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[Black_Stride]

Yeah this may be another Xenoblade 2 situation where the English voice-acting is absolutely diabolic and the Japanese voice-acting is totally fine/normal. The problem is, if any of those bullshit Japanese TV shows where they dub over some real life mystery story in Japanese (like having borderline pensioner women Japanese VAs add fucking わ～～～～ to everything for barely late 20s/barely 30s English-speaking women) are anything to go by, the Japanese dub could also end up being cringey as fuck.

Yeah.
Cuz I dont understand and cant tell if its good or bad voice acting i end up just taking it.
I played battlefield 1 with the Russain or was it German....female announcer, so much better.

 

[Kokoloko85]

No human being talks to itself every freaking minute

Loads of people do lol.
Plus for movies, books etc, its a way of interacting with the viewer/reader etc.

 

[lovetalkgames]

It’s a voice over on an ad and people here are acting like they ripped it straight from the game.

 

[Irobot82]

First PC mod better remove the super cringe side shave hair every woman character seems to have lately.

 

[Kamina]

The gameplay looks cool, but i see how the tick tock talk can turn off.
I guess i will wait and see when the reviews hit.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

The actress does a good job with the script she was given, i'll just say that.
But yeah...this doesn't look good. Still seems like a tech demo with horrible writing...

 

[TintoConCasera]

Basically the same problem as:



Liked you say. It just sounds forced.

Really hate when devs make it so the MC can't stop narrating whatever is happening on screen. Like ffs, shut the fuck up, it's one of the most anti immersion things devs could put in their games.

 

[DispatchNinja]

Uh yah, okay, that’s something I do now. FrEAkIng dRaGOns

God, the voice acting and delivery is horrendous.

 

[ManaByte]

Still seems like a tech demo with horrible writing...

No this is one of those bad high-budget PS2/PS3 launch titles no one remembers because better games came out after them, except this is being released in the third year of the console.

 

[Black_Stride]

First PC mod better remove the super cringe side shave hair every woman character seems to have lately.

She doesnt actually have an undercut.
Its just braids in bun.
Probably for animations sake she ties it up later in the game.
......or hairstyles are DLC.

No this is one of those bad high-budget PS2/PS3 launch titles no one remembers because better games came out after them, except this is being released in the third year of the console.

Isnt this a crossgen title.
Dont tell me its nextgen exclusive?

 

[Robb]

 

[ManaByte]

Isnt this a crossgen title.
Dont tell me its nextgen exclusive?

It’s PS5 exclusive.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Loads of people do lol.

People should never not take their meds.

 

[FrozenFlame]

Do teen girls who watch disney tv shows play many video games? That seems to be the target audience.

What about adults that watch disney tv shows and wish they could be the female teen on tv? You can't discriminate the resetera community you bigot!

 

[Teslerum]

Edit: Sorry adressed.

 

[Irobot82]

She doesnt actually have an undercut.
Its just braids in bun.
Probably for animations sake she ties it up later in the game.
......or hairstyles are DLC.

Isnt this a crossgen title.
Dont tell me its nextgen exclusive?

That's a plus the twitter pic made it look shaved. It's by far the worst hair trends I've ever seen, including the 80's.

 

[MayauMiao]

I can't stand a sassy quippy "yup, you're probably wondering how I got here" protagonist.

Also feels like a complete mismatch in tone with the rest of the game.

She got hit by truck-kun?

 

[SnapShot]

 

[ReBurn]

Still not sure about who is the target audience for this game.

The target audience for The Gunk. The dialogue in that game is so bad.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

But she's seeing "FREAKING DRAGONS!!!!!"

Agreed....something feels off about this

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

No human being talks to itself every freaking minute

 

[The Cockatrice]

The perfect definition of tryhard. She really wants to be the next big thing in gaming doesnt she?

 

[TMLT]

Looks extremely generic and mediocre. The main character is very awkwardly shoehorned into the setting too which makes the tone feel off.

 

[Jadsey]

As much as I love Sony exclusives, this game does seem like a steaming pile of shit.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

As much as I love Sony exclusives, this game does seem like a steaming pile of shit.

"Exclusive".

 

[mckmas8808]

every game in a sense is cringey..

Not if you aren't insecure to the highest degree. If you have some confidence in yourself, you'd realize that most well made games aren't cringey at all.

 

[NickFire]

Sony should trade this for a different exclusive. Or for a different game to be non-exclusive. Or for a case of pringles, any flavor really.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

On the bright-side, it doesn't look more cringy than I already thought it was. haha
The gamespot video that was basically calling this game a woman's empowerment game made by a bunch of women set off red flags for me awhile ago.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Sony should trade this for a different exclusive. Or for a different game to be non-exclusive. Or for a case of pringles, any flavor really.

No because "was designed especially for the PS5 Hardware aka "the power of SAD"

 

[Whitecrow]

This forum sometimes dude...
You are so clueless.

I cant even understand how is that hard for you to understand the narrative format of that clip.

But whatever. Do you feel smart and cool by criticising something? Go for it.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

This forum sometimes dude...
You are so clueless.

I cant even understand how is that hard for you to understand the narrative format of that clip.

But whatever. Do you feel smart and cool by criticising something? Go for it.

is there a new clip?!

 

[lovetalkgames]

Do teen girls who watch disney tv shows play many video games? That seems to be the target audience.

This is just a contentious way of viewing a young woman’s voice.

 

[Pallas]

Yup, you’re probably wondering why I’m making this post, and how it all ended up like this, so let me tell you what hap—- I can’t do it… I’ll see myself out.

(Game looks alright, cringy dialog aside)

 

[TheCed]

That was cringe alright. She’s like female Tidus.

At least the Tidus laugh was fitting in the context of that scene.

Forspoken just sound bad in every trailers.

 

[Jadsey]

"Exclusive".

My bad, didn't realise it was a PC game too.

Still looks awful.

 

[Guilty_AI]

every game in a sense is cringey..

life's a never ending cycle of cringe

 

[swaffles23]

Japanese voices is gonna be the way to play this game. I hope

 

[hlm666]

It's kinda like the main character thought they were in saints row 4 pg edition but the rest of the game is like no this very serious game.

 

[Shits_McGiggles]

This is what happens when you get Hollywood parasites to be lead writers for your dumbass game.

 

[TheSHEEEP]

life's a never ending cycle of cringe

And we all work in the cringe mines to fill the pockets of our handlers.

 

[Neolombax]

I do not see any difference between this and Horizon Forbidden West. Most of the time I find Aloy insuferable, but the game turned out pretty good. Still curious to see more of Forspoken.

 

[mckmas8808]

https://twitter.com/Forspoken/status/1556679378892898306


Youd have to pay me to play this, yikes!

The editor of these videos don't do this game justice. I doubt the writing is actually as bad as shown here.

 

[TintoConCasera]

The editor of these videos don't do this game justice. I doubt the writing is actually as bad as shown here.

During some gameplay footage you could hear the MC saying "fuck off!" to the enemies while casting spells to attack them.

I don't think this game will have good, or even decent writting.

 

[kevm3]

They need to give this dialogue the sonic movie treatment and redo all of it. Does anyone have a japanese trailer so I can hear it by comparison?

 

[Guilty_AI]

And we all work in the cringe mines to fill the pockets of our handlers.

To fill them with cringe, we touch them until we become the cringe

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

During some gameplay footage you could hear the MC saying "fuck off!" to the enemies while casting spells to attack them.

what's wrong with fuck off?
Or do you want them to use some bad sounding german spell phrase like anime likes to do?

 

[ManaByte]

 

[TintoConCasera]

what's wrong with fuck off?
Or do you want them to use some bad sounding german spell phrase like anime likes to do?

I want her to either shut the fuck up or at the very least say something related to the setting she's in.

Telling zombies to fuck off or calling monsters "jacked up beasts" is the most cringe shit I've seen in videogames as of late.