User blog comment:USMC Lance/Spike VGAs are fucking stupid./@comment-3453223-20111213020205/@comment-4431589-20111214011401

Well, the thing I don't like about Valve is that they can't find somebody to voice the protagonist! (Maybe except L4D and TF) I mean, why stick with silent protagonists? Couldn't they be able to add to the humor of the games with their quotes and whatever? I find silent protagonists to make NPCs seem like douchebags to be honest. They seem to look stupid talking to a guy who never answers back (it's not their fault anyway). And I don't like how the NPCs act like they never give a shit if they answer back, it's just "BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH" and here you have the star of the show go "(cricket sound)". I'm fine if their games don't have cutscenes because we don't need them to make the protagonist talk, we need them to talk in gameplay (unlike Battlefield). Valve is lucky they showed what their protagonists look like (or at least helped us a find a way) because you know how much I hate the infamous combination of "silent and unviewable protagonist" I have seen in two games this YEAR! Yeah, so silent protagonists are not my forte, ever.