jacob ritter's personality change in breakdown?

[おちゃま]

is it just me, or was he turned into a stereotype gay? i'm gay, and i'm slightly annoyed at his comments and how his voice suddenly changes into that stereotypical gay accent/voice/whatever it is. he didn't talk like that in the main story.

[Jake]

Undead was too lazy to properly ask the voice actors to return for a few more lines. Many characters voices are messed up in Breakdown, You'll see. Andy Pimms has like 3 different voice actors, Guys nuts but I laugh.

[Kai]

Most of the voice assets were re-used from the story I believe. I think the voices you're describing were available if you helped the brothers enough, I'm not quite sure. Er, we can't all be depicted as we wish we could be (racially, sexually, gender wise, etc) in all games. Stereotypically depicted? Well, how were those stereotypes formed? Honestly, there are 'stereotypical' people of any form.

[おちゃま]

that doesn't mean there has to be a gay guy who is the stereotype for a gay guy in every game. the gay character in "the last of us" was so well done, i didn't even KNOW he was gay. i just feel it's insulting for every game to depict gay characters as extremely flamboyant and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and annoying, which is all i see in videogames lately. i was so happy with how they portayed him in the main game.

[pikmonwolf]

Originally posted by chickadee:

that doesn't mean there has to be a gay guy who is the stereotype for a gay guy in every game. the gay character in "the last of us" was so well done, i didn't even KNOW he was gay. i just feel it's insulting for every game to depict gay characters as extremely flamboyant and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and annoying, which is all i see in videogames lately. i was so happy with how they portayed him in the main game.

I didn't notice any change in breakdown, any changes made I doubt they did to make him more "stereotypicaly gay" they probably just grabbed the first voice files they could find. Andy Pimms sounds like a wacky black guy, and Quentin Barnes sounds like a deep voiced black guy, keep in mind they are both white characters. They were really lazy with the voices in breakdown and I too am dissapointed in Undead Labs. Don't take it is some kind of homophobic move though, any thing they did that made him as you say was likely on accident.

[Reverend Belial]

Frankly I think they pulled like three or four people off of the street and gave them microphones rather than actually getting voice actors.

[IllCaesar]

The hero chraracters lost their original VAs in Breakdown. Honestly, I never played as Jacob Ritter in the story mode, so I actually don't know what his normal VA is like, but I'm 100% certain that its not the same as in the story mode. Same thing happened to every last hero that I'm aware of with a unique VA from the story mode: Erik Tan, Alan Gunderson, Maya Torres, Ray Santos, Diane Montressor, Becca Collins, Quentin Barnes, Carl Parsons, and I believe Job Wilkerson. Its just a tactic to save money at the expense of not preserving the hero characters. Honestly, I can't blame them, because it would've been very expensive to get every person who VA'd a hero to come back for two dozen lines in Breakdown, and its not exactly game-breaking to do that (though it does lose some charm to me).

Also, I actually don't think Jacob is gay. It was strongly implied at first, certainly, but then if you're using a female character when you rescue him, he hits on you, and if you use a male character, he doesn't. I know "I'm not ashamed to be seen with you" implies that they're in a gay relationship, but it could also imply some sort of other relationship. Maybe the Wilkersons have some sort of feud with Jacob and Lily's father, for example.

[Gnarl]

I realized it changed so the hero lost his appeal, but I didn't realize the new voice was 'gay' or anything. What bummed me out was they gave Sam's voiceset to other random surivors. She loses her appeal because of that too. She was my favorite survivor from the story because of how she talked and acted.

[IllCaesar]

Originally posted by Gnarl:

I realized it changed so the hero lost his appeal, but I didn't realize the new voice was 'gay' or anything. What bummed me out was they gave Sam's voiceset to other random surivors. She loses her appeal because of that too. She was my favorite survivor from the story because of how she talked and acted.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that way. They're shortcut characters with special skins, and it feels more like they're presence detracts than adds. I think I actually would've preferred it if they had just made completely unique heroes instead.