@theonewhoplays: Have you considered just turning the dialogue volume down to nothing, so you can just read the text? I guess there's still some cutscenes etc that might have voiced dialogue but might help a bit?
I'm not sure what anime you've been watching that you find the VA so unbearable though. Yeah there are definitely some shows that do sound the way you describe, mostly the shows aimed at kids, but there are plenty that have (in my opinion) some exceptional voice work, in English and Japanese (and probably in other languages too...)
@chrisflavin: Pretty sure Jan has openly expressed his love for some of the older Sonic games, but I know what you mean. Maybe part of its just nostalgia, but I play through the Megadrive Sonic games every few years, give or take, and still find them to be an absolute blast.
I do wish Sega would just let Christian Whitehead and his team do a Sonic Mania 2 or something, and make that series the mainline Sonic games. Let Sonic Team piss about with whatever (bad) idea they have as a sideline and keep the 2D games as the focus.
@topcyclist: I bounced off God of War first time around as well, and whilst I did eventually go back and play it, and enjoyed it, I found I did agree with a lot of Jeff G's criticisms - not so much around Atreus, who I didn't mind from the beginning, but I never found the combat very enjoyable. The tight 3rd person camera just didn't work for me with the lack of peripheral vision, I found combat a bit of a pain in the arse all the way to the end.
That said I still did all the stuff in Muspelheim and got all the Valkyries, and still really liked the game despite all of that :')
That was... err.. Lacklustre? I feel like Sony could have used this to divert attention away from the upcoming Xbox releases of Forza 5 and Halo, but... they didn't. This whole thing felt kind of pointless, really?
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