This kind of snarky millennial Californian bullshit absolutely ruins the immersion for me. Authorial voice is critical for how we perceive characters and narrators, and millennial writers are so obsessed with breaking the fourth wall because they haven't gotten the memo that it hasn't been clever for decades, it's just really fucking annoying.
George RR Martin, for all his faults, had a great response to an interviewer asking him if he intended to put certain political messages in his books, which is that as an author you're the puppet master behind the curtain, attempting to maintain the illusion that the puppets are real people acting in real events. But the moment the audience becomes consciously aware of your presence, you've failed as an author.
Writing like this is so insufferable because it just has to remind you of the author's presence at every fucking opportunity. And these wokalizers aren't even doing this shit to their own work, they're ruining the work of people that actually understood GRRM's philosophy of storytelling. You literally become more acutely aware of the snarky soy faggot behind the curtain than of the Japs who actually created the original product.
as an author you're the puppet master behind the curtain, attempting to maintain the illusion that the puppets are real people acting in real events. But the moment the audience becomes consciously aware of your presence, you've failed as an author.
Well put. I watched a bit of this game earlier and this sort of thing bleeds through all over the dub (and practically any western dub in general, which is why they're intolerable to me). The VAs, particularly the female ones, never sound like they're performing a real character. Instead they always sound like they're intoxicated by the cool novelty of voice acting itself, which they milk for every bit of quirkiness, ostentatiousness and bossgrrl assertiveness, trying to reinforce their own egos as people outside the game.
The performances and the English script for this game are some of the cringiest I've ever heard. Instead of actors in a story, they feel more like some knockoff Critical Role session performing to a twitch chat.
This kind of snarky millennial Californian bullshit absolutely ruins the immersion for me. Authorial voice is critical for how we perceive characters and narrators, and millennial writers are so obsessed with breaking the fourth wall because they haven't gotten the memo that it hasn't been clever for decades, it's just really fucking annoying.
George RR Martin, for all his faults, had a great response to an interviewer asking him if he intended to put certain political messages in his books, which is that as an author you're the puppet master behind the curtain, attempting to maintain the illusion that the puppets are real people acting in real events. But the moment the audience becomes consciously aware of your presence, you've failed as an author.
Writing like this is so insufferable because it just has to remind you of the author's presence at every fucking opportunity. And these wokalizers aren't even doing this shit to their own work, they're ruining the work of people that actually understood GRRM's philosophy of storytelling. You literally become more acutely aware of the snarky soy faggot behind the curtain than of the Japs who actually created the original product.
Well put. I watched a bit of this game earlier and this sort of thing bleeds through all over the dub (and practically any western dub in general, which is why they're intolerable to me). The VAs, particularly the female ones, never sound like they're performing a real character. Instead they always sound like they're intoxicated by the cool novelty of voice acting itself, which they milk for every bit of quirkiness, ostentatiousness and bossgrrl assertiveness, trying to reinforce their own egos as people outside the game.
The performances and the English script for this game are some of the cringiest I've ever heard. Instead of actors in a story, they feel more like some knockoff Critical Role session performing to a twitch chat.