Why do so many people praise Aloy's constant talking to herself?

[Mouse]

People say stuff like it shows her personality or that it's helpful, but it's just classic video game crap to have the protagonist speaking all the time and treating the player like a 2 year old. The rain stopped, now I must comment about my hair.

[Dephase]

Just my point of view.
I prefer that much more than silent characters. I don't believe in that crap of "We make him/her silent to let players identify themselves with the character". Yes Master Chief I'm looking at your unknown face. The best scenario is an RPG with custom character creation, maybe with multiple choices dialogues and even there I want them speaking (such as Fallout 4 and Mass Effect).
So imo Aloy is one of the best written characters I've seen so far.

[dannyj147]

Lara Croft does it too :P

[goldislead]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rdx:

Just my point of view.
I prefer that much more than silent characters. I don't believe in that crap of "We make him/her silent to let players identify themselves with the character". Yes Master Chief I'm looking at your unknown face. The best scenario is an RPG with custom character creation, maybe with multiple choices dialogues and even there I want them speaking (such as Fallout 4 and Mass Effect).
So imo Aloy is one of the best written characters I've seen so far.

I'm the same.

I can't take the exposition & cutscenes in the Metro games seriously, because you are a mute.

[Mouse]

Oprindeligt skrevet af AnarchisT:

Apparently being a loner without friends and isolated by other people does that to you, dont take it seriously, alot of game pratogonist share the same habbit after all

See, that's the nonsense I don't understand... even if Aloy was a Matriarch she would still be talking to herself throughout the game... the whole talking to yourself is a gameplay decision (usually to tell the player to notice something) not a personality decision.

[soopytwist]

You know what's worse than her constant self narration? The heavy breathing, like she's having an asthma attack. Noisy f'king b'tch.

[Bird_Dog]

Oprindeligt skrevet af soopytwist:

You know what's worse than her constant self narration? The heavy breathing, like she's having an asthma attack. Noisy f'king b'tch.

You'd be breathing heavily too if someone were making you run an bunny hop everywhere...

[Sкiткj3ll]

Someone mentioned Geralt above. Yeeeah. Point. Don't see the issue here.

[I chose Life not live]

Dont know, over here she is mostly quite. A lovely sweet playful "Caution down there" is breaking the silence.
Maybe its her loud thoughts, the times you saw speech bubble popping up over their heads are mostly over...

[OOFleming]

I dunno about you guys but I actually talk to myself a lot lol so this doesn't bother me at all. Take it from someone who really enjoys solitude (because people are ♥♥♥♥♥!) you do say stuff out loud, not through sanity or insanity but just because it makes sense to just say things out loud, it has benefits over just "thinking" what you said. So what the developers do with characters that spend a lot of time on there own would indeed make little statements.

See something like this doesn't bother me but what does bother me is that not 1 single game character has SHINS! where is the realism in games? Everybody knows the pain of bashing ones shin against something then spending the next 30 seconds rubbing the offended shin whilst going "arrrrr Ya B@sTaRd" through gritted teeth!