Some Game Characters Need To Keep Their Big Mouths Shut

By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001

In today’s silent-but-deadly episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Inspector-Jones quietly sings the praises of video game characters that have nothing to say. Today I was arguing in defense of Valve rummy royal

keeping Chell silent in Portal 2. A few commenters remarked how they want Chell to speak, or commented on how Valve was lazy for choosing to keep the protagonist in most of their games mute. For me, the last thing I would want in Portal 2 is for Chell to speak. Having Chell snap off one-liners would totally conflict with how I imagine the character would be. I could be thinking or doing one thing, only to hear Chell something completely different than me. That contradictory wouldn’t break the game, but it certainly rummy royal takes me out of the moment. Yono all app For example, let’s look at the companion cube. Let’s say someone really didn’t care about the companion cube while playing Portal, now imagine if the character of

Chell loved it, and would not stop blabbing about it. Another example, introducing voice acting for the hero in Fable 3 completely killed the game for me. In the old fable games, I could play out in my head how my character would respond to quest givers. My pirate viking king wouldn’t be anyone’s bitch, and the only reason he would consider doing these pathetic chores was for the cash incentive or the hopes of playing things out to his benefit. In Fable 3, my character was voiced, and an attempt was made to include a more “involving” story. Here I was being the biggest dick in Albion, and yet every cutscene, my character acted like a noble and worried for the lives of his people. Sorry Fable 3, my character wasn’t a princely fellow, he was a Yono all app

mother fucking pirate who killed anyone who looked at me the wrong way (everyone). People may call it bullshit, but I love the silent protagonist. It’s been proven that great worlds and stories can be crafted without a voiced main character. About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to say, and sometimes what they have to say has nothing to do with the stories we run. That’s why we have that little forum on Kotaku called Speak-Up. That’s the place to post anecdotes, photos, game tips and hints, and anything you want to share with Kotaku at large. Every weekday we’ll pull one of the best Speak-Up posts we can Yono all app find and highlight it here.

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Some Game Characters Need To Keep Their Big Mouths Shut

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