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Haha, I don't know that it particularly surprised me, it just comes across as an added dimension to the incredible effort that is voice acting to begin with. As you mentioned, voice actors for video games and even anime don't often get to record together and play off of one another's natural inflections and characterization the way actors in every other medium are trained to do, but I think that's sort of a given for the profession and you know that going in. But not even being given a full page of dialogue or a basic scenario to work with is, like, sadistic. It basically means you're relying entirely on the ADR director to convey exactly what you should be doing and how you should sound because they're the ones who have the full picture (at least I would hope they do!), at which point it's like, why don't they just do it themselves. x.x
Yeah, there are some less then stellar directors in the ADR business; it's like the one industry where I think actors becoming directors is generally a good thing. Cartoons and video games can be done quite differently, but I think the real thing is whether it's a straight recording session or a dub; the former is hard enough, for sure, but the latter adds in timing and all sorts of technical fun that limits how far you can take your performance and really own the role. That's why I say anything that makes it harder to be authentic and present is baaaad all around. But I won't belabor the point. Thanks for the conversation. :3
That is exactly what they do with the KH series, yet Jesse McCartney never learns.
He spilled the beans on most of the games localisations.
