The moment that inspired this question:
A long time ago I was playing an MMO called Voyage of the Century Online. A major part of the game was sailing around on a galleon ship and having naval battles in the 1600s.
The game basically allowed you to sail around all of the oceans of the 1600s world and explore. The game was populated with a lot of NPC ships that you could raid and pick up its cargo for loot.
One time, I was sailing around the western coast of Africa and I came across some slavers. This was shocking to me at the time, and I was like “oh, I’m gonna fuck these racist slavers up!”
I proceed to engage the slave ship in battle and win. As I approach the wreckage, I’m bummed out because there wasn’t any loot. Like every ship up until this point had at least some spare cannon balls or treasure, but this one had nothing.
… then it hit me. A slave ship’s cargo would be… people. I sunk this ship and the reason there wasn’t any loot was because I killed the cargo. I felt so bad.
I just sat there for a little while and felt guilty, but I always appreciated that the developers included that detail so I could be humbled in my own self-righteousness. Not all issues can be solved with force.
The entire main story and ending of Cyberpunk 2077. Had me straight up nasty crying under a shower, which I’ve never done before or since. I’ve been born sick with different degrees of it impacting my life, including being close to death and barely if at all able to move. Losing control over your body with no hope of help, and people not caring or doing so performatively, unable to relate, hit too hard.
Ironically, I think the game is badly written and the irony of an anti-corpo setting being ruined by corpos pursuing big “celebs” instead of spending the money on something useful, with said “celebs” playing really fucking badly (shoutout to the director of voice acting, since they’re technically responsible - everyone speaks so slowly and oddly it’s really hard to listen to - awful job). I really need to just focus on small games, because the big titles are always re-shitted shit made to be liked by everyone, but impossible to enjoy if you’re someone.
Are you saying Keanu did a bad job as Silverhand?
I never noticed anything weird with the speed people speak. But I only played it after 2.0 released. Maybe they fixed that?
I would say so. I can’t put my finger on what the problem is but whenever I hear Silverhand I just feel disinterested about everything he’s saying.
Yes, awful. I’m a big Keanu fan, literally had John Wick merch and took days off to see new movies when they premiered. His performance in Cyberpunk 2077 is so bad I genuinely would pay 100 euros for a DLC removing the current main story and replacing it with else. I like the side stuff in the game, but Silverhand drives me crazy through extremely poor performance.
Keanu seems a nice enough guy, but he can’t act for shit. In all his most famous roles he plays a man with little emotion.
He’s a good body and face actor, but his speech is poor, but the Cyberpunk 2077 voice acting director clearly didn’t help, as many other characters suffer from weird speech pattern and slow speech.
In all fairness, I genuinely don’t think he’s bad for the sake of it. He suffers from the same issue I do, which is a voice VERY void of emotion (I tried voice acting myself, but I sound dead whatever I say, including on a daily basis, so it’s just how some people sound).
I think this also comes from Keanu being an actor and not a voice actor.
I’ve seen it time and time again, from movies to video games. They hire celebrity actors for the name recognition, but who have no experience in a vocal booth and it shows. Just because somebody is a great actor doesn’t mean they’re a great voice actor. Mark Hamill is an example of somebody who’s both, but he’s spent decades at this point working in voice acting.
Maybe I’m just not discerning enough (entirely possible) but I was content with his voice acting in the game. Generally not wowed by it though, I’ll admit.