Jarod McChicken
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For me, Ashly Burch is to Aloy what Ashley Johnson was to Ellie. That was a perfect choice in both cases.
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Aloy is my favorite videogame protagonist in recent memory
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MeBecomingI
Member
Agreed. She's fantastic.
TatteredHat
Member
My only complaint so far is that she talks too much during gameplay.
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
Ashly Birch's career path is pretty fascinating. Went from weird side character in a web series to a serious writer and voice actress.
Alter_Fridge
Member
Lys Skygge
Member
Agreed. Aloy is fascinating 
Doctor_Thomas
Member
Aloy is great. The delivery of some of her lines is hilarious too, she's really sarcastic when people are being dicks and that's just wonderful.
Agree with OP
Aloy is well-wtitten and designed character on so many regards, the design is not over-sexualized like other females in games + iconic
Her character is strong specially for an RPG game which your decisions shape all of it (Mass Effect make you shape it too much IMO), a balance rarely found < Geralt is one of the exceptions
Aloy is well-wtitten and designed character on so many regards, the design is not over-sexualized like other females in games + iconic
Her character is strong specially for an RPG game which your decisions shape all of it (Mass Effect make you shape it too much IMO), a balance rarely found < Geralt is one of the exceptions
Needing someone to get to what you want is not the same as being a pawn and only doing what you're told. She clearly could have done most of it by herself in time, it's just easier to get the help from someone who's been at it for years already.
Wesley-Sigma
Member
I find her to be annoying every time I watch my roommate play Horizon.
eso76
Member
Ewwww.
And how is Aloy not " idealized beauty".
You mean she isn't naked, yeah that she isn't.
And she doesn't have huge boobs but her body is Greek Goddess perfection.
I really like her design, though, but i don't think she's particularly well written.
lvl99 Pixel
Member
would like her more if her name was not Aloy
Tomeru
Member
You should check your hearing.
nikos
Member
I found her to be uninteresting and lacking in personality. I liked her less and less as I played Horizon, to the point where the game ended up in my backlog because I completely stopped caring about her or the story. I'll try to get back to it when I'm finished with Persona 5.
NieR's characters, on the other hand, were full of mystery. I couldn't stop playing because I wanted to learn more about them.
NieR's characters, on the other hand, were full of mystery. I couldn't stop playing because I wanted to learn more about them.
plasmawave
Banned
I'd say this game needed more fun characters because I thought a lot of them were really one-note.
30yearsofhurt
Member
Derpy but lovable.
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
Honestly? I thought they were trying a bit too much to make her tough. I mean, no matter how difficult the situation was and how outnumbered she is, Aloy always acts like it's a piece of cake. Hoards of enemies? Nah, I don't need help, I'll do it alone. There is this legendary, deadly Thunderjaw roaming the land? LOL, send me after it.
Sorry, but at some point I thought it was just over the top.
Sorry, but at some point I thought it was just over the top.
I was thinking the same thing.
To be honest, to me Aloy felt more like an 'avatar' a la Shepard to me as opposed to a fully fleshed out character. She had a clear motivation and some neat personal touches, but not necessarily a lot of depth, which is fine, but I wish there had been more opportunities to make dialogue choices.
This was another problem I had, although more so in regards to how she interacts with NPCs, always ready deliver a snarky response. At first she seemed badass and cool, but it got old after a while. It's okay to be just be nice to someone once in a while. I also thought she was overly harsh towards Olin and Erend.
This was another problem I had, although more so in regards to how she interacts with NPCs, always ready deliver a snarky response. At first she seemed badass and cool, but it got old after a while. It's okay to be just be nice to someone once in a while. I also thought she was overly harsh towards Olin and Erend.
Peroroncino
Member
She's also a little too idealistic for my taste, lines like: 'I don't run away when lives are in danger' make me cringe hard, feeling I'm reading 1950's Superman comic. It feels bland and cliche.
Spoken like someone who's never faced adversity -
Aloy was shunned from birth, a literal pirayah. She has earned the right to stand tall and because that adversity has toughened her.
She's the player character, of course she will handle all situations thrown at her. Same way Nathan Drake has chipped away at entire armies or how Geralt takes down beasts and creatures of ever increasing grotesquery.
Aloy is capable through nearly two decades of hard training because she is on a mission to get answers.
SMOK3Y
Generous Member
KZ does run on Decima...
Stripper13
Member
Aloy was incredible. Beyond getting a bit cocky at points she was very clever and a step above most main characters recently.
I still don't like her name though...
I still don't like her name though...
s-bojan
Banned
I disagree.
She is often mumbling and it sounds like she is talking to herself. It could be that her voice is too low in the mix or something...
Jawbreaker
Member
No one seems to mention how compassionate Aloy can be and how well Ashly Burch delivers those lines to sell it. She expresses herself in a multitude of ways, so it's not like she's always being snarky. Even still, I found myself thinking what she was saying when she did employ some snark, so it resonated with me.
I found Aloy incredibly boring and flat to be honest, her character felt too much of a try hard to get me to believe that she is "brave and doesn't take shit from anyone". It just didn't really click for me, her sass just wasn't that amusing and her voice actress wasn't great either (which is incredibly sad because I liked Ashely's performance in LiS). A2 was a more interesting character and she wasn't even developed that much, 2B has a lot of depth to her personality and I prefer her a lot to Aloy.
Aloy is really forgettable to me, Ellie, Morrigan, and Kaine remain to be my favorite female characters in video games.
Aloy is really forgettable to me, Ellie, Morrigan, and Kaine remain to be my favorite female characters in video games.
In these videos Hannah Hoekstra looks the most like Aloy:
https://youtu.be/Ibmp-wmcFhU
https://youtu.be/nUa5MQ4mMy8
I think she's incredibly attractive, but I always had a soft spot for the dutch type.
From what I gather this is some sort of "Between Two Ferns" satirical interview, by the way.
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
I get that she's tougher than most because of her upbringing but dude, she's 19 in this game... Her toughness is completely overblown. Take no shit from the Nora? Understandable. Fighting off the crazy Shadow Carja and bloody Thunderjaws (she didn't even know there are machines this big before the game starts) like it's nothing? Yeah....
I mean, it's ok that she's like that. I don't really mind at the end of the day. But it makes her character a bit bland, unlikeable and not well written in my opinion.
UnluckyKate
Member
I love how sassy she can be.
I agree she's greatly written
I agree she's greatly written
nelsonroyale
Member
From the little I have played so far, she does seem to be pretty forthright, and I like that.
Yeah, that is a fair point. Two traditonal responses would be 'she is an independent woman, she don't need no man', or 'the male fan base don't like their main female characters to romance, so they can maintain their fantasy.'
Yeah, that is a fair point. Two traditonal responses would be 'she is an independent woman, she don't need no man', or 'the male fan base don't like their main female characters to romance, so they can maintain their fantasy.'
RocknRola
Member
Gonna be honest, did not enjoy the English VA for Aloy. Switched to Portuguese shortly after the first few missions (as adult Aloy) and never looked back. Fun thing is that the PT VA's didn't have any "star power" to them, in the sense that it's was all unknown actors cast by the voice recording studio (with GG's or Sony's supervision I'm sure) for this game.
Pleasently surprised with that.
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As for the rest I agree, Aloy is awesome and I want to see/play more of her story
Pleasently surprised with that.
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As for the rest I agree, Aloy is awesome and I want to see/play more of her story
Favorite Protagonist ever? Mhh.. that spot is already reserved for Geralt of Rivia, Welkin Gunther&Alicia Melchiott, J.C. Denton and Cutter Slade, Aloy doesn't "cut" it. She might be waifu material for some but I don't find her all too special.
In recent memory, well, I'd go with 9S and 2B then, even though I only played for a few hours yet, they feel already like they could be included in my alltime list.
In recent memory, well, I'd go with 9S and 2B then, even though I only played for a few hours yet, they feel already like they could be included in my alltime list.
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
not my favorite, far from it, but she's a great character yes, a little bit simple, but she's well written!
her design it's pretty well done too!
The only thing i didn't liked is that she can't shut up and had to say a thing at every action you do! But this is more because of the developpers rather than the character itself
her design it's pretty well done too!
The only thing i didn't liked is that she can't shut up and had to say a thing at every action you do! But this is more because of the developpers rather than the character itself
Rexatality
Member
Easier to say that when you have a way too high of games writing standards
It hasn't bothered me at all because she always has an ace up her sleeve... her focus. It gives her a huge advantage and she knows it.
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
it's a video game, it's rarely realist in that point of view, all main character, child, young or old peoples, are fucking monster and will defeat anything that's on their path, i mean, it's in the gameplay! I prefere that they aknowledge that in the cutscenes too, at least it's coherent, rather than like the final fantasy trope where they can fight huge monsters in gameplay, but are arrested by random soldier in cutscene
BossDarkseid
Member
I am sloooowly getting into this more (my progress in games recently is super slow, ie: Horizon, Zelda etc) but I love Aloy. I think Ashley Burch has done a fantastic job as her VA.