• Heavybell@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I don’t think this is a graphics problem. I think people are just tired of silent protags. I mean, people were starting to make fun of it even when HL2 was new, enough so that the game actually draws attention to it in order to lampshade the issue somewhat.

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      3 months ago

      Hmm… Gordon Freemann having no lines was much more jarring that the silent protagonist in the Portal series.

      Gordon is supposedly a brilliant scientist, but gets ordered around by NPCs that do nothing.

      Portal protagonist has likely brain damage from being in stasis for a while, so I can assume they are just mute.

      So it really depends on the game, setting and story, if a silent protagonist works or not. But having some character with emotions and agency would be good anyway, without requiring them to speak.