From: TheRock1525 | #1101
INFERIOR RECESSIVE GENES
IT EVEN RAINED THE DAY I WAS BORRRRRRRRN
YOU WERE THE LIGHTNING IN THAT RAIN
THROW OFF THE SHACKLES OF FATE... AND FULFIL YOUR DESTINY
Hammy but engaged voice acting always trumps lifeless dull voice acting. I think MGS is pretty ridiculous, but at least it presents itself in a less-than-serious manner and their voice actors and actress actually bother to emote. This is coming from a guy who doesn't even like the MGS series.
By the way, art can be subjective, but storytelling isn't. There's elements required in storytelling to make it good storytelling and that's kinda important in a narrative. You can say Metroid Other M qualifies as art all you want, but the fact of the matter is that it's story was absolutely awful. It contained plotholes, contradictions, unresolved plot threads and a whole myriad of things that were completely and utterly pointless. That is, under no circumstances, acceptable storytelling. It is objectively bad in that sense, and you can't hide behind the "it's art" defense.
It's not "not that bad." It is. It's atrocious. And it deserves every level of criticism thrown at it. There's no alternate viewpoint to this, there's no "subjective opinion" to this, there's no hiding behind "its art" for this. It is bad storytelling.
And people can enjoy bad storytelling. More power to them if they do. But it's still bad and there's no real argument against it. And that's what the Other M Defense Force doesn't get.
"Bother to emote"? Two words: David Hayter. He's not quite as bad as Samus's voice actress, but he has much more dialogue. He also isn't supposed to be non-emotive, unlike Samus who was. But he maintains the same tone of voice for every line, even Snake is quite clearly emoting physically. It's bad acting. Why that gets praise I do not know. From an actual acting perspective it's much worse than Samus, but he does win through sheer tone. Even then however.
P.S. Storytelling is an art.
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