{"id":8128,"date":"2010-05-23T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2010-05-23T09:56:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T14:56:51","slug":"experienced-points-voice-vs-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8128","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Voice vs. Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest column makes the case that there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/7588-Experienced-Points-Voice-vs-Choice\">a tradeoff between full voice acting and player freedom in an RPG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Part of this might be the rise of consoles. Console players aren&#8217;t less literate than PC players, but it&#8217;s not a lot of fun reading tons of text on a standard definition TV. As the RPG genre branched out onto consoles, developers needed to make the game more television-friendly. I&#8217;m betting very, very few PC players listen to every line of voiced dialog all the way through.  The voice acting in Mass Effect is outstanding, but I still find myself reading and skipping.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest column makes the case that there is a tradeoff between full voice acting and player freedom in an RPG. Part of this might be the rise of consoles. Console players aren&#8217;t less literate than PC players, but it&#8217;s not a lot of fun reading tons of text on a standard definition TV. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}