So, we’re confident that IF we reach our next stretch goal (£1.2m), we will be able to hire at least one high profile actor or actress. In the game, you’d be able to not only hear their voice, but also see their likeness and their acting abilities (thanks to performance capture).
What do you think about it? 
Let’s do it. Why not?
Hm… I guess that would be ok for me. Wouldn’t mind to see a Sean Bean in the game 
I guess it would be an NPC and not the player who will be impersonated by an actor. In this case I hope (if we make it) that this character would have a heavy and important role with lots of screentime within the game. As nice as this goal is, I don’t think it is necessary to spend lots of ressources and time on an 2 minutes cameo appearence of a famous actor just for having him/her in the game.
edit: sorry for moving this post. I ended up in the wrong thread before.
Depends on what it costs and how much that money would get them.
Basically, meh.
I don’t really see the advantage of a famous actor motion captured against a “normal” actor motion captured, except for higher cost that reduces budget for (in my opinion) more important parts of the game.
Also, I find famous people doing voice acting kind of immersion breaking, I’d rather have unknown but good voice actors.
It doesn’t require additional work (you have to hire an actor/actress anyway), and if we don’t make 1,100,000 we don’t loose too much in terms of actual gameplay. Good stretchgoal!
It’s not a matter of reducing the budget and sacrificing game quality just to see/hear a known actor. It would come from the funds raised, and a lot of people have hoped for someone famous in the game in some form. Their original budget was 300K GBP and they’re going to hit 1M any moment. That’s all extra for them and does not alter what the private investor is spending. Warhorse has made that clear already, so all this extra money is going toward making the game even better by letting them use it in the ways they need to and the ways we’ve helped give them the chance to.
I agree. I think this sounds awesome, and the dev team should use this extra to do something they believe would be fun.
Indeed, I’d find recognising an actor in the game immersion-breaking. I’d much rather they went along the route of good but non-famous actors and spent the extra money on making the game more awesome.
My only regret is that this wasn’t a prior stretch goal
Great goal and I’m anxious to hear who they can round up (assuming it’s hit).
I’d love to see this hit but even if it isn’t I hope that doesn’t preclude hiring on some decent voice talent. It doesn’t have to be an A-list celebrity; there are lots of quality iconic voice actions out there in animation-land.
I see four reasons why this is a good stretch goal.
It is something they wouldn’t be able to do without additional money.
It is something that won’t delay the release as they would need to hire some actors anyway.
After the release the actor name will act as an advertisement and there may be some people who will buy and enjoy the game primarily because of their favourite actor.
Reaching 1.2 million pounds is slightly on the unlikely side and I won’t be disappointed if we don’t reach this goal.
I have almost no interest in actors and I wouldn’t be able to recognize almost anyone there so good voice acting will be good voice acting whoever is there.
At first I thought it is a waste of money, since there are TONS of talented, unknown actors out there, but on a second thought I could perfectly imagine someone like Patrick Stewart as a charismatic king or bishop. If he’s not too expensive that is.
Leondegrance!
Please DON’T hire any big-name or well-known actors!
Not only do big-name actors suck up way too much of a game or movie’s budget, they also ruin the reality of the game by never letting you forget whose voice you are hearing, or face you are seeing.
Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill were virtual unknowns when Star Wars was made, but the film made them stars.
There are thousands of great voice actors available, that are waiting for the projects that will make them famous for being the voices of very memorable characters, and they won’t ask for a King’s Ransom to do a wonderful job for you.
Hire the best UNKOWN voice talent you can, and let their voices BECOME the characters for us!
You don’t need big-name voices and faces to sell KCD, anymore than you needed big corporations to control the creation of this game and its sequels.
PLEASE DO NOT RUIN THE REALITY YOU HAVE WORKED SO HARD TO CREATE IN KCD BY MAKING IT ANOTHER HIGH-PAYING JOB FOR A KNOWN CELEBRITY!
Use the money that it would cost for one celebrity to give us a whole cast of great unknowns; and maybe a well-deserved vacation for all of the folks at Warhorse!
Will Hart
Fullerton, California
(And yes, I too am an Unknown Voice Actor… CthulhuWho1 on YouTube or CthulhuWho1.com)
Having one or two known actors won’t detract from the ability for unknown voice actors to make their own mark on a game like this. I highly doubt the cost to hire one or two names will suddenly mean the rest of the voice acting is total crap.
Anyway, it’s up to backers to have the final say or not. If it hits 1.2M pounds, everyone’s more the better for it.
there’s a character in the livestream video that has a striking resemblance to brian blessed. i think most people know who i’m talking about 
Better actors for motion capture and voice-acting is a goal I would have liked to see way earlier - after 700k’s motion capture, what followed were mere gimmicks that do not enhance the actual gameplay, imho.
So: if you make it to 1,1m only, screw those fencing lessons and get better actors anyway please -
I share the doubts expressed above with ‘famous’ actors, esp. concerning bang for the buck (recognizeability doesn’t concern me here), but luckily the official stretch goal doesn’t read ‘famous’ but ‘better’. Good choice, Warhorse.
I would’ve liked that as the 1000000 stretch goal. Maybe instead of a famous one just get more and better actors, that would probably make more of the budget. I don’t really mind hearing non-familiar voices.
Don’t forget Andy Serkis, he is basically the king of mo-cap
Well, I love this stretch goal. It could help the game as an advertisement and also give it something special. But I’m afraid that this will not be just about money. It is quite different to accept role in HBO series or in some relatively unknown game from Eastern Europe (even though CZ is in Central Europe, but most of the world consider us as some Russia like Eastern Europe country) Although I hope that we can reach this goal and WH will wisely chose some strong name in to the cast. There are many relatively famous actors / actress , who would fit the cast very well, not only those mentioned in the update. What about Natalie Dormer for example as some powerful noble lady But one actor is must have and I would like to see him even without reaching that goal. Czech actor Miroslav Táborský would be absolutely amazing. Could play some dumb character since his English have probalby strong Czech accent.
