The Quiet Man Stream

The Quiet Man is a game full of cutscenes of people talking but with the audio removed so we don't know what they're saying. This is a playthrough of The Quiet Man where I guess at what the characters are saying.

[@DisplayName317]

The options menu doesn't list words because, as we all know, deaf people can't read.

[@damiansein860]

I love the version of the story SGF came up with. "I raised him wrong as a joke"

[@DrymouthCWW]

Sometimes I feel like my parents raised me as a joke

[@WereScrib]

I'm glad that Kung Pow gets referenced in this day an age.

[@SHarriet]

It's like science!

[@Gekiganger03]

Say what you want about The Quiet Man, it certainly has an ensemble cast. There's Emo Daredevil Ryan Gosling, the event planner from Mode, all the unnamed gangsters from Saint's Row, the Origami Killer, and the lead writer's mom as the Romantic Interest/Significant Mother. Sure, some people might say that he probably should have worked out those issues via a less public platform. They are right.

[@DrymouthCWW]

Significant mother...ahh gross. But really good play on words lol

[@vaylonkenadell]

You know, it's funny that SGF mentioned Daredevil. Because Joe Kelly worked on Daredevil. Joe Kelly also wrote this hot garbage fire of a game. Imagine that. Somebody got paid to write this.

[@Jokoko2828]

"I didn't complete Ride to Hell" If only past SGF knew what future SGF did.

[@press_x_tojason]

That's simply not a piece of information you can give a man before he's ready. The moment you realize you're going to complete Ride to Hell is powerful enough to fell even the strongest of will. I think if 2018 SGF knew what 2019 SGF would do, he might have fled in fear at what he would see. So much dry humping in those crusty jeans...

[@SpaceCheese69]

loved the story arc where quiet man is talked down from the ledge of dating his girlfriend-mom by his gang-leader buddy that just wants to keep their friendship intact. wonderful anime dub, 10/10. 1/10 for gameplay. you're a jewel, sgf.

[@maginrant3]

Super Great Improv Friend

[@ImpendingRiot83]

28:54 If you want a vision of the future, imagine the Quiet Man punching a gangster's face forever.

[@vaylonkenadell]

This deserves more upvotes.

[@saraczwei6850]

What a giant miscalculation. Apparently, going by the "letters from the producer" they thought they could turn this into a viral hit with lots of discussion and speculation by releasing the voiced version one week later. Imagine this was straight up a movie (and let's be honest, the gameplay is pretty inconsequential and minimal anyway): They're releasing a movie with tons of dialogue without sound, then invite you to watch it a week later once more, this time with sound and all the "answers". I think few people would be willing to put up with that after having three hours of their live wasted. Rather than discussing and speculating with their friends and then being anxious for the big reveal a week later, they'd rather be frustrated and spiteful. They'd talk about what a giant turd that movie was and how it made no sense at all, how annoyed they were with all the pointless, endless dialogue scenes and inconsistencies. Why do people talk to Quiet Man if he's deaf? He can't read their lips because he's either not looking at them or they're turned away. Is the developer just messing with us and he's not deaf at all? What is even going on at the most basic level of the story here? It could work if you do it really masterfully and the visuals alone carry a complete story, which is then completely re-contextualized once dialogue is added. Instead, we have no comprehensible story and apparently some "twist" once dialogue is added. What worth is a twist if there's no story to begin with? The soundless version cannot be worthless, confusing and meaningless if this is to work, is what I'm saying.

[@vaylonkenadell]

This is what happens when you don't hire real writers.

[@tim.dedopulos]

@@vaylonkenadell Exactly.

[@ShigKirby]

It kind of feels like they made a movie and they realised it was very meh and not well written or interesting so they did some stylistic choice to remove the audio without realising it means the game becomes a bit of a confusing mess that barely makes sense. There's some visual hints but it's like they tried to find a way to make things more interesting but then made it all the more frustrating or like they lost all the audio so they ran with it (obviously that's a joke but it's weird). The point of why people talk to this character who I suppose is deaf like the player but clearly has full conversations with him is strange.

[@JoelBurger]

Based on the snippets provided, I kinda dread to see the writing quality of the actual dialogue. "You're blinded by grief. Me by ambition. Being too ambitious is my character flaw, in case you couldn't figure that out audience. Just thought I'd let you know. It's what led me to try to steal some shoes, pick up a gun for no reason, and become the leader of a weed gang."

[@Shenaldrac]

Man, I remember the last piece of media I consumed where a character stealing shoes was a plot point. Holes was fun.

[@KillerKrieg]

"Quiet man are you still quiet?" "Yeah." "Oh I was worried you started talking again." "Oh no, you don't have to worry about that."

[@doyleharken3477]

This game has more plot twists than plot

[@saraczwei6850]

It turns out there's a narrator juuuuust off-screen the entire time. He was there all along, explaining everything that was going on in great detail. But you couldn't hear him, because you're deaf, and you couldn't see him because the fixed camera angles hid him well, him and his wheelchair. What a twist!

[@doyleharken3477]

@@saraczwei6850 :]

[@EggmanDrCuckooMan]

You'd think you would at least be allowed to understand what the goddamn protagonist is saying, even if for whatever reason you're not allowed to understand dialogue from other characters that he can clearly understand. But, nope, apparently he's so deaf he has no clue what he's saying?

[@Churono]

Having seen the audio version, some of SGFs jokes and guesses are surprisingly on the mark.

[@kingborehaha]

Can't wait for Quiet Man 2: Quiet Man vs Shame Boy

[@brainamp]

SGF, I've loved your videos for years and your fandub is probably the hardest I've laughed in a good long while. Thank you for being you.

[@ItsBigIan]

When nobody will finance your experimental movie so you start pitching it as a video game instead.

[@varsoonhks3211]

SGF's dialogue for Cop Dad alone elevates this game far above any potential 'actual' script

[@CasparLeones]

Significant mother is a deliciously Freudian neologism

[@MorshTalon]

this is legit some of the best commentary SGF has ever done

[@HyperSonicSquall]

would it have eaten too much of the budget to hire at least one of either a writer or actor who speaks American Sign Language? or for one of the actors to even attempt it to give even a trifling attempt at authenticity

[@RealMcoy1000]

"allow me to show you my tumblr" is probably the most threatening thing any video game character could say.

[@Green-Raccoon777]

When is this?

[@NoModsNoMasters]

He's not even that quiet

[@varsoonhks3211]

"This is so weirdly paced--why would we do it a second time" -From the same man who played through Answered

[@MrNinjacake7]

5 minutes of straight punches and that guy still wasn't dead 😂😂😂

[@Shihon42]

Having a deaf protaganist is a really interesting idea, and can bring up some great alternative storytelling. Unfortunately, Squeenix seemed have not taken advantage of this. It really feels like this was going to just be a normal (yet FMV laden) project, and the devs suddenly realized that all of their audio corrupted and just went with it.

[@PaladinusSP]

In the land of the deaf, the man with a gun is king.

[@richwalk3954]

I'm a hard-of-hearing fella myself, and even I would think that making a game through the eyes of a deaf protagonist, and not showing any kind of alternative to give players information on what the story is about to compensate for the player character's deafness, is a really bad move.

[@Green-Raccoon777]

Why do you think subtitles are for?

[@Idelacio]

It really feels like this game wasn't supposed to be silent... Feel bad for the actors, some of it seem to be giving it their all only to have their lines completely muted out. :-T

[@hypethekomodo6495]

I liked the idea it went for, and movies have featured deaf characters with the audience unable to hear anything very well before, but to do that you need to have emotive characters and specific camera angles to convey what is happening. All our characters are almost as emotive as planks of wood. That, and while the official excuse that Quiet Man can understand speech is lip reading, there's times where he's responding without even looking at the person who's speaking. Either he's telekinetic or just a really bad actor. I mean, million other problems with the game, of course, but they messed up it's core concept.

[@EggBastion]

F

[@ShigKirby]

I love your interpretation. This was basically made to fill in the blanks with opportunities to make up your own story and make fun of it. You nailed it. It's kind of perfect for you and I was not disappointed. This really feels like an amateur film production that has you beat up the same 4 thugs and bird man every so often. Such a weird game that's unintentionally creates such hilarious moments. The use of FMV and in game scenes are strange and jarring to say the least. The plot twists are so lame. So many tropes that are thrown together without much context aside from flashbacks leading to revenge for mom girlfriend woman and shoes. The silence and some of the cuts between scenes really are baffling but I'm not going to unpack this because this video just speaks for itself. It's unreal this got made but I can say this was such an entertaining video from you that I'm almost glad it does exist for comedy gold purposes.

[@charismaticrage5287]

Coming back to this a year later because it's still funny.

[@SuccubiPie]

"Oh shit I killed a white woman" hit harder than you wouldn't believe.

[@BastionProd]

Clearly there's good work done with the maps and the transitions from FMV to 3d environments. Such a shame that it's ruined by the bad execution of the main idea (quiet man is not really deaf, not really quiet, can communicate well with others but the player can barely get what's happening) and really boring gameplay. Who thought that this would be a good idea?

[@Shenaldrac]

I assume Kensei Fujinaga, the head producer.

[@rushnerd]

Just want to say I appreciate your dialogue efforts here, 10/10

[@stalkedbycats7366]

They should make a version where all the dialogue is replaced with the noise that plays when grown-ups talk in the Peanuts movies.

[@xxPHOENIX80xx]

Quiet Man for Smash.

[@AlsGaming]

The game is only 3 hours long but feels like 12.

[@KusunokiSG47]

I couldn't shake my thought that everytime a mom flashback appears, Quiet Man get his pants a bit wet

[@TMMQuicksilver]

SGF, I beg of you to please do a dramatic reading of the Letters from the Producer from The Quiet Man website. A choice quote: "Words shape consciousness; indeed, some even say that “words are life.” But what if we were to cast aside such a life? What if somehow, we were able to understand one another through connections formed heart to heart, soul to soul, and could once again look into one another’s eyes and form a bond so pure? This concept lies at the core of THE QUIET MAN. Square Enix Co., Ltd. “THE QUIET MAN” Producer Kensei Fujinaga"

[@saraczwei6850]

Letter 3 is basically "If you remove the subtitles and audio from a movie it's hard to figure out what's going on. And when we add the audio back in, you can understand what's going on. We for some insane reason thought that was really profound, profound enough that we turned it into a game made by a AAA game company."

[@paper_maiden]

Sooo... No reading ever/at all, then?

[@CasparLeones]

SGF should do a dramatic reading but release the proper audio weeks later. So we can all speculate on the meaning of his dramatic reading.

[@EggBastion]

You will be suck.

[@TMMQuicksilver]

I'm pretty sure I don't want to be suck.

[@classylampshade9961]

In the beginning, he bought some food just to drop it on that guy's head. Wasn't he hungry?

[@Shenaldrac]

I thiiiink the idea was that him buying the food from the foodstand guy was supposed to be like, an information trade. Like the foodstand guy is an informant for the gang Quiet Man is a part of, cause he gets the food ready as soon as he sees Quiet Man. Then afterwards, Quiet Man takes a napkin out of the bag and it has directions to where he has to go. So I think the idea was that this was meant to be a low-key, innocuous information transfer. So it wasn't actually about getting food for himself at all.

[@patrickcoyle5469]

53:50 convinced me that Quiet Man isn't actually deaf. He's just surrounded by a magical field of silence, so he can't hear anything else, and nobody can hear him running up them at full speed indoors on a hard floor.

[@warren_waters]

All this dude punching is making me wish for you to LP a Yakuza game, ngl

[@press_x_tojason]

I have seen people recommend Yakuza to him so many times, and I don't think I've once heard SGF mention Yakuza as a thing he even knows exists. And him calling this "the modern beat-em-up" implies to me that he doesn't even know of Yakuza at the time of recording, which seems impossible to me, as this was after Yakuza 0 had really captured a western audience.

[@firelinkshrine4234]

What if they just lost the audio for this game and pretended like it was on purpose.

[@Bormac]

14/10 story improved greatly.

[@shallmaneser]

"The blood of evildoers covers my fists" - SGF 2018

[@fyrentenimar]

Dunno if it's been brought up in the comments, but the achievement names are lyrics from the end song.

[@shinichizio]

I don't know what S-E or Human Head were thinking, here. There's chasing a high concept and then there's cutting out all of your plot, character, tutorialization and sense to wank off about how clever you are.

[@SolomonWayze]

Thats the power of pretension for you, it blinds you from certain flaws that will damage your work

[@Shenaldrac]

How very AVAAAAAANTE GAAAAAAAAAAAAAARDE~~~~~~

[@RRVCrinale]

It's even the little details that are so fucking bizarre. Like, what even is that menu? If you're meant to be experiencing the game as if deaf, how come the menus don't have text, either? Was everyone under the impression deaf people are illiterate, too?

[@rembrandtbrown6450]

I actually would have loved this form of presentation if you got subtitles for anything the quiet man got from lip reading and sign language. Still looks pretty mediocre even if it was like that.

[@Phucketmcsucket]

"People expect a certain level of quality from a big publisher" AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA good one

[@Ziaheart]

You'd think they'd subtitle the sign-language since the quiet man seems to understand sign-language. Also very annoyed how many times they talk/sign at the quiet man when he's obviously not looking at them. But I'm enjoying how the quiet man turns into Yami Bakura when he puts on the bird mask.

[@dinnercat28]

quiet is not enough

[@brobzoid]

hold up! two minutes and five seconds (2:05) into this video SGF pronounces "gist" with a hard g and I need to someone to tell me if: a) this is a peculiarity of whatever regional american dialect SGF speaks b) this is a long-running joke on the channel I'm unaware of c) SGF's parents raised him wrong, as a joke d) this is how the word "gist" is actually pronounced please help

[@CasparLeones]

Video games raised SGF wrong. It's not his fault. Such a traumatic upbringing.

[@press_x_tojason]

It is not D.

[@ZetaNeubourn]

So, the Quite Man is the antithesis to Bully Demise, in which he uses his punches endlessly and unyeildingly. Only he can't hear people say "touch me again and I'll kill you" and instead of chakra, it's radiation.

[@tudabee]

Half the time someone's actually signing you can't see enough of their body to make it out or they're cutting around in a distracting way. It's one of the problems I had with A Quiet Place, but that at least had the decency to include subtitles when the characters were meant to understand what was being communicated. Edit: and now he's just talking? This quiet man is not very quiet

[@tudabee]

Why do they keep turning away when they are verbally talking to a presumably deaf person? Why does he still seem to know what's going on?! WHAT IS HAPPENING

[@tudabee]

the singer's name is FUCKING LALA

[@Ainajr]

I've been watching this during my commute and I'm having a hard time not laughing out loud in the overfilled subway.

[@draconicdemon2]

can the quiet man read lips? does he understand sign language? does he even know what's going on or is stuff just happening to him?

[@terracannon876]

Usually anyone who says "you haven't lived my experiences" sounds arrogant, but the bad games sgf has played ... Truly were awful lol. It is only truth.

[@EggBastion]

You want me to leave the room?

[@mcid111]

He needs to receive some sort of award. Like a medal, or a knighthood, or the title of like, poet laureate, for this, to confer a perception of legitimacy and hard-won knowledge he's already earned. A Let's Play Laureate.

[@edsplosion1]

More games should let you grab an opponent by the lapel and then just endlessly go to town on them. Just really whale on them non-stop.

[@SolomonWayze]

Yakuza occasionaly does that but only during specific HEAT actions

[@EggBastion]

And so early on too

[@alagosplode]

I would 100% play this game if I could get SGF dub for the cutsenes.

[@chrparrini]

Thanks for the stream, SGF. I really do not think the version with audio will be as good as your interpretation of the story, but I am glad to hear you might be streaming again next weekend. I can never stay up late on Sundays (your streams start 11pm on my timezone) so a stream on Friday or Saturday will be great.

[@Rosalith]

It was wonderfully bad. "Shockingly" bad is very accurate.

[@doyleharken3477]

It doesn't make Worst Game of the Year, but in the AAA category it's clearly the winner. Baffling how this could get made.

[@KurtPhillips]

Say what you will about The Quiet Man. No really, say it! It's not like he can hear you

[@sarahc2735]

SGF's plot is the only true plot

[@Saphire1993]

I can't wait to see how this goes. Watching Tie's stream, we were all shocked this was allowed to come out. The audio dlc that came out a week later managed to make the story even worse somehow.

[@nadinehurley]

What you assumed was sign language has been sign language so far. I’m an intermediate learner but here’s what I know: The first thing he signed “good” but the fist thing I’m unfamiliar with The next thing he did the sign for “know” at the end, but I couldn’t tell what was said before that. The camera angle made it a little weird

[@paper_maiden]

"all three instances of sign language"

[@nadinehurley]

Ariane C there are that few? I’m only like thirty minutes in but I thought there would be more :/

[@paper_maiden]

@@nadinehurley Sadly yes, although I was quoting someone from the chat yesterday. I'm even less pleased that they just insert half sentences in sign language and just continue talking orally before and after. I'm confused.

[@vaylonkenadell]

When, when, _when_ will game developers learn that they could easily profit themselves a couple hundred thousand bucks in sales by just spending a few grand to hire a decent writer? Just _one_ good writer could take a look at this and say, "No, that's stupid."

[@tim.dedopulos]

Creative leads are convinced that writing is easy. They're sure that because they snort loads of coke and they write sales pitches to publishers, they can write a genius game, and that they just don't need us. They know they need artists, because two minutes with a pencil shows that to everyone. But they slap a bunch of mental ideas together, shuffle them randomly in committee, and then look at it and say "It's great, but who cares anyway, kids don't give a shit about the dialogue." Then they lose millions on dire dreck like this, and the money-men cluck, and talk about how no-one can predict the market. Absolute fuckwits.

[@JonathanSicoli]

Counterpoint: David Cage continues to find success.

[@vaylonkenadell]

@@tim.dedopulos Boy, did you hit the nail on the head. And the saddest thing of all is that even _good_ writers are dirt-fucking-cheap. Hell, Squeenix could have handed $2,000 to any random in this comment thread, and I'm sure that person would have taken one look at this game, said, "No, that's really stupid. Everything you're doing here is bad," and then walked out. Would have saved the company huge amounts of money. They might have even gotten away with a 60 on Metacritic!

[@vaylonkenadell]

@@tim.dedopulos By the way, I just realized who you were. I'd just like to say that I respect you, as a writer, for being down there in the trenches, plugging away at your craft day in and day out. There's no fame in it -- or even money, really -- but at least we can say we were working men.

[@tim.dedopulos]

@@vaylonkenadell Yeah, all too true! No good deed goes unpunished, as they say.

[@TheKaiserTia]

Ooft. Check out how the background rotates rather than scrolls realistically in the car driving scene at 1:51:49 There's a few bits where I guess the car is turning, but there's no animation of Cop Dad turning the wheel.

[@DerivativeWorker]

Even when they try to make it look realistic you can see the same over designed characters that Square-Enix is known for. Also the blender after effects look horrible.

[@EyeoftheU]

Forget Ride to Hell, _this_ right here is the "The Room of Video Games".

[@press_x_tojason]

You know what, you're right, because, whereas Ride to Hell's budget by the end was like rubbing two nickels together, this game had a legitimate publisher, and developer, and should have at least had the game equivalent of an independently-wealthy backer willing to drop $6 million on creating his own dream. Ride to Hell conceptually made sense at one stage of development before the rug was pulled out from under it, but, like the Room, this was always nonsense trying to be more than the studio was capable of creating. And, of course, the most important part is, like the Room, you really need to be able to riff on The Quiet Man to enjoy it, but all you need from Ride to Hell is to see one cutscene. Ride to Hell's great sin is you can see what it was supposed to be, but fell well short because they had no money, no talent, and one computer. It's the "Ben and Arthur" of video games. At LEAST the "no money" part means it has heart.

[@FinFangFong]

For nearly fourteen years his mind had been soaring miles above, but Elliot Thomas was still stuck down on Earth, in the boring town of Sinchester. Alone in his tree house, he glued feathers to his wingsuit, readying himself for the day he would join the phoenixes and quetzalcoatls in the sky.

[@JonathanSicoli]

[muffled video appreciation sounds]

[@ruoye]

2:45:13 today I had to excuse myself from a meeting because I suddenly remembered this part of the stream and couldn't stop myself from laughing. I also cropdusted the vendors

[@Zeph101theoriginal]

I have a feeling that at one point in development, before the gimmick was put in and the dialog that was clearly meant to be there and obviously taken out after the fact, Square Enix had originally planned for this to be The Bouncer 2. Then they saw it, and probably thought ".....no". And now we have this, and no one wants this. They should have just cancelled it instead.

[@Phucketmcsucket]

I can't help but question whether anyone was actually surprised that this game sucked seeing as how the quality of Human Head's games are just all over the place.

[@lemonbrutality]

The crow doctor emblem looks like Knuckles the Echinda.

[@brianirving3420]

CACAAWWW - The best part.

[@Ainajr]

ALLOW ME TO SHOW YOU MY TUMBLR

[@FhtagnCthulhu]

You know, Prey 2 sounded pretty cool but uh... maybe it was for the best that it didn't see the light of day.

[@MercenaryFox]

1:54:16 ... Ok, i was not prepared for that. SGF you really bright my life, thanks homie! ;D

[@terracannon876]

My first impression of this is that this seems like an angsty, emo version of DareDevil, but with another sense involved. ...What WOULD a game with a blind main character who can "see" look like? (That sentence sounds so weird lol)

[@saraczwei6850]

I don't know if I understood you correctly, but there's a VR game called - wait for it - "Blind", which kinda works like Daredevil's vision in the movie.

[@rembrandtbrown6450]

Scanner Sombre, Perception and Stifled are all games that employ something like that. All pretty interesting indie horror games as well from what I remember.

[@Slaxbox]

An industry changing experience. Games from now on will come with Deafness Filter™ technology. Or not. I'm having a really hard time imagining how this pitch went through. "Have you ever played a SILENT game? Oh man, you have to try it. WOWIE ZOWIE! It really heightens your other senses. Your... brain... thinking game... sens- you know what? Let me get back to you on this."

[@eviljoel]

This game is a great example of how so many "artsy" games think that making the plot impossible to follow makes it deeper, instead of super shallow and unenjoyable.

[@futonrevolution7671]

I think that it was an attempt at a racist version of The Crow, but with mommy issues and an inverse ratio of co-dependent emo to undead avenger. It takes a lot of money to screw up a revenge story this badly.

[@eviljoel]

"Nobody can say the dialogue is terrible if we mute it. Genius!"

[@futonrevolution7671]

Come to think of it, I should rewatch The Crow to see if it's gotten better with time. I mostly remember terrible one-liners and feeling like a discount version of Robocop. My favorite part of how Robocop has aged is Ray Wise talking about getting as close as possible to the explosions, after getting danger pay from being scorched by one. Also, how he brought home the suit from his death scene... "ruh-wrapped in plaaastic."

[@eviljoel]

The only thing I remember about The Crow is the rooftop guitar solos and rolling my eyes at the villain incest. It's been years, but I recall going into it expecting it to be almost comically gothic, and that's what I got. The difference is that The Crow felt at least aware of being a melodramatic, style over substance comic book movie, and the supernatural stuff was established early on. The Quiet Man is convinced that it's profound art, and is super smug about it.

[@CasparLeones]

2:15:33 SGF, you're a natural

[@Jokoko2828]

Around the 49 minute mark I just lost it, this stuff is unreal. I also read the club's name as Club Motherhood at first becuause this game is about as subtle as a sledge hammer.

[@JestersGhost]

"Sumobumo in the chat says..." That guy is everywhere. I love him.

[@renzalwyvern9976]

Going back, I'm gonna have to say I prefer SGF's version of the story.

[@probablyrajir638]

I am so confused

[@prep-h]

It's a shame the version with audio isn't everyone just mouthing what they say instead of actually talking.

[@CasparLeones]

That would've been great.

[@jz1443]

3:13:08 *BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!* who said that!?!?!? Who would oppose the great Star Lord lizard?!!?!?!

[@Eingradd]

"I don't know if I want to do it." - SGF in reference to playing through the game again with the audio on in "NG+". Oh, it doesn't matter what you want, don't you see? Bird Doctor commands you to play through again. For the true story.

[@varsoonhks3211]

There are moments in the game Control that echo this game and every time I shudder

[@NattosoupStudio]

It reminds me of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was intended to have narration, but was removed at some point and it became a classic "art film". Does that make this a classic "art game"? 😆

[@dectilon]

...why was this a game?

[@eviljoel]

Because games have much, much lower standards for story and writing than movies have, so what would have been a shitty movie script will be applauded as a brilliant videogame plot. That's the whole reason why hacks have tried to make "interactive movies" for decades.

[@denzelromero4796]

BugPope It’s why RDR2 is praises as a masterpiece

[@lnfreeman]

@@denzelromero4796 At least RDR2 has gameplay to speak of

[@ThePensivePen]

I honestly wonder if the protagonist was even originally intended to be deaf or if that was just something they added in halfway through filming the live action cutscenes for the purpose of their gimmick. And maybe to distract from all the racism. Seriously, wtf is with that.

[@DaArcaneNinja]

I'm an hour in and this is just hilarious. Based on some clues so far the 'w33d gang' I'm assuming are trinitarios (hence trini=3) , who are STILL butthurt over getting beat up the very first time.

[@friend_xtra]

beating mid-sections is my favorite thing in this game.

[@friend_xtra]

wait. how the shit did Imogen Heap do a song for this?

[@EggBastion]

David Bowie. Omikron.

[@friend_xtra]

this is not David Cage, though...

[@press_x_tojason]

@@friend_xtra You're right, this was allegedly a publisher with money, and not Eidos.

[@tim.dedopulos]

Dear Squenix. Before you fund "games" about a deaf guy, maybe spend at least a little bit of time with some deaf guys. Also, y'know, FMV needs, uh, _actors_. You have to pay for them. Not just hire a fifteen-year-old model and your dad's mates.

[@lumpsmchumps6047]

To the benefit of doubt of the modern player, Sound and subtitles were an afterthought.

[@NesstheEchidna]

I'm sorry you had to play this after you experienced Crying is Not Enough.

[@dopplegangerdavid]

Do you ever wonder if they chose to make this game/movie silent because they shot the whole thing only to realize that the story was really terrible so they thought they could sell it based on a gimmick alone?