Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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"PC Nerd, Likes story-driven games, For Common Sense."
Also, the platform "values you" and yet you have to pay the platform to boost your posts. It would seem like it is you who value the platform, and not the platform that values you. I guess that's just "common sense."
Link to post: https://x.com/Davefinito/status/1995786047884853551
would be more immersive if character had vocals.
Ffs read. FUCKING READ. FUCKING LEARN TO USE YOUR IMAGINATION TO GIVE VOICES TO THE WORDS YOU ARE READING.
"Indie game fan" when a studio doesn't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for voice acting
Best voice acting ever was in Mechanicus, where Admech dudes just emitted modem sounds for using binary lingua technis and Necrons speak normally (though i think devs missed the opportunity to make them sound like early voice syntesisers).
I have no idea where this sentiment comes from. I remember voice acting in games being made fun of. Now it's mandatory?
Modern games spend 50 million on voice acting and now gamers are too lazy to read.
In the good old days voice acting was done by amateurs and so it was seen as annoying.
I was almost a Jill sandwich once upon a time
People were pissed Fallout 4 had full voice acting for the main character because it really limited dialog options, especially compared to Morrowind
Meanwhile bg3 has 10 quadrillion voice lines so it’s really just that bethesda didn’t want to spend the money.
How dare you suggest I use my brain for thinking and not receiving an endless stream of slop entertainment
I've always found RPG's more immersive when the MC has no dialogue other than the lines you choose. It lowers the chances that anything they say will misalign with the way you're role-playing the character.
I liked Dragon Age The Veilguard a lot more than most people, but there was a point where your Rook makes a bunch of dad jokes about an Elven hand statue in found in Arlathan, I would never RP as someone who makes the tamest, most milquetoast of dad jokes.
Yeah it was very jarring in Fallout 4 when your character would speak some random dialogue options.
Right? The vocals help in some games and situations, but a lot of the memorable impressions were the silent ones where we had to read and imagine in our heads. 'Aint no gettin' off this trian!
I enjoy when the characters are voiced (well) but I wouldn’t expect it out of a game like octopath that’s targeting a retro aesthetic.
Good non-woke game narration has your main character constantly replying with useless snarky Marvel-type punchlines to each NPC's sentence
What are we, the last of us?!?!
Does that mean all the retro games created before storage technologies and audio quality became good enough to include voice acting are woke? And I guess Sega CD era FMV games are the height of anti-woke gaming.
And I guess Sega CD era FMV games are the height of anti-woke gaming.
Considering how casually sexist and homophobic those sorts of games tended to be, you're probably right.
Someone needs to infiltrate their spaces and tell them they're all a bunch of woke progressives if they play anything other than Night Trap or Sewer Shark.
2 of the most famous protagonists in gaming are silent: Link from Zelda and Gordon from Half Life.
Guess we’re woke and gay in Hyrule and Black Mesa
Guess we’re woke and gay in Hyrule and Black Mesa
I mean kinda, yeah. Alyx is a POC woman who holds her own in Half-Life, Zelda is one of the three most powerful people in the setting and there's no shortage of other powerful women around, including an entire species of dark-skinned warrior women.
(Not that the Gerudo are an especially good/sensitive portrayal of POC but even ignorant racism is woke to chuds these days, you have to be a full on nazi to satisfy them now)
Guess we’re woke and gay in Hyrule and Black Mesa
If Half-life: Decay came out today, these fuckers would be decrying it as woke propaganda because both the protagonists are dressed like this:
Instead of some sorta boobplate.
And that guy in GTA3.
in the Gamer mind "bad" and "woke" are synonyms.
Please, never stop reminding chuds that their political views are their entire personality. They have no real personality but make up for it by joining the political popular kids.
Straight people…maybe I’d respect ‘em if they didn’t make it their whole personality.
How can their speech be free if they don't speak?!
Free speech, pays for it
Considering the voice acting in the OG Octopath traveller, a lack of it in this one is probably a good thing. Though it wasn't really the voice actor's fault, that dialogue was some of the worst writing I've ever seen.
Staaaaaaaaandest thou against me? [4-SECOND PAUSE] Then be hunted!
(Cut to you, the player, furiously mashing X to try to advance the opening combat shit so you can hurry up and grind those FUCKING TREANTS in the Forest of Purgation because you just had to level H'aanit for the final superboss fight)
Me when every boomber shooter is woke now:
bro Zelda is like one of the most popular series ever
https://xcancel.com/Davefinito/status/1995786047884853551 Just put "cancel" between the "x" and the ".com" and everyone can read the post without having to make an account, or giving ad revenue to the Would-be techbro overlord.
I guess half life is woke too??
Hotline Miami and GTA 3 are my favourite woke games
Gamers decided that Gordon Freeman is trans.
Supports Free Speech: Pays money for it
Values 
, but knocks others for theirs.