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GAME: Resident Evil 4 (2023) DLC: Separate Ways Game Review

"Ada's new voice actress ocasionally sounds a bit off"

More like all the time. She's so stiff and sounds like she just reads her lines, no charm or personality behind anything. Almost as bad as Mortal Kombat 1's Megan Fox as the vampire.

Posts like this are the reason why "gamers" aren't taken seriously. Pretending to be experts in fields they have no knowledge in and always talking in hyperboles. Which then leads to harassment.

Anywho, some of her parts sounding off has more to do with the voice direction than her abilities as a VA.

Why didn't they get the same voice actor from The RE2 Remake?

I find it in poor taste they decided to cut this from the game to sell as DLC to begin with given how it's included in every version of RE4 they've sold since the original Gamecube version,

That reasoning might hold water if the rest of the cast sounded as lifeless and bored as Gao, except they don't.

It's not the 'gamers' fault if something is clearly wrong with the game itself,

Lol it wasn’t in the original GameCube version and was added only after and it was clear in many parts of the original it wasn’t playtested strenuously or designed all that well.

[I think by "since the original Gamecube version" they mean every release after it.

Throne room?

BadNewsBlues wrote:

Lol it wasn’t in the original GameCube version and was added only after and it was clear in many parts of the original it wasn’t playtested strenuously or designed all that well.

I think by "since the original Gamecube version" they mean every release after it.

I haven't played the remake yet or this DLC since I'm waiting for it to be 10 bucks on Steam like the RE2 and 3 remakes when I picked those up. I watched some streamers play it, but I'm curious what people mean when they say it included stuff cut from the main game. The giant Salazar statue chasing you? Throne room? Laser room? Lava room? I remember noticing they cut a lot of stuff out off the top of my head when I was watching it. I guess it's nice if they're all back at least.

We say this about a series where gamers complained and whined about the attractiveness of the real models they scanned for Jill and Claire in the RE3 and RE2 Remakes to the point people actually made mods to tweak/replace their faces.

For the record, those characters were always based on/scanned from real models. Julia Voth was the face model for Jill Valentine prior to the 3 Remake and Claire's face was based specifically on Neve Campbell from Stream which came out 2 years prior to the original Resident Evil 2. It has nothing to do with being based on a real person but the remakes themselves having worse designs than the original due to either bad face scanning technology or intentional changes to de-sexualize the characters like giving Jill pants and making her "Classic" outfit shorts instead of a skirt because the Remakes were aimed at a more western audience.

But I'm not sure what your point is.

Modding a game to have more attractive character is pretty standard.

Also, let's not pretend that when the demo for 4's remake came out you had tons of gaming sites running wild with articles about those Leon tramp stamp shirtless mods and gushing over them.

Obviously there's a double standard in the industry sphere where it's okay to do that for men and female-gaze stuff, but of all the games to bring up this point to shame people for using sexy mods it seems rather hypocritical.

And it's not as if it's just the "Gamers" side that complain and whine about this stuff as well. When Street Fighter 6 came out you had gaming websites upset that Cammy had her classic leotard still and were saying how it should not be in the game anymore. And there's plenty of mods out there from those folks to remove content from games they don't like as well so let's not sit here and pretend that it's only one side tweaking games to fit their preferences in an attempt to dismiss them as merely nitpicking or being pedantic.

Stiles wrote:

That reasoning might hold water if the rest of the cast sounded as lifeless and bored as Gao, except they don't.

Think you might need to re-listen to Krauser his Performance while not lifeless or bored is definitely not as good as the original actor.

Gao’s performance is far from being the worst out of all the cast.

Stiles wrote:

It's not the 'gamers' fault if something is clearly wrong with the game itself,

We say this about a series where gamers complained and whined about the attractiveness of the real models they scanned for Jill and Claire in the RE3 and RE2 Remakes to the point people actually made mods to tweak/replace their faces.

And that’s just one of the many stupid things I can thank of Gamer’s being at fault especially with this series. Gao’s performance in the main game is an acquired taste but again not the weakest performance in this game.

So I wouldn’t give these people criticizing her Performance too much leeway on their criticisms especially when not all of it is constructive, reasonable, or consistent.

Probably but still it’s weird to complain about them selling it separately for 10 dollars when you essentially had to buy the PS2 and Wii versions if you wanted to play the original version of Separate Ways which again was not playtested or designed well.