Forget Forspoken, Atomic Heart’s Dialogue Might Be the Worst of the Year

porkChop12h ago

As someone who comes from a European background, has many smart mouthed women in my family, and is also friends with people of various ethnicities who lived in really shitty areas, nothing about the dialogue in Forspoken is natural. That’s the main problem. Yeah people swear and can have abrasive personalities, but in Forspoken it felt jarring and unnatural and unnecessary. Her character could have swore a lot, made little snarky comments and jokes, and that all could have worked if the writing was better. That’s where the writers failed, and hopefully they can work on that for the sequel.

As for Atomic Heart? Yeah, he does swear a lot and he has a very macho personality. I don’t think it’s as jarring as Forspoken but it certainly could have been written a lot better as well.

I think ultimately what it comes down to is that for the most part gaming needs better writers. It really does. A lot of really interesting stories and premises don’t quite come together because the writing often isn’t there to hold everything up. But a lot the best writers are unionized. So until the gaming industry unionizes these issues likely aren’t going to go away.

Forget Forspoken, Atomic Heart’s Dialogue Might Be the Worst of the Year
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