#voiced protagonist

[dragonageconfessions]

CONFESSION:

While I really am enjoying BG3, I am  befuddled by the mostly silent protagonist. It sort of diminishes my immersion when  my  protagonist will speak in party banter but never in any cutscenes.  I know a lot of people like the silent protagonist but I prefer it when my protagonists show some actual depth and emotion.  So I'm sorry if this offends but I hope BioWare never regresses back to a silent protagonist. 

[her-worshipfulness]

I can't help but wonder how many character things/issues would be fixed in Inquisition if it stuck to the Silent Protagonist method like Origins instead of having a voiced protagonist.

There would be better role building as Inquisitor through more dialogue choices based on your race and class due to not having to record and rerecord thousands of lines.

Characters could get called on their shit like we could do with Leliana in Origins, and have potentially bettrr character arcs. Maybe it was just me but aside from characters like Blackwall, Bull, Dorian, Leliana, and maybe Cullen kind of, the characters we met at the beginning of the game felt mostly the same as the end of the game. The happy comfortable with who she is but still has some things to work through Sera we got in Tresspasser felt like the one they should have grown her into at the end of the base game, provided we could help her grow a little through her relationship (platonic or romantic) with the Inquisitor (and a better/different writer). In Origins it felt like they grew more as people via their relationship with you. Morrigan learns she can have a friend/lover with no ulterior motives, Alistair can still be a goof but can learn to take responsibility, Leliana can be comfortable in the fact that she can kill a man with a spoon, etc. This isn't a limitation of the voiced protagonist method, but more (imo anyway) of a limitation of having enough funding (paying voice actors, multiple in Inquisitons case) to record as many lines as silent protag had the ability to say while just being typed out and not said.

I WOULD KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD BE SAYING AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT.

There could be more conversations like "I'm and herbalist, take off all your clothes" and totally innocent conversations about lampposts, because those are the best conversations that give the game character.

[tarbuchyloewenthal]

Voiced vs Unvoiced RPG Protagonist

do you prefer your rpgs to have a voiced protagonist or unvoiced?

voiced

unvoiced

no preference or undecided

it changes depending on the studio/game/genre

Voting ended onOct 3, 2024

personally, i far and away prefer an unvoiced protagonist, which feels more and more like a minority opinion.

[fundamentalnail]

Altaholism (or: I can’t stick with a character in Fallout 4)

I’ve made characters in Fallout 4 about 20 times now, and that isn’t an exaggeration. But I just cannot get into it! Everyone I make looks horrendously vanilla and unmemorable, the voice actor(s) is (are) great, but I can’t get over the fact that my character always has the same voice and says essentially the same things all the time (and no, this can’t be fixed by choosing different dialogue options -- how you say something is different, not what you say).

I’m just....a bit disillusioned by the supposed next gen decision of Bethesda to include a voiced character (and therefore gut the dialogue system) because it’s the way the industry is moving. I guarantee that going against the grain and doing what they always did, having a non voiced protagonist with as much dialogue variety as New Vegas/FO3 would have made the game much more fulfilling.

But maybe it’s just me. Maybe I am the problem? Maybe roleplaying games have changed and I’m stuck in the past? I really really want to play Fallout 4 and complete the main mission/side quests. I want to get into the world and take my time. Right now though, I’m just not that interested. THANKFULLY my girlfriend, @somekindofcontraption has gotten a huge amount of fun and mileage out of the game, so it’s not a complete loss!

[dragonageconfessions]

CONFESSION:

I loved both the male and female character voices for Inquisition. I loved the occasional interrupts we got and I loved all the character banter. I hope they NEVER decided to do Voiceless characters again. Times Change. Games Changes. People need to learn to accept it, adapt and deal with it.