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| Moo | Apr 12 2018, 06:31 PM Post #4111 |
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Started Metro 2033 but got annoyed with the Russian accents. I tried to make the point once that the French characters in Assassin’s Creed Unity speaking with English accents makes sense because you’re hearing a French person as another French person (the protagonist) would hear them (with a native accent). Russians taking in difficult to understand English makes no sense! But the actual reason I stopped playing was because I realized I wasn’t in the mood for an action game, so now I’m returning to Persona 5 and starting Divinity Original Sin. After darker games like Pillars of Eternity and Dragon Age, the latter is a fresh breath of good humour. Very baroque. Edited by Moo, Apr 12 2018, 06:32 PM.
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| nuttz | Apr 13 2018, 05:02 AM Post #4112 |
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For Metro you can cahnge the audio to Russian dialogue with English subtitles. I preferred it that but but it does get a bit messy in the hub areas trying to read what multiple people are saying at once. |
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| Doomguy | Apr 13 2018, 11:03 AM Post #4113 |
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Just learn russian you casual. |
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Fuck_Giver.exe has stopped working! Does it matter how I write the truth? | |
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| Sir Goodfellow | Apr 13 2018, 01:24 PM Post #4114 |
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That really bothered me in the movie Hannibal, where Italians in Rome insisted on speaking to each other in heavily accented English. It was so stupid. It's never really bothered me in games though. I accepted it without a thought in AC2, for example. |
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| Moo | Apr 13 2018, 04:09 PM Post #4115 |
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Same here, so I don't know. I'm fine with a Russian accent. Maybe it's just an authenticity thing. Anyway, it's back on hold while I play more 80+ hour RPGs. This track got me back into the groove of Persona 5: |
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| Sir Goodfellow | Apr 13 2018, 04:28 PM Post #4116 |
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I'm currently playing 3 games (Sherlock, Darkness 2, and GTA5) though GTA is clearly taking over. At first I had to kind of force myself to get into it, but it's finally starting to click. I like the golf. The soundtrack is definitely disappointing though. Even the talk stations are way too obvious and mainly unfunny. I do like West Coast Classics, but only cos I recognise a few of the songs and even it feels like a poor fascimile of San Andreas. And in general, the songs I haven't heard before seem to be uniformly meh. But whatever, it's a good game, only sometimes feeling like a painful chore. At the very least, it's not as dreary, empty, and repetitive as IV. |
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| jamesh | Apr 13 2018, 07:26 PM Post #4117 |
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The accents in AC: Unity felt out of place, given that every previous game in the series had used accented English. And they seemed happy to use lower class London accents for AC: Syndicate, even though some people might consider them hard to understand. The bigger problem with Unity's accents was that it felt like lazy Hollywood shorthand where aristocratic English would be used as a short hand for "foreign". |
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| Moo | Apr 13 2018, 08:47 PM Post #4118 |
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Ezio's Italian accent plays into his romantic nature while we're predisposed to find the French accent haughty. That's my guess. |
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| Biceps Ben Six Pack Smooth | Apr 16 2018, 04:46 PM Post #4119 |
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Avoid Hot Dogs
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I believe that English accents are the default go to accents for any non English speaking countries. I suppose it works for Americans but the rest of the world are aware that Americans are not the only English speaking nation. Probably just laziness on their behalf, I have noticed this is with movies and TV shows as well. Bit off topic but I found Thor Ragnarok to be a little bit too familiar being Aussie with the NZ accents used by a few characters, that accent would even be more obscure for Americans. I actually rather hate when I hear Australian and NZ accents, its just too local for me and it takes away the escapism from the media I am enjoying, ie Star Wars prequels, GTFO the Fetts and Stormtroopers are maoris. |
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| Biceps Ben Six Pack Smooth | Apr 16 2018, 04:52 PM Post #4120 |
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Avoid Hot Dogs
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@Goodfellow I started Wolf Among Us, almost through chapter 1 now. It's pretty damn good despite it being an older game to TWD series I also just completed. Its more on par with Season 1 rather the newer improved UI/graphics of Season 2-3. So far its a more or less a detective story but I kind of like that, its a different pace than TWD it actually feels a little less linear at the moment. I like the premise of fantasy story characters being regular people in NY with normal lives. Reminds me a fair bit of Once Upon a Time the TV show. |
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| nuttz | Apr 16 2018, 06:19 PM Post #4121 |
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The game was developed in Ubisoft Montreal so it can't have been ignorance or laziness that resulted in the English accents. It probably would have been easier to find voice actors to speak in French accented English than anything else. |
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| Sir Goodfellow | Apr 19 2018, 05:02 PM Post #4122 |
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I'm about 35% through GTA V and loving it, but I simply can't understand some of the design decisions. Why on earth is there a fully featured tennis mini game but no drug dealing? Yoga but no gang warfare? Triathlon (which is admittedly fun but completely random and with no rewards whatsoever for completing it)? Stock trading but no casino? Really strange priorities. Also, the total lack of interiors is really unfortunate. The ability to go into even just 3-5% of the buildings or even just to purchase your own safehouses would have fostered a greater connection with the world for me, but they have instead reduced the interiors even further. Finally, the city and countryside are technically amazing, but Rockstar's absolute dedication to realism kinda hurts the atmosphere. GTA was always best in stylised, almost cartoonish environments which simultaneously gave you a wonderfully heightened sense of place and suited the anarchic insanity of the gameplay. Vice City showed what could be done with just some pastels and bright neon. IV and (to a lesser extent) V's realistic cities feel a bit impersonal and dull by comparison. It's just not quite as much fun to wreak random havoc in them. Oh, and mass murdering passers by is no longer fun at all. They go down way too easily and unexcitingly. There's barely any blood and seemingly no melee weapons. It was genuinely satisfying in VC to go on chainsaw or katana rampages, cutting off people's arms and heads and watching the geysers of blood erupting from the stumps as they tried to run away. There's nothing like that this time. All that said, I'm having a great deal of fun. It's a terrific game, which could and should be even better. Edited by Sir Goodfellow, Apr 19 2018, 05:19 PM.
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| Doomguy | Apr 19 2018, 05:32 PM Post #4123 |
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I think IV was the best for running people over, the ragdoll physics were just perfect in that game, but they were toned down for V. No idea why. |
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| Moo | Apr 19 2018, 05:40 PM Post #4124 |
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I love 5’s world design. The city has a pathetically superficial artifice, the people are shallow and mean, the wilderness outside drives home how small and meaningless everything is. It complements the main characters’ arcs very well. |
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| Sir Goodfellow | Apr 19 2018, 06:35 PM Post #4125 |
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I definitely liked IV's crash physics, but I remember the driving itself felt kinda gluggy and unresponsive. It's weird, I used to be a big GTA 4 defender back in the GS days, but now when I think of it, I just remember a dreary featureless city seemingly covered with a film of vaseline, making everything dim and indistinct. How there was barely anything to do outside the main missions. How the missions themselves were all exactly the same (drive for ages, kill a bunch of goons, chase the boss). How the game would dump you all the way back to the start of a 5-minute drive whenever you got killed at any stage of a mission. Or the hilarious but seemingly unintentional dissonance between the srs-business-would-be-Oscar-bait storyline and the gameplay. Come to think of it, GTA 4 did kind of suck in a lot of ways. Easily the worst of all the 3d titles. |
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