10 Actors Who Stupidly Turned Down Video Games

This is a most peculiar case indeed. Japanese singer-actor Takuya Kimura lent his likeness to the original console releases of the Sega action-adventure game Judgment and also its recent sequel Lost Judgment, where he played protagonist Takayuki Yagami.

However, he and his representatives ended up massively complicating matters when Sega planned to port both games to PC.

With Sega's Yakuza franchise recently getting ported to PC, it was widely expected that both Judgment games would soon follow, only for Japanese media reports to state that Kimura's talent agency were blocking the development of PC versions.

The report seemed to suggest that agency Johnny & Associates, presumably at Kimura's command, were concerned about the potential for a PC port to allow players to mod and manipulate Kimura's face in ways he didn't consent to.

And while that is absolutely true, so what? Modding is widespread in just about every popular video game ever released for PC, and unless you've got an ego more fragile than glass, hand-wringing over likeness manipulation seems incredibly silly.

Kimura would presumably be able to bank some extra cash if the Judgment games came to PC, and given that he wouldn't need to do any more work to make it happen, it's incredibly silly that he's holding things up.

Worse still, there are even rumours that this kerfuffle could end up preventing production of a third game, as Sega may no longer be interested in a console-exclusive release. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.