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I'm sure everyone who's already played Need for Speed Unbound will immediately say they've hit a new level of cringe and sadness with the dialogue. It's so bad and laughable it's as if it's from a mid 2000s game and even if it was it would still be bad for those times, it's that horrific.

Which makes me wonder, what other games have reached insane lows with dialogue over the years?

 

[Yoshichan]

Quite literally every piece of dialogue made from the genius head and our lord and savior Nomura-san.

 

[Kaachan]

Quite literally every piece of dialogue made from the genius head and our lord and savior Nomura-san.

Was just about to say that. Nomura scripts

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

Yo mamma

 

[Fuz]

Andromeda thread? Andromeda thread.

 

[01011001]

Forza Horizon 3, 4, and 5

 

[Games Bookstore]

You were almost a Jill Sandwich

 

[Punished Miku]

Forza Horizon 5.

Forza Horizon 3, 4, and 5

Damn, beat me to it.

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

Bulletstorm. Great game HORRID dialogue.....

 

[Jennings]

Sunset Overdrive. It's just so bad I can't play with audible dialogue enabled.

Watch Dogs 2 & 3. At this point I think their entire goal as a series is to give me crow's feet.

 

[ButchCat]

 

[DanEON]

Horizon Zero Dawn

 

[NightmareFarm]

So let me get this straight.

I'm somewhere that's not what I would call earth.

I'm seeing FREAKING dragons

And, oh yeah i'm talking to a cuff!

Yeah, ok that is something I do now!

I do magic... kill jacked up beasts.

I'll probably fly next.

 

[NightmareFarm]

In all honestly though i'm still hyped as fuck for forspoken even though the dialogue is cringe. If anything it adds to the camp factor.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Quite literally every piece of dialogue made from the genius head and our lord and savior Nomura-san.

Dude deserves some kind of lifetime achievement award. He can write stories that are so needlessly convoluted you need to watch hours of analysis on YouTube just to make sense of them, while simultaneously being so cringe and infantile they make Mighty Morphin Power Rangers look like Citizen Kane in comparison.

 

[Interfectum]

Most JRPGs.

Exhibit A:


Exhibit B:

 

[MidGenRefresh]

 

[UnNamed]

Devil May Cry: The Thread.

 

[CircusOfValues]

 

[64bitmodels]

every single game Insomniac has made after 2009. ESPECIALLY the spiderman games..... eugh

 

[kuncol02]

Bulletstorm. Great game HORRID dialogue.....

I want to say that's problem with translation (It sounds fine in polish), but it was written by American comic book writer.

 

[Chukhopops]

I love the gameplay but god DAMN is every cutscene in Stranger of Paradise embarrassing.

It’s a perfect storm of bad writing, bad dub, awkward silences and wonky character designs. There were moments where I wasn’t sure if it was parodic on purpose.

It’s still a masterpiece.

 

[Black_Stride]

Most JRPGs.

Exhibit A:


Exhibit B:

Anything that isnt Lymle from Star Ocean 4 is wrong.
Note; The original release didnt even let you change the language to Japanese, so you had to suffer the braindead English prbably overly literal localization.

Timestamped for 2:47




If anyone honestly has worse than this please post it.
I want to see just how low this medium we all love has actually gone.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Dialogue keeps games alive for me.

 

[Games of Today]

You'll never beat Rogue Warrior or Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

 

[Lions Gate]

 

[Draugoth]

I was waiting for the moment to post this

 

[Salmon]

 

[Spaceman292]

Honestly if I was in this situation this is probably the kind of line I would blurt out

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Honestly if I was in this situation this is probably the kind of line I would blurt out

What about this situation:

 

[Spaceman292]

This line is actually genius

 

[Spaceman292]

What about this situation:

Depends on just how tired my face is

 

[niilokin]

You'll never beat Rogue Warrior or Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

 

[Gamerdude123]

bigot sandwich

 

[Happosai]

Not sure it's cringe but when I first heard this it sounded like the VAs were using one of those old P.C. kit mics while recording in a small bathroom.

I give you...Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (only 44-seconds of your time and worth it)

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

The little I saw of Saints Row was… wow.

 

[KXVXII9X]

Andromeda thread? Andromeda thread.

My face is tired...

 

[KXVXII9X]

The little I saw of Saints Row was… wow.

The dialogue in that game... was an experience and not in the good way.

 

[LordOfChaos]

Don't tell my mom

 

[KXVXII9X]

"Welcome to the Mosh Pit Shaka Brah!"

What a HELLA good game.

 

[drganon]

Any of the borderlands games after the first one.

 

[Flabagast]

Horizon Zero Dawn & Forbidden West + every nuAssassin's creed.

Compare it to Witcher 3, yikes

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Probably some Japanese game.

 

[Games of Today]

Lmao classic.

 

[AJUMP23]

Shut the thread down after this.

 

[Kataploom]

Forza Horizon 5.

Damn, beat me to it.

You literally gave me a reason to not even try that game (as if me being bad at racing sims was not enough lmao)... As a native latinamerican, every time I hear that fucking spanglish I cringe so hard it gets very difficult to me to continue consuming the content, it's just too stupid, ffs, the same applies when it's any other language, when people speak other than their native language they don't mix that shit with theirs, they try their best to communicate and not mess up because it's hard enough to even communicate appropriately without that shit.

But for some reason north american shows/movies/games put latinamerican people mix up languages as if your ramdom Joe from new york could understand what an "edificio" or a "silla mesedora" is in the middle of a phrase lol

 

[Fbh]

Was going to say anything involving Nomura.
But then I remembered that Tri Ace exists

 

[Doczu]

You were almost a Jill Sandwich

No, no, no. Games that are "so bad it's good" can't be cringe.
RE, House of the Dead - you name it. They are GREAT!

 

[Guileless]

These clips are gold. But I have to give top marks in cringe dialog to Watch Dogs Legion. Just incredible.

 

[dickpretzel]

Its gotta be overwatch