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RobXIII

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Aloy is a likeable female protagonist in a modern game. Not defensive or hostile, she is more understanding, stoic and compassionate.
I think I commented earlier in the thread but the demo was enough to turn me off Forspoken because of how intolerable the main character (and bracelet)s banter was.

Yup, Aloy's game had a great story, and a character that despite being an OMG GIRL LEAD, you can relate with her reactions. You WANT to keep playing to see what's next, and to a lesser degree how she reacts to it.

I wouldn't want to watch a show with this main character though, why would I pay 70$ to play a game?

To be honest though, I'm impressed the broke the latest unwritten woke rule: Thou Shalt Not have criminals be a certain shade of color :p
 
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1) average age of gamers is 33. Millennials and gen x comprise a lot of the target demo.

2) HZD, God of war, death stranding, Bioshock 1 and infinite, mass effect 1-3, Star Wars KOTOR, Wolfenstein before Youngblood, Prey, Diablo 1. 2 - Warcraft 2-3, WoW pre catalyst, all GTA’s, the list goes on and on. Know what doesn’t? This pandering shit which tries to bring the behavior of the .01% in their every day mental illness infested lives and put it in a video game or a movie and force actors to read through the shit.
HZD had quite a lot of completely cringe dialogue. It just had some good dialogue along with it. Also, don’t forget Elden ring. Can’t have woke dialogue if you don’t have any dialogue
 
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Mist

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By Square-Enix standards I wouldn't even consider this dialogue bad.
 
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Drinsic

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HZD had quite a lot of completely cringe dialogue. It just had some good dialogue along with it.
I feel like most of the cringe in HZD came from characters that weren't Aloy, which is a pretty different situation compared to this.
 

Kaige

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The dialogue in Bulletstorm alone is worth playing the game.

 
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Mist

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Bulletstorm was a pretty fantastic game for a game that you can play in one sitting.
 

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HZD had quite a lot of completely cringe dialogue. It just had some good dialogue along with it. Also, don’t forget Elden ring. Can’t have woke dialogue if you don’t have any dialogue

Haha true.

At least Aloy's main writing wasn't like that though. I attrribute some of the cringe crap in HZD/West to a one off quest designer who got diversity hired in.
 
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Mist

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This game actually gets pretty good later on, you basically become a sword/dagger elementalist from GW2.
 
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Valderen

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Well it appears they know their dialog is crap and annoying because there's an option to reduce the banter between the main character and the bracelet. :)
 

Zindan

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Really? Didn't ACG mention you could lessen the frequency of Cuff's general chatter?
 

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Too bad you can't delete all the cut scene shit along with it.
 

Mist

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It's a game where they got better at making the game as they went along, and the quality keeps improving the further you go in the game, then the devs never went back and did a polish pass on the beginning of the game.

This is opposed to a game like HZD, where they made the boring middle of the game first, then went back and made an awesome intro and the side stuff like cauldrons.
 
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No idea about any of that, purely talking about the dialogue. There have been plenty of games, probably the majority, that didn't have great dialogue or treated it as shit they threw in because they had to like the plot of a porn movie.

This isn't that.

This is written by someone who thinks they're amazing at what they do and the dialogue is so hilarious and awesome that it's the strong point of the game and the more of it they can throw at us the better. It's so fucking terrible and grating that it actually pisses me off every time I hear it.
 
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spronk

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angry joe played it all day yesterday on stream, i saw bits and pieces in between errands and it was pretty awful. the end game "twists" were all stuff thats obvious a mile away, game seemed massively padded with "walk to 10 different spots to get a 30 second unskippable explanation cutscene each time", just endless recycled enemy models, and the infinitely annoying chicks narcissistic self involved dialogue never gets better.

i'm sure any self loathing wanna be trannie will love it since i imagine they think "THEY FINALLY GET ME" but i wonder how any normal person could play the game. it was pretty funny seeing 3 grown ass men feeling so broken playing this shitty game for their job


the thing i just can't get is how a japanese dev made this game. I plat'd FF15 and while it was mostly bad the problems were all just shit grinds, ultra bland characters, and bad pacing. This game is like a super step backwards for japanese devs with shit gameplay, shit story, shit characters, bad pacing, bad combat, bad visuals, bad voice acting.

Its weird, its like the western shit dev virus (Bioware, Ubisoft, 343) infested their studio.
 
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Daezuel

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i'm sure any self loathing wanna be trannie will love it since i imagine they think "THEY FINALLY GET ME" but i wonder how any normal person could play the game.

Well this explains why Mist likes it.
 
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