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It appears that Troy Baker is building a game studio
- Thread starter IbizaPocholo
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TheAssist
Member
He certainly has a lot of contacts and knowledge about the industry. Dont know whether he knows a lot about actually running a studio, but I mean he is super passionate about games, especially single player games, so let the man cook.
Rather him, than some out of touch business guy who wants to make another live service.
Rather him, than some out of touch business guy who wants to make another live service.
HallowedFeast
Member
He's pretentious enough for me to see him giving himself every role. Maybe one for Laura Bailey, but that's it.
HallowedFeast
Member
Baker was caught promoting NFTs a couple of years ago before the backlash caused him to chicken out.
He IS the out-of-touch business guy you're talking about.
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
Amazing voice actor, most likely the best, but owning a business is a whole other universe. Good luck to him, it's a massacre out there.
So, an normal AAA game then.
Sticks
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Using AI
TheMule1983
Member
Will be more woke than Concord. Perfect for modern Sony.
Cert.in.Death
Member
If so, good luck to him. Running a studio is tough and treacherous but I'm into the idea of creators being more central to ops and management.
omegasc
Member
First comment did not disappoint.
uncreativename
Gold Member
Hope it goes well for him
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Nocty
Currently Steaming
well, well well. My nigga!!!
I jokingly asked this exact question when I met him at Comic Con a while back
Troy is such a nice dude in person. He signed a bunch of shit for me and my wife, had a coffee with us, we talked a ton about comics, movies and games. He gave us the time man and I respect that, hundreds of people per day coming at you.
I jokingly asked this exact question when I met him at Comic Con a while back
Troy is such a nice dude in person. He signed a bunch of shit for me and my wife, had a coffee with us, we talked a ton about comics, movies and games. He gave us the time man and I respect that, hundreds of people per day coming at you.
LavitzSlambert
Member
GermanZepp
Member
I can't stand this dude.
GHound
Member
He's going to take on twice as many roles to try and keep the studio funded when the investors aren't lining up at the door.
Luipadre
Member
Unironically he has the range for that so im okay with it lol
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
And Travis Willingham
Miyazaki’s Slave
Gold Member
I would believe invest in this if it were a game asset studio focused on VO and motion capture creation.
CuteFaceJay
Member
How is a voice actor able to bankroll a whole studio, Were they paying him in Bitcoin all these year or something?
kunonabi
Member
Yep, dude's a total asshat. He didn't even have the balls to stick to his stance or apologize when it pretty much turned out Guy was right all along.
HallowedFeast
Member
That's just who Baker is. Don't forget that he was also incredible belittling to Nolan North, causing their Let's Play YouTube channel to crumble, severing their friendship for several years. They're on better terms again, but it takes an impressive level of nastiness to cause someone as famously approachable as Nolan North to stop wanting to be your friend.
And then there's the time he scammed his fans out of money to fund his new album. An album that was supposed to be released in June, 2017, but never did. Didn't stop him from pocketing all of the donations though.
Bottom line is that Baker is an arrogant cunt who forgets that he's little more than a glorified court jester.
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
Business loans.
bender
What time is it?
Made even more funny in that Guy was sticking up for voice actor rights as a whole and that's not even the field he is in. Even with Troy sucking off Konami, it's still better than the shit Mary Sunderland spewed.
Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
He looks like an elf.
ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
Eh.
Unless the plan is to make much smaller scale games than Baker is used to, I don't think this is going to work out.
Spinning up "new studios" with the a mashup of the same old talent is exactly what every other dev was trying early this decade. Almost none of it has beared fruit.
Unless the plan is to make much smaller scale games than Baker is used to, I don't think this is going to work out.
Spinning up "new studios" with the a mashup of the same old talent is exactly what every other dev was trying early this decade. Almost none of it has beared fruit.
He would be pooling together investment capital. Again, he's about 5 years late to the party. Probably why he's suffering the same air as Greg Miller to broadcast this. So many failures later, I don't see how anyone invests to the required degree in vidya for the rest of the decade. Especially not with a VAs name on the box.
Puscifer
Gold Member
So many NPCs in Mafia 2 you can hear them talking to each other
midnightAI
Member
A small studio with less than 8 Devs isn't expensive to set up if that's the route he wants to take (not watched the video so no idea what he has planned, guess id better watch it)
Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
It's really bizarre, the enshittification of people's attitudes that happened from people you previously respected in the 2000s, with that example being an early warning from around 2012, but it got way worse as time went on.
And in particular being a western VA fan was suffering with all that happened later.
Moses85
Member
Microsoft is planning to lay off 15% of its studio staff. Maybe he will be able to find a good fit for his upcoming studio there.What good timing, I mean this is such a great time for the industry in general.
I'm sure it'll be very successful.....
Dr. Samuel Hayden
Member
No thanks.