I just don't like games with real people acting in them! It's a real bugbear of mine.
There are heaps of games, nowadays, that do it, I just never really knew the actor as well, before. (The only recent comparison I found as grating was suddenly wondering if General Tullius, in Skyrim, was a cylon.)
I guess, having real actors play parts, voice and/or with looks involved, makes sense, if people aim to make games with as high a professional quality as possible. It just messes with immersion, IMO.
I was also just reading, in a retro mag, about the development of Under a Killing Moon, and how Chris Jones, designer, played the main character himself. That whole interactive movie genre of the 90s makes for an interesting comparison, with a mix of professional and not-professional actors in different games, etc. I dunno. Go back further and you'll find Sid Meier and Warren Spector dressed up as various characters. I just didn't know who they were, at the time. Having Sid Meier walking around Dragon Age as a Templar, now, would be weird. Times have changed, or something.
There's definitely a gender angle to how people see Tallis, too, but I'm not sure I can put it eloquently. I just wonder, if they'd put in an explicit, well known, male actor first, if there would be as much criticism of physical appearance, etc, when Tallis comes up. (But, again, that's skewed by the fact that the character does look like the actor, but not *exactly* like her.)
Modifié par Firky, 05 janvier 2013 - 09:55 .