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In retrospect it's really impressive that Mega Man Legends had full voice acting in 1997.

>> No.4396028

It didn't, though. It was only in the cutscenes. Most of the game was text only. Did you even play it?

Full voice acting means something like MGS, where literally every line of dialogue is voiced.

>> No.4396036

>>4396019
>In retrospect it's really impressive that Mega Man Legends had full voice acting in 1997.

No it's not, it's on a fucking CD. Making everything have full voice acting is just a question of being able to afford hiring voice actors for everything.

Conker having full voice acting on a CARTRIDGE was way more impressive than MML having "almost" full voice acting.

>> No.4396042

>>4396036
Six year-old me was blown away by Bart Simpson saying "eat my shorts" and :"Cool, man!" in Bart vs. the Space Mutants.

>> No.4396050

yeah and they made megaman sound like a 6 year old boy. thats a downgrade from all subtitles

>> No.4396052

>>4396050
I believe you're thinking of Mega Man 8.

>> No.4396058

>>4396042
Yeah, and so was I when Ghostbusters on the C64 played a voice sample every time you pressed the space key. But that required proper technical trickery, since the machine couldn't play samples nor had the space for them.

From the 16-bit era and onwards, having *voices* was just a matter of how much space you have on the cart, and once we hit CD games, it was just a question of the effort for making the voice acting.

Dune by Cryo had full voice acting and an FMV introduction taken straight from the movie. In 1992.

>> No.4396060

>>4396019
Perfect Dark on the GBC had voice acting. Impressive for an 8-bit game with a rumble pak.

>> No.4396062

>>4396050
Good thing he sounds like japanese Krillin in the japanese version. (same voice actor)

>> No.4396078

>>4396042
>>4396036
Perfect Dark also had full voice acting on a N64 cartridge

>> No.4396079

>>4396062
Makes m wonder why no one has ever made an undub for the legends games.

>> No.4396091

play more VNs

>> No.4396119

>>4396028
It also had voice clips mid-game though which was cool

The cutscenes are my favourite thing about the MML games BTW

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>>4396091
BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH

>> No.4396127

>>4396019
What makes you say that?

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>> No.4396137

>>4396125
He's right though, plenty of VNs on PC Engine in 93 had voice acting.

>> No.4396156

>In retrospec
>On "nostalgia goggles, the board"

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>>4396156

>> No.4396213

>ctrl+f
>no starfox 64

jeez...

starfox 64 was the first game with full voice acting in a cartridge

>> No.4396214

>>4396137
Nigga are you dense? I don't care about that, I'm laughing because he's telling somebody to """""play""""" cringey knockoff weabshit choose-your-own-adventure books.

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>>4396019
>In retrospect it's really impressive that Mega Man Legends had full voice acting in 1997.

No, it isn't.
Pic related had full voice acting in 1989

>> No.4396228

>>4396214
Whats your point. It's a thread about VOs presented like they're some sort of technical milestone.

>> No.4396235

>>4396228
I'm not the one who said "play more visual novels" faggot. Are you samefagging right now?

>> No.4396254

>>4396235
Not him but
>Getting this mad over someone telling someone to play more games on a board about playing games.
Calm your tiddies, Anon. He's just saying there's other titles that did it before the one specifically mentioned.

>> No.4396465

Reminder you can only fit 70 minutes of Redbook audio on a CD if there's nothing else (data). The console needs to support some kind of compression (MPEG etc) to fit more

>> No.4396650

Fuck voice acting.

>> No.4396668

>>4396254
Visual novels aren't games

>> No.4396672

>>4396650
Fuck you.

>> No.4396687

>>4396019
I thought voice acting would be so cool in 1995 when I first saw some FMV type stuff on some PCs, and then playstation and later came out and I realized I really fucking hate voice acting unless it's done VERY well without being too kiddie.

This is one reason I can't stand non-retro games in series for instance like Ys-- shitty, awful, YA-novel dialogue from obnoxious actors.
And you know, I enjoy the stupid dialogue that is precisely as bad in games before voice-acting, but somehow it's less irritating when you just process what it said and it isn't overacted and time-consuming like that

>> No.4396710

>>4396687
>This is one reason I can't stand non-retro games in series for instance like Ys

Fuck off shitposter. The modern Ys games don't even have voice acting. Try to shitpost about games you've actually played next time.

>> No.4396825

>>4396219
Nah there's plenty of unvoiced dialog in Ys

>> No.4396828

>>4396668
I wish people actually used the term "visual novel" consistently enough for your post to be true

>> No.4396943

>>4396019
that, and it was actually GOOD acting too. decent anyway....pretty good.

>> No.4396948

>>4396019
>In retrospect it's really impressive that Mega Man Legends had full voice acting in 1997.

hi 12yo. back in the olden days, we had this rather marvellous technology called COMPUTERS with CD-ROM drives. you dense motherfucker.

> 1997
oh boy. you need to learn your history before coming here to shitpost.

>> No.4397013

>>4396948
>hi 12yo. back in the olden days, we had this rather marvellous technology called COMPUTERS with CD-ROM drives. you dense motherfucker.
I did not know Mega Man Legends was on PC.

>> No.4397027

>>4397013
It was on the Shitendo 64 as well somehow

>> No.4397067
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4397067

It's a really impressive game in general. To any MML fans, I've recently played Steambot Chronicles on the PS2. It's by Irem, and really feels like the true spiritual successor to MML.

>> No.4397109

>>4397067
Really?

I tried the PSP one but the art direction in that one killed my boner

>> No.4397120

>>4397109
Yeah really, can't speak for the PSP game, I think it was Tetris-y? The cover art on wiki looked pretty bad. The PS2 Steambot Chronicles has really stupendous graphics and art direction, it's similar to MML in that it's kind of a blend of grounded, modern Japanese settings, but with lots of western architecture and sprinkled with some fantastic elements like pirate ships and walking mechsuits.

>> No.4397679

>>4396214
>the loser argument
>in fucking current year

Just kill yourself alright

>> No.4397680

>>4396668
Yes they are, they are literally called adventure games in japan.

>> No.4397737

>>4397013
Yup. 2 had a japan only release on PC as well.