But also >Asians, and not just Japanese people, are known for their beautiful, smooth skin, so it ends up looking like CG.

It's a video game. It's all CG.

Remember when he got rid of the iconic long-time voice actor of his most popular series so he could replace him with some Hollywood actor doing a generic gruff guy impression? Then said actor ended up being so expensive that there was barely any dialogue... in a _Metal Gear_ game?

I think the next quote explains it better: > On the other hand, it’s easier to bring out the details in older people or people with lots of freckles. I’ve tried to use Japanese people in the past, but it’s hard to make them look like their real-life counterparts. However, this time I used new technology, and I’m quite satisfied with the results. Well, I’d like to do even better next time.

You *do* know there's a reason for that voice difference in MGSV right?

He should get tips from the Yakuza team 

I do, but I also know he'd been trying to get rid of Hayter for a while by then even though he was _the_ voice of Snake, so the excuse rings hollow.

Except that Ground Zeroes exists and Episode 46 of Phantom Pain. This would actually have made sense if ... ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Hayter were involved to voice Naked Snake for his parts and then if Sutherland had only voiced Venom Snake. ::: But that didn't happen. No, Hideo and Konami were just idiots about it starting with Ground Zeroes.

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler And it would have worked perfectly with Hayter as both parts. He's a voice actor; he can do a second voice. As for Venom sounding the same, well, hypnosis/mind control and plastic surgery are basically magic in this universe anyway (see Decoy Octopus, Liquid Ocelot, or hell just Ocelot in this same game). Though that'd be torpedoed by Kojima's feud with Konami over crediting and its result of every scene in MGS5 listing (spoiling) its participants with a credit byline. In that case, the intro could have used a different voice for Ishmael and then the forced replay later that shows what _actually_ happened could switch to Hayter. :::

I would buy it if the excuse was they wanted an actor that could do voice as well as motion capture, and maybe David Hayter wasn’t cut to do both at the same time. In some promo it sounded like they wanted someone who could do both. In the age of motion capture, it’s going to be jarring to record voice lines in a booth separately. Particularly if multiple actors interact with each other in a scene. But no. There was barely any interesting acting at all from Snake. Most of the acting was carried by the other characters, while Snake was just grunting doing nothing in particular. I’d rather take MGS4 Snake any day.

That tip basically boils down to: Use Japanese face models / voice actors who've been smoking for 20 years, rofl.

The motion capture excuse would hold more water if they didn't go for an actor only two years younger than David Hayter.

Or sucker punch. The cast of ghost of tsushima looks identical to their voice actors.