Yeah, i just can't stand all this shitty constant swearing-quipping-being sassy-look how much i'm selfaware kind of dialogue, it's just so cringe and extenuating.
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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Only zoomers have the true cultural nowness to properly appreciate *checks notes* a stuffy British talking amulet dropping exposition about a magical land of dragons.
Bear McCreary and Garry Schyman are a fascinating combination for the soundtrack. They're both such extraordinary talents in their own right, but their work is so different stylistically. Very curious for the result.
re: the dialogue, the way it was edited into the trailer didn't do it any favors, particularly the audio of Frey reacting to her new found powers overlaid with footage of her in combat. If the same dialogue was from a cutscene with Frey reacting to her powers for the first time (which it seems like it was from one of the scenes in the trailer), it'd be less corny. I really liked the the cutscenes at the beginning when Frey was in New York, and the dialogue felt a lot more natural there. Homer the cat! Looking forward to seeing more. I always forget Gary Whitta does have a gaming background in writing, but I still have to admit I hope Amy Henning is taking more of a lead in the writing department here.
Positively, really excited for Frey as a lead, the gameplay looks really fun, and I'm also loving the attention to detail with Frey's motions when she triggers abilities in combat -- the ice/blizzard attack in the combat towards the end of the trailer looks amazing.
re: the dialogue, the way it was edited into the trailer didn't do it any favors, particularly the audio of Frey reacting to her new found powers overlaid with footage of her in combat. If the same dialogue was from a cutscene with Frey reacting to her powers for the first time (which it seems like it was from one of the scenes in the trailer), it'd be less corny. I really liked the the cutscenes at the beginning when Frey was in New York, and the dialogue felt a lot more natural there. Homer the cat! Looking forward to seeing more. I always forget Gary Whitta does have a gaming background in writing, but I still have to admit I hope Amy Henning is taking more of a lead in the writing department here.
Positively, really excited for Frey as a lead, the gameplay looks really fun, and I'm also loving the attention to detail with Frey's motions when she triggers abilities in combat -- the ice/blizzard attack in the combat towards the end of the trailer looks amazing.
personally, i just think it's kinda funny how alot of people here are getting so worked up over corny dialogue in some video game trailer
not to say, it's immune to criticizing ofc but i'd be lying if i said it wasn't hard to have anything amounting to a substantive opinion about the writing other than vague impressions imo
Not as cringe as the anime nonsense you get from most jrpgs.
The teaser had a single line of dialogue, and spawned a 30 page thread about how the word fuck is inappropriate for an rpg.
I thought the dialogue was fine and fun, it fit the tone they'd established in the last two trailers. The writing team behind it is solid and the game looked good fun. Additionally really happy to see a diverse cast in the game. Looking forward to this one, it has a lot of potential.
Hope folks here didn't watch the Marvel Midnight gameplay video that came out recently if we talking corny!
Seth...
Seth...we have to save her, onee-chan
We have to save Seth!
Seth...
Seth...we have to save her, onee-chan
now she just says "freaking"
At least we now know Amy didn't written anything on Uncharted lol, so bad in this game's trailer.
I'm having flashbacks to the trailers/gameplay reveals of Horizon where people complained that Aloy talked too much and had weird dialog and all of her talking was cringey.
It's going to be fine, folks.
It's going to be fine, folks.
Well, (almost) nobody is saying that Amy is a bad writer.
The dialogues in the trailer are pretty awful, but maybe Amy hasn't even written any of those lines herself. Or maybe those lines somehow work better in context. We don't know.
Yeah, definitely. Mostly just completely stilted quips turning into contrived arguments, then broken up by an action sequence, rinse, repeat. Really can't stand that kind of stuff (75% of stranger things episodes are like this too)
No, as the post above you substantiates the scant few lines in this trailer are now entirely indicative of her career and any pretense at things we once thought were written by her is now gone. Obviously this trailer destroyed the writing credibility of anyone associated with it
You'd think after writing Soul Reaver she would have a free pass for life, I guess not
User Banned (Permanent): Racism, dismissing concerns of representation across a series of posts
This new "woke trend" about having every character be the exact same as the people writing it, or acting it, or voicing it needs to die!!
As I said before, the very day that we see yellow people voicing the Simpsons, green people voicing Gamora or a rabbit voicing Bugs bunny, I will affect that trend.
If some of it sounds ridiculous it's because it is. The very essence of writing and acting, is the ability to be, do, create something you are not!
Someone wants black writers to better represent black characters in media and you bust out green people and cartoon rabbits...
Late but this is exactly what I was thinking after I read whose writing
I really like Amy Henning's writing across the Uncharted games.
Hopefully the trailer isn't super representative of the in-game writing.
Hopefully the trailer isn't super representative of the in-game writing.
Hey, don't have anything to say about this game. Just popping in to say this post was written by an idiot.
This game is being unfairly judged because its westernized i feel.
Because people aren't this critical of bad dialogue and writing in other JRPGS
Because people aren't this critical of bad dialogue and writing in other JRPGS
Bear McCreary the god. God of War's soundtrack was great and Battlestar Galactica's was one of the best in television.
I think part of the problem in that regard is that it's a game from Square Enix. People who are fans of Square probably have a greater affinity for jrpgs than they do Marvel esque writing.
Being better represented doesn't mean they need to force it. There is NOTHING wrong to have a white person voicing a black character, and there is NOTHING wrong having a black person voicing a white character.
Every people regardless of race deserves a chance to have work, but it doesn't mean that if the black person gets the job has to voice a black character only.
People are acting as if it has to be MANDATORY to have a black character voiced by a black person.
I believe the people you choose to voice your character (or act in a movie) doesn't have anything to do abut race.
My comment about green people and rabbits is ridiculous, because that's how ridiculous this situation is. Why do actors have to step down from a job they've been doing for years, only because some people complain that their race doesn't match the character? So that's where, by their logic, a yellow character like the Simpsons, need to be voiced by a yellow person. (Since there are no yellow persons, of course it's ridiculous). People don't seem to mind that Bart Simpson (as well as many kid characters) are voiced by women. It shouldn't matter who voices the character, but they make a fuss when it's convenient for them.
There are movies where you do have to MATCH the race of the character for it to make sense, and they still don't care and they hire whatever actor they want, but in these situations don't care! Just as there are moments where gender-bending a character or race-bending a character is ok, there are other instances that are not, and many people don't care about it.
The comment from the post I replied, saying that it's weird that there is a black character but not black writers, it's way more out of touch. So now a white person cannot write a black character correctly? Is the other way around also true?
My conclusion is: Why can't we just enjoy what we have! We get this character, so let's enjoy it for who the character is, not all the mumbo jumbo that happens in the background!
where did all this come from?
the game has a black female MC which is great
but having black writers would elevate the experience
Right??
How are people freaking out about this kinda-lame-but-still-pretty-whatever dialogue when most JRPGs have far, far worse dialogue and VA? I am completely mystified lol
Like Tales of Arise is getting glowing reviews and impressions and that shit was horrendous
Wat. "Sincere"? What the hell does that even mean
Do you know why "woke trend" exists? It's precisely because of the bolded. People only wrote bald white dudes as heroes for the longest time, and we never had diversity and representation in video games outside of some margins. Now that is changing with better representation, and you suddenly want to go back to the good ol days?
