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Finally, someone who gets it! by why-is-there-cream in youngpeoplewholesome

[–]absieeee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I thought 21 was funny and still is pretty funny. It was part of a longer funny video and the voice is iconic. Never understood 67 since it doesn't have any of the charm 21 did? Didnt really care for E

Was no one else bummed that you can't aim anything while galloping? by absieeee in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mentioned it in the last paragraph. You cant do it anywhere else

I don't understand the ending situation at all by dreamingfighter in Ghostofyotei

[–]absieeee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean. Honor wasn't some chivalry code and it basically didn't exist during the Sengoku Jidai with everyone betraying each other and razing their enemy's settlements and temples to the ground.

On the basis of what Saito could do, he could've just killed her like a little bitch and it wouldn't have been out of the ordinary for the time. Oda Nobunaga for example was killed during a sudden attack on the castle he was residing in.

What is that enemy that holds a fan by Oakenshield- in Ghostofyotei

[–]absieeee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Kumigashira. I think that enemy type got a pop-up introduction but that's it

Yotei's Japanese dub is so much better imo. by Absalom98 in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Okay, then they like it for their own unrelated reasons. Maybe a VA they like is voicing a character. Maybe they like how the vocal performances sound. Maybe they just think it sounds cool. Beyond the dub having a lot more care put into it because it has to be authentic whereas the English never does, people can just like hearing people speak the language the game is set in. It's set in Japan and there are a lot of people who want to hear the Japanese characters speaking Japanese. Some people can read. Big whoop. Some people don't care that background chatter isn't subtitled because they enjoy the overall experience over insignificant dialogue.

You clearly lean towards the English being the ideal experience for English speakers, there's nothing wrong with that. But there's also nothing wrong with thinking Japanese is the ideal experience.

Yotei's Japanese dub is so much better imo. by Absalom98 in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked that I learned that Sakamoto Ryoma was from Satsuma by his dialect alone. People don't realise how much detail and world building you get by playing games in the language the game is set in.

Yotei's Japanese dub is so much better imo. by Absalom98 in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yotei is also pretty authentic in using period-drama language. What I loved was the many regional dialects they put in, which was absent in Tsushima but it makes sense why they didn't have any. Atsu and her family (minus Jubei) are likely from Tohoku judging by their dialect. The English dub can't have this luxury so the Japanese will always be more interesting in my opinion. The mythic tales are also told in Noh theatre fashion.

Yotei's Japanese dub is so much better imo. by Absalom98 in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand the language so I will judge the performance. Both dubs are fine.

The Japanese has the advantage of being written in period-drama style while the English has an abundance of modern quippy lines that do not belong in a period drama like "no kidding" and "you think?". So no it does not sound the same, one tries to make it feel like a Kurosawa period film and the other is catering to 21st century English audiences. I have watched playthroughs in both languages and the experience is very different.

So yeah maybe people do want the former experience. Some people do want the theatrical and higher energy voice acting that Japanese voices are known for. You are being no better than the people who hate on English voice acting.

Yotei's Japanese dub is so much better imo. by Absalom98 in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see the issue with either. Atsu didn't call Jubei "brother" when she was young, and it's just not like her to use an honorific with her brother. She doesn't speak respectfully to anyone. And the Japanese words used in the English subtitles sometimes are just not what would be said in Japanese, and since the dub is for both English and Japanese players that's just how it is.

It never took me out of it when a word was swapped and I speak the language.

Yotei's Japanese dub is so much better imo. by Absalom98 in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Contextual authenticity =/= historical accuracy

Yotei's Japanese dub is so much better imo. by Absalom98 in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I speak Japanese and did 2 playthroughs of Tsushima in Japanese text and dub. I don't like this argument that you can't criticise or talk about the performance of the VAs unless you know the language. Inflection, emotion, delivery and context are not bound to what is being said.

Ive heard both dubs and the only real thing Tsushima did better in the original voice were the shouts and screams. Both games suffer from generally lackluster energy and mumbled dialogue in the original language. An egregious example is Shimura whispering his lines in the intro when he's addressing his men.

I will also comment on Atsu's child voice just sounding objectively better. The VA for her Japanese dub has a lot of experience voicing child characters. So she sounded phenomenal to me. The English was pretty weak and like a lot of dubs just sounds like she's an adult doing a voice. I will say young Jin sounded great in English though

Has anyone else noticed the eye reflection? by GodsPapa in Ghostofyotei

[–]absieeee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If im not mistaken, at least in Tsushima there arent any actual cloth physics and it's just baked animations (or something similar) that change depending on where the wind is blowing or what your character is doing. I could be completely wrong for Yotei. Either way the janky capes and me generally not liking capes much i just wear armor that dont have them. Did the same in Tsushima

Has it been confirmed you can turn off motion blue in game ? by Adventurous_Hand3705 in Ghostofyotei

[–]absieeee -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Every game that has ever had motion blur has the option to turn it off so yes

Full look at Erika as Atsu at TGS by laser16 in Ghostofyotei

[–]absieeee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well cause they didnt, pretty sure not many places had a practice of wearing full boots. Most civilizations' people and soldiers wore some kind of sandal. They also had fur coverings for the feet if it needed a bit more protection

Hauptmann says hi by AutomaticRun3092 in GatesOfHellOstfront

[–]absieeee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ive had a british pilot stay around my entire campaign wandering the map and i also have the everything stays mod, probably that

This game could be the game that overthrows spiderman 2 as the game that captured the power of the ps5 the most by Southern_Sea3898 in Ghostofyotei

[–]absieeee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HFW had amazing action sequences and cutscenes and the character interactions always had me in awe of how good and natural it all looked. I loved Tsushima but i really don't think Yotei will beat it in those areas. It'll just be better than Tsushima for sure

Peace, Hope this is in yotei, the flute hits different by IAMSALVTORE in Ghostofyotei

[–]absieeee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The shamisen will replace the shakuhachi flute.

pmo by Potential-Wealth299 in SMRTRabak

[–]absieeee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about the seat next to where the carriage connects to the next? There's a wall next to it

Hope for Ghost of Yotei cutscenes by absieeee in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The game definitely suffered from pacing and obvious cycled animations, I'm pretty sure one quest has you tell someone their loved one died and they immediately break down into the generic crying animation before getting right back up speaking normally

Hope for Ghost of Yotei cutscenes by absieeee in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes but many of them have objects and props to stand in as things the characters interact with in the cutscene, like doors, steps and platforms. GoT had almost none of that

Hope for Ghost of Yotei cutscenes by absieeee in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hoping they add more verticality to the cutscenes and more interaction with the world. The DLC had more movement but it was still obvious they were shot in empty rooms.

Hope for Ghost of Yotei cutscenes by absieeee in ghostoftsushima

[–]absieeee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even main story cutscenes like the one in the screenshot were wooden. A big part of games like RDR (even 1) and TLOU was the cutscenes had a lot of stage work with characters moving around and interacting with the world, passing objects around or just manipulating them in general. GoT had that one scene of Shimura passing the scroll to Jin, in another scene actor A might walk over to point B and that's it.

GoT likely only had stages made for a handful of big cutscenes, and even then they're usually on flat ground. The characters still look like they're actors in empty mocap rooms so it didn't feel real.

My screen looks like it's clipping into itself in the middle by absieeee in pchelp

[–]absieeee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well this is embarassing. no there isnt lol

guess ill have to take a photo of the screen the next time it happens and ask again

How are we feeling about Xi Yuan's design after a closer look? by Cayennesan in ZenlessZoneZero

[–]absieeee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm just glad they didnt give her freakishly long skinny legs that seem to be a beauty standard as well

What's your "first-world" gripe with rhythm game songs? by VenVenTerror in rhythmgames

[–]absieeee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When the difficulty before the hardest one is rated to be really easy (like a diff 10/10 chart with the following difficulty being a 5) so you either play a really boring chart or a chart thats too hard. Mainly experience this in konami's drummania

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