Silent Hill HD Collection’s New Voice Overs…Guy Cihi Responds

Posted By: Whitney   June 14th, 2011 | 1:33 pm

As I mentioned last week Mary Elizabeth McGlynn will be directing the new voice overs for the HD collection. This comes as a bit of surprise and I had wondered if Guy Cihi will be reprising his role as James Sunderland but unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be the case. The Gaming Liberty.com contacted Cihi and he wasn’t very happy:

“Konami knows that they owe me residuals for all previous unauthorized re-uses of my mocap and vocal performances. It would appear Konami is seeking to avoid further liability by changing the voice in their latest re-use of the SH2 materials. However, if any of my mocap appears in the new release, Konami will be liable for unauthorized reuse of my performance. Like Gump’s momma said, “Stupid is as stupid does.” It would have been much better for everyone had Konami simply made me a reasonable offer…I’ll get around to seeking compensation through the courts one of these days. I simply don’t have the time for it right now. I hope this doesn’t bum out any fans… It’s just business as usual on the production side of games.”

I have to say this makes me pretty sad. Cihi’s performance may not have been the best voice wise, especially compared to later installments, but he still a big part of Silent Hill 2 and I’m sorry to hear there’s some business issues between him and Konami.

This isn’t the first time a past Silent Hill voice actor has had beef with Konami reusing reusing their voice. Thessaly Lerner the voice actress for Lisa Garland in Silent Hill wasn’t compensated for the use of her voice in Silent Hill 3 and Konami reward here with a small settlement and her voice was removed from new releases.

So it seems like there’s more reason than “quality” for recasting the voices. I hope Cihi and Konami can come to some agreement though and I’ll keep my fingers crossed for a happy resolution.

Source (Destructiod | TheGamingLiberty.com) Tip thanks to Hell Descent and Thessaly Lerner info thanks to Alchemillahospital.net


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