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| Why are silent protagonists the default? by Arbit 05/26/2013, 10:13pm PDT | ||||
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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: I've thought a lot about New Vegas in the last few months. One of the conclusions I've come to is that the game had every opportunity to make me care about what it was selling early, but was such a slave to the silent protagonist that it became dumb and pointless. Someone was trying to kill my PC and left her in the desert. I still maintain that moving to Oshkosh would be the best option, but I'm all for revenge flicks. So if she is going to get revenge, the assholes at Obsidian have to make the PC talk. It's hilarious to me that it's 2013 and we're still doing this many silent protagonists. I don't need voice acting, but if you expect me to give a shit about anyone's problem in New Vegas and don't make the PC talk then you have no idea what you're doing. You're just making empty Fedex quests in an empty world for me to pick from. ICJ I've assumed that devs do them because it's more immersive. By not having the PC talk, there's no chance that the PC will say something that the player doesn't agree with, right? But I don't stand around mute while people around me make important decisions that directly affect me in real life either. And since this is fantasy, I'd much rather have my PC telling important and powerful people to blow it out their asshole like I didn't get to do at work. I think HL2 really made me hate silent protagonists. There was a specific incidence where if Gordon had opened his trap he could have stopped someone from making a bad decision (I don't remember the specific plot point, unfortunately). Throughout the game, Alex makes wink wink nudge nudge jokes around how Gordon is the strong silent type. Ha ha, that sort of self depreciating humor only works if you're not poking fun at a flaw that makes me hate your game. |
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