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MC_Sea wrote: March 5th, 2025, 21:43
Furin wrote: March 5th, 2025, 04:05
ArcaneLurker wrote: March 4th, 2025, 13:00
Monster Hunter is very pozzed
In regard to Wilds, yes. I haven't added it to the list yet but I did a write-up highlighting various things: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Woke_ ... 3790100782

Was there always such heavy environmental messaging in Monster Hunter?

Killing overly predatory monsters to "protect an ecosystem" is somewhat believable, but making those monsters man-made weapons of destruction is just over-the-top and completely unnecessary.

I'm going to have to go back and look into World again.
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People don't what causes NPCs to refer the player by "He" or "She" but it has been deduced that the even voice "Presets" (aka Female voices) make them call you "She" while the odd voice "Presets" make them refer to you as "He".
I didn't see any voice lines referring to the player character as "he" or "she." From what I remember, the player character is only called "hunter."

I actually thought it was rather interesting how often the game has the player character with another npc in dialogue so npcs use "them" to actually refer to multiple people and not just the player character directly.
Here's an instance of Alma referring to the player character as he when attacked by the Dire Dogashuma. But there are other non-cutscene unvoiced dialogue when talking to NPCs at camp as well. According to the threads below, the Palico is the most likely to refer to you as "He/She" during dialogue since you are alone with him the most.


https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/ ... r_pronouns

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The palico can be he or she too though. No presets for it but there are two voices that make the palico a girl or boy
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traxtan wrote: March 6th, 2025, 01:54
rusty_shackleford wrote: March 5th, 2025, 16:59
the canon character is female(the one picked by so few people that they didn't even release the telemetry data)
The female is canon in odyssey too.
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Yea, except she was actually attractive. Female eivor looks like a dude.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: March 6th, 2025, 01:57
Yea, except she was actually attractive.
No, outside of promotional material she's a butterface with a fridge body in-game.
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Ubisoft made it canon that Kassandra gets pregnant and has a baby and queers and ******** seethed so much the game director apologized. A polgygon article quotes a bisexual redditor as stating they "literally recoiled" when faced with Kassandra getting pregnant.
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traxtan wrote: March 6th, 2025, 02:00
rusty_shackleford wrote: March 6th, 2025, 01:57
Yea, except she was actually attractive.
No, outside of promotional material she's a butterface with a fridge body in-game.
she can't be a butterface with a fridge body unless you're attracted to fridges

that's the whole point of 'butterface'
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Saw a steam comment today that proves women don't play games. Was about how the poster likes the "female protagonist" tag because "it's extremely rare to see a playable female character". Which can only be a true statement if someone plays games extremely rarely.
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J1M wrote: March 6th, 2025, 06:07
Saw a steam comment today that proves women don't play games. Was about how the poster likes the "female protagonist" tag because "it's extremely rare to see a playable female character". Which can only be a true statement if someone plays games extremely rarely.
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based chinese saving us from gays in viddy games :)
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rusty_shackleford wrote: October 28th, 2024, 07:36
Mediocre or bad games can still have parts that are good.
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incredible, they manage to convey ugly women characters even when barely using 3 pixels total

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There's too many women in video games, most video games had 1 or 2 women max before the ps4 gen.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: April 12th, 2025, 05:38
incredible, they manage to convey ugly women characters even when barely using 3 pixels total

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I can almost admire their dedication to depict ugliness with such little. :pipe-thinking:

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That pedo symbol...
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traxtan wrote: April 12th, 2025, 05:42
There's too many women in video games, most video games had 1 or 2 women max before the ps4 gen.
And while they increased the number of women, the number of character traits remained static.

Which is why every single one of them is yet another dull girlboss.

I dread the next Metroid Prime, whenever that one comes out. If Samus gets voiced I'm sure the lolcalizers will butcher her.
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As far as I know none of the Metroid Prime games had anything girlbossy in it nor is Samus voiced. Well except grunts, breathing and damage sounds, which are provided by Jennifer Hale.
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Nowhere near as talented as Redditors pretend she is. I can't think of any femoid VA that's better, but I also don't keep track of VAs as a general rule.
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If you asked me to name a good female VA I'd completely blank. I suspect most would name jennifer hale just because she voices most characters but I never thought she was particularly good or memorable.

The problem with good VAs is they're unique, and therefore I don't want to hear them outside of that role. e.g., Solid Snake or Geralt's VAs are character defining. If someone can do a bunch of voices, they're probably all pretty mediocre.
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Claudia Black is pretty good
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Saw some female V (CP2077) scenes on youtube and it was pretty good. Cherami Leigh is the VA
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Voice Actors are aren't worth talking about
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I reckon that if AI technology keeps advancing faster, Western VAs may become something that nobody will ever talk about.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: April 12th, 2025, 05:38
incredible, they manage to convey ugly women characters even when barely using 3 pixels total

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I thought the tumblr nose had died out.

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"Surely THIS TIME it will work! With Concord we didn't went woke and ******** enough!" :lol: :lol: :lol:

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rusty_shackleford wrote: April 12th, 2025, 16:26
If you asked me to name a good female VA I'd completely blank. I suspect most would name jennifer hale just because she voices most characters but I never thought she was particularly good or memorable.

The problem with good VAs is they're unique, and therefore I don't want to hear them outside of that role. e.g., Solid Snake or Geralt's VAs are character defining. If someone can do a bunch of voices, they're probably all pretty mediocre.
Mel Blanc is one of the greatest VAs of all time.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: April 12th, 2025, 16:26
If you asked me to name a good female VA I'd completely blank. I suspect most would name jennifer hale just because she voices most characters but I never thought she was particularly good or memorable.

The problem with good VAs is they're unique, and therefore I don't want to hear them outside of that role. e.g., Solid Snake or Geralt's VAs are character defining. If someone can do a bunch of voices, they're probably all pretty mediocre.
Laura Bailey, Amelia Tyler, Mary O'Brady, Courtenay Taylor, Ashley Johnson and Melissa Hutchison had pretty decent to good VA performances.
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: April 13th, 2025, 20:29
rusty_shackleford wrote: April 12th, 2025, 16:26
If you asked me to name a good female VA I'd completely blank. I suspect most would name jennifer hale just because she voices most characters but I never thought she was particularly good or memorable.

The problem with good VAs is they're unique, and therefore I don't want to hear them outside of that role. e.g., Solid Snake or Geralt's VAs are character defining. If someone can do a bunch of voices, they're probably all pretty mediocre.
Laura Bailey, Amelia Tyler, Mary O'Brady, Courtenay Taylor, Ashley Johnson and Melissa Hutchison had pretty decent to good VA performances.
I don't know a single person from that list and I'm going to assume you've jacked off to all of those
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rusty_shackleford wrote: April 13th, 2025, 20:38
Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: April 13th, 2025, 20:29
rusty_shackleford wrote: April 12th, 2025, 16:26
If you asked me to name a good female VA I'd completely blank. I suspect most would name jennifer hale just because she voices most characters but I never thought she was particularly good or memorable.

The problem with good VAs is they're unique, and therefore I don't want to hear them outside of that role. e.g., Solid Snake or Geralt's VAs are character defining. If someone can do a bunch of voices, they're probably all pretty mediocre.
Laura Bailey, Amelia Tyler, Mary O'Brady, Courtenay Taylor, Ashley Johnson and Melissa Hutchison had pretty decent to good VA performances.
I don't know a single person from that list and I'm going to assume you've jacked off to all of those
Laura Bailey voiced like half of the past couple decades' games
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Valter wrote: April 13th, 2025, 20:46
rusty_shackleford wrote: April 13th, 2025, 20:38
Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: April 13th, 2025, 20:29


Laura Bailey, Amelia Tyler, Mary O'Brady, Courtenay Taylor, Ashley Johnson and Melissa Hutchison had pretty decent to good VA performances.
I don't know a single person from that list and I'm going to assume you've jacked off to all of those
Laura Bailey voiced like half of the past couple decades' games
The only reason you'd know anything about female VAs is if you play as female characters
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I know there was some dissing here on Kimberly Brooks a while back, but I thought she was pretty good as Angie in Trails of Cold Steel (inb4 "she's black voicing a white character!" Well yes, that's the point of voice acting, you are mixing and matches voices and character designs. Nobody complains about James Earl Jones voicing Darth Vader). I think her voice and Ashley's character conceptual didn't quite work in Mass Effect because I didn't feel that Shepherd and Ashley were already close comrades, so Ashley's rowdiness feels a little presumptuous for a subordinate military office you may have just gotten. Whereas in the context of another game with a similarly rowdy character with the same voice, but being framed as not being part of a military hierarchy and you two are both friends early on, it works.

Marisha Ray with her unusually deep voice was still able to come across as a graceful woman as Laura Arseid. Megan Taylor Harvey and Ashly Burch are two of the few English voice actors I have heard who were able to dub a cute character and sound natural as opposed to forced.

The female dub voices for later Final Fantasy games tend to be good. Yuna, Ashe, Penelo, Fran (Icelandic?), Fang (Australian), Alisaie (British), Spehen (British), etc. I thought whoever voiced the older Judge Drace from FF12 and Merlwyb from FF14 (both actresses) were good. They felt more natural (probably because they had a more realistic character animation to look at and imitate) while still properly emotive and not boring.
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