"Indie game fan" when a studio doesn't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for voice acting

I have no idea where this sentiment comes from. I remember voice acting in games being made fun of. Now it's mandatory?

I've always found RPG's more immersive when the MC has no dialogue other than the lines you choose. It lowers the chances that anything they say will misalign with the way you're role-playing the character.

I liked Dragon Age The Veilguard a lot more than most people, but there was a point where your Rook makes a bunch of dad jokes about an Elven hand statue in found in Arlathan, I would never RP as someone who makes the tamest, most milquetoast of dad jokes.

How dare you suggest I use my brain for thinking and not receiving an endless stream of slop entertainment

Right? The vocals help in some games and situations, but a lot of the memorable impressions were the silent ones where we had to read and imagine in our heads. 'Aint no gettin' off this trian!

I enjoy when the characters are voiced (well) but I wouldn’t expect it out of a game like octopath that’s targeting a retro aesthetic.

What are we, the last of us?!?!

And I guess Sega CD era FMV games are the height of anti-woke gaming.

Considering how casually sexist and homophobic those sorts of games tended to be, you're probably right.

Guess we’re woke and gay in Hyrule and Black Mesa

I mean kinda, yeah. Alyx is a POC woman who holds her own in Half-Life, Zelda is one of the three most powerful people in the setting and there's no shortage of other powerful women around, including an entire species of dark-skinned warrior women.

(Not that the Gerudo are an especially good/sensitive portrayal of POC but even ignorant racism is woke to chuds these days, you have to be a full on nazi to satisfy them now)

Guess we’re woke and gay in Hyrule and Black Mesa

If Half-life: Decay came out today, these fuckers would be decrying it as woke propaganda because both the protagonists are dressed like this:

Instead of some sorta boobplate.

And that guy in GTA3.

Please, never stop reminding chuds that their political views are their entire personality. They have no real personality but make up for it by joining the political popular kids.

Straight people…maybe I’d respect ‘em if they didn’t make it their whole personality.

Free speech, pays for it

Staaaaaaaaandest thou against me? [4-SECOND PAUSE] Then be hunted!

(Cut to you, the player, furiously mashing X to try to advance the opening combat shit so you can hurry up and grind those FUCKING TREANTS in the Forest of Purgation because you just had to level H'aanit for the final superboss fight)