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of how watered down the game is going to be

I love how much that reddit is just coping

there is an aspect of, people who haven't had a good 4X since Civ 5

who want to believe

muh heckin content ratios

You know it is bad when people have to make these to try to justify to themselves to buy it

I think the MP numbers will be telling

This feels like a game that's going to get shilled hard for a couple weeks, then be forgotten about

I am sure that people will be rushing to be able to play as Harriet Tubman

I thought it was a bit simple but I didn't even dislike Civ 6, but I am completely baffled by the direction that 7 is taking.

This confusing self hating and shoot your self in the foot for an audience unlikely to ever play your game.

I think they got spooked by the sales drop-off of 6, and that every other 4X game has 'failed' in the last 8? years

and read into that as "the old fanbase for Civ and 4x is gone, we need new blood"

The future is female, don't forget that spooky

I was never gonna buy it for multiple reasons, but is it bad that the actual biggest reason is that the new narrator is female.

I just can't get immersed by my historical factoids if not presented by what sounds like a 70 year man who has been curating a museum

from the reveal, I remember being more annoyed at it being a British VA

I think British-female voices are annoying at a base level

There's probably a female VA that wouldn't suck, but she's definitely not it

I'm fine with Attenborough types

I also think, Civ in general has gone downhill with their selection of quotes

and has less of the cool thematic drapings that made 4 & 5 so iconic

I think Civ also has the problem like the Sims and a few others, where any spiritual successors based on the older ones are gonna be a worse version or a trainwreck

its unironically my biggest issue with BG3

i like amelia tyler, she did great as mallady in DoS2

but i can not fucking stand a british female narrorator

especailyl when DoS2s was so good

Unrelated; but another gaming topic. Sorry rusp...

I think they lack the ability to have a neutral intonation, which makes every line have this tone that's just not meant to be there

i think theres always a bit of

snarkyness

with british female voices

i know nothing will do it

but i do wish more games had narrorators

i think its how you solve the issue of zoomers hating to read

but still have heavy self introspective dialogue

You can write a narrorator well without it telling you how to think or how your player thinks

I still struggle with whether I like fully-voiced games

that I hate

I can take full VA, i cant take 1000000 cutscenes

yes

unless its like death stranding

not jerking off DoS2 but its another thing i hate about BG3

A good narrator leaves me with a smile or at least some memorable lines, but I do think it would be hard to shoehorn in for some experiences.

the Bioware style, people standing expositing at each other in a cutscene I'm done with

every small, TINY conversatyion has a long ass animated action

I think the issue is also, game writing sucks

its only going to get worse

the people that grew up on "good games" are dying out

The making video games more like movies has made some interesting or memorable scenes, but it really does just interrupt gameplay flow and immersion done poorly. Your more of the real gamer here spooky, but hasn't the bioware style been out of for the past decade?

its more in than ever with bg3

the bioware wheel is kinda dying

i will not be suprised if in 3 years theres 10x more

of games with long drawn out cutscenes of people standing around

but the style of, characters stand looking at each other, and the camera swaps back and forth is everywhere

even (mostly) well-written games like Witcher use it

dont remind me of the new voice actor

that whole situation is still weird

I feel like there are two strategies right now: 1) Bioware dialogue delivery 2) Disembodied voice in your head/earpiece

most games have ditched companion NPCs who talk to you in-gameplay

other than tLoU and GoW

i actually like when the earpiece character is well done

but

99% of the time its not

armored core 6 does it very well, to the point you have 3(4 kind of) distinct earpiece characters, you never see anyone in gameplay but they're all very well written and their personalities shine through quite well

Which way western man, Bioware or Looking Glass Studios

Max, I actually think you're onto something with your original point about good narrators

really now!

I think it would be a welcome change of pace

I'm going through all the games I can think of that were narrative-focused

I adore games with good narrorators so much and I feel like it makes your actions so much more grounded and sometimes give you an immiedtiete perspective on your actions

and weirdly, I think Metro was the only one that I think had an effective use of dialogue

for the narrative

which sometimes when you end up doing things "aimlessly" or brain dead

it can make you put your thoughts into perspective much more

I don't think any game will

its hard to pull off

even if it's not a true narrator, I also like games where your characters inner monologue is voiced