Voice acting in games has come a hell of a long way in the last 30 years, and as the industry itself has grown, matured and flexed its financial muscles, gamers have seen everything from actors finding fame in their respective games – the Uncharted series’ Nolan North for example – alongside already notable celebrities lending their talents to any number of titles.
Is it a good thing though?
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
Blaming the entirety of Destiny's failings on Peter Dinklage's stilted voice acting is a little harsh. As phoned in as it was, I'm not sure he can be held responsible for Activision hacking the game to pieces.
What? Matthew Perry did a great job on Fallout: New Vegas and the game itself was awesome, I enjoyed it much more than Fallout 3. And while Peter Dinklage could have done a much better job voicing Ghost in Destiny, the game itself is great despite some genuine problems.
So you're just picking bad video games that were bad more because of the gameplay and blaming it on one voice actor from each game? Next up "Wannabe journalists who continue to ruin journalistic integrity and showing they are absolute moron because they wrote stupid articles". Also this was clearly made to yet again hate on Destiny when it's getting Mixed to Positive reviews and is....FUN. This hate train needs to stop.
hey now - don't make fun of Ripper. That game was AWESOME!
Dinklage rules in everything. If you haven't seen The Knights of Bad@$$dom, I highly recommend it.