Not sure why reviewers said the dialogue was bad

[cifrelettere]

I think it's awesome. All the mercs feel like themselves and have similar lines to the other JA games. Good to hear 'Looks like a sap' from Hitman again and all of Fox's double entendres are pretty funny. Legitimately making me smile. Great job!

[anonygoose]

I'm playing with Fox and she's (as always) a joy to hear. She's so wonderfully vain.

Ice... is slightly weak. Like he used to have this cool persona and voice and now he's just a bit... eh... Not terrible, but weak compared to his JA1 voice.

So it probably varies quite a lot depending on the starting mercs you pick.

[FisTan]

Voice acting is meh, and their dialogue is not as hilarious as JA2 was. But no they are not bad.

[EasyOut]

I think people don't get JA's inspo also. These are not Call of Duty realism, they are 80's 90's action game simulators.

[RayWalker]

Originally posted by anonygoose:

I'm playing with Fox and she's (as always) a joy to hear. She's so wonderfully vain.

Ice... is slightly weak. Like he used to have this cool persona and voice and now he's just a bit... eh... Not terrible, but weak compared to his JA1 voice.

So it probably varies quite a lot depending on the starting mercs you pick.

Ugh...Ice's voice is annoying. I might switch him out just for that lol
Grizzly - same thing.
But I guess they were going for cartoony/exaggerated voices. Dialogue is expectedly cheesy but that's ok.

[Machiavelli]

Because some of the reviewers are woke or sensitive. I think one reviewer complained about a boob joke.

[Desolane]

Gaming "journalists" feel attacked by any kind of humor that's not aimed at their perceived enemies.

[ZombieHunter]

As if we play JA for dialog. Most modern reviewers do not understand why we play these beloved franchises. And you can tell in their reviews they simply do not understand the games they are reviewing or what we, the audience. are looking for. Telling me JA doesn't have great dialog is like trying to buy a sports car and the salesman telling me it doesn't get great gas mileage. Who cares? I'm buying a sports car.

[bshock]

It's classic 80's/90's action film fare, so quite offensive to more sensitive individuals that maybe didn't grow up in that era.

[GODSPEED|seven]

None of the voiceovers or lines match what the merc would have said in JA2. Not only are all the voice actors different, they sound more like a child wrote their lines as well.

Personally, if you're going to put the same npc/merc/persona from a previous game, it requires the same voice actor.

This feels like a cheap dubbing.

[Kmany]

The dialogue is hilarious.

[Lonestar1804]

Originally posted by GODSPEED|seven:

None of the voiceovers or lines match what the merc would have said in JA2. Not only are all the voice actors different, they sound more like a child wrote their lines as well.

Personally, if you're going to put the same npc/merc/persona from a previous game, it requires the same voice actor.

This feels like a cheap dubbing.

JA2 is 24 years old. Of course you don't have the same voice actors...