Why is Sean Bean so tedious to listen to?

[The_Pastmaster]

I love Sean Bean. He's an awesome actor and he has a great voice. So why does he sound so tedious in Civ 6? Bad direction or something? Sad.

[scottkbeers]

Lot's of bad quotes..

[Tatanka]

He doesnt die

[Mike]

a few bad quotes, a few tired deliveries, probably has a gun to his head...

[Elliott]

Yep terrible quotes a mixture of grating attempts at humor/satire and bizzarly negative comments about the thing you just researched or built.

Sean Bean deserved better he should have been your wise sage guiding you through history with wisdom instead of moaning about how rubbish urbanisation is, cracking bad jokes about 24-hour banking and the Ruhr Valleys fall into collpase after Ive just pored significant production into building it.

[Bouncer]

He probably got to the cheese quote or air conditioning quote and was not into it anymore after that.

I blame this fully on the writers. VI has over double the amount of quotes compared to V and a ton of them are terrible. No voice actor can make that much boring drab or lulzrandom 'jokes' work.

[w.f.schepel]

Originally posted by scottkbeers:

Lot's of bad quotes..

That is a matter of perspective. In my opinion, they are often quite funny. Of course, one has to like a certain kind of dry and black sense of humor. Not sure what else you expect from Sean Bean, though. This is the way he sounds. You just don't have the benefit of his face and body language to go with his voice.

[blkbutterfly]

The quotes in Civ VI are just nonsense! They try to be humorous but just become annoying.

IMO the problem was Firaxis simply regurgitating the previous sets of quotes from Civ IV and V...and perhaps they didn't want to make it too obvious they're just re-inventing the wheel

[Despiser]

Oh come on, picking at straws here

[blkbutterfly]

Originally posted by w.f.schepel:

That is a matter of perspective. In my opinion, they are often quite funny.

They are funny the first time. After that they cease to have purpose. I agree though, it's not Sean Bean's fault.

While Civ IV had quite profound quotes (by Leonard Nemoy - legend!) like "Do not throw the arrow that will be used against you". Amazing!

Even SMAC/X which had quite bizarre quotes had something magical about their presentation with that eerie space music. IDK how to explain it.

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by Bouncer:

He probably got to the cheese quote or air conditioning quote and was not into it anymore after that.

Nah, played through the game three or four times now. Some of them are amusing but I find the delivery to be drab. Maybe it is what people say that it is not all Bean but also the quotes themselves that lend to the drearyness.

I was also somewhat annoyed that you don't have the option to disable the tech popups in the options when it is done automatically in MP games.

[Elliott]

Originally posted by -DI- Blkbutterfly:

Originally posted by w.f.schepel:

That is a matter of perspective. In my opinion, they are often quite funny.

They are funny the first time. After that they cease to have purpose. I agree though, it's not Sean Bean's fault.

While Civ IV had quite profound quotes (by Leonard Nemoy - legend!) like "Do not throw the arrow that will be used against you". Amazing!

Even SMAC/X which had quite bizarre quotes had something magical about their presentation with that eerie space music. IDK how to explain it.

SMAC had such a fantastic atmosphere and I think the quotes lended to that, everything felt strange, the human societies of Alpha Centauri were becoming less and less recognisable from what we know as they developed and everything from the technologies to the secret projects seemed to show that.

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by Elliott:

Originally posted by -DI- Blkbutterfly:

They are funny the first time. After that they cease to have purpose. I agree though, it's not Sean Bean's fault.

While Civ IV had quite profound quotes (by Leonard Nemoy - legend!) like "Do not throw the arrow that will be used against you". Amazing!

Even SMAC/X which had quite bizarre quotes had something magical about their presentation with that eerie space music. IDK how to explain it.

SMAC had such a fantastic atmosphere and I think the quotes lended to that, everything felt strange, the human societies of Alpha Centauri were becoming less and less recognisable from what we know as they developed and everything from the technologies to the secret projects seemed to show that.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded."
- Chairman Shen-ji Yang

[blkbutterfly]

Originally posted by The_Pastmaster:

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded."
- Chairman Shen-ji Yang

IKR these are amazing!

(Is it hinting at Quantum Mechanics?! IDK)

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by -DI- Blkbutterfly:

Originally posted by The_Pastmaster:

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded."
- Chairman Shen-ji Yang

IKR these are amazing!

(Is it hinting at Quantum Mechanics?! IDK)

Probability Mechanics. I love Sheng-ji.

Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe. We use crude tools to fashion better tools, and then our better tools to fashion more precise tools, and so on. Each minor refinement is a step in the process, and all of the steps must be taken.

Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye"

[[VC] Zappy]

I don't know what you mean, I think the quotes in civ 6 are great.