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The voice acting is so good

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[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 5 points 4 hours ago

he is one of the more moral characters in the game i think

[–] Sam@hexbear.net 46 points 9 hours ago

In this house Everart is a working class hero paulie-point

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 50 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

I dont know if he's a scumbag tbh. He seems like he's a committed socialist trying to get the system to sell them the rope by which they'll hang the system.
I'm sure if the Bolsheviks were just getting started today they'd be doing crypto rugpulls and tax evasion

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 33 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago) (1 children)

The game is very good at presenting no character as being purely good. Everyone’s got faults, contradictions, places where their personal interests are at odds with their ideological philosophy. The game wants to make sure that, regardless of which path you take Harry down, you’re swallowing something bitter in the process. A certain fault that’s a price worth paying for in the larger goal.

So with him, it’s overlooking the thinly veiled criminal element and graft as it’s outweighed by the labor militancy/socialism/anti-fascism.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 6 points 2 hours ago

I love him so much, he's such a great depiction of what an actual socialist revolutionary can look like.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 24 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't someone say that he's corrupt but he's corrupt for the union?

[–] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 32 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

lt-dbyf-dubois - "The bossman, Evrart, what can you tell me about him?"

che-smile CALL ME MEÑANA - "I think it's best you make up your own mind, now that you've met him." He shrugs. "In my eyes, he is a capable organizer and a decent businessman."

lt-dbyf-dubois - "What does bossing the Union entail anyway?"

che-smile CALL ME MEÑANA - "I guess you kinda get to be the village chief. He oversees the harbour, makes deals with the owners or other relevant parties. Watches out for his own."

dubois-depressed - "You mean corruption?"

che-smile CALL ME MEÑANA - "By Heavens, why would he not be corrupt? We live in a harsh and disordered world, see. And in this world..."

"... the old man is corrupt for our benefit and we know it. Appreciate it, even. He is, personally, not too lavish."

lt-dbyf-dubois - "That desk seemed lavish to me."

che-smile CALL ME MEÑANA - "He is reasonably lavish, sure. That's his prerogative. It's not like you want a saintly demeanour on a corrupt motherfucker. That would be a manipulative illusion."

"Besides, there are no non-corrupt systems in the world anyway. And moralism is the most corrupt of them all."

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 hours ago

mfer harry talking like working on a shipping container is lavish lmao

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 8 hours ago

"Bruh, its just a nice desk. Its not a mansion or something."

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 9 hours ago

He is not corrupt, he is pragmatic.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 34 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah I think he supposed to come across as as slimey but it just ends up being grey at worst. I guess the drug trafficking thing is pretty shitty but that's about the worst he does. Less scummy than the Ultraliberal Lady imo

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago

I love him compared to her, because she is presented as a much more reasonable person. But the reality is reversed. The whole thing about it being more corrupt if he tried to look like he wasn't is such a good framing - That's her!

[–] decaptcha@hexbear.net 16 points 9 hours ago

4th wall breaking charisma

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 39 points 11 hours ago

Mr. Evrart's helping me find my gun, how could he be a scumbag?

[–] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 19 points 10 hours ago

I'd take him to joyce-messier and the the-pigs the-pigs the-pigs any day lol

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 42 points 12 hours ago

more a slimeball than a scumbag

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Actors have a lot of fun playing total scumbags and it's great! A lot of actors also say villains are way more fun to play than heroes.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Villains have more to work with generally cause they're usually the ones doing the stuff that makes the plot go and have more complex motives comparatively cause a hero's primary motive is stopping the villain. Villains are generally active where heroes are reactive. This is cause most movies think the best outcome is a return to status quo for everyone but the hero who gets personally rewarded.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago

Speaking from when I did community theatre - Villains are also allowed to be more everything, which is just fun.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Great example is Fargo. Both the TV series and the movie.

Reminds me next Saturday I am reserving the noon to 2pm slot on bloop to stream the series.

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 37 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

I only played like an hour and got stuck kind of quickly, but I think of Cuno all the time, his lines just really got me cuno

[–] PunkMonk@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking pig got stuck, did he? Hahaha what a stupid f*****! Said he likes Cuno's lines? That's because Cuno's lines are the best fucking lines! No one does lines like Cuno, Cuno's the fucking king of coke lines, and the more lines Cuno takes up his nose the better his lines get! Fucking self-reinforcing loop and shit.

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago

For a second when I saw this I forgot I was talking about Cuno and was like "well that's a bit harsh" ahah biggs

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 7 points 6 hours ago

Having a ten year old call me a homo so hard that I die is how I wanna go out.

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 12 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

How’d you get stuck? Was it getting into the harbor or paying the hotel fees?

[–] Dr_Pepper@hexbear.net 10 points 7 hours ago

They kept having a heart attack in the uncomfortable chair maybe?

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago

Yeah I had to get past the harbor strike I think and didn't figure it out, it was a while ago, I've been meaning to come back to it but I'm not usually in the vibe for games of that genre

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 29 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

so he wasn't trying to help me????

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 49 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Of course he's trying to help you! But it's just a lost gun, Harry. It's not like you left it loaded. You didn't lose a loaded gun. Local children aren't out there playing with it right now, pointing it into their own mouths

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 40 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

de-authority Authority: legendary success.

Pointing it into their mouths is MY job. CUNOESSE, C'MERE, I NEED A GAME OVER SCREEN.

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 26 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

It's been a while since I played it, but I remember being a bit disappointed when they redid his voice

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If you're slightly technical at all and purchased the game on Steam, I believe these instructions still work for restoring the game to its old state before the new voiceovers were added:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/632470/discussions/0/3094515496023119603/

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Let me know if it still works!

I love listening to our communal large adult son Matt Christman pretend to be tough, but playing the game without Lenval Brown's narration feels so weird now.

[–] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 27 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

It annoys me every time I go back that you can’t select the original audio. I get why they changed it but the characters feel all wrong to me whenever I revisit it.

It double annoys me they added a legacy audio mode or whatever they call it and it still isn’t the original audio.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Why did they redo it? I wonder which version I played.

[–] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It was fairly unpolished ngl but also it included a bunch of controversial people including Virgil and (I think?) the Red Scare girls

Matt as the angry union guy and Felix as the “RIGHT TO WORK!” idiot we’re classic though

You could say it was lo-fi socialist junk but I like lo-fi socialist junk

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Originally they only had voice acting for a handful of characters and dialogues. A number of Left Twitter micro-celebrities played acting roles including the Chapo boys. After the game was a success, they recorded voices for the entire script, but the original voice acting was replaced in the process.

[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yes

spoilerActually it's a character from Disco Elysium