Comments on: Voice of Niko Bellic is Not Happy With His Pay

By: J.T. Carter

J.T. Carter — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:11:15 +0000

word!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

By: Niko's mom

Niko's mom — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:43:14 +0000

Niko himself wouldn’t have whined about this. He would have gone after R*

By: Deex

Deex — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:45:47 +0000

They shouldn’t pay him anymore money. He walks into anyplace that needs some form of acting, and he wants the job, and he auditions for whatever work he’s doing, all he has to do is say he voiced Niko Belic on Grand Theft Auto 4.

Think about it, a sweet way to get your foot in the door. Sure not up to standards by what other people making acting in big name things, BUT he gets his foot in the door to do bigger things.

By: Heru-Ur

Heru-Ur — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:32:16 +0000

Ok so this dude got paid 100 grand to stand in a room and talk into a mic, and hes bitching about his pay?! What a fucking tool.

By: Zenthik

Zenthik — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:59:58 +0000

Wow, you’re all a bunch of ignorant morons. Voice acting contributes immensely to the immersiveness of a game, and your inept analogies to irrelevant bullshit show only your colossal stupidity. Listen to a big talent like Tony Jay and tell me his acting didn’t lend character and immersion to every project he was in.

By: nunya

nunya — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:55:13 +0000

$100,000 is nothing. It’s time you children grow up and realize that.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:11:18 +0000

I couldn’t give a flying fuck who does a voice in a game, I don’t play the game cos of the voice actors I play it cos I like the type of game. Why the hell should the actors get royalties and residuals, if anyone needs them I would much rather they go to the games designer, the story writer, the programmers. Hell, if the game played shite no fucker would play it. You tell me one shite game where someone says I love this game cos the voice acting is good…. BOLLOCKS!

Another thing, if I was a game producer I wouldn’t rehire these guys for another game, who wants bitter nobody actors when other nobody actors would be thankful of a great job like this.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:36:18 +0000

Boo Hoo, I am sure he was happy enough when taking the job for 100k. He prob never even knew what GTA was before he got the gig. Anyone who knows the franchise would have had an idea of how big it would be, even if the game was total rubbish it would has still sold by the bucket load.

$100.000 is not bad by any standards for reading someone else’s words! Quit your wingeing, Niko could not have said a word and the game would still be good, thanks to all the talented people that actually created the game.

By: Mihen

Mihen — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:43:29 +0000

What about the programmers and the artists then. The creative director and lead programmer? They contributed more to the success of the game than this voice actor. In fact the voice means ZERO to the success of the game, it adds quality (which the voice wasn’t THAT good) but people don’t buy GTA IV because Michael Hollick voiced one guy. Give me a break.

By: Dr.

Dr. — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:05:44 +0000

Steve, I’m fairly certain the guy who did Brucie’s voice is FPS_Doug from pure pwnage.

The guy who did the voice of Niko should have worked all that out to begin with, not get paid then complain. Contracts are contracts.

By: Ben Hobbs

Ben Hobbs — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:08:44 +0000

Why is it unfair, I simply refuse to believe that voice acting and motion capture for a video game, even GTA took a SOLID 15 months. More likely it was a week here and there, a few hours a day – but not 9-5 every day for more than a year.

Unlike films or TV shows, the ‘actors’ in video games are NOT the reason people buy them, its about time these people came down to Earth a little. For some cartoons, the voice actors get paid a million dollars a show, for saying 20 sentences, ridiculous.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:22:31 +0000

Too bad so sad. If I was a contractor who built a successful restaurant, should I get royalties from that restaurant? I don’t think so. What if the game did bad? Would he have given the money back? A contract is a contract, if the actor would have requested royalties or residuals from Rockstar, they probably would of got someone else. I would have…

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:19:17 +0000

This guy’s voicework in GTA4 was average at best. It also didn’t take long for me to recognize “Hey, this guy speaks english waaaay too good.” Results in far too much effort on my part to ignore the fact that Nico’s accent is fake.

The guy who did the voicework for Brucie Kibbutz deserves some kind of an award. Brucie is destined to be an iconic video game character.

I had to enable subtitles for Jacob, which is a compliment towards that particular voice actor as well.

By: Book

Book — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:07:55 +0000

If anyone should be getting residuals and royalties off of the game it should be the designers. The Artists and programmers that crunched for months to make this game as good as it is. This idiot voice actor is taking credit for their blood sweat and tears. I find it offensive, but also completely irrelevant. Voice actors for games will never be compensated like their movie cousins because they do not factor into the success of the game. If their union demands it, developers will just settle for non-union voice actors. If that doesn’t work then they won’t use voice acting at all. And it would not hurt their sales in the slightest because it is good game design that sells games, not acting.

By: Kev_M

Kev_M — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:09:26 +0000

I agree with alot of people here, $100,000 is a dair amount of cash.
And for a voice actor, its seems fair.

But thing is, like all companies, if they didnt like it at the time, then he should just got the hell out.

We easily coulda had different voice actors and not have cared one little bit.

he didnt seem so vocal about it while doing the work and collecting his paycheck.

The money he’ll make as a result of having GTA4 on his CV will more than compensate for any grumble he may have.

By: FrostPaw

FrostPaw — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:46:14 +0000

$100k for voice work isn’t peanuts. Takes many people 3-5 years to earn that. Some people won’t ever see that much money in a lifetime. Be gratefull youre not one of those people.

By: Kodiak

Kodiak — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:28:37 +0000

raok52, if we dont matter, why should we support Hollic, listen to you, or do any thing for anybody. Since the working man is obviously unimportant, I guess we can all just fuck off and take a vacation from everything.

By: Dadud

Dadud — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:42:56 +0000

Time for a Rent Niko video.

By: raok52

raok52 — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:26:08 +0000

He still deserves more money, dickwad. Every voicework actor who does so much for a game (I think the guy who did CJ’s voice should be complaining as well) should get a percentage of residual profits. Which in this case, isn’t residual at all, since it’s still selling very well. He deserves a lot more than a piddly 100k. Yes, it’s more than most people make, but they’re people like you, and fuck you. You are the little people, just like me. WE DO NOT MATTER. You need to learn this. I do not matter, you do not matter. Your opinion doesn’t matter either. So fuck off, and support this guy who contributed to a game I’m sure you’re all playing (and if you’re not, you’re a Wii faggot or Sony fanboy piece of shit, and need to be killed)

Satan Bless.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:12:31 +0000

it is reasonable pay – the value of having done this on his CV will be worth far more in the long run