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IFireflyl on 29 January 2015
jetforcejiminy said:
fucking hope so, hate these western games with the same constipated-sounding guy doing the voice for all the protagonists. wtf?


Very this. The all of it.



 

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Metrium on 29 January 2015

At first I thought yes, he was going to be silent. But a quote said that they have voice actors that you can choose when creating your protagonist. So no, but I doubt he will say much during cutscenes.



 

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Mystro-Sama on 29 January 2015

I never understood the idea of a silent protagonist. I always thought it was pointless.



Frogger on 29 January 2015
Vodacixi said:

Watch the Treehouse gameplay. The character does not say anything. At all. It would be really weird if after an hour of discovering a new world with gigantic and fantastic creatures without saying a word... he suddenly talks. I don't think so.

And yes, in the gameplay they skip cutscenes where you could argue he could be talking. But if he doesn't even open his mouth when he sees that giant water dinosaur or that flying monsters... I doubt he does in the skipped cutscenes.


The evidence is there. Fact is, you can't ignore skipped cutscenes. Since the VAs are famous, and are being revealed the way they are, they probably didn't want it spoiled so early. 



curl-6 on 30 January 2015
IFireflyl said:
BraveNewWorld said:
I hate it when characters, and sometimes entire games coughZeldacough, are silent. It's not a 'creative decision', it's laziness and cheapness.

I feel that a lot of voice acting ruins the characters. It all comes down to personal preference. It isn't "laziness" so much as not wanting to turn people off on a character (and potentially the entire game) because the voice acting is bad/annoying/etc.

I can think of quite a few games myself where voice acting actually made a game worse, not better.



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the_dengle on 30 January 2015

It's too early to tell. Cross doesn't speak in the first few cutscenes, but that doesn't mean (s)he'll be completely silent throughout the game. I expect some kind of weird curveball in this department. Especially since they did already go to the trouble of hiring a multitude of VAs and broke the character's vow of silence with battle cries.



the_dengle on 30 January 2015
spemanig said:

The evidence is there. Fact is, you can't ignore skipped cutscenes. Since the VAs are famous, and are being revealed the way they are, they probably didn't want it spoiled so early. 

It wouldn't have spoiled anything. The #1 voice option in the Japanese version is the Japanese voice actor for Shulk -- this is seen in the character creation tool. Showing this character speaking wouldn't have spoiled the voice actor since the character creator already spoiled it. He also spoke during battles, anyway.



NobleTeam360 on 30 January 2015

Ugh I hope not, silent characters makes it hard for me to care about them.



alternine on 30 January 2015

There's no excuse for silent protagonist's in todays games. Especially in a story heavy RPG.



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the_dengle on 30 January 2015
alternine said:
There's no excuse for silent protagonist's in todays games. Especially in a story heavy RPG.