Is Jim Cummings even still professionally active? He is an older fellow and I haven't heard nothing about him for a while.
Edit: Also yeah, Matt Mercer is a brilliant voice actor, am very excited that he was the one to take on the role.
Yes, he is still working.
But not even offering the role to Jim? And not telling us why?
Why don't know if he was considered/offered the role, and if not why, and if he rejected it: why. And I don't believe we are owed an explanation.
I have learned not to judge this stuff with Splinter Cell: Blacklist. They replaced Sam Fishers VO with some bland youngster and gave an excuse that they needed someone to be able to do mocap as well. Everyone called bullshit and reached for pitchforks. And granted, the choice for the new VO was pretty poor due to the age of the character, but as it later turned out original actor had serious health problems and understandably wanted to keep things private.
So yeah Jim isn't doing it. Whatever the reasons may be they are between him and Larian.
On reddit someone talked to him a year ago and it sounded like he was very much interested in BG III but Larian was pretending he didn't exist.
Whether that was because of the controversy surrounding him and/or because they thought Mercer was a much bigger VA to bag is unknown, but considering the man was available, and willing to work for peanuts to play Minsc (Dragonspear, anyone?) I think it is a fair take from this to call it 'disrespect' in the absence of other information. Seems to be the takeaway JC was getting from BGIII, at least.
