doing endwalker and no Minfilia

[YukikoKurosawa]

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I think it's just a cope for them being illiterate. More than once I've seen someone say that they hate having to read because it "overwhelms" them, or its "difficult". One complained about the game using "big words" when the words they were complaining about were just ordinary english words that are used very commonly. Like, not even ye olde english, just basic modern day english words were filtering them.

The real problem is the amount of zoomers who can barely or can't read at all. It's strange to me because I come from an age where most rpgs, most games in general, didn't even have voice acting, and just read everything and never had a problem with it or imagined it being a problem for anyone. Some of my favorite games ever are story-focused games that have zero voice acting at all. It's surprising to me how many people now complain about having to read in video games, but I genuinely think it's just a cope for being unable to read and not wanting to admit it. Reading really is not difficult and there's no real reason to hate having to do it unless there's something wrong with you. Voice acting can obviously enhance a scene and there are scenes I think would have been better if they were fully voiced, but sometimes not having voice acting is better (like for example when the writer wants you to not be able to tell who a character is, so the scene being unvoiced prevents you from recognizing them).

But when people skip unvoiced scenes/dialogue they are genuinely getting a much lesser experience out of the story, they're literally not even getting the entire story, missing not just story but character moments and world building. My basic rule is: if the writer wrote it, I should read it, else they wouldn't have written it. Not that sometimes pointless fluff can't be added that is genuinely a waste of time, but voiced cutscenes are no more immune to this issue than unvoiced. They also don't get that the reason for so much not being voiced comes down to money, having to pay not just an english voice cast, but japanese, and whatever other languages. SE does try to save the voicing budget for the most crucial scenes but that doesn't mean everything they didn't have voiced is unimportant and people should stop assuming that. If you're gonna skip, okay, but then don't complain about not understanding the story afterwards.