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[Teddie Sage]

Silent protagonists need to die

They're already dead, don't worry.

[Vazgen]

Not going to work with current direction of Bioware games. The "feels" are much harder to convey with a silent protagonist. 

[TheBunz]

Horrible idea
+2 warning points

[LightningSamus]

Not going to happen.

[(Disgusted noise.)]

A silent protagonist? Why don't you just ask them to make a new video game playable on an Atari. It's a dead concept at this point.

[Shepard-Tali]

Never! Shepard is my favorite playable character of all time, and part of that is because of his badass dialogue. If he was just a silent vessel for me to talk through, he wouldn't be half as badass. 

[Navasha]

Pretty sure the era of a voiceless protagonist is long over at least so far as a big budget AAA rated game is concerned.  Big budget games need big audiences and you don't get those with voiceless characters anymore no matter if it capable of greater flexibility or not. 

[Medhia_Nox]

While I'd love an option to turn off the voiced protag. - I know they're not going to bother (which is only annoying because it can't be THAT hard to offer such an option).

 

Silent protagonists are alive and well in less mainstream games - so enjoy them there as I do and just ignore the spoon feeding you get in Bioware games for what it is.

[Degenerate Rakia Time]

i cant connect to a silent protagonist and so i dont care about what happens to them, i didnt care that The Warden died, or the Lone Wanderer because they meant nothing to me

[Sylvius the Mad]

That's about as likely as the game not having MP. Silent protags are a dying breed.

True, but they're still better.

I don't expect one either, but that won't stop me from asking.

[Sylvius the Mad]

i cant connect to a silent protagonist and so i dont care about what happens to them, i didnt care that The Warden died, or the Lone Wanderer because they meant nothing to me

I can't connect to characters I don't control, so I don't care what happens to them.

I was completely indifferent to the welfare of Shepard (and Hawke, for that matter).

Now, BioWare did a much better job of giving us control over the Inquisitor, so clearly voiced protagonists aren't always terrible. DAI shows them the way - if they do the MEA protagonist like the DAI protagonist, that would be fine.

[Helios969]

That would be lame.

[Sylvius the Mad]

They're already dead, don't worry.

Tell that to the resurgent isometric games.

I just started PoE, and it's amazing. I also really enjoyed Wasteland 2. And I fully expect I will mod the voice out of FO4.

Games don't need a voiced protagonist to be good. And the ones that have a voiced protagonist don't have to take control away from the player.

[Robert Cousland]

Bioware, just so you know, the OP does not speak for us.

 

Although, fi you're taking advice, I wouldnt mind if the main character has a British accent.

[Grieving Natashina]

I'm trying to get James Purefoy into a BioWare game.  He's one of my main picks for a VA for not-Shep or for a LI.

[Heimerdinger]

 

A very voiced NO.

[Robert Cousland]

[rapscallioness]

yawn.

[iorveth1271]

Gosh, not another mute, DAO-stare-at-the-conversation-partner-in-eerie-silence-type of protagonist...

The world will be far better off without these as long as there are good voice actors to lend them their voice.

[Han Shot First]

I'm trying to get James Purefoy into a BioWare game.  He's one of my main picks for a VA for not-Shep or for a LI.

 

One like isn't sufficient.

 

Although after his excellent portrayal of Mark Antony, I'd probably rather see him cast in a Dragon Age game. 

 

...not that he also wouldn't be great in an ME game.

[Former_Fiend]

Count me as one of the anti-silent protagonist crowd. 

[Grieving Natashina]

 

One like isn't sufficient.

 

Although after his excellent portrayal of Mark Antony, I'd probably rather see him cast in a Dragon Age game. 

 

...not that he also wouldn't be great in an ME game.

Between that and the (sadly short lived) Camelot series, I have a crush on him.  I've have put in requests for his voice for DA games as well.  They had Indra Velma for Vivienne and she was on Rome with him.  A gal can dream, right?  

[KR96]

[Jester]

Silent protagonists kinda work, when the game doesn't have budget to actually voice other characters as well - then your character is mute, but so are the others (apart from ocasional lines). Then you just read all the dialogue.

It feels incredibly inconsistent for me, when everyone in the world is voiced, except for my character.

 

And don't start me on: when you have silent protagonist, there are more dialogue lines, and they are longer and better written, than when protagonist is voiced, because, ekhm... Skyrim.