misunderstood hybrid on 13/9/2007 at 16:19
Quote Posted by Variant
Anyways, that one security lady... think Bronson is her name, is my least favorite, to put it nicely. Her logs, to me, are pretty flat and emotionless, sometimes even lacking standard inflection. Not that I'm knocking it, the developers probably did the best they could with what they had, just you know... if I had to choose and all that..
You beat me to Bronson. Her emotionless delivery was intentional, at least partly I'd guess. Probably hard to get a woman's voice to sound intimidating.
Actually I was just going to comment on her last log as she's dying, it's the one that's stood out for me on my recent game. Made me wince and not in an empathetic way.
"uuughhg...uuuuh...guuuuuuh...aaaah....errrrr...guuuuh.....uggggh....guuuuh"
sacolton on 13/9/2007 at 16:42
Bronson: RESIST! Humanity demands it! RESIST!
D'Arcy on 13/9/2007 at 17:02
I think that the almost complete lack of emotion in Bronson's logs fits with the personality that we get to perceive as hers throughout the game. She's this military-type person, with a pretty cold character, who doesn't think twice before blowing the brains out of a fellow crew member whom she thinks might be infected. I don't expect her to be leaving logs sounding like Valley girl Rebecca.
rachel on 13/9/2007 at 17:56
Quote Posted by Ajare
Anyway, later on when I spoke to her (she's fluent in French, btw), she said how impressed she was at my french, but that I had written "Je suis desolé" instead of "désolée" but I couldn't be expected to get that right because obviously I'm a guy (but writing as a woman).
it's the other way around
catbarf on 13/9/2007 at 19:01
Um, one e = masculine, two = feminine...
rachel on 13/9/2007 at 19:14
ah sorry, I misunderstood. Didn't see he was actually writing for someone else, I thought it was the mistake she had pointed out.
:)
Variant on 13/9/2007 at 19:25
Quote Posted by D'Arcy
I think that the almost complete lack of emotion in Bronson's logs fits with the personality that we get to perceive as hers throughout the game. She's this military-type person, with a pretty cold character, who doesn't think twice before blowing the brains out of a fellow crew member whom she thinks might be infected. I don't expect her to be leaving logs sounding like Valley girl Rebecca.
I expected this was the case, and thought someone would bring it up. Theres a difference between being cold and showing a lack of emotion and being emotionless. Her logs don't make me think of "I don't care", they make me think closer to how robots used to talk in old movies.. "I. Am. A. Robot."
There's such a thing as neutral tone without going to extremes. She doesn't have it, she has
almost no tone at all.
Even cold para-military people who can kill at the drop of a hat at least have a neutral human tone when speaking, unless there's something seriously wrong with the way their brain works (you know, ASIDE from part of being able to blow someones brains out and not care)
To put it more clearly, desensitization doesn't usually much effect the way a person uses standard neutral inflection in language, they simply begin to sound like they've done some mundane task like go to the store to buy milk. They don't suddenly start talking like robots when they speak.
Starker on 13/9/2007 at 20:24
Actually, she sounded more like jaded to me.
Been there. Done that. Never, ever, bought the t-shirt.
TF on 13/9/2007 at 20:32
check your PMs :)
Variant on 13/9/2007 at 21:06
Quote Posted by Starker
Actually, she sounded more like jaded to me.
Been there. Done that. Never, ever, bought the t-shirt.
I thought of that too, but I'm still not convinced. To me she sounds jaded to reading the script if anything.
But anyways, I can see people won't agree so I'll shut up about it. :p
