We are talking about the notorious “ Well, that just happened” dialogue style, which originated from The Marvel Cinematic Universe and Joss Whedon. Not only video games but every major form of media, like films and TV shows are employing this dialogue style. Although there are still some ethical problems we need to root out, like the Bayonetta 3 scandal, the voice acting is great overall.īut, we do need to have a conversation about one problem video game dialogue has had recently. So, good voice acting and great writing have become a uniform standard in the gaming industry. Long gone are the days of cringe-worthy dialogue with human voices that sound like robots.Įven the games made by smaller and independent studios have a very high standard of voice acting. Games like God of War and The Last of Us Part 2 are prime examples of how good voice acting in video games is. Nowadays, voice acting and dialogue are on the same level, if not better, than what we see in movies. However, Space Spartans in 1982 also had voices but that was through a voice synthesizer in the Intellivoice console. Some say it was Dragon Lair by Disney in 1983 which featured human voices for the first time. The first game to feature human dialogue and voice acting varies with different sources. Even in genres that don’t require much dialogue, like platformers, voice acting still plays a huge role. Having well-rounded characters with good dialogue has become essential as the quality of video games has improved. That fantasy world certainly looks appealing, but I realized that's often because the RTX tech disguises art assets that are really cheap and bland.Like any other form of media, dialogue writing is a big part of most video games. In fact, the game doesn't seem to feature any ray-tracing until Frey arrives in Athia.

The opening chapter shows NYC with snow in December, but the ground remains dry, presumably to avoid ray-tracing. Doors inexplicably grow or shrink depending on how you look at them (reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland in all the wrong ways). If the sloppy opening - presenting Frey's entire backstory through documents on a table, with a judge handing down a community service sentence - doesn't turn you off immediately, the lack of consideration only gets worse from there. With publisher Square Enix already catching heat for producer Naoki Yoshida's defense of upcoming Final Fantasy XVI's scant diversity, Forspoken makes the nightmarish choice to start with its Black protagonist in court for her third felony.

Put simply, Square Enix faces too many open-world competitors to get away with a poor showing like this.

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