Shut The F*ck Up, Videogames!

I can still hear Dragon's Dogma pawn lines in my head from all these year ago.

I shut off the 'voice' volume from settings after a couple hours from unlocking Strangeling companions. If that setting weren't separately manageable, I would've killed the master volume. edit: at the 2min mark and yeah this isn't me suggesting a solution. I would like to have the voices! Just, the party chatter has to extremely minimalize in Fantasy Life i for sure.

"I'mmmmmm a gonnnnnnnner......." a common enemy in Tales of Symphonia yells as it dies. And no, it didn't have a "Turn off Voices" options.

I used to be a gamer like you, then i took a repeating line to the ear.

I used to be an adventurer

We gotta be around the same age becouse I WAS JUST TALKING about this. Like I am replaying Ultra Sun. Holy cow. So many lines. I just want to see numbers go higher and capture pokemon. There is soooooo much dialog.

Xenoblade 3 made me dread fights for this reason. "You heard that? Lans wants something meatier" is practically seered onto my brain.

I agree that these games need to let players turn the barks off.AAAAAA I WROTE IT BEFORE YOU MENTIONED IT

He caught a beeya, a beeya, zzzazzazzzzaaaa. Soon soon. Ahdayabada.

The inane lines from enemy NPCs in Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim is honestly part of the charm of those games (helps that there are a few lines and they're not repeatedly immediately). "Never should have come here!" and "why... won't... you... DIE!" are ingrained in my brain at this moment.

But the precursor was Daggerfall with "VENGEANCE!" and "HALT! HALT! HALT! HALT!".

Is it a padded bra or man boobs?

I amount of times I heard “rising wyvern!” in tales of arise is astronomical

Oh fam. When i was working on the DLC for Horizon: Zero Dawn, we had so many in-jokes about Aloy being obsessed with bluegleam because she would not shut tf up about it. It's still frequent in the released version, but it was toned down 2 or 3 times.

A BIT O’ POISON ON MY BLADE

The difference from Persona 5 to Metaphor is staggering with how much more your party talks. Every action needs to have a character response now, from everyone, and it's obnoxious as hell

Othercide, my beloved. It's not me, it's you with your 5 stock phrases ruining an utterly gorgeous looking game. I wish you had something like the "Quiet Bradford" mod for XCom.

i stopped playing persona 4 and 5 because of the mascots. i literally ground my teeth from some point onward because i hated every word they said. constantly pointing out the obvious, never shutting up, adding no value at all to combat, dialogue or whatever. it was infuriating.

Wolves hunt in packs, Arisen!

Nature, TAKE THE LIFE SHE GAVE! Although I actually quite like that one.

/CACKLES IN BUBSY FANGIRL

NO, KEEP TALKING

That first clip made me remember "GOLDEN VERONICA" 😆Game makers need to remember to either put a limit to how often a line goes off in a short timeframe, use varying lines, or be sure that it needs to be there.
EDIT: or the ability to mute the voice(s) for a time.

I enjoy your loud hawaiian shirt

I have a pseudo-example and a counter-example.

I love Guitar Hero (present tense - I'd still be playing it if it weren't a pain to set up and had new songs to play), but what kind of creative brainrot led to absolutely every song ending inthe exact same guitar riff and the exact same congratulatory statement printed on screen in every single game?
"You rock!" No, actually, I mimic. But if I accede to the conceit of the game's 'narrative', then I WOULD say thanks, except you keep saying the same thing, which makes me start to doubt your integrity.

My counter-example is a line from Diablo II. Each of the vendors you encounter have several 'greeting' lines, which perfectly serve the purpose of avoiding 'dialog fatigue'. But there's one 'bark' from one vendor I can't get enough of, and I will trigger his greeting several times just so I can hear him say it. Most other vendors try to be personable with small talk, or try to sell you something, or whatever. This guy near the end of the game is pragmatic and economical with his words. The deep, thoughtful, vocal delivery PERFECTLY conveys (to me, at least) the idea that your interaction won't be about what he has for sale -- he implies that he has EVERYTHING. Instead, he focuses on the only question that is important.

"What... do you need?"

Oh! It's so perfect! No nonsense. Straight to the point. Just tell me what you need. I got you covered.

I'm shocked morgana wasn't included here with their creepy fucking comments everytime one of the characters does anything in P5

"Wolves hunt in packs!" Yes, this is a problem. I tried playing Stellar Blade and the constant, repetitive grunts, squeals and effort-noises from the main character made it sound like I was playing some BDSM game. Then I remembered that it was Stellar Blade, and that I was in fact playing a BDSM game.

Leave Reyn alone :’(

It’s always Reyn time

Enemy is everywhere!

A BIT OF POISON ON ME BLADE

I managed to get through XBC1 without turning the voice off.
Took me less than 20mins of Tora in XBC2 "meh!....meh meh meh!" Before I turned that shit off.

"I used to be an adventurer like you..."

Slave of the immaculate heart of Mary bumder
Jim Kingsby WHY ARE YOU REAL!

that's what Joel Vinesauce calls "vomit blast"

Shulk spamming his taunt in Smash Bros: "I'm really feet!" "I'm really feet!" "I'm really feet!" "I'm really feet!" "I'm really feet!"

This is the biggest nothing-burger of a video on this channel.

THE WALKING DEAD: DESTINIES HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
"Adrenaline's PUMPING!"
"My blood's boiling!"
"I'M STILL HERE!"
"More ammo is always welcome."
"Need something to take the edge off."
"GET OFF OF ME!"
(these are also fun things to say on a first date)

RE4 (og) is my favourite game of all time, I must have played through it at least 30 times by now. "What are ya buyin'?" hasn't gotten old for me yet, because you only hear it a handful of times throughout a playthrough.

I think the recent Persona games do a good job avoiding these problems through sheer volume of voice acted lines. Yes, every character is extremely chatty but you don't hear the same lines as frequently as some of the examples in this video. Thank goodness for that.

GODZILLA IS APPROACHING THE GENERATOR!

I think this is at least partially responsible for why people dont like NPC co-op. If you have an NPC sticking with you for a large chunks of the game, even a large voice pool is gonna get exhausted. I really like the Majin in the Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, but its a damn tight rope for me to put up with his lemmy voice and stock action phrases over a 12 hour game.

HAM-MER, I GET IT!!! HAHAHAHAHA

And no one talk about how he groom child ?

Five words: Hyrule Warriors... Age of Calamity. God, I dread what Age of Imprisonment is gonna be like...

You are not a real woman

How does it fell that the guy who's video game you criticized is getting a second movie adaptation????????

Caution. The enemy is approaching.
Caution. The enemy is approaching.
Caution. The enemy is approaching.
Caution. The enemy is approaching.

Starfield does this a lot. When I'm doing missions with my NPCs, my crew, they always say the same thing over and over and over again. If I hear "things are going well, Captain, all things considered" one more time, I'm sending my ship crashing into the New Atlantis spire.

Everything is a Real Time Tragedy for me now!

The start-of-battle quotes in the first Octopath Traveler didn't really get to me until I got around to level-grinding H'aanit for the final boss fights. "Standest thou against me? Then be hunted," is several seconds longer than EVERY OTHER QUOTE and the game would pause the beginning of the battle until the sample had finished playing. You'd be having a grand old time just button-mashing your way through random encounters, even getting into a bit of a rhythm, and then along comes H'annit like John Madden crashing a Ren faire.

Hear that Noah? Lanz wants something a bit meatier!