Cringing Dialogue

[GrundleGrump]

I appreciate what this game is aiming to be, but for a story-based, dialogue heavy game, does anyone else find the dialogue to be horribly stilted and cringeworthy? To me, it's like a 56-year old man has tried to write for 16-year old girls. It's bad at times.

[Envetel]

Originally posted by TopHatSeagull:

I appreciate what this game is aiming to be, but for a story-based, dialogue heavy game, does anyone else find the dialogue to be horribly stilted and cringeworthy? To me, it's like a 56-year old man has tried to write for 16-year old girls. It's bad at times.

Can you list some examples?

[GrundleGrump]

not without replaying the entire game--- but Max's "Wowzers!" exclaims are silly and it's just so out of touch.

[Sykzes]

Sorry to hear that, i hope it didn't ruin the experience for you. For me, the often light-hearted dialogue gave the needed contrast for the otherwise quite harsh story and ultimately made the game more fun for me.

I can however see why some people don't like the cheesy lines, with seemingly every sentence containing some sort of reference, citation or internet meme XD.

[GrundleGrump]

Oh I loved the game--- but every now and then, it might have been worth asking a real teenage girl if "girls talk like this now"? They might have gotten away with it if they'd set it in the 90s.

[Jeckenn]

Seeing as I have no idea how teenage girls talk now days the dialogue seemed fine to me, however I might have a different opinion if I indeed was still a teenager in 2016.

[Sykzes]

Originally posted by TopHatSeagull:

Oh I loved the game--- but every now and then, it might have been worth asking a real teenage girl if "girls talk like this now"? They might have gotten away with it if they'd set it in the 90s.

Honestly i'm not quite sure if they even talked like that at all in the whole of history XD. To me it felt like they wanted to pack as much references in the dialogue as possible, throwing a certain age range of people right back into their childhood. Conversational realism seems to have been a minor concern.

[Witches and Beed]

You know, I've always thought this kind of cheesy stuff kinda fits into the world of the game. The game is set in modern times, but has this really cool melancholic, nostalgic atmosphere that reminds me of the 90s. When the characters use these silly corny phrases that are straight up ripped from a 80s/90s commercial or a direct to video movie, I honestly find it really fitting

[Capybara #PS5 Expedition 33]

The dialogue is really great and funny imo.

[GrungeGengar]

I enjoyed this game, and I definitely agree that the dialogue and tone are very inconsistent and cringe-worthy. I was about to write it off as meme trash for quirky Tumblr kids but then it got really good after the first episode.

[TangoBravo]

Here and there a bit less could have been more. And as I am often rather read the dialogues than listening to them, I missed the option of skipping them. That often kept me from trying out other options since I just did not want to spend ages waiting until the actors finish their lines.

[Wetwings]

Originally posted by TopHatSeagull:

Oh I loved the game--- but every now and then, it might have been worth asking a real teenage girl if "girls talk like this now"? They might have gotten away with it if they'd set it in the 90s.

Hmm it would be things like swag, yolo, dab, watch me nae nae, bea and more stuff like that.

I would rather have the wowzers from max lol.

[oh no it's jo]

Teenagers always use weird cringey slang, so it works.

[Tzunny]

I didn't found the dialogue that way at all (horribly stilted). This is not Dreamfall or another boring heavy dialogue game. You can see how many players use some words from this game after they played it & maybe was never used them before if not part of LiS. This game is part of the evolution now, life is... passing through you.

[kreia]

One that made me crindge was "hella" I mean who the ♥♥♥♥ even says that other than when their standing in front of their mirror on thier own?

[Spow]

oh man, are you cereal? the dialogue is great.