Forspoken is written by Amy Hennig (writer of the Uncharted trilogy) alongside Gary Whitta, music by Bear McCreary (God Of War) and Garry Schyman
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Isekai tropes don't sound good in any language lol. I think the only Isekai anime/manga I've enjoyed are .hack and Inuyasha (and even that dragged)
Bet people would like this more if it was more like a anime and it was some dude who gets powerful and gets all the hot chicks.
I'm so excited to play a game with a female lead who isn't just a white girl. Something about the facial animations really bothered me though.
I'm so excited to play a game with a female lead who isn't just a white girl. Something about the facial animations really bothered me though.
I have a soft spot for heavy-handed, sincere anime dialogue. JRPGs are my favorite game genre, after all. The type of dialogue I REALLY don't like is the Marvel/Joss Whedon/everything is a quip and snappy and witty kind of dialogue. And that's kind of the impression I got from this. Still looks like a fun game, though! And it could be more down to the editing, I could see it being better in the game itself.
Haha at the least I will only be reading the dialogue which I am used to and hear it in a language that I can only understand vaguely.
The dialogue felt a bit forced, but it was akin to what you'd see in a young adult-targeted movie trailer at the cinema. So I guess it was very appropriate in that regard.
I'm not a big fan but I actually really liked his work on Outlander. Some great tracks.
What isn't how writing works?? Or does not being a professional writer mean you're not qualified to say whether you enjoy dialogue or not?
So NYC is a playable environment? That's interesting. I wonder if it'll just be a narrative hub area, or have meaningful combat/traversal gameplay in it.
Unless you're implying they brought in Youth Consultants to youth up the dialogue I don't know what this means.
I think their point is that a good writer can inhabit a voice of any age successfully
(I don't agree or disagree, multiple extremely experienced writers and directors have opposing opinions on this)
If the dialogue in the trailer is any indication, they failed utterly.
Implying age has anything to do with finding the voice of a character and writing dialogue for them is ageist and not how writing works.
You, however, are overreacting like I'd expect any real boomer would with the old "kids these days." Which is embarrassing. You're more than welcome to overreact all you want. I'll just be rolling my eyes.
I've watched the trailer a third time and I just can't fathom how anyone has made any substantive opinion on the writing of this game. This place and it's obsession with being exceedingly negative on pretty much everything is so draining sometimes.
Oh, nice, great to see Amy working on something again.
Was already looking forward to this, so that's another cool addition along with seeing McCreary is working on this too, loved the magic and traversal.
Was already looking forward to this, so that's another cool addition along with seeing McCreary is working on this too, loved the magic and traversal.
This.
Yeah.
Point to one my overreaction posts. Go ahead. I'm waiting. And I LOVE how you're calling people ageist when you literally started this by calling people "boomerific", but I guess it's not ageist when you do it. Just laughably hypocritical.
i actually dont think the dialogue was written all that poorly, but the va made it sound worse. especially the girl's va.
The hell are you talking about? The entire reveal and everything about that game is just Johnny McTshirt and his quest to kill CHAOS. The game is a meme. Fromt he demo it's FF Nioh which is cool (I've not played the demo) but the entire story and character stuff is constantly dunked on and memed. No one thinks that shit is rad.
The dialogue needs to die. It was not good. Really needs improvement
Edit: so I need to clarify that I am hyped for the game. As a sucker for open world games. Definitely getting this if I have a PS5, plus a black actress, I am looking forward to it. I came off overly negative but that dialogue really rubbed me the wrong way.
Edit: so I need to clarify that I am hyped for the game. As a sucker for open world games. Definitely getting this if I have a PS5, plus a black actress, I am looking forward to it. I came off overly negative but that dialogue really rubbed me the wrong way.
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I think the game looks really cool; seems pretty "fairy tale superhero" in story, so I doubt the writing will even matter that much.
The trailer dialogue was fine; it's corny.. but that's all "discovering my powers" dialogue.. and it was clearly a trailer edit and not something you'll see in the game endlessly.
The trailer dialogue was fine; it's corny.. but that's all "discovering my powers" dialogue.. and it was clearly a trailer edit and not something you'll see in the game endlessly.
Please give me an example of what you'd want the dialogue to sound like I am so curious lol
I don't think anyone has made a final opinion on the writing of this game. The dialogue in the trailer was not good. Hope it's not representative of the full game.
Is it just me or those the character model look lesser in quality
Is it just me or those the character model look lesser in quality
I have to agree the dialogues are kind of not good, every else about the game looks awesome though whether it's the gameplay, traversal, character looks even I think the voice acting is good but just not the writing. Really hope it improves.
Not going to give you an essay on what good dialogue should sound like. A game with great Dialogue is kid Icarus uprising.
Now the content of the dialogue was fine in my opinion the execution was not what I was expecting at all, especially in the first part of the trailer
Edit: so rewatching the trailer again, the dialogue between her and the cuff specifically felt really off to me. Like maybe it's the way things are marketed to the younger generations now but I didn't like the execution. Not assuming for everyone but I believe that's what most people had complaints about.
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People are laughng AT the Chaos Man, not WITH the Chaos Man
but yeah i think people are going overboard on this one. My inclination would be they simply included slightly too much dialogue. everything we heard would probably land fine with a gamepad in your hands - minutes of gameplay on either side - but in a trailer it's too much.
Surprised to see the first page full of complaints about the dialogue. I thought it was fine for the most part. I was more bothered by the lipsync. It felt kinda off throughout the trailer.
yeah the lip sync is weird. But only seems like that for the main character (who is bodymapped by the way). I just don't get it.
Rewatched the trailer as I didn't listen the first time and it is fine. She's excited as would most people in this thread be if they could shoot earth bullets at a goblin. Given peoples taste I didn't know we had a bunch of Pulitzer writers on the forum.
you know a manly quip like "Guess we're in a JAM amirite??!" /s
Rewatched the trailer as I didn't listen the first time and it is fine. She's excited as would most people in this thread be if they could shoot earth bullets at a goblin. Given peoples taste I didn't know we had a bunch of Pulitzer writers on the forum.
I agree that the dialogue was pretty bad. I expect better from those writers but hopefully they were brought in later and will change.
I'm sorry to say this but I feel some of the cut scenes seem jank. To me, I think this game needs a power house like Sony's 1st party managing the animations or scenes.
I can dig the art work, the world setting and the character designs but somethings...off.
Also good lord the dialog is straight out of some C tier film. Like why does the main character have so many bad lines?
Sorry yall but the gameplay is likely gonna be carrying this game I feel. Also not sure if I'm supposed to be exited with all those people from the tweet when the dialog seems really bad so far.
I can dig the art work, the world setting and the character designs but somethings...off.
Also good lord the dialog is straight out of some C tier film. Like why does the main character have so many bad lines?
Sorry yall but the gameplay is likely gonna be carrying this game I feel. Also not sure if I'm supposed to be exited with all those people from the tweet when the dialog seems really bad so far.
Yeah, probably all of the dialog in that trailer is from the first 20 minutes of the game, so judging the entire game based on it seems more than a little hasty.