Remember when in-game dialogue was nothing but text? Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy I-XI, Terranigma, Legend of Zelda…

Wait… LoZ games don’t have full on voice acting, even today. That doesn’t make it a bad or outdated game… Well, some people would say that it does.

Ever since it became possible to use voices easily in video games, every game HAD to have voices in it. It became such a big thing, that even Final Fantasy started doing it. And it sucked.

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Remember that episode of Futurama in which an embarrassed Professor Farnsworth, determined not to be outdone by the competition, quickly sketches out the Smell-a-scope on a used napkin? Because that’s kind of how the Xbox One reveal felt to me – a little desperate. Following on the heels of Sony’s announcements made back in February  Microsoft had some nasty rumors to quell regarding the console formerly known as the Nextbox, and former Microsoft creative director Adam Orth’s suggestion that gamers ‘Deal [...]