The Biggest Gaming News For June 25, 2022
Weekends are all about getting back into your games and so if you’re anything like me, you’ve been basically oblivious to the world around you since at least last night. But don’t worry because we can get you back up to speed on the biggest gaming news in no time. Today, we heard that Final Fantasy 16 has no voice over support for American English on purpose, people in the games industry have been taking a strong stance on reproductive rights, and Hideo Kojima had some sort of a superhero game in the works. There’s more where this came from, so read on for the rest.
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The characters in Final Fantasy 16 were all voiced by British actors for a good reason. According to Game Director Naoki Yoshida, Americans would have otherwise been confused. "Even though the script is written in English, we made sure to not include any American accents," Yoshida noted. "We decided to do this to prevent Americans from playing the game and getting mad and saying something like 'I was looking forward to playing a game set in a fantasy Medieval Europe, but why are they speaking American English?' To prevent this, we made sure that all the dialogue was recorded using British English." I for one have always been confused about why they’re speaking British English.
The game designer Hideo Kojima seems to have put a project on hold because the plot was too close to that of The Boys. The game would apparently have followed a "special detective team" composed of a man and a woman as they confronted “legendary heroes behind the scenes.” Kojima said the "settings and gimmicks" weren’t quite the same, but there was enough overlap to put the whole project on ice for a while. Back to
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