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Sixtyfivekills has Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Feb 2, 2024 @ 1:13am

NPC dialogue driving me insane

"WHAT TIME IS IT? RESERVATION MIGHT BE SOON!" over, and over, and over, and over, and over, 3 of them playing on top of one another, what the hell is happening? Like who's brilliant idea was to have so few NPC dialogues and have them repeat so frequently, this is mental.

It also tends to happen in battles, but never in my life did I wish for NPC dialogue slider to exist.

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retsa2b

Feb 2, 2024 @ 2:48am

Yeah.

My guess here is that they didn't understand the scale of the crowds they'd be instituting in Honolulu until all the nameless NPC chatter was already recorded, and they did said recording at a scale more in keeping with their past games. After all, the chatter of passersby in past games repeated just as frequently—it's just that there was much, much less of it going on. I've got that one girl's phone conversation with her papa burned into my memory for good.

They definitely should have gone back and recorded more Honolulu dialogue. That would have been the best option. Second best would be to at least have flags to prevent the same audio clips from being heard simultaneously, because yeah, that's exactly as embarrassing as you've pointed out.

One obvious problem with the idea is the rather blatant fact that they didn't have a large pool of English voice actors to tap. Basically every unnamed NPC in the game, no matter what they actually look like, sounds like "thoroughly generic American", and I doubt they had more than six different voices handling the entire population.

Last edited by retsa2b; Feb 2, 2024 @ 2:50am

SiFi

Feb 2, 2024 @ 3:48am

Why spend cash on background noise? If you can do it for less cash, rather than more cash, why put any of the budget into it? Its background noise, its meant to be there just to say it exists, nothing more.

someoneproud has Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Feb 2, 2024 @ 5:54am

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retsa2b

Feb 2, 2024 @ 6:17am

Originally posted by someoneproud:
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They really, really needed to toss in a "don't play this if it played in the last 10 seconds already" flag for enemy barks. Like... I don't remember this behavior being a thing in Like a Dragon...