Purposeless Dialogue 

This is why I love games where the main character doesn’t speak. Like in Elden Ring, the writing is excellent because its only goal is to build the world around you, no need for random one-liners from the Tarnished.

This is one of the reasons why I love the Dead Space remake. Issac talks when other people talk to him, but in normal gameplay, when he’s by himself, he rarely speaks, and when he does, it’s always just an exclamation to himself, similarly to how we talk to ourselves in real life. Most of the time, he’s only grunting and breathing heavily when running away from or fighting enemies. I prefer voiced characters, but not when they give constant commentary over gameplay, and the Dead Space remake is a game that doesn’t do that.

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Great work as always. It's actually crazy how the line between good quip writing & bad ones is so thin.

I totally agree! It's nice to see someone actually critically analyze this. I know a lot of the comments say blanket statements that all games should just do "[insert game] style writing", but you actually take context into account. The problem isn't a voiced protagonist or a quippy one... it's how they are doing so, when, and why. Not every writing style works with a silent protagonist. The two examples that come to mind are Metro and Dishonored 1. Two franchises I love dearly, but man is it bizarre when the protagonist is in a full conversation with people they love and there is no response. And yet, other people respond as if the protagonist said something. You just can't write a normal conversation and not have the character talk. The writing must adapt to a silent protagonist. Notice how Half-Life, Zelda, Soulsborne games, Bioshock, etc. don't write the same way as Uncharted or Wolfenstein. Characters just don't talk the same way. In the former games, dialogue may be even less "realistic", but it works for their styles just as well as the latter games' dialogue works for their styles.

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Great video. I would add that the Forspoken's "witty" dialogue feels cruel and combative, whereas Uncharted's wit isn't ever really mean. It was difficult in Forspoken to be around characters who seemed to not want to be in their own game. Nathan Drake is always having a good time.

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I really like what Yakuza 7 does, where the characters will have conversations with eachother in certain parts of the map. Its an actually nice detail they added

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So like I think it's a matter of consistentcy in general rather than the writing itself. The problem with Forspoken is that it's written to be a thought felt narrative with a girl having issues in her life and sent to a gritty and hopeless world. But then she's quipping on things that aren't relevant rather then focusing on what's important. I don't think there's anything wrong with how something like High on Life is displayed, that matches on what that game's setting and world is to be. Cringe or odd dialogue can work for example something like Re4, where Leon reacts or quips at something very outlandish or some argue out of character but this is very much consistent because Resident Evil isn't set to be 100% serious dark and gloom horror as with it's supernatural nature or ridiculous plotlines. Atomic Heart has a similar issue as Forspoken, not just with it's dialogue but art direction, narrative, and characterization. I don't really like to bring Spider-Man in this discussion because I feel like he get's a pass because there's a expectancy of him acting a certain way with how long he's been around and rightfully so. I don't think there's wrong with reactionary / cringe or whatever dialogue some might call it, I just think it has to line up with everything the game is putting before you.

There's maybe something to be said about the way the overabundance of movies and videos affect the way people talk. The whole 'shlick' of Forspoken might seem far more relatable to a lot of younger people coz of them always imagining "huh, I've seen so many movies, including those with 4th wall breaks. This whole situation seems like it could be from a movie or a video game and I'm gonna comment on that." Essentially commenting on stuff as if they themselves were in a movie or a video(game). Hopefully this made at least some sense coz ngl I'm pretty high right now

I 💯 agree with you!!! I don't know why they do it. Horizon, God Of War, Forsspoken, etc. Games like Bloodborne, or something like that does dialogue perfect.

From my experience, Borderlands 3 is one of the games that have the same issues. Thankfully, it's mostly in the main campaign and is not so present in the endgame, the best parts of Borderlands 3.

You really made an entire video to defend Uncharted huh? :D I don't think it's really purposeless, or else we wouldn't see it in more and more games. Like yeah, if there's an option, they know it's an issue, but there has to be something else. And at this point I'm convinced it's because it playtests better. I'm sure they have concrete stats of engagements and know how to maximize it. If they see that people are more engaged when the character keeps talking, it's going to be in every game and there's nothing we can do about it.

Bring back silent protagonists. Please shut up c: The MCU has been a disaster for the human race.

Oh no the busy murderer doesn’t have time to come up with an original quip for the 4 dimensional creature observing it. 😅 what kind of criticism is this? I feel it’s about as bad as the dialogue u critizise