So how does Discord know who I am accurately enough to fetch the proper information? Is it storing files somewhere outside of what gets cleared by the browser?
Aaaanyway, you really should read this instead!
I just saw a playthrough of The Quiet Man with the audio and, you know, I don't think it was really all that bad. There were actually some really nice music tracks. Granted I didn't play the game myself, I watched Supergreatfriend stream the game and then play it again with audio just now. That's always going to improve the experience. But I had a pretty good time with the game, and the story wasn't thaaat bad. It was dumb, oh man was it dumb, but it was dumb in a way that was fun to watch. Also for the gimmick, I'm surprised how well it worked for me. It was actually pretty interesting seeing it come together with audio and seeing how close our guesses were. But that's going back to how I experienced the game, that initial playthrough without audio would have been rough if SGF wasn't adlibbing his own interpretation of what the characters might be saying.
I've seen people say that it makes less sense with the audio, but I think everything has pretty much been answered sufficiently by the end. Most of the actors were pretty good, with the exception of the cop who is AWFUL! Visually he fits the part, but he just RUINS every scene he's in once he opens his mouth. Part of it is the he's given the absolute worst lines, but the actor really can't do anything with them.
It's really kind of baffling how some things actually made it into the final script. Like:
The scene where his mom is shot. I don't even understand how anybody could read that and think it was a good backstory. There isn't a single part that makes any sense. It's a fight over a stupid pair of shoes for one thing, which is by itself ridiculous. Then he runs over and waves at the guy with the gun for... some reason, I don't even get it. Then the mom get's shot by Taye and the other guy picks up the gun and starts claiming he did it! WHY?! And THEN the dad blames Dane for his mother's death! There isn't a single part of this that makes sense. It's just so dumb. If it had been reworked earlier in development it really could have been a decent story. Not an amazing story, or even good, but decent. There's still plenty of cringey, bad lines, but it could have been decent if that one scene had been reworked.
The execution of the whole 'deaf' thing was just strange in every respect. It was strange in how they chose to initially present the game without even letting the player understand things that the character can understand. And it was strange with audio when the character can understand things that he really shouldn't be able to given his disability. He is a phenomenal lip reader, and can perfectly understand people even when they aren't facing him. But then there's a couple times when he clearly cannot see someone's face (when they're wearing a mask) and he's able to respond to what they are saying. There were many, many times when I thought "is he really deaf?" and I don't think that was what the developers were going for.
In the end it wasn't well executed, the story was kind of dumb, the combat got a little repetitive, and some of the acting was pretty bad. But I still enjoyed it. Some people have called it The Room of video games, which I don't think that's really true. There's some production value here. The fight choreography is pretty good, some of music is really nice, and some of the scene's and characters come together really well. I quite like the big punch-ups with all the important characters at the end, it's all very shonen. The gimmick actually does make the game more interesting if you can manage to make it past the first audioless playthrough. All together it comes to be a very enjoyable bad game.
