'I'm sorry you're like this, I wish you weren't': Starfield voice actor reacts to console war discourse busting down his digital door
Starfield is shaping up to be one of the biggest video game launches in years, with over six million people already digging into it. But as one of the few exclusive games on the calendar in the cooling war between console platforms (long ended, if you ask us), it's not surprising that Starfield has sparked plenty of Xbox vs PlayStation discourse.
Caught in that comment crossfire was Elias Toufexis, voice of Starfield's Sam Coe and the Deus Ex series' Adam Jensen. Toufexis took to Twitter last week to vent about all the weird guys who were bugging him, and I was curious about how voice actors experience internet discourse like this. I reached out to Toufexis to talk about working on Starfield, as well as the behaviors a release like this seems to draw out of some gamers.
«Why did this guy tweet at me '30 fps?'» Toufexis wondered about a Twitter Guy determined to mock Starfield's console framerate cap on Xbox Series consoles, seemingly out of devotion to the competing PlayStation 5, and directed toward someone with no say over the game's console performance. Revealing his role in Starfield was a proud, long-awaited moment for Toufexis, but also one slightly soured by that certain type of digital Orc you always seem to run into in gaming circles online.
«I go to his page and he tweeted '30 fps' on anything that says Starfield, '30fps' on everything. I'm like, this must have taken you an hour!»
A short search turned up the 30 fps bandit's record of madness, and it kind of felt like the «all work and no play» bit from The Shining. Toufexis cited similar commentary online as getting him down, and in the days since we talked Toufexis has butted heads with homophobic players who take issue with his character, Sam Coe, being
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