. You just barge right in and start looking for stuff. Anything you can find that's not nailed down is yours to keep. You will often walk into perfect strangers' houses, lift their precious artifacts, and then chat with them like you were old neighbors as you head back out with their family heirlooms under your arm. Unfortunately, this never works in stores.
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It's Fallout!!!
 
aries369 said:
As for Liam's fee, I think voice actors are paid by lines :?: that is how many lines or words they have :?: And why shouldn't voice actors be paid OK :?:
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Several hundreds of thousands of euros is not 'okay' pay, it's *insane* pay. Usually voice actors are not paid that well, and several hundreds of thousands of euros is nuts when you consider the pay he'll get for a full movie that requires a lot more time and effort.

Per said:
Who can forget the huge headlines when Peter Stormare did a voice in Icewind Dale II? Or the bags of money he carried away from it?
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Peter Stormare rocks.
That said, I don't remember any headlines when Fallout got a load of big-name voice-actors either.
 
Did Fallout have any truly major names though? Ron Perlman and Richard Dean Anderson weren't as big as they are today (MacGuyver? Bleh!), David Warner always seems to be regarded as b-list (which is a shame, since he rocks and has been in a ton of good movies). The others including Tony Jay were fairly regular voice actors.
 
disturbs me to see fallout go from niche and cult to popular and mainstream, regardless of the 3 in front of the name. course, if the game's good, im' happy it's out there making money, but...
 
Mr. Teatime said:
disturbs me to see fallout go from niche and cult to popular and mainstream, regardless of the 3 in front of the name. course, if the game's good, im' happy it's out there making money, but...
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I wouldn't mind actual Fallout going mainstream.
But this type of hybrid mess? No thanks. People everywhere are starting to believe that RPGs are.. this.
 
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